Halo (1) - worst vehicle controls EVER?

[Fanatical Meat]

In 2007 I was still lurking.
This is by far the most frustrating driving control and game in general. Constantly watching your gas deplete, smoke screen used gas.
Arcade I played it in must have had the difficulty cranked up because young me remembers the cars moving much faster.

 

[purbeast0]

Halo warthog controlled just fine IMO. It was so much fun being on Blood Gulch driving a warthog with a buddy in the passenger seat and someone on the gun in the rear. Then hitting those jumps and getting some air while shooting people and then getting sniped from across the map.

 

[shortylickens]

I dont know why this was bumped.

in any case, just about every vehicle on the NES had the "Worst Controls EVAR!" so I think the OP was just inexperienced or over reacting or whatever.

 

[MrSquished]

Halo warthog controlled just fine IMO. It was so much fun being on Blood Gulch driving a warthog with a buddy in the passenger seat and someone on the gun in the rear. Then hitting those jumps and getting some air while shooting people and then getting sniped from across the map.

Amen dude. Some of the most epic multiplayer shooter moments were in blood gulch, and definitely some warthog specials. Especially with CTF

 

[Daehock]

i made an account just to comment on this post due to my utter frustration with the SHITTY driving controls of halo 1's warthog, I 100% agree with OP, whatever IDIOT deigned that fps movement controls, should be used to control a land vehicle, needs to be sumarily executed, its utterly abhorrent, and makes absolutely no sense, especially with the wonky physics in the game. it sucked in halo 1, and in EVERY game that tried to emulated its control scheme, cars, should move like cars, not fucking people.

and no looking where you want to go, doesnt actually work with the shitty physics, ESPECIALLY NOT in the end, as ypou jet at top speed up and down and off ramps, while looking straight ahead, the vehicle rotates as it pleases, ending up sideways 75% of the time causing you to lose all momentum, and it FAILS to straighten itself out, forcing you to reverse, and jigger the camera to get it going straight again.....

 

[Fanatical Meat]

i made an account just to comment on this post due to my utter frustration with the SHITTY driving controls of halo 1's warthog, I 100% agree with OP, whatever IDIOT deigned that fps movement controls, should be used to control a land vehicle, needs to be sumarily executed, its utterly abhorrent, and makes absolutely no sense, especially with the wonky physics in the game. it sucked in halo 1, and in EVERY game that tried to emulated its control scheme, cars, should move like cars, not fucking people.

and no looking where you want to go, doesnt actually work with the shitty physics, ESPECIALLY NOT in the end, as ypou jet at top speed up and down and off ramps, while looking straight ahead, the vehicle rotates as it pleases, ending up sideways 75% of the time causing you to lose all momentum, and it FAILS to straighten itself out, forcing you to reverse, and jigger the camera to get it going straight again.....

Welcome aboard

 

[NTMBK]

i made an account just to comment on this post due to my utter frustration with the SHITTY driving controls of halo 1's warthog, I 100% agree with OP, whatever IDIOT deigned that fps movement controls, should be used to control a land vehicle, needs to be sumarily executed, its utterly abhorrent, and makes absolutely no sense, especially with the wonky physics in the game. it sucked in halo 1, and in EVERY game that tried to emulated its control scheme, cars, should move like cars, not fucking people.

and no looking where you want to go, doesnt actually work with the shitty physics, ESPECIALLY NOT in the end, as ypou jet at top speed up and down and off ramps, while looking straight ahead, the vehicle rotates as it pleases, ending up sideways 75% of the time causing you to lose all momentum, and it FAILS to straighten itself out, forcing you to reverse, and jigger the camera to get it going straight again.....

Welcome, person who is bad at Halo

 

[Daehock]

Welcome, person who is bad at Halo

yeah, nope, nice bait though, the idiotic AI cant even drive the damn things.....look at ANY other FPS game series, in the last...10-15 years, and they have ALL moved past the SHITTY halo style vehicle controls, and onto ACTUAL vehicle controls...also, seeing as its a SHOOTER, not being able to wrangle its shitty DRIVING controls, has nothing to do with how good you are at the game or not.

Welcome aboard

thanks, it seems like a decent place to learn about awesome things.

 

[NTMBK]

yeah, nope, nice bait though, the idiotic AI cant even drive the damn things.....look at ANY other FPS game series, in the last...10-15 years, and they have ALL moved past the SHITTY halo style vehicle controls, and onto ACTUAL vehicle controls...also, seeing as its a SHOOTER, not being able to wrangle its shitty DRIVING controls, has nothing to do with how good you are at the game or not.



thanks, it seems like a decent place to learn about awesome things.

Me and my friend played a heckload of split screen Halo. We played a daft custom mode a lot where the health was jacked up to like 500%... But getting run over by a Warthog was still instant death. We'd get a Warthog each, and twist and turn around Blood Gulch, trying to knock the other guy out of his car so you could run him down and score a kill. We got REALLY good at Warthog steering.

Also, I loved the first person camera for the person in the passenger seat. Made the final level even cooler when you're hurtling through an exploding spaceship.