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Subject: From PS2 to Xbox...
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I just wanted to post this here for the staff of Bungie to see... and all the Bungie fans. I've been a die-hard Sony fan for a long while now. About 6 months after Halo was released, I went and rented an Xbox and Halo. I wanted to see what all the fuss was about. Now here we are, about 2 years later, and Nov. 9th is fast approaching. I am frantically trying to gather money to buy an Xbox, and have a copy of Halo 2 waiting for me at my local Target store. (I actually work at my local Target store, so I can hold my copy there overnight :) no worries for me) That's right. I am giving up Sony for this game. Halo 2.

Bungie, you have taken yet another soul.

:)

-CDubbs (xionic@chartermi.net)

  • 11.06.2004 9:38 AM PDT
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Woot... 1 intellegent Sony fan on earth and counting!

  • 11.06.2004 9:49 AM PDT
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yeah i did the same thing, about 8 months ago i traded my ps2 for an xbox (and halo!)

  • 11.06.2004 10:08 AM PDT
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When i had first gotten an xbox my brother had a PS2. Then i got halo, and about one month later my brother traded in his PS2 for Halo and an Xbox. We live in the same house so we can now just have LANs on a wim.

  • 11.06.2004 10:26 AM PDT
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Wel I have played only pc and Ps2 for a loong time up until december last year when my Ps2 stoped working. So I thought that why not buy a Xbox for a Change. Inever thought much about Halo until I got the xbox. I sassent planing to buy halo when I bout the xbox. Halo came with the xbox. So I thought that I can just play the geme and then buy somthing else. After I started the game I just couldent stop Playing Halo it was soooo great and extreamly fun. And Now I love Halo I cant ex'lain why but I just do. I have All of the game machines but I Like the xbox the most.

  • 11.06.2004 1:10 PM PDT
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well, when I got my Xbox I had a N64, sadly I got U.C. for Xbox, traded in the N64, 6 controllers, 25+ games, and now I have halo, and halo2 pre-ordered SE.

  • 11.06.2004 1:18 PM PDT

We’ve watched while the stars burned
Out, and creation played in reverse.
The Universe freezing in half-light.
Once I thought to escape.
To end a master, step out of the
Path of collapse. Escape would make us God.
Yet I cannot help but remember one enigma,
A hybrid, elusive destroyer.
This is the one mystery I have not solved.
The only element unaccounted for.

Posted by: kyogre
Wel I have played only pc and Ps2 for a loong time up until december last year when my Ps2 stoped working. So I thought that why not buy a Xbox for a Change. Inever thought much about Halo until I got the xbox. I sassent planing to buy halo when I bout the xbox. Halo came with the xbox. So I thought that I can just play the geme and then buy somthing else. After I started the game I just couldent stop Playing Halo it was soooo great and extreamly fun. And Now I love Halo I cant ex'lain why but I just do. I have All of the game machines but I Like the xbox the most.

Is there a reason why that was so garbled?

  • 11.06.2004 1:32 PM PDT
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My Story,

I'm not a huge gamer, but I did like playing the Blizzard titles on pc.

I bought a PS2 solely for MotoGP b/c I'm a sportbike guy. What happened in the end? I only used it for watching DVDs. Nothing else in PS2's vaunted library appealed to me in any way. Tried Batman, that sucked. Turns out I don't like playing alone.

So then I heard about Xbox, maybe a year after Live was first released. I decided to sell the PS2 for the Xbox b/c of Live, and the ONLINE motogp. Turns out I like FPS the most and play CS. Now I play almost everyday. Online multiplayer is the only reason I console game.

I never tried Halo except once at a Lan party. Yes, it was great fun like any multiplayer FPS. But i found it ridiculously off-center. Too powerful pistol, weak rifle that took the full clip to kill anyone. I used the pistol as my primary weapon, and the rifle as the backup weapon. I didn't like the 'shield effect' when it was hit. Too busy. I also don't like not being able to buy guns, it's a good system to buy guns!

You know, in a multiplayer frenzy you don't really have time to stop and smell the roses.

WELL!

The other day I was at EB, and saw a teenage couple playing HALO on the demo stand. They were getting into a jeep type car (warthog i suppose) and I thought, Man, that Halo 2 looks awesome. The graphics really put the CS port-2-xbox to shame. Then the clerk told me it was Halo1. I just thought maybe they had a demo.

So, where am I at, I'm buying into the Halo hype and am confident it'll be great fun. Especially hearing how much work went into balancing the weapons. What turned me off Halo prior to Halo2? The incessant 'cheerleading' by the 'Official Xbox Magazine' about Halo. They put so many unwarranted comparisons and mentions to Halo that it was down right irritating. I no longer buy that crappy magazine. Any mag that can't hold a standard of objectivity is useless. (pass that onto them for me Bungie please).

Seriously, there are anywhere between 15-30 references to Halo in any issue, in places that have nothing to do with Halo.

I know how much Xbox has invested in Halo and vice versa. I know there is a directive (unspoken or not) to the OXBM to support Halo, and it nearly kept me away from buying Halo2. I felt like they were trying to force Halo down my throat which netted the exact opposite reaction intended. I hated Halo just b/c of that type of press, sight unseen.

But, I've read up Halo myself now, and I like everything Halo and Bungie has to offer. I'll definately do the single player campaign, and look into playing Halo1 later on. But to catch up on backstory I've read the plot synopsis of the novel and Halo1.

[Edited on 11/7/2004 7:04:42 AM]

  • 11.07.2004 7:01 AM PDT
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PS2 is the worst system you can get!- It sucks!

  • 11.07.2004 7:06 AM PDT
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Hey, Valentino Rossi!

Nice story and all, but Halo deserves every reference it gets. Its not like OXM just picked any game to praise. They should probobly make MORE halo references! I guaranty you that all that attention will bring more people to HALO than not; a lot more. So basically, just because you felt that way doesn't mean thats how everyone feels about it!

And about the weapons balance in halo, yeah, its a LITTLE off. SO WHAT!!!!. Its still the best FPS ever made.

Bungie probobly likes all of the advertising that it gets through magazines anyway!!

So keep your odd opinions to yourself!

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  • 11.07.2004 7:21 AM PDT
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keep my odd opinions to myself? Who do you think you are? You sound like a pathetic lightsaber wielding jedi wannabe. Get a life.


And sure, OXM can do whatever the hell they want, but it doesn't make a good magazine. It makes a horrible one. Yes now, let's review Mario Party (that'd be just about right for you buddy), and compare it to Halo!

Tool.

  • 11.07.2004 12:05 PM PDT
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I also was a PS2 gamer i used to play games like Socom Navy Seals and Timeslitters
i think it is good choice, i hope you have fun playing the Xbox
PS2 is not the worst system, GameCube is

[Edited on 11/7/2004 12:20:26 PM]

  • 11.07.2004 12:19 PM PDT

We can dual wield what's left of this.

same here ive been on PS2 since it came out and i had ps1 then i went over to my friend one afternoon in 2001 and we played halo the next day at 8 in the morning i came over cause i had to play it again and i just came over everyday after school for the next year and then it hit me buy an xbox u retard so i did and halo along with it and here it is november 7 2 days away from the most anticpated launch of a game ever and its all thanks to my good friend jon i love him always and forver lol and i still have my PS2 and i still play cause there still is the GTA's and i love them and there still is alot of other good games for PS2


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  • 11.07.2004 7:37 PM PDT
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I remember that I had 2 diehard PS2 friends myself. And I really mean diehard. Anyway,
to cut a long story short, all of the sudden, they both turned into Xbox fanboys. Why??
I never asked them.

  • 11.07.2004 8:01 PM PDT
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Posted by: ZONeal
Its still the best FPS ever made.


Sorry to burst your bubble but Wolfenstein 3D is still the best. There is no toping the original FPS Na_zi-killing mayhem. But Halo pulls a close Second and Halo 2 will be of the same quality.

[Edited on 11/7/2004 8:10:20 PM]

  • 11.07.2004 8:09 PM PDT
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Wolfenstein 3D doesn't hold a poorly-made 3rd world candle to halo or halo 2, that kind of comparison isn't even plausible in the human mind

  • 11.08.2004 9:27 AM PDT
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same thing ps2 is crap xbox owns

  • 11.08.2004 9:30 AM PDT
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dude.....wolfenstien sux ass....i dont even see how u could compare it to mario lol....not say u were just sayin mario was a better game lol .....

[Edited on 11/8/2004 9:54:55 AM]

  • 11.08.2004 9:54 AM PDT
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I never liked playstation to begin with. I have always favored Nintendo, so I have a GC, but I got an XBox so I could play Halo.

  • 11.08.2004 10:03 AM PDT
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OK....ive been a sony fan 4ever....and probubly always will be but no matter what....xbox is better....much better...Halo is the best multiplayer game ever....im into more gorey killing games myself, zombies and junk but Halo rules!!!! my life will be consumed by Halo 2 and all its glory....nov 9 is a sic day 4 me...maybe the whole week!!!

  • 11.08.2004 10:04 AM PDT