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Subject: Why Halo 2 was a good game and HOW to bring it back

Halo 2 Multiplayer is what got me hooked on Halo. Back when halo 2 was the game to play, it felt pretty good to play and I wished those fun nights playing alone or with friends would never end. However microsoft shut the servers down.

This is what made Halo 2 a cool and unforgetable experience.

1. No voting system! I like how random game play was. I would choose slayer and get all slayer swords, all slayer rockets or just plain slayer. The element of surprise was a great feeling. It's the reason people fell in love with play lists. You could choose one playlist, and let it roll all night long not knowing what to expect. Halo Reach is wacked with it's voting system.

2. Things looked cooler. Lets face it, the guns on reach look goofy. Playing DMR's just don't feel the same anymore like it used too. I remember when DMR's where 3 round bursts! Now they are single shot sniper wannabes.

3. People just seemed some much more mellow on halo 2. It was random, and it was somthing new. Now N days everyone is spoiled with that damn voting system. People leave games before they start because elite slayer got choosin over crazy king.

Halo 3 is the only thing we got left. If you want to experience how halo 2 was that will be the closest thing you can try...

or

Help influence 343 to release halo 2 as an arcade game.

They can even spice it up and release it on the PSN network as well, and just leave it as the only halo title ever released on the ps3. (I am dreaming). Just think of the money they would make ; ).

Bring back Halo 2.

  • 07.19.2011 11:17 PM PDT

I miss Halo 2.
Bungie is the best company in my opinion.
Halo Ftw.

I miss halo 2 and yea i like your arcade game idea. As long as it has halo 2 matchmaking and h2 graphics, im happy.

  • 07.19.2011 11:23 PM PDT

Halo 2 for Life!

we have to wait, i wish for mm btb again alot. but kai can help as it's like custom games all the time which isn't the same as xbl but is still enjoyable

  • 07.19.2011 11:43 PM PDT

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  • 07.20.2011 3:16 PM PDT

Its not the same

  • 07.21.2011 1:45 AM PDT

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Posted by: TikiTrollGuy
I miss halo 2 and yea i like your arcade game idea. As long as it has halo 2 matchmaking and h2 graphics, im happy.
As well as every flaw, glitch and secret the game had. (superbouncing, sword flight, out-of-level exploration, etc.)

  • 07.21.2011 2:02 AM PDT


Posted by: Remorazz

Posted by: TikiTrollGuy
I miss halo 2 and yea i like your arcade game idea. As long as it has halo 2 matchmaking and h2 graphics, im happy.
As well as every flaw, glitch and secret the game had. (superbouncing, sword flight, out-of-level exploration, etc.)


Definitely this. I still have a camera shot of my friend and me on the highest tower with the antenna on Headlong. It took us like 2 hours to get up there. Good stuff.

  • 07.21.2011 1:15 PM PDT


Posted by: C Dirty 4
I still have a camera shot of my friend and me on the highest tower with the antenna on Headlong. It took us like 2 hours to get up there. Good stuff.
Yup, good stuff. Climb it because it was there.

  • 07.21.2011 5:50 PM PDT

definetly they should bring it back i just think it had better multiplayer and all my buddies agree bring it back

  • 07.21.2011 5:57 PM PDT
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I agree, if only there was a way to get through to 343 to at least put up the servers again, even if its just for a limited time :(

  • 07.22.2011 3:12 PM PDT

If there was any original xbox game to keep online it was Halo 2! Halo 3 honestly sucked to me. And you had duel weapons which also gave something to the game. Maps were so much better as well, Especially turf!!!

  • 07.23.2011 2:13 PM PDT
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Sometimes, I dream about cheese.

Posted by: xMlgx xAvengerx
Maps were so much better as well, Especially turf!!!
agree, HALO 2 had the best maps in the series along with C.Es BG. something which made HALO 2 more special (the maps in reach are terrible IMO)

  • 07.23.2011 4:26 PM PDT

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Ive wanted them to release it on the arcade for a long time

  • 07.23.2011 4:38 PM PDT

Awesome ideas!! I also think graphics should be left alone.. I think everything in halo 2 should be the same if there is a remake.. Weopons, maps, etc.

  • 07.25.2011 10:02 AM PDT

Yeah, they should keep the glitches, add theater mode, and then keep the graphics, i would like to feel the same way i did when i played lockout with those graphics (with friends never got to play live)

  • 07.26.2011 1:19 PM PDT

If they remake Halo 2, I kinda want them to leave the graphics the same. So I guess an arcade game would be the only option.

Don't know why, I just love those graphics.

  • 07.26.2011 4:51 PM PDT


Posted by: pwnage79
If they remake Halo 2, I kinda want them to leave the graphics the same. So I guess an arcade game would be the only option.

Don't know why, I just love those graphics.
Same same

  • 07.26.2011 5:15 PM PDT

Black Ops 2 I run two accounts warmup only at 1.97kdr...real is at 3.77. i'm in master division 4 league play. pm 4 clan inv...must have 2.5 kdr or better

Halo 3 > Black Ops Zombies > Call of Duty 4 > Halo 1 > Jak II > Everything else including poo > Halo 2

  • 07.26.2011 5:47 PM PDT

Why cant Bungie just make new servers for halo 2?

[Edited on 07.26.2011 7:04 PM PDT]

  • 07.26.2011 7:04 PM PDT

United we stand Divided we fall
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Yes, but if 1,000 gamers called bungie or 18004myxbox and asked for halo 2 to be returned to xbox live the would not look away.

  • 07.28.2011 12:00 AM PDT

yeah!
i miss that game ;(alot

  • 07.28.2011 3:18 AM PDT

1 marriage request.

All teh cookies.

1 huggle.

To OP,
I really do hope they will bring back this game, and i have just had an idea.
Why not release it as they are the new 'Halo: CEA'?
Lets face it, 343 want to make money so they'll only want to release it with the bare minimum of updated graphics, however i refer to the new halo which includes a toggle switch for new and old graphics. Opinions on this idea?

  • 07.28.2011 5:00 AM PDT

Completly agree. Turf was the best map of the whole game. As of now, I am trying to re-create a game for Halo reach that was in Halo 2, and Turf was the only map I liked to play the game type on. Hide and Seek for anyone who played it!

  • 09.06.2011 3:12 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.

Ah, Turf. The good ol' days of Superbouncing off Med Tent for lolz.

  • 09.06.2011 3:16 PM PDT