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Halo For The Game Boy Advance A Possibility?
etoychest writes "To be honest, I venture over to IGN.com about as often as I find myself in the all-natural food section at the local supermarket. That is, next to never. Still, occasionally some information does leak out of the site that makes you wonder if there is a reason to go back. This time, thanks to our friends over on the Penny-Arcade forums, I was made aware of a tidbit tucked away in the current IGN Pocket mailbag, as written by Craig Harris: 'Well, this was something that I've known for months about, but was literally sworn to secrecy by the people involved (just like many OTHER things I know but can't say). But since it's been mentioned in another publication, I can confirm that, yes, Halo is in the works for the GBA. That's all I can say, on risk of having my fingernails ripped off with a bottle opener.'" But are we sure they're not talking about this GBA Halo? Update: 06/12 12:05 GMT by S : There's a rather definitive official denial of this rumor over at Bungie.net.
This has apparently been dismissed as a false rumor from Bungie themselves.
Who is possibly excited about playing whatever dim shadow of Halo could be crammed into a GBA?
Even if this is true, I don't know any legal problems about this, but a very profitable port for Halo could be for the PS2, and I don't think the graphics problems, so hint hint if anybody is in the know, hook a brother up with Halo for the PS2, I'll give you a cookie.
What is the deal with this game? It's uninspiring and just sort of has a plodding pace through the whole game. The sooner it goes away the better.
No advanced first person shooter for the game boy will ever exist, just like they didn't exist on the super nintendo. Sniping would be impossible, the z-axis would be horribly crippled with no analog stick, and the aiming would just be nightmarish. That said, I may have believed this if the rumor had been "a 2-d sidescrolling version of Halo is in the works for the GBA."
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So assuming this does actually come out - what on earth on they going to axe to make it fit the GBA? I would be inclined to say it most certainly won't have cooperative multiplayer, and with any luck they will make sure to eliminate a level or two....
Oh wait, that would be an improvement. Can't have any of that as it goes to a non-xbox platform.
You should take a look at the GBA versions of Splinter Cell and Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow.
Think franchise instead of port.
"It is our blasphemy which has made us great, and will sustain us, and which the gods secretly admire in us." - Zelazny
There's no way Halo is coming to the Game Boy Advance . In no particular order:
1. Halo was developed by Bungie which is owned by Microsoft. Microsoft, in case you haven't noticed, is in direct competititon with Nintendo; there's no way they're letting one of "their" games be released on one of Nintendo's platforms. Granted, Microsoft doesn't have a handheld system--and isn't working on one to my knowledge--so there's no competition there, but they're still not gonna be giving any money to the big N. Remember, it was rumored that Microsoft-owned Rare would be developing DS games, but then this was debunked also.
2. Halo's a first-person shooter that's largely played by a bunch of twentysomething Xbox owners who enjoy playing "mature, adult" games. Most people who love Halo probably bought it because people said it was "like, totally awesome." These people bought GTA3 because you can "like, kill hookers and stuff." Note that I'm not disparaging Halo--I love the game myself--but face it, most of Halo's target audience does not own and probably will never own a Game Boy Advance.
3. It's an FPS. How the hell do you play that with a D-pad?
In the absence of an Xboy, it would be reasonable to port HALO to the PSP... it has enough power to render on the reduced quality of the handheld...
1. MSFT is finishing the games that Rare already had in development.
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2. I fail to see what relevance this has to my original point. Do you think that the average Xbox owner / Halo freak has or wants a GBA?
3. This is your only point that makes sense.
4. Well, granted, so does this one.
As a huge fan of the xbox version I am very happy to hear that this is most likely a false rumor - as much as I love Halo I just can't see what they could do with it on the GBA.
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We would likely either get something like Wolf 3D or a side-scroller like Splinter Cell, neither of which really sound that appealing.
However one thought that struck me was that if they wanted to, they could go in an entirely different direction with the handheld version. After reading the Halo books (they are better than you would think) and noticing the focus the books have on space battle between human and covenant ships, it got me to thinking that a Halo game similar to Escape Velocity could be pretty cool.
EV is a very fun game, and you could prolly recreate something pretty close to it on a handheld. Anyways, just a thought
Oh, and to the submitter of this story, you really come across as a little lame with your huge disclaimer... You realise that more than half of your story was you telling us that you don't like IGN? Either you or the editor should have chopped that.
When thinking about a suitable way of porting Halo to GBA I couldn't help but think of something similar to Advance Wars, using more stuff from the novels, and not just attempting to port an FPS which clearly wouldn't look any good at all.
In Japan, the game was called Metal Gear Ghost Babel, as can be seen here:
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http://www.konamijpn.com/products/ghostbabel/japa
It were the stupid market people who changed the title. Shame on them, always changing covers, titles or, even worse, content, to make games "more suitable" for the western market.
Shame about the denial, this would have been rather fun sitting on the tube round london blasting some aliens
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Don't read that tripe if you value your IQ level. The worse that you could do then reading their inane forum drivel is to read their retarded comic.