he has a point…When I stopped playing warcraft i didn’t know which game to play next. None of them had the awesome-ness of building a character,ectx10

but now I have Call of Duty and Mass Effect! And I am kicking ass and taking names! I have owned up to the fact that all of the halo story lines are weak, and it no longer bothers me

Co-Op is king tho…It doesn’t have to be split screen tho. Resident Evil 4 had all those mini-games and extra story modes afterwards. I LOVED those mini-games where you had 2 minutes to kill for points, MORE games need that. (Halo’s scoring mode is a great attempt, i am talking min-game style tho)

Jonathan..good luck, your gonna get flamed if you say halo sucks.

….damn, i feel like re-upping my WoW account!

You’re right about adding multiplayer to assassins creed, it would be stupid… as for any/all non-FPS games. They’re just not suited to it.

If I want to play my games with people all over the world who bitch moan and shout like 99.9% of the X box community I’ll buy Halo3, but there is absolutely nothing special about it, nothing that hasn’t been done before and nothing that won’t be reproduced for a better title in the future.

“I’m not saying I don’t prefer games with online features — far from it…”

Double negative – bad form. So you do prefer online gaming?

“Maybe Nintendo had the right idea not making an easy online mode for their system.”

So in fact you want to see fewer online games? Wait, no, you said you play both online and offline games, CoD4, or Mario Galaxy when the mood takes you. So in essence you prefer neither over the other.

Forgive me for being a little puzzled, but you’re not really providing any evidence that your headline may hold some truth. Sure, Halo 3 does have a ton of great options and such, but does it mean that any other game you play now is that little bit poorer for it? Surely that isn’t the case as you later state that, in your opinion, online features don’t make or break a game.

What you’ve said is that Halo 3’s online features alone don’t make it any better than any other game, but other games are worse off because of those online features. That doesn’t really make much sense.

And regarding _skitzo_’s comments above, I just love the way a whole bunch of what appears to be Filefront staffers stick their wedge in the moment a reader makes some kind of criticism regarding subject and style of the original article.

So what? _skitzo_ may have made certain remarks which may have suggested that Jonathan had the traits of a stereotypical gamer (e.g. no girlfriend, 14-year-old n00b, etc.) Welcome to the Internet. If you were genuinely upset by such comments then you must have been living in the dark under a rock for the past 15 years.

And double negatives aside, to call a critical reader/commentator of your article a douche, especially in public view below your own article, is unprofessional. At the very worst you could have deleted _skitzo_’s comments. You could also just have ignored them. Even better, you could have taken the “bigger man” approach, so to speak. You could have kept a professional attitude, maintained some form of integrity, and stated firmly yet politely why you think his comments were without grounds.

The fact that you retaliated in such a manner proves only one thing. He got to you, he pissed you off and you lost your cool.

0.5% people care if some person called someone else a douche bag on the net.

100% of people could careless about this matter, you may go back to your intern work now.

75% of people found _skitzo_’s reply funny and heart warming, the feel good reply of the year

100% of people at the airport tend to kill time. 0% gave a fuck you did as well.

100% of PS3news and ConsoleTech still laughing at “douche bag” response, and how it affected Jonathan’s day

110% of people love CJ!! and PS3news

100% of the PS3 and ConsoleTech staff would like to wish everyone at filefront Happy Thanksgiving.

Skitzo seems to have different views as a game review then yourself Jonathan. All he was trying to do was express where and how he felt your review was wrong. I think he did justice seeing as he had supporting evidence for his argument.

Jonathan, what you should be doing is showing how you can better defend your argument. You are both game reviews, should you not be use to the fact that some people do not agree with what you have to say about games?

When I read skitzo’s so called “attack on you” I show nowhere did he mention anything about the fact that you didn’t have a life outside of gaming, or the fact that you didn’t have a girlfriend. I saw that he said you write like a 14 year old. This was based on your reasoning for your reviews.

You choose to turn around and turn it into a personal attack on skitzo, making comments about how you unlike other people have a life besides games. How grown up does that come off? You in turn make yourself out to be a bad one. You write article for video games. You of all people should understand that not everyone enjoys the same games. You should be expecting that people are not going to agree with you and what you have to say. You should know that people are going to confront you and your reasoning for what you have to say.

There should be no reason why it should be turned into a personal attack on a reader, who is also a game reviewer. Anyone who knows skitzo, knows how he rolls, that’s just how he do’s it. I’m ashamed that you allowed this to get to you and that you in an open article went as low as to call him a “douche”.

I feel you need to grown up, if you can’t handle what people have to say….maybe you should rethink what you do, or maybe what you say in future articles.

IN CLOSING….I LIED! I’M TOTALLY ON SKITZO’S SIDE! JONATHAN YOU’RE A FAN BOY DOUCHE YOURSELF!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

One GamesRadar editor said it best “I have a multitude of potential snarky responses, one of which implies that I could buy 1up and EGM with the change under my sofa”

But I leave you with some words, The Ship of Failure Floats on a Sea of Excuses…
Have a safe flight Jonathan……

Listen up Infinity Ward, add split screen online to COD4 as a bonus.

skitzo, you are a DOUCHE.

For my research on this comment, I would like to cite the past two essays you left for me. Not the essays themselves (as hilarious as they are), but the fact that you not only left them in the comments section, but also e-mailed them to the entire Gaming Today staff and CC’ed them to your own site. With this in mind, I’d say I’m pretty well-informed, along with everyone else who received them, that you are a douche. The last person I heard of doing something like that was Jack Thompson. If you wanted to seriously give me tips on writing, you would’ve at the very least left me tips without resorting to calling me a 14-year old, girlfriend-less, or whatever stereotypical gamer insults you could come up with. But no, you just wanted to harass me online and be as loud about your opinion on me as a writer as possible, just like every other gamer online.

So here’s my opinion: you, skitzo, the guy whose did all that I mentioned above, are one incredible douche. You are the douche by which all other douches should be compared. I truly feel that no douche, past or present, can match or exceed your douchery. Congrats.

Well, this killed some time at the airport. Thanks for the laughs. Good day, all.

well stated. People sometimes seem to think that editorials are supposed to be like dissertations or something. I have no idea where they get these ideas from. I also have no clue where people get their rules of writing from. Perhaps they are reading some little handbook to proper writing or something. Personally, I believe that the only rule is that you need to communicate with the reader. I could really care less about writing form or any kind of rules. As long as you are getting the point across, it does not matter.

Some people I guess don’t understand the point of an editorial. I would have to say being that an editorial is an “opinion piece” it’s the writer’s choice how to construct it.

1. an article in a newspaper or other periodical presenting the opinion of the publisher, editor, or editors.

2. a statement broadcast on radio or television that presents the opinion of the owner, manager, or the like, of the station or channel.

3. something regarded as resembling such an article or statement, as a lengthy, dogmatic utterance.

I really wish that people would realize that editorials are OPINION pieces, and most likely will not include any sort of “research” beyond what has formed in the writers thoughts.

Generally, if a vast amount of research is involved it becomes a “feature” or an “investigative” piece. Also, editorials do not have to be formed in the same sense as a normal item of news/review etc. so to tell him that it was poorly written is just silly. Anyone who has ever taken a journalism course would know this, and if they have not, maybe they should do a little research themselves before slamming the writer. It is ok to disagree with someone, but to bash them on their writing or research skills when commenting on an editorial is basically an uneducated and ill-informed thing to do.

That being said, thanks for visiting.

_skitzo_, what did you think of Team Fortress 2? I’m just wondering, since both times your only real argument against Halo 3 has been the lack of maps… that and shotty snipers being too prevalent in the matchmaking lists (which you admit was fixed quickly). So again, I’m wondering… how’d you like TF2? I personally can’t understand the orgasms this game seems to elicit, and with only 6 maps to boot! And even more… with only 1 game type per map! I’m not saying that you enjoyed TF2, since you never expressed opinion either way, but often I’ve seen the two compared and one exclusively chosen over the other due to their close timeframe of release. So if this is true, I’m wondering how “the lack of maps online is a joke” compares to TF2’s offerings?

I enjoyed the game for all of 2 hours, and then I really wasn’t that impressed. The classes seemed to lack meaning when all you had to do was build a team of engineers and turrets. I played the longest game of CTF of my life with no winner because of the impenetrable walls of shotguns and turrets (that were honestly present on both sides).

While I agree that any game can become stale if played for too long, Team Fortress did so in record time for me. But I’m also experienced/mature/learned enough to realize that this is only MY opinion, and that opinions will ALWAYS differ with no chance or reason to be swayed otherwise.
I was very unimpressed with TF2. I can understand and accept that I’m in the minority. You seem unimpressed with Halo 3. You must understand the YOU’RE in the minority.

Good games come down to doing more things right than wrong, while at the same time being FUN. If it has these two things, it’s a good game. The problem is, fun is an opinion, and therefore whether a game is ‘good’ is a strikingly varied phenomenon.

I also admit to not being a professional writer, as you are most likely able to tell from this post, and to that end understand that I’ve gotten heavily off topic, but your post struck me as biased.

To get back on topic, I think what many of you can’t seem to get through your head is that jon is NOT PRAISING Halo 3. All he said is that after Halo 3 many people on forums seem to be comparing ridiculously unrelated games to Halo 3, and even he, himself, played COD 4 wishing it had some of the features Halo had. His conclusion? For many people, Halo has broken other games for many other people. He also concluded that while he understood (and personally experienced) the inevitable comparison of shooters to Halo, he thought it was crazy how past the line those comparisons have gone (to games where they don’t belong).

“But reading this post, I’ve gathered the following, thanks to xbox and halo 3, they feed they poor, and help stray puppy’s find homes.” As far as I can tell, YOU are the only one coming up with this conclusion. And how, I might add, I’ll never know. He wasn’t saying that Halo 3 cures disease. He’s saying that from what he’s seen, everything seems to be compared to it, so much that any game that lacks Multiplayer has been declared an abomination. Were exactly does he say, “Halo owns the universe, and any game that isn’t it is pure shit” ? Cause I sure didn’t see that.

“How Assassin’s Creed and Halo can be compared is beyond me. I mean last I checked assassins work alone 100 percent of the time. But ya..if you’re able to explain that to me, I would really appreciate it.”
HOLY SHIT, that’s his WHOLE POINT! Go back and re-read his paragraph again. He was saying exactly that. “And in the midst of some of these reviews, comments on news articles, and forum posts, I’ve seen a number of people complain about the lack of co-op and online multiplayer. Let’s just stop and think for a minute about how ridiculous it would be to have not one, but two Medieval assassins running around killing higher-ups.” He used the word ridiculous. Not awesome, or kitty or dope… but ridiculous. In case you weren’t aware, the word has a negative connotation.
If you’re going to talk down to someone, make sure you’ve read their view points well enough; it’d be embarrassing to find they have the same ones you do.

I think you’re seeing what YOU want to see. Attacking this guy for writing that he’s seen an overly abundant amount of halo vs the world comparisons is just… odd. That was his only point. Halo 3 has destroyed many 360 owners expectations of other games. Thats it? What’s with all this other shit you’ve pulled out of your ass?
I think you found this space as place to play out your own agenda, and boost your own ego, claim you’re a better journalist all while throwing out a few plugs along the way.

Pathetic.