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Subject: The shield
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The shield in the halo books sounds alot better then the shields in the game. wount it be kool to change the power on the shield. ( like in the book the fall of reach when mc made his shield steronger on the bottem of his boots to walk over the mines) that will be kool to see in halo 3

  • 07.06.2006 9:46 PM PDT
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Location: Outlaws' Summit.

hmmm

  • 07.06.2006 9:47 PM PDT
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Yeah, but he didn't actually walk on any mines. He kind of skated around them...Hello again, Mr. Assassin. :)

  • 07.06.2006 9:48 PM PDT
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Meh, i'm not to fond of the idea.

  • 07.06.2006 9:58 PM PDT

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I'm not fond of the idea either. Its cool in the books but it wouldn't work out well in the game.

  • 07.06.2006 10:03 PM PDT
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I was hoping for a skating level like in that animated Tarzan movie, or like from Sonic Heros. [/sarcasm]

  • 07.06.2006 10:04 PM PDT
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The novels are more or less, what the game is on Heroic. Except in the book, MC doesn't fight countless hordes of enemies as with the game.

  • 07.06.2006 10:05 PM PDT
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How would you like to bump the control and make your sheilds weaker when fighting Flood or on XBOX LIVE? No thanks, d00dz0r.

  • 07.06.2006 10:05 PM PDT
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I would like it if on the start menue you could tone your armor to sertian setings. Like if there is a slight risk that enemys might flank you you might want to boos your sheilds from behind a litle. Or if the enemys are shooting at you from above you can change your sheilds to absorb more attacks frome above than below. If you got shot from above your sheilds would go down less, if from below bring on the hurt. But it would be cool if the sheild addapted to the envirment. Like if you get shot from behind more than the front the suits computer would relize this and boost you flank sheild by however much is needed.

  • 07.06.2006 10:11 PM PDT
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There wouldn't be a need for it.....

  • 07.06.2006 10:12 PM PDT
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Posted by: Marathon Maniac
There wouldn't be a need for it.....


No offence but alot of people don't want things to change. Change is what makes a game great people...it does things differently that all the others. And if your afraid to take risks with stuff like sheilds than you can't make a good game. Besides if you wanted your sheilds the same all over u then leave them that way.

  • 07.06.2006 10:16 PM PDT
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Posted by: Five Aces
Posted by: Marathon Maniac
There wouldn't be a need for it.....


No offence but alot of people don't want things to change. Change is what makes a game great people...it does things differently that all the others. And if your afraid to take risks with stuff like sheilds than you can't make a good game. Besides if you wanted your sheilds the same all over u then leave them that way.


No offense but Halo doesn't need change, because it's good the way it is. The people who want it to change are better off playing a different game, because Halo is it's own style, and doesn't need qualities that other (most likely lame) games have.

IF IT AIN'T BROKE, DON'T FIX IT

GET THAT THROUGH YOUR HEADS PEOPLE

  • 07.06.2006 10:26 PM PDT
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I'm not saying change halo. Its an addition something to make it better. If we took halo 2 and just upgraded the grafics and give it a new story no one would like it. We'ed just spend 50-70 bucks of a flashy halo 2. YOU NEED TO ADD THINGS TO MAKE A GAME BETTER!! But don't change the gamplay of halo...it's just add tons of features that will make gamplay more fun and easier. (sheild for exapmle)

  • 07.06.2006 10:32 PM PDT
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It wouldn't be very good for gameplay mechanics.
And the Shield in First Strike was not good. MC gets grazed by a single Bolt from the Plasma Rifle, and it melts his armor.

  • 07.06.2006 11:20 PM PDT
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Posted by: Clayton Bigsby1
no, actually the books make his shield sound worse than the game, like in The Flood where the MC is shot once in the back and it nearly depletes his shields

Take a second and think. In the game you get punched in the back and you die. That punch subverts the shield completely. Thats pretty weak.
Anyway.
Its a novel idea, but I don't think it would be utilized correctly in game. The situation was probably a once in a blue moon kinda deal.

  • 07.06.2006 11:30 PM PDT