Halo 2 Ready to Ship

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Posted by Zonk on Monday October 4, 2004 @01:55AM from the now-more-stabbity-than-ever dept.

Thanks to pdawerks who alerted us to the post on the Bungie site stating that Halo 2 is ready to ship. It's filled with typical Bungie humor. "If you create a clan, do it because you intend to use it, and enjoy the camaraderie that Clan membership brings. We have systems in place to deal with "dead" or unused Clans. Unpleasant, pointy systems that reek of rust and blood and horror. Think Silent Hill meets Autocomplete."

14 of 280 comments (clear)

*drool* by Stypen · 2004-10-04 01:59 · Score: 3, Funny

about time! you can call me ethan from ctrl+alt+del

--
Opportunities of a lifetime must be seized within the lifetime of the opportunity. - Linda Ravenhill
Yaaaaayy!!! by grunt107 · 2004-10-04 01:59 · Score: 3, Funny

Can't wait to jack one of them Covenant tanks - not to mention the ability to shank someone with the sword.

Woohoo!
1. Re:Yaaaaayy!!! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-04 02:14 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  You need to get out more.
  
  No really! You can go outside and shank someone with a sword right now!
M'eh. by static0verdrive · 2004-10-04 01:59 · Score: 4, Funny

I'll stick with Doom 3. How many "demonic aliens are taking over and I am the only surviving space marine who can save Earth from the horror" FPS games can our nerves take (in the dark, no less)? I'll stick with the original.

--
========
77 77 77 2e 6d 65 6c 76 69 6e 73 2e 63 6f 6d
1. Re:M'eh. by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-04 02:10 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Doom 3 was the original?
Autocomplete? by Infinityis · 2004-10-04 02:03 · Score: 3, Funny

Autocomplete sounds misleading...that'd be where they add bots to your clan until you've got enough to beat someone else.

Perhaps they mean the Outlook "Autoarchive" or Windows "Disk Cleanup" features...
1. Re:Autocomplete? by EvilTwinSkippy · 2004-10-04 02:50 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  No, no. They mean autocomplete as in web browser autocomplete. Where you are typing in a credit card order and it suddenly fills in you address from 3 apartments ago. Where you are filling out a form with your wife for an anniversary present, and after tying the letter J is substitutes in the name of an ex girfriend.
  Autocomplete is an incarnation of evil. I just want to know where I can get it in a more concentrated form. Well, besides "Clippy"
  
  --
  "Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
  --Dr.W.Edwards Deming
Finaly! by Anthet · 2004-10-04 02:19 · Score: 3, Funny

People keep telling me that I should put my girlfriend infront of Sims if I want to do some hacking on the computer, that way (according to them) she will be occupied playing the sims for hours and hours, funny enough this doesnt seem to work. However, me and my g/f played Halo1 for loads of hours coop, so this is my chance to get some hacking done.

Oh wait, coop, anyone got any sugestions to keep me hacking while the chance of playing halo2 coop is starring me straight in the face with a wartorn girlfriend screaming "Comeon you bastards" at the top of her lungs while dodging bullets and throwing grenades?

Oh well, I guess this is just another change of totally neglecting work that needs to be done. :(
Re:All it is cracked up to be... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-04 02:25 · Score: 2, Funny

... I don't really see how they could mess up Halo 2 ...

Well they could let the folks who did the the PC version of Halo do the PC version of Halo 2.

Then it would suck big hairy donkey balls.
You've told me you want help with fragging... by Jonny+Royale · 2004-10-04 02:36 · Score: 5, Funny

We have systems in place to deal with "dead" or unused Clans. Unpleasant, pointy systems that reek of rust and blood and horror. Think Silent Hill meets Autocomplete."

Great, the MS Office paperclip is runnig the clans now..
1. Re:You've told me you want help with fragging... by SuiteSisterMary · 2004-10-04 05:04 · Score: 2, Funny
  Great, the MS Office paperclip is runnig the clans now..
  
  Hi! I see that you're talking smack to that other clan! Would you like help to:
  
  Challenge them to an actual match?
  
  Put up a website with disparaging comments about them?
  
  Brag to everybody that you've already beat them, and refuse to play them again?
  
  Start playing them, and suffer a 'network failure' if they start winning?
  --
  Vintage computer games and RPG books available. Email me if you're interested.
Re:Halo, over rated to the extreme. by cassidyc · 2004-10-04 02:47 · Score: 4, Funny

On the subject of overly repetative FPS what about game that you walk from one room to the next. When you enter a room, all the lights go out and some zombies crawl out of the woodwork.

Doom 3 didn`t appeal to me with its fancy guns and pretty animations.

That said I like halo, something about the way you put your life into the hands of someone who isn`t old enough to drive, and yet you hop into their warthog and wait to be blasted about 200 foot into the air by a stray rocket...

makes me smile, but then I'm easily pleased.

CJC
OMFG have you seen the Halo 2 trailer by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-04 02:53 · Score: 1, Funny

it's like slow and it's telling you all the stuff you did in the first one then the music kicks in and and the chief comes out and gets a gun the earf is on fire and chief is like fuck this im jumping and HE JUMPS PUT OF TEH SPACESHIP with angels singing and he lands on the bad guys and that annoying ai lady is like GO GET EM TIGER! WILDCAT IS ON TEH SPOKE!!!~`1 and theres less polys but rawkin bumb mappings you can view this on a special MICROSOFT xbox disk that comes with EB games store.
1. Re:OMFG have you seen the Halo 2 trailer by desau · 2004-10-04 03:42 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Holy Shit! Was that English?