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Just wondering if HALO can become a RTS with 4 sides Human, Covenant, FLOOD, and forerunner. The Cove have engineers as builders. Human have tech which can be upgraded with pistols. Flood will just grow and multiply from their nest and infect other armies.. And the forerunners will have a moniter and build just like commanders in total anilation only you can build another monitor end of the tech tree unlike the others which can build other builders/flood at the begenning..

  • 05.21.2004 8:03 AM PDT
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All I can say is, gross.

  • 05.21.2004 8:05 AM PDT
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Why would you want to ruin the heavenly gameplay of Halo with a RTS game. The only way for Halo to be played is as an FPS.

  • 05.21.2004 8:07 AM PDT
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Remeber people, Halo started out AS A RTS game.


EDIT- But not nearly as cool as Halo (shameless plugs in :)

[Edited on 5/21/2004 8:17:40 AM]

  • 05.21.2004 8:14 AM PDT
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Posted by: let me live
Remeber people, Halo started out AS A RTS game.


And a pretty cool one from what I have seen.

  • 05.21.2004 8:16 AM PDT
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[Edited on 5/21/2004 9:07:48 AM by Shishka]

  • 05.21.2004 8:29 AM PDT

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Posted by: let me live
Remeber people, Halo started out AS A RTS game.


And a pretty cool one from what I have seen.

Is there still a way to pley that game?

  • 05.21.2004 8:30 AM PDT

Yeah, but it wasn't a WarCraft/StarCraft type game where you are one of several "races". Games like that suck. It was going to be like Myth - you were on the side of the humans fighting the Covenant. There were probably no thoughts of the Flood back then.

I also don't think that Bungie will make a 3rd Halo game. If they do, it'll be an FPS - they don't switch genres mid-series. Note Marathon/PiD were all FPS; both Myth games were RTS, as was Myth III (not Bungie though).

However, somebody could always dust off Fear and Loathing to make a Myth total conversion, if you feel that you have too much free time. :)

Marinealver - no, you can't play the old builds of Halo. I'm sure Bungie has them lying around somewhere, but they won't release them to the public, sadly. :(

- Reiginko

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  • 05.21.2004 8:31 AM PDT
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Posted by: let me live
Remeber people, Halo started out AS A RTS game.


And thank God it didn't become one. Just because it is cool as a FPS and was at first a RTS doesn't mean it would be good as a RTS. This game is great as an FPS, but would not be nearly as fun as a RTS.

  • 05.21.2004 9:18 AM PDT
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How would you know that. You haven't played it as a RTS.

  • 05.21.2004 9:19 AM PDT

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I personaly am such a fan of the Halo universe that I'd love to see any game featuring the UNSC fighting the Covie bastards, RTS or FPS (i'm sure Bungie wouldn't release anything sub-par anyhow). Granted, we all know and cherish the FPS style of awesomeness that Halo brings to our lives but I can't help but daydream (especially while reading the books) about a tactical space warfare game with ships and stations and planets and all that other space battle stuff. A game that would encorporate "real" space physiques like zero-gravity and gravity wells and slipspace maneuvering... oh wait that's not so real, but anyway, you get the point. You could revisit the space campaigns that are so legendary in the books. A game showing the aspect of the Covenant War that's so integral to the story would be cool,... eh?

  • 05.21.2004 2:56 PM PDT
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Awww.....
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  • 05.21.2004 2:58 PM PDT
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Bungie wasn't planning on halo being such a huge game, it was going to be a type of RTS and was supposed to be just on the pc. But then as they got futher through development they didn't stop coming up with ideas to make it the game we see today. And if that all didn't happen i wouldn't be going through day after day just waiting for it to arrive through the post box so i can finally play it... IN 6 MONTHS!

  • 05.21.2004 3:11 PM PDT
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Sure, but an RTT would be alot cooler, and Bungie should use the genre they invented.

  • 05.21.2004 3:12 PM PDT
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Everyone likes to say it started as an RTS...thats true...but it didn't finish as one. Most likely none of us would be here talking about Halo if it hadn't turned to a FPS.

  • 05.21.2004 3:15 PM PDT