- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
even with Xbox and other consoles, as well as PC, the majority of gamers do not care so much as to the whole "idea" of a close community of gamers. These people just play the game for fun, do not visit the game's forums, could care less bout the significance of the storyline and just play the game for its shiny lights and killing action. Sadly 1 of my friend's obvioulsy bought Halo 2 after taking a liking to Halo and plays multiplayer on Live and played and beat the campaign, but i was almost disgusted when he told me he didn't even bother to watch any of the cutscenes! *.* I mean he just plaed the campaign for the action/practice of it, didn't imerseve himself in the storyline, and didn't even pay attenetion to it watssoever, he didn'teven know who Gravemind was! If u think about it he only appears in cutscenes, he didn't understand the "concept" of the Arbiter, and most annoyingly said they could never make a movie out of Halo or Halo 2 cause there's no story to it, AHHHHHHHHH , i wanted to punch him. It's these "casual" gamers that lack either a.) the will to involve themselves in a game or b) they'd rather just keep on playing the game. The problem with this forum and even surprisingly all these forums is that we're not reaching out to the COMMUNITY, u may think, wow there are A TON of people in the New Mombasa forum supporting Halo 2 but i bet u that that # of forum members there is like 1/100 or even less of the total gaming audience for Halo 2. Sure we've been ranting and raving of changes to the game, whether it be Halo PC, Halo 2, any game applies, the problem is Bungie isin't what it used to be, i'm not accusing it of being a sell-out, at least i don't want to, but Bungie is no longer as "small" as it used to be, sure it was never really a "small" gaming comapny, if there even is such a thing as a small gaming company, but it has gotten tremendously huge and it has to apply its games for the mass-market, unfortunately the opinions of the gamers here are NOT the mass-market.
Now to Halo PC Custom Edition, we try and get the word out about this great new add-on for Halo PC but the community on this "small" forum (The Maw) as well as the Gearbox forums as well only represents a fraction of the people playing Halo PC, it's that reason alone why we can't make CE huge, personally i blame Gearbox or MS, they never really "supported" CE just put it out, the least they could've done is put as the daily message "get Halo Custom Edition today" or something like that, put i bet most Halo PC players don't even know what Halo Custom Edition is...
Well anyways i don't want to turn this thread into an argument, i just wanted to voice some valid points that've been in my head recently, just any opinions are welcome, if u think i'm dead-wrong just tell me, no need to flame k :)