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Posted by: Chafe222
Posted by: Grumpy1
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There probably aren't many people reading here, but I feel as though I should speak; there are others who feel this way.
The spirit of a specific game is not just its story or its gameplay. Halo 2 was a magnificent game; not just because of its mechanism or story (though in both cases it is stellar), but because of the time it existed. As much as I love the game, the climate in which it was released will never be replicated. The developers, nor I (who adore the game beyond words), will ever be able to bring it back into the similar spirit of which it was first released. This is not anyone's fault; the fault now only belongs to time itself.
I, and many others, would love for Halo to have a resurgence: but it wont; at least not the same way. There is room for the series to go forward; but backward represents nothing but a feeble attempt for us to cling onto something we recollect fondly, but in fact no longer exists.
I leave room to be proved wrong. I do not claim clairvoyance; only to have some experience. I hope I am proved wrong. I am certain that some funds could be raised by replicating an older game, but is that the right direction? The correct way is forward; even if we have an ardent longing for the past.
I love Halo. It will always have an extraordinarily special place in my heart. I will place myself blatantly next to whatever choice is made for the series; but sometimes the wisest choices are made from the heart and not the head.
Why all the drama? All we really want is H2 back on LIVE as a choice to play. Very simple, they took it off and us consumers want it back on.
I don't know anyone who only plays one game. You know what Grumpy, you're right. My argument was more directed at the people usually using the argument of, "I would play halo 2 foreveeeeeeaarr then." Whereas you see it as any old computer/nintendo/etc game that you want available to play whenever.
The problem with this is the matchmaking has always been a service provided by a company in conjunction with that game. So where old computer games can continue functioning as someone dedicated to it hosts a server, console games' matchmaking cannot be run by someone else as microsoft/sony/nintendo wouldn't allow it. Otherwise you could easily get a company to host some matchmaking for a specific game. And microsoft/sony/nintendo have to drop this service to certain games because at some point it be comes a detraction from their revenue with so few people playing. Yeah, most of us don't understand the technical issues with putting it back on live but we figure if they can do it with CE then our hopes are alive to someday have that choice.
Most of us here have other games we love but we are painted as fanatics by people with loose keyboards. H2 is my favorite but it's a tie with Metal Arms (I still play that game once in a while) and CE is a very close 3rd.