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Subject: Halo 3 Ideas and rebuttals to what I've read in this thread so far
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Hey guys
I read through the first couple of pages on ideas for H3 and I have a few comments and suggestions as well.
1. H1 pistol was changed for a reason. Don't get me wrong, I loved that pistol. I was not pro or anything and I could 3 shot and drop people like flies in MP. But in retrospect, I see that it wasnt balanced. I mean you could scope in and drop people half way across Blood Gulch. You could kill incoming Warthogs (driver, gunner, and sideseat) before they even got within range to use the chaingun. The weapon was tooo good. I do HATE what they did to it in H2 because it takes 13 bullets (all to the head) to kill someone and it only has a 12 clip magazine. Bungie will change it and make it work for H3
2. The idea of a Grunt/Brute/Hunter/ non Spartan or elite with shields is just cheap. I mean yea i would love the idea to play as one of those characters, but let's make it more like the campaign/book is already. The grunts head is almost smaller than the 10x zoom recticle on a sniper rifle. So with shields, basically impossible to kill if player-controlled. I mean the benefit of being a grunt is your size, you're smaller and harder to shoot and see. Brute's have pure strength and their melee would do significantly more dmg. Hunters are slow but powerful. Spartans and Elites have shields and should be the best. I mean I think Bungie has thought about implementing these characters but realized that if they want to keep with the Halo setting and hierarchy, you cant make a grunt EQUAL a spartan. They were designed differently in Nyland's head so let's keep it that way.
3. Bots - Initially I thought it was a good idea. Perfect Dark for N64 had a good system for bots and i can remember countless hours of fun just playing with my bro and 8 bots. But that was before the age of Live and internet play. Now I can log on by myself and play for hours with more challlenging opponents who think for themselves and they arent just reactive, they're proactive. I think Bungie wants you to stop playing with yourself and get ou and meet people through video games. Just jump on the net and meet a few people and play for hours and keep playing if you enjoy each others' company. It's multi - PLAYER. I don't know about yall but I just got bored with anticipating the moves of enemy bots in PD. And yea you can make them have 100% accuracy (i.e Dark Sims in PD) but it wasnt even fun. I mean there is just a different sort of satisfaction in knowing you just beat down some fat guy sitting on his couch drinking his coke and yelling all sorts of blasphemies at the TV screen. So i say No to bots.
4. No Flamethrowers. I HATED it in Halo PC.

Now the ideas I have / the ones i want to comment on that I've seen so far
1. The camera replay idea - Absolute genius. My bro and I were talking about it before I saw it on this site but I can not agree more. the chance to show all your friends some incredible 360 fall head shot with the sniper rifle would be sweet. Not only that. You would have to chance to see where your weaknesses are as a team. Where the enemy is beating you and where their weaknesses are so you could exploit them. A great idea.
2. H1, H2, and H3 Maps together. I think a rendition of all the maps could be done. Like what they did with Battle Creek to Beaver Creek. Because I mean the levels for H1 were balanced for that game but H3 will be totally different, so they'd have to change it to make it work for H3 weapons and gameplay. but BOY i would love to play Hang Em High again. Or just have one more close range battle in Chill Out (my favorite H1 level). So maybe just render them and change a few things and put them all in there. Cause I know millions would love to relive the H1 exp in a brand new way. Same setting, better weapons.
3. Weapons - I feel Bungie has done a good job in the first two games with regards to weapons. I can imagine they have created a countless number of weapons but only a select few make it into the final game. I mean they try to make it as balanced as possible and so I feel that making any one weapon too dominate would take away from the game because everyone would just pick it up. Someone mentioned in an earlier post about an AR that fires faster, does more dmg, and has a scope. So basically a BR on steroids? As if the BR already doesnt dominate. I hope they come out with some entirely new weapons.
4. I would like online Co-Op play. On a large scale too. Like it would be awesome to suit up with say 7 other spartans (there are i think 8 left after First Strike) and assault or defend some Earth of Covenant homeland. In reading the books, I found so many cool fight sceens between the two sides and I just wish Bungie could re create those for us. I mean Eric Nyland gives us scenes of 4 or 5 Wraiths, 8 -10 banshees, like 20 ghosts, and countless group troops vs the humans two or three scorpians, like twenty warthogs (with chain gun and some with rocket launcher on back) and pelicans and perched snipers and on ground heavy weapon specialists. Like just the thought of that boggles my mind and the fact that Bungie CAN do that makes it even sweeter. Even put us up against impossible odds. I mean they fight odds of 10000-1 in the book and they use tactics and teamwork to eliminate the enemy. The downside is that inputting tactical gameplay takes away from what truly is Halo originally and that is run shoot and kill. I don't know what they'll do I just know that I love large scale battles like the above mentioned.
5. I agree on the ability to somehow control your Marines because sometimes they are so RETARDED that I don't even care to use them.
6. Make that leap. I want the radical change we saw from H1 to H2 in H2 to H3. better graphics. better gameplay. better online system. GET RID OF CHEATERS. Find a way Bungie. I know people will hack the 360 and most likely cheat but for the love of video games and all else that is holy, allow the legit players to get somewhere in the rankings.
I mean they added boarding, dual wielding, new weapons and vehicles, so much changed. They need to incorporate all that and more. I want the ability to transport my comrades to and from the battlefield in a Pelican. New covenant weapons, cities, and creatures. I want to sit down to H3 and not know what to expect from the experience. I want to smile and laugh every time I sit down to play.

  • 06.24.2006 1:25 PM PDT
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dude youve made this post from little things that should be on other pages

id put on something flame proof and duck for cover if i were you

just wait and see

  • 06.24.2006 1:27 PM PDT

We are the Halo Generation.

I'll be gentle - just leave.

  • 06.24.2006 1:38 PM PDT