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Subject: PAX: The Public Plays Zanzibar!
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So, everyday folk have played Halo2. Great! Any news on the controler set-up? Do we get fully customisable controls? Can we assign different functions other that "secondary fire" to the LEFT trigger??????

Anyone who has played know anything regarding this???

Frankie? Why cant you tell us????

Why is this such a big secret???

  • 09.01.2004 10:35 PM PDT
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i love you frankie

  • 09.01.2004 10:38 PM PDT
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Im pretty sure the controls arent customizable... I remember there were default,southpaw,boxer,and some others, in the in game control settings thingy.

But i wounder if they have a thing not ingame that lets you fully customize controls and then let you change to those in game.

We werent allowed to see much of the main screen so i doubt anyone knows if that will happen.

  • 09.01.2004 11:23 PM PDT

Australia always gets left behind

Hot girls playing Halo! THERE IS NO GOD.

  • 09.02.2004 1:15 AM PDT
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"But the game looked stunning - I guess Amber Spartan's gripes were because there were framerate issues, due to there being 10 people on the beach at once, all in fierce combat, with about 30 corpses, dropped guns and charred vehicles lying around. Plus it's hard to admire the scenery when surrounded by 9 angry dual-smg, sword and rocket-wielding spartans."

I suppose you right, it was absolute chaos. The fact the some idiot had but my controller on southpaw setting and inverted which ment i spent the 1st few seconds being killed in a number or hidious ways also contributed to my dissapointment.

What i did find out is the the new boost on the ghost (L trigger) was amazing i must have mowed down at least 5 people before i got a rocket 2 the face.

Ill just put the crapy game mode down 2 bad organising like u said and continue to make preperations for Nov 11th :)

  • 09.02.2004 2:54 AM PDT
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Posted by: Distain
This sucks! I want to play halo 2! I'm sure that i wouldnt get defeated by a bunch of girls though.


That's what I'm sayin. Especially "hot" ones. Maybe guys were intimidated by them? Maybe they didn't try to kill em cuz they was girls? Maybe they just sucked. Those girls might be pretty damn good, I read their site and it says they play video games a lot and I think they even work in gaming industries, so maybe they really are damn good. I think I could still take em though =) I just can't imagine good looking girls good at halo.

Anyone at the PAX know if Frankie played? Lol I wonder how good he is people say he sucks in a joking way but I bet he is damn good considering he hears, sees, and breathes Halo.

  • 09.02.2004 7:20 AM PDT
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im bummed out cuz didnt get a chance to play at the expo..i was too far away to get there, im in canada so it goes badly...

  • 09.02.2004 9:05 AM PDT
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<quote>Thanks for noticing! I tried my best to put on a good show for everyone watching, and the applause just made it all the sweeter. And what you say is true - considering the Dolls had little to no experience with the game at all, they sure put finger to trigger like they meant business.<quote>

I have all the experience in the world with Halo, considering I played fulltime long before xbc came out on gamespy, as well as competing in local tourny's. In fact i entered the halo national championships that first year and beat out about 80 "self-proclaimed" halo experts to advance to the next round. To which point when I went the next week I promptly got my butt kicked, lmao.

  • 09.02.2004 9:48 AM PDT
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dude why cant u post up messages franky? and on a scale from 1-10 ten being pistol before how toned down is it (although im still happy its still here)

  • 09.02.2004 3:52 PM PDT
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you are such a -blam!--munkee

  • 09.02.2004 3:53 PM PDT
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dude speak to the public

  • 09.02.2004 4:01 PM PDT
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there's nithing else i can think of to say about the public gettin to play zanzibar (sucks that i didn't though). what else can u say? sure, were all pissed (if we didn't get to play, those guys who did play bgot extreme bragging rights!), but what can u do? keep saying "this is <BLAM>-ing crazy"? its old, besides, NOVEMBER 9TH IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER!!! anyway, for those who did play, describe the map more... what was it like? could u actually blow a back entrance through the base with a "bullet hose", and did that place with the falling pillars kill anyone? anyway i want te new stuff to be available for halo 1, i want enough firepower to blast through the door on "the silent cartographer", i want an energy-sword if i kill it's owner, I WANT CHAOS (oh, wait...we already have that...). i gotta stop don't i? CROWD: yes......... ME: okay, later


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hey "amberspartan", we both have the same advatar (or icon, whatever its called, i can't think right now)

  • 09.02.2004 4:05 PM PDT
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WTF? MY HALO DOESN'T WORK?!

  • 09.02.2004 4:14 PM PDT
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Why in the world are you making it so that only the unfortunate(fortunate?) few that actually live near you guys in rainy, rainy Washington are the only ones that are allowed to play HALO 2 early?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Make fun of me for questioning your perfect, PERFECT marketing plan!!

  • 09.02.2004 4:29 PM PDT

Man, I need to look at the frontpage more often...I'm late. Anyway, yet another awesome story from the great Frankie, good job as always. ;)

  • 09.02.2004 4:50 PM PDT
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Seattle, dispite popular belief, is not very rainy, however Florida is VERY rainy for being the "sunshine state".

  • 09.02.2004 7:02 PM PDT
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despite popular belief? Lol you mean factual information? Seattle IS VERY rainy, not all of it but at a certain part, I think more near the Northwest/West, they have the highest suicide rate in the USA because rain leads to depression.

Wow that girl says she beat out 80 halo elites....I think she could beat me then! I definitely wouldn't get owned by her though, I played a national ranking player who I think says he was # 27 in the nation or something and he definitely wasn't lieing, cuz he owned like crazy, and I just about tied with him.

  • 09.03.2004 6:23 AM PDT
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Posted by: Drez
despite popular belief? Lol you mean factual information? Seattle IS VERY rainy, not all of it but at a certain part, I think more near the Northwest/West, they have the highest suicide rate in the USA because rain leads to depression


wow, seattle has the highest suicide rating cause its so rainy and depressing? if it raind alot i'd never stop playing halo! either seattle doesn't know about halo or they think halo is also depressing (or suicidal, especially when playing heavy weapons on LAN). anyway, halo isn't depressing, i'm gonna go start a new game right now! internet game, server: STUNTS ONLY

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thats my server, you don't have to do stunts if u don't wnt to

  • 09.03.2004 7:04 AM PDT
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I wish I had gone to this thing...it sounds like it was a ton of gaming goodness. Maybe next year.

/first post

  • 09.03.2004 12:01 PM PDT
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Hey everyone!! I have some bad news!! isnt that great?.....well anyways there is not going to be ATV's in Halo 2!!.....The officail xbox magazine is where I saw it from!!!.....Let your anger begin...cause serioulsy Im losing interest in Halo 2.....it sounds -blam!- now....they screwed it up for me.... Oh well.... Later dudes.

  • 09.03.2004 12:52 PM PDT
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Posted by: Cpt Eversmen
Hey everyone!! I have some bad news!! isnt that great?.....well anyways there is not going to be ATV's in Halo 2!!.....The officail xbox magazine is where I saw it from!!!.....Let your anger begin...cause serioulsy Im losing interest in Halo 2.....it sounds -blam!- now....they screwed it up for me.... Oh well.... Later dudes.


duh, someone already said theres no atvs in halo 2 (page three i think), someone already went ape--blam!- over that! by the way, bad news isn't something id wanna go around parading, it makes u look -blam!-. anyway, we already knew atvs were gone...

  • 09.03.2004 1:25 PM PDT
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Well sorry....and I wasnt going around having a blast posting bad news you freak... I was being sarcastic, but your to stupid to comprehend that.....besides I didnt even know that you people knew already...so go -blam!- at someone else and let them know what a stupid fool you are!!!......

  • 09.03.2004 6:35 PM PDT
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yeah... i was at PAX and frag dools weren't really that great at Halo 2. kicked ass at Rainbow 6 3 though, but taht game doesnt matter

  • 09.03.2004 9:36 PM PDT
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Posted by: Cpt Eversmen
Well sorry....and I wasnt going around having a blast posting bad news you freak... I was being sarcastic, but your to stupid to comprehend that.....besides I didnt even know that you people knew already...so go -blam!- at someone else and let them know what a stupid fool you are!!!......


well i didn't know u were being sarcastic, but if we had 6 pages of forums don't u think SOMEONE would have already mentioned it? besides, i didn't know u were TRYING to be sarcasic. by the way, how do u figure im freak? u don't even know my name!

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sorry, but i really didn't know u were being sarcastic...

  • 09.04.2004 6:17 AM PDT
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Its fine....next time dont assume things....thats all I have to say.

  • 09.04.2004 12:11 PM PDT