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Subject: war scenario in halo3 SP
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hey all..its tread #2 for me...here it goes
i think that there should be a full scale war on earth scenaio/part in the game, like i was expecting in Halo2..i found myself deeply disapointed in the single player campeign of Halo2, especially after seeing last years (was it?) E3 vids wich (i assumed) were hinting at the story beeing; MC arrives at earth, sees that a massive covenant armada is invading, and then goes down and starts kicking but in the same manner that he did on the first Halo..i think the story in H2 was ok, but i was dissapointed that more of it didnt take place on earth..even that level that was shown at last years E3 i think would have been more pleasing than wat we got......i also think that going onto a second, larger halo was kind of lame....i mean, weve already seen all this!! no? and i think that the fact that the flood on this second, bigger and equally ancient halo were exactly the sam as the ones that appeared on the first was kinda boring!! dont u think that it woulda been cooler to have the flood be completely different on this new halo?? and then a completly different set of forms on another halo??? or even better, they could of set H2 entirely on earth and not have the flood in the game at all, then reintroduce them in halo3..i also think that the should of had a lot more different types of sentinal on the larger halo, i think it would have been cool if while exploring the depths of the halo as the arbitrator, if you were slowler exposed th new types of larger and different robots...and during that level where ur on that hover craft with ur troops and u enter a huge open area and there is all out war between the flood and the sentinals, wouldnt it of been cool if there were mabye on more type of robot in there?? mabye a large land based one or sumthing??
well..to the point...enough of the ranting..
i think it would be cool if there is a bunch of scenarios where u are in the middle of a massive war between the humans and the covenant...mabye in a desert, or in a city that is under siege...and there are tanks and warthogs and tons of other troops, and u just fend for urself and kill any covenant that gets in ur way.. and you have the freedom to say, take a buddies tank, or highjack an enemies banshee, or work with a frien and drive in a fully loaded wart hog...ive been waiting for a scene like this for a while...and various things can even happen during the battle, like on of those giant covenant walkers can be beamed down and just start kicking as, and artillery could just start triing to hammer it...u get the picture...
so wat do u think?????

oh, and plz check my other thread:
http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=6895028

[Edited on 5/11/2006]

  • 05.11.2006 8:30 AM PDT
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I think large scale battles are possible and would be a great idea. There was some info from a source that was right about many aspects of Halo 2 that said large scale battles are going to be a big part of H3. He could be wrong but with the 360's power I think its possible. Just think, Humans and Elites and Grunts, vs Brutes, vs Flood, vs anything else that pops up in H3!

  • 05.11.2006 10:45 AM PDT

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Didn't I just see this go by 20 minutes ago?

Anyway, a huge epic battle would be quite fun.. Quite.

  • 05.11.2006 10:45 AM PDT
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I agree with every single thing you said, whaleman. The thing Halo 2 lacked the most was the sense that you were part of something bigger. Halo CE had given you a cozy sort of sense, that the universe was much smaller. However, Halo 2 was neither part of something bigger nor something small, where the Master Chief could save all life as we know it. Something like Star Wars Battlefront would be pretty sweet in Halo 3, in the sense that it was a much larger scenario with many different maps. The only thing I would disagree with would be the sense of un-triggered events, like a random scarab coming down. I'm a bigger fan of the scripted attacks in the Halo series, not because you know where everything is, but because there could be commentary on the sights, such as in the E3 gameplay trailer, when the Phantom flew above the Chief's head, and Cortana said, "A Phantom!"

  • 05.11.2006 11:52 AM PDT
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If possible, why not make a War Scenario Game for a unranked playlist in the future Matchmaking? Maby get 100 people or so and make extremely big maps for the playlist. I know that idea seems a little out there, but would that not be cool?
That's just a bad idea all around. I mean, it sounds like a good idea on paper, but something like that would have amazingly high latency issues and, if standby'd, a game could result in who knows how many unhappy customers. Plus, the chat channel would be flooded like none other. I bet I wouldn't be able to hear anything over the screaming going on in the mike.

  • 05.11.2006 11:55 AM PDT
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I think large scale battles would be a stupid idea if you had teammates just remember halo 1 when we were near the end of the game and we had to take out like 50 guys in an open field that was fun especially on Legendary (Which is easy) those were the times but Bungie dont screw this up if you put in Big Battles make them big but I just dont see that happening or if it does it wont be any fun.

  • 05.11.2006 11:56 AM PDT
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The problem is, the xbox and even the 360 can handle so much things happeneing on screen. I'm not saying that we won't be getting larger scale battles than the previous two, but don't get your hopes up either.
It was that sort of thought, that made Halo 2 such a dissapointed for quite a number of people.

  • 05.11.2006 11:56 AM PDT
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*Yey* Violence! War! Pain ! Death , Destruction and Agony! ect.ect.! ... mmm
yer..but i do enjoy War ...*dreams of the killing*

  • 05.11.2006 1:38 PM PDT
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Posted by: Special_Spartan
I think large scale battles would be a stupid idea if you had teammates just remember halo 1 when we were near the end of the game and we had to take out like 50 guys in an open field that was fun especially on Legendary (Which is easy) those were the times but Bungie dont screw this up if you put in Big Battles make them big but I just dont see that happening or if it does it wont be any fun.


i dont mean large scale in multiplayer by any means...only single player, if the graphics arnt mad to be too hardcore, i think the x-box 360 may have a chance of creating the large battle scenario.

and i when i said have sumthing like a scarab or watever beaming down into the battle, i envisioned like a cutscene occuring sum time throughout the course of the battle that is triggered by sumthing....halo style

  • 05.11.2006 1:58 PM PDT
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Great idea! THAT is what Halo is lacking.

  • 05.11.2006 2:01 PM PDT