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Subject: Main Menu Idea for Halo 2
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Poll: Do you like my idea?  [closed]
Yes:  89%
(24 Votes)
No:  11%
(3 Votes)
Total Votes: 27

I brought this up way way back in 2003 but im gonna post it again cause not alot of people looked at it. I hope and think that the main menu should look like this... instead of a camera spinning aoround Halo, they should have a camera going around earth, earth has explosions going off every were and the earth itself looks redish, covanent cruisers flying around earth with a few banshees and swordfish fighters fighting, with the sun off in the background and the rememberance music playing in the background ( if you dont know what im talking about for the music, its on the front page). Thats what i think the main menu looks like but im sure bungie will make it look sweet any how. What do you think?

  • 04.13.2004 10:26 PM PDT

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how about different backgrounds that randomly come up each time you play

  • 04.13.2004 10:28 PM PDT
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Friggin' awesome! But do you know what a -blam!- that would be to code? Especially if you don't want to see the same explosions and ships passing (which would make it even better). :P

  • 04.13.2004 10:30 PM PDT
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cant have banshee's, they max out at 300 meters or something, wouldnt be able to be in space. other than that it sounds cool

[Edited on 4/13/2004 10:32:02 PM]

  • 04.13.2004 10:31 PM PDT
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I hope I'll be able to look at the main screen and see something new or interesting every time.

  • 04.13.2004 10:37 PM PDT
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they need some nice 3d bump mapped letters that have real time lighting on them and in the backround their needs to be a constant replay of random multiplayer battles u went through or atleast the highlights, in full high res goodness!

[Edited on 4/13/2004 10:40:31 PM]

  • 04.13.2004 10:40 PM PDT
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......I'm lost for words...That is a really good idea...How about some battle-ships firing upon it too?

  • 05.08.2004 11:02 PM PDT
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Posted by: valgina
they need some nice 3d bump mapped letters that have real time lighting on them and in the backround their needs to be a constant replay of random multiplayer battles u went through or atleast the highlights, in full high res goodness!

that'd be cool but could be demanding on your hardrive

and the main ideas cool, they could just program it with a low quality ai so that they'll choose there own paths and stuff

  • 05.08.2004 11:12 PM PDT
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i no they should have phantoms

  • 05.08.2004 11:32 PM PDT
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Thats a cool idea. But this time around we aren't staying on earth. So shouldn't the main menu show something else besides earth. Like after it shows the Covenant ships the camara pans out into space to show a lone Long Sword leaving Earth. or something like that? Thats just my thought, as stupid as it might be.

  • 05.08.2004 11:42 PM PDT
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they should make one for before and one for after you beat the game so before its just earth and it doesnt ruin anything about where your goin(we've all seen the e3 demo) then after it should show the last place you go wherever that is, then it should just be random between the 2

  • 05.08.2004 11:46 PM PDT

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i like the instant replay thing i think u should be able to get replays of any game afterward and opt it to be wear you want and people could even download that replay from ur xbox

  • 05.08.2004 11:48 PM PDT
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Thats kool you guys like my idea. You could probably add more to it, but the idea with the camera moveing away from earth to somewere else could be a spoiler for someone watching it for the first time, but if you ment it in another way, thats kool. I really hope they do something like my idea, i kinda visualized it and it was sweet. Sticks with the original game but is better lookin and would have -blam!- going on in the background instead of a camera circleing earth. Another good idea would be a camera doing exactly what it was doing in the first game, but with the broken Halo we blew up :). Keep posting, i thought this baby was dead.

  • 05.09.2004 12:18 AM PDT
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Posted by: GrimReaper236
they should make one for before and one for after you beat the game so before its just earth and it doesnt ruin anything about where your goin(we've all seen the e3 demo) then after it should show the last place you go wherever that is, then it should just be random between the 2


Good idea, but it has a major flaw. Some people play on the same xbox, and will have beaten the game sooner than the other(s). That means the main menu's background should be changed per profile. This is a paradox...

I like the idea of earth being attacked, but I think it would be very hard to make it stay interesting. I have the impression that this would be some sort of movie (telling a story), instead of just a moving background... Movies get boring after you've seen them a few times, but I still like the Halo background... I'm sure Bungie will surprise us with a very cool main menu, complete with a cool background that does'nt reveal anything, but is very interesting non the less.

  • 05.09.2004 1:08 AM PDT
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I think it should show scenes from Halo:CE when you don't press any buttons for a while, like explaing the story, but I haven't thought about the backroung yet but I like the idea.

  • 05.09.2004 1:14 AM PDT
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Along the same lines how about the camera pans around earth and a Covenant Cruiser which is reflecting some of the sun. No explosions or anything.

  • 05.09.2004 2:13 AM PDT
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I dont doubt that it would be hard to make, but im sure bungie will make a kool one. Bungie never fails to make their fans happy.

  • 05.09.2004 11:56 AM PDT
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black shimmering water with halo2 reflect in the ripple with the sounds of the battle on earth with pleas for help for ten second then you can start the game

  • 05.09.2004 12:02 PM PDT
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I dont think we can hear people scream from outer space, if thats what you are saying :P

  • 05.09.2004 12:12 PM PDT
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Banshees protect the cruisers they do fly in space

  • 05.09.2004 12:15 PM PDT
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Banshees CAN fly in space, only they dont have a pressurized cockpit, so unless youre in a completely airtight suit (I.E. MJOLNIR) you siffocate when you leave the atmosphere. And its the Seraph fighters that protect to cruisers, not banshees.

  • 05.09.2004 12:21 PM PDT
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Wow this topic could become a sticky soon lol. Now the argument on if banshee's fly in space and that sort of stuff. lol

  • 05.09.2004 12:25 PM PDT
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Banshees can fly in space only if they are realeased there, they can't break a planets atmosphere.

  • 05.09.2004 12:31 PM PDT
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Well, now we know :)

  • 05.09.2004 1:07 PM PDT

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