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[IJoel]

THEY TOOK OUR JERBS!

 

[Prine]

My greatest game of Halo 2 ever involved two kids piping banjo music into their headsets while driving around in the Warthog. Everyone else in the game was busy defending or trying to take the flag, and just out of the blue we'd hear the banjo zoom by outside... haha.

:lol :lol

 

[Satter]

My greatest game of Halo 2 ever involved two kids piping banjo music into their headsets while driving around in the Warthog. Everyone else in the game was busy defending or trying to take the flag, and just out of the blue we'd hear the banjo zoom by outside... haha.

:lol Holyshit!! When H2 first came out a friend of mine would play the theme song to Deliverance in the headset everytime he drove the Warthog.

 

[_Angelus_]

You take the good with the bad,anything popular is bound to attract jerks out there. Xbox Live isn't any different. It'll happen with Nintendo and Sony's online service too. What are you going to do,stop playing your favorite francise because of these people? Nope.

Just develpe a friend's list or learn to tolerate the assholes out there when you play open games. Maybe I'm very lucky but I don't encounter that many out there when I play online.

Though one thing I do agree on,for some very strange reason every voice coming over the mike sounds like a smoker/drunk Eddie Van Halen. What the hell?

 

[Prine]

PGR2 and Splintercell has the best online community i've experienced.

 

[Ferny84]

PGR2 and Splintercell has the best online community i've experienced.

Splinter Cell has alot of assholes too.

<keeps on knocking my mercanary back>

"HAHAHAHA BAHAHAHA"

Phantom Dust has those ignorant nerd types that make fun of your cards/skills.

"My cosmic barrier will absorb your Fireballz of Doom and shoot them back at you *SNORT*"

<him and his partner gang up on you>

 

[crumbs]

I only use the communicator when I'm playing with friends or playing a team game. Is it considered bad form to not use the commuincator?

 

[Ferny84]

I only use the communicator when I'm playing with friends or playing a team game. Is it considered bad form to not use the commuincator?

Some people kick you out of their game if you don't wear your headset.

 

[TheOMan]

In regards to the feedback portion of XBL, could people not just abuse this and leave negative feedback for you whether you deserved it or not thus wrecking your feedback rating?

 

[raYne]

Some people kick you out of their game if you don't wear your headset.

Since we're talking about Halo 2 I'll just stick to that game and say no it doesn't matter if you were the headset or not. And no they can't kick you out of a matchmaking game at all. This is contrary to something like Unreal where rooms are run by individuals so if you don't play how they want you to they'll just kick you out for no good reason. No mic? kicked.. too good? kicked... you suck? kicked.. melee/rocket/reflect too much? kicked..

Anyhow, if you're playing a team game simple logic will tell you what you should be doing at any moment so while you don't need it there either it'd be preferred.

On H2, I only have my headset plugged in when I'm playing with someone I know. And that only happens once in a blue moon since I don't have a set playing schedule and just pop on when I feel like it. Needless to say I might have it on 1 out of every 50 matches... :lol

To be honest, people who play without mics seem to be the more normal ones in the room and like me are only there to play. Generally it's the idiots who always have them on.

 

[Zaphod]

xbl is kind of a throwback to the bad old days of arcades, when some pimply truant with a bad moustache would beat you at street fighter, put his cigarette out on the control panel, and then slap his underaged girlfriend's disturbingly fleshy hindquarters in celebration.

That is farking hilarious. I loved those days. My old arcade the Copper Cue is still open, I need to go back there sometime and see if anything has changed. I bet it still has the skeezy teen playas in there.

 

[Deg]

Personally, most of my experiences playing with people from the UK have been anything less than enjoyable. I've been called a "Yankee Doodle Dandy" and other nonsense like that. Apparently there is a lot of hatred of America over there.

Yeah you get idiots like that. The poor French have the worst however.

 

[explodet]

:lol at the banjo music.

"They didn't start chasing us until you started playing that getaway music!"

 

[snacknuts]

So Chav = Ali G?

And the banjo anecdote is hysterically funny, as is the one about having assholes bigger than your faces. :lol

 

[HokieJoe]

PGR2 and Splintercell has the best online community i've experienced.

Yeah, generally PGR2 is pretty good. There are some asspipes there just like everywhere else. Ghost Recon 2 has been a pretty good experience for as well over live. That's one reason why I like it so much.

 

[Mihail]

Xbox live is cool cause it gives you an excuse to act like a total moron. You can't do all that stuff in real life but on XBL anything goes.

This is what is wrong with the Internet. If people just treated it as real life, we wouldn't have so many assclowns.

 

[Dr_Cogent]

PGR2 and Splintercell has the best online community i've experienced.

I really tried to get into the Spies vs. Mercs in PT, but damn - I ran into tons of assholes. If anyone was losing against me, they quit. If anyone was losing as my team mate, they quit.

Devs need to take stats and shove them up their asses. Stats fucking suck because it creates these assholes who care about them so much that they will quit a game so their precious fucking stats don't get messed up.

FUCK STATS.

 

[HokieJoe]

I really tried to get into the Spies vs. Mercs in PT, but damn - I ran into tons of assholes. If anyone was losing against me, they quit. If anyone was losing as my team mate, they quit.

Devs need to take stats and shove them up their asses. Stats fucking suck because it creates these assholes who care about them so much that they will quit a game so their precious fucking stats don't get messed up.

FUCK STATS.

Or rig the stats in such a way that quitting screws the quitter up.

 

[Soundwave 2k4]

Devs need to take stats and shove them up their asses. Stats fucking suck because it creates these assholes who care about them so much that they will quit a game so their precious fucking stats don't get messed up.

FUCK STATS.

Capcom vs. SNK 2 and the assholes that dropped if they lost were the worst part about XBox Live in the few months I struggled to enjoy it

 

[_Angelus_]

This is what is wrong with the Internet. If people just treated it as real life, we wouldn't have so many assclowns.

That's one reason why the internet is so popular. Theyre are no consequences for acting like an ass,or troll online. Like it or not we all have that evil bastard within us.

If you or I pulled off some of the garbage we see online-in real life?

........ Well it wouldn't be as simple as powering off our computers,haha.

 

[Dr_Cogent]

Or rig the stats in such a way that quitting screws the quitter up.

See, the problem with that is - sometimes people may just lose their internet connection. The devs can't tell if someone shut off their Xbox or if the users power went out or whatever.

That's why that would be next to or pretty much impossible to implement.

So, like I said, death to stats.

DIE DIE DIE!

I play games to have fun - not to worry about a damn number associated to my alias.

 

[SpeedingUptoStop]

I love it when people insult me on XBL. It gives me more motivation to kill'em, and it's even funnier when you shut'em up.

*gets killed, almost killed the other guy*
Other guy: ahaha, stupid fag, I KEELED J00!
*30 kills later*
Me: I don't hear you talking shit now.
*silence on his end*

:lol

 

[DCharlie]

"Here comes MIGHTY MOUSE!"
"Here comes MIGHTY MOUSE!"
"Here comes MIGHTY MOUSE!"
"Here comes MIGHTY MOUSE!"
"Here comes MIGHTY MOUSE!"
"Here comes MIGHTY MOUSE!"
"Here comes MIGHTY MOUSE!"
"Here comes MIGHTY MOUSE!"
"Here comes MIGHTY MOUSE!"
"Here comes MIGHTY MOUSE!"
"Here comes MIGHTY MOUSE!"
"Here comes MIGHTY MOUSE!"

EVERY 5 seconds... totally f*cking annoying.

 

[ToyMachine228]

I've said it before, but the XBL crowd in general isn't that bad. It's the Halo 2 community that's bad. With Halo 2 being such an accessible shooter, anyone, gamer or not, can pick up and play the game. And get kills. And talk shit. Hell, even I talk shit in Halo 2 sometimes. Halo is just a game that brings that out in people.

But if you play other games like Ghost Recon 2, Battlefield 2: Modern Combat, Splinter Cell Chaos Theory, whatever, the community isn't nearly as bad as the stuff you hear in Halo 2.

 

[ChrisReid]

Xbox live is cool cause it gives you an excuse to act like a total moron. You can't do all that stuff in real life but on XBL anything goes.

I hate you.

 

[BuG]

My friend & I were told last night that we lost a particular game of Halo 2 because our assholes are bigger than our faces. We just kind of laughed dumbfounded.

I was once called a foreigner by some American guy and told that he felt sorry for my mum because her vagina smells like lavender, and he wasn't sure whether to lick it or punch it...

 

[Sinatar]

See, the problem with that is - sometimes people may just lose their internet connection. The devs can't tell if someone shut off their Xbox or if the users power went out or whatever.

That's why that would be next to or pretty much impossible to implement.

So, like I said, death to stats.

DIE DIE DIE!

I play games to have fun - not to worry about a damn number associated to my alias.

XBL requires a broadband connection to use. Broadband has reached the point where it is quite stable. If you have a shit connection then so be it, you will have shitty stats as punishment for dropping out of games and fucking over the people you play with.

 

[Beowvlf]

SOCOM and SOCOM 2 are the same, though surprisingly not as bad. The single time I played Halo 2 online at a buddies house, I was surprised at the amount of lametards, as I figured SOCOM would have way more simply because it's free. Though as I haven't play Halo 2 online alot, maybe someone else would be able to give a better comparison.

Nothing will compare to the first 6 weeks of SOCOM 1 online though, when the vast majority of players were only hardcore gamers that snagged up the adapter + game right away (adapter shortages helped). That was the best online gaming I've ever experienced, yet sadly it started to degrade in late October when a shitton more players starting joining up. I wonder if it'll ever be that good again...

 

[Socreges]

My greatest game of Halo 2 ever involved two kids piping banjo music into their headsets while driving around in the Warthog. Everyone else in the game was busy defending or trying to take the flag, and just out of the blue we'd hear the banjo zoom by outside... haha.

:lol

 

[Meatpuppet]

Where's that Penny Arcade about normal guy + internet = total asshat. It was classic and so true.

Ask and you shall receive:

 

[Pimpwerx]

xbl is kind of a throwback to the bad old days of arcades, when some pimply truant with a bad moustache would beat you at street fighter, put his cigarette out on the control panel, and then slap his underaged girlfriend's disturbingly fleshy hindquarters in celebration. that's what videogames are about, on some level -- they're stupid entertainment for stupid people. perhaps we lose sight of this on gaf, where we're surrounded by neurotic comp-sci majors who play games alone, in the dark, in order to commune with the exalted creative soul of magical miyamoto-sama. or something.

:lol

Ah, electricphase, you don't post enough these days. I forgot how funny your gaming commentary used to be on HG. PEACE.

 

[HomerSimpson-Man]

Why can't a person who quits a match early just to keep their stats have them automatically counted against them?

Sure I see the of chance that their connection might drop, but jeez the way I hear things is that's more the exception than the rule.

Is it possible just to keep track of people who suspiciously "lose their connection" a few too many times and then start stacking it against them as a very nondependable online gamer?

 

[op_ivy]

Why can't a person who quits a match early just to keep their stats have them automatically counted against them?

Sure I see the of chance that their connection might drop, but jeez the way I hear things is that's more the exception than the rule.

Is it possible just to keep track of people who suspiciously "lose their connection" a few too many times and then start stacking it against them as a very nondependable online gamer?

pretty sure halo 2 throws them to the bottom ranking of the match, so they lose more then those that finished the game

 

[Late Stage Marxist]

Bungie NEEDS to include warthog banjo music in the next Halo release. :lol