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Subject: Halo 2, Xbox LIVE and You

GO BURN IN BLAM MicroBLAM. You can shove your 360 up your BLAM and then eat it like the little BLAMs you are. 100 friends Microsoft??? Halo 2 FTW

!!!!BUNGIE FTW!!!!!

BTW - Dear Bungie,
If you are reading this, then I would seriously reccomend porting the PC version made by whatever studios and Bungie to 360, why? because porting the original Halo 2 would be a bit harder, due to graphics, shaders and all that BLAM. JUST PLEASSSEEEE FROM THE BUNGIE COMMUNITY AND SEPTAGON REMAKE THIS GAME!!!!!

  • 02.06.2010 5:28 AM PDT
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So from what I've found online it looks like Microsoft has pulled the plug on all original Xbox DLC (well before the 4/15 cut-off date). For people with "damaged" Halo 2 map packs, is there any chance these could be put back online so we could play Halo 2 again before the cut-off date? Help us out here, Bungie!

  • 02.06.2010 6:47 AM PDT

I don't think I have quite 17,000 games logged, but I still play Halo 2 at least once a week be it online, or just LAN at my friends house since he has 2 TV's in his basement, we will still fire up the old Xboxes and do some 2 on 2 or 4 v 4.

I know why Microsoft doesn't want to keep original Xbox games running on their service, but it is a shame because a lot of times it is hard to get 4 or 8 people together in a room for a couple of hours, online solves that because you can jump on with just one or two of your buddies at a time and if only for a few matches.

I am going to keep playing up until April 15th, 2010, but it is weird that they are only giving like 3 months notice on the subject. I would have thought it would have been a year or at least 6 months. Pretty sudden if you ask me.

What really would be nice, and I would slap down $20 or $30 bucks for it if you just ported Halo 1 and 2 to the Xbox 360 and then added online for the original Halo. Now I am not sure if you could do this because you have both Halo:CE and Halo 2 clocking in at about 3 gigs and 4.5 gigs, respectively which would fit, but now you factor in all the DLC for Halo 2 and then you would be cutting it close.

[Edited on 02.06.2010 7:41 AM PST]

  • 02.06.2010 7:26 AM PDT

Yes, there're too many numbers in my name.

I was just getting back into Halo 2!

...Why did this happen? :'(

  • 02.06.2010 8:03 AM PDT

I can't believe this, is mircrosoft is really worried about a little money than making the fan base that made them who they are happy, then I say they charge extra to play the game online, I'd pay an extra twenty a year no problem, BUNGIE, you can't just sit by and watch them do this !! DO something, tell them what we're all saying here, Please .

  • 02.06.2010 8:07 AM PDT

Me to man.. I got fed up with halo 3 bull -blam!- and I went back to halo two, I have a lot of friends that are. it sucks !!

  • 02.06.2010 8:09 AM PDT

Ok wow Microsoft...How much trouble can the original xbox server really be...oh wait there is still xbox connect WOOHOOO

  • 02.06.2010 8:34 AM PDT

OneSifu

It's a shame since so many of us have paid for the service, only can afford the original XBOX in this economy, and get cut off. We should have a voice it this decision.

  • 02.06.2010 8:35 AM PDT

Ah, someone leaked. Now to find the leak and.... plug it.
With justice.

I use coup 5
Never Played halo 1 = Invalid opinion
Bloom isn't whats broken, its your idea of what good is and your opinion
Thats like saying uber nerf armor lock because like 20 percent of the community hates it. Oh wait..................

That is so microsoft. Give us 2 months notice and then imedialty cut off content service so we can't grab the latest maps while we can. Those stupid -Blam's- can go the -Blam- to hell. Give us a rerelease Bungie and we will all buy it. I guarenty.

  • 02.06.2010 8:49 AM PDT

That means all the money I spent on original xbox games to play with my friends is wasted

  • 02.06.2010 9:28 AM PDT

this is -blam!- buss-blam!-! they cant -blam!- do this! -blam!- bungie. if you -blam!-s are gonna do this im not buying -blam!- reach! halo 2 was way better than halo 3! now they just take it away! at least remake a -blam!- 360 version of the game that has online. maybe better graphics. but keep the gameplay,maps,weapons and everythig else. also custimizable armor is cool so keep that. but halo 2 shouldnt end this way. it shouldnt end until bungie end. and the day halo 2 ends is the day bungie ends for me :@

  • 02.06.2010 9:28 AM PDT

Bungie.net is the only website that has been able to hold my interest for such a long period of time, and I can only imagine there are still many years to come.

To think that Halo 2 multi-player is was caused me to join this site back in 2004. I am sad, but then you look at it and realize that this game had a great run. Everything must come to an end at some point, unfortunate as it might seem. I will have to whip this bad boy out and give her a go before it is done for good.

  • 02.06.2010 9:32 AM PDT

can u still play the campain offline?


  • 02.06.2010 9:39 AM PDT

Back to back Exterminations

Wrinklefighters, hoah.

I'm not cyring, I just have something in my eye. I met my best friends through work after discovering we were all Halo players. Can't believe it will be going away.

And Tom, you will still be able to play campaign, you just can't log on to Live and play multiplayer.

[Edited on 02.06.2010 9:53 AM PST]

  • 02.06.2010 9:51 AM PDT

Come on everyone! We can do this! Lets try to make Halo 2 a huge hit one more time April 14th. And lets celebrate Bungie's amazing art disigns and fun gaming experiences! On April 14th, try and get all your friends to help out with this celebration :) R.I.P Halo 2 Online Play :) lol

  • 02.06.2010 10:42 AM PDT

Laughing At Nothing

God speed Halo 2. God speed.

Time to get Halo 2 Vista.

  • 02.06.2010 10:46 AM PDT

Woah, this announcement certainly caught me by surprise. Admittedly, I'm pretty saddened to hear this, considering the three years worth of awesome memories I have from that game. Like many here, the majority of my Xbox Live friends list consists of people I met on Halo 2. With that being said, I'll be sure to give my last farewells to Halo 2 LIVE come April 14th.

  • 02.06.2010 10:53 AM PDT

I started live on halo 2 when I was 7. Like a year or less after Xbox Live came out. I can't believe it will be gone. I'll def. be on to remember the past 6 years I've played H2 on live.

  • 02.06.2010 11:02 AM PDT

RIP Halo 2: November 9, 2004-May 10, 2010
I was the 2nd to last person to get kicked off Halo 2, see the thread Here

This is the worst news I Have ever heard. Seriously, so many great memories, and I will never be able to do it again, it's pretty depressing. :(

  • 02.06.2010 11:14 AM PDT
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I agree, I really hope that Bungie will remaster this game and make it available on 360. This was the game that really brought Halo to the main stream BECAUSE of XBL. Halo 1 is a great game and there are many that feel the H1 multiplayer is still the only true MP format for halo. Personally, I love H2 more than the others. The pace of play is way more intense for me than H3 and H1. I've logged hundreds and hundreds of games and have so many fond and terribly frustrating memories. I love this game and am sad to know that I will only be able to play it on lan.

Please Bungie....don't let this one die.

  • 02.06.2010 11:21 AM PDT

Jason Jones of Bungie famously said of Halo 2 that: "it's Halo 1 on fire going 120 miles per hour through a hospital zone chased by helicopters and ninjas. And the ninjas are all on fire too." As a sequel, Halo 2 couldn't quite live up to that extravagant claim.

Well at least I can still play it on GFWL.

  • 02.06.2010 11:28 AM PDT

I can't seem to access my previously downloaded content so I can't do matchmaking. Anybody else having problems?

  • 02.06.2010 11:54 AM PDT

Posted by: Anti Gov420
I think I'm going to cry.

  • 02.06.2010 11:57 AM PDT

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i had made this video for the memory of halo 2.. sorry for the quality....there are a gameplay of a part of the best maps if you want to see this video look this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIe-blam!-y25oI

  • 02.06.2010 12:59 PM PDT