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Subject: The future of gaming.....the true gaming experience
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Everyone has had the night of sitting down to a few fun hours of playing live,and although enjoyable,i cant help but feel like there should be more.Ever since sitting down to playing HALO for the first time,slack jawed,i realize that the time is coming where we are going to be able to do what we want to in games.with that in mind i feel the need to express what I want in a game.HALO2 is a great start,dual weilding...great! although running into the noob combo over and over does stink...the rides...good stuff...however vehics like the covie warthog..(cant think of the name of it at this moment) go virtually unused..sorry guys...cool vehicle..lets just get it used some...by the way my writing style is getting ready to go down the tubes...its easier for me.Bungie!...maybe everyone didnt understand the RACE game on HALO...thats because on a great map like blood gulch you could only have 2 warthogs!!! thats a bummer. my friends and i play a fun game on coagulation with 4 warthogs...crappy weapons and grenades....lotsa fun.my point..bring back race...just give us more vehicles...and while on the vehicle rant...please allow us to disarm a warthog for the event...running over guys in the warty is fun...its just too tempting for a guy to hop on the back and start blazing away...thus ruining the type of game that ive made.

anyway...give me a moment to cleanse the pallet by saying that i LOVE HALO...and the rest of what im saying after this is my attempt to share a vision of HALO changing the way we play ALL games...why follow when we can lead....(by WE i mean you fine folks at BUNGIE)....anyway....take a moment to imagine....

you join a game...you spawn on top of your base....you walk to the edge looking into the horizon...you can only guess at what lies outside the reach of your vision...your not part of a clan...your part of an army...the enemy is out there somewhere...but not just the enemy...there is something worse out there too...something you both fear...an enemy that is relentless and legion....your base is equipped with all the latest tech....great vehicles...great weapons...and a great team....you have all made a committment to the game that you are undertaking and have vowed to not leave your brother alone on the field of battle because of a silly thing like your getting your A** handed to you....or you cant seem to get the vehicle or weapon of your choice.....your going to make it work...so youve got a pocketful of grenades and a needler...well by the will of the prophets theres going to be some people flying thorugh the air with some pink shards stuck in their butts.....

And so the game has begun....you know the basics....this game is an artifact retrieval....somewhare on the opposite side of the map.....the covanant are readying their troops for the same mission.....somewhere between the two armies.....a solitary structure....maybe your going to have to go deep into the earth...or maybe your going to have to go up.....into the bowels of a ship...it doesnt matter...they will be there....the FLOOD...sure they dont use weapons ALL that well....but they have numbers....lots of them....you try not to think about it as you head to the armory....grab a few choice weapons and head to the garage....there they are ,vehicles...you and your team pile into a transport...you hope the gunners and drivers can get you to your destination safely....you know that you may have to be "helldropped" out into the action or maybe dropped onto a remote hill where you can get your attack team on the same page before your up to your neck in it.....>as a sidenote...maybe a base is able to launch a teleport "missile" if you will...of course there is no telling if it will land where you want it to...and maybe it can also be destroyed with enough firepower<

and so begins the assault...as you and a few of your team try to drive a dropped warthog to the front door of the base and establish a stable firepoint..your not alone as a team of covies are trying to do the same.....you take a few shots at the covs as your team pulls ever closer to the base....one of your team jumps from the speeding warty and takes a moment to pull the rockets.....you watch with satisfaction as a rocket obliterates the lead covie vehicle.....the second covie team bears down on your teammate and as he/or she reloads and you watch as they become a hood ornament....as you turn your focus to the base,your gunner starts to mow down the FLOOD pouring out of it....you see a few more vehicles from both sides converging on the FLOOD infested base....your driver doesnt bother to slow down as you plow into the FLOOD....you jump from the HOG and kill everything within reach....some of your team dies....but you cant worry about that now....you know that more are on the way...or at least you hope....from your past battles you know that the FLOOD come at you in waves,and if you can get through this wave you will have a moment to catch your breath and go for the prize....your 2 floors down when you find a room with a teleport that you can link to your base....but only one way.....in......you imagine the covies have discovered a similar room......you proceed deeper into the base fighting FLOOD and cov troops as you go....your team makes it to a great room where the FLOOD are protecting an item of significance...a reactor core....>to be destroyed and blow the ship<....or maybe a satellite linkup...>to be taken back to your base<..in this case its the latter...you fight your way to the linkup and with it firmly in your grasp....fight your way back to the top....covies and FLOOD bar your way.....to be mowed down by your teammates....you get outside to a scene of a hardfought battle to prepare for your arrival....you hop in the waiting hog and tear off towards your base.....what you dont know is that the covs realizing that you are close to achieving your goal have set up an ambush of vehicles and troops along the path of your return.....your troops fight them off enough to allow a harried ride back to your base and you and your team savor a hard won victory.....

short but to the point at the end.....anyway...i have alot more to say on this topic and would love to share it...>back to more game issues<......BUNGIE!!! im sure that its not a simple task...but when i see the word..."custom"and "game" i would like to think that it would mean that i would at least have a say on what vehicle and number of said vehicle that i would have in my "custom" game....i could come up with a great game involving banshees....just i would need at least 4 of them....games dont have to be all about the killing....the game i mentioned with warthogs and crappy shooty weapons and grenades is alot of fun....the idea is to commandeer yourself a hog and make some roadkill.....the name of the game is....."dont be roadkill"...its a blast!....some people get it...some dont....


anyway...its getting late and my typing isnt so good....i look forward to sharing some ideas with other gamers who arent always about the kill.....my gamertag is "an AngryBeaver"

  • 11.08.2005 8:54 PM PDT
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truely being able to customize multiplayer on any Halo would be great....provided that all of your friends enjoy crashing around in a hog. But the banshee idea sounds good.

Making a custom map (terrain, bases, weapons, vehicles, the works) would make any multiplayer fan cry.

So Bungie...when can we have our own halo version of "simtown" for customizable maps?

  • 11.09.2005 8:37 AM PDT