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."

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obligatory comment

[Dreamwalkerofyore]

An Ending.

what I think...

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Use your Friend's list

[wift]

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.

Re:#1 Do something original.

[AzraelKans]

er... like double welding and having each trigger shoot each weapon? which is now being copied by every shooter game and their cousin? or like the idea of only carrying two weapons at a time so you actually have to strategize which weapons to use? which has also been copied by several games?

Halo is not over rated, is the best fps for consoles, simplified to extremes yet fun and "movielike", dont compare it to tribes, ut2004, or battlefield is something very different.

Re:#1 Do something original.

[theVP]

precisely. Those are some of the few "big things" about it too. There are plenty of smaller attributes to Halo that people don't consider, like how they've slowed down the action considerably compared to other fps games. Or that the energy shield element makes the learning curve so incredibly flexible. There are too many things that set this game apart from other fps games, that to dissect it according to the rest of the genre is ridiculous.