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Posted by: HYPER ELITE
ME TRUE FAN! ME BUY HALO 1 YEARS GO!


Really, that's great. I suggest you step away from that computer. Now.

  • 04.23.2005 10:33 PM PDT
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We Light Fire?!? Sing Songs?!?

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ME NO KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN!

  • 04.23.2005 10:43 PM PDT

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Posted by: HYPER ELITE
ME NO KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN!


Then why didn't you? ;)

  • 04.24.2005 4:43 AM PDT
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The forums after the new hottness really deteriorated and instantly turned into a crap pot about maybee two weeks to a month before Halo 2. Before that, and even before the creation of New Mombasa and Zanzibar, and Optimatch made it worse. At first, those new forums were good, but it was downhill from then on.

H47 ;-)

  • 04.24.2005 5:17 AM PDT
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I know you're not trying to be offensive and all, but you're being kinda elitist, and we aren't all scum, sure there are a fair few idiots on these forums, but I don't know what it was like before, so....

  • 04.24.2005 7:40 AM PDT

Ach! Was ist los?

Things didn't start going downhill for me until about the time all those August 24th rumors started flying around.

All those people yapping about how it was going to be a Halo 2 demo or early release... Oh, the pain!

  • 04.24.2005 8:19 AM PDT

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Posted by: HYPER ELITE
ME NO KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN!

You bought HAL0 1. So did everybody else here. Now if you got Myth, or Marathon then you are a dedicated Bungie fan. If you got PiD, ODS or GNOP. Then you are a true Bunge fan. However we will give you fan status if you got Oni.

  • 04.24.2005 8:32 AM PDT

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Mob of Angry Peasants

But yeah I remember the three forums. And Stosh could tell you when the homepage had that myth wallpaper. You can see it at the end of the HAL0 manual where they advertise bungie.net. I think that was the rebirth of bungie.com. However I need a quick history lesson.

  • 04.24.2005 8:34 AM PDT

Ha ha, I'd forgotten that there weren't any forums when I joined.

Just been looking back in the archives. Found the perfect news post for my birthday :-D

  • 04.24.2005 9:04 AM PDT

It was a cold day near the southern base in Blood Gulch. Cortana and I were relaxing over a game of Go Fish, WHEN OUT OF NO WHERE 700 BANSHEES CAME FLYING IN!!! I GRABED MY SPARTAN LASER AND LET HELL REIGN DOWN UPON THEM. I HOPPED IN THE NEAREST WARTHOG AND TOLD CORTANA TO GET IN.

Hahaha. I have offically been a member of Bungie.net, under this name, one year today.

I miss the old forums as much as you, if not more. I have been trying to think up a way that there could be a forum for older members, but then people who were excluded would get angry. Oh well.

But still. Let's celebrate my first full year as a Bungie.Net member!

EDIT: marinealver- we joined on the same day! Woohoo! Yeah, I remember the three forums. I forgot what they were, but I remember that New Mombasa wasn't one of them. Thank God. Were the three The Library, The Septagon, and The Underground?

[Edited on 4/24/2005]

  • 04.24.2005 10:15 AM PDT

The Underground was the original board. Then The Maw was added.

The Septagon was read-only unless you were a member of Chapter Founders.

  • 04.24.2005 10:25 AM PDT

*Sgt

I so know what Zuke is talking about.. I used to be here every day to talk with people that actually knew how to spell, and that manners existed. I come often now, but now as much as I did before the 9th.

Although, the ILB "chrisis" was almost about as bad as this.

[Edited on 4/24/2005]

  • 04.24.2005 11:05 AM PDT

Ach! Was ist los?

Posted by: SgtSTFU
I so know what Zuke is talking about.. I used to be here every day to talk with people that actually knew how to spell, and that manners existed. I come often now, but now as much as I did before the 9th.

Although, the ILB "chrisis" was almost about as bad as this.

I'll second that. Plus, most of the moderators seem to have disappeared.

  • 04.24.2005 11:46 AM PDT
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Hopefully, all the complaining and spamming will die down with time and we can all go back to talking about stuff that matters: Looking for relations to the Bible and whatnot and making theories, reminiscing about great moments in the game, and thanking bungie for what they give us and not complain about things they didnt.

I remember joining just after the "cortana letters" had died down and a new fake site came out. (it was made by some fan: i think...) But nowadays, if someone wants to talk about something like that, it will sometimes be missed and be sent into the uncharted "second page"

I'll just hang out here until the other forums become safe enough to tread its deserted wastelands. Patience.

  • 04.24.2005 12:09 PM PDT

It was a cold day near the southern base in Blood Gulch. Cortana and I were relaxing over a game of Go Fish, WHEN OUT OF NO WHERE 700 BANSHEES CAME FLYING IN!!! I GRABED MY SPARTAN LASER AND LET HELL REIGN DOWN UPON THEM. I HOPPED IN THE NEAREST WARTHOG AND TOLD CORTANA TO GET IN.

Yeah, Bob has a point. I haven't seen Sigma at all in the past few months. Is he still around?

and not complain about things they didnt.

It's sad that I can actually see a topic like this coming up in New Mombasa-
"omgwtfbbq! y wu'znt tehre a chanisaw in H2?!?!!!1111eleventy-three2!!! bugnie sed tehre wuz guna B 1! omgwtfbbq!11!!

[Edited on 4/24/2005]

  • 04.24.2005 12:51 PM PDT
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I came here about a year after Halo:CE came out I just enjoyed 'listening' in on peoples disccusions and learning something new wheather or not it concerned me, then that one day, that magical day! I had had enough of just listening, i had learned by watching how these forums operated, what had been disccused and what hadnt so I JOINED, yes, i had watched and waited my long time to post i knew what to post, or i didnt post, still to this day i rarley even start NEW threads, yes the times before the new hottness were everyone was antcipating it was the best times.

Edit: why cant others wait there while before joining to see what is right and wrong?

[Edited on 4/24/2005]

  • 04.24.2005 4:16 PM PDT
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Posted by: spartan39
Edit: why cant others wait there while before joining to see what is right and wrong?


As far I'm concerned, they should know the difference between right and wrong beforehand anyway. But I do know what you mean. I did the same thing. The problem is that A, they don't care, B, No one on this site will know them in real life anyway, and C, some of them just like the attention because they don't get any in real life. Personally, I pity the spammers and flammers. I feel bad for them, poor saps that they are. But I digress.

  • 04.24.2005 5:38 PM PDT

It was a cold day near the southern base in Blood Gulch. Cortana and I were relaxing over a game of Go Fish, WHEN OUT OF NO WHERE 700 BANSHEES CAME FLYING IN!!! I GRABED MY SPARTAN LASER AND LET HELL REIGN DOWN UPON THEM. I HOPPED IN THE NEAREST WARTHOG AND TOLD CORTANA TO GET IN.

I didn't wait. But, unlike some, I learned from my mistakes.

  • 04.24.2005 6:09 PM PDT
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Posted by: goweb
The good old days were pre-forum.

The new hotness was worse (member-wise) than the old crapness, and I assume that bungie.net went downhill after the forum was introduced.

I say "worse". I hope this proves a point - your time-of-joining will always seem better than it is now. It doesn't necessarily mean it was.


Exactly


Posted by: Banshee Barron
I consider my Good 'ol Days my first couple of months here.

But honestly, who doesn't?


Aye, those were the days. Only a few regular members, who actually had a few conversations only "one" forum. Only people like goweb would stick to the maw (the boring forum before the new hotness). Anyways, there were still some jerks back then, but only a decimal to how many there are now.

Once the new hotness came out, some of the regulars left, a whole flood of new people came in (mostly people who aren't very friendly to others or the site). It was like heaven had become hell and the new members were demons.

Am I overexaggerating?

  • 04.24.2005 7:04 PM PDT
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I'd say it was certainly more of a tightly-knit community back then. Don't know about the new people being demons, more of being uninformed than anything else.

  • 04.24.2005 7:13 PM PDT
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It was an example, the old crapness wasn't really heaven.

  • 04.24.2005 7:23 PM PDT

*Sgt

Posted by: Banshee Barron
I consider my Good 'ol Days my first couple of months here.

But honestly, who doesn't?


Yeah, the time before you lose your innocence, and are are exposed to the bucket of death that is the community of Bungie forums - but why do I still hang around? Because, how can you not have a good time here? I have never seen a gaming community quite like this ^_^

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  • 04.24.2005 7:36 PM PDT

Oh man. I don't think there has ever been a "golden age" of b.net. I suppose when the site first came online, before Myth TFL came out, it wasn't too bad, but that was because there was no way the community could actually participate in the site.

Then Myth came out. Bungie.net took on its second role - metaserver for Myth multiplayer games.

The Myth bungie.net community was a little like the b.net forums are these days, but just a little less active. This was made up for by the fact that the bungie.net server was effectively a chat room. As a result, we got all the crap we have here, at pretty much the same rate; there were just fewer people spouting it. Even worse, the rooms weren't structured like the forums are now - there was no off-topic room on bungie.net. This meant that a lot of the crap was stuff nobody cared about - for example, the fact that the paper was too sticky to roll a stick of marijuana. Nobody wants to hear about that, especially when they are screaming about how nobody seems to want to get on with the business of playing a game of Myth.

There were just as many immature people around, and although it was harder to cheat in Myth than it apparently is in Halo 2, there were plenty of TR0 SPKRS around to accuse you of cheating everytime they lost a game. Sooner or later, the gametypes lost any semblance of diversity - BC Tro was all there was to play, since all the eight-year-olds somehow thought that this was in some way fun. How wrong they were.

Sooner or later, Bungie tried to rectify this situation with the addition of unranked rooms on bungie.net. This meant that people who actually wanted to enjoy themselves (who'da thunk it?) and somehow build some sort of community around Myth could extend their repertoire beyond trow on trow fistfights. The unranked rooms did act as a kind of haven from the unbearable nature of the ranked games. But of course, some of the immature people also realised that there was perhaps a little more to Myth strategy than "WUT U CHT MY TRO KIK U HAHAA". So they began to infiltrate unranked games as well.

Myth 2 sort of had the same effect as Halo 2. People complained that the fact that archers were now accurate, in that they could hit a target at a distance of more than two meters, and that the dwarf bottles actually exploded now and then, "noob-ified" the game. Sound familiar? It should.

The situation was perhaps made somewhat worse by the fact that Myth 2 shipped with Fear and Loathing, the editing tools. Very soon, there was not a game to be found should you not want to play yet another tiresome game of WWII. It was unbearable for people who didn't want to wait six days downloading the plug-in (this was in the days when V.90 56k modems were new and exciting, and broadband was just plain showing off).

Still, I must admit that the old Myth iteration of b.net was a lot more fun than the new hotness. For a start, you could get the satisfaction of summarily obliterating the troops commanded by the more irritating members of the community. Somehow, the ability to click "Unleash Ninjas" just isn't the same as seeing your duff convert an oncoming army of thrall into so many pieces of bloody pieces of flesh and armour, flying across the beautifully rendered terrain. Of course, the experience could be a little diluted by the fact that immediately afterwards your view of the action would be somewhat obscured by in-game chat messages along the lines of "WUT NO U CHTR DUFF CNT KIL TRAL I HAV FILMZ HAHAHAHAHAHAHAA". But then you could just block that individual's chat messages from that point onwards.

Actually, I take everything I said back. Those were the good old days. Anyone for some BC Trow?

- Reiginko

  • 04.24.2005 10:38 PM PDT

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Posted by: Pink Menace
Yeah, Bob has a point. I haven't seen Sigma at all in the past few months. Is he still around?


Sigma has posted once or twice recently.

Anywho, i think we'll look back in a couple of years time and say "Yes. The time around Halo 2 were great times. I miss those times." ..... ah, who am i kidding? That's never going to happen.

  • 04.25.2005 1:56 AM PDT
Subject: The Good Old Days!

My first account was in like 2003. When halo 2 was suposed to come out in october. But after a long time of not using it, i kinda forgot about it. I cant even remember the name.... This thread reminded me of it!

  • 04.25.2005 9:17 PM PDT

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