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I'm playing Halo 3 right now. Well, I'm in the pre-game lobby. Halo LAN changed my life. I've spent thousands of hours playing. Come to think of it, I'd probably be a much more productive man if I had never played Halo."
I think I'm going to stick this opinion in the ever-increasing folder of editorials I'll probably never get around to writing."
I feel like Crackdown 2 never had a chance to succeed. Since Don Mattrick revealed it at last year's E3 I've had the impression that it received a green-light by dudes staring at spreadsheets that never played the original and failed to correlate its sales numbers to access to the Halo 3 beta, and that it was made to try to recapture something fleeting."
The comparison that worked the best for me was between Master Chief from the first 3 Halo games and the "Rookie" from Halo 3: ODST. I felt more immersed in the game playing Halo 3 as a 7' tall 1000 lb behemoth than I did someone who was supposed to be more human and thus easier for me to relate to in ODST. I'd rather take control of a character who seems to exist beyond my intervention than try to create one through my own actions in most games.
In regard to Final Fantasy 13, I just thought two thirds of the characters were annoying."
I don't usually mind being "spoiled" but I'll hold this against the guy who spoiled it forever. I was playing FF7, several years after its release, and I was was about a half an hour away from the skewering when a friend I was talking to asked "Are you at the part where Sephiroth kills Aeris yet?" Frickin' jerk.
@Daniel - If any part of FF7 is actually as overrated as they say, it's not the gameplay. It's really fun. If you can tolerate the dated graphics you should think about playing it sometime. You know, if you find 50+ hours to play it."