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Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Axel on June 27, 2008, 06:53:20 PM

Title: Halo or mass effect?
Post by: Axel on June 27, 2008, 06:53:20 PM
Which game do you think is better? I can't decide, mass effect is pretty amazing. But Halo has been around for quite a while and I've loved it first, but now I can't decide. what do you think?
Title: Re:Halo or mass effect?
Post by: Rev Rabies on June 27, 2008, 07:26:28 PM
Well, i'll comprae it on a few things:

halo has multiplayer, mass effect doesn't

Score one halo

Mass effect has many developed characters, halo doesn't

Score one Mass Effect

Halo gives you the ability to pick up and use any weapon you find, a good thing in a shooter, mass effect does not

Score one Halo

Halo wins 2 to 1
Title: Re:Halo or mass effect?
Post by: Axel on June 27, 2008, 07:40:22 PM
Well, what about the story line for mass effect? I think its a pretty cool story line, but the halo one is also very good.
Title: Re:Halo or mass effect?
Post by: DW on June 27, 2008, 10:25:38 PM
Rabies, that's hardly fair criteria...

I'd say Mass Effect. The storyline was much greater, and the game itself was a lot more unique than Halo.
Title: Re:Halo or mass effect?
Post by: Gamefreak on June 28, 2008, 05:59:46 AM
Yeah, Halo is, in my opinion, one of the most overrated games of all time.  It offered nothing new to the FPS genre as far as I can tell.

Mass Effect was a unique RPG/Shooter and it did well with it.
Title: Re:Halo or mass effect?
Post by: Rev Rabies on June 28, 2008, 07:26:27 AM
As unique as it was, it didn't do well with it, the story at the end was way too open-ended, and the begining of the game is him trying to be a spectre, and the rest is him just saying "i'm a spectre" and people letting him do stuff. The game basically leaves you on your own, you need some hand-holding so you have a general idea of which way to go. The gameplay itself was just really hard to get used to. There was no point to the whole choose your own story element, it didn't change the story whasoever.
Title: Re:Halo or mass effect?
Post by: Gamefreak on June 28, 2008, 07:42:26 AM
Grand Theft Auto IV's choices didn't affect the story at all, but they were still epic choices.

And since I know you Dr, I'm going to assume that's more of your "Putting a story into its simplest possible terms making it sound worse than it is" thing.
Title: Re:Halo or mass effect?
Post by: Rev Rabies on June 28, 2008, 09:54:21 AM
Actually, the choices in GTAIV did make a difference, the game is leagues easier if you kill playboy x, because you get the powerup from dwayne


Spoiler hidden by Gamefreak
Title: Re:Halo or mass effect?
Post by: darkphantomime on June 28, 2008, 02:14:18 PM
Your summary still sounds so over-simpllified as to hardly be anything close to a critique of the game.
Title: Re:Halo or mass effect?
Post by: Rev Rabies on June 28, 2008, 07:54:33 PM
Well, i don't remember the specifics, but they are chasing some renegade, and at first they can't because they don't have access to certain thing, but then when the main character becomes a spectre, that's all they talk about, is how he's a spectre and could do whatever, it's like the whale biologist in futurama
Title: Re:Halo or mass effect?
Post by: PokemonMaster on July 06, 2008, 04:41:13 PM
I have to say Halo because it has more than just one game in the series.
Title: Re:Halo or mass effect?
Post by: DW on July 06, 2008, 11:32:01 PM
If we're judging by the amount of games, Dynasty Warriors pwns all.

Title: Re:Halo or mass effect?
Post by: Zelda Veteran on July 06, 2008, 11:36:26 PM
Quote from: Awesome Ninja on July 06, 2008, 11:32:01 PM
If we're judging by the amount of games, Dynasty Warriors pwns all.


I think you mean Pokemon.
Red
Blue
Yellow
Gold
Silver
Crystal
Ruby
Sapphire
Emerald
Fire Red
Leaf Green
Water Blue
Diamond
Pearl
Platinum
AND FYI:
Thats just for the GAMEBOY SERIES.
(and thats still not all of them)
Can you say owned?

In any case, this is GD and we're slowly but surely veering off topic.
Title: Re:Halo or mass effect?
Post by: Keaton on July 06, 2008, 11:39:38 PM
I must play this Mass Effect, Tacheon says, sliding the topic back on the tracks.
Title: Re:Halo or mass effect?
Post by: Zelda Veteran on July 06, 2008, 11:43:20 PM
Quote from: EVE on July 06, 2008, 11:39:38 PM
I must play this Mass Effect, Tacheon says, sliding the topic back on the tracks.
hash cookie for Tacheon.

I've never played Mass Effect, but I'm pretty skilled at Halo 2.
Title: Re:Halo or mass effect?
Post by: Keaton on July 06, 2008, 11:46:17 PM
Halo one for PC, I TOTALLY OWNED.

My clan, [CU], was #16 worldwide for a whole official tournament.  I was the clan leader-- but we just couldn't get any higher.  We were a pistols and snipers clan that exploited glitches in the game (like the sniper's spot and the hollow rock in Blood Gulch), and the pistols/shotties/frags clans ahead of us just kept destroying us.  I swear, they were botters.

For added segway justice, [CU] stands for Cobra Unit.