So, Crackdown is a good game and all...

QuaunautQuaunaut The longest seven days in history... Join Date: 2003-03-21 Member: 14759Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
<div class="IPBDescription">But thats not why I bought it.</div>Anyone else going to be in the H3 beta starting wednesday? I don't think I could be more excited. A return to the firsts' balance, with the neato features of the second. Oh, beauty.
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  • RustySpoonRustySpoon Join Date: 2003-07-10 Member: 18069Members
    I love it when people start topics and assume everyone knows what they're talking about.
  • KainTSAKainTSA Join Date: 2005-05-30 Member: 52831Members, Constellation
    Well one can assume that if someone is getting the beta, then they know what he is talking about. If you don't than he clearly isn't talking to you <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
  • RustySpoonRustySpoon Join Date: 2003-07-10 Member: 18069Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1626707:date=May 14 2007, 02:35 PM:name=KainTSA)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(KainTSA @ May 14 2007, 02:35 PM) [snapback]1626707[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Well one can assume that if someone is getting the beta, then they know what he is talking about. If you don't than he clearly isn't talking to you <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
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    Makes sense. If the OP starts a thread, he doesn't want to tell you what he's talking about, because you don't know what he's talking about.
  • sherpasherpa stopcommandermode Join Date: 2006-11-04 Member: 58338Members
    NO ENERGY SWORD D:
  • BlooBloo Village Fool of UWF Join Date: 2006-11-09 Member: 58497Members
    Hmm... I will now use my great sense in realism and presume that the "H" stands for Halo and the "3" stands for 3.

    That makes Halo 3.

    He is talking about halo 3.

    End of story.
  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    edited May 2007
    He's talking about the Halo 3 beta that people got when they bought the XBOX360 game Crackdown (the joke goes that the Halo 3 beta invite comes with a free copy of Crackdown). Frankly I couldn't care less about Halo; it's a good story and spectacular music pasted to a first person shooter that's halfway between boring and awful. Worse, it's from the guys who did Marathon, so you know they could have done better, and it used to be a very interesting 3rd person strategy/action hybrid until Microsoft decided they wanted Generic Sci-Fi Shooter #1675 to sell their XBOX.

    Actually, when I said I couldn't care less about Halo, I was kind of lying. I don't really care about the game mechanics and stuff, but the huge number of people who seem to think that it doesn't get much better than that cause me no small amount of despair, anger, frustration, and torment. If console first person shooter games are really your thing, I can understand Goldeneye or something, but Halo's just an unappealing Unreal-esque shooter where everyone seems to float around and all the guns are boring. Except the needler which is useless. Not to mention the "everything is brown or grey" textures that seem to seize the game every once in a while.
  • Parrot-of-WarParrot-of-War Join Date: 2007-05-02 Member: 60782Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1626721:date=May 14 2007, 09:02 PM:name=TychoCelchuuu)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TychoCelchuuu @ May 14 2007, 09:02 PM) [snapback]1626721[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Frankly I couldn't care less about Halo; it's a good story....
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    hahahaHAHA! Are you serious? Good story!?! Maybe the first was OK at best (it was pretty cliche), and...well... Halo 2's story just is a flat out disgrace. It's just like: okay the Covenent is coming to Earth let's try to stop them....(a little while later) hey look a second Halo! let's try to do the exact same thing as in the first one to destroy it.... oh noes: flood, just like in the first game!.....buncha stupid crap including the Arbiter and the covenent and some giant flood thing....last: ###### ending. That's it.

    I do agree with this though: "(halo 2 is) halfway between boring and aweful". Actually, I basically agree with everything you said except what you said about the story. Even the online community is worse than a lot of Counter-Strike servers.

    Halo series = most overrated games EVER!
  • XythXyth Avatar Join Date: 2003-11-04 Member: 22312Members
    edited May 2007
    <!--quoteo(post=1626705:date=May 14 2007, 03:15 PM:name=Quaunaut)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Quaunaut @ May 14 2007, 03:15 PM) [snapback]1626705[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Anyone else going to be in the H3 beta starting wednesday? I don't think I could be more excited. A return to the <b>firsts' balance</b>, with the neato features of the second. Oh, beauty.
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    We will get the sniper pistol back?!
    HURRAH! The apocalypse has been thwarted! (Or has it been guaranteed?.. Hmmmm....)

    Edit:
    Tycho: You could have just said "I want to fellate Master Chief all night!" instead of writing a full 2 paragraph post, jeez.
  • LikuLiku I, am the Somberlain. Join Date: 2003-01-10 Member: 12128Members
    Halo 1 was fun; but all in all it was pretty mediocre. Multiplayer was and is trash.
  • HybridclawHybridclaw Join Date: 2003-11-03 Member: 22271Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1626714:date=May 14 2007, 04:42 PM:name=sherpa)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(sherpa @ May 14 2007, 04:42 PM) [snapback]1626714[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    NO ENERGY SWORD D:
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    they took out the enrgy sword? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad-fix.gif" />
  • OmegamanOmegaman Join Date: 2004-01-11 Member: 25239Members
    What I've heard from other people, Halo 3 sounds like it's gonna be a good game. Maybe even a <i>great</i> game. Maybe.
    But I'm pretty sure it's not gonna suck. There probably won't be much bad to say about it, excpet for disliking the principles the game is based. But it looks and sounds like it's going to be a <i>very</i> well-polished game, possibly in the same league as MGS3: Subsistence in polished-ness.

    Also, I wish more people had played Unreal Championship 2. Probably woulda been a hit if it came out for the PC. =/
  • QuaunautQuaunaut The longest seven days in history... Join Date: 2003-03-21 Member: 14759Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    edited May 2007
    Halo 3 for me is in my holy trinity of shooters. Its a damn fine game, and there are many that attain its level. Its not the best, but I'm not so idealistic that I must always compare a good game on one platform against one of another. I mean, hey, howabout that Devil May Cry 3 port, eh eh?

    And as to those who didn't know what I was talking about: Then why the hell did you post in the thread?
  • ComproxComprox *chortle* Canada Join Date: 2002-01-23 Member: 7Members, Super Administrators, Forum Admins, NS1 Playtester, NS2 Developer, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Silver, Subnautica Developer, Subnautica Playtester, Pistachionauts
    No, I don't own a 360 or Crackdown. Halo 1 was a solid game, it was balanced, played well and multiplayer can be fun with friends. It had flaws (hello level design), but compared to many other games out there, it definitely was not a bad game.

    But I do agree with Tycho, the point that drives me nuts is how people treat it like it was Gods gift to this earth. It was not that good. It was a game you played when you bought it, and pick up some multi once in a while when friends came over. That is about it. Halo fanboys are the worst to be around, surprisingly none of my friends are Halo fanboys...
  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1626739:date=May 14 2007, 03:18 PM:name=Xyth)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Xyth @ May 14 2007, 03:18 PM) [snapback]1626739[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Tycho: You could have just said "I want to fellate Master Chief all night!" instead of writing a full 2 paragraph post, jeez.
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    You could just have read my post, perhaps. That may have been a good idea.


    And Parrot-of-war, I never actually played Halo 2 singleplayer (no XBOX) so I was just referring to Halo. I can definitely imagine them screwing up the story in the second installment though. They managed to screw just about everything else up the first time around.
  • Private_ColemanPrivate_Coleman PhD in Video Games Join Date: 2002-11-07 Member: 7510Members
    I always thought halo was a bit boring. v <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" /> v

    All the guns in it just seem so fake. I feel like I'm shooting a water pistol.

    Also that flying car thing seemed pretty lame. Is it possible once two of them start circling each other to "break the loop" without getting blown up?
  • KungFuDiscoMonkeyKungFuDiscoMonkey Creator of ns_altair 日本福岡県 Join Date: 2003-03-15 Member: 14555Members, NS1 Playtester, Reinforced - Onos
    <!--quoteo(post=1626761:date=May 14 2007, 07:33 PM:name=Comprox)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Comprox @ May 14 2007, 07:33 PM) [snapback]1626761[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    No, I don't own a 360 or Crackdown. Halo 1 was a solid game, it was balanced, played well and multiplayer can be fun with friends. It had flaws (hello level design), but compared to many other games out there, it definitely was not a bad game.

    But I do agree with Tycho, the point that drives me nuts is how people treat it like it was Gods gift to this earth. It was not that good. It was a game you played when you bought it, and pick up some multi once in a while when friends came over. That is about it. Halo fanboys are the worst to be around, surprisingly none of my friends are Halo fanboys...
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    I think that summarizes my opinion on Halo.
  • XythXyth Avatar Join Date: 2003-11-04 Member: 22312Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1626772:date=May 14 2007, 08:24 PM:name=TychoCelchuuu)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TychoCelchuuu @ May 14 2007, 08:24 PM) [snapback]1626772[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    You could just have read my post, perhaps. That may have been a good idea.

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    That's a joke, right?


    <i>
    right?</i>
  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1626776:date=May 14 2007, 06:34 PM:name=Xyth)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Xyth @ May 14 2007, 06:34 PM) [snapback]1626776[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    That's a joke, right?
    <i>
    right?</i>
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    I can find not even a tenuous link between the words I have committed to e-paper and your suggestion that I would for some reason wish to orally pleasure the crazy guy in green armor.
  • XythXyth Avatar Join Date: 2003-11-04 Member: 22312Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1626780:date=May 14 2007, 10:20 PM:name=TychoCelchuuu)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TychoCelchuuu @ May 14 2007, 10:20 PM) [snapback]1626780[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    I can find not even a tenuous link between the words I have committed to e-paper and your suggestion that I would for some reason wish to orally pleasure the crazy guy in green armor.
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    Perhaps that's the entire point....

    Deeeeeeeep.
  • DOOManiacDOOManiac Worst. Critic. Ever. Join Date: 2002-04-17 Member: 462Members, NS1 Playtester
    I could care less about Halo 3.

    But Crackdown. OMG. 2nd best game on the system. :D
  • A_Boojum_SnarkA_Boojum_Snark Join Date: 2003-09-07 Member: 20628Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1626737:date=May 14 2007, 05:12 PM:name=Parrot-of-War)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Parrot-of-War @ May 14 2007, 05:12 PM) [snapback]1626737[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    hahahaHAHA! Are you serious? Good story!?! Maybe the first was OK at best (it was pretty cliche), and...well... Halo 2's story just is a flat out disgrace. It's just like: okay the Covenent is coming to Earth let's try to stop them....(a little while later) hey look a second Halo! let's try to do the exact same thing as in the first one to destroy it.... oh noes: flood, just like in the first game!.....buncha stupid crap including the Arbiter and the covenent and some giant flood thing....last: ###### ending. That's it.

    I do agree with this though: "(halo 2 is) halfway between boring and aweful". Actually, I basically agree with everything you said except what you said about the story. Even the online community is worse than a lot of Counter-Strike servers.

    Halo series = most overrated games EVER!
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    Have you read the novels? It doesn't seem like it, so you shouldn't be judging the "halo story" based off of the two pieces of it that were contained within the games.
  • lolfighterlolfighter Snark, Dire Join Date: 2003-04-20 Member: 15693Members
    Actually, I think it's perfectly fair to judge Halo based on the games, and not off all the novels and such. I mean, that's like saying you shouldn't judge Star Wars based on the movies.

    It's not like I've played it, but wasn't that energy sword the entire point of Halo 2?

    And finally, Halo fanboys. Worst kind.
  • BlackMageBlackMage [citation needed] Join Date: 2003-06-18 Member: 17474Members, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1626761:date=May 14 2007, 06:33 PM:name=Comprox)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Comprox @ May 14 2007, 06:33 PM) [snapback]1626761[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->(hello level design)<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    halo had level design?
  • QuaunautQuaunaut The longest seven days in history... Join Date: 2003-03-21 Member: 14759Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    <!--quoteo(post=1626811:date=May 14 2007, 11:27 PM:name=Black_Mage)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Black_Mage @ May 14 2007, 11:27 PM) [snapback]1626811[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    halo had level design?
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    Well, the outside levels were pretty damned awesome.
  • A_Boojum_SnarkA_Boojum_Snark Join Date: 2003-09-07 Member: 20628Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1626810:date=May 15 2007, 01:07 AM:name=lolfighter)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(lolfighter @ May 15 2007, 01:07 AM) [snapback]1626810[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Actually, I think it's perfectly fair to judge Halo based on the games, and not off all the novels and such. I mean, that's like saying you shouldn't judge Star Wars based on the movies.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I'm talking about judging the halo <i>story</i>. The novels are not spin-offs like the majority of Star Wars ones, they are actually part of the story.
    You may say all you want about Halo in either direction and I won't mind, but not saying the story sucks when you only know a few parts. I doubt they could fit too much more of it into the games themselves with microsoft pushing things out the door and wanting an action game.
  • the_x5the_x5 the Xzianthian Join Date: 2004-03-02 Member: 27041Members, Constellation
    Halo wasn't the best game ever no, but it was a really damn good game.

    Everybody always ###### about Halo 2's plot, actually I think people are regarding it wrong, it's trying to establish backstory and bring in new characters. My favorite part in Halo2 is where you get to beat up a Prophet, favoite weapons are definitely the sticky grenades and plasma sword. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />

    But to be honest though I hate the average Halo community. So it's really the single player I like most.

    The best things about Halo are the novels the plot is based on and above all the MUSIC. It's the music combined with the environment's visuals and gameplay that gives the single player that epic feel. Without the music it'd not be as popular.
  • GeminosityGeminosity :3 Join Date: 2003-09-08 Member: 20667Members
    ~phew~

    For a scary moment I thought this thread was going to be about the bug caused by Title Update 3 for Crackdown.

    Halo 3? I didn't even care that much about 2. Halo 1 was enjoyable and I just couldn't be bothered chasing up the other two (didn't have an xbox) and the multiplayer of it I've played leave me with the impression it's pretty much Halo 1 with prettier graphics.

    3's addition of forcefield grenades will be nice and all but I don't see what the hype was about. I would like to find out what happened with the story though as I never played Halo 2 in SP and the cutscene with the masterchief as a kid has me intrigued :3
  • lolfighterlolfighter Snark, Dire Join Date: 2003-04-20 Member: 15693Members
    Okay, the story in the games sucks then. The novels may be revelations of prose mastery, but that doesn't benefit the games in any way. What little story there was in the first Halo was okay, but nothing special. By contrast, the Marathon games had tons of story, and didn't require novels to actually convey any of it.
  • tigersmithtigersmith Join Date: 2004-11-11 Member: 32749Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Supporter
    <!--quoteo(post=1626721:date=May 14 2007, 05:02 PM:name=TychoCelchuuu)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TychoCelchuuu @ May 14 2007, 05:02 PM) [snapback]1626721[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    He's talking about the Halo 3 beta that people got when they bought the XBOX360 game Crackdown (the joke goes that the Halo 3 beta invite comes with a free copy of Crackdown). Frankly I couldn't care less about Halo; it's a good story and spectacular music pasted to a first person shooter that's halfway between boring and awful. Worse, it's from the guys who did Marathon, so you know they could have done better, and it used to be a very interesting 3rd person strategy/action hybrid until Microsoft decided they wanted Generic Sci-Fi Shooter #1675 to sell their XBOX.

    Actually, when I said I couldn't care less about Halo, I was kind of lying. I don't really care about the game mechanics and stuff, but the huge number of people who seem to think that it doesn't get much better than that cause me no small amount of despair, anger, frustration, and torment. If console first person shooter games are really your thing, I can understand Goldeneye or something, but Halo's just an unappealing Unreal-esque shooter where everyone seems to float around and all the guns are boring. Except the needler which is useless. Not to mention the "everything is brown or grey" textures that seem to seize the game every once in a while.
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    Word..Crackdown owns H3
  • DiscoZombieDiscoZombie Join Date: 2003-08-05 Member: 18951Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1626708:date=May 14 2007, 03:40 PM:name=RustySpoon)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(RustySpoon @ May 14 2007, 03:40 PM) [snapback]1626708[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Makes sense. If the OP starts a thread, he doesn't want to tell you what he's talking about, because you don't know what he's talking about.
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    didn't you just start a thread denouncing posts like these and calling us all asshats? =d you seem to be the only one who doesn't know what the OP is talking about so follow your own advice and stay quiet <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" />

    Halo was fun and all but I'm amazed so many people can stand playing an FPS on a console, after you've tasted the 'real thing'. Now, when H3 comes to Windows I'll be all over it <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" /> but really, the franchise isn't all that revolutionary. It's accessible and fun to play, that's why it's so popular. I guess you can't ask for much more from a video game though <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" />
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