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Subject: Happy Halo Day!
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I'm not from bungie but I can surely tell your ignorant self why the new maps will only be out on 360. BECAUSE this is not an old school era. The gaming experience is coming to life more and more and those maps probably require a system such as the 360 to handle its features because xbox is too cheap to play the map. It could but the graphics would sukk. And if you don't got a 360, den't get your *** of the couch and work for it. Also part of the reason is because Bungie wants to give you the full expierence from the maps and not just cheap graphics like the xbox could provide.





don't be such an a$$. i am working and i'm gonna get a 360 sooner or later. i'm just saying it would be nice if the maps came out for the xbox. Before you start talking all this s**t online (what a loser) learn how to use spell check dumba$$.


He's not the only idiot in your post; you are too. You should seriously reconsider trying to avoid the language filter just to try to sound mature(tho it's not).

  • 11.16.2006 9:29 AM PDT
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Dident you read?
there trying to get it to the xbox 1 but it might not be in there control

there is quite a chance that they will put on a disk like they did the first map pack

  • 11.16.2006 9:29 AM PDT
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And dont be out of order with monentary issues its one of the nastiest things you can do

  • 11.16.2006 9:31 AM PDT
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The screenshot is awesome. Bungie changed MC's gauntlets, and these are more kick ass. Another thing I noticed.....no jaggies which is kick ass. I expected nothing less, its just cool to see it as reality.

  • 11.16.2006 9:36 AM PDT
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Posted by: The Greatest
I'm not from bungie but I can surely tell your ignorant self why the new maps will only be out on 360. BECAUSE this is not an old school era. The gaming experience is coming to life more and more and those maps probably require a system such as the 360 to handle its features because xbox is too cheap to play the map. It could but the graphics would sukk. And if you don't got a 360, den't get your *** of the couch and work for it. Also part of the reason is because Bungie wants to give you the full expierence from the maps and not just cheap graphics like the xbox could provide.


it becomes obvious from reading your post that you are the ignorant one. do you actually believe that the new maps will require a 360 to play them? halo2 is an original xbox game. the 360 can play halo2, but the 360 plays it "cheaply" because it is playing it through an emulator. a crappy emulator at that. an emulator so terrible bungie had to remove one of its maps from matchmaking entirely just because of whining 360 users. emulator does not equal backward compatibility. sony has been the only one to have true backward compatibility with the playstation and ps2. the ps2's hardware allowed it to play all ps1 games. the 360 has to be programmed to play each original xbox game individually. any new maps made for halo2 will be written using original xbox code, because halo2 is an original xbox game. the 360, with the emulator upgrade, will be able to play them, but never as well as an original xbox. the 360 is a more powerful machine. but it still isn't the machine halo2 was designed for. it can't run the maps "better". in fact it is only "emulating" how an original xbox would run the game. that is why i play halo2 only on the xbox. i want to play halo2, not an emulation of it.

  • 11.16.2006 9:43 AM PDT
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people who bought a 360 to play halo2 on it = funny

  • 11.16.2006 9:48 AM PDT
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That screenshot looks like crap...

looks like someone used clay to mold the master chief!!!

I hope the graphics are better than then the screenshot or i might just go buy a PS3!

  • 11.16.2006 10:20 AM PDT
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Yay Happy Halo day ppls!!! well late halo day!!! But Still....anyways Tha screen shot doesnt look to good....ah well they havent exactly went back through and fine tuned the graphics....so I'll let it slide!!! Anyways Thanks Bungie!!! For The Info and everything I just wished it would of been a lil more ya'know!

  • 11.16.2006 10:26 AM PDT

"And God set them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth" Genesis 1:17

Sweet! A Happy Halo Day indeed! I think any news about Halo 3 (as long as its news saying its still around) is good news. And new maps for Halo 2? Also very cool. Only for the 360? Well, then I guess I'll just have to go out and get my 360 now!

  • 11.16.2006 10:52 AM PDT
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November 15th is a day all should savor as probably the most important day in FPS, and indeed, video-gaming history. It brings a tear to my eye. Happy fifth birthday, halo, and looking forward to many more. Even though I was out of town for work (getting TAM card...ugh....), I still called my fellow haloplayers and shouted happy Halo day.

...New maps, eh? A hang'em high would be extremely cool. As for being only on the 360, that does stink for oldskool halo-players, but hey, not Bungies fault. As for the comercial, I think you guys have enough on your plate. Their making a commercial, your making the GAME, so I don't mind CG. I don't like football too much, but hey, now that days in my calendar. Also, how do I get hold of the demo when it comes out? I want to be the first one in my community to try it (not likely to happen, but hey, I'll sacrifice a limb or two).

  • 11.16.2006 11:16 AM PDT
Subject: Sell. Out. Period.

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"I have no words that would do justice to the atrocities you commit to the English language, as well as your continued assaults on the concepts of basic literacy and logical reasoning."

1. If you think that Halo 2 has any measurable impact on the sell-thru of Vista or that Vista needs Halo 2 to succeed, you're insane. Halo 2 is only for Vista because we're using Live Anywhere, among other Vista-specific features.

2. In that same vein, the Xbox has not been supported with new content from Microsoft itself for nearly 18 months. All 1st party development shifted to the 360, for obvious reasons. So, your choice was either nothing for Halo 2 again, ever, or new maps (and everything that comes with that - work on emulation layer for Halo 2 on the 360, continued focus on improving the banhammer for Halo 2).

You are, of course, welcome to do whatever you want with our games and are free to hold us in low regard. But nobody sits here and tries to think of ways to screw you over. In both the cases of Halo 2 Vista and the new Halo 2 maps, the alternative is to not release anything. I think we chose correctly - I'd certainly prefer having Halo 2 Vista and the new maps versus not having anything.

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I can't stand you, Bungie.
The word "Sell-out" comes to mind everytime I read one of your supposedly "great" updates.
Yea, whatever, Halo 3...It's coming, yea...we know. Peopl are impressed, I care less. I will never buy a 360. Period.

First I read that you guys were making Halo 2 for Vista, and I knew Microsoft had you buy the "no-nos". Only reason that IT MUST COME OUT ON VISTA is so they can sell that OS. Plain and simple. Without you, Xbox would've died. So they look to you guys to make sure Vista won't bomb. It'll run on XP just fine, but you say it won't, when clearly when you were first programming the graphics and coding Halo 2 up years ago for Xbox, Vista wasn't out. Wasn't even called Vista. Longhorn was the name, and you guys most likely coded the game in XP, or heck, even 2000. Who knows...Therefore, H2V should really be H2XP, because the original was was made and tested on the older OS, and then coded to the Xbox version and encrypted and what-not. It worked then, it should work now. But I figure I'll just rip Vista somehow, just like my XP I have on my PC. I kinda got over it.

But then to read that you guys are making maps for H2, which, lets remind everyone, and, hmm..lets remind you guys since you must've forgotten somehow...that Halo 2 was made for Xbox, and the last time you guys tried to do something that would work with 360...crapped out (I'm looking at you Backwash). You're doing the same thing with Microsoft again. Halo 3 is eventually coming out, but with the lack of sales that the 360 has, especially with two other competitors FINALLY stepping in, Microsoft is getting scared and wants, NO, NEEDS something from the only good company that has made anything worth playing, to suck more people into buying their system.

I'm ashamed to know you guys. I regret buying your games now. I regret that I ever had faith in you, for everytime you guys try and "do something nice", you let down a good sized chunk of your fan base, and without us, you'd have died aloooong time ago.
Thanks.

I'm pawning, wait...no I think I'll just give away my copy of Halo 2.

  • 11.16.2006 11:32 AM PDT
Subject: Happy Halo Day!
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U all cant believe how mind -blam!- ed i am right now. Halo 3 release date december 2007 31
thats what ive been hearing tho. Does it meen The game of games comes out in about 13 months or 0,000001 seconds after new year...witch i hop it does cous i cant studiy my ass off in he 9nth grade to have to wait a hole -blam!- ing year more. Im mind fooked. Help me

And might the new halo maps ever be free, like the first day or so.

  • 11.16.2006 11:35 AM PDT
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Oh and happy halo day!!!.....YAY

  • 11.16.2006 11:38 AM PDT

Aww, beta in spring. That means the real thing will be out after spring. Waiting is such a difficult thing to do for something so great.

As for the new maps only on the 360, that just adds to the already large list of reasons why not to wait for Halo 3 release to get one. It's so hard to hold back.

That screenshot is going straight to my desktop. If only my monitor was bigger. ;)

  • 11.16.2006 11:42 AM PDT
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will the new halo 2 maps eventually be free?

  • 11.16.2006 11:52 AM PDT

A witty signature you say ! ? well at the moment i have nothing witty that springs to mind, so sory..................nope still nothing.......

I think it's important to remember battlecruiser that this is very erly in the development of halo 3 and grapahicly the game will see huge improvements and polish visuealy over the development time. yes the visor does not look quite as good as the the one seen in the anoucement trailer this could be due to the the way the light is shining onto the visor on that perticular map-level, the chief's model looks like it is under a very intence light source. appolgieys for bad spelling, very tired,lol

  • 11.16.2006 12:21 PM PDT
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lol assault rifle

  • 11.16.2006 12:34 PM PDT

-Beware the 7.

So I'm wondering with these new maps will we get a fix for the remainig glitches in Halo2? I.E. Button gliching and super bounce jumps

Hmmm?

  • 11.16.2006 12:35 PM PDT
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This has to be the dumbest way to bring Halo 3 out waiting and waiting just to see it on t.v and it not even be somthing you'll see in the game !!it's gonna be all cleaned up made to look like a movie AND WE'RE WAITING FOR THAT CRAP??Just bring the DANM GAME OUT AND STOP TALIKIN ABOUT YOUR BABY!!No one cares about the hype we just wannna play the game and not be dragged along for more months while ps3 lays the law down!!Your not doin Ol' Bill Gates right like Epic did in Gears now enough of your weekly bungie Halo 3 dream talk just tell us the danm release date and sthu about everything else.I want a great game and i belive you have it im just tired of always coming to the Bungie website just to always hear "We got more info without revealing much of anything".Your not pumpin us up anymore its just getting annoying and just so Bungie knows NO i do not play Halo,or Halo 2 due to flaws glitches and the overall statement that Halo-Halo2 are yesterdays news.Hot games drop almost every month step your game up and drop the Halo 3 bomb o us!Or PS3 may be you BUNGIE to the punch!

  • 11.16.2006 12:47 PM PDT
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Hmm. I would like to know if there will be a "multiplayer map pack" kindof thing for the new maps. as the credit card my live subscription is on is now expired, it is quite difficult to buy things on live, and a map pack disc would make things much better.

  • 11.16.2006 12:52 PM PDT
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wow im so excited to here about all the new things about halo,Halo was a big hit and still is the most played game on xbl im so happy they making new maps on halo 3 i hv the legendary edition of halo3 preordered right now im going to see wht the halo 3 comercial will look like on dec-4th hope to find out more PS-how can i get the beta i want to try out the demo hope to see these new things soon!!!!!!!

  • 11.16.2006 12:56 PM PDT
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Kind of crappy, hope all the hype is worth the delay. Gears of War seem to look much better.

  • 11.16.2006 1:24 PM PDT
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Your oviously not a huge fan of halo, because everything you said was, STUPID.
Did you not read egm's story on it? this is a pre-alpha beta version, which means the screenshots SUCK, they have a year to polish them, you make it sound like it will be the finished product, Peter Jackson movie cancelled? Do you read the news? It's not cancelled they simple didn't find a sponsor, if they have to they will just get microsoft to do it. And, An animation of halo the movie, would suck. suck suck suck.


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  • 11.16.2006 1:38 PM PDT
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OMG OMG OMG!!!!! I think I just peed a little!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ok now I need to go get a 360!

  • 11.16.2006 1:45 PM PDT
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For a Real Game with no wait or weekly craphole updates play Gears of War.Bungie just feeds us garb and knows that theirs tards out there that would wait 10 more years from today to play Halo 3 I can see Bungie talkin about "Their Baby" For months on months but the funny thing is is that their playin and testing the game so their game fix is always met but we just get to hear stupid weekly updates.Bungie is like the Energizer Bunny they just keep typing and typing WE WANT HALO 3 NOT WEEKLY UPDATES ANDSCREENSHOTS THAT GO NOWHERE!!

  • 11.16.2006 1:50 PM PDT