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Subject: why do people play halo 2 when they didnt play halo ce?
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I understand what you are saying here. In my opinion Halo 2 ( IF it were'nt a sequal) would have a fine story on it's own, and would make since. But halo and halo 2 together make alot more since then just halo 2, and honestly halo CE doesn't make to much since on it's own. Also The gameplay in both games is different, I started with halo and I like that gameplay because I'm used to it, my friends like halo 2 because they got used to Its gameplay first. I'm not saying one game is better than the other (both are unique in their own ways) but what I am saying is that they are different games, like star wars 1-3 compared to star wars 4-6.

  • 07.19.2006 11:03 AM PDT
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another thing. I have had to anual lan party's at my house with some friends in a small town. The third one is coming up, and each time around we vote on a new game to play. The first time Halo 2 just came out, so we (of coarse) wanted to play that. we played a series of 11 games some on Halo some on Halo 2, my team lost horribly in all of them (I had a team of three, one had only played halo one for about an hour, and the other had never played at all. While the other team had an experienced group). The games on Halo 2 honestly felt like someone was using cheats compared to the games on halo CE. On Halo CE it didn't matter if we lost (we did by one or two points, compared to the slaughter on Halo 2 this was good) we had a fun time. Only 2 of the six people had played Halo CE before and we are the only ones that want to do Halo CE for the 3rd tournamet. The second tournament was only halo 2 (new map pack) and my team (now very practiced, and now 4 members) schooled the other team. But it still wasn't very fun. Now for the third event the game will be 4 players (their team) vs. my team of three and we can't decide on a game to play it on, some want Halo CE, some want GRAW, and NO ONE wants to play Halo 2 again. Strange

  • 07.19.2006 11:19 AM PDT
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I played the second one before the first one. Considering I watched them both...

  • 07.19.2006 12:17 PM PDT

Doc: "i'm a pacifist"
Caboose: "your a thing that babies suck on?"
Tucker: "no dude, that's a pedephile"
Church: "tucker, i think he means a pacifier"

because halo 2 had better advertising, was built up a lot by the halo CE fan base and overall is a far easier game to play.

  • 07.19.2006 5:43 PM PDT

lol

Posted by: HondaXARXchief
seriously, i have like 5 friends


You poor, poor guy ;[

[Edited on 7/20/2006]

  • 07.20.2006 4:49 AM PDT
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Pssh, Halo 2 sucks anyways. Halo 1 owns every game. I've had Halo 1 since release. And I still play it, I even played it 5 times today.

  • 07.23.2006 10:14 PM PDT
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Posted by: combatcarl118
Posted by: HondaXARXchief
seriously, i have like 5 friends who did this, and i dont let them play halo 2 at my house until thry have actually played through halo: CE


That's like saying you can't watch Star Wars Episodes: I-III if you haven't seen Episodes: IV-VI

i haven't seen episode IV

  • 07.24.2006 3:21 AM PDT

Halo CE as in Halo Custom Edition for the PC, or you mean HaloXbox or HaloX, and some people think HaloX is kinda boring, sometimes they wont, but for me and the other Maw people, we played HaloPC for almost 4 years, thats enough training for us PCers.

  • 07.24.2006 11:26 AM PDT

Reach is hot garbage.

Posted by: HM Slayer
Those of us that played it, loved it.


Very true. I have yet to hear anyone at a LAN party or that I've met in person complain about the Pistol. Its the Halo noobies that -blam!- and moan because they aren't good at the game or they've never played it. Its those same people who moan and -blam!- about the BR start games in Halo 2 matchmaking. I really don't want those people in my community, if you ask me.

  • 07.24.2006 4:23 PM PDT

Posted by: Capt Molo
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Halo 2 was marketed much more than Halo 1.

  • 07.24.2006 7:45 PM PDT
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personally to me halo ce pwns halo 2... (excipet arbiter i like him :) )

  • 07.24.2006 8:59 PM PDT
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My friend did this and i made him play CE on legendary for his ignorance, the first halo is a better game i think in H2 they messed up the weapon balance

  • 07.24.2006 9:05 PM PDT
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It's kind of like people who don't play the campaign on Halo 2. They just don't care about the story. They play for the multiplayer.

  • 07.25.2006 3:18 AM PDT
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Posted by: MiG15
Posted by: combatcarl118
Posted by: HondaXARXchief
seriously, i have like 5 friends who did this, and i dont let them play halo 2 at my house until thry have actually played through halo: CE


That's like saying you can't watch Star Wars Episodes: I-III if you haven't seen Episodes: IV-VI

i haven't seen episode IV


You're kidding right? That's how the whole thing starts. Please go watch it. Just do it. Now. Go. Rent it, but it, whatever. Don't you want to see Alec Guiness (Old Obi-wan Kenobi, the best one) not dead? At least for the first hour?

  • 07.25.2006 3:21 AM PDT

Posted by: HM Slayer
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Because they have the right to that why. It's not like it's a law to not play halo 2 after not playing halo ce.

-BH-


But, a lot of these people come on these forums and make grand statements about things (Halo CE pistol springs violently to mind) that they don't even know about first hand. They simply repeat what they've heard others say.

There was a guy about a year ago that made a thread about why the Halo CE pistol was too powerfull. It was long, he had all kinds of examples, ext. Some of the things he brought up though threw up a red flag. I could tell he didn't really know Halo CE. I put pressure on him and finally got him to admit that he'd only EVER played Halo CE for 20 minutes at a LAN party.

I've played Halo CE online for some time...still do on weekends. I've been to three Halo CE tournaments. I'm no pro. Never made a dime, just did it for fun. The only people I've EVER heard complaining about the old pistol are those that don't play it. Those of us that played it, loved it.

That happens far too much. I think people don't like the idea that something they are unfamiliar with, not clued in on, missed out on or didn't get good at is worthy of so much recognition compared something that they are/did.

  • 07.25.2006 5:59 AM PDT

Posted by: XxX OwAnGe XxX
personally to me halo ce pwns halo 2... (excipet arbiter i like him :) )

Halo Custom Edition or Halo Xbox !?!

  • 07.26.2006 10:53 AM PDT
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since I've got halo pc, and we have to lead our shots usually, i'd feel sorry for anyone I come up against when I get to play halo xbox some time, they'd die before they live.

You have an Xbox, right? Just go buy Halo 1, it's not expensive. Halo 1 Xbox is so much different than Halo PC, not technically, but there's just a certain "fun" factor involved. Anyway, for first timers off host on Xbox Connect, having played Halo PC is definitely an advantage, but still, there are some "feel" issues to be worked out. For example, on Halo PC, all the delay (due to latency) is server side, basically meaning (without getting technical) that all the latency is converted into leading shots. On Halo Xbox, it feels like delay is split between two different things. Obviously, you have to lead your shots (about half as much), but there is a delay between when you hit a button on your controller, and when it happens on the screen. It takes a while to get used to.

If you try to lead your shots on Xbox LAN the way you do with Halo PC online, though, you're going to suck. On LAN/split screen, you only have to lead your shots a tiny bit.

  • 07.26.2006 3:27 PM PDT
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From a gameplay perspective theres nothing wrong with that. Unless they are trying to understand the story backwards i dont see what the big deal is.

  • 07.26.2006 10:36 PM PDT

Posted by: SuperSnorky
Posted by: XxX OwAnGe XxX
personally to me halo ce pwns halo 2... (excipet arbiter i like him :) )

Halo Custom Edition or Halo Xbox !?!


Halo : Combat Evolved :-)

  • 07.27.2006 5:15 AM PDT
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Posted by: Master Kim
Hey, stare, we should play some XBC sometime, eh?

Personally, though I started with Halo 2, I think that the first game takes more skill. But Halo 2 blew Combat Evolved's graphics out of the water.


Nice graphics don't always make for a good game.

  • 07.28.2006 9:42 AM PDT

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