Holy shit Im loving the absolute shit out the campaign so far, and the graphics and lighting is simply superb. Im torn between playing 4 player co-op and just playing by myself. Co-op is fun I find we just go too fast and miss a whole lot without exploring.... thats not how I usually like to play.
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The Official Halo 3 Thread
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GhaleonEB said:The Best Buy launch was in-fucking-sane. There was over an hour to go when I left, but the estimate was at over 700 people in line. It wrapped around the front of the store, all of the way to the back and then down and around the parking lot. Got to meet Luke again, and Brian (Sketch).
Crazy highlight of the day: when our bus pulled up to the front of the store, the crowd thought we were Bungie. And we didn't do anything to make them think otherwise: the crowd went apeshit, we were throwing t-shirts and other swag like mad and then backed the fuck up. My five minutes as a rock star, and it was enough. Holyyyy shit.
We got to the Microsoft Xbox campus at 9:00am this morning and headed back into two conference rooms that were setup like the review sessions: Aquos tvs and 5.1 headphones. We did Campaign for a while, then MP for the rest of the day, until 9:00pm. They catered in breakfast, lunch and dinner (pretty good stuff, too). Eight of us in each room (with someone from the Xbox team sitting in to balance things out), playing all 16-player games for about nine hours straight. My voice got hoarse from all the screaming and smack talk into the intercom at the other team. :lol
I'll save lengthy thoughts for another time when I've played more, but suffice it to say that the game has taken a h-u-g-e leap forward since the Beta, in some major and a lot of minor ways. Campaign encounters on Heroic were hard, but fair. The final battle of the first level was NUTS, and the first real Brute pack encounter in the warehouse of mission 2 was better than anything in all of Halo 2.
Oh and swag. We all took home the copy of the regular edition of the game from our stations, a Halo 3 hoodie with our gamertags on them. [They spelled mine "GalleonEB"], a several t-shirts and other misc stuff.
Oh, and the Halo 3 edition of the Xbox 360, and a transfer cable kit. 0_0
Some random highlights from Mulitplayer:
--Getting two double-kills in a row with Gravity Hammer in an all-hammer round on Construct.
--Scoring a Overkill by plowing through four guys in row with a Ghost on Last Resort during an epic CTF match. Our team had extracted the flag and the carrier was running for dear life. I come barreling his way, he jumps aside and the four guys behind him all go down like dominos - splat, splat splat.....dodge, turn, SPLAT.
--Our team scoring the only point in Assault, Valhalla, with swords and rocket launchers, during the bottom half of the final round. With all vehicles on, it's hard to do much of anything when everyone has rockets. It was utterly insane and fun. There was hooting. There was screaming.
--Lasering two guys in one blast from accross the chasm in Narrows, in a just-plain-nuts game featuring all Spartan Lasers (my suggestion). People really shouldn't bunch up when there are so many lasers around....
My mind is fried from a night without much sleep and a crazy day fueled by non-stop caffeine and Halo 3. The leap from Halo 2 to Halo 3 is epic. I think it's going to do pretty good.
Shit...I need the transfer cable...!!!
any eb/gamestop employees?
i put $25 towards the legendary version but only want the regular version now, will they give me a hard time?
also when is the latest i can expect them to hold my reserve? i might not be able to pick it up til thursday/friday, will they hold it that "long"?
i put $25 towards the legendary version but only want the regular version now, will they give me a hard time?
also when is the latest i can expect them to hold my reserve? i might not be able to pick it up til thursday/friday, will they hold it that "long"?
soujiro_seta
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I think that's my last one Tieno. I still have to wake up early in the morning tomorrow. Someone else do it!! Link >>>> http://www.bungie.net/online/default.aspx
Flesh Into Gear
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What's this thread deletion thing about? I wasn't around this morning.
no one was probably paying attention, but i've made it to the halo 2 cinematics, and they're significantly better than the h1 ones, which looked almost like a high-res youtube video. oh well, h2 is really what i wanted anyway.
still, i'd have preferred WMVHD or even a gamedisc, that had nothing but videos on it even if they were just encoded in something other than mpeg2.
still, i'd have preferred WMVHD or even a gamedisc, that had nothing but videos on it even if they were just encoded in something other than mpeg2.
I'm a little confused about how forge works.
I am not the type of guy who wants to make tons of shit on forge, Id rather just reap the rewards of other people's labor.
I know I can download various forge files from friends and play them locally... but is there a way to just join forge games online like I do BTB or slayer?
I am not the type of guy who wants to make tons of shit on forge, Id rather just reap the rewards of other people's labor.
I know I can download various forge files from friends and play them locally... but is there a way to just join forge games online like I do BTB or slayer?
Revengeance
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Oh My God. Eliminatio on Epitaph. That map is gorgeous
Gadfly said:
Totally agree. But what can you do.
God this game is gonna be sooo cracy with sales. There was around 400 people in line where i was and two other stores in the same mall also opened. My best friend who didnt preorder also was able to pick up a copy. :lol He told me legendary editions were available to people who didnt preorder but it was too late. Wish i had upgraded from Midle Class edition to the Big Box.
(I kinda feel stupid for not preordering in one of the smaller malls and doing a smaller line.).
eso76
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soujiro_seta said:
I think that's my last one Tieno. I still have to wake up early in the morning tomorrow. Someone else do it!! Link >>>> http://www.bungie.net/online/default.aspx
I like how there's no italy in this world map.
At least i cant' see it and definately not where it usually is
i will probably light a white dot in the middle of the mediterranean when i start playing
I think I can see the "boot"eso76 said:I like how there's no italy in this world map.
At least i cant' see it and definately not where it usually is
i will probably light a white dot in the middle of the mediterranean when i start playing
AltogetherAndrews
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No one is playing Halo 3 in the Gobi desert? What a failure.
lol
hay guys, look, its me! D:
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/25535.html
oh my god, I'm so fat D:
hay guys, look, its me! D:
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/25535.html
oh my god, I'm so fat D:
My plane arrives back in Portland tomorrow at 1:00 (still at the hotel tonight), and then I'm picking up my LE on the way home. I have the day off work, but I've been away from the wife and kids, and I'm told the kids are getting sick and the wife is fighting of a flu - so something tells me I'm on daddy-duty tomorrow. I'll probably play the first two levels (again) and then chip away at it the rest of the week. I'm hoping to beat Campaign this week. I'm not going to hurry; the first two levels took me about three hours today on Heroic.Doodlebug said:
CajoleJuice
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Ghaleon fucking scares me.
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