Thread: HALO FUCKING 2

OOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!

During the previews for Bourne Supremecy last night they had a trailer for Halo2 which comes out in November. I have seen the trailer before on a PC, but to see it on a full screen at a movie theater in Dolby Pro logic....oh god. I almost nutted in my pants I was so fired up. I find it cruel and hurtful that I can't be cryogenically frozen until November 9th when this game comes out to save myself from the pain of not playing. IGN.com has a bunch of the trailers as does Gamespot.com. I got so fired up from seeing the trailer that I had to go home and stay up until 1:30 playing Halo.

Dual weapons, multiplayer on Live, ghost jacking, the ability to use elite's plasma swords....oh god I am stoked for this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


My only complaints on Halo: the flood is kind of gay and annoying and no shotgun until way too late into the game.

Vinz,

On the gaming front, any news on the new installment of Doom. That looks fairly ballsy.

Stu

there was a thread in the ski/snowboard forum about how crappy it is. requires TONS of cpu/ram etc...basically you have to buy a burly new pc to play it is what people are saying. I guess the grapics are cool, the lighting and whatnot...but the game play is annoying. Like you have to see with a flashlight, then when something attacks put the flashlight away and shoot but then you can't see what you are shooting at. I don't go for pc games, I got sick of stuff not working right or needing upgrades or whatever...strictly Xbox now. So I dunno, I'm going to end up buying Doom3 I'm sure....but Halo2 is going to be the double extra triple fandillyastic kick-your-mom-in-the-face-it's-so sweet ass kickingest holy flerking schnit reason to own and Xbox if there wasn't one before game ever!!!! I plan on not letting Halo2 know that Xbox has been tainted by Doom3, it might get jealous.

Okay...I'm freaking out now. I gotta let this go for a while.

freaking out again..





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I am looking forward to Halo 2 as well. I just hope it lives up to the hype. My biggest complaint of Halo was that some of the levels were too repetitive.

If there is one game that would make me get Xbox Live this would have to be it.

I'm betting the farm on Half Life 2

the first half life was sick, CS is fun but I never play anymore. I guess you can't use your own spray paint logo? is that true? my name on it was Don Knutts and I had a ballsy picture of Don Knotts that I'd spray on people after I'd killed them. So refreshing and a great way to degrade opponents. I've read a bunch of previews for half life2 and there's no doubt it's going to be sick, but again...you need a burls computer for it to run right.

Grange, there's a 9 minute demo video on IGN.com that I have watched over and over and over. I almost feel like the hype has to catch up with how fuggin ballsy this game is going to be.

Hell I still love the first one and I've had it for 2 years and won it 4 times. Never on Legendary though...that's close to completely impossible.

Originally posted by vinzclortho
the first half life was sick, CS is fun but I never play anymore. I guess you can't use your own spray paint logo? is that true? my name on it was Don Knutts and I had a ballsy picture of Don Knotts that I'd spray on people after I'd killed them. So refreshing and a great way to degrade opponents. I've read a bunch of previews for half life2 and there's no doubt it's going to be sick, but again...you need a burls computer for it to run right.

Yeah they have just a series of gay ass logos to spray.

It sucks that all the good games that come out now require a super burly computer. Sorry I don't have a P4 3.4 with HT, gig of ram and a 256 graphic card.

clicky

Originally posted by vinzclortho

Hell I still love the first one and I've had it for 2 years and won it 4 times. Never on Legendary though...that's close to completely impossible.

heh. Unless you're injured. And can't get off your couch. Heh.

It's actually pretty easy to beat it on Legendary using Co-Op. By yourself it's a tad more difficult.

my current problem is Two Betrayls on heroic. up the little ledge and into a shitstorm of Flood, 2 tanks, a stationary gun, 2 brutes, bunch of elites, elites with plasma swords and invisible elites and assorted other little covenant guys. friggin HARD level!! I must have played it 15 times over the weekend and I got close but kept getting killed. I am guessing the problem was I didn't have any doja aka focus plant, to really get me into it.

focus plat is essential. with out it you are just a nerd.

I still can't get into xbox halo. The control sticks kill me. keyboard and mouse=best ever. Life without mouselook sucks.

Originally posted by schuss
I still can't get into xbox halo. The control sticks kill me. keyboard and mouse=best ever. Life without mouselook sucks.

I had a hard time with the controler at first but once I got use to it I prefer it too the mouse and keyboard. I don't play computer games much so it is hard to get familiar the mouse/keyboard combo. Plus being left handed I would prefer to have the trigger and aiming ability in my left hand.

well, I finally played HALO for the first time ever last week, my roommate had me play some Cooperative play with him and he got me HOOKED. I finally beat it two days ago. Now, as one guy who really likes a good story and getting into a good game, here's my thoughts:

The flood are gay and annoying. OK there's a lot of you. I get it. We're seriously going to get a second game about you? It kind of pisses me off how every FPS manufacturer thinks they need to scare the piss out of you in some way...kind of imitating Doom, it's almost a mandatory tradition or something.

Levels can be very, very, very tedious and repetitious. Wave after wave of flood pouring out of a pipe, and I have to kill 70 waves before the door opens? Fuck, man. And the "Assault on the Control Room" level...goddamn that one's long, full of the same shit, room after room after room...

I appreciate the scale and vastness of the buildings and levels. Kind of like the Star Wars Dark Forces series, the buildings and structures are large beyond belief!

An "options" menu allowing me to turn down/off the music would be great, oftentimes the music overpowers the dialogue and it'd be nice to hear what's going on.

A more interactive environment would be nice. The levels feel too linear, very little puzzle solving, just open the door and walk in shooting...

Otherwise...pretty fun. Not as good as the Dark Forces series IMO (I really enjoyed Jedi Knight, have yet to play Jedi Academy), but still pretty fun. The second Halo should be interesting.

Jetter, go to IGN.com and find/download the 9 min Halo2 video, no flood in that one and it's the SHIT. It appears to be just the Covenant and not so much the flood, who are annoying and gay. There is more inter-activity with the environment in Halo2 as you can see the MC killing covenant by blowing up cars they are standing next to and tables go flying when he drops a grenade.

I played Jedi Knight as well and my only problem, on the PC, is that there are 400 buttons to remember as far as force powers and weapons and movement...got to be too much. Then I made it to that garbage compactor level and realized that I was supposed to get some code or something from Lando 3 levels back, which I didn't, so I couldn't go forward. Made I so angry I just deleted the game off my hard drive. (took my ball and went home)

Basom and I played some burls Halo multiplayer deathmatch on monday which was fun as hell. I think once Halo2 comes out, it will be mandatory that all maggots with Xbox get that and get Live so we can kick the shit out of eachother on the inter'd net and so I can bust Basom's chops from across the country and plant "Plasma Grenades of Compassion and/or Understanding" on the back of his head. TAKE THAT CAPTAIN INVISIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Originally posted by vinzclortho
once Halo2 comes out, it will be mandatory that all maggots with Xbox get that and get Live so we can kick the shit out of eachother on the inter'd net and so I can bust Basom's chops from across the country and plant "Plasma Grenades of Compassion and/or Understanding" on the back of his head. TAKE THAT CAPTAIN INVISIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

dude, you can't even see me. how are you going to stick that lame ass blue glowy shit on my head.

I KILL YOU WITH PUNCHING ONLY!

You guys know you can actually play the first Halo online?

http://www.xbconnect.com/

Run that program on your computer, find a game to join, voila. It works pretty well. And its free. And did I mention that it works for anygame that is has LAN play enabled? Pretty nice solution until Halo2 comes out (and is a nice option if you're too cheap to join xbox live).

my buddy told me of a similar move involving gamespy and a hub or something. connect the puter to the net, fire up Halo on gamespy and then fire up halo on the sexbox...or something like that.

this xboxconnect sounds cool and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. how much is it to register though?? If'n it's cheap, this could work out well until Halo2 comes out.

Whats the deal with the newsletter? I just got the free version of the software and let it rip. If you're trying to join random games, it can be a pain in the ass, but its great for just setting up private games with a buddy or 2 or 8.

If you get on there and are looking for a game, gimme a shout.

hold on. talk to me about configs. I'm FULLY down to play this with maggots. My problem is: not my pc at home, not my router, not my internet connection. what is required as far as setting this up? do I have to mess with configs on the pc or anything or do I just need an ethernet cable to connect the xbox to the router or what? I assume you need to have the pc connected to the internet/router and the xbox connected to the router at the same time.

edit: newsletter = Simpsons bullshit

My bad on the missed simpsons reference.

I didn't have to mess with any config stuff, same with my buddies. Plug the xbox into your router with an ethernet cable, run the xboxconnect on your pc, you should be good to go. I was scanning the documentation and there was some jivetalk about setting up ports and crap to avoid your firewall, but I haven't had a problem with it.

xbox--> router
pc--> router (i'm assuming this part is all set)
install xboxconnect
boot up halo, go to lan screen where it looks for games, then use xboxconnect to find your game, and you're golden.

hmmmmm..........this is interesting. I am going to investigate further when I get home. basom is down as well....this is beginning to sound like a maggot deathmatch fest. plus a buddy from work is down and has been talking SOOOOO much trash that I can't let it slide. my warrior spirit will not allow this.

Word vinz. I'm "stumpzilla" on the xboxconnect network - just add me to your buddy list whenever you get on. I'll be busy preparing for deep knee bends over the remains of many maggots.

i just need to let everyone know ahead of time. it was my original idea to insult your opponent by, after killing the shit out of them, going up to their lifeless body and planting a plasma grenade right in their kidney area. then take a few steps back and whip out the rocket launcher and as the grenade goes boom, sending your already dead opponent flying ten to fifty feet up in the air, you squeeze off a rocket picking them off in mid air. dead guy skeet. so when you see vinz pulling this sweet move, you know from whence the brilliance sprung.

edit: clearity