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The community, though sometimes very annoying, is one of the only reasons I still even associate with the whole franchise, considering I hate the game with a passion.

  • 05.29.2008 5:48 PM PDT
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Well this is rather easy, I come back to halo for the fun, I get to play with friends from school and chat with them about stuff that happened, i also meet new friends to play with and have fun with. I love the file share and the being able to take SS's and put it on our computer. The community is great and the Bungie team rocks wit those flaming heads of knowledge. Halo 3, Bungie.net, and Xbox live... Its a whole new experience that I don't think I'll leave and it will keep me wanting more each day I play! Keep up the work Bungie, I hope a new halo comes out, out of no were in the mid future.

[Edited on 05.29.2008 6:06 PM PDT]

  • 05.29.2008 6:03 PM PDT

Brandon Yates

Halo is a phenomenon its a great game that keeps changing you create half the fun with forge and game variants. the graphics are amazing and bugnie is like your college aged buddy who helps you get in on really cool stuff because he has connections. sure sometimes I'm furious with lag and other(very small) limitations of the game but bye and bye it stays steady. THios said I would play even more if bungie released new ladder rungs such as spartan officer if the released new unlockable armor that you can earn(not recon but something else entirely sort of like the katana) and as always more maps playlists and a continually changing game expeirience bungie we love you.

  • 05.29.2008 7:23 PM PDT
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A ranked Team Snipers playlist would bring me back to Halo more often.

  • 05.29.2008 8:03 PM PDT
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In halo 2 I was a sniper at heart. All i really did was play team snipers...When i heard that halo 3 was coming out i just COULD NOT wait to play some snipers with my friends. Just to be devastated by the fact that it wasen't there...o...I thought to myself "oh, they must be having trouble putting it up or something"...Being the arrogant fool that i am...I stuck to that theory for SEVEN MONTHS when lo and behold....i see team snipers in the double xp weekend, it was as though the gods were shining down upon me...I wasen't to mad about the fact that i hardly got to play it due to real life becuase i was just SURE that it was gonna meet the playlist regulars soon,but the moment when I read about the june matchmaking hopper...i quit halo...right there and then, i now truly beleive that you are torturing us JUST to torture us, and i'm sure i'm not the only player you've lost becuase of this.

  • 05.29.2008 8:21 PM PDT
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There are several things that keeps me on Halo. First is Bungie (The Mother ship) and the B.net community. The Bungie.net community brings a whole new facet to the game. Next is Halo 3 its self it’s a fair well balanced game that allows everyone no matter there skill level to have an enjoyable Game experience. And I could play the campaign mode over a hundred times. Wait I did that. Ok 200 times. And with Halo three I get to exercise my creative muscles too with forging new maps and screenshots. The possibilities are endless. And every time I play it it’s different. In one word it’s Fun. Thanks Bungie.

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  • 05.29.2008 9:22 PM PDT
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I was never a big fan of Halo: CE's multiplayer (my expert screenwatching friends killed the experience). The campaign, however, was the most amazing FPS experience I'd had since I discovered Marathon 2 bundled with my new Power PC as a kid.

I was ecstatic about Halo 2. When it came out, I stayed up all night and played through the campaign. The next night I played my first Halo 2 multiplayer match on Xbox Live. Big Team Battle at Waterworks. Multiflag.

I was hooked.

I'd never played a game of CTF in any video game prior to that moment. The only shooter I had been playing at the time was Counter-Strike for Xbox. I was used to "objectives" that were easy to accomplish because your enemies stayed dead. Other multiplayer shooters I had played were always strict deathmatches.

This realization of a layer of FPS strategy beyond out-killing your opponent was paramount. With regular play I soon discovered the thrills of things like daring flag runs, clutch saves, and communicating team strategies beyond how you're going to kill the enemy.

The icing on the cake was the physics engine and masterful multiplayer design that led to the most WTF OMG DID YOU SEE THAT moments I have ever experienced in a video game. Whereas a game of Counter-Strike was predictable and repetitive, every objective game of Halo was an action-packed thrill ride of hilariously unexpected moments.

Halo 2 came and went, Bungie crossed off a few items on its world domination list, and Halo 3 was finally released into the wild. The addition of equipment and some of the creative new weapons and vehicles (not to mention Forge) expanded the OMG possibilities to dizzying awesomeness.

I'm a big shooter fan. I've played all the big third and first person games to come and go, but none deliver a multiplayer experience that even scrapes the explosive zaniness of Halo's combat. Halo is crazy fun, and that's why I keep coming back.

  • 05.29.2008 11:17 PM PDT

were it so easy...

best game ever and great interaction in the community. Got me hooked since halo 1

  • 05.29.2008 11:23 PM PDT

The matchmaking is the best,
double exp weekends are a great idea too,
the handling is hillarious!
there is just no other game as good as halo 3.
i love it!!!

  • 05.30.2008 5:04 AM PDT
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Spartan Laser ruins this, in fact it ruins all vehicular combat in the game, remove it and Sandtrap becomes 80% better.
ah yes cos then its a rush for vechicles and no way too get them out of it?
how fun (Y)

Don't use the stupid melee system Halo 3 has to account for people on slow connections (if you have crap internet deal with it, the rest of us shouldn't have to suffer)

ah cos its their fault they ended up living in somewhere with bad connection? im 17 without a job cos im at college im not going too be moving out too get better internet
and thousands more people have low connections than have 20 mb connections


on topic
in short
MLG playlist and customs. its totally wrecked mm for me as i hate the AR
the mlg side keeps me coming back every time


i hate the ranking system though. punishing people for playing the game a lot?
more exp = slower rankup
thats the worst thing iv ever heard

iv been on the one profile since release and have 1200 exp nearly and no matter how many i win i do not rank up at all.
ever.

  • 05.30.2008 6:55 AM PDT

The fun of playing with friends, and also the competitiveness Halo can bring.

  • 06.03.2008 5:09 PM PDT

Sexy Potatos

For me it is mostly friends, me and 2 or 3 of my best friends started getting bored of Halo and started trying to find another game, but then just started coming back because a couple of played it again! So I guess you could call that the community! One thing that I think ruins the game is to much trash talk! My friend is a general and as I play with him tons of people talks tons of trash and my friend doesn't say a word!

  • 06.03.2008 5:16 PM PDT
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Same i love team snipers. I would play way more often.

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  • 06.03.2008 5:18 PM PDT
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The thing that keeps me into halo is MLG. I just love it because it cracks down on all of the n00bs that just sit with shotty or only use the AR. I love games that take a lot of skill.

I think if you start out with a BR and not an AR in every playlist, it would be better.

Back in Halo 2, my favorite thing was clan matches. If bungie could, somehow bring that back to Halo 3, I know for a fact many more people would play it. All of my friends that play COD4 instead os Halo said that they would go back to Halo if there were clan matches.

Another thing from Halo 2 I liked was the ranks. I loved that 45-50 were not numbers and all of that good stuff. If bungie could put that ranking system with clans, I would play Halo much more. However, I would not erase the current system for Halo 2's, but I would make clans and that is how they are ranked (that sun thing for 50, comet thing for 49 etc...)

  • 06.03.2008 5:24 PM PDT

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Shut up, you stupid mythic member.

I'd like to see less playlists. Sometimes, a lot of the time, it takes a while to find matches in some of the playlists that should be overplayed.

  • 06.03.2008 5:29 PM PDT
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I play for several reasons:

1) The only game I own is Halo 3
2) Great gameplay, when there's no lag, etc. The game itself has so many facets and ways to have fun. Forge, MM, customs, theatre...you can stay on and amused for hours on end.
3) Bungie's ongoing support of the game and it's legacy keep me interested and entertained.

What I would like to see changed:

1) Make a Ranked Team Snipers playlist!
2) Weed out unused playlists to increase player population on the more widely-used lists

  • 06.03.2008 6:32 PM PDT

Many bulls encompass me; strong bulls of Bashan surround me;
they open wide their mouths at me, like a ravening and roaring lion.
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint;
my heart is like wax; it is melted within my breast;
my strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to my jaws;
you lay me in the dust of death. -Psalm 22:12-15

The community, medals, stat-tracking, and depth of game-play keep me coming back. Here's my Halo 3 wish list:

-When a screen shot is posted in the forums, include a thumbnail of the shot instead of the thread's title. This would draw attention to pictures that are actually good instead of to whomever comes up with a catchy title.

-Sniper rifles on Standoff.

-A release of more classic Halo 1 & 2 maps for free.

-A forge to create custom armor (figure it out Bungie...I dare you)

-Decapitations for sniper headshots.

  • 06.03.2008 7:00 PM PDT
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its because halo 3 is epic win. period

  • 06.03.2008 7:32 PM PDT

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Note:Unashamedly taken from Luke Smith's battle cries.

I would play more if there was more Team unity in games. If everyone would sight on one guy they could take him out in about a second. Nothing happens that way. I played H1 and H2 for hours and hours at a time for the Campaign and the Live. I still play some in H3 but not as much. Also a lot of my friends got bored with the experience and don't play anymore so that contributes to how much I play. I can't take a week off and come back just as good as I used to be so the challenge there can be fun or defeating. I'll keep playing H3.

  • 06.03.2008 8:18 PM PDT

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What keeps me coming back is bungies care for the community.. and the awsome gameplay and dLC

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  • 06.03.2008 8:28 PM PDT

~SjL~

Friends keep me coming back to halo itself. Personally, playlist options are a huge contributor though. What kept halo 2 alive so long? Great playlists...no excessories that kept other playlists down such as rocket race. If you keep all of the old halo2 playlists alive, then people will stay. Swat, Slayer, Lone Wolves, Team Snipers, and BTB are the primary source of fun i think. Deffinately being active in the community helps in a huge way, listing to the millions of complaints and acting on them, (but thank god for ignoring the constant weapon whiners), and listening to new playlist ideas streaming through the forums ( Grifball!!!!!).

Love Ya BNG (friendly unstalkerish kinda way....kinda.) Lol

[Edited on 06.03.2008 8:41 PM PDT]

  • 06.03.2008 8:38 PM PDT

if you brought back the gauss wart hogs i would play more. Making a playlist with more people would also make me happy.

  • 06.03.2008 9:24 PM PDT

i agree with what everyone has said but the thing that keeps me coming back is that fact that bungie can openly have a forum topic like this where people can tell them that they game sucks and bungie doesnt get mad at them for having an opinion.

seriously tho, the major reason is i want my 50. I'm a high 46 right now. 4 more levels...

  • 06.03.2008 10:54 PM PDT

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The only thing that annoys me with Halo 3 is lag. And I know that isn't Bungie faul, it's users fault. So there isn't really much id'e change.

  • 06.03.2008 11:32 PM PDT