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Subject: Should I play the Halo 2 demo
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Poll: Think I should?  [closed]
Yes, play it and tell us everything:  57%
(12 Votes)
No, don't spoil it for yourself:  43%
(9 Votes)
Total Votes: 21

I'm sure a large majority of you are going to read this and thing, that is the biggest load of bs, he isn't going to play a demo. Well, for that group of you, think of it as a hypothetical question then and still give your vote.

I have a friend, and his dad works for microsoft. He has been telling me for the last few months that his dad is in the beta, and would probably get a disk due to his position. Last night, he IMed me and said the disk would be coming in a week.

My question now is, should I play it? Part of me doesn't want to because I want everything to be a surprise come Nov 9th. Meh.

  • 06.26.2004 11:34 AM PDT
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well everyones gonna play it anyways the demo comes out in august

  • 06.26.2004 11:36 AM PDT
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tell us all about it

  • 06.26.2004 11:36 AM PDT
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I could have sworn bungie said they havnt reached a beta stage yet.

  • 06.26.2004 11:39 AM PDT
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i find this kinda hard to believe lol

  • 06.26.2004 11:39 AM PDT
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but if it is true i would wait and catch up on some reading :)

  • 06.26.2004 11:39 AM PDT
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I tell ya what to do: Burn it and give it to a friend. Then tell him to do the same thing. And repeat till it gets to me. Also, it doesnt matter if you want to wait or not, we'll all play the demo when it comes out.

  • 06.26.2004 11:40 AM PDT
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Well last nights weekly update did have several people talking about putting final touches and working out the last bugs of an internal beta. I do doubt that they would be giving it to random MS employees though.

  • 06.26.2004 11:43 AM PDT
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great idea

  • 06.26.2004 11:45 AM PDT
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are u sure ther is demo comiong in august i dont think there is bungie has said there arent goin to be any playable demos at lesast i think they did
and if they did i dont think it would be cool it would riun the hype

[Edited on 6/26/2004 11:47:06 AM]

  • 06.26.2004 11:46 AM PDT
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Im sure they will release a demo after Halo 2 comes out, but not before.

  • 06.26.2004 11:47 AM PDT
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ya thats what i thiniik

  • 06.26.2004 11:49 AM PDT
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No beta or anything until Halo 2 comes out. They said somewhere that there wasnt gonna be one.

  • 06.26.2004 12:24 PM PDT
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They haven't even finished the Beta demo. They said it wasn't done in this weeks update. Plus, it's only people who work for Microsoft, so I doubt that even your friend will be allowed to play it, but okay. If you get the chance, maybe just check it out a little bit. Don't come back here and tell us all about it, cause I want most of the game to be a surprise.

  • 06.26.2004 12:27 PM PDT
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Bungie have definately said that there will be no demo until at least after the complete game has been released.

Also, i doubt they'd be giving anything more than that alpha test out to MS employees... they have a loads of MS testers which they employ JUST to test the games produced my MS game studios.

I'm not gonna believe a word of it until a mod etc. tells me it's true.

A beta test is all about the whole game being tested, including SP and MP, they haven't finished these so how can it be beta tested?

[Edited on 6/26/2004 12:30:09 PM]

  • 06.26.2004 12:29 PM PDT
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if u even give any info on H2 from the beta in any of these forums or any other forum and bungie finds out yur friends dad will get in trouble and the forum will be closed and deleted so no 1 could read it. so its not worth, also bungie might delay it if they find out u told enough people and the word gets a round about it. and they might change the whole game just cus u cant keep yur big mouth shut.

  • 06.26.2004 12:36 PM PDT
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With all this CENSORED -blam!- in all the updates, there is no way Bungie is going to jeopardize revealing that information.

My answer to your question is NO, because you will never get a disk.

  • 06.26.2004 12:58 PM PDT