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The Perfect Halo 3
Via Joystiq, How Stuff Works has a look at what they'd like to see in the Perfect Halo 3. From the article: "I have mixed feelings about that. Right now, I'm playing through the Halo 2 campaign again on Legendary, and I have to tell you, it's as fresh as the first day. It even still has that new game smell. All this Halo 3 talk does have me thinking, though: If I ruled the universe, what would I cram into Halo 3? So I took the time to compose this little wish list for your consideration."
You just need to add ONE thing to that list. Needs to include a letter that is a HUGE apology from Bungie for the Halo 2 single player campaign.
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The bots is a wonderful idea. One of the best things about 007 Nightfire is you can program a bunch of bots, put them on maximum, and then have you and a few freinds go into a battle to the death against the game. Sure you have multiplayer, but what about for those large maps that need atleast 8 people to play but you have only 4 freinds? I am suprised with all of the AI work Bungie has put in they dont expand it just a little bit more so the bots can play on their own. Look at NightFire, the bots dont even need to be that great or play like realistic humans. They just need to be good enough to pose a chalange and have enough of them going around to overwhelm your freinds. Oh and do one thing, remove the sword and rocket launchers from games that dont require them. If its a sword fight then its ok to have the sword. if there are vehicles then its ok to have a rocket launcher. But the entire point of online should not be a race to the sword or big rocket launcher. Its a gun fight and not a panzy slicing, freindly killing match of losers.
Coming to the public for ideas eh?
Don't bother! We'll still say its crap
It just sounds like a bunch of "omg it wold be so cool if we could do [this] and [this] and [this] omg lol and fly on air" (almost sounds like it, too) that any 11 year old does. Only they front page it on their website which has nothing to do with things like that (it is their website, but it's kind of lame how they use their semi-popularity to go and flaunt their poorly written fanboyism opinions). Then gets front paged on here as news. :)
Personally, the only "cramming" that would be going on is cramming an enormous ending into Halo 3. Half the game would be an ending. The reason? To make up for the first two games' endings. I think it would sell very well.
Halo does what it does, and it does it well, very well. But it is probably the most over rated game ever.
How about instead of trying to cram every feature from other games into Halo 3. They try and do something original. It would be a first for the Halo Series.
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Yay give Halo 3 a gravity gun. woooohooooo And I agree, Halo and Halo 2 are very overrated.
If I ruled the universe, what would I cram into Halo 3?
For pete's sake how about a PC version? I have a really fast PC and video card and a *mouse* that puts those X box controllers to total shame!
Not having a PC version really ticks me off. I bought an X box just for Halo 2 and I never use it anymore but regularly play Halo 1 multiplayer on my PC.
I must admit, I do enjoy Halo2 Multiplayer at friends with beers (hmmm Drinking Halo), BUT the thing that pisses me off is the auto-tracking rocket launcher. Y? For the Banshee fair enough, but makes warthogging and such almost useless on coagulation. With the handy rocketlauncher in the centre. Seeing that I dont have an Xbox, I don't play the singleplayer, so I dont care for that. Oh and allow plays to make mods. Then you won't have to complain about stuff being missing, the community will make what they want.
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The most annoying thing about Halo 2 for me is getting on Live with one account, and 2 other people playing on the same Xbox... and then having to go into Team Training, which will set us up in a random game. I'm a traditionalist, I prefer straight-up Team Slayer... none of this invisibility with only plasma rifles or bomb the base stuff... Bungie really dropped the ball with that. Oh, and how about some online co-op too while we're at it?
when you got such fanboys it doesn't matter at all what you're going to put into halo 3. you can even clip the plot right in the middle and they'll still shell out 60$ for the rewarmed piece of crap.
halo2 didn't have a 'fresh game smell' even on day 1. well, maybe it did if you're missed out on every other fps for the past.. hmm. 10 years.
and the "article" is pathetic! it's just features like 'prone', couple of new weapons and couple of new vehicles - none of which would REALLY affect what the game itself would be like (weapons and vehicles are just props in a game - gameplay is where it's at).
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I saw this on the 14th and discussed this on a gaming site I belong too so /. is a little behind.
My wish list:
Flamethrower big hell yeah.
Live co-op would be great but I think it will be that never fullfilled wish due to network lag.
ATV is cool. Bigger maps wouln't be as bad w/ atv w/ a SMG built in. Allow someone to stand on back and fire one weapon.
I like the ability to move turrets and use jackal shields.
Battery drain on sword during Live play - hopefully fixed in H2.
AI bots in matches.
Lean MC lean around that rock to fire.
Lose the super jumping and no damage drops.
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This is my favorite game and the replay value on it is than any others I have combined. The music, voice acting & story is interesting enough. The animation and play balance works for me. If you don't like it, it doesn't bother me. If you don't like the controllers don't use them get a SmartJoyFrag and do that realistic mouse-click, space bar or arrow keys finger shuffle. I use my pc/laptops for work and all my consoles for play.
Playing H2 online w/ friends by far is the best expereice I had w/ online gaming. After we get bored w/ matchmaking then we play custom games to amuse us.
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This Bungie whiteboard clearly shows they've got some work to do before Halo 2 is finished.
Take every feature from Tribes 2 (not that Tribes 2 did everything right, but the featureset was awesome).
Add the Halo engine.
Make a good campaign around it.
Provide a satisfying ending.
I love the single player campaign of Halo 3. I still play it on Legendary. There are a dozen points throught the campaign that are stellar gameplay. Everybody wants more. Every game can be improved upon. So f***ing what? Bungie did a great job. They have nothing to apologize for and no, I don't work for Bungie. I also own a PS2 and think the latest Resident Evil is amazing.
Since no one said it, the most needed thing is this: A FREAKIN' SERVER LIST LIKE EVERY OTHER GAME HAS. I mean the party system is awesome, and I even think matchmaking is pretty cool, but c'mon, we've got to be able to search for custom games -- OMG the fact that we can't is just flat out STUPID!
Non-repetitive levels.
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Some decent level design would be great also. In nearly every level of the Halo games, I thought at one point or another "wait a minute, have I already been here or is it just an exact copy of the place I was at before?"
I still play it on Legendary. There are a dozen points throught the campaign that are stellar gameplay. Everybody wants more. Every game can be improved upon. So f***ing what? Bungie did a great job. They have nothing to apologize for and no, I don't work for Bungie. I also own a PS2 and think the latest Resident Evil is amazing.
I'd love to see a level in Halo 3 where the Master Chief must stealthily move through a vast hive of Flood a la "Alien." If he makes the slightest sound, they attack by the thousands. I'd also like to see an alternate Master Chief, perhaps a prototype model, who has been infested by the Flood and who Master Chief must battle. I'd like to see Earth overun by the Flood like locusts over a cornfield and Master Chief have to exterminate them before Halo destroys Earth. There are so may cool possibilities.
Or a rats ass for that matter! Seriously. Halo 3 will serve an ever-shrinking and cluesless niche! And if the XBox Next comes out before PS3 and Revolution it may even go the way of the Dreamcast! I hope!!!!
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Halo 1 was good NOT GREAT, Halo 2 was Halo 2 with Half-Life 2 some DOOM stuff crammed in... what on god's green earth could Halo 3 possible include that would cause only the stupidest of the herd to bite on it!
PLEEEASSSEEEEEE! Give me a game thats fun, pushes the mind beyond button mashing or how to pistol whip my bud out of the driver's seat and can involve as many people as I want without another monthly subscription. Then MAYBE I MIGHT consider the next-gen console... until then... I'll get a life!
So there!
Yeah, I'm pretty sure there's already a game very similar to the features you want... its called Splinter Cell.
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I submit rechargable jetpacks in the style of the old DOS action platforming classic, Jetpack. Recharge pads or mats around the levels would create a nice gameplay dynamic, don't you think? Falling in holes sucks too. Also, has anyone had trouble picking up the weapon they wanted out of a pile? I've adjusted after a while, but I still think a HUD "weapon radar" with X button pickup would be nice. A radius display would appear, your crosshair representing Player from above, icons appearing for weapons around you as the lay on the ground. It would then be a short tap of the left stick to step over and grab it. Of course, these would only appear when you wanted to pick something up. And stuff.
Seriously, sounds like you don't have a game that does what you want. Or maybe you just suck at pistol-whipping me before I powerslide over you -- or maybe the rest of us don't pistol-whip vehicles, we rocket them.
And honestly, it doesn't exactly take a stuck-up conneseur to tell the difference between Halo 2, HL 2, and Doom 3. There's a lot more to the gameplay than just the fact that Doom 3 has no sniper or that HL2 has a gravity gun.
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