HALO

[George K]

For those who don't know, HALO is a FPS game that's been around for a long time. I'd guess 10 years or so?

Anyhow, it's been made into a sci-fi series. I've always been skeptical of video games being turned into movies or TV series.

I've watched about 4 out of 9 episodes in season 1.

Not bad.

At times the CGI is pretty clunky - the "aliens" just don't look right, and "video game-ish." But the story is pretty solid and, so far, I'm enjoying.

[Aqua Letifer]

@George-K said in HALO:

For those who don't know, HALO is a FPS game that's been around for a long time. I'd guess 10 years or so?

Anyhow, it's been made into a sci-fi series. I've always been skeptical of video games being turned into movies or TV series.

I've watched about 4 out of 9 episodes in season 1.

Not bad.

At times the CGI is pretty clunky - the "aliens" just don't look right, and "video game-ish." But the story is pretty solid and, so far, I'm enjoying.

The story behind the games was pretty good.

But Halo is a continuation of Marathon, which was an old-school FPS where much of the story was told through various terminals players had to access.

That, was actually some damn good sci-fi writing. They even used the graphic design of the terminals in unique ways to add to the story.

http://marathon.bungie.org/story/

[George K]

@Aqua-Letifer said in HALO:

Marathon

Wasn't that the best FPS game on the Mac, back in the day? That and "Quake..."

[Aqua Letifer]

@George-K said in HALO:

@Aqua-Letifer said in HALO:

Marathon

Wasn't that the best FPS game on the Mac, back in the day? That and "Quake..."

You betcha. But Marathon had by far the better story.

Also look into I Love Bees.

That was pretty fun.

[Doctor Phibes]

@George-K said in HALO:

I'd guess 10 years or so?

21 years, amazingly enough. It originally came out on the first X-box - it was really the first time a FPS had succeeded on a console.

I tried playing the remastered trilogy last year on my PC, but kind of lost interest - games have moved on.

[George K]

I know next to nothing of the game.

But as someone who is ignorant of it, I've enjoyed:

Link to video

[Copper]

I have spent hundreds of hours with Halo.

I have the full Master Chief collection on XBox and last year bought the Master Chief Collection for PC.

I still have the original Combat Evolved working on the PC, it starts up instantly unlike the new version. If I remember correctly the sequel and 2nd sequel stopped working on the PC.