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Subject: Kritz's view on Halo.
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I'm not sure how, but when I turned on my Xbox today, Halo was in it.

Concidering I had 3 other friends around, we decided to play some split screen. But damn. Did we get a suprise.

That game is actully a lot worse then I remember. A ghost (me) could take on a tank, because somehow the plasma made it unable to turn. The shotgun was as unpredictable as Halo 2's, at far range it could take someone out in 4 shots, while upclose it was hard with 3 (I'm sure the smarter people can see what I mean).

The AR is a worse spray weapon then SMG/PR combo! About half of that thing could take out a guy. Damned as hell, if he knew what he was doing he could out-strafe the pistol.

The pistol had the ability to miss even though 75% of the reticle was in a guys head (I was watching two guys battle it out while I shook off my suicide penalty).

Throwing a plasma grenade is as helpful as fireing a rocket at your feet. Even if you get them, they've relised they can take you out too. Frag grenades took a good 2 seconds to blow. That ment that my run away stratergy of "Run behind a corner and drop a grenade at your feet" was useless. Unless I did it 3 seconds in advance (A lifetime when being chased with no sheilds)

The sniper was INSAINLY easy to snipe people. A friend took out two guys running right at him. Then I managed to shoot him down in one shot. It seemed to slow down a lot faster then Halo 2, even including the massive autoaim of H2.

The needler was better used as a smoke screen then a weapon. Even when they ran at you in a straight line, it managed to miss. It was like two negative magnent sides getting pushed close to each other.

The plasma pistol.. was.. well.. useless. It just sat on the ground... watching.. not being picked up. Because we had all relised that it only went in a straight line and even if you did hit them, it would take about two more ful charges to kill a guy.

The tank felt like.. well, a tank. It moved slow, but had a feeling of thrice the power.

On bigger maps, like Blood Gultch, there were two weapons used.

Pistol. Sniper.

If you didn't have a sniper, you had to pray you didn't spawn in the middle. Although I admit this is the same as Halo 2, either way you put it, it isn't a good feeling. Even more so since you have a weapon that could possibly hit them, but you're too damned far away.

The radar was so sensitive, it seemed like when I was at red base, I could pick them up while they were at blue. An extemly painful feeling on Prisoner(sp?), with so many levels, those little red dots get on your nerves.

Atleast now, when someone used the rocket too close, they died.

I guess Halo was fun. We had a good time playing campain.. jumping down from the top bridge on AOTCR to where the marines were..

But really, after playing both Halo and Halo 2, I'm hoping the '360 will come out soon..

I'm sorry for the -blam!-ing, but I feel like some people are blindly sticking up for Halo / Halo 2. I'm a massive fan, but I'm admitting they're not the best.

>> Kritz

  • 08.06.2005 5:50 AM PDT
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Once I played halo:ce and blew myself up by accident because I wasn't used to the blast radius! You can throw plasma grenades and stick someone from about 100metres back... and the tanks can do backflips if you drive into each other. I felt so limited when I play halo:ce...

  • 08.06.2005 3:01 PM PDT
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lol, kritz... it sounds like u guys just blow gaping -blam!- at H1...

when ur strafing with the pistol the shots go on either side of the pistol's crosshair depending what direction your strafing... and if you moving and aim at the same time with the pistol... u have to LEAD the shots a little bit... the games not -blam!-. u guys just suck, and when ur buddy had the snipes ur friends were running in a straight line, plasma freezes stuff. and ur garbage.

[Edited on 8/7/2005]

  • 08.07.2005 12:22 AM PDT
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Posted by: XrissXross1
lol, kritz... it sounds like u guys just blow gaping -blam!- at H1...

when ur strafing with the pistol the shots go on either side of the pistol's crosshair depending what direction your strafing... and if you moving and aim at the same time with the pistol... u have to LEAD the shots a little bit... the games not -blam!-. u guys just suck, and when ur buddy had the snipes ur friends were running in a straight line, plasma freezes stuff. and ur garbage.
What happened to other peoples opinions?

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I agree with you all the way on this one. The gameplay improvements between halo and halo 2 are incredible. When I go back to Halo now it just doesn't feel right. It's still a great game but it is just hard to get used to.

  • 08.07.2005 4:54 AM PDT
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Posted by: XrissXross1
lol, kritz... it sounds like u guys just blow gaping -blam!- at H1...

when ur strafing with the pistol the shots go on either side of the pistol's crosshair depending what direction your strafing... and if you moving and aim at the same time with the pistol... u have to LEAD the shots a little bit... the games not -blam!-. u guys just suck, and when ur buddy had the snipes ur friends were running in a straight line, plasma freezes stuff. and ur garbage.


I suck, eh?

Yeah. Sometimes not playing a game for half a year does that to people.

Also, how can you be so sure everyone was running in a straight line? You assume too much.

Remember, Never reproduce. That'ld be wreaking two more lives.

>> Kritz

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Posted by: Kritz
Posted by: XrissXross1
lol, kritz... it sounds like u guys just blow gaping -blam!- at H1...

when ur strafing with the pistol the shots go on either side of the pistol's crosshair depending what direction your strafing... and if you moving and aim at the same time with the pistol... u have to LEAD the shots a little bit... the games not -blam!-. u guys just suck, and when ur buddy had the snipes ur friends were running in a straight line, plasma freezes stuff. and ur garbage.


I suck, eh?

Yeah. Sometimes not playing a game for half a year does that to people.

Also, how can you be so sure everyone was running in a straight line? You assume too much.

Remember, Never reproduce. That'ld be wreaking two more lives.

>> Kritz
HAHA Wooo....

  • 08.08.2005 1:37 AM PDT
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Actually... I didnt suck at halo 1 after not playing it for a year... i was actualy better, NIG

  • 08.08.2005 2:15 PM PDT

I agree.
I still think Halo:CE is the secong best game in the world, but it just doesn't have the same feel as Halo 2.
Thru and thru I think Halo is a great game besides all the things that wereoverpowered and underpowered. I even go back and replay Halo every 2 weeks. That is really rare for me. I Never replay games besides Halo and Halo 2.

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Posted by: Frost Sniper
I agree.
I still think Halo:CE is the secong best game in the world, but it just doesn't have the same feel as Halo 2.
Thru and thru I think Halo is a great game besides all the things that wereoverpowered and underpowered. I even go back and replay Halo every 2 weeks. That is really rare for me. I Never replay games besides Halo and Halo 2.
Halo2 does have more fans... its just that most of them have bad grammar, don't know how to spell and usually are easy to critisize (check out new mombasa)

Nothing beats the halo series. The only reason people compare halo:ce to halo2 is because every other company makes suck-ass games that can't compete (or they just don't like it. Most people just can't accept changes and think Bungie should make everything to suit them) Anyway, what do you people think xboxes 3rd best game is? Its too hard for me to think :(

  • 08.08.2005 11:15 PM PDT
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Can we just face it? Halo had some things wrong in it (for me it was mainly the needler in multiplayer), and so did Halo 2 (like the fact that there was no ending and a bunch of other stuff). Hopefully Halo 3 will combine the best of both worlds and create a game so godly that Jesus himself will play it 24/7 on LIVE. w00t

  • 08.09.2005 5:39 PM PDT
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Can we just face it? Halo had some things wrong in it (for me it was mainly the needler in multiplayer), and so did Halo 2 (like the fact that there was no ending and a bunch of other stuff). Hopefully Halo 3 will combine the best of both worlds and create a game so godly that Jesus himself will play it 24/7 on LIVE. w00t
Hopefully...

  • 08.09.2005 9:27 PM PDT

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Nothing perfect and crying about it now wont fix anything.

  • 08.09.2005 10:26 PM PDT
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Lets all shutup =)

Halo3 hasn't even been confirmed...

  • 08.09.2005 11:41 PM PDT