spermatic cord
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That's a pretty cool keychain. Better than some shirt that is too large for me to ever wear.
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The Official Halo 3 Thread
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Buttonbasher
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I really dig the poster.spermatic cord said:
Although it kind of looks like it's been folded. I like my posters smooth.
What? I thought this was great, i was tired of getting shot by i cant aim for shit snipers, so i'll just pin you down with two shots in your body. Bungie is encouraging headshots, and you're a little bitch about it.(I do mean the guy who wrote this)
Also i dont agree on alot of those rants, seriously, bungie did a f'n awesome job at balancing H3, but there are always people who bitch about it because they probally get owned online everytime.
The way i see it now, the better player always wins, if someone kills me, i have the balls to say well right there they where better then me, or at that moment, or just the entire match.
Go Bungie, the only thing i want from you is new maps.
McBradders
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Raiden said:
So you're saying the Melee system is ok?
Looks like the Neill Blomkamp vids have made to Xbox Live - a new vid called Halo: Landfall is up there now with ODST's - 316 MB, so it might be all of the shorts in one - downloading now!
EDIT: Just finished watching, and it looks like it's all of them - starting with the weapons and equipment construction vid from E32006, right down to the video with laser tagging the Chief's decending pod (which I think was the last one)...
EDIT: Just finished watching, and it looks like it's all of them - starting with the weapons and equipment construction vid from E32006, right down to the video with laser tagging the Chief's decending pod (which I think was the last one)...
McBradders
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Skilotonn said:
Awesome!
Tieno
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Jeremy Parish on the best games he's played this year.
Halo 3
My single favorite gaming moment this year was unlocking all the terminals in Halo 3. Have you read the Legendary difficulty terminal text? I sincerely experienced chills as I read Offensive Bias' log of the zero-hour events surrounding the Halo array's original activation. Yes, I'm a nerd. Screw you. I know people gripe about Halo's dialogue, and yeah, sometimes it feels like they're dumbing it down for the lowest common denominator, but the terminals prove that Bungie is still about great writing and brilliant world-building. Oh yeah -- the rest of the game is good, too! The campaign in particular was spectacular. And humbling.
http://www.1up.com/do/blogEntry?bId=8454152&publicUserId=5379721
Halo 3
My single favorite gaming moment this year was unlocking all the terminals in Halo 3. Have you read the Legendary difficulty terminal text? I sincerely experienced chills as I read Offensive Bias' log of the zero-hour events surrounding the Halo array's original activation. Yes, I'm a nerd. Screw you. I know people gripe about Halo's dialogue, and yeah, sometimes it feels like they're dumbing it down for the lowest common denominator, but the terminals prove that Bungie is still about great writing and brilliant world-building. Oh yeah -- the rest of the game is good, too! The campaign in particular was spectacular. And humbling.
http://www.1up.com/do/blogEntry?bId=8454152&publicUserId=5379721
McBradders
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The Terminals were fucking awesome. Awesome. I must experience them again on Legendary as so far I have only read them on Normal/Heroic.
Mr Vociferous
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My sentiments exactly (incidentally, my name is Jeremy as well - OMG!). The campaign's dialogue was campy and corny in parts, and reasonably so as there are equally sci-fi-esque portions in Halo: Combat Evolved (not as much as Halo 2) - I still loved it. The terminals, far and away, were my favorite part of Halo 3 as you can see here. The storylines and information found inside the terminal blows away every piece of writing in the Halo Universe (and most others) so far and we only have bits and pieces of the story.Tieno said:
The love story and sacrifice between Didact and Librarian is so perfectly executed, with Didact sending the last message before firing the array, even though he knows that it won't reach Librarian before she's destroyed. Parrish's point on Offensive Bias' battle against Mendicant was also perfectly executed, showing the horror of the battle after the array is fired. I would pay large amounts of money for a game or book which covers those stories.
But he made the replacement ring so he's kind of a hero who fell to asshattery and caused the death of the entire galaxy. Accidents happen.urk said:
Stabby McSter
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The only thing I agree with is the faster melee hitter should be rewarded.Prine said:
Other than that, the rest are stupid.
But I do like the spectator mode idea.
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I just read your post summing up the events of Halo, and man was that shit AWESOME.Mr Vociferous said:
I just have a couple of questions.
What happened to the Flood after the the Halos were detonated the first time. Since they reached sentience were they destroyed in the blast?
If that is the case how come the Forerunners set us up to be Reclaimers if the Flood were destroyed in the blast?
Also, all the sentient Flood followed Gravemind into the Ark, and then the Ark was blown up killing them, correct?
Paging, Voc. Mr. Voc, please enter the thread.
Doesn't that still leave the flood specimens contained on the other Halos, or are those not really a concern, because you could just destroy the rings, killing the Flood as well?
McBradders
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Stabby McSter said:
Specator Mode = Forge, press "up on the D-pad" to spectate.
SEE HOW FUCKING EASY THAT IS?
Mr Vociferous
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The Flood which existed prior to the array, including the Gravemind (Compound Mind), were killed, as they are sentient. According to the Gravemind they are, in fact, the highest degree of sentience. This is how he convinced Mendicant that the Forerunners were mistaken.snack said:
All of the sustaining containment facilities of each Halo installation however still held a variety of specimens for study, possibly in hopes that there would be one way to permanently rid the threat of the Flood. Since the Flood were extragalactic and not intragalatic, the problem had to be permanently solved, not cleaned up and avoided only to be repeated a million years later. As has been said, this wasn't the first galaxy which the Flood have attempted to consume.
So the Flood specimens, in a nonsentient infection form, were kept alive, on the most reasonable place: a weapon that could destroy them if they escaped.
If the Flood were to return from outside the Galaxy or if the containment protocols were broken as they were by the Covenant on Installation 04 and Installation 05.
Apparently Didact, or some Forerunners during the time just before the array, discovered that once the Compound Mind (the Gravemind) was created, all of the Flood forms became reliant upon it. The destruction of the Gravemind would destroy, by proxy, the Flood according to my interpretation of some of the information culled from the terminals.
There are Flood specimens on other rings rife for future gaming pleasure. My hopes is that the Flood are finally utilized properly in some sort of survival horror game about a Marine and his/her crew on one of the remaining rings, similar to Resident Evil. I didn't enjoy the Flood in any Halo game, as I believe they were a good enemy simply executed poorly.
The Lamonster
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I still think the CG commercial and in-game cutscenes are WAY cooler than these shorts.GhaleonEB said:
I'm pretty sure this has been brought up.. but I'm getting really annoyed by it.. I hate "boosting." It's so ridiculously dumb. I never realized how much people care about rank and stuff until now. WHAT THE HELL IS THE POINT OF PLAYING IF YOU'RE JUST GONNA BOOST ALL DAY?! I just wanna play, if I win, great, if I don't, bfd.
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Thanks for clearing that up, I was slightly confused.Mr Vociferous said:
Mr Vociferous
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1) Get friends.Sumidor said:
2) Play customs.
GhaleonEB said:
About fucking time. Bungie and Blomkamp make these awesome pieces that get no promotion or marketing. Get no regular release schedule and barely a fucking peep from those who know when theyre released.
And why didnt we get these in the Legendary Eds - in uncompressed HD?
This week's Update is pretty packed.
http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=12901
Direct-downloads of the Landfall film that just hit Marketplace, Banhammer, melee, DLC. Oh, and they gave the Recon armor out to some folks. 0_0
Yes, Frank - we really do miss him.
I'm thinking, next week we should break from the mothership and do seperate weekly Update threads again.
http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=12901
http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=12901
Direct-downloads of the Landfall film that just hit Marketplace, Banhammer, melee, DLC. Oh, and they gave the Recon armor out to some folks. 0_0
Yes, Frank - we really do miss him.
I'm thinking, next week we should break from the mothership and do seperate weekly Update threads again.
http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=12901
Buttonbasher
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Sounds good.GhaleonEB said:
the_zombie_luke
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The sniper rifle is still too powerful. It's not as annoying as it was though. I didn't like Gears of War nearly as much as Halo 3, but Gears' sniper rifle was just perfect. You had to have good aim to use it, because it only had one shot at a time in the clip. I really like that they only give out medals for headshots this time around, but I wish it didn't do so much damage. I hope in a future update they change it so shooting anything other than the head is a waste of time or make the delay between shooting even more, and that will make body shots a waste of time. That would probably make that MLG guy hang himself but oh well. I also notice that in Halo 3 there are a lot more kills where I kill someone and they kill me too at the same time, but with guns or melee. That NEVER happened in Halo 2 and I think Halo 3 is really balanced well for the most part.Raiden said:
nope. this sounds like it will never be made available to everybody. Otherwise it cheapens it's use as a 'Community Service' award which they seem to be saving it for. Hopefully they'll be somewhat loose with it though. If they are too strict with who they give it too I will never get the chance to play against someone with it. Just like the chances of me playing against someone with a flaming helmet is exceedingly remote. I'd love to see it in a game.Thermite said:
ohh, I know. Just give it to GAFers who have posted in this thread.
That should be enough people to make it common, but not too common. :lol
Thermite said:
Hay guise I stuck myself with a grenade as I died, I make video I can has recon?
Also: There must be a way to get it without Bungle. They gave us evidence today. The armor is surely unlockable by using a sniper rifle.
And/or traffic cones.
OverHeat said:
Friendly reminder:
You AREN'T Ghaleon.
CougRon said:nope. this sounds like it will never be made available to everybody. Otherwise it cheapens it's use as a 'Community Service' award which they seem to be saving it for. Hopefully they'll be somewhat loose with it though. If they are too strict with who they give it too I will never get the chance to play against someone with it. Just like the chances of me playing against someone with a flaming helmet is exceedingly remote. I'd love to see it in a game.
ohh, I know. Just give it to GAFers who have posted in this thread.
As of now it sounds that way, but hey, you never know. A year or so down the line, Bungie may decide to be generous and make it readily available for anyone to download.
*Wishful thinking* 
AdmiralViscen
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Link please?
Also, is there somewhere that has typed up the complete Legendary terminals?
AndersTheSwede
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Can't wait for some of the new maps.
Stinkles talks about two of them having vehicles, so we know they are at least as large as Highground/Last Resort. I hope the other is a small slayer map.
Buttonbasher
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http://halo.wikibruce.com/TerminalsAdmiralViscen said:
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Buttonbasher
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Funny Story: I was playing The Covenant through co-op with my friend on our terminal run, and it was around 1:30AM. He fell asleep around the second terminal. I was hopping around it, and his icon wasn't moving. He wouldn't respond either. I look out and his Hornet is just hovering out over the water.
I laughed. Hard.:lol
I laughed. Hard.:lol
Buttonbasher
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I got back in mine and killed his Hornet. Then he said something like "dude I'm falling asleep", to which I replied "I noticed". Because we quit that night at the checkpoint before the 2 scarab batte, he didn't get the achievement for beating the game on heroic. :lolSpudBud said:
I don't think I could fall asleep while playing.
Updates to what?Verano said:
The full "Landfall" film (so glad they named it, "Combat Part 1" just didn't have a good ring to it) rocks. I wish the editing was a touch more seamless between the second and third parts, but still. Intense stuff. Obligatory "it makes me want the movie" endnote.
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