Halo 2 Goes Gold

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Posted by Zonk on Monday October 11, 2004 @08:00AM from the back-to-the-ring dept.

schmiddy writes "This just in -- Halo 2 has officially gone gold as of today. Bungie has confirmed the story with an announcement on their front page. Trailers and such available here ."

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H.L. 2 by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-11 08:02 · Score: 2, Funny

I guess I'm the only who read this as H.L. 2 announced gold :)
Better update my mtach.com profile by aimless · 2004-10-11 08:03 · Score: 5, Funny

won't have any time for the GF soon...
1. Re:Better update my mtach.com profile by pbranes · 2004-10-11 08:06 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  It is about time halo2 came out - it has been 3 long years. I still play halo 1 on pc to this day. The servers are always full of people and the graphics still great. If you had asked me a couple of years ago, I would never have believed that halo 2 would come out before half life 2. :-)
2. Re:Better update my mtach.com profile by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-11 09:10 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I have a friend who is an IT lawyer. ... Real nice guy.
  
  Whoa, could you slow down a bit? I think that you just lost most of us.
3. Re:Better update my mtach.com profile by thebudgie · 2004-10-11 11:55 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  I have just spent this night playing Xbox with my flatmate. It's brilliant, aided by alcohol it becomes more so. We decided to do co-op on legendary, and take a shot every time we died- enough for a shot every couple of minutes we thought.
  Well it ended up being a shot every 10 or so the first hour... every 5 or so the second and then we started to get too drunk to play and he went to bed and I came here. This is getting modded Offtopic isn't it?
  Anyway, it's nice to be able to sit down and just play and cuss at the screen with it on a night in. This will be a drinking game we play more often now I think.
4. Re:Better update my mtach.com profile by aonifer · 2004-10-11 18:36 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  There's always time for Grim Fandango.
So... we like Microsoft today? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-11 08:08 · Score: 1, Funny

I can never keep the schedule straight.
Uh-huh by paranode · 2004-10-11 08:08 · Score: 5, Funny

won't have any time for the GF soon...

GF, eh? I suppose you have a copy of Duke Nukem Forever as well?
1. Re:Uh-huh by kai.chan · 2004-10-11 10:21 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  By GF, he means his inflatable doll.
This just in by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · 2004-10-11 08:10 · Score: 3, Funny

A computer game has been released. The President isn't scheduled to comment on the momentous event...

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"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Re:Newsworthy, yes; Discussion needed? hmm . . . by medscaper · 2004-10-11 08:10 · Score: 5, Funny

then why is it on /.?
So we can all argue about why it's being released on XBox, but not PC, extoll how much better it will be than D3, complain about the code not being OSS, point out miniscule contradictions in the screenshots, post mirrors, make jokes, argue about why it's being released on XBox, but not PC, extoll how much better it will be than D3, complain about the code not being OSS, point out miniscule contradictions in the screenshots, post mirrors, make jokes, argue about why it's being released on XBox, but not PC, extoll how much better it will be than D3, complain about the code not being OSS, point out miniscule contradictions in the screenshots, post mirrors, make jokes, bitch about dups, get off into some tangent about video cards, and make jokes.

You're new here, aren't you?

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Any sufficiently well-organized Government is indistinguishable from bullshit.
Feel The Burn by 3D+Monkey · 2004-10-11 08:24 · Score: 2, Funny

I can already feel my fingers and wrists burning from the button mashing that will soon commence.

Carpal Tunnel here I come!
Real Ultimate Power?!?! by PhiberOptix · 2004-10-11 08:24 · Score: 5, Funny

"Halo 2 is a lot like Halo 1, only it's Halo 1 on fire,
going 130 miles per hour through a hospital zone,
being chased by helicopters and ninjas ...
And, the ninjas are all on fire, too."

--Jason Jones

Bungie Studios

for more sweet ninja action, go for www.realultimate power.net
Doh! by Jeff+DeMaagd · 2004-10-11 08:25 · Score: 2, Funny

I didn't finish the article, actually, the second paragraph discusses it.
Halo Haiku! by vandelais · 2004-10-11 08:37 · Score: 5, Funny

Blue team has the flag.
Where did that grenade come from?
Red team-flag returned!

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Game: Player 'Donald J Trump' now has AI skill level 'experimental'.
What is the deal by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-11 08:40 · Score: 4, Funny

I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you XBox fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a XBox (a 8600/300 w/mod chip) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this XBox, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.

In addition, during this file transfer, Gotham Racing will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even Tony Hawk Underground is straining to keep up as I type this.

I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various XBoxes, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a XBox that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the XBox's faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the XBox is a superior machine.

XBox addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a XBox over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
1. Re:What is the deal by FLAGGR · 2004-10-11 09:02 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  1. I didn't know the purpose of an xbox was to copy 17mb files around. 2. It's not a computer, its a console 3. Haha mine does it alot faster than that, your xbox sucks 4. Maybe yours runs like shit because you messed up your mod? Mine runs great, and so do all my friends. 5. Productivity? Are you stupid? its a *VIDEO*GAME*CONSOLE* unless your buisness is too cheap for PC's and has to mod xbox's and use them, then theres no way your doing anytyhing related to productivity. 6. Blah blah blah if you can't get an xbox to run faster than a 486, then I would quit modding it and go pack grocceries. (I'm assuming what you meant by "run faster" was "I modded it and installed windows/linux/etc and it runs slower than whatever OS when installed on a 486)
2. Re:What is the deal by DaveCBio · 2004-10-11 14:14 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Ummm, maybe it's because it's not a PC? This is like saying that your toaster is bogus space heater.
Dang. Misread the headline. by The+boojum · 2004-10-11 08:53 · Score: 2, Funny

There for a moment, I'd read the headline as Half-life 2 goes gold, got excited, and then wondered what Bungie or Microsoft had to do with it. Oh well.
/Still waiting for Duke Nukem...
In a related story... by artemis67 · 2004-10-11 08:54 · Score: 5, Funny

The Kerry camp is claiming that Kerry's Halo record is more distinguished than George W. Bush's.

"Do you know what it's like to run down a 12 year old and shoot him in the back, Mr. President? I do!"
Re:Hmm by FLAGGR · 2004-10-11 08:57 · Score: 2, Funny

Yes, how dare they actually manufacture the disks for a game everyones been waiting for. What are they thinking?
Re:Just for XBOX! by fr0dicus · 2004-10-11 09:46 · Score: 1, Funny

Because no-one has a TV right?
dammit by Chiisu · 2004-10-11 10:27 · Score: 2, Funny

as if my GPA wasn't in enough danger with Counter-Strike Source released. oh, and also started dating someone.

yes, you read that correctly, i'm a disgrace to all slashdotters ;)
Re:XBConnect and Aquaduct for Multiplayer by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-11 14:59 · Score: 1, Funny

Don't worry. For every single thing that exists, someone will exist on either end of a spectrum or like-dislike.

The scary thing that follows from this, is that somewhere out there, someone truly thinks Highlander 2 is the greatest film ever made; someone believes Britney Spears is the most talented musician ever; someone believes your comment was the best thing ever on Slashdot.

Very scary.