- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Well i understand where you're comming from on this. There is a lot of great new additions to Halo2. From customizing your armor, and insignias, vehicle destruction, dual weilding, boosting, hijacking, playing as elites, a new game mode, etc. The game looks great. But it doesn't look perfect despite how strongly many people feel about the franchise. And despite all of the great things in the game... it only takes one screw up to imbalance a game and make it a lot less fun to play than it could potentially be. In halo1 there was the pistol. A great weapon no doubt, but it was just too good. And between the range and the ability to kill people in three hits, it imblanced the weapon sets drastically making it a must have weapon to carry especially when playing against people with a very high level of skill.
Now that i got that out of the way consider this. If people aren't allowed to consider something dissapointing because of something completely wrecking the balance of the game what use is this forum at all? So we can sit here talking about the same new features over and over again, fantasizing about how it's going to be so fun to play, and occassionally popping in the ultra lame phrase "OMG I NEED TO CHANGE MY PANTS!!%@$%." Well my pants are clean, and firmly pressed thank you, and i'd like to do something a little more constructive with my time here.
Let me put it this way. Many people say the good outweighs the bad, or the game isn't even finished, or trust that bungie will bring us the best game of 2004. And to me that sounds very ignorant. From what i hear it's not an easy task designing and making a game, let alone a truely great one. There are so many variables to take into consideration, possible glitches, all while working withing the confines of the limited power of a console. It's an arduous task to say the least. But why do you think bungie has testing outside of their own company, allowing certain microsoft employees to test the game via online for a limited time? It's because they know they can't do everything on their own.
By posting in this forum i contribute my 2cents, and to try to silence people because of your blind hope that bungie has everything imaginable under control is simpley not fair to those people, and to the halo franchise. So this is what i say.
Complain about the game, everything that you see that you dont like, and discuss how it could be done better in a constuctive way. Since there is no definate way for us to get constant up to date feedback about the game from a bungie employee, you got to take it on yourself to view any possible flaws with the current game and how it might make the game less appealing, or less of a great experience than it could be. Because if you just put all trust into bungie about everything that has to do with halo and no one ever said they were dissapointed with the fact that this or that feature isn't the way it should be. How will you ever know if they had even considered it any other way? How do you know that they didn't specifically chose for it to be that way, and that's the exact way you're gonna see it when it ships this comming novemeber? fact of the matter is you can't.