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Inspire
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I'm in love. It is amazing. Your thoughts?

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Oolite
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Still not excited...

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Inspire
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I'm a big Halo fan. I'm surprised so many people bash it around here.

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Posted: 26th Sep 2007 00:39 Edited at: 26th Sep 2007 00:39
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Well I was so anticipating it, I mean like really, but a week before it was released my xbox 360 fried.

We all want to be awesome, but does awesome want to be us?
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Believe it or not today I started playing my first Halo game ever. I bought Halo 1 during the weekend and had a go today on my 360. It does seem fun.

I have vague plans for World Domination
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Posted: 26th Sep 2007 01:05
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really not that big of a deal...

"I admire its purity, a survivor, unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality"

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Inspire
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Quote: "really not that big of a deal..."


Exactly what I meant. People bash it. Don't tell me what's a big deal and what isn't. It's a game I was looking forward to, and I don't need your negative opinion in my life.

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I'll probably get an Xbox 360 eventually... Dunno though. Heh, the day I bought Halo 1 and 2 my normal Xbox decided to die, sooooo. Still haven't even played through those

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Dr Manette
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I have to say that I've been shouting from the roof tops about this game, but it wasn't until I saw how AMAZING this game truly is. I hadn't seen the videos showing the replay feature, or Forge, or any of the cool new maps/features. Once I saw those, I was blown away. I mean, before those things, Halo 3 was just Halo 2.5... but now, it's definately an awesome game. I cannot wait till friday when I get to coop with my friends.


Quote: "Exactly what I meant. People bash it."


I think it's the people that haven't played Halo and or just don't like FPS's that much. Sure it's similar to other shooting games, but it's the smooth controls, gameplay, and story that make it awesome.




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Dude I cannot wait to play it! Must have... Halo 3....

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Quote: "Well I was so anticipating it, I mean like really, but a week before it was released my xbox 360 fried."


why does this happen to everyone... WHY!!!

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Posted: 26th Sep 2007 02:34
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Quote: "Exactly what I meant. People bash it. Don't tell me what's a big deal and what isn't. It's a game I was looking forward to, and I don't need your negative opinion in my life. "


People look forward to a lot of different things... But there aren't threads about them... Most of the time.
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Halo 3? Previews state it is as good as we hope, although the graphics don't live up to, let's say, Bioshock. Halo 3 does have open fields but still. I don't care about it all! Give me Halo 3. I want to see that Forerunner structure from the E3 trailer.


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I thought the graphics more than lived up to my expectations, mostly because I kept looking at pretty things in the game like water and stuff and often found myself getting killed by brutes and stuff without realizing it lol .

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It's the most anticipated video game in history. It definitely deserves its own thread

Just watched the video reviews from Gamespot, IGN, and GameTrailers and decided to get it. I have Halo 1 and 2 so I know what to expect. The Forge editor is really awesome, and I love how at any point in time you can rewind what you did and replay it back and save it. That's really, really cool!

Apparently the A.I. vehicle drivers are as dumb as nails, but that's the only gripe I've heard.

Metacritic gives it a 96!

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Robert F
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i really want this game, but sadly i just dont really have the money right now

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Quote: "although the graphics don't live up to, let's say, Bioshock"


I wouldn't bother comparing the two, since Halo has never been the prettiest game in the XBOX pageant. But I'd say that the graphics are great, if they had spent too much time on the visuals we'd still be dreaming of head shots and warthog wars.

Quote: "The Forge editor is really awesome, and I love how at any point in time you can rewind what you did and replay it back and save it. That's really, really cool!"


My jaw dropped when I first saw the videos... Bungie has hit another bullseye!


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I don't get what the big deal with Halo is. Ok, so it is muliplayer, so what? Honestly, everyone gets bored with the game within 3 hours. It definitely not worth going to the store at 12 AM, and probably waiting in line for 2-3 hours just to buy a buy a game. Now, not only are you tired, but you will also be down 60-80 dollars. These are a few out of my many reasons for not getting/playing Halo 3.

This is just my opinion, no need for a flame war...


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what do you mean everyone gets bored after 3 hours, i never get bored of it

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I just finished the first three levels, and wow.

I fought off a room of around twenty brutes all by myself.

I fought off like fifty drones at once.

I bounced a sticky grenade off the bubble shield and onto a brute.

Damn was it awesome.

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@da power pwnerer,

I can understand where you're coming from. I do get bored playing FPS's after awhile, but with single player, lan, and online play, this usually doesn't kick in until many many hours later. And the beauty of multiplayer is you can put it down and pick it up a month later with a few friends and have a blast. But yea, you're opinion is your opinion.


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Just spent 4 hours playing it... and I am in love.

One of my favorite moments thus far: (Possible Spoiler Warning)


Yeah... its good.


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Lol I love it when you get the gravity hammer and the grunts yell "HES GOT A HAMMER! RUN!!" I love those little guys!

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not excited at all... might not even buy it...

and yes, I've played and beat Halo: Combat Evolved... and 2... Halo 3 has some rather cheap weapons... like the Spartan Laser... *ZAP* *dies* *curses loudly* - not my idea of fun

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Have you ever used the spartan laser? Because its not easy to hit a moving target with that thing, and anyways the sniper is pretty much the same thing with the one hit kill and all, also with the spartan laser the enemy can hear it if you point it at them so they can just jump and you will miss and they will kill you, also they can see the laser targeted. So try not to put down a gun unless you've used it. Besides this is the best multiplayer ive seen in a long time.

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Quote: "I think it's the people that haven't played Halo and or just don't like FPS's that much. Sure it's similar to other shooting games, but it's the smooth controls, gameplay, and story that make it awesome. "


I've played halo 1 and 2, I love FPS games, yes it is similar to other shooting games, the controls are awful in my opinion, game play is alright, but theres almost no difference between 1 and 2 and probably 3, and the story was absolutely butchered in the second one.

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DONT SPOIL UNLESS IN CODEBRACKETS

Thanks.


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Halo 1 and 2 are just your average FPS. However, in the world of console gaming they are rather above average because not only do they have a decent single player, but they also have (for an old console) an excellent multiplyer as well. I personally don't get excited over Halo 1 or 2, single player or multiplayer simply because I play PC (native) shooters all the time, and the quality of these games is usually greater because there are fewer limitations that must be placed on the games. Console games never seem as good to me. However a large portion of gamers really only play games on consoles due to lack of computer knowledge or money to constantly upgrade their systems each generation of games. These people lack the knowledge of how much greater PC shooters are over console shooters when compared side by side as far as gameplay goes.

At least that's my guess on the matter about the rage around the Halo series ^_^

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Quote: "Halo 1 and 2 are just your average FPS"


I though Halo 1 was actually better than average, getting old by 2 though

Quote: "(for an old console)"


an XBOX isn't an *old* console, it was made post-2000, and won't be *old* until it's been around least 10 years.

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Quote: "Exactly what I meant. People bash it. Don't tell me what's a big deal and what isn't."


There's a difference between bashing a game and not giving into hype. It just shows how good Microsoft is at marketing, look at Oblivion, Bioshock, Crysis etc.. while yes they may be very good games(I'm actually pretty interested in Crysis) I'm certainly not one to camp outside of a store. I've even read on other forums about people missing school just to play it :s.

Anyway, 3 days till SGA!! woot woot(injects self with more adrenaline and seals hole in tent).

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Halo 3 surpasses all expectations and hype. Just beat it. Twas AMAZING!

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there's something thats pissing me off from the reviews, each and every one of them so far on sites are saying the ending wasn't that great and i'm sitting here thinking, jesus you just had to find something to b**ch about didn't you?

I mean its gonna be a while before I can even touch the game, I don't have a 360 anymore since mine died and all but...soon.

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Quote: "I though Halo 1 was actually better than average"


I'm sorry but Halo completely defined console shooters. FPSs on consoles before Halo were always almost a completely different genre. Goldeneye and Medal of Honour (PS1) are both good games, but they don't feel anything like PC FPSs of the same time (Quake, Unreal etc.). They just never had the intense fluid fire fights that shooter games are built on.

But it didn't just succeed in putting a PC shooter on a console, it made so many huge changes to the FPS formula as well, for example the rebounding health bar is now in pretty much every shooter on every system, and also you normally can also carry two guns (COD stole both these ideas exactly).

Also, in FPSs it used to be that every new gun pretty much completely superceeds the one before it. ie, you would always pick up guns in the order 1-9 and each one would be obviously better than the one before. In Halo you can stick with your original guns the whole way through and it works just as well.

It really annoys me when people 'meh' Halo. A lot of the time it is people who haven't played it, or haven't owned it. There is a big difference between playing it and playing through it.

It won't mean much to people outside the UK, but here there is a well respected magazine called Edge that is very strict with it's review scores (Gears got 7/10 I think). It has only ever given 10/10 five times - Mario 64, Ocarina of Time, Gran Turismo, Halo and HL2. Prior to HL2 the definition of a 10/10 was "revolutionary", for HL2 they changed it to something like "flawless".

You can read the Edge review here:
http://halo.bungie.org/pressscans/display.html?scan=edge.promomag

It does a better job that me at explaining why it is not "just another shooter".

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i read edge

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Quote: "Your thoughts?"

Quote: "I don't need your negative opinion in my life. "

People around here really need to look at what they are saying .
I'm not giving into the halo 3 hype like I did the bioshock hype, it just leaves me feeling satisfied yet a little disapointed. I'll probably not get halo 3 until christmas unless I can pick it up used for £25-ish.

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i will get it in the end maybe christmas but im not really that excited i would rather have assassins creed

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The reason i'm not excited is because i have played the first two, apart from the multiplayer aspect, there isn't much new stuff to get excited about.

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Quote: "It really annoys me when people 'meh' Halo. A lot of the time it is people who haven't played it, or haven't owned it."


And in my case, it's cos I don't want to own it
Personally, I dislike FPSs... They're so generic and repetitive... Shoot this, scream like an imbicile at this, play against someone online that has no life, shoot this, shoot that, blah blah blah...

At any rate, I'm sure Halo 3 is going to be great

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I completed it after about 4 hours today.

Was a bit thin. Not as good as Halo in my honest opinion. I liked the last level (spoiler):



Graphics are amazing though. I enjoyed it. Multi-player is good as you would expect. Good ending.

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I love FPS games, but Halo is not brutal enough. I prefer the quake series gameplay wise over Halo any day.
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I love it - just finished playing in co-op mode with my little brother, not disappointed in any way.

I think it's a lot more like Halo 1 than 2, which suits me, more open battles, better use of vehicles etc. The brute Chopper is a great vehicle, in fact all the vehicles are cool. See that's what sets Halo apart, it's designed to be fun - it's about 20 times more fun that any PC shooter I've played, and I've played pretty much all of them. 4 player co-op mode will be insane, it's the sort of game that I'll complete several times before I'm sick of it - hell I bought 3 copies (one for me, one for my son, and one for my bro), so this weekend will be all about Halo3.

Now next weekend I hope my extra GH2 guitar arrives, so we can play proper co-op/face-off on that - some would say I spend too much on videogames .

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Haha.

Quote: "It really annoys me when people 'meh' Halo. A lot of the time it is people who haven't played it, or haven't owned it. There is a big difference between playing it and playing through it."


I agree. Best console shooter I've played.

I'm playing it on heroic, because normal is too easy. Much more fun that way.

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I don't like halo anymore. Played through halo 1 and halo 2 on legendary. It was fun at the time,but theres only so much you can take of stuff like that. The multi-player kicks butt,but windows live for halo 2 sucks butt.

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@Agent Dink,
I don't think console FPSs are lower in quality to PC FPSs... maybe the controls are better, but other than that, the 360 can live up to most PCs of today. In fact, a lot of console FPSs end up being ported to the pc; or at least being released on multiple systems (ie BioShock, Halo)

Quote: "These people lack the knowledge of how much greater PC shooters are over console shooters when compared side by side as far as gameplay goes."


A console does not define gameplay, at all! At least not the way you say it, as the pc having better gameplay than the 360. I do not own a 360, play FPSs all the time on the PC, and still enjoy Halo 1-3.


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They really put a lot more into the story and cinematics than they used to. And did anyone catch the little RvB easter egg in the earlier levels? (sorry if anyone already said this...)

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Quote: "They really put a lot more into the story and cinematics than they used to. And did anyone catch the little RvB easter egg in the earlier levels? (sorry if anyone already said this...)"


What was it?

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Quote: "And did anyone catch the little RvB easter egg in the earlier levels? (sorry if anyone already said this...)
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Crazy did they refer to RVB? Hahahahaha, hey could you e-mail me about what they did, I love that series soooo much but only the first few seasons.

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i are teh likez Hallo 3

Seriously though, its plain pwnage!

Forge is like Halo's G-Mod, which is something I've wanted for a long time

If anyone wants to screw around in Forge, just send me a message, I have an awesome setup in Last Resort


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It's in like the second level. See below:



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