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Off-Topic => All of all! => Topic started by: Razor on September 24, 2007, 01:52:37 PM
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It was released in Australia over an hour ago. You still have to wait. Maybe.
I don't have a 360, but I still want to play.
Discuss!
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Never played Halo. So I'm hijaking this thread and asking:
Why don't we make a Video-Games subforum?
Just so we don't let threads like this thrown in the middle of All of All. It just doesn't feel right to me.
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That's a pretty good idea Grandy.
Btw, (on topic) the halo series is one of the worst shooting game series I've ever played. To be honest... aside from graphics... I've never been able to get into it. The story is like a complete rip off of Perfect Dark, and I hate the "you can only weild two weapons at a time. Cause someone with crazy armor like that wouldn't have all kinds of sheaths for guns and backstraps and ****. Bah, the game sucks... and I've played both Halo and Halo 2... and thought both were terrible. Thus... Halo 3 in all likelihood will also be terrible
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I played on Halo2 a huge amount and got pretty good at it back when Ovion was in England. Now he's in New Zealand and I have no intention of getting Xbox live, I'm not that bothered about Halo3.
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Metroid Prime 1-3 is all the sci-fi shooter series I need.
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I played it once, its fun. Most of the time when people play halo, they don't do it for the story, they do it for the multiplayer (at least thats how it works around here). And its always fun to go around killing your friends :)
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I see no need to play Halo 3. My friends have it, and I only see value in its Multiplayer. I'm not gonna buy a 360 over a simple, overhyped FPS.
Still, I'm going to a system-link to break in H3 with my friends when they get it. Yay for redesigned Arbiters (I only use Arbiters) ^_^
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I'm a big fan of the series, and the third installment comes out at midnight (about eight hours from now), but I won't be getting it until sometime in the afternoon tomorrow.
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I'm planning on getting it. I love shooters.
I'm not a fan of the graphics though. I hate the art style.
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Originally posted by Archem2
but I won't be getting it until sometime in the afternoon tomorrow.
You make it sound like it won't be sold out 5 minutes past release tiem. I'm guessing you're working some kind of magic.
Originally posted by DragonBlaze
I played it once, its fun. Most of the time when people play halo, they don't do it for the story, they do it for the multiplayer (at least thats how it works around here). And its always fun to go around killing your friends :)
Halo multiplayer + swearing at your friends = best fun
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I'm not going to try and be different like Shady and deny that Halo was at least decent. It was a fun game, and really, it revolutionized shooters in the same way that DOOM did (Or rather, that game that was Halo, ut older made by Bungie). It's fun, but I don't care about it to the point of anticipation. If Im at my friend, and he says lets play Halo, I'm not against running his *** down with a warthog XD
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GHAYLO????
I kid, I kid.
I think the line from walmart reaches ll the way to my house.
I saw the ending already, who wants to know it!?
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Originally posted by Razor
Originally posted by Archem2
but I won't be getting it until sometime in the afternoon tomorrow.
You make it sound like it won't be sold out 5 minutes past release tiem. I'm guessing you're working some kind of magic.[/B]
Reserved copy, my friend. Legendary set reservation.
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Last year when all of my fellow classmates and I installed Halo on our school laptops is when I played it the most. Being the second best person there, I quickly saw that this game was nothing special. Sure it was fun, but it wasn't anything new or exciting, it's just great by it's name sake, because it's so hyped, that people think it's actually cool to play it, thus making them have more "Fun", but in reality you have more fun playing counterstrike and half-life.
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Don't douche things up, please. It's nothing new as far as a PC shooter, but it's a big thing as far as the console shooter market goes because it revolutionized how an FPS should play on a console, both in control setup and mimicking the accuracy of a mouse. On a PC, it's just a fun game and nothing more, and can be as forgettable as, say, Soldier of Fortune, but on a console, it's the game that made consoles finally able to compete with PC games on a shooter level.
Of course, this is about the game as a fun thing, not as an innovator. So even then, it's fun. Your hype theory isn't true, as a lack of fun would never have made this game as popular as it is, and no-one would have played the original Halo if it wasn't fun, as it wasn't "cool" yet. And it's a known fact that Halo 2 was a general failure, but the multiplayer is fun and well designed. Not to mention that it isn't quite fair to, as you have done, compare a console game to a PC game, since there are so many things that can be altered to make a PC game more fun for different audiences (even if Halo came out on PC, too. It's a bit of a failure as a PC game, but it's still fun enough to draw its own crowd).
Oh hell, I've gone off on a pointless rant...
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MASTER CHIEF DIES!!!!
TEH SPOILERS....
nah honestly I don't know the first thing about the Halo games. Not a fan of shooters.
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Archem summarized my thoughts. Just more fanboyish XD I hate PC shooters, or any mouse involved PC game, because I have to get into it. I can't sit there and chill while I play. Its like a Wii.
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Oh, I love PC shooters. Hell, I just love shooters! Or any game genre, for that matter, so long as it's fun!
Hmm... *reinstalls the forgettable shooter known as Soldier of Fortune*
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From what I've read, the Forge multiplayer sounds pretty cool. But, as stated by SaiKar, Metroid Prime works for me.
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Originally posted by Archem2
Oh, I love PC shooters. Hell, I just love shooters! Or any game genre, for that matter, so long as it's fun!
Hmm... *reinstalls the forgettable shooter known as Soldier of Fortune*
The you summarizing my thoughts and disliking pc shooters are actually separate things XD
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Originally posted by Archem2
Oh, I love PC shooters. Hell, I just love shooters! Or any game genre, for that matter, so long as it's fun!
I agree with Archem 1000%.
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So, I've been playing it for a while now, and I must say, I'm very happy with how things have turned out so far. I just hope the story has a decent ending this time!
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FINSIH THE FIGHT.
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My only experience with Halo was watching my disgustingly rich friend play it on his massive plasma. It's things like that which cause video game related seizures.
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I remember when my brother played Halo 2 against his friend. He said he was really cheap because he jumps out of nowhere and slashs him. Sounds fun. I haven't seen any gameplay footage of Halo 3. Though one of my friends pre-ordered it, and he was on the first list.
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Halo is too cartoonish. You jump and gently float down while trying to kill someone. It's just jumping and shooting.
Gears of War is a hell of a lot better. In every way. It's way more realistic, in the sense of action, and just feels right. But I digress....
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Originally posted by Linkforce
Halo is too cartoonish. You jump and gently float down while trying to kill someone. It's just jumping and shooting.
Gears of War is a hell of a lot better. In every way. It's way more realistic, in the sense of action, and just feels right. But I digress....
Gears of War is fun, but in terms of multiplayer, its too ****ing complicated. Really, I've played both games with my friend excessively at his place, and I prefer Halo if I want a fun factor.
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Originally posted by ZeroKirbyX
Originally posted by Linkforce
Halo is too cartoonish. You jump and gently float down while trying to kill someone. It's just jumping and shooting.
Gears of War is a hell of a lot better. In every way. It's way more realistic, in the sense of action, and just feels right. But I digress....
Gears of War is fun, but in terms of multiplayer, its too ****ing complicated. Really, I've played both games with my friend excessively at his place, and I prefer Halo if I want a fun factor.[/B]
0_o How is it complicated? I mean that in an honest way...not trying to be an ***.
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I don't mean difficult complicated, just strategically complicated. Its fun, but a large part is running between walls, blind firing and overall lack of serious awesome. In Halo, it's the same idea, but done a lot simpler.
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While I disagree with what you say, I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
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**** Family Guy XD
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Eh... I'm not really a fan of the genre and I don't have a 360 anyway. I reserved Halo 2 and got it and beat it and tried the online mode. It was okay, but it just didn't excite me that much.
Originally posted by Archem2
Oh, I love PC shooters. Hell, I just love shooters!
I agree with Archem 10%.
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If you throw on a zero and two zeros, you're on my list!
As for GoW being better than Halo: I disagree. It's fun, for sure, but it's just not something that I can play more than a couple times through. It's too serious for me to play continuously in the way that Halo can be played. It takes too much concentration at certain parts, and third-person shooters really aren't my thing, so it's a small miracle that I enjoy the game at all. Plus, it's too boring about colors, and Halo is like a fireworks display hopped up on hallucinogenic drugs. By comparison, that is. Halo lasts and lasts because it's just so easy to pick up, play, and share with friends. It's more party-accessible. Plus, the single player Halo experience makes you feel like a god when you kill a good ten-twenty-some-odd foes, whereas in Gears, you only feel like a guy who's a bit luckier than the rest. Also, its multiplayer really isn't as fun as everyone seems to say it is. Too much of the power weapons pwning those without power weapons.
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I got to play 33 hours of Halo 3 over 52 hours.
It was highly enjoyable: the graphics are a nice improvement over Halo 2, I only noticed the lack of anti-aliasing once (we were playing on a CRT TV); the single player campaign was shorter than I would like (heroic coop took less than 9 hours) but solidly enjoyable and replayable; the new skull system is a nice touch as is the theatre mode; my brief play with Forge wasn't all that interesting; when playing the various social Live matches, the limitation of four or five maps per game type was very noticeable; with Live Social Slayer, the choice between slayer and shotty snipers quickly got old (but beating other people is always fun, especially those guys who had high ranks who claimed they were going to beat my team, totally kicked their asses); the single player brings a nice close to the main characters, holy crap they killed off Keyes/Johnson/343; last level was a nice homage to the last level of Halo 1, which was awesome as well; interesting new vehicles/weapons though the latter are ultimately disregarded in multiplayer for the sake of assault rifle/melee kills; bizarre absence of Blood Gulch/Beaver Creek is bothersome; new items are fun and useful, except that gay radar jammer, which I just can't resist using every single time.
If I had a xbawks threesiddy, I'd buy it.
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I have a 360 and a DS yet I still don't have Halo 3 and Phantom Hourglass. I need a job.
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Ok, I totally forgot about this thread, so I feel I should get my final thoughts out on the game. Single player pwns, even if it was a bit short. The [spoiler] felt [spoiler] to me, but if [spoiler], then that would have been [spoiler]. *sigh* I really [spoiler, spoiler]. The multiplayer matchmaking is kind of weak right now, but the custom games and what you can do in them is fantastic. At school yesterday, a bunch of us made a custom game mode that really ruled. Originally, we just wanted to make SWAT real quick, but then we went crazy with the options and ended up with what some could call the most realistic Halo game mode ever. It almost felt like we weren't even playing Halo! The Forge is time consuming, but very rewarding when designing a game mode around a map variant. Ultimately, we had some unbelievably awesome gaming experiences that day. Also, I'm in love with the Theater. I've spent about half of my time in the game in the theater.
But I have to say, when it comes to the skulls, they really could have hidden them a lot better. I mean, I'm going to all kinds of crazy places while skull hunting, only to find they've all been put somewhere that's just slightly off the beaten path *coughblindcough*. Hell, I basically tripped over two or three of them! I should have been in charge of hiding the skulls! They could have put more in, too.
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http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/zeropunctuation/2304-Zero-Punctuation-Halo-3
Mildly related and higly amusing.
Also, as for what everyone is saying, the single-player is not that great, so even IF I had a 360, I still wouldn't buy it.
Why? 'Coz from what it seems, the multiplayer is online, and I wouldn't be able to make my console go online, for various reasons.
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Zero Punctuation is awesome, but all things considered that review is a bit scathing. Or maybe I'm just part of the target audience and he isn't. Dunno lol
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Ive actually said all that before I saw that video XD Halo is a decent game, but its not the best ever.
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I love ZP with all my heart because even through all the nasty things that may be said about things I so dearly love, it still leaves me in a complete state of humorous agreement. I'm also letting it be known that while I love Halo and always will, that I will hold it in high regards forever and ever, that I still wouldn't call it the best game ever, or even one of the best games ever. It's a truly marvelous shooter (for what it is, and not for what it isn't), and that's all I want it to be. Should it be the next Tetris or the future of DOOM? No. I'm fine with it being on the level with other games that I will always hold dear to me (even if they get a lot of flak from the haters) like the Tony Hawk games or Battlefield or any game where Luigi holds authority over Mario. The best isn't what I'm looking for (although it's a nice thing to have), what I'm looking for is fun. If I wanted the best all the time, I would only play Half-Life for the PC shooter field, Super Mario Bros. 3 for platformers, and Gran Turismo for the racing scene.
But here I go on a rant again. Let me retreat before I stir up some unnecessary ****.
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Sorry to kick/double post, but I need to report that I've found a 14th skull. I'll let you know that it's in "Cortana", but I won't tell you where in the level it is. Just want to be able to say in the future that I found it, and that I can't find anything on the internet about it.
Pics!
1 (http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/6672/skull14rs0.jpg)
2 (http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/4826/skullbrothersyx3.jpg)
3 (http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/4341/skullconflictuf3.jpg)
4 (http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/4561/skullposejq1.jpg)
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I believe you might have found the elusive "second Blind skull" which does nothing because you already have found the Blind skull.
It wasn't meant to be in the game, but apparently they left it in there.
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Perhaps, but I'm still quite interested in this little piece of Easter Egg. My friend and I are kind of set now to hunt and hunt for any more such skulls.
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Ok, well it's a kick, but I haven't been here in awhile and this is like the only thing I want to talk about. I played this game for the first time last Saturday. I have really mixed feelings about the game. It was a little odd to get used to at first, considering how much I used to play Halo 2. Plus I hardly every play a 360, so the controller was a little new to me. Even though I had trouble gettig used to, I still beat everyone that I fought against, even though it had been at least 2 months since I'd last played Halo 2. Sadly though, for me, the multiplayer wasn't as fun as Halo 2, mostly because of the changes in physics... the gernades bounce all homosexually... and it sucked everytime I wanted to reload I ended up throwing down a shield of some sort. There's just something about the gameplay that I can't quite put my finger on... but Halo 2 definatly had it, Halo 3 did not.
I will say however, that I loved the campaign mode. It was beautiful, it was fun, and it actually gave use to all the new features. Not to say they're completly useless in the multiplayer, but in campaign, they added an element of fun... maybe it's because it's fun to fuck with enemies in every way possible. Of course, it was short, and they storyline to me seemed rushed and impulsive... like they made they game and then came up with a storyline for it... apparently it's supposed to follow the book... but I've never read it... I'm not sure how the relationship is with the book and the game.. but yeah,