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Subject: Should the reach lobby look like this? Must see! Rare!

Check this out guys, scroll down to the youtube video at the bottom, pretty impressive for back then:
http://www.unseen64.net/2008/04/16/halo-2-xbox-beta-concept/
btw sorry if old.

[Edited on 10.17.2009 8:42 AM PDT]

  • 10.17.2009 4:12 AM PDT
Subject: Should the reach lobby look like this? Halo 2 concept, rare footage!

lol

It's always good to be reminded of how things could have been.

  • 10.17.2009 4:21 AM PDT

Posted by: lolsandwhich
It's always good to be reminded of how things could have been.

In a way, i prefer the 'community' aspect of that concept UI compared to the Halo 3 one.

  • 10.17.2009 4:24 AM PDT

lol

I think matchmaking was the worst possible thing to add into Halo. Matchmaking makes people think they're better than they really are.
I'd perfer a multiplayer like Halo PC: You enter a pre-existing game lobby, other players join, you play. No rank, no trueskill matching, nothing that adds competitiveness to the game except the game itself.

There's always the issue of better players beating you constantly, but I think one gets better faster playing against and with good players instead of players with similar skill.

  • 10.17.2009 4:38 AM PDT

Posted by: lolsandwhich
I think matchmaking was the worst possible thing to add into Halo. Matchmaking makes people think they're better than they really are.
I'd perfer a multiplayer like Halo PC: You enter a pre-existing game lobby, other players join, you play. No rank, no trueskill matching, nothing that adds competitiveness to the game except the game itself.

There's always the issue of better players beating you constantly, but I think one gets better faster playing against and with good players instead of players with similar skill.

Perhaps, i dont play many games online, mainly halo, so i cant comment on the validty of a matchmaking system compared to say a list of servers beyond obvious points. However, sometimes when im playing older games on the 360 itself which use a list of servers, i cannot find many if any games (certainly the ones i like) at all.

  • 10.17.2009 4:49 AM PDT

"Go then, there are other worlds than these."

That UI was sweet. I want a grunt filter. =D

  • 10.17.2009 5:08 AM PDT
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Seeing that Halo 2 e3 demo again was... amazing. If Microsoft only would have let Bungie do everything they wanted to... Halo 2 would have been the best freakin' game ever.

And that game lobby-film was pretty sweet too. I wish you could have a Grunt-filter in Halo 3 . :D

  • 10.17.2009 5:19 AM PDT

Posted by: Tom Tomato
Seeing that Halo 2 e3 demo again was... amazing. If Microsoft only would have let Bungie do everything they wanted to... Halo 2 would have been the best freakin' game ever.

And that game lobby-film was pretty sweet too. I wish you could have a Grunt-filter in Halo 3 . :D

True, that E3 demo was and still is amazing.

  • 10.17.2009 8:00 AM PDT

Posted by: Tom Tomato
Seeing that Halo 2 e3 demo again was... amazing. If Microsoft only would have let Bungie do everything they wanted to... Halo 2 would have been the best freakin' game ever.

And that game lobby-film was pretty sweet too. I wish you could have a Grunt-filter in Halo 3 . :D

Yeah, Grunt filter was sweet.

  • 10.17.2009 8:41 AM PDT