A bunch of kids skipped school today for a lan party. Nerds.
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A bunch of kids skipped school today for a lan party. Nerds.
I'd do it if it was a big LAN party that was guaranteed to own.
But yeah, there were kids at my school who did the same two weeks ago for San Andreas. No suprises.
I bet everyone's gonna be hooking up their Xboxes at work today during lunch break to play some LAN action... I guess I'll join in on the fun too. I enjoyed the original Halo, but it wasn't really as good as everyone said it was. It was fun, but not mind blowing. I pretty much agree with what ed said. I'm definitely gonna get Metroid Prime 2 before Halo 2.
I walked into the TV room last night after a bunch of guys had waited in the rain for Halo 2, and I could've sworn it was Halo 1. It looked and played exactly the same.
I'm not a rocket scientist, but I think it's safe to say that the game is overrated.
It comes out on Thursday here but today in college I just found out that I need to:
1. Write an essay
2. Do tons of Art ready for an assessment
3. Do a crap load of research
There goes my next 2 weeks. :(
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Originally Posted by TasteyPies
Yep the same here. Only i call them bastards cuz i didnt get too. =(
Oh well im going to a giant lan on SATURDAY w00t we'll probably have a few games of Halo 2 going... So it'll be t3h pimp stuff.
Its so hard to aim FPS on a small controller I very much perfer the mouse/keyboard but for HALO 2 to come out on the pc will be like 2-3 years which is to long.
Watching the fanbase tear itself apart on IGN is so much fun. It seems nobody is willing to accept that Halo 2 could be anything less than the gaming event of a lifetime. Half the community feel it's a huge disappointment for largely unjustifiable reasons, the other half flame them like morons. Both sides are as dumb as each other. :D
So let me get this straight? You've never played the game but you know it is overrated?Quote:
Originally Posted by Strider
Let me start this off by saying that the original Halo (multiplayer) was the single most fun game I have ever played in my entire life. The balance between the weapons, the slick handling, the way you could chain attacks into pseudo-combos if you were good enough, the physics, it was all perfect. Perfect. I wouldn't change a single thing about the original Halo. I've played Halo multiplayer on system link for more hours in the last three years than I've worked at a full-time job. I played at work every day on my lunchbreak and I can beat everyone at my job that I just quit man to man in Slayer. I simply love Halo and most people would say that I'm obsessed with it.
That said, I think Bungie took a perfect (I seriously believe that anyone who thinks otherwise needs to play it more first) game, totally redesigned it (I seriously believe that anyone who says it's simply the same game over again needs to play both of them more first) and... ruined it. I won't say that Halo 2 is bad, it's just not anywhere near as good as the original Halo. Not even in the same neighborhood. I went to the midnight madness at EB to get Halo 2 as the very moment that it was available there and as soon as I got home I hooked it up on Live at my friend's house and we played all night. It was breakfast time when I went to sleep, and when I woke up I immediately began playing through that day as well until it was night time. Altogether I'd say I put it about fifteen hours in the multiplayer mode, thoroughly enjoying myself, but the point is that it is nowhere even close to being as good or as fun as the original Halo was.
The balance of the weapons is off, the physics have become less enjoyable, Master Chief's movements seem almost stiff when you try to move too quickly in any pattern other than running straight without swapping any items, and the game almost seems to cater to running and shooting in a straight line rather than pulling acrobatic moves and shooting/clunking in one motion. The amount of time it takes to drop a grenade has grown so the awesome, awesome grenade that you can drop in your last second of life in order to kill your killer is impossible to drop now. Grenades altogether are dumbed down, so remember the chaos it caused when you threw one into a crowd of people in the original? Don't count on it being half as cool, or even killing anyone unless they intentionally stand on it. It's also impossible to run full force at someone, shoot them in the face with the shotgun dropping their shields and then slam them in the face with the butt of the gun instantly afterwards, killing them before they can retaliate. The zooming, long-range pistol of the original is nowhere to be found, so the endless hours I spent in the original to make it so I can spot someone and pick them off with three sweet headshots in a row were wasted. I can't help but think that Bungie took out all the polished skills you need to develop through hours of multiplayer in order to make it more appealing to the average joe.
I think that Halo 2 has two advantages to the original: the energy sword and Xbox Live compatibility. Then I could rattle off a list of fifty reasons why the original was better. The bottom line is that Halo 2 is just a pretty good game, making it a tremendous disappointment for me. :(
Halo 1 was an awesome game, but vastly overrated.
And that's my two cents. More than Likely I won't ever touch Halo 2 1) because I don't have an X-Box and 2) Because I don't have an X-Box.
And 3) Because I'm cool for going against the grain. :aimsun:
The weapons are seriously unbalanced. 3 pistol shots can down a man while it takes an entire clip (60 bullets) with the assalt rifle. Not to mention how usless the plama weapons are and the glitchy sniper rifle.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grandmaster LH
Although I play it online on the PC so the x-box version may be more stable.
Just played some Capture the Flag over Xbox live and its helluva fun. My only gripe is that when I'm looking for a specific game, say Capture the Flag, I have to wait quite some time before the automated service finds a game for me.
We got owned, but it was quite a ride. Yous guys got Xbox live and are on Halo 2 look for the salmonlord. Gonna host a Halo fest tomorrow night. Getting some friends over and we're gonna go online and suck up the game in one miserable pack.
THE BATTLE RIFLE SUCKS.
I love halo 1. Halo 2 is also up there.
Halo 1 was mind boggling to how much better it was then other fps. It didn't have a ton of weapons so you easily could decide which ones were your favorites. I also was a master at the pistol and disappointed in its disappearance.
Halo 2 took a near perfect game and stayed near perfect. for everything that it improved upon, it took something away. XBox Live capabilities, but you can't bring a guest into a game unless it is the training grounds or a custom game. You have a battle rifle that zooms.... but you don't have a pistol that zooms or an assault rifle.
Single player wise, game was very short, me and my roomate beat it in 7 hrs on normal. We quickly found out that the major upgrade was the vehicles. And was also a little disappointed with the end, but its a fps, so... whatcha gonna do
there is more but i will just let that sink in.. and... ENERGY SWORD RULES!