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Poll: Controlable Marines/ODST's?  [closed]
Yes:  13%
(3 Votes)
No:  26%
(6 Votes)
Hell Yeah:  35%
(8 Votes)
Hell No:  26%
(6 Votes)
Total Votes: 23

Since Master Chief is about the highest rank on the battle field, it is only logical that Marines and ODSTs should obey MC. Instead of just letting Marines hope on your vehicle, why stop there!? Why not give basic orders like "gaurd this place" and "Follow me". Also, for more stradegy MC should be able to take a Marines weopon by just teeling him, not killing him.

  • 06.29.2004 1:02 PM PDT
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Maybe, I like the idea like you could tell them where to move or follow you or guard a point, but I dont know about telling them to give you their weapon.

[Edited on 6/29/2004 1:05:43 PM]

  • 06.29.2004 1:05 PM PDT
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it's a nice idea, but I think it would make things too complicated. Halo was fun because of it's simplicity. And personally I don't want campaign to change, much.

  • 06.29.2004 1:05 PM PDT
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Maybe they could use that new stuff where you say things into your xbox live mic like "Move here" and the marines move to that location your looking at or you could say "guard this point" or "follow me"

[Edited on 6/29/2004 1:07:22 PM]

  • 06.29.2004 1:06 PM PDT
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1. if u read the books, and if u have any knowledge of the ranking system, then u'll see that the master cheif is under the navy, and marines are under the corp. the cheif has no control over them except under dire conditions or if highcommand or somethin like that orders it. besides, master cheif is a rank equivilant to sergent major. there are plenty of personel out there who are higher ranking then him.

2. i don't want halo 2 to turn into a game where u order soliders around.

  • 06.29.2004 1:08 PM PDT
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Master Chief is not even an officer. It is a noncom rank, like sargeant. In fact, I believe it is lower than sargeant. This idea doesn't fly.

  • 06.29.2004 1:08 PM PDT
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First of all you have 2 choices with 4 options no=hell no, yes=hell yes, but you realize that. Secon I voted Hella No, I like me/MC v.s. the world, I don't want to have to babysit I want to worry about me only (my opinion), and that would probably complicate the controls too much and just strew up my style, and live co-op is way cooler than directing people.

  • 06.29.2004 1:08 PM PDT
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Whats so complicated? Go up to a marine/odst a small menu pops up:
-Follow
-Guard
-Take Weopon
-Take Gernade
-Talk

  • 06.29.2004 1:11 PM PDT
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Posted by: El Nacho
Whats so complicated? Go up to a marine/odst a small menu pops up:
-Follow
-Guard
-Take Weopon
-Take Gernade
-Talk


that'd be okay, as long as it wasn't required i'd be down with that option to please all.

  • 06.29.2004 1:12 PM PDT
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I hope that you will be able to kill the marines and then they get pissed at you and kill you this is what makes games great

  • 06.29.2004 1:14 PM PDT
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that would make it too easy to get shot at. it makes it all complicated. if i wanted a game where i order guys around, i'd just play ghost recon

  • 06.29.2004 1:14 PM PDT
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Talk? sounds like and RPG to me. and wouldn't the little menu popping up get annoying if you are fighting next to the marines. One more thing taking the marines weapons would make the marines pointless.

[Edited on 6/29/2004 1:15:37 PM]

  • 06.29.2004 1:15 PM PDT
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By take, I mean trade. You got a pistol and want a sniper rifle? just go to a Marine/ODST and get it.
Talking to someone in a game makes it an RPG!? In Pandora Tommarrow you can talk to people yet it isn't a RPG.
Adding commands are a good way to beat a level and not having to start all over becuase of insificiant ammo or low health.

  • 06.29.2004 1:22 PM PDT
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swaping weapons would be easy. somethin like "Hold X to swap weapon with marine". but insufficent ammo/health is kinda the challenge to the game. it's not supposed to be easy.

  • 06.29.2004 1:25 PM PDT
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Remember most missions will be solo, so the difficulty will still be there.

  • 06.29.2004 1:29 PM PDT
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ummmmm that made no sense whatsoever.

  • 06.29.2004 1:30 PM PDT
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MC will be alone in some missions, so you can't rely on your marines/odt's.

  • 06.29.2004 1:39 PM PDT
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Posted by: the slayer45
Maybe, I like the idea like you could tell them where to move or follow you or guard a point, but I dont know about telling them to give you their weapon.
you can make them trade in halo 2 its been confirmed

  • 06.29.2004 1:46 PM PDT
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Posted by: El Nacho
By take, I mean trade. You got a pistol and want a sniper rifle? just go to a Marine/ODST and get it.
Talking to someone in a game makes it an RPG!? In Pandora Tommarrow you can talk to people yet it isn't a RPG.
Adding commands are a good way to beat a level and not having to start all over becuase of insificiant ammo or low health.
what is an ostd

  • 06.29.2004 1:47 PM PDT
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special forces marines. READ THE BOOKS

  • 06.29.2004 1:48 PM PDT
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An O.S.T.D. is an Orbital Sex Transmitted Disease

  • 06.29.2004 1:51 PM PDT
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odst's are Orbital Drop Shock Troopers or by therre nickname hell jumpers and they are i think kind of like the paratroopers of the 26th century, the unsc's elite

[Edited on 6/29/2004 2:05:45 PM]

  • 06.29.2004 2:01 PM PDT