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I dual-pistoled some poor bastard today, John Woo style. Good times.
yeah, the covenant intro is real time. At least, it was apparent to me.
morbidaza said:Agreed totally. The complaints about story don't bother me at all.
DaCocoBrova said:I don't think it is. Looks totally different than the MC sequences before and after, which are real time. Looks like mpeg2 footage.
DaCocoBrova said:I dunno. But if so, color me impressed.
There's just too much of a disparity in detail between that and the MC footage it's mixed in with. I guess it's the filter that makes it look so...different.
uh....you really cant miss it, since its in the last room you fight at in that particular levelDaCocoBrova said:Dammit! Where is this bomb?!
Jesiatha said:Best dialog....a marine fighting along side says: "That's weird, I can see your legs", or something like that. :lol
Mooreberg said:Just found a funny trick. On the delta halo level, near the last past where you can use the tank up on the structure (the "push through the covenant-held ruins" objective) if you shoot out all of those shields in the way, and they drive over them and stop, when they charge back up they'll send the scorpion flying about fifty feet into the air. You die though.
Justin said:Did the Forza and Conker demos get cut because I cant find them.
evilromero said:How are you guys finding any games to jump into? I'm not seeing anything on Live! This is driving me nuts, I'm starting to regret buying this game.
Mike Works said:It's initially confusing when it comes to joining games, but if you don't have anyone on your friends list, here's what I do;
Go to Optimatch. Select the type of game you want to play. Then exit back to the menu.
Now go to Quickmatch. It'll count down 5 seconds and then send you out to join a game (you'll see a 1, 2, 3, and 4 in circles).
The game then searches for anyone else looking to join the kind of game you picked. It grabs them, and brings them into the same lobby/waiting screen you see. Once enough players are brought to start the game, the real game lobby loads.
SKluck said:No gauss warthog in singleplayer,
Right.DJ Demon J said:This is incorrect. The Sergeant picks you up in a Gauss Warthog before you meet up with the marines (headed by Orlando Jones) to fight the Scarab.
Sysgen said:I just finished it. WTF is wrong with the ending? I can't believe how people are bitching about this. I liked the game and the ending. Can't wait for Halo 3 on Xenon.
Joe said:why the hell is bungie.net listing my gamertag as "??????" and i cant access my stats.
Mrbob said:In fact. The ending isn't so far fetched from Halo when you think about it. It isn't like Halo ended with closure. I think most people complaining are worried we'll have to wait another 3 years to see what happens next.![]()
Anyanka said:How can you compare them?
When Halo 1 ended the main threat had been stopped and the fighting was over. There were other Halos and the Covenant was still coming after Earth, but the main issue in the story was resolved. In Halo 2 Truth has the key and is on his way to destory the universe. Halo 1 ended with MC flying off into the sunset, Halo 2 ends with him about to kick ass. It's unsatisfying.
Anyanka said:A lead in is in Halo 1 where you see the Moniter had escaped.
This is just ridiculous. The entire last half of the game is about MC trying to stop the Prophets from activating the key and in the end he escapes and is on his way to do it!
It'd be like if MGS had ended when you think Liquid dies in the Helicopter crash, but then you find out he's alive and still going to use REX and Snake says something badass and it just cuts to the credits.
What makes it even worse is that for years people have been hyped to see The Covenant invade Earth and the ending is just more hype for that. It's almost like Halo 2's story is a sidestory or demo of what everybody's been anticipating
Uno Ill Nino said:dark10x: Yeah, I fuckin bought the game to play as Master Chief. Is that a shock? I read all three of the books and played more Halo 1 than what is probably considered sane. The guy is to me what Spiderman is to his fans. Nothin wrong with that.
Anyanka: Right fucking on. Somebody else gets it. I don't get why people defend the story. If you read the books, its a serious letdown.
modus: Be in denial all you want, but the Elite and Brute voices are WEAK. When the arbitor gets branded in the begining, the yell he lets out is incredibly wimpy sounding. The elites from Halo 1 sounded tougher, IMO. Plus, the Brutes just sound so.......cartoony. Its exactly how I'd expect them to sound if they were on the ninja turtles cartoon one day. I think an alien language with subtitles would have been more appropriate. I keep getting the image of Bungie just selling out and getting Laura Prepon and David Cross thrown in there to do voices.
You see, in my mind, my crazy mixed up mind, I imagine the Bungie employees took out the "Black" color for multiplayer so they could reserve it for themselves. Along with Incubus, Laura Prepon, Michelle Rodriguez, Linkin Park, and whoever else they wanna give blowjobs to in order to feel "cool". I also like to imagine them setting up a test-room for magazine editors so that when they came to Bungie to play the game to completion, they could watch the looks of complete dissappointment on their faces once they saw the ending. At that point, the Bungie employees lean back, laugh out loud, and then put on their sunglasses and say, "That's right sucker! Halo 3 will be out in 5 years. Better go fucking pre-order it right goddamn now! Mwa ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!" Then they give the reviewer a threat in order to secure a perfect review score. They say that if they do not give a 10, they will not get to recieve any information on Bungie's upcoming games. Or any Xbox games whatsoever from Microsoft. No Halo 3 info. No Project Gotham 3 info, and worst of all, no Blinx 3 info.
Really guys, I don't think I'm out of line with my complaints. I think what's really happening is that I'm pissed about the changes they made, and the shitty story with the even shittier ending didn't make things any better. But to look on the bright side, the multiplayer is the most fun I've had on Xbox LIVE. And for what its worth, the story mode IS fun, I just don't like where they took the story and how they ended it. And I don't like most of the gameplay when you're the elite. That sucks cuz its Flood a lot of times and I think fighting them is tedious. But that's all I'm saying. I'm bowing out of here for now cuz I don't wanna make anyone else cry. Or lead them onto the idea that I'm even more crazy than they know.![]()
Sysgen said:So there was a logical endpoint. I still don't see the issue.The key was recovered, you killed the chief brute and you prevented mass extermination
What more do you want![]()