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Subject: E3 way to not come through?!

I'm alone, where is my microphone.

This is funny, most everyone of us came back to defend Bungie, and everyone who was against Bungie is slowly turning around.

  • 05.15.2004 3:20 PM PDT
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If you people were true Bungie fans, then you wouldn't have been let down in any way this week. Don't tell me that multiplayer video didn't kick ass. It redefined how to kick ass!

  • 05.15.2004 3:22 PM PDT
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I agree with the doctor 100% E3 wasn't all it was cracked up to be. No offence but personally i think E32003 was much more exciting.

  • 05.15.2004 3:26 PM PDT
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"I agree with the doctor 100% E3 wasn't all it was cracked up to be. No offence but personally i think E32003 was much more exciting."

What the heck? This years E3 had a playable Halo 2 multiplayer level! That's more fun than watching a 9 minute video. We also got a lot more screenshots and footage!

You can't please everyone apparently...

  • 05.15.2004 3:33 PM PDT
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Well thats not what I mean, I am -blam!- happy with Halo2 and bungie Rocls totally!!
but If halo 2 ruled at E3 like you said, than why are we only getting some screens and 4 crapy videos of 19 seconds, coudn't they just make this ..1 video and place it on bungie.net???

I don't understand it

P.S. starwarsfanman Maybe your'e living next to the e3 event but some people don't you know. I'm from the Netherlands so that a long way from the E3, butt hey you've had fun didn't you???

[Edited on 5/15/2004 3:38:22 PM]

  • 05.15.2004 3:34 PM PDT
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Well for one thing, im not a bungie fan, im not ever going to be, but I can honestly say, that last years E3 video was much better than this years, the only thing that was good about this one was the release date. I mean look at that eight minute video, what did it show me? Hmmmm... vehicles are destructable, you can board vehichles, there are elites in multiplayer, you could dual weil weapons..... wow, before now I never new that would be in the game. (btw I was being sarcastic) I mean, was that supposed to be an awesome E3 or something? All I learned was the fact that there are custom logos, and Rocket Launcher has missle tracking, Not any reason to get excited, screenshots are meaningless, the 20 sec video was ok, but the week hasn't been exciting at all. who knows, maybe they'll release something really cool that they couldn't because of what stosh said about the internet in the hotel and all.

  • 05.15.2004 3:35 PM PDT
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No, a Bungie employee did not come to my house wanting me to play Halo2 all day long but did get a lot of satisfaction waching and reading all the coverage on Halo 2. And it DOES indeed look amazing. The only thing that dissapointed me this week was the release date. God damn that's 7 bloody months away!!!! And by the way, isn't november Winter, not Fall!?! Anywho, i love the game, can't wait to play it and if it's as good as they say it is, then i'll gladly wait the few months. By the way, where are all these "movies" online other than the 2 on IGN??

[Edited on 5/15/2004 3:48:19 PM]

  • 05.15.2004 3:36 PM PDT
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So now I have a question for you, what did you expect bungie to release at E3?
i guess i was hoping to see the multiplay bot question answered but its ok i guess it will add to the suspence
(if any one from bungie is reading * i wouldnt mind it being answerd sooner*)

  • 05.15.2004 3:37 PM PDT
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Posted by: StarWarsFanMan
"I agree with the doctor 100% E3 wasn't all it was cracked up to be. No offence but personally i think E32003 was much more exciting."

What the heck? This years E3 had a playable Halo 2 multiplayer level! That's more fun than watching a 9 minute video. We also got a lot more screenshots and footage!

You can't please everyone apparently...


Ummm, the halo 2 e3 demo was not playable unless we were at e3, which 98% of us weren't, so WTF are you talking about?

  • 05.15.2004 3:46 PM PDT
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(tiny post) E3 rocked, Bungie releaced enough to keep us hooked but not spoil the experience. (Bungie you are not on my hitlist)

[Edited on 5/15/2004 3:52:27 PM]

  • 05.15.2004 3:52 PM PDT
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I feel let down a little. I've been defending bungie like a lot of you, but they promised us something huge this week. They simply did not deliver. Right now I'm more excited about Half Life 2, which btw stole e3. That's not to say that bungie didn't have connection troubles and couldn't do things they way they wanted. Maybe we will get much more e3 info next week, but as it stands right now, for 99% of us, e3 was a waste. The thing that really disappointed me is the weekly update. Frankie promise a huge weekly update. The update we got sucked, all of the info had been on the net for 4 days already, except for fanfest which was on the net the night before. I just think that Frank should not promise a great update for the next one, and then not deliver. I'm sure bungie was busy this week, and frank maybe didn't know all that info was already out there, but you people can't blame others for feeling let down. We were let down. What we got from e3 would have been fine and great, except they promised us more. I just hope it was because of the Hotel problems and we will get to see everything next week. Like a better multiplayer vid. I'm sorry but I don't care what anybody says, a 19 second vid is not great. Not when we got a great 8 minute gameplay vid last year.

  • 05.15.2004 4:14 PM PDT
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some of you people are just plain MORONS !!

E3 was great and a major letdown at the same time for me and it all revolved around Halo 2 and 1-2 other games.

If SketchFactor said we'd get more info (which he did) then we should get just that, but we didnt is why people are complaining and they have every right to voice there opinions even if they are negative to a few even if the majority doesnt agree.

Example Scenario:
Now your starving, you called up Pizza Hut, ordered a pizza and they tell you it will be there in 30-45 min. but it never shows, are you going to tell me you all are going to say: It's ok, I had some good pizza last week so no biggie I'll just eat a sandwich instead? Well sad to say that if you are in real life as many of you act here, then you'll just eat a sandwich and be fine.

There are far too many crybabies in this world, and about the same amount that will take whatever plate of crap is served to them. Which category do you fall into??? I know which most of you seem to fall in IMO...

Now if the internet connection problems are the real deal as stosh said, then we should "expect" to get blown away this next week and I really hope he is correct. But when you take into account one of the early weekly updates said next weeks will be great and it turned out bland and this weeks saying about the same thing, people lose hope in the honesty of what they are being told.

Sure flame me, agree with me, it really doesnt matter but have the balls to stand up and say what you believe in and not just go with the flow if you disagree. Life will be more rewarding to you in the end ;-)

  • 05.15.2004 4:22 PM PDT
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Wait a second, why do we have to defend Bungie? If these people want to complain, let them vent. Personally, I learned a couple things about Halo 2 that I didn't know before, nothing to get too excited about, but I didn't see it as some HUGE dissapointment. Maybe it was because I didn't get myself all worked up over this year's E3, or maybe it's because my life doesn't thrive around Halo 2 info, but either way, we don't have to defend Bungie. Even if these people feel the need to verbally bash the people who are working their asses off right now to deliver a game that meets THEIR expectations, not just ours, I'm sure they will buy the game in November.

Sure the wait is interminable, but it's less than half a year. Relax.


P.S.- Hell yea I'd eat the sandwich. Then I'd bomb the Pizza Hut.

[Edited on 5/15/2004 4:27:25 PM]

  • 05.15.2004 4:24 PM PDT
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Wow whoever posted this should get a life not that i'm saying that halo2 wont be the coolest game of all time or anything.

  • 05.15.2004 4:25 PM PDT
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Halo 2 is like christmas, We simply won't enjoy it if we already know what we are going to get

  • 05.15.2004 4:27 PM PDT
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I think Bungie was a little below the hype. But they can surpass my highest expectations if they release a Zanzabar demo in a upcoming xbox magazine. My biggest problem was that the Demo wasnt public. I also thought what they shjowed was awsome, but they could have shown anything and i would have thought it awsome.

  • 05.15.2004 4:29 PM PDT
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Posted by: TheDocter
"Check back later tonight for the new screens and stick around this week for what's sure to be the most exciting Halo 2 week since the game was announced! =)" found at the end of the article "On the road again..." Posted by SketchFactor!

I have to say when I first read this, I got excited! And when Monday rolled around, with some new screens and a Movie. I was thinking wow, this is only the beginning! But that wasn't the beginning of excitement to come! That was the excitement, that was it! I personally think us fans got robbed, and Bungie completely wasted their times at E3!

And to top it off, Franky with his Weekly update found at HBO, just made me all the more upset! It was like a friend telling you what a awesome party they had the night before and then apologizing because you couldn't be there to enjoy all the fun!

So thanks a lot for all the hype Bungie, thanks for making this one of the biggest let downs in E3 2004, and making it one of the worst weeks since Halo 2 was announced! Don't mean to be hating, but this is was BS!

Hey morrrrrrrrrooooooonnnnn. Frankie hasn't had hardly if any sleep this whole week so stop bashin and 2facin. U sicken me. Every body at bungie has worked their -blam!- asses offf on this game. Frankie will deliver just late. But u have to be a little lenient.

  • 05.15.2004 5:24 PM PDT
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I'm in the feeling let down camp. Since I started playing halo multiplayer in December 2001, I have logged thousands of hours (I still suck!)playing it, literally hundreds of times longer than I have spent with any game in 20+ years of gaming. To this day I remain as obsessed with it as ever. Do you remember the rumors of a "halo 1.1" with Xbox Live enabled beginning way back even before Live was up? Have you been playing one of the many crappy online alternatives (always running back and forth to your pc) always praying for some love from bungie in the form of a simple online update? (It is really not that hard, the hardcore fans have done unbelievable work with halo to the level that rivals the developers themselves). We haven't got a thing from them in 3 years! Why is halo still popular to this day? Its because of the hardcore fans and gamers that have had to find ways to expand halo with very little if any support from the powers that be that halo is being talked about in forums like this even to this day. There have been independant halo tournaments that continue to grow in popularity with a very dedicated following who's lives literally revolve around halo. We buy better entertainment centers for halo, fatter internet pipes for halo, some even spend as much time playing as we do working (of course not me...). We aren't just customers, our wallets are literally plugged in to the cause!
I know some of you are as hardcore as me, some less, and some more, and you may have even dared to wonder why not throw the harcore a single f&%ing bone in 3 years? I don't petend to know if there is even such a thing as a short answer to this, but the most well-known aspect about the powers that control every piece of knowledge we know about halo is that they are by far the richest player in this industry. A corporation that large can only get that large by being incredibly good at applying the ultimate guiding principle to ALL its practices; to make as much money as possible for the shareholders. If they haven't done anything sonner it can only ultimately be because MS doesn't think (as mistaken as I think they are) it will maximize their long term returns from halo.
I am sure the developers who are making the game are just like us and wish that over the years they would have been allowed to drop a hint about coding to a modmaker or the play a match against an elite halo clan. Unfortunately the devs will never own what they create (the "original dev" is paying to use what he created now), and will never control any aspect of it.
Instead, this year, our thousands of hours are rewarded by giving the "media" and "bigwigs" who have financial interest or can contribute to financial gain a chance to play. Those who will spend a large portion of their lives playing it but represent a financial contribution of only one or two copies, got nothing.
ATTENTION TO MS: even from your bottom line thinking, imagine what it would have done for the continuing fiscal loyalty from the many hardcore gamers, if to demo the multiplayer at the press conference you awarded the chance for two top clans like stk and ps (who's gameplay is so perfect and impressive to watch that there could not possibly be a better showcase of what the game will be able to do) to battle it out onstage? If not open to ALL fans for play, allowing a representative of the fans would have prevented any thread like this from ever popping up. The forums would have been consumed by the upcoming hype for months, the game sites would have gone insane giving microsoft ridiculous amounts of publicity and "best of the show" awards.
I'll still be buying a third box and new tv when halo2 comes out, but the last 2 years of my life would have been so unbelievably enriched by the smallest gesture from the hand of the halo gods, and this void in my life would have been so much more bearable if I knew that at least one of the starving souls got a chance to get the smallest taste of lightning's second strike.

  • 05.15.2004 6:09 PM PDT
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I am very VERY happy with this week. I'll admit that I was expecting more, but I'll also admit that I know that I can be quite selfish. And Stosh here has a revelation for us all in case we haven't been outside the house in our lives, SOMETIMES THINGS DON'T HAPPEN THE WAY YOU WANT THEM TO. They didn't count on such a crappy connection at the hotel, so they had to put some stuff on hold, big deal, we're going to get it and that is all that matters. Some of you people are never satisfied and are never going to be so I don't even know why I am wasting my breath.

  • 05.15.2004 6:27 PM PDT
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I think they let us exactley what they want us to know..which at this point is not too much, but enough to keep us wanting more.

  • 05.15.2004 6:32 PM PDT
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I think Bungie came through at E3 very well, whoever says that they were not impressed by the 8 minute demo showing the new stuff is a liar. The only thing I can think of that would be insanely great and not ruin anything is a Zanzibar demo, LAN enabled in the next OXM, with, say, only 20 minute matches or something. That would freakin blow everyones mind. Even if they dont though, another 6 months or so is not gonna be too long for anyone to wait for a game. (Think of the PC Halo players, it was supposed to come out for them first, then when the xbox version was announced, they were put on the back burner until what? late 2002, early 2003, somewhere in there, so stop being greedy)

[Edited on 5/15/2004 7:07:58 PM]

  • 05.15.2004 7:05 PM PDT

This thread is disgusting in the first place, and what sickens me even more is that people are as greedy as this. It's pathetic, Bungie is working their asses off day and night trying to make something for us, and all you can do is complain they aren't doing enough. Bungie tried to release as many pictures as possible for us at E3, and they worked as hard as they could to get this demo bug-free for weeks on end. They want to help us and to make us happy. This may come as a surprise to some of you, but Bungie cares about us, and it hurts them when all you do to reward their hard work and compassion is to complain. They could have done absolutely nothing for us, but you know what? They cared, and they tried to put something together that we would like.

Just looking at this pitiless whining is revolting. If I were in Bungie's place I wouldn't give you anything at all.

[Edited on 5/15/2004 7:14:31 PM]

  • 05.15.2004 7:13 PM PDT
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Posted by: Banshee Barron
If I were in Bungie's place I wouldn't give you anything at all.


Then you wouldnt get paid at all either. I had to come out of retirement for that futile remark. You guys act like there over their working their asses off, not getting paid, making something for us, and giving it to us for free. Shut the hell up. It's their damn job. You guys made me come out of retirement for this?? Please no more idiotic remarks like..ehhmm...

  • 05.15.2004 7:22 PM PDT

Posted by: CaptainMilky
Then you wouldnt get paid at all either. I had to come out of retirement for that futile remark. You guys act like there over their working their asses off, not getting paid, making something for us, and giving it to us for free. Shut the hell up. It's their damn job. You guys made me come out of retirement for this??

You've never done a bit of honest work in your life, my friend.

And ironicly,
Please no more idiotic remarks like..ehhmm...

Is the truth idiotic? Bungie could have sat on their asses and done nothing at all. They didn't, they tried and you hate them for it. I think that's idiotic.

  • 05.15.2004 7:30 PM PDT
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You couldn't resist barron?? I watched alot of people make fun of me and I vowed not to reply, but then you came along, and wow, i was bedazzled with your, umm, stupidity?? I've heard great things about you, but unfortunately they were all dumbfounded. Find my post where I said I hate bungie, please find it and show it to me, would you be so kind?? So whats idiotic now?

  • 05.15.2004 7:32 PM PDT

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