Official Halo 3 Thread - Halo > You

That is just beautiful. I can't wait until i can play the Co-Op. Hopefully with some of the nice QCDN folk.
 
Couple more videos

http://www.n4g.com/News-62325.aspx

First two are of him actually playing single player, second one is an uncut version of the first 5 mins or so of the replay vid.

This game just gets better and better.
 
Halos snowball continues... I figured close to release the game could not be stopped from greatness lol.
 
Makelith said:
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/hardware/x/xbox360halo3console/default.htm

Anyone else die hard enough to get this? I might trade mine in to get it. My xbox has been a little choppy lately and i figure i might as well trade it in for this if i can get it decently within reach of the price.
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I think it looks ugly and doesn't match with any other part of my entertainment systems.


As for Halo3, am I the only one that wasn't THAT impressed with the beta? Hell, I have never really been impressed with Halo at all. The only thing I liked at all was the man cannon in the beta. Everything else just seemed a bit bland and not to revolutionary for a title that should be pulling out all the stops. Sure it will sell a million copies in the first week, but I predict many unhappy people. Then again, there are too many people that will say it is great just because it is Halo. But I guess it will just give me another game to kick the asses of those whose only other online game in their arsenal is Madden, which I already destroy them in.
 
Lanien said:
I think it looks ugly and doesn't match with any other part of my entertainment systems.
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Same, maybe if it was black with a halo 3 sticker on the side i would think about it, but not that brown pos.


Lanien said:
As for Halo3, am I the only one that wasn't THAT impressed with the beta? Hell, I have never really been impressed with Halo at all. The only thing I liked at all was the man cannon in the beta. Everything else just seemed a bit bland and not to revolutionary for a title that should be pulling out all the stops. Sure it will sell a million copies in the first week, but I predict many unhappy people. Then again, there are too many people that will say it is great just because it is Halo. But I guess it will just give me another game to kick the asses of those whose only other online game in their arsenal is Madden, which I already destroy them in.
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I wouldn't say the beta was amazing, if anything it was halo 2 with some new weps and new maps. The man cannon was tight but so were the detachable turrets and the spartan laser. That thing kicked ass. And it's a beta, its not suppose to be amazing. If the beta was as good as the final, then the developers fucked up somewhere.

But as far as the full version of H3, some of the new SS look amazing. And the new weapons sound bomb (flame thrower, incendiary grenade, brute hammer) as well as the vehicles (chopper and elephant). Not to mention the full replay ability is gonna be ridiculous. And forge looks fun as hell. Just watching those replay and forge videos have me jazzed up.

I mean and sure, there isn't anything innovative such as something like Portal has or what have you, but Halo is a great game. Why put in some random shit just to make it "new and innovative". Sure you dont want the same shit over an over, but if they changed it so much, they might as well not call it halo. With online co-op with upto 4 players, and all the other stuff they are putting in, this is looking to be the best halos of them all. I can't wait for the 25th to roll around.
 
what everyone seems to forget ironically is what they stressed the most.
the beta was a BETA, it was only a taste. Half the stuff thats in the final version was not in the beta, most weapons and vehicles were not there. The maps were not even done yet, the save film feature was pretty slimmed down, and no custom games to check out the features (unless you did the hack to get into that menu).
The beta was so limited in what youll actually get in the retail copy, even the graphics were dumbed down.
twas just a taste for us, and meant to test the servers and balancing for them. wasnt meant to impress! Hell they still havent finished announcing all the features and items in the game.
I personally thought the beta was fun, but without all the other stuff to fill it in more, it got repeatetive....but thats also because there were only three maps to play repeatedly.

With all the extensive stuff they put into this game, its going to own and own hard. I mean the saved film/screen shot feature will be totally integrated into bungie.net! Take a screenshot, and it will automatically appear on your bungie.net profile in HIGH DEF. Save a film, put it in file share...download it from bungie.net. Extremely opening the door for user created media.
Forge was not expected, but a big deal. The save film feature is a dream to me, i was always creating montages and the like but hated the methods i had to go about to do it. Never again will i have to worry about stopping or pausing the PC between matches. save now, copy later.
all the weapons, all the vehicles, all the maps, all the game types, The ENDLESS customization features. Theres just way more in this game than i had ever imagined...and at times it feels overwhelming.
but im sure it will deliever. Dissappointment is not an option!
I was also not impressed by the beta, but i took their words to heart when they said "remember, its A BETA!"
 
I know it is just a beta, but people are still getting their hopes up for a game that has been mediocre at best.
 
Lanien said:
I know it is just a beta, but people are still getting their hopes up for a game that has been mediocre at best.
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Did you watch the vids i posted in those link? H3 doesn't look mediocre to me in the least. It looks better than GoW imo, and i dont think anyone would call gears "mediocre".
 
RaiderX said:
Did you watch the vids i posted in those link? H3 doesn't look mediocre to me in the least. It looks better than GoW imo, and i dont think anyone would call gears "mediocre".
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I would lol And yes, I have seen the videos.
 
The videos look amazing, better than any current game on the market. Bungie is known for pushing the current console to its limits, thats why im kinda sad they didnt wait a few more years to get the console down pat like they did the xbox and halo 2.
 
lol its far from mediocre, i cant even see how that word comes acrossed when viewing this game. it is THE game of the year to me and most by far, it just looks more and more amazing everytime i see something from it.
 
lol Burn me for calling Gears mediocre? 6 hour game with no story and pretty graphics. Little bit of new controls that make taking cover necessary, but nothing groundbreaking. And as far as online play, the only kick I ever got was chainsawing someone to death, beyond that it was just a prettier Halo2 with different weapons. Only thing I liked was going through co-op on insane with a friend.

Sorry for not creaming myself over a game with no real thought put behind it all that was pushed back a year beyond when it was originally supposed to be out, and not being that much better. Hell, if they released it at its original date, it probably would have been a 2 hour game with no online play. But greatest game ever, huh?

Halo3 looks to be the same thing. A mediocre game that will sell well because it is named Halo.
 
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When was the last time a mediocre game pretty much swept every single game-oriented award it was nominated for? I mean if gears was nominated for an award, it pretty much won EVERYTIME. And the single player wasnt that long but shit, it was fun and ive played through it atleast 4-5 times. But its all about the multiplayer in Gears. The only thing in my mind that would made gears better would have been a clan option online somewhat like halo 2 had. Clan battles would be sweet. The game is just sexy. But im getting off-topic. Gears is an amazing fucking game, the sales and awards speak for them self. If it doesnt float your boat, thats your call.

Here are the awards it won, so far:

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        * IGN's Best of 2006
          o Xbox 360 Game of the Year
          o Best Action Game
          o Best Xbox 360 Action Game
          o Best Graphics Technology
          o Best Graphics Technology for Xbox 360
          o Best Developer for Xbox 360 (Epic Games)
    * 2006 Spike TV Video Game Awards
          o Best Multiplayer Game
          o Best Shooter
          o Best Graphics
          o Best Studio (Epic Games)
    * D.I.C.E 07
          o Overall Game of the Year
          o Console Game of the Year
          o Outstanding Achievement in Animation
          o Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction
          o Outstanding Character Performance - Male
          o Outstanding Achievement in Online Game Play
          o Outstanding Achievement in Visual Engineering
          o Action/Adventure Game of the Year
    * IEAA Awards
          o Samsung Xbox 360 Game of the Year
          o GameSpot AU Editor's Choice Award
          o GAME 1 Ultimate Game of the Year

	

    * GameSpot's Best and Worst of 2006
          o Game of the Year
          o Fyo's choice award
          o Best Xbox 360 Game
          o Best Graphics, Technical
          o Best New Character(s) (Delta Squad)
          o Best Multiplayer Game
          o Best Shooter
    * Official Xbox Magazine
          o Xbox 360 Game of the Year
          o Developer of the Year Epic Games
          o Enemy of the Year The Berserker
          o Best Studio (Epic Games)
    * 2006 Interactive Achievement Awards
          o Game of the Year
          o Animation
          o Character Performance Male
          o Original Music Composition
          o Sound Design
          o Console Game of the Year
          o Console Action/Adventure

	

    * G-Phoria 07
          o Best Action
          o Best New Character (Marcus Fenix)
          o Best Multiplayer
          o Best Voiceover (The Mighty Rasta as Augustus Cole)
          o Best Graphics
          o Game of the Year

Tell me the last "mediocre" game that won that many awards.

Edit: Not to mention the review scores it got:

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1UP.com 	         10/10
Game Informer 	         9.5/10
GamePro 	         4.75/5
Game Rankings 	         94%
GameSpot 	         9.6/10
IGN 	                 9.4/10
Metacritic 	         94%
Official Xbox Magazine 	 10/10
Edge Magazine          	 8/10
X-Play 	                 5/5
 
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Lanien you just do not like the halo series, because its halo. Tired of people acting like every game needs to be groundbreaking and innovative to be a good game. Jeeeesus relax. Gears was a great game, no matter how much you did not enjoy it. Halo 3 will be a great game no matter how much you hate the series. You claim all these things to be wrong with some of these games but damn man... EVERY review, EVERY customer dissagrees with you... And its millions of people. Nothing wrong with you having an opinion tho just sounds to me like you are a little bitter.
 
Gears of War Gamerankings~93.8%
Halo: CE Gamerankings~95.6%
Halo 2 Gamerankings~94.6%

Mind you Gamerankings takes the avg of all the reviews each game gets. So please inform me with some type of credibility about how ALL these people are blind, lying MS fans who know nothing about good games... Lol...
 
lol I don't like the Halo series for a good reason. It did nothing for gaming except make Madden people play a different game. It lacked any sort of challenge and did nothing original. The only claim to fame it had was the controls were pretty decent for a console game, but it was nothing Timesplitters wasn't already doing on another system. I am saddened games like this get good ratings because that is $60 people could be putting towards a better game, which might lack the multi-million budgets, but have an overall better gameplay.

I have no reason to be bitter over the Halo series. Millions of people may like it, but their reasoning is nothing more than pretty graphics and a shooter, and that is no reason to buy a game.
 
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