halo 2, stuff Options

[eboarder2020]

ITS HERE LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!!!! Today is the day where the common people and the nerds of the world come together for one thing... THE GAME THAT WILL BE THE GOD OF ALL GAMES.... I never thought this day would come!

[CloudUnionX]

I just got back, I got halo 2 special eddition.



Later all you suckers that dont have it yet.
=p

[cookiethief]

OMG JORDAN! i want halo 2 -_- i love halo though.

[whomps]

OGMOGMOGMOGMOGMGOMGOmgGMGJORDAN!!!

[xquizit]

I didn't reserve a copy because my BF was suppossed to... and he didn't.

Now I'm screwed.

[*Weird addiction*]

it came to belgium today the 9th of november but it wuz supposed to be here tomorrow the 10th but oh well and it costs 52 euros,haha,my dad is gonna buy it and im not gonna sleep!! yayayayay....im such a nerd!!

[ThunderEvermore]

Technically, Halo was not "overhyped" since there was very little hype when it was released. It became known through word of mouth. Very few games can claim this, even EGM has stated this, well the former of my statements. Because Halo 2 has not been released quite yet, 2 hours and 13 minutes more for me, you cannot yet state that it was overhyped unless you have already played it and know for a fact that it is a let down, and it won't be, but that's just my opinion.

Ok lets see.

Ive seen a thousand people sit there and tell me Halo is the greatest FPS ever, or even the greatest game ever.

Thats overhype if I ever heard it.

As for Halo 2, the hype its getting is the same, "greatest game ever", etc, and that, to me, is impossible to reach, and therefore is overhype.

Besides, its a fact that Halo 2 is more of the same Halo was, which was pretty sucky. Mechanics and such. There is little Halo 2 has to offer in terms of originality to the series.

[goofipinay]

can u believe none of my friends even hav an xbox??? lol

[Heathasm]

yep, pre-ordered it
had 3 other people here to play too at like midnight on the big screen tv lmao

[*kryogenix*]

haha, my friend had it earlier today, and he got it for free too.

[DaTru KataLYST]

yay! I got it at midnight! =) I finished the first level. =] And now I have to go do homework!

*nostalgia rush*

I got the limited collector's edition too!

[mechwarrior1989]

Ok lets see.

Ive seen a thousand people sit there and tell me Halo is the greatest FPS ever, or even the greatest game ever.

Thats overhype if I ever heard it.

As for Halo 2, the hype its getting is the same, "greatest game ever", etc, and that, to me, is impossible to reach, and therefore is overhype.

Besides, its a fact that Halo 2 is more of the same Halo was, which was pretty sucky. Mechanics and such. There is little Halo 2 has to offer in terms of originality to the series.

I'm talking pre-launch overhype. I mean how many people did you see saying that it would completely revolutionize FPS and save XBox, not many. It doesn't matter afterwords, cause that's all word of mouth and as such that doesn't count.

There's no need to bash Halo or Halo 2 if you don't like it, this thread was meant to discuss Halo 2 and the launch of Halo 2, if you don't like a game, then don't look at the thread. Plus things like Mechanics and physics don't always matter all that much, so what if your game seems more realistic? Is that gonna really change the gaming experiance all that much that you make a decision between whether you play it or not?

Yes, Halo 2 doesn't really add all that originality to the series, whether you're refering to FPS or Halo in general but as a large population believes that Halo was pretty much perfect as it was there wasn't really a need to improve on it much more. Plus if you look at all the features you have a lot more new stuff over the original to enhance the experiance, mulitplayer for instance now has bots, online play, new modes of play, playing as covenant, dual wielding, and so on and so forth. Single player gets rid of a great deal of repetivness of the original, it also has some missions where you play as the covenant. There are also new weapons and vehicles, and new ways to play the game, new characters and such.

Plus if you want originality, name a recent FPS that has been truely original. You won't come up with many, if any at all since they are all basically clones of other FPS's. Same as almost any other genre, does that mean we shouldn't buy any new games until they come out with something original? I think not, otherwise we'd still be sitting around playing Counter-Strike.

[ThunderEvermore]

I'm talking pre-launch overhype. I mean how many people did you see saying that it would completely revolutionize FPS and save XBox, not many. It doesn't matter afterwords, cause that's all word of mouth and as such that doesn't count.

There's no need to bash Halo or Halo 2 if you don't like it, this thread was meant to discuss Halo 2 and the launch of Halo 2, if you don't like a game, then don't look at the thread. Plus things like Mechanics and physics don't always matter all that much, so what if your game seems more realistic? Is that gonna really change the gaming experiance all that much that you make a decision between whether you play it or not?

Yes, Halo 2 doesn't really add all that originality to the series, whether you're refering to FPS or Halo in general but as a large population believes that Halo was pretty much perfect as it was there wasn't really a need to improve on it much more. Plus if you look at all the features you have a lot more new stuff over the original to enhance the experiance, mulitplayer for instance now has bots, online play, new modes of play, playing as covenant, dual wielding, and so on and so forth. Single player gets rid of a great deal of repetivness of the original, it also has some missions where you play as the covenant. There are also new weapons and vehicles, and new ways to play the game, new characters and such.

Plus if you want originality, name a recent FPS that has been truely original. You won't come up with many, if any at all since they are all basically clones of other FPS's. Same as almost any other genre, does that mean we shouldn't buy any new games until they come out with something original? I think not, otherwise we'd still be sitting around playing Counter-Strike.

1) Im talking OVERHYPE. All of it. It didnt revolutionize FPSes, I dont see how it could have, and it didnt save the Xbox either, considering it 1, didnt need saving, and 2, is still in the hole.

2) Im discussing Halo 2 and Halo just as much as anyone here, just because Im looking at the negative side doesnt mean my voice should be silenced.

3) Realism changes the game experience greatly. Things like mechanics and physics make the gameplay. Personally I didnt like Halo's mechanics, and the ability to jump twenty feet into the air wasnt exactly realistic, not to mention the lack of gravity on bullets and so on and so forth.

4) Halo seemed perfect to people because they just thought it was fun. Its incredibly imperfect in terms of gaming and such is the reason I dislike it.

5) Alot of people ARE still sitting around play CS, and such is my point. Recent originality? How about PlanetSide and its implement of MMO gaming with RPG style experience in order to learn new skills in the heat of real battle.

Many or not, Halo isnt perfect, it ISNT the greatest game ever, nor the greatest FPS ever. This is what annoys me to no end. If you people admitted that you just play it because it brings you entertainment, however mediocre it is, I would be fine with it and be less overbearing. But you get these kids in here telling me its the greatest and its revolutionary and it saved console gaming and I tend to flip out, considering the fact that Halo had very little impact on the gaming world. Sure it spurred on a tournament series and more kids bought an Xbox for one reason or another, but theres alot more games that do alot more to the industry that get looked over because 'h4l0 is teh r0x0rz'.

[xquizit]

I GOT IT I GOT IT I GOT IT I GOT IT

today.

My daddy bought it for me. Me so happy.

[Justingamemaster]

Gamestop is so poser...i reserved the limited edition one, but they ran out and sold me the lame regular one.

The only thing good about the limited edition one is the case...



Anyway, for all you that say halo 2 isn't that great, nobody really cares what you think (especially microsoft) because halo 2 grossed over $125 million dollars.

[.edit//in the first day, mind you.]

But, sad to say, i am disappointed at the LAME ending of HALO 2. It's freaking gay! My friend and i beat the whole game in one sitting, from 5 in the morning to about 2 PM...that's how addicted we were. We killed Tartarsauce (whatever that evil brute's name is) and we seen a lame movie, the ending movie (we didn't know at the time). As we were watching the credits, we were saying, "This can't be the ending! We haven't even blown anything huge up yet (as in halo itself)!"

A bag of chips and 10 minutes later, we heard the opening of halo 2 and to my suprise, we were at the main menu. We quickly checked to see if we realyl beat the game (if you beat game you get the "Foundation" multiplayer level). Guess what. WE DID!


We then proceeded to test out all the multiplayer maps on Xbox Live, and it was pretty fun for a while, but then it got boring fast (if fast is about 3 hours). So, we started to play the game on Legendary, and it was pretty awesome. So far, we got up to "The Arbiter". We started at around 6:00 PM, and right now it's 9:00, so i think we are doing pretty good. Freaking hard on legendary...
I'll post again (if i'm not tired) when we beat the game.

[*stephinika*]

oh man all my friends who have xbox preordered and got the collector's edition. even the case is gorgeous hahaha and they got the free mini figurines! they're awesome. lol but yeah i played it for the first time today...so awesome. i love it.

[DaTru KataLYST]

question to the people who finish the game in one sitting:

why do you finish it in one saving? why not pace yourself? ok, stupid question, if I could play all night/day I would. Why don't you play on heroic/legendary then? =] Makes it harder, and I don't see how you can finish the game in one sitting after that.

*shrug* unless your an incredibly elite gamer.

[mechwarrior1989]

1) Im talking OVERHYPE. All of it. It didnt revolutionize FPSes, I dont see how it could have, and it didnt save the Xbox either, considering it 1, didnt need saving, and 2, is still in the hole.

2) Im discussing Halo 2 and Halo just as much as anyone here, just because Im looking at the negative side doesnt mean my voice should be silenced.

3) Realism changes the game experience greatly.  Things like mechanics and physics make the gameplay. Personally I didnt like Halo's mechanics, and the ability to jump twenty feet into the air wasnt exactly realistic, not to mention the lack of gravity on bullets and so on and so forth.

4) Halo seemed perfect to people because they just thought it was fun. Its incredibly imperfect in terms of gaming and such is the reason I dislike it.

5) Alot of people ARE still sitting around play CS, and such is my point. Recent originality? How about PlanetSide and its implement of MMO gaming with RPG style experience in order to learn new skills in the heat of real battle.

Many or not, Halo isnt perfect, it ISNT the greatest game ever, nor the greatest FPS ever. This is what annoys me to no end. If you people admitted that you just play it because it brings you entertainment, however mediocre it is, I would be fine with it and be less overbearing. But you get these kids in here telling me its the greatest and its revolutionary and it saved console gaming and I tend to flip out, considering the fact that Halo had very little impact on the gaming world. Sure it spurred on a tournament series and more kids bought an Xbox for one reason or another, but theres alot more games that do alot more to the industry that get looked over because 'h4l0 is teh r0x0rz'.

I meant perfect as in gameplaywise people thought it worked well and they could play it and it was fun. Realims changes the experience yes, but YOU were saying that Halo was sucky because of it's mechanics. The reason you could jump twenty feet (you're actually only jumping about 10 Master Chief is seven feet tall.) in the air had to do with the fact that Master Chief is a Spartan, genetically modified to perform better, than any human alive, his suit alone is half a ton which also provides him with extra power, he can lift cars with one hand for crying out loud. Though it is a bit floaty which is kinda weird and plus no one said the gravity on Halo was 1:1 with the gravity on earth, for all we know it could be 1/2 earth's gravity which would make it so you could jump pretty damn high. Plus by you saying it isn't the greatest game ever is only your opinion and by saying that, you're trying to supress the opinion's of others, something you're saying we're doing so by doing so you're being a hypocrite. Just beccause YOU don't think it's the best game ever doesn't mean other people dont' think that. You have even stated earlier that reviews are merely the opinion of the reviewer. And it did save XBox seeing as how it was the only launch game that actually moved, in a distant second was Project Gotham racing which didn't even sell half as many copies as Halo. Yes and how many copies did PlanetSide sell before being take off shelves? Of course people still play CS because it was fun, and it was far from perfect as well but you still see people going around saying CS is the best game every blah blah blah etc etc. Plus Halo itself was not completely original, but the story line, character design, and other things such as recharging shield and what not were. Though they borrowed from other sources, they are still more or less original. Nothing can be completely original, all must have some point of insperation and as such will have some similarity.

[Justingamemaster]

question to the people who finish the game in one sitting:

why do you finish it in one saving? why not pace yourself? ok, stupid question, if I could play all night/day I would. Why don't you play on heroic/legendary then? =] Makes it harder, and I don't see how you can finish the game in one sitting after that.

*shrug* unless your an incredibly elite gamer.

We just wanted to beat it fast so we could get the multiplayer map "Foundation" and so we could understand the story and find out what happens to master chief/cortana etc.

We beat the game. On legendary. Just 5 minutes ago.

Last boss = Uber Hard.

But pacing yourself in halo is kinda hard because it seems like my xbox hypnotized me to play.

So now that we beat it on legendary, we must beat it on easy and heroic. I wonder what lies in store when you beat it on all difficulties

[bellpepper]

[QUOTE]But, sad to say, i am disappointed at the LAME ending of HALO 2

I agree. But the other than that the game still meet up all of my expections.

[*kryogenix*]

I meant perfect as in gameplaywise people thought it worked well and they could play it and it was fun. Realims changes the experience yes, but YOU were saying that Halo was sucky because of it's mechanics. The reason you could jump twenty feet (you're actually only jumping about 10 Master Chief is seven feet tall.) in the air had to do with the fact that Master Chief is a Spartan, genetically modified to perform better, than any human alive, his suit alone is half a ton which also provides him with extra power, he can lift cars with one hand for crying out loud. Though it is a bit floaty which is kinda weird and plus no one said the gravity on Halo was 1:1 with the gravity on earth, for all we know it could be 1/2 earth's gravity which would make it so you could jump pretty damn high.

Doesn't the game partially take place on earth? Why would the earth not be at 1 G? Even if he is strong enough to jump that high, he should fall down faster than he does in the game. And in the first Halo, the game takes place on Ringworld, which seems to be a lot smaller than earth, so it should have less gravity (unless the whole world spins really fast to create pseudo gravity).

Plus by you saying it isn't the greatest game ever is only your opinion and by saying that, you're trying to supress the opinion's of others, something you're saying we're doing so by doing so you're being a hypocrite. Just beccause YOU don't think it's the best game ever doesn't mean other people dont' think that. You have even stated earlier that reviews are merely the opinion of the reviewer.

How is he trying to suppress another person's opinion? It's an argument, people disagree, get over it.

And it did save XBox seeing as how it was the only launch game that actually moved, in a distant second was Project Gotham racing which didn't even sell half as many copies as Halo. Yes and how many copies did PlanetSide sell before being take off shelves? Of course people still play CS because it was fun, and it was far from perfect as well but you still see people going around saying CS is the best game every blah blah blah etc etc.

What year did CS come out? The was reason it was so great was that Half-Life was far ahead of its time. It was like, Doom, to Quake, to Half-Life.

Plus Halo itself was not completely original, but the story line, character design, and other things such as recharging shield and what not were. Though they borrowed from other sources, they are still more or less original. Nothing can be completely original, all must have some point of insperation and as such will have some similarity.

That planet look familiar?

It's a pretty good book. Ringworld, by Larry Niven. Support your local library.

[karrar]

any body else pissed at the ending?

yeesh atleast we still got multi player

[*Weird addiction*]

its soooo f**king wonderful i love itt!!!!

[mechwarrior1989]

Doesn't the game partially take place on earth? Why would the earth not be at 1 G? Even if he is strong enough to jump that high, he should fall down faster than he does in the game. And in the first Halo, the game takes place on Ringworld, which seems to be a lot smaller than earth, so it should have less gravity (unless the whole world spins really fast to create pseudo gravity).

I was talking about the first Halo and that's what I said that it probably has less gravity which would cause him to jump higher... You're right that he should fall faster though on earth but I did say that it is a bit floaty and weird.

[mechwarrior1989]

What year did CS come out? The was reason it was so great was that Half-Life was far ahead of its time. It was like, Doom, to Quake, to Half-Life.

Huh? Yea it was ahead of its time, what are you trying to say, this doesn't exactly say anything about what you quoted.

That planet look familiar?

It's a pretty good book. Ringworld, by Larry Niven. Support your local library.

I didn't only talk about the fact that it was on a ringed planet you know. I even said that it isn't completely original. Though you listing the books, I might just go and check out Ringworld.