Halo 2 countdown
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Topic: Halo 2 countdown
Posted By: freedom fighter
Subject: Halo 2 countdown
Date Posted: 08 November 2004 at 5:26pm
U.S. eastern time to relase 5:50
Im on a laptop out in frount of Best Buy and its like 46 out here
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Posted By: Jeremy578
Date Posted: 08 November 2004 at 5:27pm
If you goto the store at midnight your a loser...
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Posted By: oreomann33
Date Posted: 08 November 2004 at 5:27pm
what a nerd.
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Posted By: Trogdor2
Date Posted: 08 November 2004 at 5:27pm
Get a life. It probably won't be all that great...
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Posted By: freedom fighter
Date Posted: 08 November 2004 at 5:30pm
then piss off and dont post. 6:00.
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Posted By: munky!
Date Posted: 08 November 2004 at 5:36pm
the story line was just released 10 minuts ago!!!
aleins come and you shoot them
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Posted By: :ShockeR_ratm:
Date Posted: 08 November 2004 at 5:40pm
wow, you're one cool kid
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Posted By: xteam02001
Date Posted: 08 November 2004 at 5:59pm
no wonder this forum is goin down hill. all the people in it are all haters. everybody on this forum needs to get a life. lets face it. no one should spend their time talking to people on the internet for more than 1 hour. so true
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Posted By: Notorious Bob
Date Posted: 08 November 2004 at 6:04pm
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Omg u lifeless geek go get a life it will suk tho
Im not going at midnight. To me Sleep and getting good grades at school is more important then a videogame.
After shool im having a bunch of people over to partaaaay..yeah.
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Posted By: Solipsism
Date Posted: 08 November 2004 at 6:19pm
Please do not associate a retarded Halo fanboy with us geeks, we are not tards like Halo fanboys. kthx.

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Posted By: Glassjaw
Date Posted: 08 November 2004 at 6:21pm
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2. fanboy
1. A person who is completely loyal to a game or company reguardless of if they suck or not.
2. A pathetic insult often used by fanboys themselves to try and put down people who don't like whatever it is they like.
3. See http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fool&r=d - fool or http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=SEGA&r=d - SEGA .
How are people who beleive in something and like it fan boys?
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Posted By: The Man
Date Posted: 08 November 2004 at 6:35pm
Nerds....
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Posted By: Solipsism
Date Posted: 08 November 2004 at 6:36pm
Seriously, if Halo initially came out on PC and then XBOX years later, it wouldn't be so overrated, because to PC gamers its just another FPS, theres nothing special about it.
The only reason I've heard from Halo fanatics of why its so great is its story which wasn't all that great to begin with but they act as if its the only game that HAS one.
FPS blow on consoles anyway compared to a mouse and keyboard.
I have a hard time imagining there will ever be an FPS thats anything more than just "good".
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Posted By: Notorious Bob
Date Posted: 08 November 2004 at 6:38pm
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Solipsism wrote:
Seriously, if Halo initially came out on PC and then XBOX years later, it wouldn't be so overrated, because to PC gamers its just another FPS, theres nothing special about it.
The only reason I've heard from Halo fanatics of why its so great is its story which wasn't all that great to begin with but they act as if its the only game that HAS one.
FPS blow on consoles anyway compared to a mouse and keyboard.
I have a hard time imagining there will ever be an FPS thats anything more than just "good". |
Your kidding about computer games better at FPS then consoles right?
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Posted By: Enos Shenk
Date Posted: 08 November 2004 at 6:42pm
System shock 2 is better than "good"
Of course it has too much complexity for the average halo fanboy to cope with.
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Posted By: Panda Man
Date Posted: 08 November 2004 at 6:44pm
Hey Enos there are like 50,000 of these threads going around, I think we should lock them all up except maybe 2...
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Posted By: Solipsism
Date Posted: 08 November 2004 at 6:51pm
Enos Shenk wrote:
System shock 2 is better than "good" |
Ah yes, you've mentioned that many times in #paintball and I still haven't got around to playing it.
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Posted By: ritzblitz
Date Posted: 08 November 2004 at 7:00pm
^^ same i think i might have to go get it.
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Posted By: Apu
Date Posted: 08 November 2004 at 7:01pm
Notorious Bob wrote:
Solipsism wrote:
Seriously, if Halo initially
came out on PC and then XBOX years later, it wouldn't be so overrated,
because to PC gamers its just another FPS, theres nothing special about
it.
The only reason I've heard from Halo fanatics of why its
so great is its story which wasn't all that great to begin with but
they act as if its the only game that HAS one.
FPS blow on consoles anyway compared to a mouse and keyboard.
I have a hard time imagining there will ever be an FPS thats anything more than just "good". |
Your kidding about computer games better at FPS then consoles right? | Dude...A mouse/keyboard > a controller
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Posted By: Enos Shenk
Date Posted: 08 November 2004 at 7:02pm
Notorious Bob wrote:
Solipsism wrote:
Seriously, if Halo initially
came out on PC and then XBOX years later, it wouldn't be so overrated,
because to PC gamers its just another FPS, theres nothing special about
it.
The only reason I've heard from Halo fanatics of why its
so great is its story which wasn't all that great to begin with but
they act as if its the only game that HAS one.
FPS blow on consoles anyway compared to a mouse and keyboard.
I have a hard time imagining there will ever be an FPS thats anything more than just "good". |
Your kidding about computer games better at FPS then consoles right? |
What in christs name are you smoking???? The entire FPS genre was
created on the PC. Name ONE thing that consoles have innovated in ANY
area besides platformers.
God, your like one of those idiotic new paintball players that has zero
respect for where the game has come from, you cant see beyond the
present.
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Posted By: Dark98
Date Posted: 08 November 2004 at 7:26pm
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I was going to respond to Bob... But Enos pretty much took care of it. You forgot to smack him though.
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Posted By: AdmiralSenn
Date Posted: 08 November 2004 at 7:37pm
Solipsism wrote:
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So there.
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Posted By: Super NEWB
Date Posted: 08 November 2004 at 7:39pm
Enos Shenk wrote:
System shock 2 is better than "good"
Of course it has too much complexity for the average halo fanboy to cope with.
| wow i own that game and i like halo the world is ending!!!!
but seriously that SS2 was intense with all innovative upgrading and
weapons storage systems. It was also pretty scary. But man that brings
back memories. ill have to go find it again. and I dont know if anyone
noticed but deus ex totally ripped that game off with the equipment
storage and upgrade system
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Posted By: Enos Shenk
Date Posted: 08 November 2004 at 7:44pm
You cant rip yourself off, Warren Spector did shock 1 and 2, and later went to ion storm and did deus ex 
Too bad deus ex 2 was such trash. Mainly because it was designed to be
(suprise suprise) a console game, so they had to dumb it down by
removing all the good stuff and making it play like an arcade game.
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Posted By: BLand
Date Posted: 08 November 2004 at 7:51pm
halo is a gateway to FPS games for us people without fancy computers that can handle games like that
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Posted By: Enos Shenk
Date Posted: 08 November 2004 at 7:56pm
BLand wrote:
halo is a gateway to FPS games for us people without fancy computers that can handle games like that
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You know halo was originally developed as a mac game right?
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Posted By: boomstick
Date Posted: 08 November 2004 at 7:58pm
Wow, look at all the people in this thread getting all upset over a video game. This just in: Halo 2 is just a video game for xbox. Get over all this hype. If you don't like it, don't get it. No one cares about your opinion.
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Posted By: youm0nt
Date Posted: 08 November 2004 at 7:59pm
theres a huge line outside of ebgames is what im told.
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Posted By: Solipsism
Date Posted: 08 November 2004 at 8:03pm
Enos Shenk wrote:
You cant rip yourself off, Warren Spector did shock 1 and 2, and later went to ion storm and did deus ex
Too bad deus ex 2 was such trash. Mainly because it was designed to be
(suprise suprise) a console game, so they had to dumb it down by
removing all the good stuff and making it play like an arcade game.
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Now I really want to play SS2, because Deus Ex was pretty damn cool. DE2 was a HUGE disappointment, I uninstalled it after 20 minutes...
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Posted By: xteam02001
Date Posted: 08 November 2004 at 8:03pm
the folks at bungie couldn't have made a better game. I wonder when halo 2 will make it on PC. What about GTA:san andreas, when will it be on PC?
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Posted By: AdmiralSenn
Date Posted: 08 November 2004 at 8:04pm
Enos Shenk wrote:
BLand wrote:
halo is a gateway to FPS games for us people without fancy computers that can handle games like that
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You know halo was originally developed as a mac game right?
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It was coded on a PC, ported to mac, then changed for X-box, then re-coded for Mac, PC, and Linux.
Reason being: they say it's easier to port from PC to mac than vice versa.
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Posted By: Enos Shenk
Date Posted: 08 November 2004 at 8:08pm
AdmiralSenn wrote:
It was coded on a PC, ported to mac, then changed for X-box, then re-coded for Mac, PC, and Linux.
Reason being: they say it's easier to port from PC to mac than vice versa. |
Whatever it was coded on, it was designed as a mac game, just like
marathon, myth and oni. Then it was announced that it would also come
to PC, which most likely is what got microsofts attention, who bought
it and made it an xbox exclusive, then ported it to PC, and finally a
seperate company had to port it back to mac. Sad eh?
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Posted By: Frozen Balls
Date Posted: 08 November 2004 at 8:11pm
Marathon was fun. But the levels were confusing sometimes.
I was like 11 though.
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Posted By: Notorious Bob
Date Posted: 08 November 2004 at 8:29pm
Enos Shenk wrote:
Notorious Bob wrote:
Solipsism wrote:
Seriously, if Halo initially came out on PC and then XBOX years later, it wouldn't be so overrated, because to PC gamers its just another FPS, theres nothing special about it.
The only reason I've heard from Halo fanatics of why its so great is its story which wasn't all that great to begin with but they act as if its the only game that HAS one.
FPS blow on consoles anyway compared to a mouse and keyboard.
I have a hard time imagining there will ever be an FPS thats anything more than just "good". |
Your kidding about computer games better at FPS then consoles right?
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What in christs name are you smoking???? The entire FPS genre was created on the PC. Name ONE thing that consoles have innovated in ANY area besides platformers.
God, your like one of those idiotic new paintball players that has zero respect for where the game has come from, you cant see beyond the present.
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Woohoo, i spend a couple minutes doing my homeword and now I have to look like a idiot responding to a old post.
First off, I DON'T CARE if FPS started on the PC. You can now buy a super PC with all of that great graphics crap for about 1000, or you can buy something that matches that power for about 150. I'd rather spend the 150 then pay my respects to the PC.
Go me.
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Posted By: BLand
Date Posted: 08 November 2004 at 8:32pm
Enos Shenk wrote:
BLand wrote:
halo is a gateway to FPS games for us people without fancy computers that can handle games like that
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You know halo was originally developed as a mac game right?
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my post is still in valid effect? that doesnt change its title as a "gateway to good FPS to blah blah blah"
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Posted By: Enos Shenk
Date Posted: 08 November 2004 at 8:35pm
BLand wrote:
Enos Shenk wrote:
BLand wrote:
halo is a gateway to FPS games for us people without fancy computers that can handle games like that
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You know halo was originally developed as a mac game right?
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my post is still in valid effect? that doesnt change its title as a "gateway to good FPS to blah blah blah"
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I was referring more to the irony with the "fancy computers" part.
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Posted By: BLand
Date Posted: 08 November 2004 at 8:36pm
^ah
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Posted By: Trogdor2
Date Posted: 08 November 2004 at 8:38pm
I really think halo fans should just go die. It isn't a good game!
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Posted By: Jeremy578
Date Posted: 08 November 2004 at 8:39pm
youm0nt wrote:
theres a huge line outside of ebgames is what im told.  |
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Posted By: Notorious Bob
Date Posted: 08 November 2004 at 8:46pm
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Trogdor2 wrote:
I really think halo fans should just go die. It isn't a good game! |
And I think you anti-halo people should accept that people like it.
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Posted By: BLand
Date Posted: 08 November 2004 at 8:54pm
why are people hating people who like halo? its like making fun of
someone who like crunchy peanut butter, or cats better than dogs.
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Posted By: matt06
Date Posted: 08 November 2004 at 8:55pm
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jesus people....face it. Halo is in its own right a good game on a powerful console. Current Consoles in no way match the power of a top of the line gameing computer, and games that are adapted to consoles from PC's are usually worse because they cant be as advanced due to hardware limitations. Dont bash halo simply because you dont have a xbox. Im not a big xbox fan myself, but will acknowledge that halo is a helluva good game. Those of you who say it sucks simply because you personally dislike it are arrogant blind fanboys. now shut up. this thread is pathetic.
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Posted By: Trogdor2
Date Posted: 08 November 2004 at 8:55pm
Notorious Bob wrote:
Trogdor2 wrote:
I really think halo fans should just go die. It isn't a good game! |
And I think you anti-halo people should accept that people like it. |
I think you're right, but I'm just to stupid to do it.
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Posted By: Enos Shenk
Date Posted: 08 November 2004 at 9:10pm
matt06 wrote:
and games that are adapted to consoles from PC's are
usually worse because they cant be as advanced due to hardware
limitations. |
Or they cant be as advanced because the console game market is made up
of annoying kids that want stuff blowing up and blood and pixelated
boobies, and k00l gfx mang, but no real story (or they would play ff7
or shock2 or freespace2)
Dont bash halo simply because you dont have a xbox. Im not a big
xbox fan myself, but will acknowledge that halo is a helluva good game.
Those of you who say it sucks simply because you personally dislike it
are arrogant blind fanboys. now shut up. this thread is pathetic.
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I dont have an xbox either, i played the mac port. I played until the
horribly bad library area where i got tired of every 5 feet
54673458964578965896457865 enemies jump out of predictable holes (same
as last time, whee!) and attack you.
I dont think halo "sucks" per se, i just dont think its that great. The
story is decent (only thing that kept me playing it as long as i did),
the outdoor maps are very well done from a mappers standpoint. The
music is good, and the overall immersiveness is well done in the
outdoor maps, with all the dropships flying in and dumping off more
stuff.
However, the indoor maps are pure absolute TRASH. Your just running by
yourself through room after identical room, shooting enemy after enemy.
Its pieced together prefab crap, so every single area in a region looks
exactly like every single other area in that region.
The game is insanely easy, i suppose its difficult on the xbox since
you have to use the silly little sticks to aim instead of a real input
device like a mouse.
I never liked the enemies much. If they didnt have the annoying little
low-level guys that make baby-talk noises i might be able to take it
more serious.
There, an actual intelligent reason why halo is by far NOT the greatest game in the worldz0rz as all the annoying fanboys claim.
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Posted By: AdmiralSenn
Date Posted: 08 November 2004 at 9:14pm
Enos Shenk wrote:
Whatever it was coded on, it was designed as a mac game, just like
marathon, myth and oni. Then it was announced that it would also come
to PC, which most likely is what got microsofts attention, who bought
it and made it an xbox exclusive, then ported it to PC, and finally a
seperate company had to port it back to mac. Sad eh?
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Yep. I think it's one of the biggest ironies about games in general.
Bonus points if someone can point out 2 obscure bits of Halo-trivia that are relevant to things Enos said (two of the game titles from Bungie).
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Posted By: matt06
Date Posted: 08 November 2004 at 9:28pm
my rant wasnt directed at you enos, because ive seen your stance on the game before, and respect it because you actually know what you are talking about with the game.
I was aiming it towards 14 year olds who dont have an xbox so instead they try to impress people by going out of their way to bash halo
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Posted By: Enos Shenk
Date Posted: 08 November 2004 at 9:30pm
Yeah, those people annoy me too.
I just play lots of games, build lots of levels for games, and i hate
to see people praising something that has been beaten soundly in many
areas by other games that people wont consider or dont know of.
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Posted By: matt06
Date Posted: 08 November 2004 at 9:34pm
Enos Shenk wrote:
Yeah, those people annoy me too.
I just play lots of games, build lots of levels for games, and i hate
to see people praising something that has been beaten soundly in many
areas by other games that people wont consider or dont know of.
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Posted By: Tolgak
Date Posted: 08 November 2004 at 9:35pm
I don't have to wait in a stupid line. I gots me a preorder, and according to Best Buy (hopefully) I can go in the store whenever the hell I want and pick it up.
And about this whole hatred crap. I didn't like the original that much either, but some people don't seem to realize that Bungee completely modified the game to make it much better than the original. There will no longer be predictable Covenant entry and repetitive maps. Just 'cause the first one wasn't great doesn't mean this one wont be.
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Posted By: Solipsism
Date Posted: 08 November 2004 at 9:38pm
Im not an anti-Halo person really, I own a copy of the game. Yes, I paid for it instead of downloading it when I very well could have, I enjoy playing it on xbconnect once in awhile.
Its just severely overrated and I enjoy making fanboys angry
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Posted By: Notorious Bob
Date Posted: 08 November 2004 at 9:52pm
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Enos Shenk wrote:
matt06 wrote:
and games that are adapted to consoles from PC's are usually worse because they cant be as advanced due to hardware limitations. |
Or they cant be as advanced because the console game market is made up of annoying kids that want stuff blowing up and blood and pixelated boobies, and k00l gfx mang, but no real story (or they would play ff7 or shock2 or freespace2)
Dont bash halo simply because you dont have a xbox. Im not a big xbox fan myself, but will acknowledge that halo is a helluva good game. Those of you who say it sucks simply because you personally dislike it are arrogant blind fanboys. now shut up. this thread is pathetic. |
I dont have an xbox either, i played the mac port. I played until the horribly bad library area where i got tired of every 5 feet 54673458964578965896457865 enemies jump out of predictable holes (same as last time, whee!) and attack you.
I dont think halo "sucks" per se, i just dont think its that great. The story is decent (only thing that kept me playing it as long as i did), the outdoor maps are very well done from a mappers standpoint. The music is good, and the overall immersiveness is well done in the outdoor maps, with all the dropships flying in and dumping off more stuff.
However, the indoor maps are pure absolute TRASH. Your just running by yourself through room after identical room, shooting enemy after enemy. Its pieced together prefab crap, so every single area in a region looks exactly like every single other area in that region.
The game is insanely easy, i suppose its difficult on the xbox since you have to use the silly little sticks to aim instead of a real input device like a mouse.
I never liked the enemies much. If they didnt have the annoying little low-level guys that make baby-talk noises i might be able to take it more serious.
There, an actual intelligent reason why halo is by far NOT the greatest game in the worldz0rz as all the annoying fanboys claim.
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ARRG, I agree with you on most of that. Yes, indoor levels are trash, Library is insanly repitive, all of that. But you have to realize, almost all of the halo 'fanboys' agree with you on this.
Reason why I love it though, is after you get through that boringness it is made up for with pure awesomeness.
I felt like a badass flying into the island on the third map with 30 marines and pwning covenant. Going out of the silent Cartogrepher, (when the guitar music starts) i had that same exact feeling. In my mind, thats what makes a great game.
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Posted By: High Voltage
Date Posted: 08 November 2004 at 10:06pm
/me high fives enos on the freespace2 referrence. w00t!
enough of listening to whiney fanboys...i, personally, am ecstatic that
Halo 2 came out, cause now all you halo fanatics will be glued to your
tv's playing the game for the next month and a half, and not annoying
the crap out of me about ZOMG!!!1!!1!!1!1!! TEH HALO 2 ESH COMING OUT
SOONZORZ!!!1!1!111!!!!!1!!1!1!1
now, if you don't mind, i'm gonna go play ut2k4...
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Posted By: Ilovepaintball1
Date Posted: 08 November 2004 at 11:23pm
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You guys serously need to stop being such haters!
Halo is awsome in my opinion but everyone is entitled to their own opinion.
Why
are you calling him a geek and nerd? Didn't your parents ever
teach you the golden rule or anything? (Treat others how you would like
to be treated)
If you can't say anything nice dont say anything at all
So what if this guys wants to spend his time outside a store for hours. You don't need to flame him because of that.
Man serously.
Most of you guys just suck
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Posted By: LostPenguin
Date Posted: 08 November 2004 at 11:29pm
5 MINUTES!!
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Posted By: Solipsism
Date Posted: 08 November 2004 at 11:29pm
High Voltage wrote:
/me high fives enos on the freespace2 referrence. w00t!
enough of listening to whiney fanboys...i, personally, am ecstatic that
Halo 2 came out, cause now all you halo fanatics will be glued to your
tv's playing the game for the next month and a half, and not annoying
the crap out of me about ZOMG!!!1!!1!!1!1!! TEH HALO 2 ESH COMING OUT
SOONZORZ!!!1!1!111!!!!!1!!1!1!1
now, if you don't mind, i'm gonna go play ut2k4...
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Except its probably just an 8 hour game everyone will beat in one sitting so they'll be back real soon
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