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Subject: CONGRADULATIONS JASON
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congradulations jason on winning best game designer. you earned it man. time to turn the show back on. I hope to god you win game of the year. ive got my fingers crossed

  • 12.14.2004 7:21 PM PDT
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Jason Jones is smart and cool and he did an unbelievalbe job on Halo CE. Halo CE was the most amazing and spectacular FPS ever created. It earned every award ever given to it and in my opinion it should still be winning awards to this day. Now on November 9th Halo 2 came out. This game is cool, its interesting, its fun, its got some pretty cool things. But in Halo 2 does not stand up to Halo CE. I think games like San Andreas and Half Life 2 deserve the game of the year title more than Halo 2. Halo 2 was a dissapointment and I hope that Bungie and Jason can redeme themselves with the next installment to the Halo series. I hope the Halo series returns to the fun, simple, and completely mind blowing game it was in the beginning.

  • 12.14.2004 7:37 PM PDT
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Posted by: cormanthegreat
Jason Jones is smart and cool and he did an unbelievalbe job on Halo CE.


I don't know him personally so I can't say for the cool bit but otherwise I totally agree.


Halo CE was the most amazing and spectacular FPS ever created.


Yup. It's the only reason I bought an Xbox.


It earned every award ever given to it and in my opinion it should still be winning awards to this day.


Yup. It was still a top 10 best seller the month before Halo 2 came out.


Now on November 9th Halo 2 came out.


And that's where it all started to go wrong.


This game is cool, its interesting, its fun, its got some pretty cool things.


There are quite a few likeable little extras in there for sure. Unfortunately most these start to pale rapidly though. There is no way I'm going to play this game to death for years like Halo 1.


But in Halo 2 does not stand up to Halo CE.


Nope. Not a chance. One key indicator for me is that it took a while for people to get played out on Halo 1 enough to start modding it. The reverse engineering of Halo 2 started within a month, that's how quickly a lot of people got bored with it. It's proceeding extremely fast too. I really don't know why they bother trying to stop this, it's not like it's all that hard to figure out meta.

What would rock is taking the elements of Halo 2 that deserve to be preserved out of Halo 2 and bring them into the far superior Halo 1 engine. Some of the graphics, the new needler etc. Slap the battle rifle skin on the pistol so people will stop crying. I actually preferr the vehicle physics in Halo 1 because they are a hell of a lot more fun. Doorman and I tried playing BumperHogs in Halo 2 and it was mind numbingly boring.


I think games like San Andreas and Half Life 2 deserve the game of the year title more than Halo 2.


Half Life 2 for sure. Mmmmmm. 50 ton crane.


Halo 2 was a dissapointment and I hope that Bungie and Jason can redeme themselves with the next installment to the Halo series. I hope the Halo series returns to the fun, simple, and completely mind blowing game it was in the beginning.


So do I. I have to wonder if larger forces are at work here though. Having certain elements of the Halo 1 team leave to form Wideload probably didn't help.

A Grunt

  • 12.14.2004 10:40 PM PDT