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Subject: DO NOT BUY INTO HYPE!!!
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My friends, I see that a lot of people bought into the hype that Halo 2 was going to be a phenomenal game, and indeed, it is. It is the best game I have ever played and is now my all time favorite. However, some people have lost their way of looking a Halo 2 and all it's goodness.

Some people along the way must have thought that not only will Halo 2 be better than Halo 1, but it will now be able to cure diseases and make the blind see. This is simply not true.

Also, people get this pre-concieved notion that Halo 2 will turn out exactly the way they expected it to turn out. Again, not true (unless you were involved with making the game, then I say to you kudos on a job well done, the game rocks!). Just play the game and enjoy the way it turns out. Who cares if the ending resulted in a cliffhanger. That just means that it will be resolved in Halo 3. Imagine, Halo 3 on the next Xbox...beautiful.

I ask that those who played Halo 2 and DID NOT buy into the pre-Halo 2 hype please respond wth your feedback on the game. Hopefully, those who expected way too much of Halo 2 will open their eyes and see Halo 2 for what it is: a shining gem that will live on with such legends as the Mario series, Final Fantasy series, and of course, Halo: Combat Evolved.

  • 11.11.2004 1:25 PM PDT
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Great game... but it needs an ending... even a cliff hanger has a sense of satisfaction at the end. Even if it ended with the return to earth with the master chief.. They could have even thrown in the demo level from E3 with minor alterations to fit the story and ended it with something like "bet you cant stick it..." as the master chief is getting swarmed. Well not that exactly but something to that effect. I would have liked something like that. But it seems to fizzle out at the end and could not even compare to the ending of Halo 1... The Maw remains the best end level ever in any game.

One thing I would NOT like to see in Halo 3 is another Boss Character. Please don't go down that path bungie, stick to fast paced action packed escape in the nick of time type impending doom sequences that made the first Halo and parts of Halo 2 so great. Boss charaters make you guys look lazy. It worked in Oni but Oni was not a FPS.

One thing I'd love to see more of is stuff like that part in Arbiter where the whole station was falling out of the sky. That was amazing!

I couldn't really feel for the arbiter although towards the end I really started to hate the Brutes (in a good way)... Loved playing alongside the Hulks that was damn cool.

Oh 1 more thing one problem I had in the game is that I couldn't tell where the hell I was half the time... Sometimes I would look up at the sky and say OK I know I'm on halo now but other than Halo and Earth I couldn't decern where the other locations were.

Just my 2¢

  • 11.12.2004 3:23 AM PDT
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I've first heard about the game twoyears ago when it was (I 'm not sure) announced at the E3
so I've waited very patiently and when a releas date was announced I ran to the shops and indeed, ordered a ltd. collectors edition(great stuff).
I'd say that I've waited for some screenshots and watched the trailers several times.
I even had my doubts at dual wielding!
Admit the fact that that when a game is announced , you'll want to know everything about it,especially when it's Bungie's.

Hype an drumours have an impact on what we buy : if no one had ever said that there was a Halo game there 'd never be a hype,DUH!But I'd bet that you'd never heard of Halo.

The line between hype and buying games is very thin, it's in your brains .
People want to be sure that the game which there goin to spend their money on 'll be worth it

Dont you agree?

  • 11.12.2004 8:02 AM PDT
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I thought it was a great game. Multiplayer was better, but single player was worse. I knew it wasn't the second-coming of Christ. Now Halo 3...

  • 11.12.2004 4:33 PM PDT
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I knew that Halo 2 would be a great game, and it is. But i was not one of the people who thought it would be the greatest game of all time or even a perfect game. There can be no perfect game cause everyone has different tastes. In fact i know of a few people that are not Halo haters, but they just dont like FPS games. They are still my friends of course.

  • 11.12.2004 4:38 PM PDT
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Wrong. Board.

Go to New Mombasa for H2 discussion, Now.

  • 11.12.2004 4:54 PM PDT