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The Official Halo 3 Thread
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Thanks for your answer.ferrex said:
For both reasons (and principally the first one to be honest) the game seems to not be for me or my friends. It may looks crazy, but games with friends without talking at any time is for me inconceivable.
Well, thanks again for your concern.
mysticstylez
Banned
Zezboob said:
Sorry dude but that is a crazy reason to decide a game is not for you. I know people have different tastes, but it isn't that much of a hassle.
What a shitty way to kill off the sarge.. wow.. absolute twist in the storyline and he doesn't really do anything spectacular in dying.. the same with keyes.. she busts in and tries to save the sarge.. and she gets blasted by some newb when shes not looking.. why bungie.. whyhyyy..
That legendary ending makes things interesting.. maybe allowing bungie to expand on the universe at a later time
That legendary ending makes things interesting.. maybe allowing bungie to expand on the universe at a later time
Shogmaster
Ask me about my package
Ramirez said:
The ship got cleaved in half if you watch the after credits scene carefully. I presume that the ship got half way into the warm hole/vortex/whatever when it engaged the warp.
TemplaerDude
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Zezboob said:
you've got to be kidding.
Story:
I dont think they make it clear enough that the ship breaks in half. I REALLY love how much value Bungie places on narrative but I wish they would just tone the ambition down a little bit and make it easier to understand. Now I consider myself to be intelligent but I always find the Halo story difficult engage with on a sci-fi/geek level. If only they didnt try to add something new at every opportunity it wouldnt seem so convoluted.
mysticstylez
Banned
alexh said:
I might be wrong but doesn't
Keyes get ganked from behing by The Truth.
L0st Id3ntity said:
It has to be in a ranked Free For All match (Lone Wolves playlist). A lot of the achievements are in FFA only, which is kind of annoying because I would have had a lot of them by now. I thought Bungie said the multiplayer achievements wouldn't be only in ranked games? And now they're only ranked and only FFA?
The most ridiculous one is Killing Frenzy: kill 10 opponents without dying in ranked FFA. Since Lone Wolves is 5 players, that means you need to kill everyone twice, then get two more kills before dying.Sullichin said:
That's basically impossible unless you're massively underranked in FFA, right? So the only way for most people to get it is to be lucky in your first few games. Or wait for the ranks to reset, I guess.
On the other hand maybe I just suck too much, but I would be surprised if anyone could get a Killing Frenzy in a fair FFA match.
Ummm, I hope I'm missing something, but it tells you to do nothing for a Linksys router on step 2... That's retarded. http://tommccann.net/live/step2.htmlFixed2BeBroken said:
TemplaerDude
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Max Million
Member
You're right,mysticstylez said:
Truth lets the Brute spiker drop distastefully from his hands as he walks up.
AdmiralViscen
Banned
I have a question about the general plot of all three games of the series. I haven't read any of the books.
-If the Forerunner wanted to wipe out the Flood, why keep samples of the Flood in all of their installations? The re-emergence of the Flood would not have happened if they hadn't been left sitting on the Halos for no reason.
-Why are the Forerunner extinct, if they supposedly built the shield worlds to protect themselves from their Halo activation? Did they forget about this?
-If the humans are the Forerunner, which I believe they are... why are they so primitive?
I guess the last two can be explained by saying that the Forerunner did hide on the shield worlds, and in some Metroid Prime Chozo way, decided to live in technological seclusion on Earth after emerging from the shield world thing... but that seems sketchy, and how would they devolve to cavemen and shit?
And nothing explains their fetish of keeping the most dangerous force in the galaxy alive after wiping out all life to destroy it.
-Why are the Forerunner extinct, if they supposedly built the shield worlds to protect themselves from their Halo activation? Did they forget about this?
-If the humans are the Forerunner, which I believe they are... why are they so primitive?
I guess the last two can be explained by saying that the Forerunner did hide on the shield worlds, and in some Metroid Prime Chozo way, decided to live in technological seclusion on Earth after emerging from the shield world thing... but that seems sketchy, and how would they devolve to cavemen and shit?
And nothing explains their fetish of keeping the most dangerous force in the galaxy alive after wiping out all life to destroy it.
mysticstylez said:
TemplaerDude said:
Why ?
Playing with friends = having good time with them
At the end of any games, all of them were complaining. For them (and for me) it would be the same as playing with perfect strangers. No talk, no fun, no epic jokes, no epic retort, no laugh, nothing. No spirit.
I hyped so much my friend about Halo 3 that I even feel a bit guilty about it.
You know, no need to argue about it. It can't be helped, it's like that.
I totally understand that it doesn't make difference when you play for real, when you have to be totally focused, you don't speak unless it's really necessary.
That's not why I am playing online, that's all.
Mmh, having to press a button (that makes you vulnerable by the way) every time that you want to say anything - even for a thanks or a warning - is not exactly a viable solution for me.voltron said:
We wanted to speak freely like we always do in any game till now. Bungie won't change it, it can't be helped, too bad. Halo 3 doesn't offer what I expect from a multiplayer game.
GhaleonEB said:
Whatdog ?Eric WK said:
I should say that.
Almost everybody ignored my posts about it, even when I was looking for informations. And now everybody is "shocked" ? Even about something that nobody cared ?
If you don't have better to say, continue to ignore, thanks.
AdmiralViscen
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DrBo42 said:
Yea, everyone's saying that shit in the third game.
But does that mean that humans ARE the Forerunner, or perhaps were created directly by the Forerunner (which still requires the Forerunner to survive their activation of the Halos)?
I was kind of shocked when I started playing multiplayer and noticed they kept the cropped screen, that was probably my biggest dissapointment in the beta...why wouldn't they improve on something like that? I'm guessing a simple patch later in the future wouldn't fix this up...but I could be wrong.
Probably been brought up maaaaany times in this thread earlier, but I don't have the willpower to go through it all heh.
Probably been brought up maaaaany times in this thread earlier, but I don't have the willpower to go through it all heh.
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Deleted member 21120
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He said that?_dd_ said:
Ugh. :lol
Well, hey, what's the second skull on Cortana? Do we know yet?
TemplaerDude
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missing out on a great single player experience and a super fun multiplayer game because you have to press, not hold, a button on the d pad to talk, isn't rational or picky, it's amazingly stupid.
your loss though buddy.
your loss though buddy.
BuckRobotron
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Finished on normal, enjoyed the story and happy I managed to be completely spoiler-free. Some interesting events packed in there. And I thought the ending (including post-credit) stated things clearly.
Now playing Heroic and in late mission Level 3, collecting skulls along the way. Some of these I can't imagine would be found in any normal fashion, like the one found by pulling back immediately to get under a floor section as a specific fall initiates. Yeah...
Anyway, a satisfying and eminently replayable SP campaign as usual for the series. And, definitely, Heroic difficulty makes you start taking even Grunts pretty damn seriously.
Now playing Heroic and in late mission Level 3, collecting skulls along the way. Some of these I can't imagine would be found in any normal fashion, like the one found by pulling back immediately to get under a floor section as a specific fall initiates. Yeah...
Anyway, a satisfying and eminently replayable SP campaign as usual for the series. And, definitely, Heroic difficulty makes you start taking even Grunts pretty damn seriously.
Finished on normal. Second to last level was not so spectacular but I love the last level. Much better than Halo 2 SP. I probably could have saved about five posts over the last 36 hours if I had realized that the replays were still stored even if only the most recent one was showing on the menu. Screenshot uploading still seems kinda random but still a great feature.
Instigator
Banned
Ok, finally got through the game, here's some final impressions.
First of all, I understand why Bungie kept showing Level 3 (Tsavo Highway) to the press, it's definitely one of the best levels in the game. Level 4 ain't bad either so is the
-like level later in the game. Overall, I felt the game was uneven between different levels, some awesome while others average. This micmics Halo 2's inconsistent design.
I really like the Forerunner structure makeover the series received. Designs, patterns and colors are so much more intricate. The
in one of the later levels is particularly gorgeous. I was also impressed by the vibrant, organic feel of the
in the two levels they are featured. In fact, most of the
are the most improved among the game's
.
The game also outdoes itself with some of the skyboxes. Especially nice is all the details and different battles in the far distance.
The game asks you to fight too many
, IMHO. One, maybe two if you really want to push it, is more than enough.
are not the kind you can fight your way through quickly so it can sometimes drag on a bit. They feel like
and not quite the 30 seconds of fun Bungie is known for.
While I was initially impressed by the soundtrack, it maybe recycles too much material later on.
Earlier today, I expressed criticism over the voice acting, you can add Gravemind to that mix. Bad. Truth is like a completely different (and one-dimensional) character now. Why?
Despite the high production values of the cut-scenes, the story is pretty straightforward, kinda rushed and even childish. Not to say the previous Halos had award-winning stories, but compared to Halo 1's mysterious tale and Halo 2's over-ambitious take, Halo 3 pales in comparison. It's alsmost as if the 3 games were done by three different developers (with this area).
Speaking of rushed, while development of the game was not, there were a couple of areas where a level could have been added, the
engaging one another for example. The Campaign is relatively short.
First of all, I understand why Bungie kept showing Level 3 (Tsavo Highway) to the press, it's definitely one of the best levels in the game. Level 4 ain't bad either so is the
Silent Cartographer
I really like the Forerunner structure makeover the series received. Designs, patterns and colors are so much more intricate. The
bridge
Floor lair
Flood creatures
enemies/friends
The game also outdoes itself with some of the skyboxes. Especially nice is all the details and different battles in the far distance.
The game asks you to fight too many
scarabs
Scarabs battles
bosses
While I was initially impressed by the soundtrack, it maybe recycles too much material later on.
Earlier today, I expressed criticism over the voice acting, you can add Gravemind to that mix. Bad. Truth is like a completely different (and one-dimensional) character now. Why?
Despite the high production values of the cut-scenes, the story is pretty straightforward, kinda rushed and even childish. Not to say the previous Halos had award-winning stories, but compared to Halo 1's mysterious tale and Halo 2's over-ambitious take, Halo 3 pales in comparison. It's alsmost as if the 3 games were done by three different developers (with this area).
Speaking of rushed, while development of the game was not, there were a couple of areas where a level could have been added, the
Elites and Brutes fleets
Zezboob said:
Open chat in 4v4 matches with your party in both ranked and unranked. Not sure off the top of my head what the chat settings were for custom games. And you must be an amazing player to really notice the fraction of a second you've lost in either movement or looking to tap up on the D-pad, that's genuinely impressive, kudos.
the_zombie_luke
Member
I'm only on the 7th mission, but I'm not buying that the horrible Flood level that's been talked about is worse than the Library in Halo. They would have to really work hard to make it worse than the Library. :lol
AdmiralViscen
Banned
LJ11 said:
But the Forerunner were supposed to be killed by their own rings...
RiskyChris
Banned
When you go on bungie.net and look at your friends list and rank by game type, what is that skill thing representative of? It shows a 36 for me, but that matches neither my rank or EXP.
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