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Valve does not suck ass, no one said u had to buy the OrangeBox to play all those games, even if you already own one of them.
If you have Steam just go and buy the games separate from the others.....duh.

[Edited on 10.06.2007 12:59 PM PDT]

  • 10.06.2007 12:48 PM PDT

Hello! Star Wars FTW. Also, join the MAW group. Please?

Posted by: TUI_Obi_Wan
Back then it was all about the story, and the gameplay. Two things that are becoming secondary to spiffy graphics in this day and age.


To me personally the story is the most important part of anything, not just games. That's why I love Star Wars, it's probably the biggest fictional universe ever. Also why I love the LOTR universe, but books like the Simmerilion are a little hard to follow. It's also why I love Bungie. Marathon had a huge storyline. Every single random string of characters or obscure qoute had some significance to the story, not matter how abstract. That's not something you see in games very often.

  • 10.06.2007 1:17 PM PDT
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Posted by: Sergeant Pepper
To me personally the story is the most important part of anything, not just games. That's why I love Star Wars, it's probably the biggest fictional universe ever. Also why I love the LOTR universe, but books like the Simmerilion are a little hard to follow. It's also why I love Bungie. Marathon had a huge storyline. Every single random string of characters or obscure qoute had some significance to the story, not matter how abstract. That's not something you see in games very often.
In my opinion, gameplay takes place precedence over story. Otherwise, Halo wouldn't win much points in that category (despite the awesome cinematic experience).

  • 10.06.2007 2:20 PM PDT
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I'm a little indecisive myself, but to be honest I have to agree with kim.
You can gasp and puzzle about a story forever, but if you can't have fun between cutscenes what's the point? But, for instance, there's a reason I've only played UT '04 thirty five hours, and poured almost a thousand into the Halo series. Becuase a story is a HUGE part of a game, even if it's a backseat to gamplay.

  • 10.06.2007 11:03 PM PDT

you may know me as X[IGN]

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*hands Kim a crowbar*
Here you will need this to help you get your foot out of the back of your throat, looks llike its in there pretty deep. And what is that on your face? Egg?! *hands Kim a washcloth*

You have poured almost a thousand hours into the campaign?

  • 10.07.2007 12:42 AM PDT
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Of course the fun factor is the most important part to any video game, otherwise we wouldn't be playing it. The story should be there to add to the immersion, and give the game play some meaning. But it shouldn't be tacked on just as a filler because the devs were bored.

  • 10.07.2007 5:46 AM PDT
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they could do is make halo 3 maps and download some new files to upgrade your halo one into halo 3 be nice.
Halo ce cmt maps are fun.

  • 10.07.2007 10:54 AM PDT
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Posted by: staticx576
You have poured almost a thousand hours into the campaign?

Pff no. Probably 100-150 hours. I've beaten Halo 1 & 2 five times or so each, mostly on legendary, and Halo 3 twice so far (once on heroic, a couple levels multiple times, and almost done with legendary)
I spent over 400 hours easily on Halo Xbox Multiplayer, 400 on the PC total, probably 2-300 on Halo 2 and only about 20 or so, so far, in Halo 3

Now that I think about it, probably more than a thousand : /
Keep in mind these aren't the only games I play though. I've gone through nearly 400 hours in CS, not to mention FEAR and the Battlefield series. And all of that is just when I'm logged into xfire.

[Edited on 10.08.2007 3:08 PM PDT]

  • 10.08.2007 3:06 PM PDT

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time. I know who you are. You are destiny.

Posted by: Recoton007
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Yay for not reading what your discussing first. The Orange box (AKA Box of Leetness) only contains Portal, Half Life 2: Eppisode 2, and Team fortress 2. Am I gonna dish out $50 to continue the series? -blam!- yeah .


Dear god, I can't take the overwhelming stupid. Me can't take be the broken brain it. Me brain melting from dumb of it. Be brain is mulch, orange green box broken no good? Leetness is double-plus-bad the usb slot no fit in the eye socket. Me be back in a twenty minutes.
*20 minutes later*
Ah much better, there is no better cure than slamming your face against a brick wall. What was I talking about again? Oh yeah, you're an r-tard.
http://steampowered.com/v/index.php?area=package&SubId=46 9

BTW, I got Half-Life 2 Ep 1 for 8 bucks on the 3rd day of its release. I got a special deal for circuit city (no i don't know anyone who works there.) So when I see that I have to buy a 3 hour game, an experimental portal game, and a wierd cellshaded multiplayer deathmatch game, AND ADDITIONALLY 2 games i already have. Well that just plain sucks. I wanna buy a 3 hour game for 8 bucks, so instead of arguing. I WONT BUY IT. I'll wait until either the Black Box comes out, the orange box costs 8 bucks, or until hell freezes over. (or i could get it other ways...lol) Either way, I think valve sucks ass, and steam is the biggest piece of techno crap I have ever seen. :)
First of all, Recoton, stop kissing Bungie's ass, because the floor's getting pretty wet. Second of all, don't get pissed because Half-Life² got a 10/10 and a Game Of The Year award by PC Gamer and other 35 gaming organizations, including those console player magazines from around the world. Honestly, you seem too bitter over the fact VALVe has provided us their gaming community with a better delivery and gaming service than Microsoft has done to you guys in XBox Live. I mean, even Sony with it's PlayStation console series does not charge for full online gaming support. I do admit that VALVe really screws with the idea of getting you a three hour game for $19.95, which I am not getting. However, you can't just come and write "Either way, I think valve sucks ass, and steam is the biggest piece of techno crap I have ever seen. :)", as it makes you look like the retard lad that you pretend not to be. Give in already, Kim has kicked your ass in a written way, and so has ProgramLog. Get over it, stupid fanboy. Grow up, for all you have done since you came into this forum has been flame war threads about how Bungie has made the supposed best games ever. Halo isn't that great.

  • 10.08.2007 3:37 PM PDT

Slaying noobs since 2007.

Well said Beowul7, I was trying not to be harsh, but you said what needed to be said.

  • 10.08.2007 3:45 PM PDT

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time. I know who you are. You are destiny.

Posted by: Desert Fox RWTF
Well said Beowul7, I was trying not to be harsh, but you said what needed to be said.
I think you have to be hard on cold facts, especially if a jackass comes in and starts flaming you all.

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By the way, for those of you who have not played Half-Life² yet, enjoy this great music video. I loved it, and I hope it gives you a small but sweet scoop on the story.

[Edited on 10.08.2007 4:02 PM PDT]

  • 10.08.2007 4:00 PM PDT
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Beowul7, that was so awesome and it turned me on.

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  • 10.08.2007 4:02 PM PDT

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time. I know who you are. You are destiny.

Posted by: Master Kim
Beowul7, that was so awesome and it turned me on.
And I thought that was only possible with chocolate muffins.

  • 10.08.2007 4:22 PM PDT
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So why the hell did this thread turn from Halo 3 PC, to how crappy/good is Valve is

  • 10.09.2007 1:11 AM PDT
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Posted by: Beowul7
Halo isn't that great.

The same goes with Half-Life 2.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/computer/doswin/review/R109668.html

  • 10.09.2007 9:14 AM PDT
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Posted by: Agamemnon582bc
Posted by: Beowul7
Halo isn't that great.

The same goes with Half-Life 2.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/computer/doswin/review/R109668.html
But at least Half-Life 2 had something new and innovative, right?

[Edited on 10.09.2007 12:34 PM PDT]

  • 10.09.2007 12:34 PM PDT

Posted by: Master Kim
Posted by: Agamemnon582bc
Posted by: Beowul7
Halo isn't that great.

The same goes with Half-Life 2.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/computer/doswin/review/R109668.html
But at least Half-Life 2 had something new and innovative, right?



Boob Fizzics?

  • 10.09.2007 6:40 PM PDT

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time. I know who you are. You are destiny.

Posted by: Wakeboy1337
Posted by: Master Kim
Posted by: Agamemnon582bc
Posted by: Beowul7
Halo isn't that great.

The same goes with Half-Life 2.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/computer/doswin/review/R109668.html
But at least Half-Life 2 had something new and innovative, right?



Boob Fizzics?
Ag, I respect you as one of the smartest ones in this heckhole of a forum, smarter than me of course, as well as for your opinions, but I have to disagree on that. The Halo series is very over-rated in my opinion. I won't say the Half-Life series isn't, but Halo is a tad farther on that. And come on, a 7/10 rating because you can't play it online? Seriously, you can't call yourself a PC gamer without Internet Connection, unless you're playing 1997 games such as StarCraft. I can maybe understand that the Internet connection may fail for a few at times, but I have been able to play Half-Life offline, no matter what those reviewers say.

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By the way, I like Mycenean history as well.

[Edited on 10.09.2007 7:12 PM PDT]

  • 10.09.2007 7:05 PM PDT
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Steam still is a problem. I've had it lock up, freeze, and just not play at all for no reason. I've had it stuck on a 99% download, I've had it act like as if I wasn't online, and I've had games disappear for periods of time for no odd reason. Since you are required to use Steam to play the game, then Steam is factored into the review. Also, there were also a few other gripes with Half-Life 2, but as is I'm more and more unimpressed with Valve because of these "episodes" which are actually just Half-Life 3's storyline in disguise. They take 2 to 3 years to develop an episode, and they only last for five hours. The first episode only added one new enemy and that was it. It was basically just "what we couldn't fit in Half-Life 2." Some how I think that's not going to be any different in episode 2, yet people are still going to eat it up like candy and buy that unbelievable ploy for a quick buck called "the orange box."

Hell, episode 2 alone is $30, and five hours of recycled game play, graphics, and a storyline that we still don't know what's really going on is not worth $30. I'm reminded of The Sims. when it first came out it was a great game; lots of new things and was an instant success. Then there was one expansion pack. Then another. And another. And another. AND ANOTHER. And then they had the balls to just go out and make a new generation of it and do it all over again. And you know what? They're doing it again with The Sims 3.

That's what I get with these "episodes." In the time it will take them to release all three episodes, they could've made an actual sequel with new game play, new graphics, and a new experience, and possibly a storyline that went some where, but, instead, for some nefarious reason, they didn't. Bungie might stride on mediocrity with the Halo series, but at least they didn't do something like, "Halo 2: The Fight for Earth Part 1" and then "Halo 2: The Fight for Earth Part 2" and last with "Halo 2: The Fight for Earth Part 3" and only to find out they were all Halo 3's storyline, yet with the same recycled material. At least Bungie tried to make an effort in making mediocrity (or also known as Halo 2.5).

To be quite honest, I'm disappointed in a lot of game developers that many consider God. They'll make a good game, a conglomerate company will swoop in and buy their souls, and the rest is marketing. It's a shame Bungie had to find out the hard way. Others, on the other hand, are private conglomerate successes themselves, such as Square-Enix, Nintendo, Blizzard, and Valve, and all they do is also recycle content in different forms and people still eat it up like candy, albeit Starcraft 2 is long overdue, it's just that I'm worried that there's going to be nothing new but the final end to the damn story (and even then I'm sure they'll drag it to a third game, which we will then not see until 2015 or later).

It's just that you would figure with the man power and resources these companies like Square-Enix and Nintendo that they could do something else then the next Final Fantasy or the next Mario/Metroid/Zelda game, and then with Blizzard and Valve that they can actually release their damn products, instead of fiddling around for 3 or 4 years saying, "We're polishing it" (or, in Blizzard's case, 7 or 8 years or more). Seriously. I'm tired of believing that propaganda. Apparently, though, the demographic of new generation of gamers aren't, mostly because they're just that; new to the experience and are none the wiser that they're laying down $50 for a game that's just being recycled.

I will say though that Half-Life did pave the way for so many Source mods and even the most amazing manipulative gaming...er, game known to the gaming world known as Gmod. That, though, was not done by Valve, just like how countless Oblivion mods aren't done by Bethseda. I'm more concerned in the developer effort, not the modding community effort, because if you're just releasing software that has mass potential for some amazing things, then why didn't they spend the 4 or 5 years in development taking advantage of that?

Meh, I think I've digressed enough.

  • 10.09.2007 8:10 PM PDT
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Oh My God, a Sims 3!?!? I'm going to go buy a new computer to run that!

  • 10.10.2007 5:44 AM PDT
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So, Halo 3 PC, huh? I can't wait?

  • 10.10.2007 5:56 AM PDT
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Posted by: TUI_Obi_Wan
Oh My God, a Sims 3!?!? I'm going to go buy a new computer to run that!
Coming from a guy interested in buying a serious rig just so he could play a mod for Oblivion that seriously überfied the already sextastic graphics.

[Edited on 10.10.2007 3:05 PM PDT]

  • 10.10.2007 3:05 PM PDT

I love music, and I want to learn all of the Halo Trilogy music. Please! Give me the sheet music!

Hay guyz. I just wanted to let ya know that I got the Orange Box, and yes, it is pretty awesome. Although the only game I have played from it so far is Portal, (I turned it on and couldn't stop until I beat the game :D) we should be talking about what we want for H3 PC. Seriously, I know Valve has made some mistakes, and I know Steam is a problem for many people, and I understand that. It's all based on personal opinion and maybe a few good/bad experiences, but it's really not worth arguing so much about. We're all here on the Bungie forums because we all agree on one thing: We like Halo. Let's use that as what we have in common, and just talk about Halo like we should be. If you're so intent on talking about Valve games, go find another forum for that. Thank you.

  • 10.11.2007 2:35 PM PDT
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Posted by: cHr0n0sPh3r3
So why the hell did this thread turn from Halo 3 PC, to how crappy/good is Valve is

  • 10.12.2007 1:49 AM PDT

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  • 10.12.2007 3:20 PM PDT