Thanks guys/gals. I hope your day goes well.
Norim Stumpfighter fucked around with this message on 06-17-2007 at 11:44 PM.
oh, and I got a new job for the summer. Trying to break into one of the local governments out here in Orygun. I'm a road inspector. That's the guy who works for the county who stands on the side of the road and tells the contractor, "don't do that." 
... if anyone cares 
Except for the shittiest last chapter and ending in game history.
Now we're dead. 
Wait.. OR ARE WE? 
How will Batman get out of this calamity this time? DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUUN. *screen spins out*
Felt like a cop-out.
Also the ending cinematic is voiced over by one of the developers because they ran out of money. lawlz.
Also, I have heard that the evil-ending is better. I'll find out soon. Tarquinn fucked around with this message on 06-18-2007 at 08:41 AM.
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Over the mountain, in between the ups and downs, I ran into Mortious who doth quote:
I just hate unresolutioned endings. Makes me feel like there was absolutely no fucking point to playing the damn game in the first place.Felt like a cop-out.
Fucking tell me about it. I just beat Halo 2 a couple days ago and christ, I wanted to spit in the face of the cashier that rang it up for me for having the gall to accept my money for such a half-finished piece of shit.
"I'm finishing this fight!"
*credits*
I actually played through the first 3 stages on legendary under the blind assumption that you had to play it on that setting to see the "real" ending before I looked it up on the internet. Maradon! fucked around with this message on 06-18-2007 at 08:46 AM.
Those are even worse than non-resolution endings. No one makes a game just to make a game anymore, it's all about the franchise. Fuckers.
That's why I am so excited about Overlord. Looks like finally someone is making a game just for the enjoyment of being a standalone game. Although Codemasters is one of the old-school game developers so I'd expect that from them. Go Codemasters.
quote:Nevermind the fact that Halo and Halo 2 are both completely mediocre FPS games in all aspects, and completely undeserving of the amount of attention and fans it gets.
Maradon!.
On the contrary, pulling a Matrix: Reloaded with halo 2 made me lose most of my faith in bungee.
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Blackened had this to say about Optimus Prime:
Nevermind the fact that Halo and Halo 2 are both completely mediocre FPS games in all aspects, and completely undeserving of the amount of attention and fans it gets.
But all the frat boys play it so its cool
"Put Breaking Benjamin in this scene, yeah, that's hot."
"Layer that over with some gloss map so it looks more detailed."
"Don't give the fans too much story, we still have one more game to go."
"Let's get some Michelle Rodriguez - yes, finally the game is complete."
"Don't want to sound like a fanboy, but I am with you. I'll buy it for sure, it's just a matter of for how long I will be playing it..."
- Silvast, Battle.net forums
I am still playing Medieval II, can't find anything better to play.
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OrangeBrand thought about the meaning of life:
I thought everyone knew Halo was a trilogy when part 2 came out.
I didn't like the way it ended either.I am still playing Medieval II, can't find anything better to play.
It's only the actual gameplay mechanics that are so overwhelmingly average, and since so many "hardcore" FPS'ers go straight for the multiplayer, that's why people think it sucks.
I still see the SP campaign of a game as the "real" part with the multiplayer being an occasionally fun minigame. If you don't, you probably don't like Halo.
quote:more than two people agreeing on their dislike of a game, hmm I'd better point out that foolishness right away
Kegwen.
am i late for the halo sucks circlejerk
Halo is fun. It didn't really push the FPS genre forward when compared to the PC, but it legitimized the FPS market on consoles for the mainstream. Goldeneye was a start, but Halo really got things in motion.
i mean uh lol fratboys rite guys
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This one time, at Blackened camp:
more than two people agreeing on their dislike of a game, hmm I'd better point out that foolishness right away
Granted, that's about 40% of EC.
Also, don't pretend like it's not a big internet fad to hate on Halo. I'm not defending it because I don't think any FPS games are really that original/better/worse than one another.
quote:keep on keepin' on
Kegwen.
i mean uh lol fratboys rite guys
^^^ - I'm not pretending it doesn't exist. However, it's just as stupid to rage against the raging against. It makes you no better than. Note Kegwen's brilliant attempt at trying to seriously discuss the subject and then degrading back into internet fad/anti-fad bullshit.
I didn't post that Halo sucks looking for someone else to reach over and stroke my dick. I can get that in any other thread here on EC, it's easy. Blackened fucked around with this message on 06-18-2007 at 10:55 PM.
ff7
micro$oft
When compared to PC games, Halo lags far behind. Most of the things that it did well were things that PC developers had long since perfected and PC gamers now expect. It was not a huge step forward for the FPS genre as a whole. What it did right was create a very replayable and accessible multiplayer shooter in the console space that learned its lesson from PC shooters. It was one of the first well implemented dual analog games that I can recall. Halo 2 has set the bar for console game online matchmaking, a bar that unfortunately even Epic's Gears of War failed to clear.
It is of course entirely subjective whether the game is fun for you or not. Most PC gamers expect more and honestly it's not surprising for a PC gamer who played Half-Life and Unreal Tournament 8 years ago to find Halo to be fairly basic. It is basic. For the most part it was not innovative and it did not make any huge advances for the genre. Somehow, though, as someone who played those games so many years ago I find its highly polished replayability to be fun sometimes. Just like Counter-Strike, though, it's not fun if I'm losing. I get very frustrated with games like that when I'm losing, but that's my only real problem with games like that that are designed to be played a million times.
tl;dr i was being a stupid faggot earlier and defending halo beyond what was necessary or relevant. i thought it was a fun, polished game that had a lot of important consequences for future console shooters and that's why I consider it more than mediocre
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Maradon! had this to say about Tron:
Tribes was basic and more fun by far than any multiplayer FPS I have played since.
people would not hate halo if it had jet packs
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Over the mountain, in between the ups and downs, I ran into Gadani who doth quote:
people would not hate halo if it had jet packs
people would not hate halo if it were tribes
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Maradon! attempted to be funny by writing:
Tribes was basic and more fun by far than any multiplayer FPS I have played since.
It's too bad Tribes Vengeance screwed up so badly 
Needs more viral marketing involving the Gravemind.
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Falaanla Marring:
It's too bad Tribes Vengeance screwed up so badly
Vengeance (i refuse to acknowledge it as tribes) was the MoO3 of it's time.
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ACES! Another post by Blackened:
I didn't post that Halo sucks looking for someone else to reach over and stroke my dick. I can get that in any other thread here on EC, it's easy.
You can get it from me if you post 201-300 of that torrent of MP3's you have.
How you doin'? 
-H
