Author Topic: Halo 2 on Nov. 15th (Read 12907 times)

CaseyRyback · « **on:** November 09, 2003, 04:12:04 PM »

You should see hodw many Xbox fannies are worked up over thinkin Halo 2 is coming out Nov. 15th

It is truely quite amazing, people say they work for EB and that they actually have copies(its just too funny)

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #1 on:** November 09, 2003, 04:22:54 PM »

*sigh*

I hope this damages the hype a bit...Halo is so overrated it's not even funny...

mouse_clicker · « **Reply #2 on:** November 09, 2003, 04:24:21 PM »

It hasn't even gone gold yet, and even if it did today, they wouldn't have enough copies to meet demand in only 6 days. That's pure lunacy.

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #3 on:** November 09, 2003, 04:32:29 PM »

The game is VERY far from going gold...It's at least a half-year from release!

CaseyRyback · « **Reply #4 on:** November 09, 2003, 05:30:52 PM »

Halo is a lot of fun. It was the sole reason I purchased an Xbox(that and the price dropped 100 bucks). I have played through it 2 times and am halfway through on Legendary.

It is a little overrated though. Anyone who plays PC shooters knows that RS3 and NOLF2 are better(RS3 MP, and NOLF2 SP)

thecubedcanuck · « **Reply #5 on:** November 12, 2003, 04:48:34 AM »

"I hope this damages the hype a bit...Halo is so overrated it's not even funny."

So is Prime and yet I dont see you complaining about that?

vudu · « **Reply #6 on:** November 12, 2003, 05:34:29 AM »

prime meaning metroid prime? if anything, it think the game is majorly under-rated.

has the game even sold a million copies yet? last i heard it was only around 800,000. granted, that was six months ago.

The Omen · « **Reply #7 on:** November 12, 2003, 06:26:10 AM »

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So is Prime and yet I dont see you complaining about that?

So you're admitting Halo is overrated? I never thought i would see those words come from you, Cubedcanuck.

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #8 on:** November 12, 2003, 07:36:11 AM »

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Originally posted by: thecubedcanuck
"I hope this damages the hype a bit...Halo is so overrated it's not even funny."

So is Prime and yet I dont see you complaining about that?

And when have I "hyped" up Metroid Prime? I think it's a great game, but I don't believe it's the Second Coming like XBox fanboys think of Halo...

Fish · « **Reply #9 on:** November 12, 2003, 09:04:09 AM »

I find this very funny, for fun I went to some Xbox forums like teamxbox, and they have long threads about this. Some are deleted or locked though, and what makes it funnier that almost every one of them made fun of Nintendo fans because of the MEGATON!

thecubedcanuck · « **Reply #10 on:** November 12, 2003, 09:09:43 AM »

"So you're admitting Halo is overrated? I never thought i would see those words come from you, Cubedcanuck"

Halo, Prime, Zelda, are all way over rated IMO. Halo and Prime were very good, the best on each system maybe, but they are still far from being the god sent many make them out to be.

Flames_of_chaos · « **Reply #11 on:** November 12, 2003, 10:08:37 AM »

Also Bungie reported that they have no intention to make a Halo 3 because they want to make a different genre of game.

mouse_clicker · « **Reply #12 on:** November 12, 2003, 11:14:34 AM »

Halo's the only one that was hailed as a god send. Prime got railed on by a lot of people for its controls, as well as a few other things. Zelda, of course, was bashed soley for it's visual style, and then there were the legitimate complaints of it being too easy and having a very Rare-esque scavenger hunt at the end. If anything, Prime and Zelda are underrated, not overrated.

In any case, good ol' Sherlock Gabe has inquired Microsoft about this rumor, and came up with this official press release from Bungie:

It's false- Halo 2 won't be out until next April, as well knew.

ghostVi · « **Reply #13 on:** November 12, 2003, 02:00:00 PM »

There are rumours about a Halo Delux Edition coming out soon, basically Halo with Xbox Live support..... here gameindustry.biz speculates about it: http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?section_name=ret&aid=2553

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #14 on:** November 12, 2003, 02:05:47 PM »

I don't feel like buying another copy of Halo, plus pay for Live...But sadly, some people will...

Pale · « **Reply #15 on:** November 12, 2003, 02:09:59 PM »

I just had to add this to a Halo thread....

I can't wait for an IGN review of Halo 2 to come out next year. I hope fran does it....so then he can say that he thinks rehashing the same game only adding dual gun support is cool, but rehashing mario kart with dual driver support is stupid.

That will make for one comical day.

AERO · « **Reply #16 on:** November 12, 2003, 02:33:03 PM »

Although there really was nothing wrong with halo. Great game. But nothing deserves that kind of praise. Seems to happen so much on all these systems and I don't quite get it.

As far as halo 2 on the 15th. Here is the official word from bungie:

http://halo.bungie.org/oldnews.html?item=7953

ThePerm · « **Reply #17 on:** November 12, 2003, 02:45:01 PM »

as a pc/nintendo gamer i will concur halo is over-rated.

mouse_clicker · « **Reply #18 on:** November 12, 2003, 02:52:58 PM »

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Although there really was nothing wrong with halo. Great game.

Besides the gun limit and the lackluster multiplayer, I'd have to agree that there really wasn't anything wrong with Halo. Things certainly weren't perfect, though, and could have used some work. Overall, though, it was a great game, although I think the immense amount of praise it got was to meet the immense amount of hype it got.

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #19 on:** November 12, 2003, 02:55:07 PM »

Nothing was really wrong with the game, besides the fact you had to backtrack through the same areas avoiding incredibly annoying and repetitive enemies...Oh wait...That's half the game!

Joey · « **Reply #20 on:** November 12, 2003, 03:02:26 PM »

I remember once seeing someone call this the Haloton. I think that is a good name especally since it got are far as it did.

The Omen · « **Reply #21 on:** November 12, 2003, 04:58:18 PM »

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Nothing was really wrong with the game, besides the fact you had to backtrack through the same areas avoiding incredibly annoying and repetitive enemies...Oh wait...That's half the game!

Metroid Prime?

I joke because i care

Termin8Anakin · « **Reply #22 on:** November 12, 2003, 05:27:17 PM »

Hahahaha, too right, Omen

Now this is based on what I have seen. I've only played 5 seconds of Halo (there was the demo of MP next door, so when the line went down, I played that), but the environments are heaps larger in Halo, especially the outdoor ones. They are much larger than MP. Can anyone tell me how you get to other areas in Halo?
Like, In MP, they are all connected by that elevator. In Halo, the whole 'world' is the inside of a huge ring in outer space. Can you you just walk around the whole ring and end up where you started? Or is it stage-based like MP?

And form what i remember someone saying (though I forget), the reason why there's a Halo 2 is cause the humans/main character/whatever failed in the mission/saving the world/whatever in the first game.

mouse_clicker · « **Reply #23 on:** November 12, 2003, 05:35:29 PM »

It's level based- you finish one level, you go to the next. It's not open for exploration like Metroid Prime. And while it's levels are technically take place on one giant space ring, it's not just one big level, as in Metroid Prime.

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #24 on:** November 12, 2003, 06:33:08 PM »

Metroid Prime isn't stage-based, but Halo is...

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