so I lied..

Last week I preordered Halo 3 soon after saying "nah, I'm not giving into the hype." Why did I do such a thing, when I went on about how I would not? Why buy when Halo 3 won't be bringing anything remarkably new to the table? A few reasons, that 2old2play has had a hand in as well.

The first reason is to, of course, "finish the fight." I do like the Halo universe and story, and I'm honestly curious as to how the game will end. If you've been playing the games and following the story (if not go here). I simply want to find out what happens and conclude the series. I've played both the first and second game's campaign/story mode a few times each and the story and universe is truly interesting.

Secondly there are plenty of games that don't having anything new to offer and they're still fun to play despite that. I can become engrossed in a game that's flawed just as much as I can in one that's well conceived. Call of Juarez for instance is a game that most people would agree is total crap, but I'm playing it now and enjoying it for the most part. I shouldn't let a game that is essentially Quake (let's not kid ourselves Halo gameplay is very generic, aside from the art direction and story, is very much like a run of the mill first person shooter) stop me from playing it. Halo just feels like another Unreal, Quake, or Doom to me as far as game mechanics go. It might be a refined version of that formula, but it's the same stale taste. Honestly, who cares? It isn't the next big thing in realism, or control innovation but does it have to be to be fun? hardly..

Third, and probably most importantly why I didn't want to get the game is because of the community. I would venture a guess and say that the majority of a-hole children on Xbox Live are diehard Halo fans. I played Halo 2 multiplayer all of 2 times before shrugging and going on to another game. If you check out my blog entry on Timmy's, this is the type of person I have little to no tolerance for and refuse to play with.



 Regardless if I was the best player on a server (I'm horrible, so this is speculation) and could beat them every game.. I still don't want to play with and encourage the rudeness of people who can't conduct themselves properly, online or off. The reason why this isn't really an issue the more I thought about it is because of this community. No one is forcing me to play online, or in public games anyway. Even so, there is going to be a mute feature so that's a moot point as well.

I think I would be missing out on a lot of what the 2old2play community is going to be playing and discussing if I was to pass up Halo 3, and the pros really do outweigh the cons on this. Hopefully in a week or two I will be seeing a lot of you online.