I have many games I would like to rent for my 360. One of which I DON'T want to rent is Halo 3. But I'm gonna torture myself; when I've run out of games to try out, I will rent Halo 3. That's gonna be a while, because I have many more games I want to try out first.
I will rent Halo 3, hoping maybe, just maybe, it's actually good. And there's good reason for that; one, Bungie was more experienced with the game's mechanics by the time H3 was finished, maybe they polished the Halo experience into something that's not dull and mediocre. Also, it's for the 360, not the original Xbox. Perhaps something like Halo was meant to run on hardware like the 360, not the original 'box. Lastly, there's supposed to be a lot more weapons in H3. Maybe some of them will actually be fun to use, and not just a copy the generic pistol-shotgun-machinegun-sniper rifle-grenades-missile launcher lineup seen in everything else.
Oh, but then again, I might be setting my expectations too high. I honestly don't believe H3 could be as good as Half-Life 1 and 2. I am hoping, however, that it will be a worthwhile rental. Here's something: my official score of Halo 1 is as follows: 5 out of 10. Halo 2 is 4 out of 10. (you die too easily in H2, and they claim your shield is 'more advanced.' Bull-fucking-shit!) Halo 3 has to score at least an 8 out of 10 for me to forgive Bungie for all of these years of lackluster output. If it doesn't, even if it scores a 6 or 7, therefore beating H1 and H2, it will be the object of my derision. A game franchise as hyped as Halo cannot be worth the hype if not even one game is either totally freakin' aswesome or at least very good. It has to be of the 10 percentile of Sturgeon's Law that doesn't suck.
Oh, if it isn't, oh, if H3 is as bad as the first two, holy mother of Earth. I will Fan Wank like I have never Fan Wanked in the past. I will unleash a fury of obscenities like that of which you've never seen. My hatred for all things Halo-related will be greater than my hatred of Slayers, Code Geass, and Fruits Basket combined. Yes, I love riffing on those anime series, but they're not popular with "normal people." Halo is popular with "normal people." I know a lot of people in the real world who have played a Halo game. Many of them are also fans. Some of them are haters like me. But still, like I said, no game franchise deserves Halo's level of hype if not one game in the entire franchise is good.
But hey! I could be wrong, H3 might actually be good. Let's hope it is. For now, since I'm concentrating on games that don't remind me of retarded 20-something males who bought an Xbox, and Xbox 360, just to play Halo and Madden, that may be a while.
"Wait, you're gonna play a game because you may potentially hate on it? What are you, the Angry Video Game Nerd?"
Oh boy. Hey, instead of bashing old games like the actual Nerd does, I could bash any new 360 game that sucks! Ha ha! That's a sweet deal.
LATE EDIT: I never did get to play H3, but i did play Halo Reach, and I am now at peace with myself.
