Confessions of a Halo gamer wannabe

[jeepnut]

I hold Halo to be the best FPS I've ever played and yes, I did log quite a few hours on Goldeneye. However, Goldeneye has several limitations in my eyes:
* the control sytem sucked due to the limitations of the N64 controller
* I don't care about the bond franchise
* AI sucked compared to Halo which is to be expected since Halo is much newer
* No online play (which is not true of the first Halo and also attributable to Halo being newer)
* Halo has a superior storyline in my opinion
* Halo has vehicles
* Halo has better variety in level design both in size and type
* Halo has more game variants other than the standard and rather boring "kill everyone mode" also known as slayer
* Halo has system link for the oh-so-awesome Halo lan parties
* You can jump
* Music is better
* Cooperative story mode

Goldeneye does have its merits
* Remote mines

I admit. I loved Goldeneye and I still do like it. In its time, it was the best FPS out there, bar none. I also used to think Counter-strike was the best FPS as well, but times have changed and I've moved on. At this time, I haven't played a FPS that I've enjoyed more than Halo both campaign and multi-player. BF1942 is good, but my computer can't really handle it and it's not as versatile as Halo in level design. You can't play on a couch next to your friends and there is no good single-player mode. The game is really meant to be a online only game. I could say the same of Counter-Strike aside from the fact that my computer can handle CS and CS doesn't have vehicles. Granted, I'm very much looking forward to Battlefield Modern Combat for the PS2 and Xbox. We'll see how that one turns out.

But right now, Halo is as good as it gets in my opinion. One day, a better game will come out and I will probably move on. I'm not going to put get all huffy and claim Halo is the best FPS there ever was or ever will be. Times change and things improve. In my opinion, Halo is a large improvement over Goldeneye.

Sometimes I think people still hold on to Goldeneye not because it is better, but because of the sentimental value it holds for them. Maybe Goldeneye really is superior to Halo in your mind, but I just don't see it.



P.S. Dyne and Typhoid, would you mind staying on topic and keeping your personal conversations on AIM or in PMs?