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Subject: Happy Halo Day!
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Bungie is not ruining anything... They aren't taking away anything from original Xbox users. Just adding more for the 360 users which is what Halo 3 will be on anyway.

  • 11.15.2006 3:09 PM PDT

iDotya

I wanna play the friekin Beta! OMG SPRING IS GUNNA BE AWSOME!!!!!!!!!

  • 11.15.2006 3:20 PM PDT
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Happy Halo Day to everyone. I'm really pumped for H3 to come out. Same with the trailer and real time multiplayer demo. The screenshot is awesome as well.

  • 11.15.2006 3:23 PM PDT
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yes!!!! finally a more halo 3 i knew a online beta is ganna com! but it would be smart if you shut down the server when the game releases or els you will get owned.
cant wait for the maps to.i hope we get more city maps or huge 2 base maps
cant wait for the trailer to
o yeah i saw the screen shot i like what u guys are doing so far!

  • 11.15.2006 3:27 PM PDT

WOW Bungie Happy Birthday, What a Great day this is Bungie is doin a Public beta program this spring. Sweet! Was XBL beta tester 5 years ago and now have the chance to be Bungie's Halo 3 beta tester. Mahn I cannot wait at all. How can I go about being the first in line???? I Really dont wanna miss this Opportunity. ONCE again HAPPY Birthday Bungie. Keep up the Great Work

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  • 11.15.2006 3:31 PM PDT
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For Bungie: Great update, only I was hoping to get the release date: summer of 2007.

Hey you people: "Halo Nation"!!! This message is for you!!!

I could tell you some bad stuff about Microsoft, but I would probably just be banned like last time. So I don't really know how to tell you?

It's like a dictatorship, say something bad here at the forums and you get banned for weeks or months..

I got a x360 a long time ago, just after the first news of Halo 3. I got it so I could play Halo 3, but alos for helping Microsoft selling 10 million by year end. But I think that was a mistake...I don't like dictatorships, so if I had known back then, what I know today.....

Anyway, I'll open a blog so I can tell the world...

  • 11.15.2006 3:32 PM PDT
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Oh wow! It's been a long time since I've posted here!

Dang, I'd love to be apart of Halo 2's public beta team... Once I figure out what I need and how I can become a participant, I will try my best to make it, lol.

  • 11.15.2006 3:32 PM PDT
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Happy Halo Day! Its the best day ever! Just like that article thingy that said Halo 2 ending leaked. This is awesoem cant wait! My head is spinning thinkin how the demo and new maps will be. But one sad part to this happiness, we can tell from the info it is not being released in Spring probably November.Because if new maps are being released in Spring they don't have time to work on Halo 3 UNLESS they have a different team working on it. I guess we have to just wait and see.

  • 11.15.2006 3:41 PM PDT

Killing Calmness til I Die

I dunno guys I'm happy with the announcements and all. Great ideas in my opinion. But after playing Gears of War and looking at this screen. Id have to say it doesn't impress me that much. The AR looks like it doesn't fit. looks kinda fake and the visor looks like it is goo. Its not crisp and reflective like it was in the video. I'm just a lil disappointed by the screen.

  • 11.15.2006 3:42 PM PDT
Subject: HAPPY HALO DAY!

Posted by: ShadowF0X
This can only be solved with a lightsaber battle.

Posted by: ShadowF0X
Snoopy and Charlie were Woodstock's little bi­tches.

First of all happy halo day!!!
Congratulations!
And second thanks for the screenshot and for the maps and thanks for the BETA announcement i expected more but its ok!

=D

  • 11.15.2006 3:43 PM PDT
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I couldn't have asked for a better halo day present ; )

  • 11.15.2006 3:43 PM PDT
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last update they said that this update waz going to very very good like a trailer waz coming but all we got waz a pic, WTF, bungie you have a problem of either hypeing somthing up to much or not evan talking, because i have grown very sick of your -blam!- updates, expecting a sweet trailer like every other normal game devoler does, but no, so insted i am going to go play a liitle game i like to call Gears, and forget about this bull -blam!-, next update if you dont have something sweet then i like many other people will look upon you people with shame for how -blam!- -blam!- -blam!- suckers you are

  • 11.15.2006 3:46 PM PDT
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and compared to gears that pic looks like S H I T

  • 11.15.2006 3:50 PM PDT
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Go get a part time job and save your money. You should be able to save $500 by Spring.

  • 11.15.2006 3:52 PM PDT
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That new screen shot looks terrible, nothing like what the cheif looked like in the anouncement trailer. compare the new screen shot and one from the anouncement trailer side by side and see what i'm talking about...

  • 11.15.2006 3:53 PM PDT
Subject: Happy Halo Day!
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Posted by: chadster30
WOW Bungie Happy Birthday, What a Great day this is Bungie is doin a Public beta program this spring. Sweet! Was XBL beta tester 5 years ago and now have the chance to be Bungie's Halo 3 beta tester. Mahn I cannot wait at all. How can I go about being the first in line???? I Really dont wanna miss this Opportunity. ONCE again HAPPY Birthday Bungie. Keep up the Great Work

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Microsoft is not a dictatorship. They are not a government of any kind. They are a Corporate entity spending its own money to create great products and gaming experience in exchange for your hard earned money. Seems honest enough to me, and because they are risking their own money to create something that hopefully millions will enjoy they can make whatever decisions they want in how they distribute it and how much to sell it for. If you no like, you no buy. They aren't garnishing your wages or anything. Get a life.

  • 11.15.2006 3:55 PM PDT
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For Bungie: Great update, only I was hoping to get the release date: summer of 2007.

Hey you people: "Halo Nation"!!! This message is for you!!!

I could tell you some bad stuff about Microsoft, but I would probably just be banned like last time. So I don't really know how to tell you?

It's like a dictatorship, say something bad here at the forums and you get banned for weeks or months..

I got a x360 a long time ago, just after the first news of Halo 3. I got it so I could play Halo 3, but alos for helping Microsoft selling 10 million by year end. But I think that was a mistake...I don't like dictatorships, so if I had known back then, what I know today.....

Anyway, I'll open a blog so I can tell the world...


Yea I feel you, I got the 360 for Halo 3. I could have at least waited untill this spring when the new maps and the beta comes out so I wouldn't have dealt with the following:
360 gaming bill : over 1,000 bucks annualy or is that analy?
New glitchy over heating system
A bunch of cool looking games that arn't worth 60 bucks a piece (where as xbox has halo 2 which is worth 600)

Oh well, 360 prices better not go down or I'm gunna feel really pwned.

Sorry to be a party pooper, all the news is really cool, and some of it is kinda shady but I love it all the same, I'll be back every 5 min to see if anything has changed, for the next year or so...

  • 11.15.2006 3:55 PM PDT
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Wow. Quoted the wrong message. Forum dudes, there seems to be a glitch in the system.

  • 11.15.2006 3:56 PM PDT
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I liked everything I saw up until I saw that screenshot. That looks horrible. I don't mean horrible compared to just the EGM Multiplayer screens, I mean horrible in general.

The detail bump maps on the armor are excessive, and down right ugly. Other than the shadows produce solely by the light, there is no shading; it's just one solid, bright green. Everything that looked as though it was actually modeled on the armor, is now substituted by bump maps.

The MA5C is really low poly. The top is completely flat. The metal...caps...I don't know what those would be considered, aren't that big of a deal, but they're still not attractive. It TRIES to look curvy in areas, but it's very obvious that it's squared off.

I am really hoping that Bungie will say that the screenshot was taken a long time ago, when they first started. BEFORE E3 even. There is NO reason for that model to look great in Multiplayer and hideous in the Campaign.

I can honestly say that I have seen Halo Custom Edition bipeds that look BETTER than the one shown in that screen shot. That one simple thing has taken what I thought was going to be a good Halo Day and crushed it.

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  • 11.15.2006 3:57 PM PDT
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Obviously you aren't too familiar with gun design :P I think it looks great as well as the biped, although I would agree with you that the lighting is a bit weird at first. It might just be the fact that my eyes go into shock every time I look at something that detailed from a videogame. The more you look at it the more you realize how correct H3 actually is with their lighting, when in fact H1 and H2 were the ones lying to you, but that's just my opinion ;P

  • 11.15.2006 4:14 PM PDT

I put on pants for this?

HAIL BUNGIE IN ALL THEIR GLORY!!!!!! HAIL!!!!



on a side note

HAIL BUNGIE SOME MORE!!!!




seriously, this will rock more than the day i was initiated to the HALO series.


oh yeah, Happy B-Day Halo

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  • 11.15.2006 4:15 PM PDT
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looks cool.

  • 11.15.2006 4:18 PM PDT
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This is complete crap. No new maps for the original Xbox, only for payment over the 360, and oh, a CG commercial is coming for Halo 3-big fu@#ing deal. That’s the way to reward the “Halo nation”! Bungie can suck my #$%^.

  • 11.15.2006 4:18 PM PDT
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Thats it.
Im buying a 360.

Hey eignuBBoy, um, take a chill pill okay?
Its a thing called a joke.
(a slightly real joke, but thats beside the point.)

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  • 11.15.2006 4:22 PM PDT

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ROCK on Bungie! ROCK ON!

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  • 11.15.2006 4:24 PM PDT