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Poll: VOTE IF YOU WANT A MAPMAKER!!!!!!  [closed]
YES:  71%
(37 Votes)
no:  29%
(15 Votes)
Total Votes: 52

MAPMAKING WOULD MAKE THIS GAME TWICE AS GOOD!! IT WOULD KICK ASS!!!
PLEASE DONT BYPASS THIS SUGGESTION BECAUSE EVERY HALO FAN WOULD ABSOLUTELY LOVE TO HAVE A MAPMAKER!!! IT WOULD REALLY ENHANCE THE GAME!! SINCE THIS IS THE LAST HALO GAME PEOPLE MIGHT GET BORED UNLESS THEY HAVE A MAPMAKER WHICH CAN KEEP THEM GOING FOREVER!!! THATS WHAT MAKES FAR CRY SO WICKED!! SO YOU DONT WANT TO LOOSE ALL YOU CUSTOMERS TO FAR CRY DO YOU?????? THEN HAVE A MAPMAKER!!!!!!
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  • 05.09.2006 4:24 PM PDT
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Oh my god.
The ideas fans like you'll have at the helm of a map editor...

  • 05.09.2006 4:26 PM PDT

Posted by: WolfmanMaverick
You people have just sent my sides into orbit. A bunch of MLG try hards sucking the dick of some supposed pro half the thread hasn't even heard of. Classic.

I will vote only if you stop typing in all caps. I don't like people who yell all the time.

  • 05.09.2006 4:29 PM PDT
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Halo and Halo 2 did just fine without a mapmaker... so I highly doubt such a kickass game like Halo 3 would loose many customers... well, except for you... but who cares?

  • 05.09.2006 4:31 PM PDT

No, absolutley not. It will lower the quality of the game, and it would take too much time to make.

  • 05.09.2006 4:34 PM PDT
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Posted by: T8kEy0Medicine
No, absolutley not. It will lower the quality of the game, and it would take too much time to make.


Have you seen Unreal Tournament 2004 lately?
If you get enough like-minded individuals together, decent maps happen.

  • 05.09.2006 4:36 PM PDT
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Posted by: T8kEy0Medicine
No, absolutley not. It will lower the quality of the game

how?

  • 05.09.2006 4:36 PM PDT

July 15, 2008... The day the timer stood still.

The maps would be really low quality and would have to be downloaded every time you want to play a new game...

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  • 05.09.2006 4:37 PM PDT

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You cant be as creative with a mapmake, I strongly oppose it, It just wouldent work, plus Halo 3 maps will be great alone

  • 05.09.2006 4:38 PM PDT
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Having a map editor/maker would be pretty cool, but I would have to agree with takeyomedicine.
It would lower the quality of the gameplay, and it would be a hell to make.
But on the positive side, it would let the player's imaginations soar wildly, as they create their own battlefield of advantages, deadvantages, and loads of other crap.

  • 05.09.2006 4:39 PM PDT
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Nobody's going to force anyone to play -blam!- custom maps.

The good ones could just float to the surface.

Oh, yeah... How would you distribute them? :o

  • 05.09.2006 4:42 PM PDT

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Who here likes Caps Lock?

  • 05.09.2006 4:48 PM PDT
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I made a similar post. A map editor would be perfect since Halo 2 on PC has one, but you should only be able to use player maps in custom games and offline play of course!

  • 05.19.2006 4:53 PM PDT
Subject: HAVE A MAPMAKER!!!!
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My friend, you would not tell with ſuch high zeſt
To children ardent for ſome deſperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum eſt
Pro patria mori.

I'm going to say... no.

Alas capital letters destroyed my village as a child, and I've dedicated my life to being in bad sorts with them. So you can imagine how undisposed I was toward your argument.

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  • 05.19.2006 5:05 PM PDT
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Did someone find the English to 12 year old AOLer translator?

  • 05.19.2006 5:07 PM PDT
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Posted by: Sir Fragula
I'm going to say... no.

Alas capital letters destroyed my village as a child, and I've dedicated my life to being in bad sorts with them. So you can imagine how undisposed I was toward your argument.

I like this. It's similar to my post, only... longer.

Caps are bad.

  • 05.19.2006 5:08 PM PDT
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A map maker? Hell no. First of all, the maps we're given are already good enough, they are balanced and well created, no one team has a particular advantage. Giving players the ability to create there own maps would only give us bland, poorly created (in most cases) maps that are pretty similar looking to the standard maps except differant.

  • 05.19.2006 5:09 PM PDT
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Yes, MapMaker is teh goot stuff.


I love Pariah only because of that kickass map editor system they got.


so hell yes.

  • 05.19.2006 5:09 PM PDT
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Posted by: Demonic Felony
Did someone find the English to 12 year old AOLer translator?

WOW NIEC FIND111111! OMG WTF THIS WIL BRNG M3 HOURS OF ÜBR-POR POSTS!111!!!! LOL

(That's straight from the website if you hadn't guessed.)

  • 05.19.2006 5:10 PM PDT
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MAPMAKING WOULD MAKE THIS GAME TWICE AS GOOD!! IT WOULD KICK ASS!!!
PLEASE DONT BYPASS THIS SUGGESTION BECAUSE EVERY HALO FAN WOULD ABSOLUTELY LOVE TO HAVE A MAPMAKER!!! IT WOULD REALLY ENHANCE THE GAME!! SINCE THIS IS THE LAST HALO GAME PEOPLE MIGHT GET BORED UNLESS THEY HAVE A MAPMAKER WHICH CAN KEEP THEM GOING FOREVER!!! THATS WHAT MAKES FAR CRY SO WICKED!! SO YOU DONT WANT TO LOOSE ALL YOU CUSTOMERS TO FAR CRY DO YOU?????? THEN HAVE A MAPMAKER!!!!!!
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Actually, a mapmaker would blow because retards would butcher the wonderful game with their stupid ideas. I vote Nay! and seriously, All caps=shouting. Stop shouting. I can hear you just fine.

  • 05.19.2006 5:11 PM PDT
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i think i ccould be cool if it were an editor not maker that way you could make small changes to a map u like and make cooler game types by adding hundreds of goasts or somthin

  • 05.19.2006 5:13 PM PDT

IF A MAP SOMEONE CREATED SUCKS, THEN DONT PLAY IT RETARD.


OTHERWISE, IF EVERYONE LIKES TO TYPE IN CAPS IN THIS THREAD THEN I MIGHT AS WELL JOIN IN.

MAP EDITORS ARE AWESOME

LOOK AT THE LIST OF AWESOME GAMES WITH AWESOME MAP EDITORS:

THE FAR CRY SERIES

PARIAH

SOME OF THE TIME CRISIS SERIES

HALF-LIFE

HALO PC


IF THAT ISNT ENOUGH TO CONVINCE YOU THEN JUST DONT USE THE DAMN MAP EDITOR. OTHERWISE, INCLUDE IT AS AN OPTION SO THAT THE BETTER HALF OF THE BUNGIE ARMY HAS THE ENJOYMENT TO USE IT!

  • 05.19.2006 5:20 PM PDT
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Your liberal application of of 'Shift' and 'Caps Lock' offends my senses, sir.

Nonetheless, I certainly wouldn't object to the inclusion of a map editor - indeed, I'd positively welcome it. Bungie already included options for creating custom game-styles in Halo 2, and machina such as The Codex and Red Vs. Blue enjoy considerable acclaim, so the inclusion of a full editor is merely an extension of this. Furthermore, the inclusion of modification tools of any kind are never detrimental; a highly-adaptable, and accessible program fortifies and strengthens a game's community by encouraging interaction beyond the game lobby, increases the game's appeal because even the most casual gamer can indulge in a little tinker when the fancy takes him, and through the generation of new content extends the game's lifespan far beyond whatever may be scored onto the disc. You only need to take a glance at the shining beacon of Starcraft, replete in both single-player custom campaigns and to realise the truth of this.

Of course, there'd be plenty of dross - but that's a given wherever you go, be it fanfictions or the quality of game reviews, and fan-created content isn't the only thing that can be awful in the wider world, to say the least. As such, it is unfair to criticise an editor program on the basis that people could possibly cobble together poor efforts, because equally you can have those who lovingly sculpt masterpieces worthy of Bungie themselves.

One valid criticism with a level editor is that filtering reams upon reams of machine code, complex assembly-programs and ripped-open PCs that are all found in developer's coding office through a clean, programming-virgin friendly, graphical interface would require immense effort that would be better invested in the actual game; but then, the trade-off in increased sales and user satisfaction (potentially translating into loyalty for future Bungie games) may be seen as worthwhile. Another admitted fault with a console-based editor would be that it's difficult to navigate hitboxes, menu-screens, trigger-script and the like with only a joypad... but then that might have the inadvertent benefit of dissuading some of the lacklustre contributions that people seem to fear.

Ultimately, a level editor isn't at all necessary - it's so much hot air unless there's an actual game to base it on! - but as an added bonus, it'd be manna from heaven.

  • 05.19.2006 5:25 PM PDT