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Subject: Halo not so popular anymore!
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You can't say it's dead. Halo 3 is one of the top ten best selling video games ever. Yes, I know the hype from Halo 2 is part of that, but it is still selling and is continually played by hundreds of thousands. Just because it comes second place to another game doesn't make it dead.

  • 12.28.2007 9:12 AM PDT
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Halo 3 was very good, but I thought Bungie had rushed to finish it. The entire story for halo 3 could have spanned 2 games, not just one. Like Halo 3 was about kicking the covenant off of earth and halo 4 was about the battle for the ark. instead, halo 3 was short, quick and dissapointing. it was fun, but just didnt satisfy me. At least multiplayer is ace.

[Edited on 12.28.2007 9:13 AM PST]

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How the -blam- did H3 lose to "Eternal Sonata" and COD4 for best soundtrack? I'm sorry, that's not right. I believe H3 had the best soundtrack.

  • 12.28.2007 9:14 AM PDT
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Posted by: DLO5
How the -blam- did H3 lose to "Eternal Sonata" and COD4 for best soundtrack? I'm sorry, that's not right. I believe H3 had the best soundtrack.

The 2 disk sountrack that came out is better than eternal sonatra and cod4 but in game soundtrack was lacking very much. They played the same tune over and over throughuot the whole game. Haloce and definitely halo2 had a great in game soundtrack.

  • 12.28.2007 9:17 AM PDT

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Posted by: db0l
900,000 Halo3 players in the last 24 hours with 35,000 playing Halo 2

what's call of duty 4 pullin in these days? 200,000? does anyone even play COD3?

yeah halo is real dead, COD4 is def where its at



.....I believe you just proved a point supporting the original poster.

There are people still playing the second game in the series of this. COD 4 is good enough that players dont go back and play the older versions. Yet halo 3 isnt good enough so people still play halo 2 and even go back to halo 2 because halo 3 is so un-fun.

Halo 3 is fun sometimes, but it lacks the depth of halo 2. I believe that the Assault Rifle killed halo 3. The melees are being complained about so very much because Halo 3 is all about AR+Melee. Thats what halo 3 has degraded to. AR+Melee. In halo 2 you had SMG starts thus you go find a better weapon, so people on the map always used different weapons. One would be dual wielding, one may have a carbine, one may have a BR, another may be dual wielding. Now everyone just goes around with an AR and a BR if they can find one. Where is the depth?

Halo 3 will not last as long as Halo 2.

  • 12.28.2007 9:18 AM PDT

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Posted by: Stevoattheoak
Halo 3 was very good, but I thought Bungie had rushed to finish it. The entire story for halo 3 could have spanned 2 games, not just one. Like Halo 3 was about kicking the covenant off of earth and halo 4 was about the battle for the ark. instead, halo 3 was short, quick and dissapointing. it was fun, but just didnt satisfy me. At least multiplayer is ace.


Big ten four on that Cowboy.

Halo 3 had to short of a campaign. Even though MP is an ace. There was a LOT of story missing like, How did the Arbiter get to Earth? How did the Chief escape from the Forerunner ship? (In Marvel's Halo: Uprising which I thought was a waste) There should have been more Earth fights. A outer space Fight. Flood levels on earth, the ark and Halo.

  • 12.28.2007 9:19 AM PDT
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sell it for free!

That, right there, is fail.

Halo is popular, actually. 52% of all people who own an Xbox 360 have Halo 3.

  • 12.28.2007 9:20 AM PDT
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These are Halo forums, If you don't like Halo then get the hell out and post on COD4 forums.

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I agree that Halo 2 xbl is more fun than Halo 3 xbl. Its just finding people to play with that is my problem. It takes ages to find matches on Halo 2, while on Halo 3 it is much quicker. Plus Halo 3 is great online anyway.

[Edited on 12.28.2007 9:22 AM PST]

  • 12.28.2007 9:21 AM PDT

Posted by: db0l
900,000 Halo3 players in the last 24 hours with 35,000 playing Halo 2

what's call of duty 4 pullin in these days? 200,000? does anyone even play COD3?

yeah halo is real dead, COD4 is def where its at


maybe u should get ur facts straight kid before u start rippin of COD. COD4 was made by the same people that made COD2. Infinityward didnt make COD3 so not that many people played it. Halo 3 lacks a lot of depth and gets boring easily. i known kids that played halo 3 when it came out and stopped when cod4 came out. Halo 3 was the most overrated game of 2007.

  • 12.28.2007 9:22 AM PDT
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Posted by: Stevoattheoak
Halo 3 was very good, but I thought Bungie had rushed to finish it. The entire story for halo 3 could have spanned 2 games, not just one. Like Halo 3 was about kicking the covenant off of earth and halo 4 was about the battle for the ark. instead, halo 3 was short, quick and dissapointing. it was fun, but just didnt satisfy me. At least multiplayer is ace.


Big ten four on that Cowboy.

Halo 3 had to short of a campaign. Even though MP is an ace. There was a LOT of story missing like, How did the Arbiter get to Earth? How did the Chief escape from the Forerunner ship? (In Marvel's Halo: Uprising which I thought was a waste) There should have been more Earth fights. A outer space Fight. Flood levels on earth, the ark and Halo.

The thing is halo3 is just the last two levels that didnt make it into halo2 stretched into 8. Its hard to expand it more than they already did. But story wise they left out A LOT. Even if they had to take 2 levels and make them into more they still should have had more story than that.

  • 12.28.2007 9:23 AM PDT

Here's what id did receive from IGN:

Most Innovative Design
Best Online Multiplayer
Nominated for GOTY and received runner up.

Time Magazine's GOTY : Halo 3

  • 12.28.2007 9:25 AM PDT

Posted by: Thunderbolt101
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Are any of the CoD games related story-wise? (Besides the obvious WWII setting) There's no main story to continue.

They came out with Halo 3 because
1.) They weren't able to finish it in the second game.
2.) They knew it would be the biggest game in history (which it was/is) and wanted to cash-in.
3.) Halo 2 was competing with 360 games up until Halo 3 came out. Gears was one of, if not the only 360 game to surpass Halo2, but that didn't even last.

With cod4s ending they will probally continue it. Maybe not the same character but same universe.
1. Youre right they didnt have time to finish the last 2 levels of halo2 so they had to make halo3. With microsoft running thw whole thing. Now that they are indie again they can go back to making great games like marathon and haloce.
2.With halo2s success and the hype machine microsoft used on halo3 thats a huge duh. So halo3 was just a money making game and thats all. Not a game that was meant to be good that made lots of money because it is good. halo3-Good graphics oh and its halo with multiplayer buy it because its halo.NOW.
3.halo2 lasted so long because its actually fun.


1.) ok
2.) How can you say Halo 3 was not meant to be a good game? Just because of Hype? That makes no sense whatsoever. You just sound pissed that you bought into the hype and were dissapointed with what you got. Otherwise you wouldn't have an account and you definitely wouldn't post regularly. It's sad that you can't move on and simply NOT piss and moan about it.
3.) As far as I can tell, hundreds of thousands of people everyday play an UN-fun game.

  • 12.28.2007 9:25 AM PDT

Congratulations! You found where the signatures are hidden!!

LIVE Activity for week of 12/17

Xbox 360 Top Live Titles ( based on UU’s)
1 Halo 3
2 Call of Duty 4
3 Gears of War
4 Guitar Hero III
5 Burnout Paradise Demo
6 Assassin's Creed
7 Madden NFL 08
8 Mass Effect
9 Kane & Lynch (Demo)
10 Guitar Hero II

According to Live stats, H3 is still on top for most played.
(and, holy cow, GoW is STILL number 3)

Just sayin'...

[Edited on 12.28.2007 9:26 AM PST]

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Posted by: Stevoattheoak
I agree that Halo 2 xbl is more fun than Halo 3 xbl. Its just finding people to play with that is my problem. It takes ages to find matches on Halo 2, while on Halo 3 it is much quicker. Plus Halo 3 is great online anyway.

Actually i find game faster on halo2 than i do on halo3. And with halo2s now small community is much more fun. I find people ive played with before a lot more and most of them are all polite. Cheaters and button glitches are rare now that they are moving to breaking halo3. Halo3 is the best thing to happen to halo2. halo2 got boring but now its fun again.

  • 12.28.2007 9:26 AM PDT

Posted by: Thunderbolt101
Posted by: Stevoattheoak
I agree that Halo 2 xbl is more fun than Halo 3 xbl. Its just finding people to play with that is my problem. It takes ages to find matches on Halo 2, while on Halo 3 it is much quicker. Plus Halo 3 is great online anyway.

Actually i find game faster on halo2 than i do on halo3. And with halo2s now small community is much more fun. I find people ive played with before a lot more and most of them are all polite. Cheaters and button glitches are rare now that they are moving to breaking halo3. Halo3 is the best thing to happen to halo2. halo2 got boring but now its fun again.

what part of matchmaking do u go into? Theres button glitching in team hardcore kid

  • 12.28.2007 9:28 AM PDT
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I'm playing CoD4 right now, but I will fall asleep playing Halo 3. :P

  • 12.28.2007 9:29 AM PDT

Posted by: ICEMAN ASSASS1N
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Posted by: Thunderbolt101
Posted by: Stevoattheoak
I agree that Halo 2 xbl is more fun than Halo 3 xbl. Its just finding people to play with that is my problem. It takes ages to find matches on Halo 2, while on Halo 3 it is much quicker. Plus Halo 3 is great online anyway.

Actually i find game faster on halo2 than i do on halo3. And with halo2s now small community is much more fun. I find people ive played with before a lot more and most of them are all polite. Cheaters and button glitches are rare now that they are moving to breaking halo3. Halo3 is the best thing to happen to halo2. halo2 got boring but now its fun again.


rofl what are you playing? There is more button glitching now than before halo 3 came out.

  • 12.28.2007 9:30 AM PDT
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Posted by: Target

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1.) ok
2.) How can you say Halo 3 was not meant to be a good game? Just because of Hype? That makes no sense whatsoever. You just sound pissed that you bought into the hype and were dissapointed with what you got. Otherwise you wouldn't have an account and you definitely wouldn't post regularly. It's sad that you can't move on and simply NOT piss and moan about it.
3.) As far as I can tell, hundreds of thousands of people everyday play an UN-fun game.

1. indeed.
2. No because halo3 wasnt supposed to be made. Halo2 was going to be the end, but bungie didnt have the time to finish it. I didnt get into the hype. I knew halo3 was going to be boring and i was right. But i expected a good story like haloce and halo2 and didnt get it. Thats what im disappointed about I made an account on bungie back in december of 03 for marathon and haloce and to read up on halo2. Not halo3. I post regualarly because im bored. I have moved on, or moved back i guess to marathon, halopc, halo2, starcraft and moved on to cod4.
3.because of hype. There are people who actually like the game, but a lot of it is hype.



I play team training and team skirmish on halo2. maybe im just lucky and dont get any glitchers.

[Edited on 12.28.2007 9:31 AM PST]

  • 12.28.2007 9:30 AM PDT

Posted by: ICEMAN ASSASS1N
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Posted by: Thunderbolt101

No because halo3 wasnt supposed to be made. Halo2 was going to be the end, but bungie didnt have the time to finish it..



Halo originally started as a trilogy. Please dont post in this thread anymore as you really dont have any idea what you are talking about.

  • 12.28.2007 9:31 AM PDT
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Halo is far from dead, but it needs to be fixed.

[Edited on 12.28.2007 9:35 AM PST]

  • 12.28.2007 9:34 AM PDT

Posted by: Thunderbolt101
Posted by: Target

[/quote]

1.) ok
2.) How can you say Halo 3 was not meant to be a good game? Just because of Hype? That makes no sense whatsoever. You just sound pissed that you bought into the hype and were dissapointed with what you got. Otherwise you wouldn't have an account and you definitely wouldn't post regularly. It's sad that you can't move on and simply NOT piss and moan about it.
3.) As far as I can tell, hundreds of thousands of people everyday play an UN-fun game.

1. indeed.
2. No because halo3 wasnt supposed to be made. Halo2 was going to be the end, but bungie didnt have the time to finish it. I didnt get into the hype. I knew halo3 was going to be boring and i was right. But i expected a good story like haloce and halo2 and didnt get it. Thats what im disappointed about I made an account on bungie back in december of 03 for marathon and haloce and to read up on halo2. Not halo3. I post regualarly because im bored. I have moved on, or moved back i guess to marathon, halopc, halo2, starcraft and moved on to cod4.
3.because of hype. There are people who actually like the game, but a lot of it is hype.


1.) Been discussed.
2.) So that means Halo 3 was meant to be a bad game? You didn't say, "it wasn't supposed to be made." You said it wasn't supposed to be a good game. Who the hell tries to make a crappy game?
3.) They wouldn't STILL be playing BECAUSE of Hype. Hype only affects the initial purchase. If those people only bought it for hype, they wouldn't log in hours of gameplay day after day. They'd say to themselves, "This game isn't that good," and they'd play something else.

  • 12.28.2007 9:38 AM PDT
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Yes, Halo does need to be fixed. No doubt. I agree 100% with that.

By no means is CoD perfect either, but I'm afraid it appeals to me more.

You know what I really like about Cod that Halo doesn't have?

1) Sprint. Sprinting is freaking cool. Running around a map at the same speed is just sort of boring. I didn't realize this until I played Halo 3 after playing several weeks of CoD. I really missed it right away.

2) Prone. Going prone is freaking awesome for obvious reasons.

3) Music! I love it when halfway through your CoD match the ominous music starts. It really adds so much to the game. It's really cool.

4) No spawning weapons.

5) Perks.

6) When your player or teammate says something in game, like "enemy down" or "friendly chopper on the way" et al. It's really cool.

Once Bungie fixes the melee and hit box issues, I may come back. I feel almost guilty playing CoD as I was so a huge fan. It's why I still frequent the website.

But for now, I'm playng Cod more and more.

  • 12.28.2007 9:42 AM PDT
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Can you believe it?

Posted by: SS_Zag1
It was a runner-up. That means something. :)

Besides, you're talking to the wrong forum. The majority here love Halo 3.

Not to mention it got "Best Innovative Design". Oh, and "Best Online Multiplayer Game". (Two things which really bring players back for more. A game with bad multiplayer runs out of things to do after awhile. Halo 3 does not. Not yet, anyway.) Anyway, move over to the Halo 3 Forum. You're just trying to stir up trouble with very rude opinion.

And "Most Addictive Game"

  • 12.28.2007 9:42 AM PDT