Overrated game that shipped with the original XBox, played by people who can't afford a good gaming PC. Venerated and worshipped as a god of the gaming world.
Involves playing as a supersoldier in the year 2552, fighting for Humanity's survival against the genocidal alien consortium known as the Covenant.
Initially developed to be a Mac game, Microsoft acquired Bungie and retooled the release for their upcoming Xbox console.
In my eyes, Halo is a pretty good game, fun to play for a while, but it suffers from one key weakness:
The complete inability to modify the game aside from using an entire third-party shell (also known as Halo CE) -- with the exception of the third game.. but come on now, it took you this long to begin to realize that user-generated content is key to replayability, Bungie?
Ever hear of Half-Life and Counter-Strike? I'm sure most Halo players have not, so I'll fill you in.
Half-Life was released in 1998, using a modified Quake 1 engine. Yes, Quake 1. You know, that ancient relic with the nailguns and the square heads.. Anyway, Half-Life -- with its stunning graphics and engaging storyline (for its time) -- in itself received more than 50 game-of-the-year awards and catapulted Valve from being a simple IT company to one of the top games developers literally overnight.
Well, a couple of university students cooked up Counter-Strike while messing around with more mods for Quake. Counter-Strike was such a massive success that one teenaged gamer hosted the Beta 6 release on his ISP's webspace. Unfortunately, the release was downloaded so much that it disabled his entire ISP -- losing them thousands of dollars and landing the unfortunate perp in JDC. I haven't heard of Halo causing anything like this.
Jess Cliffe himself (one of the original developers of CS, who was later hired by Valve themselves to work on more games) mentions this in the book HL2: Raising the Bar.
I've played both Halo and Half-Life extensively, and I keep going back to Half-Life because it's just so simple to create anything for the game. Look up 'HL Rally' sometime -- you'll see that with a game like Half-Life almost anything is possible.
Involves playing as a supersoldier in the year 2552, fighting for Humanity's survival against the genocidal alien consortium known as the Covenant.
Initially developed to be a Mac game, Microsoft acquired Bungie and retooled the release for their upcoming Xbox console.
In my eyes, Halo is a pretty good game, fun to play for a while, but it suffers from one key weakness:
The complete inability to modify the game aside from using an entire third-party shell (also known as Halo CE) -- with the exception of the third game.. but come on now, it took you this long to begin to realize that user-generated content is key to replayability, Bungie?
Ever hear of Half-Life and Counter-Strike? I'm sure most Halo players have not, so I'll fill you in.
Half-Life was released in 1998, using a modified Quake 1 engine. Yes, Quake 1. You know, that ancient relic with the nailguns and the square heads.. Anyway, Half-Life -- with its stunning graphics and engaging storyline (for its time) -- in itself received more than 50 game-of-the-year awards and catapulted Valve from being a simple IT company to one of the top games developers literally overnight.
Well, a couple of university students cooked up Counter-Strike while messing around with more mods for Quake. Counter-Strike was such a massive success that one teenaged gamer hosted the Beta 6 release on his ISP's webspace. Unfortunately, the release was downloaded so much that it disabled his entire ISP -- losing them thousands of dollars and landing the unfortunate perp in JDC. I haven't heard of Halo causing anything like this.
Jess Cliffe himself (one of the original developers of CS, who was later hired by Valve themselves to work on more games) mentions this in the book HL2: Raising the Bar.
I've played both Halo and Half-Life extensively, and I keep going back to Half-Life because it's just so simple to create anything for the game. Look up 'HL Rally' sometime -- you'll see that with a game like Half-Life almost anything is possible.
It is my opinion that Microsoft (and their subservient Bungie), in refusing to allow modding of Halo, have doomed the series to abandonment far sooner than what should have been, unless they can keep pumping out sequel after sequel (much like EA and the Sims series) and keep things fresh and interesting enough to retain their fanbase.
by Victor933 June 1, 2009
Get the halomug. The act of pulling out just before ejaculation, and moving your penis in a circle around a felmale/males anus thus creating a white halo
liam: rachel was lovin sex last night
Stu: yea??? what about u?
liam: i was haloing the shit out of her at the end so it was amazing bro!
Stu: yea??? what about u?
liam: i was haloing the shit out of her at the end so it was amazing bro!
by Stuper Man December 3, 2010
Get the Haloingmug. by anal rape March 14, 2008
Get the halomug. 1: A game that pisses you off
2: A game that kids/teenagers spend countless hours playing (see "dork")
3: Something over an angel.
2: A game that kids/teenagers spend countless hours playing (see "dork")
3: Something over an angel.
by ohhhh scottie boy April 15, 2006
Get the halomug. by boh3m3i4n September 1, 2007
Get the halomug. v. the act of lighting weed when it has slightly been pulled through the bowl yet there is still a ring of weed around the edge.
by tkrout88 January 14, 2010
Get the halomug. by halo killer March 26, 2008
Get the halomug.