getting the legendary edition. just not at 12:01 am like a few other people... i have class in the morning! the reviews have been nice but expected. come on, its halo!
i'll try and play with you Brian later this week. I just need to finish campaign first, you know, before i go into that oblivion full of ass holes amd 12 year olds.
I have no tests this week and no papers due. Plenty of time to play, its just more proof that God exists.
Posts: 456 | Location: On the Road | Registered: 20 January 2007
Originally posted by Everyoneanindividual: I also won't be able to get it till tomorrow morning. However, I am extremely excited and need to renew my Xbox Live Subscription.
wanna play? multiplayer is so fun if you're playing wih the right ppl. i won't be getting it til noonish.
Posts: 456 | Location: On the Road | Registered: 20 January 2007
Originally posted by Everyoneanindividual: I also won't be able to get it till tomorrow morning. However, I am extremely excited and need to renew my Xbox Live Subscription.
wanna play? multiplayer is so fun if you're playing wih the right ppl. i won't be getting it til noonish.
Yeah, Thanks... That would be cool. My gamertag is flipjdn64. If you don't mind me asking what's yours?
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Posts: 1226 | Location: Nowhere | Registered: 31 July 2006
Originally posted by The Friar: i might have blown the horn too quick on multiplayer, i'm having problems with xbox live. i'll figure it out eventually... oh its s3e glass.
Thanks... I myself, am also having problems with Xbox Live. It's not letting me renew my membership.
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Posts: 1226 | Location: Nowhere | Registered: 31 July 2006
Originally posted by The Friar: i might have blown the horn too quick on multiplayer, i'm having problems with xbox live. i'll figure it out eventually... oh its s3e glass.
Yeah dude I feel you there, my ethernet and USB port aren't working. I can send my 360 in whenever I want to, I've already got the box, but I just got Halo 3 and I'll have to go with out it for a few weeks if I want my 360 fixed.
Posts: 1 | Location: Knoxville,TN | Registered: 25 September 2007
yay! i have xbox live! and i'm on my way to get halo 3! good luck everyoneanindividual and welcome to the forums purpledrohaze. hope you get your lovely white box fixed soon.
Posts: 456 | Location: On the Road | Registered: 20 January 2007
I bought Halo 3 today, and I'm not gonna make a long post bc i sorta wanna go back in there and play it some more. I just wanted to say halo 3 is awesome. Get it.
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Jules: Normally, both your asses would be dead as fucking fried chicken, but you happen to pull this shit while I'm in a transitional period so I don't wanna kill you, I wanna help you. But I can't give you this case, it don't belong to me. Besides, I've already been through too much shit this morning over this case to hand it over to your dumb ass.
I don't have a 360, but my friend does so guess where I was Tuesday night! I haven't played Halo 2 in a long time, but from what I've experienced so far there isn't much of a learning curve if you're familiar with the last game. We just jumped right into to playing (just among the three of us there) with 'create a game'. I'll hold final judgment until I can play some co-op campaign. So far though it feels just like Halo 2, so I'm not sure if it deserves the hype.
The graphics are mind boggling though. My friend has a plasma (I think) sonya HDTV, and my god is the rendering beautiful. The multilayer level additions are a little weak IMO and some of the new weapons I've used wear out their novelty quickly (though the hammer thing is probably my favorite weapon now). I can't wait to play some more tonight...
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Posts: 427 | Location: Care-a-lot | Registered: 16 July 2007
Goldeneye and Perfect Dark did everything Halo did, and more, years before, and now here comes Halo 3, with its incomplete player design toolkit, a concept which was done much better by the Timesplitters crew years ago.
My point being that the Halo series consists of merely a bunch of pretty, and average FPS's. I play 'em. But they are hugely overrated, and the new one goes goes through the motions, making it hard to get really excited as the lovely backgrounds whizz by.
Return fire fanboys, ha ha.
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Posts: 2002 | Location: The ever silent spaces of the East | Registered: 12 February 2007
The action mechanics of the game are great, and the visuals are lovely, but, to me at least, the game lacks any emotional resonance. It's a well realized FPS, but it doesn't, to me, bring anything new to the genre, outside of the obvious technological advancements, that wasn't already there in Wolfenstein. Bioshock may have spoiled everything for me.
Now, imagine a day in the future when truly world class authors and directors make video games. What kind of game could Norman Mailer, Thomas Pynchon, or Philip Roth write? What if Hemingway or Kipling had written games. What if Coppola or Kubrick had directed them? Halo 3 is OK, but it isn't art.
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Posts: 1426 | Location: State of Disarray | Registered: 10 January 2007
you are right about halo not progressing doc and it not really being art, but shit the multiplayer is really fun and unfortunately very addicting. now that i'm done with halo i can finish up bioshock!!
the first halo, however, did progress a lot of things ish. it was innovative and fresh and new. but bungie just hasn't innovated much since.
isn't it interesting that we are suddenly discussing video games as art? this brings up the other thread of mark f's (where is that thread?) about movies being entertainment or art. i'm pretty sure that most video games will never get the full artistic treatment b/c video games cost lots of money and they want the money back from their audience (average age of video gamer is something like a thirty year old male). Then again, bioshock made "some" cash so who knows?
Posts: 456 | Location: On the Road | Registered: 20 January 2007
Originally posted by Ishmaels coffin: Goldeneye and Perfect Dark did everything Halo did, and more, years before, and now here comes Halo 3, with its incomplete player design toolkit, a concept which was done much better by the Timesplitters crew years ago.
My point being that the Halo series consists of merely a bunch of pretty, and average FPS's. I play 'em. But they are hugely overrated, and the new one goes goes through the motions, making it hard to get really excited as the lovely backgrounds whizz by.
Return fire fanboys, ha ha.
Don't forget Doom and CS (counter-strike). I agree with everything you said. Hence why I don't own a X-box 360 (Bioshock is on PC, thankfully). So far I've enjoyed playing Halo 3 (on my friend's 360). But after like 6-7 hours of multilayer (not Xbox Live) exploration, it hasn't exceeded my expectations or overly impressed me. There just hasn't been much added to what was possible before.
I can see the mission editor thing (forge) enhancing the multiplayer viability, if not for the time spent tinkering with it, but it requires a bit of orientation and meddling to get the settings to a point where a true 'multiplayer' game would be competitive or appealing on a long term basis. It's not an exceptionally groundbreak component as it takes elements from CS and Operation Flashpoint (anyone played this?), among others, and it will likely easily wear on its novelty.
Like The Friar said, the multilayer is really fun. It may not the most enjoyable multiplayer shooter on the market, but as far as advanced consol games go, it will be premier for quiet a while.
I'm ignoring the campaign, because I haven't thoroughly played it and from what I've seen it looks just like a re-hash of the gameplay from every other shooter (especially Halo 2). The story line is purportedly given a lot of focus, but I didn't care about that in the first place, as it's hardly innovative or a deal maker for the game.
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Posts: 427 | Location: Care-a-lot | Registered: 16 July 2007
Everyone here is making really salient points, and I dislike being so negative about games, as I am an long time addict from the school of '78, but Halo...gee, I just don't know.
It's fun, but unambitious. As k/c and others have raved about Bioshock, I'll just say, put that up against Halo, and I hope gaming heads down that eerie little street, rather than redundant sequel-itis...ah, there's a place for both I guess.
LOVING Bioshock by the way..!!
'for my purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset, and the baths of all the western stars, until I die.'
Posts: 2002 | Location: The ever silent spaces of the East | Registered: 12 February 2007
Well, get used to sequelitis, though. The game broke every record in sales in one day. Until a ambitious game does that, get used to repeats. That said, I do enjoy Halo 3. It isn't the best at any one thing it offers but the overall package is so nicely put together and its co-op and multiplayer so fun, it is hard to fault it. It makes playing games with friends much easier than most games. For example, I like campaign mode. I like it even better than a friend of mine can jump in and help me out, play for a while and jump out again. Yes, Gears did this, too, but Halo 3 does it better. Its matchmaking is still tops, too. No one had done as good as job as Halo 2 had since the 360 came out until now.
That kind of connectivity is why the game is so addicting. Bioshock is a better FPS storyline. Rainbow Six Vegas has better FPS mechanics, if you ask me. Gears of War had better graphics. But the Halo 3 package is a great deal overall, though.
Now, Half Life Orange Box might change all that, though. If TF2 is as good as the original and the HL2 games are a top notch as I heard they were a few years ago, well, we might have a new addiction.
