"B.net is awful" and "Deej is a pegboy" are practically the first 2 commandments of this site.

Oh hey Palpatine, I didn't know you got into ICP.

sorry for thinking that snipers are for sniping

It's fine, just don't make that mistake again.

Truth & Rec Recap

-You'll eventually meet an enemy that makes the AR useful, due to how many bullets it can spew.
-Timing grenades is something that you'll eventually not need to think about.  You'll just know exactly how and when they'll go off.
-With that turret situation: CE did a pretty shit job at differentiating "Hold X" and "Press X".  They clean that up in later games.
-Sniper is never useless.  Git gud.
-Been mentioned before, but anything with shields: use plasma.  Anything without: use bullets.  The "noob combo" is hitting someone with an overcharged plasma pistol, and then getting a headshot with a precision weapon (pistol, or the battle rifle in later games).  You can get kills on shielded enemies and players online in less than a second.
-The game's not a puzzle game.  The challenge is in the encounters you have against enemies, and being able to push through them.  The "puzzle" is in finding a way to get to the next area without getting annihilated, which becomes much more noticeable when the enemies only need to look at you to feed you your own balls.

Unlike a game like Fallout or Elder Scrolls, there's just the main quest.  It's a linear game, and the only replay value is derived from modifiers and hunting down easter eggs.

Halo's multiplayer isn't some insignificant piece that was tacked on by the developers at the last minute, it has a massive amount of content.  You judge the game like that content doesn't exist, so it must be pretty depressingly short on content if you hold it to the same standards as any AAA game that focuses 90-100% on single player.

Your "it's literally the same thing again and again" is ironic, and just wrong on so many levels.

And I'd rather a game have hundreds of hours of replay value with an expiration date than have infinitely less, but can stand the test of time, personally.  I'd also rather a game like Battlefield put their resources into making their multiplayer (that is obviously their priority) that much more replayable, than to sink it into some lackluster campaign that no one cares about.

All I'm saying is that I'd be pretty disappointed with a game like Halo 3, too, if I kept myself sheltered from its booming multiplayer community.  Just like how I'd be disappointed with something like Fallout if I stuck to the main quests and ignored everything else.

they aren't that short even if you skip all the cutscenes

Every Halo game can be beaten on Legendary in less than 3 hours, if you know what you're doing.  It's longer when you factor in gazing at skyboxes, making stops, getting your ass kicked by the AI, etc... and all around being new, but on normal, it's not very hard to breeze through the game.

Either way, my point is that Halo has a depressing amount of content if you disregard the multiplayer entirely, and judge it as a single-player game, exclusively.  Not saying the campaigns are bad, just short in comparison to any game focused exclusively on its single player.

Why would I judge a game on the part I don;t give a shit about?

Why would you judge the game at all, as a whole, if you're just going to disregard a staggering amount of its content?

There was a glitch, where if you deleted weapons, or picked them up in Forge, at the exact second that they swapped for it, their arms would be crazy.  Kinda looks like that.

Isn't the MJOLNIR shield system, like the Covenant arsenal, based off of reverse-engineered Forerunner tech?

Those god damn Michigan Manlets didn't bring their A game last Friday.

I mean, you can customize the colors of his freak arm, so I'm sure you can take the bandana off.

Oh, you're that guy...

That just looks plain uncomfortable.

Xbox exclusives.  Your friends.  Pretty much it.

Backwards compatibility is such a non-issue.  It's not hard to find a PS3 for a cheap price.

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