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Subject: Just a thought(Mission Selction)
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I just had an idea that may be good or may be disaterous as well. Just wondering if anyone felt the same or had thought of this before. I was rereading each of the books and noticed that before every mission the MC went on he always had one or two strategies to complete each mission. I thought that maybe adding this feature to each SP level would add a large amount of replay value to thing single player. Such as at the beginning of the level u are given an objective then told three possible routes/strategies that can be used to beat the mission. This would also not leave someone doin a certain task on a mission that they hate. For instance i enjoy goin in more guns blazing and close range combat much more than sitting back and sniping my way through a level. So maybe there would be 2 or 3 or how ever many needed routes to complete the level, each catering to a certain gameplay type. And after beating the mission/game you could always go back and see how taking the other route would have worked. I'm not saying use this for every mission or that i necisarilly(sp) want it. Just an idea. Anyway the one problem(one of many maybe) i see is that it may have more of a Splinter Cell/ Ghost Recon feel to it which i personally don't want. Anyway its probably too late for this, but if you saw this implemented in the game how would you feel about it? i'm open to ur flaming. :)

  • 06.10.2004 10:46 AM PDT
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I think it would be a pretty good idea.

  • 06.10.2004 11:55 AM PDT
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There are multiple ways of doing objectives, they just dont tell you HOW in halo 2, you have to find your own routes along the way

  • 06.10.2004 11:57 AM PDT
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Well, in Halo 1, MC's missions kind of ran together. Really, he never went to back to a certain base or anything to get a briefing, so I don't know if this would even be realistic, depending on the circumstances in Halo 2. I wouldn't mind seeing it in Halo 2 that much, so long as they do it in places that make the most sense. Honestly, I like figuring it out on my own though. I'm on the fence about this idea.

  • 06.10.2004 12:02 PM PDT
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Yea but are there different routes is more of what I was getting at. Of course there are different ways to complete the objectives, but maybe if you chose to go a specific route the weapons would change from one route to the other. I just think that maybe it would help the immersion a little more if you were sent on a certain mission by UNSC or whom ever and then you got to choose how you wanted to complete the mission, so you arent just sort of walking along just the one guided path.

And yea like i said not every mission just the ones that would make sense for a plan to be made ahead of time.

[Edited on 6/10/2004 12:03:53 PM]

  • 06.10.2004 12:03 PM PDT
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TheBigC Wrote:
he never went to back to a certain base or anything to get a briefing, so I don't know if this would even be realistic


He could get additional data from a satelite or from cortana as usual.

  • 06.10.2004 12:06 PM PDT
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i think it should just remain the same, because its gonna suck if you're forced to take a certain route, instead i just like it how it is. Where you just complete the obj. any possible way you can.

  • 06.10.2004 12:21 PM PDT