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The Official Halo 3 Thread
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Remember before the release of Halo 3, they were saying they'll command more attention to Halo 3 (they have) and release more for it? In my view, I think there should be MORE maps on Halo 3 than Halo 2. And Halo 2 finished up with 23 (?) maps. Halo 3 has 17 (?) maps right now. Counting the next group makes it up to 20 maps. So I think there still should be 1-2 more DLC maps after this summer release...fin said:
I really liked Halo 3's intro too. I didn't care for Halo 2's intro all that much. Nothing really stood out, I guess.Falagard said:
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Related to Halo maps, I just watched a walkthrough of Halo 2's PC version "District".
The map looks awesome. Need more of those in Halo 3.
Nothing stood out about the Arbiter's trial, or seeing High Charity for the first time, or catching a glimpse of the destroyed Installation 04?Striker said:
That's strange. I watched that and got so hyped for playing the game, it was insane. I was fascinated immediately by this look into the inner-workings of the Covenant.
xxjuicesxx
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Cereal said:
People from Halo-GAF beat you? What are you a staff captain?:lol
Striker said:
Once upon a time in an interview some where, Frankie (I think, maybe someone else from Bungie) said that by the time Halo 3's DLC was done you'd have a hard time remembering what the initial map selection was, I hope they stick to this plan.
He said there was a guy with the GT "xxjuicesxx" on the other team!
Blueblur1 said:
You sir, are exactly right. Many of my Halo 3 friends are still bewildered by the story of Halo 3. On a positive note, it will be really hard for Bungie to do a worse job on the next game as far as intros are concerned! Heck, even as far as storytelling is concerned!
That would be AWESOME. In that case I'd expect 2 more map packs, maybe three if we're lucky. I'm expecting Bungie's next game in 2010.Ramirez said:
Of course, it won;t be awesome if the map packs don't become free, because then we'll still be playing the retail and Heroic maps.
Holy shit, 2010 is going to be fucking amazing. Last season of Lost, the World Cup, Bungie's next game, and whole other bunch of awesome shit. I want to freeze myself until then.
Metroidvania
People called Romanes they go the house?
Cap7ain Blood said:
Blood, when shall we start our killer map?
Domino Theory
Crystal Dynamics
Metroidvania said:
Metroid!! Are you able to come online right now or tonight?
xxjuicesxx
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Cereal said:
I was just joking most of Halo-GAF is actually pretty damn good. I too do not enjoy TS though.
And Ramirez what did your last sentence regard? I thought about it for like 5 minutes and still do not understand it. Which makes sense because I'm pretty damn drunk.
Metroidvania
People called Romanes they go the house?
Domino Theory said:
I think I can hop on for a bit, give me a few minutes.
If people honestly cared THAT much about what happened in the previous Halo games they would have either played the first two games, or simply read a summary on the internet in any of the thousand places you could find one.
Juice, you were implying that losing to someone from here would mean that you're terrible at the game, so I threw your name on the team that beat him, think about it tomorrow.
Juice, you were implying that losing to someone from here would mean that you're terrible at the game, so I threw your name on the team that beat him, think about it tomorrow.
It was from a Weekly Update in December.Ramirez said:
http://nikon.bungie.org/bwu/index.html?item=157
xxjuicesxx
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Time Warner Cable is lagging for me for the last two days and I wanna play some fuckin 'lo. Shit is so weak.
Doesn't matter....the Wraith took me out after I got too close looking for something (ANYTHING) to defeat it with.Shake Appeal
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You'll be surprised to hear I agree with this. I'm not asking them to deliver more exposition and longer cutscenes, or to sit the player down and explain backstory like the Forerunners/MB's betrayal etc. I think going the Metal Gear Solid route, as someone suggested, is a terrible idea that would annoy both the average player and someone like me, who thinks cutscenes are the laziest form of storytelling in videogames short of a wedge of text.Cocopjojo said:
When I talked about Half-Life 2 and Bioshock, I was talking about how those games -- which are both first person shooters -- manage to present information about their setting, and evoke emotion and player response, through their immediate environments. So we learn about the downtrodden of City 17 by fleeing through their apartments, hearing them whisper to one another etc. In Bioshock the average gamer can walk into a room, scour it for plasmids or ammo, and then leave, without noticing the dead couple embracing on a bed, surrounded by sleeping pills. This is story told through the gameworld, through the player's experience; they don't have to suffer through clunky exposition or cutscenes because this kind of storytelling is immediate and mise-en-scène. The closest thing Halo 3 has is a Brute holding a Marine in the air as we approach (and this is repeated several times), or the Marine who seems to have been driven mad by the Flood's arrival.
Why not have a level, or part of a level, based in a living environment, with a disturbed canteen and hastily abandoned bedrooms, and a Grunt playing with a child's toy in one of these and muttering to itself? Why not have the Chief wander (during a quiet moment, while some story exposition is being delivered over his headset) through a hangar or hall of refugees -- women and children -- who are huddled together in corners but stand up at his approach, and comfort one another as a result? It's as easy as having a mother and daughter seen through a window running hand in hand in the distance. Hell, just have an evacuation broadcast looping forever on a TV screen. Give us some sense that people live on this planet, and that the 'mankind' that is repeatedly trumpeted in cutscenes and over the headset is worth fighting for, that earth "will never be the same".
This in-game storytelling is so effective -- and doesn't impinge on the average player who just wants to shoot at all -- and yet it is almost entirely absent from Halo 3. I wanted to care about the earth I was the supposed 'saviour' of. Bungie gave me no reason to. When Hood shouts that Rtas just glassed half a continent, the game has given me no sense of what that should mean. The comic 'Second Sunrise over New Mombasa' gives me a strong sense of 26th century human life, and its appalling that the game does not. Apologists will say, "But it's in the comic, for the fans, if they go looking!" I say that whatever about details of plot and character, the emotional core of your story should be at the core of the experience.
People make so many excuses for the stories in these games, and for how they're told; I'm guilty of it too in defending them to friends. But I'm not asking for more detail: I don't want Bungie to tell the player the specifications of the Shadow of Intent, or explain how a slipspace conduit works, or where the Spartans came from. I just want better detail, and more relevant detail, and detail that invests the player -- yes, even the average player -- in the world. Give them as many reasons to shoot as you can, and make them care.
Domino Theory
Crystal Dynamics
My love for the Bnet community and their way of analyzing will never stop. :lol
I thought your inability to respond was quite the opposite of suck. I can't speak for everyone, but I enjoyed it.Ramirez said:Just wanted to say that not being able to defend myself while you all talk shit, sucks.
And more importantly you knew that there was nothing you could do to prevent it.Ramirez said:
There's no a-stoppin' da flight!
Your lose man, it was good times. Whiteboy passed out ingame (may still be slouching in front of an idle blue Halo menu). Omlet tried on some flight, recognized its awesomeness, was overwhelmed and returned to that POS recon thing. Oh yeah, and we continued to have our way with Ram.Thermite said:
I played a bunch of Halo last night with my normal crew.
In those games, I realized how boring sandtrap can be. It's just a tad too big, I guess. The aesthetic doesn't help either. Barren, rarely used, landscapes and simple structures.
I mean, I know it's a desert and all, but damn.
In those games, I realized how boring sandtrap can be. It's just a tad too big, I guess. The aesthetic doesn't help either. Barren, rarely used, landscapes and simple structures.
I mean, I know it's a desert and all, but damn.
DancingJesus
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EazyB said:Good games tonight. It's too bad Metroid's mom yelled at him and made him go to bed.
Oh yeah, I ran across this pic from last nights game, thought it was worth posting:
Poor bastard never saw it comin
I started laughing so hard my coffee went up my nose.
EDIT: Just saw "Comeback" on Bungie Favorites, that was fucking epic NJ.
RunWhiteBoyRun
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EazyB said:
That's besides the point damnitt.
I woke up, and my shorts and headset were in the bathroom. Some weird shit.
Metroidvania
People called Romanes they go the house?
Phatcorns said:
Uh.....usually, it's pretty near instantaneous.
:lol
Out of curiosity, weren't you the kid who sold his 360, and stopped updating the NeoGAF halo list because you wanted more time with your girlfriend?
....Just curious.
Domino Theory
Crystal Dynamics
Whiteboy you should've heard the things Metroid was saying about you since he knew you were out of it.
And Eazy, here's that video I was talking about of you having a powerful Shotgun that just destroyed this guy and his Mongoose. Everyone watch. :lol
http://vimeo.com/1101266
And Eazy, here's that video I was talking about of you having a powerful Shotgun that just destroyed this guy and his Mongoose. Everyone watch. :lol
http://vimeo.com/1101266
BladedExpert
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Domino Theory said:
:lol pwned
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