halo 2, stuff Options

[indykid845]

iz there ne one else who CANNOT wait 4 halo 2 to come out?!
(lemme kno if this topic has already been discussed)

[mechwarrior1989]

1) Realism doesnt just take place in gravity. Everyone says how balanced the guns are. Since when in real life are guns balanced? Never. Id sooner use a 12 gage to blow down some people than a pistol, why? More damage over a wider area. And then theres the driving, the sliding effects arent exactly realistic, especially in a warthog, which Im assuming was made for offroad driving, and yet will spin out faster than my mom when she's drunk. Oh yeah, and suit weighing half a ton = harder to jump. But maybe thats just my physics class taking over.

2) Its not the greatest game ever. NOT. Im not stating an opinion, Im stating a fact.

3) So what if it sold? That hardly means it saved ANYTHING. Especially considering the lack of sales of the Xbox anywhere but the US, and the lack of profit coming in for Microsoft. But maybe Im crazy, maybe losing billions is a GOOD thing. Im obviously out of the loop.

4) The story line resembles every Gundam movie/show known to man. Giant colony can destroy the world and one man in a robosuit has to stop it. Whoopdie doo. Recharging shield? Original? More like ridiculous. It makes it even more unrealistic. I mean a shield, on top of a half ton of armor? Common, seriously. And no, nothing can truly be original, but theres a difference between that and blatantly ripping from sources. Its like the Lion King. I mean seriously.

What have you shown to be a pro about Halo other than sales and fun factor? Nothing. And I dont even find it that fun. The multi games are unimaginative and the weapons lack quality and quantity. Theres just something about playing 4x4 Goldeneye, searching your ass off for a proximity mine so you can kill a bunch of people before someone snipes you off or drags you into your own trap or something. Theres something more exciting about having a goal, something to go after. Halo has nothing like that. Your "balanced" weapons just create a goal-less game that requires little skill.

It bores me, really.

1) The suit weighing 1/2 ton inproves his strength, plus there's the already neuro and strength enhancements that he has like I already said, he could easily lift cars if he wanted to, jumping wouldn't be a problem. Because a suit weighing 1/2 ton = hard to jump when you don't have the force to make it move. Assuming the average human weighs 150 lbs and can has the strength to life 50lbs easily, the average car weighs in exess of 1 ton. Do the math, if Master Chief can lift a car, then he must have the strengh to be able to jump wearing that suit. In case you still don't get it, 2,000/50=40 150*40=6,000, if we assume the ratio of his arm strength to average human's arm strength is the same as his jumping ability to the average humans, then he could jump with 6,000lbs. I think we can safely assume that Master Chief does not weigh 5,000lbs and as such could easily jump the height which he does jump.

2) Stating that it isn't the greatest game ever is an opinion. It is a fact however that stating that it isn't the greatest game ever is an opinion. There is never a fact for something being the best. Everything is based on opinion. The only way you could say something is the best if there is only one realistic way of looking at it, for example, getting an A is better than failing. Unless of course you're trying to fail, then it wouldn't be.

3) Microsoft doesn't have to make money for it to have been saved by selling Xbox; even if it was "saved" it'd still be losing money since it loses money on every single XBox. Its business strategy isn't to make money on each XBox, it's to carve out a chunk of the market for future Microsoft counsels and also to make money on game licenses.

4) And what does Gundam resemble? There are way more games that just Halo where one guy must go and save the whole world. And also, if you don't know Halo doesn't exactly take place in the 21st century. Maybe you should wake up to that fact. I don't think Gundams are exactly realistic either, nor are many other things in games/television. It isn't blatanly ripped from anywhere. Saying that it was blatantly ripped from Gundam because you walk around in a suit and try to save the world is completely asinine. What next? Are you going to tell us that the Matrix was blatantly ripped from works of the ancients or anime because they borrowed ideas from them? What is your goal in Goldeneye? Oh yea, it's to kill the other people... REAL imaginative there. The first Halo does NOT have balanced weapons. Needler for instance is a lot less powerful than say the shot gun. Plus as a shotgun should be, it is less affective at longer range. Snipers are good for long range and are extremely deadly. How is that balanced at all? In Halo 2 they have "rebalanced" the weapons, that doesn't mean that some are preferred over others. Just because you might have the best weapon in the game doesn't mean that you will win. Having "balanced" weapons doesn't mean that you don't have a goal.