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Halo 2 Released
mjxg writes "Halo 2 has finally hit the shelves for hardcore fans. VNUnet speaks about the long lines and the 12:01am release that many stores participated in. Many people obtained the Limited Collector's Edition. Eventually we'll get word of the final first day sales to see if Halo 2 can top the sales charts for the year, or possibly become the most popular console game in history. It is already estimated to top the all-time opening day entertainment sales charts."
When all of these sources start giving it the highest or nearly highest scores possible, it does make you think that this is the real deal.
And yes, you clown who is about to hit reply and rant about marketing guys twisting arms of magazine editors who live from their adverts, that might be part of it but I doubt that could have infected all of the reviewers out there.
Huh, its $6.00 more there than at lik-sang, and its still sold-out.
What I want to know, from the hard-core xbox players who think the analog pads are ok, is, would you consider it cheating if people brought a Smart Joy + keyboard + mouse to a halo party? I definately would be tempted to do so if I owned it, since I think it would only be fair to play an FPS the way FPSs are meant to be played.
Morphing Software
At first I wondered why the troll-to-serious-comment ratio was so high on this article. Then I realized that anyone who actually cares about Halo 2 is playing their new game, not reading Slashdot. This story is like having an online discussion of Christianity at 9am on Easter Sunday.
Kudoz to the makers of the ILoveBees ARG (= Halo 2 grassroots marketing campaign).
They presented the story incredibly well (and managed to get F O U R times on slashdot)
+++ MELON MELON MELON +++ Out of Cheese Error +++ redo from start +++
How many of the people standing in line endless hours for this game voted last Tuesday?
--- Ban humanity.
Why exactly does Microsoft deserve any congratulations, here? Virtually every single aspect of Halo's graphics, gameplay, and storyline were thought up in 1999 and 2000, by Bungie, while the XBox was still on the drawing board, before Microsoft had any part of it. It was going to be released on the Mac first, then on the PC. Bungie was probably THIS CLOSE to a beta, or at least an alpha, and Microsoft exploded the whole thing and wasted months and months re-writing the whole thing for the XBox.
Why look, Here's one of the original trailers, from 2000, 100% Microsoft-free. There's even a rocket warthog. Just ONE MONTH after that trailer was shown at E3, Microsoft bought the whole thing.
I really do think MS has done nothing but fuck up everything. Mod me down all you want, but I really think Microsoft realised the XBox was going to fail, utterly, without Halo. It's a great game, but Microsoft didn't friggin' make it. Let's congratulate them for making Virtual PC too. And Windows.
Take off every sig. For great justice.
1)Apparently you have a rather old computer, as anyone with a modern computer would have an optical mouse and thus not need a mousepad. This may explain your affinity for consoles. If you run out of room with an optical mouse, you probably just need to clear some dirty dishes of your desk.
2)With a mouse my aiming hand can also press up to 4 buttons at one time, while aiming. While your control pad only allows you to press one button while aiming, and you have to stop aiming briefly to reload, change grenade type, switch weapons, hit someone, turn on a flashlight, or jump. Meanwhile your hand moving your character only ever has access to two other buttons, while my keyboard hand, which at last count had 5 fingers not 2-3 (woodshop accident?) in fact my left hand has access to 27 buttons, although I havent had to program more than 18 more easily reached keys for any game i've played. This leaves me with 24 keys, 4 of which are devoted to movement, thus I have 20 keys to do what I want with to your 10, although with the game interface simplification required to support the limited interface of a DJC, I probably won't be using 10 of my buttons when Halo 2 comes out for pc. I've never noticed an issue with a keyboard not accepting commands in a game because I'm pressing too many buttons.
3)if you're going to spend $200 on a nice grapics card you probably spent $30-40 on a nice optical mouse too, and I've never noticed an optical mouse glitch. And of course my mouse is made by Microsoft, who at last check, also make the X-box, and my keyboard. Enough said about quality
4)Never noticed the keyboard being overloaded in games, thus it isn't a problem, but it might be helped by a usb keyboard if it becomes an issue.
Well, I did try out a DJC, last night on Halo 2 until 3 am, and having played Halo on a pc before, I can say that I would be twice the player I was last night back on a proper keyboard and mouse interface. DJC controls are just awfull and frustrating when compared to the venerable mouse and keyboard combination
what sig?