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"Am I the only one..."

...who really isn't that excited about Halo 2?

I've read a couple of reviews, and most of them have left me thinking "Yeah, so what?" I've got it pre-ordered and I'm not going to cancel it.

I'm just left feeling a little underwhelmed, especially as I don't have Live.

Still, hopefully it will live up to my own expectations....

Imagination takes brainpower, you shock me.

ÂLŠ†ÂÎR wrote:
> It's because they are usually the first ones to have an opinion on
> games which makes them "useful" resources. As I have said,
> I will play it and see for myself which should be Friday/Saturday of
> this week.
>
> I only use them as a guide and by making my own opinion from what I
> have seen from the game/s.

Even if you love the game you couldnt bring yourself to admit it here. I can imagine the anti Halo 2 posts in a few days time from you.

You mutha!

Cyclone wrote:
> Anyway you look at it, it's pretty damn good - regardless of its
> flaws. Stop your nit picking and get it - hell, there's not much else
> to get on Xbox at the moment...

Yeah, there's only about 5 games to choose from at the moment :-S

It's because they are usually the first ones to have an opinion on games which makes them "useful" resources. As I have said, I will play it and see for myself which should be Friday/Saturday of this week.

I only use them as a guide and by making my own opinion from what I have seen from the game/s.

I think some people take this whole computer gaming thing a bit too seriously.

They're only reviews, at the end of the day what really counts is your own opinion of the game.

Personally I think IGN are pants compared to Gamespot, I think gamespot prefer to give an honest and trustworthy review, they gave it 9.4 so in my eyes that's good enough to keep me wanting the game, I knew it would have flaws and I mainly wanted it for the live play, single player was always a bonus for me.

This must be purely Halo 2 related.

I mistrust their reviews because they are inconsistent. Pretty much every game I won't make a final decision until I have actually played it for myself as my fingers have been burnt in the past by me writing off a perfectly enjoyable game.

When it is one or two review sites raving about flaws then I usually ignore but pretty much every review I have read has stated that there are still level design issues.
I don't distrust every review on first look but when I read reviews on IGN and then watch the video reviews, they constantly contradict themselves and are completely inconsistent in pointing out clear game flaws. In this instance I don't trust them; this occurs with pretty much EVERY IGN review.

Gamespot are more consistent and I actually prefer them to any other review site for realistic review scores, as with Halo though they are wrong from time to time.

No, not in this sense, in other ways - you don't seem to look past the flaws that have been highlighted by the very reviews you claim to mistrust.

I still fail to understand how I was putting the game down, I was pointing out what Normal Mapping is and how good it looks. Quite the opposite.

Plus it isn't geekspeak or coding speak, it is pretty common knowledge.

No, I wasn't saying you should speak less coding-speak (wteva), it's just that you seem determined to see the bad side of the game.