Considering part time gamers to die hard Halo fans. If Ninja and Drake where playing Halo instead of Fortnite, kids asking their parents for Halo tutoring, huge radio stations, news papers and #1 trending on Youtube was all about Halo. Think about how the Halo lore would change how people think. Do you think it would be revolutionary? Im only going off what iv heard and seen of Fortnite. I personally think its poo
I don’t think it would’ve changed much aside from the original trilogy being even more popular if social media was more established back then. Other game developers still would’ve did their own thing as a competitor of Halo and someone would’ve eventually came up with the battle royal game.
Halo used to be that back then, when Halo 3 was released. Reporters made news about the money it made in the first weeks or months while showing Halo 3 gameplay in the background as they speak. Look it up on YT.
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> Halo used to be that back then, when Halo 3 was released. Reporters made news about the money it made in the first weeks or months while showing Halo 3 gameplay in the background as they speak. Look it up on YT.
I miss those days! Either way, I definitely would not mind Halo being super popular again. The thing with Fortnite is that it is getting more and more generic as time goes on. Eventually, most of the ten year old fans will either grow up or get bored with it. Halo on the other hand has been drastically different every game, and while it is at a low point (But Rising) it will eventually become very popular again. This will most likely happen around the release of Infinite. Or if it goes well, it will start to rise around the release of the MCC update.
The fascination and obsession with popularity is the herd mentality gone mental. Why would anybody want to watch somebody else, like Drake and Ninja, play a game when they could just play the game themselves? Why would anybody care if their game was on the top ten list? If any parent anywhere paid out one thin dime to have their kid tutored in a -yoinking- videogame and I knew about it then I’d call social services on them. Being attracted to something just because other people are attracted to it is almost the dictionary definition of intellectual bankruptcy.
The only way in which it makes any sense to care about popularity is if you think it’s fallen so low that your developer may go out of business. Because beyond that, what it all really boils down to is caring about what a bunch of short attention span teenagers think. And I don’t. I didn’t when I was one, and I’m hardly about to let them dictate to me now what it is that I should invest my energies in. As Shaun David Hutchinson said, and I’m taking this a little out of context, “Popularity is teenaged heroin.” Even out of context it still applies perfectly.
It’d be overwhelming, really. Halo hasn’t seen this kind of attention since 2007, and the gaming community has changed. Twitch streamers milking it for money, Youtubers clickbaiting nonstop, untold millions of children ruining the experience with their mommy’s credit cards, the industry/sony competing for halo killers, the console wars would reignite, the list goes on.
While I’m not a fan of Fortnite, I’ve played it and see the appeal of it. So the game itself is good. But all the other crap that surrounds it is ridiculous. This is the first time I’m hearing about kids getting tutoring for it and that sounds like one of the worst ideas I’ve ever heard. Recon summed up all the stuff surrounding the game quite well. In many ways, I’m glad Halo came out so long ago since the hype surrounding the game was for the game itself. For example, Halo 2 made national news and/or big-city local news on launch night since it was supposed to break so many records. There were tons of people in line and all that. It was great. The first headline wasn’t something along the lines of, “6-year-old fights parents IRL for not being born with double-jointed Fortnite hands. You won’t believe what happens next.”
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Yeah halo might see a rise again, peoples hearts are there. The fan base wants to re live the nostalgia of some bungie era games. An example of this is when i went to the midnight release of halo 4, becuase while halo 4 didnt do as good as it wanted, and wasnt revieved well with all its fans, the mall was still packed on release. Yeah thats right, i went to a mall at 11:40 pm, to find hordes of people chanting halo 4. I hope it hapens again with infinite, exept of course infinite being a better game overall.
a bit more on topic, i would love if halo was popular again, like main stream popular. Except for the kids buying in game stuff with credit cards. Halo dosnt need to be known for micro-transactions.
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> Why would anybody want to watch somebody else, like Drake and Ninja, play a game when they could just play the game themselves?
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> If any parent anywhere paid out one thin dime to have their kid tutored in a -yoinking- videogame and I knew about it then I’d call social services on them.
Why watch sports or anything you’re interested in on tv if you can just do it yourself? I think most people watch others play because the streamer and game are entertaining to watch and they also wanna see people that are better than they are play the game at a higher level, to see crazy plays and to maybe just get some tips on things.
While it’s an odd thing to do, if it’s not affecting their school work, then I don’t see a big issue with getting tutored on it. I’d imagine the lessens aren’t going to amount to much outside of a hobby which is probably similar to most things people get tutored on besides school work. The parent can put time limits for playtime if they’re worried about it consuming most of their social time as well. Getting lessons in gaming sponsored by parents is likely something new, but gaming lessens in general isn’t a new thing. There were people who would buy lessons from pro players all the time in previous Halos.
I don’t think I would like Halo as much if it had a huge player base like the Minecraft Hunger Games rip-off.
I like Halo because it has a dedicated, strong community that can come together for amazing charities and that can make the franchise better.
I doubt that the dev’s of the Minecraft Hunger Games rip-off are concerned with the fan base, as all they seem to want is $'s. And tbh, they are getting it.
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> While it’s an odd thing to do, if it’s not affecting their school work, then I don’t see a big issue with getting tutored on it. I’d imagine the lessens aren’t going to amount to much outside of a hobby which is probably similar to most things people get tutored on besides school work. The parent can put time limits for playtime if they’re worried about it consuming most of their social time as well. Getting lessons in gaming sponsored by parents is likely something new, but gaming lessens in general isn’t a new thing. There were people who would buy lessons from pro players all the time in previous Halos.
I can almost understand the spectator gene when we’re talking about something like football or baseball - something you can’t just sit down and do yourself at any time. But that’s yet another recon oddity so I’ll just chalk it up to one more incomprehensible side of human nature and move on.
And you’re right about the principle behind paying someone to tutor your kid in gaming. It’s no different than buying them tennis lessons or an SAT prep course. Except that it is different. Tennis gets you exercise. SAT prep gets you smart. Paying someone to make your kid better at gaming is brain damaged. It’s like paying someone to teach you how to breath or walk. No, that’s not it. It’s like paying someone to teach you how to eat a hamburger or watch a movie. Something that anyone can do with a passing amount of proficiency just by virtue of wanting to do it. I don’t know. I’m sure it’s just me again, but if I had a kid and he (or she) came to me and said, “I want to take Halo lessons,” I would smack them upside the head, smash their xbox, put them in conversion therapy, and then shake my head at his mother and say, “This is all your fault.” Do I get points for honesty?
All of you make such great points!
Taking the brain dead morons who only dislike Fortnite cause its popular into consideration, id prefer if it was not seen the same way.
When Halo 1 was released (at least in Australia) it was treated very similarly to how Fortnite is today. The only difference, in my opinion, is that Halo deserved its popularity.
Im pretty sure halo will take over shorty!! Believe in infinite my fellow spartans!
Halo definitely is better than all of those top games that are out right now, just waiting on the day it rises in popularity again!
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> Considering part time gamers to die hard Halo fans. If Ninja and Drake where playing Halo instead of Fortnite, kids asking their parents for Halo tutoring, huge radio stations, news papers and #1 trending on Youtube was all about Halo. Think about how the Halo lore would change how people think. Do you think it would be revolutionary? Im only going off what iv heard and seen of Fortnite. I personally think its poo
Literally the only reason Fortnite is as popular as it is, is because it’s free. Otherwise you wouldn’t see so many celebrities and streamers and -Yoink- playing it. Halo was always a franchise of integrity, and Fortnite’s popularity is ephemeral and insignificant compared to the long standing success of Halo as a franchise. Halo and Fortnite are opposites when you think about it really, Halo built it’s success and popularity through great gameplay, great story, great music, and amazing multiplayer. Fortnite cobbled together it’s high popularity through making it free, riddling it with microtransactions so 12 year olds can waste their parents money on a digital bunny costume, and having celebrities and streamers play it. I do not wish the popularity of Fortnite on Halo because unlike Halo, Fortnite doesn’t have the staying power to still be relevant even 10 years later.
I’d feel great! Fortnite, whether you hate it or love, is the king of the FPS genre right now and Epic Games has done a superb job in creating a very strong and passionate community dedicated to the franchise. If Halo is seen as fortnite, it will signal a beginning of a new golden age for the franchise, but it probably won’t happen.
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> I’d feel great! Fortnite, whether you hate it or love, is the king of the FPS genre right now and Epic Games has done a superb job in creating a very strong and passionate community dedicated to the franchise. If Halo is seen as fortnite, it will signal a beginning of a new golden age for the franchise, but it probably won’t happen.
How is it the king of FPS if it’s in third person?
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> I can almost understand the spectator gene when we’re talking about something like football or baseball - something you can’t just sit down and do yourself at any time. But that’s yet another recon oddity so I’ll just chalk it up to one more incomprehensible side of human nature and move on.
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> And you’re right about the principle behind paying someone to tutor your kid in gaming. It’s no different than buying them tennis lessons or an SAT prep course. Except that it is different. Tennis gets you exercise. SAT prep gets you smart. Paying someone to make your kid better at gaming is brain damaged. It’s like paying someone to teach you how to breath or walk. No, that’s not it. It’s like paying someone to teach you how to eat a hamburger or watch a movie. Something that anyone can do with a passing amount of proficiency just by virtue of wanting to do it. I don’t know. I’m sure it’s just me again, but if I had a kid and he (or she) came to me and said, “I want to take Halo lessons,” I would smack them upside the head, smash their xbox, put them in conversion therapy, and then shake my head at his mother and say, “This is all your fault.” Do I get points for honesty?
All of the points.