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[Computron]

Totally forgot about them! Maybe because I only completed the campaign once or twice.


I'd argue that Halo 2 was his best work... But potato potato.


That isn't right...

I mean, they're not shutting down games for windows live. You should still be able to sign in.

I tried two different profiles. It is possible that it is GFWL acting up as I said earlier, and I will triple check with GTA4 PC. The date was set for the end of june though, right?

If you got Halo 2 vista though, check it.

 

[malfcn]

Sweet, our Walmart has one Reach Legendary box left...$140

 

[Omni]

I tried two different profiles. It is possible that it is GFWL acting up as I said earlier, and I will triple check with GTA4 PC. The date was set for the end of june though, right?

If you got Halo 2 vista though, check it.

Works on my end.

 

[Killmanjaro81]

What madness is this? Halo 3:ODST had the best soundtrack. So amazing, Marty's best work.

The addition of the jazz instruments made this one of his most unique, best produced and sounding halo soundtracks.

 

[Computron]

Hmm, GTA 4 seems to be having the same issue on my end as Halo 2. Guess its a problem on my side. Maybe my ports need to be forwarded again.

See if you can still join games in Halo 2.

 

[Barrow Roll]

Halo 4's is meh. Nemesis was pretty awesome as is Green and Blue to a point.. but it's missing something, IMO.

I feel like I'm alone on thinking how awesome this track and the moment at which it plays is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BVxnPPHMDo

Even the remix is aweesome.

 

[Killmanjaro81]

I feel like I'm alone on thinking how awesome this track and the moment at which it plays is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BVxnPPHMDo

Even the remix is aweesome.

Great song on the soundtrack, the first crash on requium was so well done, probably the best time all game where the music hits the right notes at the right time to give you the proper feeling

 

[malfcn]

I feel like I'm alone on thinking how awesome this track and the moment at which it plays is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BVxnPPHMDo

Even the remix is aweesome.

This song plus the scenery was awesome.

 

[Omni]

Hmm, GTA 4 seems to be having the same issue on my end as Halo 2. Guess its a problem on my side. Maybe my ports need to be forwarded again.

See if you can still join games in Halo 2.

She's still kickin'

 

[Barrow Roll]

Haven, and the moment it plays is also awesome.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDXz1trQric

Yeah, Requiem is probably my favorite level in the game.

Can't forget 117 either.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKoFUCqlcHs

 

[Computron]

She's still kickin'

My bad, I was installing a new router this week and the ports likely haven't been forwarded causing the connection errors.

Its good that we still got it for a bit longer, maybe we should get together tomorrow if its still on, give it one last GAF H2V-Day

 

[Barrow Roll]

This Armour, AKA that song fromt the Concept Art Trailer, is also wicked.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WsXA_sY93M

 

[Sai-kun]

Descration is what I imagine Trent Reznor might produce if he had done the OST for a Halo game.

 

[Tunavi]

I wanted to play the halo 3 campaign tonight. argh.

 

[malfcn]

This To Galaxy remix, for a minute or so before this part and after are sweet.
http://youtu.be/Jpd06ufTpN8?t=23m14s

 

[J10]

How many multiplayer maps do you think they can fit on a 50GB BluRay for Halo 5?

 

[Tunavi]

How many multiplayer maps do you think they can fit on a 50GB BluRay for Halo 5?

8 maps but they'll all be 10 times the size

 

[Omni]

How many multiplayer maps do you think they can fit on a 50GB BluRay for Halo 5?

Technically they could fit well... at least 50 (and that's a somewhat reserved estimate if we were going to judge file sizes by this gen and my memory is correct).

Saying that however, it's not going to happen. Things will be a little a lot less compressed in terms of textures and audio, but I wouldn't expect more content just because there is space left over on the disc. I'd wager that we'll get the same amount of maps that we usually do (they are still on a two year dev cycle after all)

 

[Steelyuhas]

Discs in 2013 and beyond?

Fuck that shit

 

[Killmanjaro81]

Descration is what I imagine Trent Reznor might produce if he had done the OST for a Halo game.

Pretty much the main theme to spartan ops

 

[Bregmann Roche]

Sweet, our Walmart has one Reach Legendary box left...$140

You should jump on that. I hear they're gonna be really limited this time.

 

[Madness]

Discs in 2013 and beyond?

Fuck that shit

You really love digital huh? I don't know, I just don't like paying full price for something I can't physically own. I mean even now, digital versions of Xbox 360 games are more expensive than what you can get at your local Walmart/Best Buy etc.

Plus I like buying blu-ray movies. I can easily see the artifacts and ghosting when watching HD movies etc. Just can't beat disc quality yet.

Another concern is, the fact you can take discs anywhere, no need to worry about licenses, transfer etc. I can understand the convenience of never going to the store to buy games, having to swap out discs etc.

 

[Steelyuhas]

You really love digital huh? I don't know, I just don't like paying full price for something I can't physically own. I mean even now, digital versions of Xbox 360 games are more expensive than what you can get at your local Walmart/Best Buy etc.

Plus I like buying blu-ray movies. I can easily see the artifacts and ghosting when watching HD movies etc. Just can't beat disc quality yet.

Another concern is, the fact you can take discs anywhere, no need to worry about licenses, transfer etc. I can understand the convenience of never going to the store to buy games, having to swap out discs etc.

I mean it's all opportunity cost and that's obviously different for each person.

For me, the convenience of digital copies of games absolutely outweighs any advantages of physical copies. The cost of digital has been coming down as more people embrace digital copies and will continue to do so as more people do.

I'm not saying that the disc drive needs to be abolished all together, I'll watch Blu-ray films and TV shows on an X1.

 

[Rickenslacker]

I just can't hop on the digital bandwagon for consoles. I don't want to deal with upgrading all the hard drives and I feel better about buying physical on a closed platform, seeing as who knows what direction they'll go with keeping things hosted and how BC will end up next gen. PC's gonna be my DD spot, but I still have a soft spot for physical on the console side.

 

[Gui_PT]

Has anyone tried downloading Defense Grid?

It's advertised at Xbox's front page as a free gold game but it's still listed at 800MSP

 

[Madness]

Has anyone tried downloading Defense Grid?

It's advertised at Xbox's front page as a free gold game but it's still listed at 800MSP

I tried earlier, was still 800 msp, but now that's it's officially July 1st in west coast, should be free. It'll be free today for sure though, they said July 1st.

 

[Gui_PT]

I tried earlier, was still 800 msp, but now that's it's officially July 1st in west coast, should be free. It'll be free today for sure though, they said July 1st.

Got a reply on twitter saying "Price is currently showing incorrectly - it's been flagged and should be fixed soon"

 

[Nebula]

So Halo 3 on the 16th, 1st of next month or 16th of next month?

 

[Madness]

So Halo 3 on the 16th, 1st of next month or 16th of next month?

No one knows now. They heavily implied Assassins Creed 2 and Halo 3 would be the first and then they put some XBLA game out.

Major Nelson said while they were mentioned, no date was given, but they heavily implied it when they said and kicking off our program, here are two of the titles in the months to come. Why even say kicking off our program?

I bet they don't release them till a few months later when Halo 4 goes down a bit more, or we get closer to XbOne launch. That way 343 can justify no playlist consolidation saying they've moved onto next console support etc.

I'm not complaining that I can't get the games. I own both, Assassin's Creed 2 is perhaps one of the best games I've ever played. I'm upset because I thought this month, we'd get thousands and thousands of new Halo 3 players and the game could pick up and we can start having regular team slayer matches again. If Fable III got so high, imagine what Halo 3 could have been, top 5 probably.

 

[Barrow Roll]

I just can't hop on the digital bandwagon for consoles. I don't want to deal with upgrading all the hard drives and I feel better about buying physical on a closed platform, seeing as who knows what direction they'll go with keeping things hosted and how BC will end up next gen. PC's gonna be my DD spot, but I still have a soft spot for physical on the console side.

Sums up exactly how I feel.

 

[Omni]

No one knows now. They heavily implied Assassins Creed 2 and Halo 3 would be the first and then they put some XBLA game out.

Major Nelson said while they were mentioned, no date was given, but they heavily implied it when they said and kicking off our program, here are two of the titles in the months to come. Why even say kicking off our program?

I bet they don't release them till a few months later when Halo 4 goes down a bit more, or we get closer to XbOne launch. That way 343 can justify no playlist consolidation saying they've moved onto next console support etc.

I'm not complaining that I can't get the games. I own both, Assassin's Creed 2 is perhaps one of the best games I've ever played. I'm upset because I thought this month, we'd get thousands and thousands of new Halo 3 players and the game could pick up and we can start having regular team slayer matches again. If Fable III got so high, imagine what Halo 3 could have been, top 5 probably.

I reaaally want to see Halo 3 blow Halo 4 out of the water. Hopefully it happens soon.

But I also don't want to see 343i touch the playlists in 3. Right now, I can play any of the DLC maps whenever I want to. Playlists while rather abundant in number (shouldn't matter too much if the population sky rockets), give great variety. Given what 343i have done with Reach and 4, that's just another thing that they'd fuck up. Probably alone on that one though.

 

[Nebula]

Not saying 343 did this, but it would be hilarious if they put some words through to the people making the decisions on what goes free and stopped Halo 3 being released for free. If a game like Fable 3 managed to hit the levels it did, imagine a Halo which was heavily enjoyed having a huge population injection. It would hit Halo 4 hard. Halo 4 hasn't exactly got the population to spare either.

Not going to blame 343 or MS for anything yet, but if 2 months pass and we don't see Halo 3, I will most definitely be blaming one or both of them for it not releasing for free.

 

[willow ve]

Not saying 343 did this, but it would be hilarious if they put some words through to the people making the decisions on what goes free and stopped Halo 3 being released for free. If a game like Fable 3 managed to hit the levels it did, imagine a Halo which was heavily enjoyed having a huge population injection. It would hit Halo 4 hard. Halo 4 hasn't exactly got the population to spare either.

Not going to blame 343 or MS for anything yet, but if 2 months pass and we don't see Halo 3, I will most definitely be blaming one or both of them for it not releasing for free.

It has to go free at some point, but that point could also be the month before Xbox One is released. By then they'll use the free Halo 3 as a "get ready for Halo 5 - coming 2014 - by playing the most played Halo game of all time"

 

[Nebula]

It has to go free at some point, but that point could also be the month before Xbox One is released. By then they'll use the free Halo 3 as a "get ready for Halo 5 - coming 2014 - by playing the most played Halo game of all time"

A month of Halo 3 before I jump to PS4? Was hoping for more time to be honest.

 

[Striker]

How many multiplayer maps do you think they can fit on a 50GB BluRay for Halo 5?

Hope you like buying DLC that will hardly be seen in regular MM and forge maps.

 

[Nebula]

Hope you like buying DLC that will hardly be seen in regular MM and forge maps.

Now this is something 343 need to resolve in the next Halo game. Thankfully I got the season pass as a gift from my Brother. Waste of money if you ask me.

 

[FyreWulff]

Now this is something 343 need to resolve in the next Halo game.

Already was, Halo 3 had poor DLC adoption until Mythic. Mythic finally made it so the majority of Halo 3 MM had DLC. Enough that Bungie was able to mark DLC as optional in most of matchmaking and you'd still get DLC maps on the regular, and this was with Halo 3 not even having a DLC component to it's matchmaking criteria algorithm.

If we had gotten an actual Reach Mythic, I can practically guarantee you it would have started raining Noble, Defiant, and Anniversary maps in MM. Bungie designed a pretty nice DLC matching algorithm for Reach MM, unfortunately Microsoft did nothing to facilitate getting enough DLC adoption for people to notice it existed. It's a shame when they have a known solution to keeping their userbase together, and ignore it.

 

[Striker]

It would've been a better choice for sure.

You recall the DLC playlist they did in Reach in its later stages (it had pre-TU settings, some maps like Breakpoint, Highlands, and some others) and it often had 200-400 people in it per night (at least by the population counter, who knows what it really was). Out comes Halo 4 and it's just as bad, if not worse in some cases (Crimson's Free to Play thing popped in some more players, but once people had to pay for it, it fell hard).

FWIW, I did buy Majestic because I had some money leftover on one of my GS cards. The general feeling was they were good, so I did. Never had any interest in buying either Crimson or Castle.

 

[Nebula]

I always thought that Halo Anniversary should have included all the maps, and not just the Anniversary maps. Would have given DLC a much larger chance to come up in voting. Not sure why they never made that move though. It would have definitely increased sales given how many people didn't buy the DLC maps.

I guess we won't see anything like that for Halo 4 because we have the Season Pass and there isn't anything to release alongside the maps like ODST.

 

[Fuchsdh]

I always thought that Halo Anniversary should have included all the maps, and not just the Anniversary maps. Would have given DLC a much larger chance to come up in voting. Not sure why they never made that move though. It would have definitely increased sales given how many people didn't buy the DLC maps.

I guess we won't see anything like that for Halo 4 because we have the Season Pass and there isn't anything to release alongside the maps like ODST.

I think it was an issue with how they got burned by expectations for ODST, which makes it understandable but still a poorer decision for the players. They could still have offered a voucher code or something to download all the other maps so only Anniversary was on-disc.

 

[willow ve]

With the all digital future and steam parallels they keep pushing Microsoft needs to step up and have heavy sales on DLC next gen. And not just three or more years post launch.

 

[squidhands]

When is RTX? Rumor is the entire trilogy is heading to Steam as well as Halo 2 ios.

This weekend. Frankie and co. will melt.

 

[MrGreencastle]

This weekend. Frankie and co. will melt.

I would see Halo launching on Playstation before that happening. That's how surprised I will be.

No chance, imo.

 

[Deadly Cyclone]

Halo 2 iOS would be the weirdest thing ever unless it goes hand in hand with Apple releasing a controller. If that happens it could be cool and it could work well. Imagine having Halo 2 with you everywhere you take your iPad (and controller). I could play MP at work over lunch.

 

[Zeouterlimits]

I would see Halo launching on Playstation before that happening. That's how surprised I will be.

No chance, imo.

The recorded melting point of Stinkles is quite low I'll have you know, Thomas.

 

[Poker Face]

The panel is called "What's Next: Halo 4 Summer 2013"

I'm not really expecting anything besides talk of the FFA tournament and maybe Legendary Slayer (lol).

Halo 2 iOS would be the weirdest thing ever unless it goes hand in hand with Apple releasing a controller. If that happens it could be cool and it could work well. Imagine having Halo 2 with you everywhere you take your iPad (and controller). I could play MP at work over lunch.

RIP my iPhone battery

 

[Fuchsdh]

I don't see why they would do it before their own Surface-only original game.

 

[Zeouterlimits]

I don't see why they would do it before their own Surface-only original game.

Yeah, makes more sense to be at least a Surface led game, if it even exists.
Might be a rumour that bled over from Spartan Assault that combined with the Halo 2/3 PC rumours.

 

[Fuchsdh]

Yeah, makes more sense to be at least a Surface led game, if it even exists.
Might be a rumour that bled over from Spartan Assault that combined with the Halo 2/3 PC rumours.

Seems likely. I do think it's likely Spartan Assault, et al will eventually come to iOS, because as of late Microsoft seems to have a good relationship with Apple, but I do think they're still going to time exclusives, etc, to push their own hardware, which makes sense.

 

[Shadders]

EDIT 2: Yup, my bad. Was installing a new router this week and didn't forward the ports.

EDIT: Apparently not?

RIP Halo 2

Again....



Went out without a whimper, nor a bang:





Man, Google Reader also went down today, and Halo 3 will not be getting a stimulus of free Live Gold gamers tomorrow....

...What a day...


:-(

It's still up, you just need to download the patch. : )

(It's not all swanky and automated like Xbox)