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Halo 3 Confirmed for Fall 2007
The folks at Bungie share the news, via their weekly update, that Halo 3 will be coming out this fall. Not surprising, but still good to hear. The game's marketing campaign will soon be kicking into gear, and the site offers the first 'iconic' image they'll be using on billboards and bus stops. The update also includes a few words on the Crackdown/Beta offering (sometimes later this spring), and an update on where they are with Halo itself.
Just in time to go back to school.
cha-ching. money baby... money
I thought Halo 3 ("Head Like a Hole" single by Nine Inch Nails) was out in 1990.
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too bad they never say anything about the release date anywhere in there, and don't even say anything particularly solid about the online MP beta/demo?
Show us WSXGA (1440x900) display users some widescreen love! :(
If you were actually an FPS/TPS fan, you'd either game on the 360 or on the best platform, a PC. Don't get pissy with the world because you wasted $600 on a system with no games besides the clearly mediocre Resistance.
Except that so far Nintendo has been total rubbish at keeping release dates unless they announce them as they approach. I'd love a solid release date from those guys as well (I'll probably get a Wii when Brawl hits shelves), but I doubt we'll get it.
Bungie was good about Halo 2 so I expect the same of Halo 3. I just hope they're giving themselves enough time to make it killer. They didn't with Halo 2.
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But will it have the original pist? lol XD .....and when will it be for the PC? IE am I making an emulator?
Well ... technically speaking you wouldn't need a "Resistance Killer" because Resistance has neither sold well enough (less than a million units) nor reviewed well enough (88% on gamerankings) to be considered the dominant game ...
Beyond that, the rest of your post is just a very uneducated troll
...does Nintendo actually pay attention to other releases when they make dates? I know they like to hit xmas with stuff but other than that aren't they in their own world? Particularly with Halo, I imagine they think the demographics don't cross much, and maybe they don't, although Smash Bros is a pretty major Halo competitor in my view.
...when I see it. I seem to remember that Halo 2 was finally released almost a year after its initial release date. So using that time table, Halo 3 should be out sometime in the fall of 2008.
While Resistence wasn't the best FPS ever made, the online definitely leaves Halo in the dust. I got bored of Halo in Halo 2...I didn't even finish the game. They had me for the first hour or so but as soon as I ended up on another Halo ring, I thought the plot went bust. The only difference was this twist in prophets and all that, but it was still pretty uninspired. I've played both Halo 2 multiplayer and Resistence, and I like Resistence better - it's lag free, large, fun battles with no cost outside that of the console and the game.
The fact that it didn't sell more than one million units isn't the fault of the game so much as the fault that the PS3 doesn't have as large of an install base as the 360 yet. To compare the two bases is dumb since the 360 has been out a year and had a worse launch than the PS3, fanboy hype aside. Using numbers sold to gauge a quality game would indicate that Barbie's Playworld or whatever was a much better game than Psychonauts, which I think we all know isn't true.
This guy is flamebait, and flaming him is well deserved. However don't go bashing on Resistance just for him, I believe it's much better than people give it credit for, it's creative and unique take on weapons especially.
Insomniac created a solid shooter, don't go bashing them just to get this guy (or to get Sony).
Other than shiny green metal, why should anyone care about the Halo games?
The first game was dreadfully boring with amateur level design and utterly forgetful storyline compared to the old Marathon games.
The second game was just plain screwed up and the online play was nothing remarkable compared to pc online games.
Everything released about the third game indicate it is really nothing much more than more of the same. Even the graphics look amazingly week. What is there that anyone should give a damn about this game other than the fact that Microsoft has the millions to hype it?
Not that I disagree with you about sales not being equal to quality ...
... that is "Resistance is a Halo Killer", "Ico is a Zelda Killer" or "Project Gothem Racing is a Grand Turismo Killer".
Historically, when people have talked about "[Videogame] Killers" the videogame they choose is both highly popular (represented in sales) and critically acclaimed (represented in review scores); games like Halo, Grand Turismo and The Legend of Zelda are typically games where you would use as reference games
Sorry, this "PS3 has no games" bullshit is getting really, really old by now.
The current PS3 library is already better overall than that of Wii, at least for me (couldn't care less about Zelda):
http://www.metacritic.com/games/ps3/scores/
http://www.metacritic.com/games/wii/scores/
Wii, if any console, has no good games. Amazing amount of junk, though.
Apart from a couple of Nintendo big titles in 2007 (maybe), it's looking really bleak in the future. Just (mostly mediocre) PS2/Cube ports with tacked on controls and maybe a new name to hide the fact that you've seen it all before. "New" SSX, "new" Mortal Kombat, "new" Prince of Persia... not even proper sequels what PS3/Xbox360 get.
I have a feeling Nintendo will be stupid and put Metroid Prime 3 out against Halo 3. Smash Bros might be able to go up against Halo 3, but not Metroid Prime 3, no way. Prime 2 didn't do nearly as well as Prime 1, and I think that can be greatly attributed to the fact that it went out up against Halo 2. With any luck, Nintendo won't do this... the downside though is that if Metroid Prime 3 doesn't come out then, we probably won't see it until 2008.
"Halo 3...juggernaut...madness???
Wha???
No one outside the tiny Xbox demographic gives a damn about yet another Halo game. No one who owns a PS3 or Wii is going to give a shit that yet another crappy Xbox shooter goes on sale.
If anything it will give PS3 and Wii owners just one more reason to pity Xbox fanboys desperately standing in line for their console's one 'big game'.
OMG!!! Halo - it's so shiny! Fucking retards."
You're a fuck. There is already Gears of War, which smokes any PS3 or Wii game on the market. This will be the second or third (Mass Effect) big game for the 360. Try not to let your jealous hang out.
I wanted to hate it because it was an Xbox exclusive.
I wanted to hate it because the PC port was half-assed and years late.
I wanted to hate Bungie for selling out to Microsoft -- I've heard rumors that the original Halo was going to be a truly cross-platform (Windows/Mac/Linux) game before Microsoft bought it and made it Xbox only.
I wanted to hate it because FPSes are supposed to be unimaginative... I wanted to love the PS2, because it had Linux, and Final Fantasies...
I wanted to hate it so I didn't have to give another dime to Microsoft.
But you know what?
It's not just green metal. (Where do people get that, anyway? There is NO green metal through most of the games, other than the protagonist.)
It's actually a really damned good game. The graphics may be technologically dated -- it's hard to tell -- but they were amazing for the time, and the artwork is still amazing. The writing may be "uninspired", but it's not so much what they're saying, it's how they're saying it. The Halo may seem to be a cheap ripoff of Ringworld, but they made it real -- I can feel the world under my feet.
Halo was repetitive? Maybe, but it also meant it was decently long (Halo 2 was over too fast), and gave you time to get good at it. And it was fun... You know, I wanted to love Doom 3, because of the native Linux port, and id being generally cool guys and releasing their source, and all the yummy graphics, but the gameplay just isn't that fun. After you've whacked your 50th zombie on the head with a flashlight, and shotgunned your 200th Imp in the face, it's just no longer fun or even particularly hard, but no matter how many Elites I melee in the back, it never gets old -- or any easier.
And a forgettable storyline? Marathon very likely exists within the Halo universe, but I already forget its storyline, sorry...
So, tell me, what shooters are you playing that are better than the Halo games?
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As opposed to (mostly mediocre) 360 ports with tacked on controls and maybe a new name to hide the fact you've seen it all before?
Please, get it straight. It's nice to see a decent shooter for the PS3, but with it being probably the most compelling title for the PS3, it should be selling better than it is.
Microsoft will probably settle in on an alternating cycle - giving shooter fans Halo 3 this holiday season, GoW 2 the next, and so on... Halo defined the Xbox and put it squarely on the map in a way that Resistance has utterly failed. There have been plenty of great shooters for the PS2 and Xbox, but how many truly **defined** a console? Nobody is really getting that sort of vibe from Resistance (no disrespect here, as I said, it is a compelling title); it's a competent shooter and likely the start of a franchise of at least a few more sequels, but if a year from now, it is the "defining" PS3 title, Sony will be woefully in trouble.
Looking at it from the outside, I just get the feeling Resistance is the PS3 Killzone. A better title to "define" the PS3 might have been Gods Of War 2, but we'll see that on PS2, right? I think Sony has fallen into the trap of trying to beat Microsoft, answering GoW with Resistance, doing little, costly things to "beat" the 360, but nothing to really surpass it.
Make no mistake about it: Many gamers who don't own an Xbox 360 today will line up when Halo 3 is released and walk away with both the game and a console to play it on. GoW has caused similar reactions, but has taken a while for people to really experience it and catch the interest. For both consoles, there is simply no "wow" factor without HDTV, so that's a variable that has to be taken into account, but for some gamers, that's just another purchase to play the game they most desire.
Microsoft doesn't need a "Resistance killer". It's already got that in spades, and Halo 3 only ups the ante. If Sony was smart, they'd can the PS2 version and make sure a PS3 version came out that maximized the PS3's power. That doesn't seem to be happening, and without any TRULY compelling exclusives, why should Microsoft sweat it?