Halo3

posted on October 6th, 2007, 4:48 am

Halo3 is well out and well it got me peged. i havent done anything else fo over a weak. im wondering who else here hase halo3 and if anyone wants to be me friend on Xboxlive

gamertag=Cairo1 

posted on October 6th, 2007, 5:41 am

Blaa Microsoft... Fleet ops 1000 x better in its wurst day.

posted on October 6th, 2007, 8:47 pm

I usually only play RTS games: can anone offer me an impartial view on Halo 3 (I kinda wanna get a dedicated fps for a change)?

posted on October 6th, 2007, 10:12 pm

Well, here's a partial viewpoint. Halo 3 is all about hype. When it's popular for something to be popular it usually turns out to be popular. It doesn't take much strength of character to go along with the crowd. I'm quite happy to admit that I prefer RTS to FPS games. I quickly get bored just blowing stuff up all the time.

The converse is also true, and perhaps more so. When it's popular for something to be unpopular it becomes a self-fulfiling prophecy. For example, it's popular to hate Tom Cruise, or it's popular to bash ST: Legacy, or it's popular to dislike 80s music, etc etc.

OK rant over. 

posted on October 7th, 2007, 2:35 am

Yeah, I know the trend... unfortunately I must have missed the beat cuz I like 80's music
I don't usually follow the trends though... at least I hope not


Still, I've seen the graphics on xbox for Halo 3, and I was wondering if the game play was any fun; are the bots any good.... yadaydadyady. If it's anything like CS, then, well... it doesn't seem the awe-ing

posted on October 8th, 2007, 7:21 am

i've played CS, and the bots aint at all like it.  the AI's are pretty -blam- smart.  not as smart as all the hype, but pretty smart none the less.
gameplay is fun, it has a very well written story line. but some parts of it, only some though, are hard to understand unless you know some background of the halo universe.  back to the AI.  they are very adaptive.  if you are in cover, the AI will either wait for your shield to run out, then will blast you with an explosive gun.  or will have some of the lesser guys keep you suppressed (keeping the enemy under cover VIA shooting), while the bigger guys flank you.  or they will bombard you with grenades,  oh..the grenades...
they were everywhere...

the maps are large, and there are many ways to approach every combat situation. very open ended for a FPS.  not asmuch as halo 1 and 2, but still open ended none the less.

and I too have not taken the time to do things other than Halo 3.  it is very, very, very fun.

and my gamertag is    Lumpybob

posted on October 8th, 2007, 3:35 pm

Why is it not as open-ended as Halo 1 or 2? Shouldn't it be more so...?

[Lumpybob]

posted on October 9th, 2007, 2:48 am

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it should, but they put in so many invisible walls and other blocks as to prevent people from traveling off the path they set.
in halo 1 and halo 2, both me and cairo would get lost in the maps, because there were so open ended, you could even skip parts of levels entirely.  in halo 3, we have never gotten lost once.  they force you to go one way, and to do a certain thing.  sure, you can pick what weapons you want to use, but not really.  so, the replayability factor is not there, and there is absolutely barely any open endedness.  it is probably to prevent any of those fun glitches like the exploring outside of the map, and many ohter discoveries.
the campaign has a great story line, its just way to closed off as to the options available.

don't get me wrong, its still a great game, and it recaptures the fast paced-ness of halo 1, and the multiplay-ability of halo 2.  short campaign though. the plasma pistol has been toned down so much, it is complete garbage.  useless crap.  halo 1 plasma pistol rocked. halo 2's not so much.  halo 3's is complete trash.  great game none the less.

posted on October 9th, 2007, 3:26 am

Sounds ok... what about new weapons... any really new features (cuz otherwise I might just get Halo 1)?

posted on October 10th, 2007, 8:31 am

definitely, there are loads of new gadgets and gizmo's.  there is the new fangled 'equipment' selection available, which is basically a bunch of deployable goodies ranging from the bubble shield all the way to a tripmine.  loads more goodies, but i don't want to spoil too much.  there is a couple new weapons, mostly for the brute sandbox.  an SMG like weapon, the brute grenade launcher was reworked, and 2 new grenades!  they finally got the flame thrower in, and its awesomely fun.  they added a couple new vehicles, and reworked the way some old ones worked. (added a gunners turret for the scorpion tank and the wraith tank, banshee can not point lower than 45 degrees)  the dual wield has been changed so you can reload each weapon individually, but beware, the X button no longer reloads, it is the deploy equipment button now.  almost all of the old weapons have been reworked in one way or another.  the needler is now basically a power weapon, the sword has been toned down, the assault rifle is back, and more accurate, and less ammo, and as i have covered before, they completely ruined the plasma pistol, its worthless garbage now.  one of the new grenades is kinda complicated to use effectively, (it explodes in a cone from the top, not a spherical explosion?!) so it might be kinda confusing when an enemy is right next to it when it blows, but doesn't die.

the final clincher, for any of you who have played the Marathon series.  i highly recommend Halo 3.  if just for that.  don't want to spoil too much about it, but if you have ever played anything from Marathon, play Halo 3.

the new features are pretty cool.  when you teabag something, it sticks to the players characters crotch!  as i mentioned, there is the new equipment class of...well...equipment.  a new class of weapon, and some new grenades. 

well, its 3:30 AM where i am, and i have to go to school tomorrow, so i will elaborate more then.  unless someone does it for me? 

guten Nacht!

posted on October 16th, 2007, 8:41 am

Halo 3 hurting box office take? - Video Game Feature - Yahoo! Video Games

O Microcrap.... Lay's another ege.

posted on October 17th, 2007, 3:11 am

i have never played halo before last saturday at a halo3 party if it was on pc I would buy it.

posted on October 17th, 2007, 3:31 am

Yup, I just realized it isn't on pc yet... that sorta crashed my plans. Oh well, I'll just have to wait a few months

posted on October 17th, 2007, 4:38 pm

How is it not on PC thats like a bad joke with out a punch line just a punch.

posted on October 17th, 2007, 9:29 pm

I know... irritates me like no other. The old Halo's were also released late on PC.... AAARHG!