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Ok i know u guys are all tired of halo vs hl threads, but i actually got my hands on a copy of halo 2 last night, the place i got it from let me play it for one night and i would have to bring it back the next morning, i stayed up all night playing this game, judging by what is going on im pretty close to the end, but i took it abck to where i got it until the 9th. I was EXTREMELY excited for halo 2, now not so much....heres why

i was planning on getting some really good graphics, yeah they are nice, but the SS's they showed are NOT how they look in game, and i was playen this on a 60 in high def tv. It renders wierd, it will show a persons face and its all plain, then a second later the detail kicks in. the plot is very similar to the first halo, some missions are the same objective, but on a different area, if u play it u will see i dont wanna give away too much. the dual wielding is the best part of the game, its just a blast. multiplayer is also the thing that works best in this game, no lag at all. true story, i log into xbox live and i join a random game...and i see whos in it and the editor in chief of EGM is playen, so i got to be killed by him. after being some what happy, and some what dissapointed in halo 2, i can safely say that from what they show of in game of hl2, and the amount of detail and how the plot is completely different then its first unlike parts of halo....i know now that hl2 will prevail. again i hope u took the time to read it, but u should still give halo a try cuz online rocks.
 
What kind of shop lets you loan unreleased games?
 
Just like people were disappointed with Halo, people will be disappointed with Halo 2. One opinion doesn't really mean a whole lot, and threads like these just give fanboys reason to say "see, I knew it would suck"

I say play the game and make up your own mind.
 
hey im just trying to give people information, maybe u dont find that useful, but welcome to a forum. dont read it unless u wanna know what i think after i played it. its not a shop, its a game rental store, which i work next to.
 
it's called pop-in... the xbox can't handle all the details at once, so it renders the core model and adds all the pretty stuff later... it's annoying at first, but after a bit you can barely tell it's there (people who played GTA:SA, you know what it is ;))

plot is no where near the same as Halo 1, what are you smoking?
any other questions?

Also: wrong forum, n3wb
 
Listen, Half-Life 2 is better. Not because we want it to be this way, or because we just hate Halo 13-year old fanboys, but simply because Half-Life 2, as a video game, as a FPS, is better than Halo 2.

So why all those threads?
 
Yeah same for me, I really thought it fell sure. More of the same - not particulary comparable to hl2.
 
BrimStone04 said:
hey im just trying to give people information, maybe u dont find that useful, but welcome to a forum. dont read it unless u wanna know what i think after i played it. its not a shop, its a game rental store, which i work next to.
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I wasn't attacking you, just pre-empting the usual negative replies about console kiddies and PC games owning console games.

Are elites just as deadly? Because that was something I was worried about.
 
Yeah, that pop-in stuff is really annoying. I hate that, because most of the time in GTA:SA it doesn't render walls and stuff, so I smash right into it.
 
Well, I must say these problems were in the leak too (I played two levels of it at my friend's). I thought the leak was a slightly buggy version during the beta stage but should have been fixed before gold - I mean they didn't fix the LOD bug in the final version? WTF?
 
wilka91 said:
Listen, Half-Life 2 is better. Not because we want it to be this way, or because we just hate Halo 13-year old fanboys, but simply because Half-Life 2, as a video game, as a FPS, is better than Halo 2.

So why all those threads?
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What a fanboy comment.
 
I suddenly have a strong desire to go the days of "Doom 3 vs HL2", ahhh the good old days.
 
he didn't necessarily play an illegal company. some stores here in the midwest have been selling the game early. a radio broadcaster claimed to have a copy of halo 2 in their hands yesterday as well.
 
wilka91 said:
Listen, Half-Life 2 is better. Not because we want it to be this way, or because we just hate Halo 13-year old fanboys, but simply because Half-Life 2, as a video game, as a FPS, is better than Halo 2.

So why all those threads?
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theres no way you could've possibly played both so how can you even say that?
 
wilka91 said:
but simply because Half-Life 2, as a video game, as a FPS, is better than Halo 2.
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Sausages, as a source of sustenance, as a sandwich filling, are better than meatballs.
 
This forum should be definetly renamed into "Half-Life² vs. Halo 2 Discussion" :p
 
Bolleh said:
What kind of shop lets you loan unreleased games?
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On the 4th, those "in the know" (ilovebees players) were given the chance to get a copy of Halo2...400 copies released at 4 different locations(100 each location), and 400 released during a LANPARTY of sorts.
It is these copies that started the "released the midwest" stories...so there should be at least 800 legal copies floating around the states.



I don't think you can compare Halo to Half-Life 2....Half-Life 2 is at a whole different level.
 
cadaveca said:
On the 4th, those "in the know" (ilovebees players) were given the chance to get a copy of Halo2...400 copies released at 4 different locations(100 each location), and 400 released during a LANPARTY of sorts.
It is these copies that started the "released the midwest" stories...so there should be at least 800 legal copies floating around the states.
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they did not give away 400 copies of Halo 2, they gave away 400 copies of the ilovebees.com DVD, n3wb
 
thehunter1320 said:
they did not give away 400 copies of Halo 2, they gave away 400 copies of the ilovebees.com DVD, n3wb
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do you have the ilovebees dvd?

lol...jsut goes to show i am not a real halo fan...i just read the Dana's blog that said "her history" would be what you got; I assumed that would be the game. I would have paid more attention to the ARG if there was something here where i live...but that did not happen.

The first 50 allies at each of the 27 locations will receive the transmission log. I can release only one log per crew member
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boy was i ever wrong!
 
cadaveca said:
do you have the ilovebees dvd?

lol...jsut goes to show i am not a real halo fan...i just read the Dana's blog that said "her history" would be what you got; I assumed that would be the game. I would have paid more attention to the ARG if there was something here where i live...but that did not happen.
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i wish i had it, trying to score a copy... maybe some one will rip it and torrent it or something
 
Warbie said:
Sausages, as a source of sustenance, as a sandwich filling, are better than meatballs.
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LOL

I was gonna post something along those lines. Bar graphs, as a visual display of data, are better than pie charts.
 
As I have said numerous times before, Halo 2 is nothing special from what I saw when I played a leaked copy of it. I didn't get to play online, and that may very well be it's redeeming feature, but judging based on what I saw I was kinda disappointed. It's basically Halo with spruced up graphics and dual wielding.

Half Life 2, on the other hand, is a certified beast. I was damn near stunned when I saw the videos for it.
 
As long as Halo2 doesn't have the hellishly boring indoor level design, it'll be awesome even if it's more of the same. I think the real problem for HL2 is that Halo2's MP offerings will without much doubt be superior, given that it will come with full MP assault games with vehicles and all sorts of polished bells and whistles, whereas HL2 will just have what are basically ports with no new gameplay for a long while yet. I don't have much doubt that the HL2 SP game will be cooler and more inventive tho.
 
Apos said:
As long as Halo2 doesn't have the hellishly boring indoor level design, it'll be awesome even if it's more of the same. I think the real problem for HL2 is that Halo2's MP offerings will without much doubt be superior, given that it will come with full MP assault games with vehicles and all sorts of polished bells and whistles, whereas HL2 will just have what are basically ports with no new gameplay for a long while yet. I don't have much doubt that the HL2 SP game will be cooler and more inventive tho.
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Not necessarily true. Since the SDK has come out, modders everywhere will be thinking of innovative ideas for MP games. Thats one of the reasons that HL1 was so popular, because people code actually create games from their own ideas.
 
This Halo 2 vs HL2 thing really reminds me of the whole Doom3 vs HL2 thing. Except Doom3 was more of a challenge for HL2. And does anyone else remember how that all ended as soon as Doom3 was released and the magazine reviews came out?

I got Halo 2 four days ago, and it's identical to Halo. It's the same game. Only now you can hold two guns. Whoopdee doo.
 
Warbie said:
Sausages, as a source of sustenance, as a sandwich filling, are better than meatballs.
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Teh, sigged. ;)
 
Varsity said:
Hehhe, TF2.
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After reading some info from the leak, TF2 sounds like it could very well be the best multiplayer game ever.

Probably will kick Halo 2's multiplayer in the balls...
 
Killa_TJH said:
Not necessarily true. Since the SDK has come out, modders everywhere will be thinking of innovative ideas for MP games. Thats one of the reasons that HL1 was so popular, because people code actually create games from their own ideas.
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Sure, but that's what the Doom3 fans said about Doom3 inferior MP (which I think is worth less than HL2's ports). I'm sure we'll see all sorts of great new mods.... eventually. But Halo2 comes with really awesome basic MP right out of the box: the base assault modes and stuff sound fantastic.
 
apos where have you been. havent seen you in a while. and i know what you mean. halo 2 comes with apparently good multiplayer, but i dont think well be waiting too long to get a lot of very good multiplayer games for hl2.
 
The way alot of people were going on in these forums, constantly comparing Hl2 to Halo2, i initially thought Halo 2 was a PC game. When i found out it was a console game i was like "WTH has all this fuss been about!". Because really, comparing a console game to a pc game (where they're not the same game), is pretty damn stupid.

I'm still pretty shocked about all this comparing. Tell me, is it just going on because they're both sequels? I really dont get it. The way i see it is like trying to compare SonicPC to Zelda64 (sorry too tired to think of a better comparison), two different platforms, and two different game types.
 
NEXT! i dont read threads about crap games...now where's hl2...???
 
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