Comments on: Played - Episode 7 http://www.playedpodcast.com/2006-10-03/played-episode-7/ We love video games! We feel that with our Podcast we bring a unique perspective to video game commentary that is both entertaining and informative. We think our show has a certain professional quality to it that seperates it from most of video game Podcasts out there. Chris, who works for Gamasutra.com, brings an up-to-the-minute journalistic view to the show. Elizabeth, a hardcore gamer and community manager at 2K Games, brings both a female and industry perspective. And Mark, who works with the Federal Government, is a Network Engineer and has been a hardcore gamer all his life bringing a ton of opinions with him. Join us in our shenanigans and tomfoolery for we have a lot to say! Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:47:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Mark http://www.playedpodcast.com/2006-10-03/played-episode-7/#comment-28 Mark Fri, 13 Oct 2006 17:43:05 +0000 http://www.playedpodcast.com/2006-10-03/played-episode-7/#comment-28 Oh. My. God. O_o Oh. My. God.

O_o

]]> By: yAak http://www.playedpodcast.com/2006-10-03/played-episode-7/#comment-27 yAak Fri, 13 Oct 2006 06:23:08 +0000 http://www.playedpodcast.com/2006-10-03/played-episode-7/#comment-27 KANCHO! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kancho KANCHO!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kancho

]]> By: ThomW http://www.playedpodcast.com/2006-10-03/played-episode-7/#comment-26 ThomW Sat, 07 Oct 2006 23:51:30 +0000 http://www.playedpodcast.com/2006-10-03/played-episode-7/#comment-26 That Batman Lego game cannot come out fast enough for me. :) That Batman Lego game cannot come out fast enough for me. :)

]]> By: MatthewPhillips http://www.playedpodcast.com/2006-10-03/played-episode-7/#comment-25 MatthewPhillips Thu, 05 Oct 2006 19:36:51 +0000 http://www.playedpodcast.com/2006-10-03/played-episode-7/#comment-25 Batman: Lego http://www.lego.com/eng/batman/Default.aspx Batman: Lego
http://www.lego.com/eng/batman/Default.aspx

]]> By: Mark http://www.playedpodcast.com/2006-10-03/played-episode-7/#comment-24 Mark Thu, 05 Oct 2006 15:18:05 +0000 http://www.playedpodcast.com/2006-10-03/played-episode-7/#comment-24 I think I might have to pick up Halo 1 now as well. I think I might have to pick up Halo 1 now as well.

]]> By: Dynotaku http://www.playedpodcast.com/2006-10-03/played-episode-7/#comment-23 Dynotaku Thu, 05 Oct 2006 13:49:54 +0000 http://www.playedpodcast.com/2006-10-03/played-episode-7/#comment-23 I think one of the major reasons that Halo has such a legendary status, besides an amazing amount of pre-launch hype, is that for a whole lot of people, it was one of the first FPSs that they had ever played. With every generation of consoles, there’s a new audience being reached as they make system X or Y their first console, and the Xbox had a marketing vibe that made a lot of people hop onboard. The splitscreen multiplayer certainly didn’t hurt in a pre-Xbox live era either. For someone like myself who had played (almost literally) every FPS that had been released on the PC up to that point, it was my first time playing a FPS co-op with someone since Doom 1. I think the bottom line is that while maybe Halo isn’t the greatest FPS of all time, it still has a lot of things going for it that combined, make it one of the better FPSs there is. Personally I’d put it in a top 10 FPS list. Being an Xbox exclusive for 2 years gave it a concentrated and dedicated audience. But I do agree that despite the copy and paste level problem of the first game, it remains a superior single player experience to the second one, despite a number of very cool moments in part 2, like watching the 8 story tall MAG guns fire into the Covenant armada, or boarding the Scarab and fighting your way into the control room. I think one of the major reasons that Halo has such a legendary status, besides an amazing amount of pre-launch hype, is that for a whole lot of people, it was one of the first FPSs that they had ever played. With every generation of consoles, there’s a new audience being reached as they make system X or Y their first console, and the Xbox had a marketing vibe that made a lot of people hop onboard. The splitscreen multiplayer certainly didn’t hurt in a pre-Xbox live era either.

For someone like myself who had played (almost literally) every FPS that had been released on the PC up to that point, it was my first time playing a FPS co-op with someone since Doom 1.

I think the bottom line is that while maybe Halo isn’t the greatest FPS of all time, it still has a lot of things going for it that combined, make it one of the better FPSs there is. Personally I’d put it in a top 10 FPS list. Being an Xbox exclusive for 2 years gave it a concentrated and dedicated audience.

But I do agree that despite the copy and paste level problem of the first game, it remains a superior single player experience to the second one, despite a number of very cool moments in part 2, like watching the 8 story tall MAG guns fire into the Covenant armada, or boarding the Scarab and fighting your way into the control room.

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