If you ask a lot of internet forum users what games they find the most overrated, they'll say Halo. Do you think they're right? I say yes, because I'm a hardcore gamer.
What so special about Halo that makes it good? Dynamic A.I. with and sandbox combat? Pffft! No way! Those stuff are so lame, outdated, and casual. Games with overly scripted A.I. like Half-Life 2 and Call of Duty 4, because that stuff is interactive and hardcore. When I play Half-Life 2 and COD4, every fire fight is the same and it's so satisfying because I don't need to use strategy with the straightfoward combat system. Halo is lame, because it forces me to fight against intelligent enemies and use a sandbox combat system, it's so dull because it forces me to use strategy and I hate strategy. I like it better when I have to move from one scripted set-piece to another, fighting the same waves of brain dead A.I. and solving easy seesaw puzzles
The multi-player is so lame, because it's not about whoever shoots first wins, it's about use tactics with the sandbox combat. That stuff is so boring, because it forces me to skill and I can't camp or I'll be punished for it. That's why I play games like Call of Duty 4, GoldenEye 007, Perfect Dark, and Counter-Strike. Because it allows campers to win, because that stuff is hardcore.
What else? Tight controls for a console FPS that allows you to individually aim your weapon with smooth precision? Hah! That stuff is for noobs! Good console first-person shooters like GoldenEye, Perfect Dark, and TimeSplitters 2 that use auto-aiming and sluggish controls. Cuz that stuff is hardcore.
We internet users are so hardcore, we spend more time f***ing around on the internet and complaining about games than playing them. That is why we like broken and badly design games like Alpha Protocol over well designed and polished games like Mass Effect 2. Cuz we hardcore!
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