Halo a rip off of Starcraft?

@capthavic , I simply meant that in console gameplay, it takes the skill out of sniping since you simply jump around to bring people into your crosshairs instead of really using your buttons to aim.

@ ShdwyTemplar , I wasn't suggesting that Halo should have been anything other than an FPS. In general I usually dislike the gameplay of FPS games. So other than it being out of my favorite genre, it was a relatively good game. That and I didn't like the super-fast shield regen.

 

no and no. You move your crosshairs with the one joystick and move yourself with the other. It's quite easy after playing a few games. And my first time playing on xbox I got 4th out of 8 and most of my kills were from sniping.

 

Lol, I think Halo's controls are as straightforward and efficient as you can get, me having memorized the controls in one game. Also, sniping is one of the best ways to get kills. If you take a look at the kills, you'll see at least 40% of them is from sniping. It may not be the most fun way (melee to the back can get pretty funnt lol), but it certainly is the most effective. And you don't jump to aim while sniping, that's near impossible. You jump to avoid getting sniped.

 

And my point was thats not the case. The controls are not as bad as you seem to think. I have sniped (and more often been sniped) from clear across a map. What you are talking about sounds like quake from the old days.

 

i dont really think that halo's ripping off starcraft, but there are a lot of games that use those simlar races... you just need a smart alien race, the humans, and the savage beast race. Also, halo doesn't really explain the races that well anyways.

 

SC rip off of Halo!! how dare you i vote for no VOTE FOR NO!!
1) Covenants are not like Protoss because they are mixed with different races like the grunts are from a different planet than the Elites etc
the only similarity is: they are more intelligent than humans in technology
2) You may think the Floods are like Zergs which is no the Floods use these little balloon things that infests/attacks people but they are...um...i guess they are like Zergs

But in my opinion every company rip off every companies

 

Do they really use the word "assimilate" in their description of the flood in Halo? If so, then it is a direct rip-off of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

 

No, they don't.

The Flood (sometimes called The Parasite by the Covenant) is a species of virulent, parasitic organisms that thrive by consuming other carbon-based, sentient lifeforms of sufficient biomass. The Flood appear to have a hive or communal mind, possibly under the command of one leader.

Thats from Halo Wiki. Wiki gotta love em.

 

I love wiki. The concept of a "hive mind" is similar to TNG also, but so is the Zerg, so it's hard to say where any company got their ideas.

 

From what I remember of playing Halo, just to me (TO ME!) it seemed harder to use a sniper rifle and AIM than it is on the computer console....

All you have to do is point the mouse. There you have to rotate the thumb around to a precise angle.

So when I watched my friends playing (and they were supposedly good) they just jumped around to bring people into their crosshairs.

I'm not dissing the game, just offering my analysis of console games in general, especially with my experiences on PS2

 

Lets try to stay on topic here, PC versus Console fps controls are just preference anyway.

If people are gonna say its a rip off just because it was made after something with similar themes/story then I'm gonna say every storyline ever made is a rip off of mythology and folklore, the first stories in mankinds history.

 

Everyone knows Star Craft is a rip off of Warhammer 40K

 

starcraft is a rip off of life. u see those terrans? they look just like humans.

 

---The only sad thing is (hopefully not here)... certain people are stupid enough to claim that Starcraft is ripping off Halo!!


Anyways : Ripping off and "Influenced by the same genre" is very different. I do not know about Halo as much as Starcraft, but they are different enough in flavour (it's slight, but it's there) to warrant praise to both.

 

Before I get murdered by some halo finaticv let me state that I am a Halo p[layer, and love the game, I just think that it is very similar to SC.

 

Pretty sure Halo is a rip-off of everything that came before it.

 

^^^ And so is everything that came before it ^_^