Official HALO 2 thread

no, it\'s bungie\'s fault

here\'s what i expected, and everyone should have too (shame on you if you didn\'t)

the be all, end all of console FPS gaming

halo 2 is far from that, even after all this time.

im glad to see the sheep just stand in line and expect less.

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ohhhhhh mm, give it up already. You\'re even starting to s@#t me with your gamin bashin bs.

Originally posted by Bobs_Hardware
As for being repetitive, I\'m already having major deja vu.

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thats what put me off the PC version.

Thanks to the [sp]Flood levels[/sp], I lost all intrest in the game for weeks.

Anyway when playing Halo2 online just remember the following rules

hitting a nerve, souly?

good

perhaps halo 3 will live up to it\'s hype

wait, nevermind.  the original bungie is dead

the original HALO was dead years ago... Remember it DID start off as a RTS for the Mac.

/me wonders if they will ever do a RTS spin-off.

Well, I for one am enjoying it.

Originally posted by mm
here\'s what i expected, and everyone should have too (shame on you if you didn\'t)

the be all, end all of console FPS gaming

halo 2 is far from that, even after all this time.

im glad to see the sheep just stand in line and expect less.

You are far more ignorant than I imagined if you really believed that.  

im glad to see the sheep just stand in line and expect less.

You really are dense, go check out the "State of Gaming" thread again, Ryu made a nice reply...maybe it was the Fable thread, or the other Halo 2 thread, or the September NPD...oh who knows, you\'ve been shut down in all of them.

Please leave.

the original HALO was dead years ago

Actually, the original Halo was released almost three years ago and managed to sell over 5 million units.  <----  Far from dead;)

Well the professional sites did give it like a  9.8 (IGN) and 9.4 (Gamespot), so I really don\'t know what your idea of living up to the hype is.  As far as I\'m concerned, I expected the worst, and they actually exceeded I think what most people thought they would get.  This is not a rehash of Halo 1, it really is a whole new Halo experience, I\'m sorry if you can\'t see that.

Originally posted by mm
the be all, end all of console FPS gaming

halo 2 is far from that, even after all this time.

 
I\'d love to see the one console FPS that has already delivered all the things that people are going apeshit over about HALO 2.

If that\'s all you expected, you should be more than satisfied.

The people who have been dogging Halo for YEARS are also the ones buying the game on release day???  This makes absolutely no sense to me.  Did you buy into the hype too?

Killzone has also been hyped to hell (much of it from its fanbase) yet I\'m not going out to buy it.  If you\'re buying the game you\'re just supporting the series you hate. (note: don\'t hate Killzone, was referring to Halo haters)

It all makes perfect sense!  I\'m just not seeing it.

Speaking as someone who loves the Halo universe, having read both The Fall of Reach and First Strike novels and beating the original on normal, heroic, and legendary, I can easily say the story in Halo 2 is, regretfully, garbage.  It\'s easily the worst story in the series and it is also one of the most dissapointing overhyped experiences I\'ve had in my gaming history.

With that being said, I have not played the multiplayer.  However, if a game is advertised as the next part in the series, denoting some type of continuation in the story, this game failed miserably.  This feels more like Halo 2, the continuation of better multiplayer.  Though many of you know the game for that and agree that it is very good, that\'s not why I bought this game.  For me, it is an utter dissapointment.

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Originally posted by mm
no, it\'s bungie\'s fault

here\'s what i expected, and everyone should have too (shame on you if you didn\'t)

the be all, end all of console FPS gaming

halo 2 is far from that, even after all this time.

im glad to see the sheep just stand in line and expect less.

Whose the sheep? You are. Why? Because you bought it. I don\'t care if you bought it wanting to hate it or wanting to be surprised. You still bought it. That is what makes you part of the sheep.

As much  as you complain about Halo and it\'s flaws, there is no way you expected the sequel to be the "be all and end all" FPS for consoles. Just face it, you bought it, you helped fund a sequel and MS / Bungie appreciates your money.

Originally posted by Ryu
Speaking as someone who loves the Halo universe, having read both The Fall of Reach and First Strike novels and beating the original on normal, heroic, and legendary, I can easily say the story in Halo 2 is, regretfully, garbage.  It\'s easily the worst story in the series and it is also one of the most dissapointing overhyped experiences I\'ve had in my gaming history.

With that being said, I have not played the multiplayer.  However, if a game is advertised as the next part in the series, denoting some type of continuation in the story, this game failed miserably.  This feels more like Halo 2, the continuation of better multiplayer.  Though many of you know the game for that and agree that it is very good, that\'s not why I bought this game.  For me, it is an utter dissapointment.

A shitload of inconsistencies, right?

It sucks if you follow the books, participate in story discussions across various forums, and all that jazz. If you look at it just the game itself, it\'s miles ahead of the first game, at the very least.

Unfortunately, Bungie didn\'t seem intent on linking the sequel with the books at all. And as expected, all that cool story-related shit on ilovebees.com has nothing to do with HALO 2. I can see why that part of the game would disappoint so many.

Inconsistancies, rhetoric... a [sp]little shop of horrors plant[/sp].  It\'s all just friggin stupid.  I have to go to class.  We can talk more about it later.

actually, i bought it used for 28$ from my normal shop

some kid probably swiped it from best buy, and got cash for it.

so i win, the kid wins, the store wins, and m$ loses

brilliant!