Sunny Tried Halo 3
Jeepers, Friday already! Time flies...Fritzkrieg was over for some gaming last Sunday, and he, Sunny, and I ended up playing three player Xbox 360 games. We warmed up with some Geometry Wars 2 before putting in some time with Castle Crashers. Following that, I decided that we should try some 3-player Halo 3 deathmatch.
Two minutes into the fight, Sunny was bored. It seems that nothing could be more tedious for her than pointing and shooting at things, so she occupied herself for several more minutes with exploring the level and literally looking to see if there was any fun to be had at all. She didn't find anything satisfactory.
Afterward I found myself wondering what sets Halo 3 so much apart from the likes of Castle Crashers or World of Warcraft. Is shooting at things that much more tedious than beating them with a stick or zapping them with a spell? Then I realized that the co-operative aspect of it was missing. In both Castle Crashers and WoW, we are playing as a team to beat up other guys, rather than fighting among ourselves.
I did once get Sunny to play--and briefly enjoy--Unreal Tournament 2004. It was a match where she, Matt, and I were playing together on a team against bots, and we were playing CTF. Sunny's comment at the time was that it was rather like Warsong Gulch, but with shock rifles.
Given that, one might think that I could get Sunny into other co-op FPS experiences like, say, Gears of War. No dice, though. The co-op factor helps, but ultimately Sunny wants something... I dunno, cute and kinda girly, I guess. Castle Crashers and WoW qualify. GoW is a shameless testosterone fest.
The next time I get Fritzkrieg, Matt, and myself together, I want to try the Halo 3 thing again--without subjecting Sunny to it. :) I only have three controllers anyway. Matt is the biggest FPS fan among us, but like any true FPS fan, he shuns the console variety in favour of PC games. I expect that he'll resist playing Halo 3 for exactly this reason, and I've figured out what to say in response:
Less QQ, more pew-pew.
posted by Parappa @ 3:24 PM
2 Comments:
Couldn't we play GoW2 or something?
GoW2 is, in my opinion, a much better game than Halo 3. But it only supports two players locally; in order to have a three player match, we'd all need to be playing online via Xbox Live.
Actually, alternatives do exist. I think it's possible to connect two Xbox 360 consoles via local network and have multiplayer without Xbox Live. Still, it's a lot easier to just play Halo 3. :)
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