- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Fourth. Not ranting. Just sympathizing.
Ok, I'll start with the communication between players. It's mostly a joke, especially on Big Team Battle. Very occasionally, I'll try to talk strategy in a way that doesn't sound like I'm handing down orders, but apparently I'm a noob and my strategies suck. So everybody goes a different route out of spite and gets shot up or beat down. And if I say nothing, the only strategy I hear is, "Give me the sniper. I'm totally awesome."
I must admit though, I don't always try others' strategies. I mostly only listen to those with a deeper voice than mine. That is, when I can hear them over the screaming little kids. That's why I say the communication is a joke. True, I'm a low level and the communication might get better with higher levels, but I doubt it. If I'm starting to sound like a griefer, I don't mean to. I merely wish to sympathize with others with the same problems. I honestly do love the game.
Now for some constructive ideas. Maybe some kind of "good leader" feedback? I know what you're thinking: "pipedream." But seriously, it could work. The person with the most "good leader" feedback could be the first gamertag in the pregame lobby. It's as simple as that. You look up to see whose gamertag is listed first, and you choose to either try their ideas, or you don't. It couldn't hurt.
And like I said, I love the game, but while I have a spot on the front page, I might as well criticize. The two things that I didn't like about Halo 2 was the addition of voice to multiplayer, and the added detail. That's right, the detail. Like Nintendo is saying, it's not a guarantee that games will get better with improved graphics. On Halo:CE, I loved the maps with the same lighting the whole way through and minimal detail. I'm all about Warlock, but I would have been just as content with a straight port of Wizard.
Cheating. That dern superbouncing always seems conspicuously absent from your Weekly What's Update. The less said the better? If it's an unfixable glitch just tell me so and I'll shut up about it so no more people learn it.
Voice. What'd that guy say? "Proximity voice will make us gods"? If you haven’t kicked that guy in the shins yet, give him one from me. Why should I be able to hear a guy after I'm dead? What else could it be used for besides taunting? Blah, blah, blah. You've heard it before, I know.
Orange skies. Oh yeah, what was up with that? Every Halo 2 poster I saw had that cool apocalyptic orange sky in the background, yet it never appeared in the game. It was even on the front cover of the Multiplayer Map Pack and yet it didn't appear in any of the new levels. I just have three little overused letters: wtf?
Sorry to post all this. So many people have expected sooo much from you guys. It really isn't fair. You guys rock. Bungie's popularity has gotta be a gift and a curse. If I didn’t spend all my kudos on Michael Jackson's lawyer for getting him off last week, I'd give 'em to you guys for doing all you can with the most popular Live game out there. Until my next paycheck, you'll have to settle for angry props. Thanks.
[Edited on 7/17/2005]