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Subject: So Goddamn epic

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Posted by: KDRX
remember when you flew the banshee up to the top of the outside of the control room in halo that piano music played.... it was so amazing


Ya to me It sounded Sad and strange that they would hide a piece of music from the player

  • 06.08.2006 10:33 PM PDT
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My only problem with halo is that this should all be taking place like 200 years in the future... 500 yrs in the future, I imainge our tech will be alot better then what they've got. Also, why do they have to steal kids... why not just genetically engineer super soldiers?

  • 06.08.2006 10:41 PM PDT

A mythic member but I speak my mind to much.

People in the 1800-1900 thought that man would have flying cars and super high tech houses but its 2006 we don't have any of that. More tech in our homes but not to the extent of what the past thought it would be like ( Look at the worlds fair decades ago). We imagine our future to be more High tech but it might not be that way. It took use more then 2000 years to get this far.

  • 06.08.2006 10:47 PM PDT

Posted by: Baratos
Wait..... do all zombies speak in prose? Gravemind is the most cultured zombie EVER!

That was my respose to someone saying this story has never been done before. Of course bungie will add their own characters and plot twists, but you bring up another similar point in the Enders series. In the Enders series there is an alien enemy that are like the flood. They are called "buggers" and all of the drones have a collective mind in one body, the queen. The queen=gravemind.

Don't believe me about all the similarities? Then read it for yourself.




Im sorry my friend, but that was rather stupid. If anything, the buggers are more analagous to the Covenant (yes, even though they are a hive mind). They do not take over another species body and infect everything. They spread throughout the galaxy and wipe out everything in their path just as the Covenant do.

The Halo story is both original and not. The whole alien invader thing has been done too many times to count, but how many times has it been done in conjunction with a special genetically enhanced super-soldier that discovers an ancient ringworld built by the same mysterious race whose technology was indirectly used to make his own armours shields, and that these rings are designed to destroy the whole universe (how?) to (supposedly) save us from the flood, an ancient race CREATED by the very ancient race that the humans mortal enemy worshipps, whose technology we use, as well as our mortal enemys, and who--in spite of their efforts to save the universe--are destroying it as a result of their own destrucitve technology in the hands of other sentient races, AND that very same race--recognizing their sins during their quest for knowledge (which, ironically enough, we commit as well, just not the same ones) about sentience, which involved playing god--rather than repair the effects of the sins themselves, flee unkown distances away and leave AI's behind to perform penance under their direction, AND whose story contains the concept of AI's developing sentience (otherwise known as rampancy, I have a whole other theory about that, but that is for another time), which is--as a testament to the depth of Halo's story--a subject of an entire book by Issac Asimov (I, Robot, which was nothing like the movie).

So, all of those things considered--which are just the tip of the iceberg--I think that this story is quite original, though it is a composite of quite a few other stories.

  • 06.08.2006 10:54 PM PDT
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It's as Gandalf... err... Lord Hood said, "We come to it at last, the great battle of our time."

  • 06.08.2006 11:04 PM PDT

Posted by: MRY 360
You say ithe story has been done before?=O And its cliche?=S Give me an example of another game with a storyline like Halo!

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HL2

  • 06.08.2006 11:13 PM PDT

Amen to the original post.

I felt so good when I killed Tartarus, and I felt like such a badass everytime I came into a room filled with Covenant, only to leave the room with smoking bodies. And don't get me started on Marty's music, it is unthinkable for me to listen to any other music than the music already in the game.

Congrats, Bungie. You have changed the face of gaming forever.

  • 06.08.2006 11:24 PM PDT

May you be in heaven long before the devil knows you're dead.

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Posted by: metalmunkey21
I must agree, I, too am infatuated with the Haloverse. Fanboy you say??? It's true. Hello my name is metalmunkey21 and I play Halo. Hi, metalmunkey21!!!

Hey real quick is there a mod where you can electrocute anyone 13 and under through their controller?? I have been looking everywhere and those little kids are multiplying. Don't parents ever pay attention to the ratings system. It's a MATURE game. Go play Conker!!
Do you mean 12 & under? Xbox Live is recommended for 13 & up and the last 2 Conker games have been rated M fool so, the series is not recommended for children anymore.

l Omen l you're welcome. You deserve it it was very touching.


No what I would really recommend is like 15 and under but I was being generous. As for Conker I didn't play the game so I wouldn't know the rating because:

Posted by: KoinOperatedBoy
Not to mention the last two conker games sucking.


Either way, it would be nice to not hear teenagers with large cases of little man syndromecussing you out(win or lose) because they can. Or kids who I percieve to be younger than 13 saying strange perverted things they heard from said teenagers. Or getting modded/bridged by the same little bastards because they have access to mommy and daddy's money. Dang it!!! Now you got me all worked up, I need some chocolate milk.

So does anyone know where to find that mod???

  • 06.08.2006 11:46 PM PDT
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Posted by: metalmunkey21
Posted by: Mr Slippyfist
Posted by: metalmunkey21
I must agree, I, too am infatuated with the Haloverse. Fanboy you say??? It's true. Hello my name is metalmunkey21 and I play Halo. Hi, metalmunkey21!!!

Hey real quick is there a mod where you can electrocute anyone 13 and under through their controller?? I have been looking everywhere and those little kids are multiplying. Don't parents ever pay attention to the ratings system. It's a MATURE game. Go play Conker!!
Do you mean 12 & under? Xbox Live is recommended for 13 & up and the last 2 Conker games have been rated M fool so, the series is not recommended for children anymore.

l Omen l you're welcome. You deserve it it was very touching.


No what I would really recommend is like 15 and under but I was being generous. As for Conker I didn't play the game so I wouldn't know the rating because:

Posted by: KoinOperatedBoy
Not to mention the last two conker games sucking.


Either way, it would be nice to not hear teenagers with large cases of little man syndromecussing you out(win or lose) because they can. Or kids who I percieve to be younger than 13 saying strange perverted things they heard from said teenagers. Or getting modded/bridged by the same little bastards because they have access to mommy and daddy's money. Dang it!!! Now you got me all worked up, I need some chocolate milk.

So does anyone know where to find that mod???
There is a option for Xbox Live called "Mute Player" use it and you will never hear the player's voice again.

It is not the children's fault they have access to the amount of money you don't. You should direct your anger to Bungie's Multiplayer/Online Team for not having an instant anti-cheating system.

  • 06.08.2006 11:59 PM PDT
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Posted by: Honorable Sniper
People in the 1800-1900 thought that man would have flying cars and super high tech houses but its 2006 we don't have any of that. More tech in our homes but not to the extent of what the past thought it would be like ( Look at the worlds fair decades ago). We imagine our future to be more High tech but it might not be that way. It took use more then 2000 years to get this far.


yes this is true, i wont be suprised if we get this far by then, unless of coasre we have WW3 and it lasts for several decades

yes, i LOVE the mute voice option
i swear some of the people up there like to be annoying on purpose and i wish i could reach thru the tv and smack them, but thankfully there a mute voice buttom and after i mute them im like, i muted you what you gonna do now sucker

  • 06.09.2006 7:37 AM PDT

May you be in heaven long before the devil knows you're dead.

Posted by: Mr Slippyfist
There is a option for Xbox Live called "Mute Player" use it and you will never hear the player's voice again.

It is not the children's fault they have access to the amount of money you don't. You should direct your anger to Bungie's Multiplayer/Online Team for not having an instant anti-cheating system.


Mute player, it's probably the most beautiful feature in the game. As for instant anticheating, impossible!!! There will never be a hack proof system. Kids are too smart, adults are too dumb, and teenagers are just plain evil, ask them they will tell you. As for money I don't have, do you know me?

  • 06.10.2006 9:29 AM PDT
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We’ve received news today from an industry insider who claims that Halo 3 is finished and sitting at the mastering plant, awaiting the word to go.

According to the source, the final artwork has been finished for disk, booklets and box art.

Our source has stated that one of Europe’s largest CD replicators is on standby, they’ve signed NDA’s and are awaiting the green light from Bungie. According to our source the CD replicators have been given an approximate date to ensure that their pressing schedule is clear for the amount of units they’ll need to produce.

Responding to the question of why haven’t Microsoft and Bungie given it the green light for launch our source is certain that the hold is a strategic move on Microsoft’s part. Although Halo 3 is ready the delay is to time the launch for “maximum impact”

We’ve currently received few details regarding Halo 3, so it makes sense that Bungie will build up the hype surrounding the game before the launch is revealed.

  • 06.10.2006 11:03 AM PDT
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Posted by: I Omen I
What line is more badass then at the end of Halo 2 when Chief says "Sir, finishing this fight".

When he said that I thought "Dang, that was -blam!-."

  • 06.10.2006 11:10 AM PDT

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