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Subject: I love the H2 community

It makes me happy to see that people are still active in the H2 forum. Halo 2 was, in my opinion, the best game that has ever been made. I wanted to cry when it was taken off XBL.

Not only was the game freakin awesome, but I can't even think of a time that I ever had to 'avoid' a gamer or anything like that. There were days that I could start a custom game on Headlong and would get random people joining me and it was great. Unfortunately, with the Halo Reach community, you get kids that all they do is flame and troll. Don't get me wrong, I love Halo Reach. Its pretty much the only XBL game I have played within the last month or two. I just wish the good old days of H2 had not been gotten rid of...

  • 03.16.2011 9:12 AM PDT

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I agree with you OP. This game had a incredible campaign, very funny when in local co-op aswel. The MP was very nice with no campers or kids shouting at there mic's. It was such a awesome place to be wwhat (i think) MMO players feel
(I don't like MMO)
but the valid point you raise is that the comminity and the forums around it was (fact) the best.(even with the modders on XBL)
[I enjoyed what they modded because it was intentionaly fun!]
The Bungie forums ninja's where IMO very soft about banning people because there never was a kid-bandwagon hype thing.
I wouldn't mind to see a remake of this game, i'll play and love it.
The people that say "O M G REMAKE IS GONA SUCK!" are either fans scared for change (EVOLVE!) or fear kidds and campers to ruin this god-like game.
I fully aggree that H2 is the best game ever made. (nostalgia?)
It could have only been better with XBL co-op and Forge.
I might add more...

  • 03.16.2011 1:21 PM PDT

I liked halo 2 alot, but it had major flaws.

[Edited on 03.16.2011 1:40 PM PDT]

  • 03.16.2011 1:36 PM PDT
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Reconciliation amongst us.

I too, am in agreement. Despite my strong opinion that Halo 2 was a better game because of so many things, ( IE Campaign, MP, Settings, Duel Needlers, Emblems, etc.,) Halo Reach is a different environment all together.

It's the gamers these days. When Halo 2 came out, Xbox Live was rather new on the market. There was never an abundance of online gamers until Halo 2. When this revelation did occur however, people reacted differently. Do not be fooled, there were Halo 2 gamers with a bad attitude, although few. The hostility was minimum because anonymity was foreign to social relations in 2005, yet look what it is now.

Six years later, you have the Halo: Reach community majority. A fully anonymous and atrocious sect, in my opinion.

This, is why you and I share the common admiration of the Halo 2 community, my friend. Politeness, integrity, thoroughness, and character are traits that we all have in common. In the simplest, purist form I can think of, we are elite. (Yet humble of it.)

To sum up my thoughts, I love you guys too.

  • 03.16.2011 1:44 PM PDT

"I wanted to make people happy, if only for an hour."
-Busby Berkley

RIP Halo 2

Halo 2 was the golden age of online gaming.

  • 03.16.2011 1:47 PM PDT

This is the average H2 Fanboy.
Xfire: JacobGRocks.
50 in H2/H3? Great, but you still fail at this.

Thing is, the community wasn't as great as your nostalgia goggles make it out to be. Look back in the forums in 05-06, and you will only see flaming.

It was like the reach forum of 2005/6.

As for the community being "perfect", look at YouTube. You can find a lot of older idiots on XBL videos with....guess which game...Halo 2!

Thing is, I could say the same thing about H3 or any other Halo having a "Godlike Community".


[Edited on 03.16.2011 1:58 PM PDT]

  • 03.16.2011 1:55 PM PDT

Good old days..

Especially ingame Halo 2 ruled..
People were trash talking the -blam!- out of each other every game haha

  • 03.16.2011 2:20 PM PDT
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Posted by: JacobGRocks
Yeah, Hitboxing = fail. For example, a certan user from the maw who has never played Halo 2 Xbox online links to this halo 2 bash video (its much less exreme in acutial gameplay) which shows hitboxing, but it also exists in halo 3, which also has unbalanced weps and n00b armor (recon).


Posted by: TyrannoSoul
I liked halo 2 alot, but it had major flaws.

Oh, look, another one...

  • 03.16.2011 4:28 PM PDT

~khristian

it was the best

  • 03.16.2011 5:41 PM PDT

This is the average H2 Fanboy.
Xfire: JacobGRocks.
50 in H2/H3? Great, but you still fail at this.


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Posted by: TyrannoSoul
I liked halo 2 alot, but it had major flaws.

Oh, look, another one...


...Who isn't brainwashed.

Keep in mind, I hated H3 at the time only because my 360 gave me rrod.

  • 03.16.2011 6:20 PM PDT

What I don't understand is why people hang out in these forums just to flame... If we wanna say how much we loved it, then back off and let us say it. I don't have these 'nostalgia goggles' on. I will still go back and play Halo 2. And will have huge H2 parties with all my friends and my brothers friends. In my personal opinion, H2 is the best Halo that has been made. The glitches were extremely entertaining, as well as MM gameplay and campaign. That game never gets old for me

  • 03.17.2011 6:32 PM PDT

If you didn't Play Halo: CE or Halo 2 MP, your opinion about Halo means nada.

CE + H2 >>>>>>>>>>>>>> H3+Reach+H4


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Posted by: Xelyx

Posted by: TyrannoSoul
I liked halo 2 alot, but it had major flaws.

Oh, look, another one...


...Who isn't brainwashed.

Keep in mind, I hated H3 at the time only because my 360 gave me rrod.

I hope you retards realized all that was done to compensate for online play and lag. CE was meant to be played on LAN so it could require more precision

  • 03.17.2011 9:39 PM PDT

This is the average H2 Fanboy.
Xfire: JacobGRocks.
50 in H2/H3? Great, but you still fail at this.


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Posted by: JacobGRocks

Posted by: Xelyx

Posted by: TyrannoSoul
I liked halo 2 alot, but it had major flaws.

Oh, look, another one...


...Who isn't brainwashed.

Keep in mind, I hated H3 at the time only because my 360 gave me rrod.

I hope you retards realized all that was done to compensate for online play and lag. CE was meant to be played on LAN so it could require more precision


Freaking ut99 was meant to be played online ON DIAL UP! Did it have huge hitboxes? Nope.avi

  • 03.18.2011 12:34 PM PDT
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I disagree. The Halo 2/XBL community has always been the same. I played Halo 2 from 2005 up to the shutdown last year and I saw no change in the community: plenty of normal guys just wanting to play some video games and plenty of trash-talking -blam!-s. Nostalgia's getting to your head, guys. People have always taken advantage of the anonymity of Xbox Live, it never changed.

And if there was a change in the community during the last few years, it's gotta be a positive one. Since less people have mics now or are in parties with their friends while playing, there's less trash talking and generally dick behavior. I haven't been betrayed for a weapon for long time, either. Maybe I'm just getting lucky, but I don't see what's so horrible about the community now. If we were talking Call of Duty I may agree with you, but I'm just not seeing the fuss here.

  • 03.19.2011 3:13 PM PDT

This is the average H2 Fanboy.
Xfire: JacobGRocks.
50 in H2/H3? Great, but you still fail at this.

Yeah, the XBL community has gotten better since Halo 2. Since the NXE update added party chat, most people just go in a party now. I haven't seen TKing for weapons in H3 or Reach either.

Heck, in CoD, contrary to the stereotype, many people don't have mics or are party chatting, unless it's a playlist that forces you out of party chat.

[Edited on 03.19.2011 4:40 PM PDT]

  • 03.19.2011 4:39 PM PDT

This is actually the stupidest thing ever posted on B.net:

Posted by: the omega man117
Why does everyone hate Halo 2? Maybe its because its the worst game ever next to mario.

No private chats is what made the Halo 2 Pregame Lobby so brutal sometimes.

  • 03.19.2011 5:08 PM PDT

Words cannot describe how much I love this game. While I'm happy the PC version still has online capability, it's nothing like the xbox experience.

This was the game to order pizza for!

  • 03.19.2011 6:04 PM PDT

This is the average H2 Fanboy.
Xfire: JacobGRocks.
50 in H2/H3? Great, but you still fail at this.


Posted by: Super PolarBear
No private chats is what made the Halo 2 Pregame Lobby so brutal sometimes.

Not as good as valve micspamming.

That does remind me of reach pregame micspamming with Justin Bieber my friend once did.

  • 03.19.2011 6:26 PM PDT

iPhone 4S 64GB Black.

Yeah reach community is a joke.

  • 03.20.2011 9:04 AM PDT