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Dear Bungie,

Where can I start.. Gentlemen this is a long read so bare with me. I also hope that someone from Bungie shall read this. It would make me feel better.. So let me begin.. Halo CE will forever be remembered as the game that saved the Xbox. That is a fact, plain and simple, it was the reason to have one. Halo CE as a game was also the greatest game ever made for multiplayer on a console period. I don't have to explain it, the campaign was open ended and beautiful, the multiplayer added a lifetime of playability. Then bring Halo 2, argue anyone may, but it is a fact that it was a rushed slap job that just happened to entertain quite a few people. But also had the highest drop out rate. Bungie, I tried to like it, Really.. I did my best.. But I just could'nt.. As a matter of fact, I was in such denial that it was a Halo game that in order to try to enjoy it; I tried looking it as a totally different game cosmically related to Halo. Like Marathon... Halo 2 was just a butchered version of the Halo universe.. The story was kind of over the top.. However, I don't know what a lot of people say, but the Arbiter was a welcome addition. I enjoyed using him and I thought he was cool. The campaign was not as open ended as halo CE and legendary was.. Well.. Just not as legendary as Halo CE... The thing that impressed me the most about Halo CE was the AI.. It encompassed the word. Very intelligent, and very revolutionary.. And the multplayer, lets just say that there is so much wrong with it that I am sure Bungie is very aware of why many hardcore Halo CE players abandoned Halo 2. I mean, I am sure you have heard Halo2sucks.com (which talks about everything that sucks about halo2).. Not to be disrespectful.. But the keyword was this: Physics.. The physics in Halo CE rocked the kazba.. I have not played a game since that has had such a great physics engine. As a matter of fact, if Bungie had tried to build Halo CE with the original physics engine, maybe they would have had more time to give us the engineers, the ATVs, the Human flying vehicle... Anyway, that is what killed Halo 2. The physics made it feel like a counterstrike mod. In the end I know the video game industry is just a business.. I know that Microsoft wanted Bungie to wrake in the big bucks.. And they did.. However, I give Bungie the benefit of the doubt. I do not believe that Bungie betrayed their hardcore fans on purpose. Which brings me to Halo 3. When I saw the trailer, I got hope, because once I saw Chief coming out with that Battle Rifle, I knew Bungie was returning to it's roots. I know Halo 3 is to come out 2007, and although it feels like the same constrained and eerie short time line that made halo 2 suck; I hope Bungie pulls it off. I hope they right the great wrong when us hardcore halo fans, who took our xboxes from house to house and introduced our friends to Halo and made them fans; which in turn went out and bought xboxes to have halo and play system link as well, which in turn made microsoft more money. This was an xbox cultural phenomenon. This is what made Halo CE remain $50 until Halo 2 came out. I am rooting for Bungie to get it right. I hope you are not offended by my post. I just wanted to say that after looking at the trailer I am believing and hoping that Bungie could pull it off. I want to hear a story about how the team who made Killzone left ashamed at looking at Halo 3 like the Team of the game tribes left after seeing Halo CE. Take Care Bungie, I shall be waiting to see if this game brings your hardcore fans back from the exodus that was put on to us by the arrival of Halo 2.

  • 05.10.2006 12:50 AM PDT
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Aw man, you expect me to read all of that?

  • 05.10.2006 12:56 AM PDT
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Posted by: Spartan 37
Aw man, you expect me to read all of that?


No, considering you can't read.

  • 05.10.2006 1:01 AM PDT
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yes i see your point.
mabey the AR is proof of a turn to the old days
altho i liked halo 2 alot.

  • 05.10.2006 1:03 AM PDT

Inside the Mind of Halotitan Help me get expand my mind.

No offense but I am a hardcore halo fan...have been since the launch of xbox and Halo CE...and I won't disagree with you that it saved the xbox...the game was the only reason I even bought one...But to say that halo 2 had a lot of hardcore fans fallout is false...I know way too many people that are hardcore fans and religiously play both games...now everyone has their own opinion and I do respect yours...but for me, I have to say I thouroughly enjoyed Halo 2's story as much as I did the first one, and the cliff hanger ending left me wanting more, which is what I like...and now the hype for halo 3 will be HUGE for me and my other hardcore halo fanboy friends cause we know that bungie pulled Halo CE off, they pulled Halo 2 out of their ass and it was great...and Halo 3 I feel will be a great ending to the story that will forever create memorable gaming moments for me, my friends, and for other TRUE halo fans out there (nothing directed towards you when I say TRUE)

  • 05.10.2006 1:04 AM PDT

If my calculations are correct, then Slinky+Escalator = INFINITE FUN!

Posted by: AJ92
Home is were the Hog is.

BOO freakin hoo. Shaddup, dude. A bajillion people play Halo2 on live everyday and love every minute of it. I loved Halo CE dearly. I played it from the day it came out till the Nov 9 Halo 2 release. Now I play Halo2 and love it. You "abandoned" hardcore fans are just stuck in your own tragic nostalgia. Get over it.

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  • 05.10.2006 1:07 AM PDT
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Gentlemen, wether you admit it or not, Halo CE and Halo 2 are totally different games simply because of the physics. Let me put it as simply as possible, it's like comparing Super Mario World to Sonic the Hedgehog, both in the same genre, both are platforming, but the gameplay felt way different. Sure many people like both, but you guys know what I mean. Halo 2 just did not feel like Halo CE.

  • 05.11.2006 1:36 AM PDT

Halo 2 wasnt that bad, jeezz. It only felt different because they used a weird physics engine similar to the Unreal Tournament physics enginge. The first time I played Halo 2 i was sayin this feels to much like UT and not enough Halo. And the voice acting was kind of iffy at some points of the game,like the scarab part with the two marines on top of the building. The way he says "When I asked for reinforcements, I didn't think they'd send a Spartan." The guy who said it forgot that his character is in a pooing bricks state of mind. But that stuff is cuz the game was rushed. Other than that Halo 2 was just as kick ass as Halo CE.

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  • 05.11.2006 1:46 AM PDT
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well...i like halo: CE as much as i liked halo 2...i liked the sniper's night vision for halo:CE...the sniper in halo 2 is lacking in power and making me use rockets and shotguns instead....make the sniper anti-tank!!!!! LOL...imagine...a huge wraith looking at a spartan...
wraith:ahahaha!!you noob!!carry sniper rifle!!you think you can kill me???!!!ahhahahaha....
spartan:you bet i can kill you!! -bang!-
wraith:oMg!!!! hAxXoR!!!!!

  • 05.11.2006 1:58 AM PDT