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Official Halo 2 Thread
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jecclr2003
Banned
SMG and Needler...
Needler makes a good homing beacon on where to fire.
On a side note, anyone nothice just how freaking long it takes to get into an opimatch or quick match?
Needler makes a good homing beacon on where to fire.
On a side note, anyone nothice just how freaking long it takes to get into an opimatch or quick match?
gunstarhero
Member
Not a big fan of the duel wielding - I love my grenades too much.
What I don't understand is why people are not having a problem with the way the game ends. All of the reviews were right. This isn't a cliffhanger; it's a brick wall of an ending.
Kill Bill Vol 1 is a cliffhanger. There is a crescendo in the story, and it brings a finale. Halo 2 was obviously supposed to be a longer game.
Kill Bill Vol 1 is a cliffhanger. There is a crescendo in the story, and it brings a finale. Halo 2 was obviously supposed to be a longer game.
shpankey
not an idiot
Fixed2BeBroken said:
just give up, you should know by now that there are people out there who just look for "THE" excuse to not like it. it was the same way with part one. once the haters figure out what they can rally behind as a point to detur, they all amass behind it and scream it collectively at the top of their lungs. with halo it was "repetitive levels" despite only 2 of the lvel being "repetititive". but once they get gamers to accept something as a flaw, the haters use it to say "this is the reason i did not like the game"
with halo 2, it is now obvious the haters plan to rally behind "the ending sucks" point. this will be the catch all reason why halo 2 sucks.
its fucking pathetic actually. what makes it worse is they come back with "it's my opinion you can't touch it, i have a right" blah blah. but in reality, it is so transparent that its comical.
besides, since when did a fucking ENDING, all 2 minutes of a games experience, all a sudden become the main reason to like or love a fucking game? do we now drop gameplay, controls, fun factor, depth, adding functionality (xbox live), graphics, sound, music etc etc etc from the main criteria to a games greatness and turn to "the ending" as the main draw? how lame and shallow, and if someone honestly sits in here and tries to fucking lie to us and convince us the game is not great because they didn't enjoy the ending then they can take their fanboys asses back on out.
its times like these, seeing the worst of human kind's behaviors that just makes me sick to my stomach, literally. it's disgusting. when i start seeing this shit, i just take a couple months away from the forum to let these pukes get it all out of their system and the forums gets back to reason and the fuckwads get tired of arguing their retarded point on why halo 2 sucks (the ending - ya right) and defend themselves by citing "opinion".
i'm not one to argue about an opinion, but i can definately see through bullshit opinions that are contrived for a purpose. i was hoping we wouldn't see these asses, but i knew that it was just a matter of time before they could find "their reason" to hate it, then they would explode the forum with the hate vomit.
shpankey said:
I might have agreed with that, except for the fact that I'm somebody who thought the gameplay in the first Halo was 'meh', but love the sequel. Not everyone who dislikes something is 'teh hatarz'. Sure, there are people like that, but don't assume everyone who criticizes something is just doing it to 'hate on' a popular title for fanboyish reasons.
shpankey said:
I can understand how people feel strongly about a game's ending. It's the payoff, the thing you've put in hours of time and effort to reach, and to fight hard only to be let down can be very disappointing.
That said, I liked the ending in Halo 2 (I'm a sucker for a good cliffhanger), so you won't hear me complaining. Just trying to keep things in perspective here.
Mike Works
Member
Uh, how the hell would that be new?Teh Hamburglar said:
Mike Works
Member
Yes, you are the only one. You are also the best person at reading threads on the entire internet.Cimarron said:
The difficulty is starting to really uptic towards the end of the game. I'm playing on Heroic and I just got to
and I'm fighting the
for the first time. Before this level, I was really crusing through the single player. On this last level, I've restarted on a few checkpoints 10-15 times. Still I'm progressing through it and the extra challenge is good.
Gravemind
brutes
Mr. Lemming
Member
Pedigree Chum said:
Given how long it took trying to get 16 people to make 4 equal teams of 4 people each, I don't blame them for thinking stat-whoring monkeys would be retarded about fighting over playing no radar, invisibility, with brute shots only on waterworks or something equally inane.
DJ Demon J
Banned
IJoel said:
If you beat it on Heroic or Legendary, you unlock a mp map and skin.
OG_Original Gamer
Member
Fuck Heroic, its all about Legendary.
I'm on Level 13 now, I've decided to quit for the night but man oh man, it is AMAZING 
I was kind of worried about all these people bitching about the campaign, but I love it, it may be a continuation of the first and doesn't follow the story of "First Strike" but it's epic! I've got a couple more levels then I'm done, looking forward to this ending people keep talking about.
I was kind of worried about all these people bitching about the campaign, but I love it, it may be a continuation of the first and doesn't follow the story of "First Strike" but it's epic! I've got a couple more levels then I'm done, looking forward to this ending people keep talking about.Lakitu said:I'm on Level 13 now, I've decided to quit for the night but man oh man, it is AMAZING
What I don't get is how people fault Halo 2 for not incorporating First Strike story elements, but don't fault Halo for failing incorporating The Fall of Reach story elements.
That's like faulting Lucas for not incorporating all of the EU stuff in Star Wars into his prequal trilogies.
The source material inspires background stories, not the other way around.
Mr. Lemming
Member
http://bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=1044114
Apparently the ending isn't a popular problem </sarcasm>
Apparently the ending isn't a popular problem </sarcasm>
GhaleonEB said:
True but, The Fall of Reach, if you think about it, makes sense in some ways as a prequel to the original, while Halo 2 just completely disregards most things from First Strike, the book may as well never have existed but you're right, you can't fault Bungie for that. The casual gamer probably hasn't read the Halo books, and they never will, so they just continued the story from Halo 1. Seems the best way to me.
Mr. Lemming
Member
BuddyChrist83 said:
Well its not a remake of anything as far as I know, but it does resemble the Marathon 2 multiplayer map Thunderdome... at least to me it does
Mr. Lemming
Member
Apparently there is a bug related to unlocking Foundation. Here is a thread describing a workaround: http://bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=1038259
Bacon said:
I believe they are ancestors to humans, since the reclaimer must be human to activate Halo's defense mechanism.
Halo 2 specific ending spoiler:
I actually believe the "Ark" they refer to (at the very end) in order to remotely activate the other Halos is located in Earth and is most likely an underground facility the Forerunners built in order to assure some part of them survived the 'cleansing' of the Halos. The "Ark" name would certainly make sense.
Uno Ill Nino
Banned
I'd like to hereby retract all negative statements I have made about Halo 2 as a game. I'm playing through campaign by myself right now (first time through was in co-op) and I'm noticing more this time around. Plus for whatever reason, the game seems more fun. Can't explain it. The story still irks me (why'd they ignore the books?!) but I'm starting to warm up to that even.
That said, multiplayer on LIVE rocks my world. I just played with a bunch of friends from my Splinter Cell/Rainbow days and had the best time ever with a game. I racked up 25 kills in a row with the wraith tank in a 5 on 5 team deathmatch game. I got "Un-freakin'-believable!" from the announcer. What a riot! Anyway, I always thought the multiplayer would be fun, but I had no idea it would rock this much. We played ALL the modes. That's something I never did with Halo 1. We played Crazy King, CTF, Oddball, Ninjanaut, Team DM, I mean all of it. And it was all good. Real good.
So in closing, I take back all negative statements I've made about Halo 2 excluding my comments on the story and ending. I'd have to agree now that it is indeed a 10/10. I guess I just needed more sleep, and more time with the game by myself to fully realize how sweet it is.
That said, multiplayer on LIVE rocks my world. I just played with a bunch of friends from my Splinter Cell/Rainbow days and had the best time ever with a game. I racked up 25 kills in a row with the wraith tank in a 5 on 5 team deathmatch game. I got "Un-freakin'-believable!" from the announcer. What a riot! Anyway, I always thought the multiplayer would be fun, but I had no idea it would rock this much. We played ALL the modes. That's something I never did with Halo 1. We played Crazy King, CTF, Oddball, Ninjanaut, Team DM, I mean all of it. And it was all good. Real good.
So in closing, I take back all negative statements I've made about Halo 2 excluding my comments on the story and ending. I'd have to agree now that it is indeed a 10/10. I guess I just needed more sleep, and more time with the game by myself to fully realize how sweet it is.
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