I've been thinking about playing this game lately.
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I've been thinking about playing this game lately.
That's normally as far as I get. Thinking about playing it.
Me too.
You'd be surprised how much you play it when it's the only game you own for the 360, haha. I finally got CoD4 and I've been doing that campaign, but really Halo 3 is the only Live multiplayer I enjoy. Still play it almost every day.
*shrugs* I still find it fun.
...though, I sure as heck am not going to pay $10 for maps.
I had fun yesterday knocking back a few beers, playing social slayer with some friends, and making fun of them. It was especially fun getting my first overkill (x2), and getting 22+ kills three times only to lose each of those games.
I'd dig it more if it had better/more maps. Playing the same 3 maps on BTB gets old very quickly.
Agreed.Quote:
Originally Posted by K3V
Though, honestly, I wish there were less weapons. I can usually get by with an assault and a battle rifle. But, there are some times when I just have no idea what everyone else is using. It's waaaay too random.
No it's not.
I don't get how they could make it any easier to tell what people are carrying, you just have to look at them. Unless they put a huge blinking icon above their head with the weapon they are holding it couldn't be any more obvious.
I CAN'T SEE THE TINY CHARACTERS!
lol!
noobwurked imo
Everyone else here stopped playing Halo 3 when they played COD4 online. COD4 murders it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nomi
Tommy Tallarico
Completely different imo. COD4 helps stroke your ego a lot more though.
Some people like to jump in there multiplayers FPS's, I like to crouch in mine.
I've played it now. A fair amount, even. I completely concede that it's fun but I still miss Halo.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tommy Tallarico
I think about playing Halo 3 when I'm playing other games.
I played several rounds of Social Slayer with my cousins last month and it was a lot of fun. The problem is that there aren't enough good maps. Once Bungie gets around to remaking some Halo 1 & 2 maps and Microsoft stops being a douche by charging $10 for three measly maps, we'll see more TNL Halo 3 shenanigans.
Halo 3 is awesome to most people because it was there first FPS. My first FPS for the consoles was Turok, and I loved it. I played the demo of the new game and realize that it isn't going to live up to the original but I still went out and preordered.
It's a nastagia factor, the same way mario has 30 year men hooked to it. COD4 is a better game than Halo3 on every level, the SP is way better and the MP kicks its ass.
I never said Halo 3 was better, but I just have a lot more fun with it regardless. COD4 is very realistic, more detailed, gorgeous, etc. My friends don't play it, and I can't dick around in it. Halo is more enjoyable, but that doesn't mean it's superior to COD mechanically or anything.
You think many people never played a FPS before Halo 3?Quote:
Originally Posted by Granderoho
Bold statement.
I also enjoyed his spelling of nostalgia.Quote:
Originally Posted by Opaque
I think this right here:
In the bold part, is about the most fucked up it could possibly be while still being considered the English language.Quote:
Some people like to jump in there multiplayers FPS's, I like to crouch in mine.
If I applied bold to all of his posts, your statement would still be correct.Quote:
Originally Posted by Opaque
We need one of the TNL teachers to grade his posts.
I'm looking at you Melf and Magnified.
I'm sure you are terrible at games.Quote:
Originally Posted by Granderoho
I would check what he's played but his GAMERTAG IS FAKE.
Or, more likely he only has the original Xbox and all his opinions about CoD4 are about as valid as his projector is 1080p.
Well I believe that there was this huge surplus of older teens/men in there twenties that never played games, then bought an Xbox. The coolest looking game at Xbox's launch was most definetly Halo, and that is what they bought. Now there is all those kids that are stuck on FPS's because just because they are FPS's. Kind of like the Nintendonauts that are stuck on Mario's dick, It was the first game they ever played so now they love to play the game because it's just mario.Quote:
Originally Posted by Opaque
Bullshit. Everybody played Doom in its hayday.
Also,
thats just upsurd, how hard is it to believe what i'm saying, it's only the truth.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChaoofNee
That's pretty much the case about everything he says. TNL was so much better without this kid.Quote:
Originally Posted by Opaque
PS. upsurd
If it wasn't for the fact that the ban was lifted, whatever it is he's doing here, would lead me to believe he's a joke account.Quote:
Originally Posted by Granderoho
The gimmick is no matter how many times he is wrong in a row, he still thinks he'll be right if he keeps going.
So, are you saying we should just abandon forum bickering, ignore him, and hope he'll go away again? NEVARQuote:
Originally Posted by Opaque
Maybe he's trying to level up his credibility? Working towards a "X number of stupid comments in a row" achievement?Quote:
The gimmick is no matter how many times he is wrong in a row, he still thinks he'll be right if he keeps going.
I'm glad that had this overwhelming effect on people, even if it was negative.
It seems to get you places around here.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChaoofNee
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Originally Posted by B-Ri
btw, your gamertag in your profile, XxGRANDEROHOxX doesnt show as a valid XBL accountQuote:
Originally Posted by Granderoho
It has been established, through various context clues (HAY REMEMBER THOSE FROM SCHOOL?) that Granderoho does not own an xbox 360. He will come up with every excuse to explain why he can't produce a valid account, but he is lying.Quote:
Originally Posted by D_N_G
As if you needed another excuse to ignore his opinion on 360 games.
it is :x
:portalhug:
also since i am here:
new maps were released, by any chance are they going to get the gears treatment where they eventually go free?
Of course.
mannerbot, you signed off and I sent you a message. I HATE YOU FOREVER.
I was just online yesterday, I have to connect my 360 into the back of my modem to connect to live. That is my gametag, I'll probly get on tommorrow sometime so I'll look into playing with some people. I'll play some TF2 with somebody tommorrow before work in the morning if somebody wants to play.Quote:
Originally Posted by D_N_G
Funny, because when you hover over your gamertag and also go to this link Microsoft says your gamertag doesn't exist.
Brand is so silly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brand X
How far are you going to take this before you give up and admit that you dont own the system? You don't need to be connected to Live for your gamertag to show up in TEH DATABASE, but if you owned a 360 you'd know that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Granderoho
I just sent you a message to your gamertag, I never filled out the rest of my info on XBOX.com because I just made my new gamertag because my other one got erased.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brand X
Confirmed. He does exist.
WELL I'LL BE DAMNED!
yeah I know, for once I wasn't talking out of my ass
...and people say there's a god.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brand X
I hope God sends me a friend request on Xbox Live.
Cyclops Jesus pwns noobs with silenced P90 and UAV Jammer, confirmed.
I disagree - and Im a HUGE FPS fan. Especially of PC FPSs. I'll take PC Battlefield and TeamFortress over anything - But when I want my console FPS fix - its Halo. I tried to get into COD4 but I just wasnt feeling it. Its a spammy mess of a multiplayer game - and the single player is one big pop up gallery shooter with hardly any alternate routes or options. Toss in a leveling system that has you leveling up MULTIPLE times EACH game - at that rate, who really cares about your rank?Quote:
Originally Posted by Granderoho
To me console Halo is just one of kind. A grenade button (yes an actual BUTTON, not having to select a nade in you weapon inventory. Thats a huge difference for me - and adds a ton of depth)- the melee system, and especially the shields make it totally unique and really adds alot of skill and depth to each individual enemy encounter. Way more so than equiping a martyrdom perk. If you're good in Halo, and you get on a run, you can truely take over the entire game singlehandly. I can't say that about too many other FPSs.
Halo's caught alot of flack especially from the PC crowd, its not for everyone, but it really is one of a kind in the gameplay department once you really dig into it. I only wish they would have increased the max player size in Halo3. 20 or 30 would have been nice. It should have a server browser too. Maps wont be an issue soon enough. They'll bring back everyone's favorites.
Changeling you can now laugh at me for posting a Halo knobjob.
What you said about an individual's ability to take over the game would not be true if the max player size was 30.
Well its kinda hard to take over like that in Big team as it is now - but I dig the big team battles with the halo gameplay. With all the vechiles flying around and exploding - thats Halo at its best and most fun to me. But they can push that kind of craziness way more than whats there now with higher player counts, bigger maps, and more complex interior base designs.
Going the wrong direction imo.
Halo is at it's best with shotty snipers
you also said "and the single player is one big pop up gallery shooter with hardly any alternate routes or options. " from what you just said there, I come to the conclusion that you must hate Half Life 2 and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
The core to Halo gameplay is the jump button, its not grenades or vehicles, its being able to jump to avoid being shot. What it comes down to in to being good at Halo is timing your jumps in firefights.
This is just fucking awesome.Quote:
Originally Posted by Granderoho
Play against good players and tell me Halo isn't about grenades and vehicles. I'll fucking corner bounce one shot you every fucking time while you're jumping around like an Unreal character.
lol.
You just made the comparison that I wasn't even going to bring up, Halo gameplay is a slightly slower version of the unreal gameplay. I'll admit that being good at using grenades is a major plus at the game, but to say that it is a core aspect to the gameplay is upsurd. I'm not going to even touch the vehicles arguement, except for the main fact that in every vehicle it is super easy to get sniped.Quote:
Originally Posted by Opaque
LOL
Sure, if it's not moving or you suck at knowing where to drive.Quote:
Originally Posted by Granderoho
thats a great argumentQuote:
Originally Posted by ChaoofNee
If you suck at something than you will suck at it, thats what you basically just said.
Right. It was also what you were saying. I was just clarifying. Don't be upsurd.
I often get sniped out of Banshees and Scorpions.Quote:
Originally Posted by Granderoho
This one is funny.Quote:
Originally Posted by Opaque
I don't see COD4 being "spammy". You're absolutely right about the SP. As for the leveling, it does seem a little ridiculous, at first. After a few hours (and levels) it starts to slow down.Quote:
Originally Posted by Destro777
COD4 has the 'nade button mapped to a specific button. And a melee button. True that encounters in H3 allow for a lot more variety; in COD4 it's "See First Kill First". Which I kind of like. How many times do you get the drop on someone in Halo only to get wasted when it takes a full clip to finish him off?Quote:
Originally Posted by Destro777
Halo does get the whole matchmaking thing down. Perfectly. Now we just need it in other games.
COD4 is absolutely spammy. And it's a good thing that you can actually outplay people in Halo after they get the first shot.
Bungie has stated since Halo 1 that the gameplay is based around 3 things: guns, grenades, and melee. Not "jumping".Quote:
Originally Posted by Granderoho
you forgot the vehiclesQuote:
Originally Posted by Brand X
No, I didn't.
edit: I even found you a quote from Jamie Griesemer the lead gameplay designer. That way you can stop pretending you know what you're talking about. No where does he mention "jumping", or "vechicles" as part of the 3 things that make up gameplay.
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Originally Posted by Wired Magazine quoting Jamie
Explain that three attacks attacks are supposed to make what he calls it a "golden tripod," you use those 3 attacks in three different situations. If your far away you use a grenade, midrange a gun and close you use the punch. Is that what he is trying to say, because IMO the counter to all three of those is to jump.
The counter to getting punched is to jump?Quote:
Originally Posted by Granderoho
Quick, someone call the MLG, they need to know this!
So wait, grenades are long range and guns are mid range?
Well he's right you know.
When I want to kill someone from really far away I always use grenades. Then when I want to kill them from mid range I use a sniper rifle.
Then I guess vehicles would be short range.
Also the BR, which should only be used when the enemy is jumping while you punch them.
See the bullets still hurt their mid section, which is important, since a punch does not. Also a sword or hammer is useless if they're in the air, so that's the perfect time to just give up and turn off your Xbox.
Fucking lol. Just, lol.
Any of you guys get the new maps? Foundry is fucking rad. A friend and I had a game where each person builds a fort in forge and then we play against each other in them.
We should all make maps and play them together.
Don't have the new maps, but I have been playing campaign all day. Maybe this is step 1 of me starting to play Halo again.
Holla. I suck now, my BR is all over the damn place. Thanks a lot COD4.
The new maps are worth it for foundry alone (if you enjoy forge). The indoors one is kinda shit, but the outdoors one is awesome mongoose heaven. I just wish I knew some people with them.
I've pretty much only been playing 1 on 1 against a friend locally so my skills are lacking pretty hard atm.
I'm in for Halo 3 play. COD4 is a fine game, but I still like Halo's mechanics better. I miss the sprint, but Halo 3 is balanced such that something like that would totally muck it up unless it was retooled.
We had a TNL Carcasonne night the other day and it was pretty slick. We should do that with Halo 3 some time; I hate playing with random Live crowd.
Boo to the map pack though. If MS wants to give it for free because of their XBLive holiday snafu, that's fine, but I still think it's overpriced. The next pack sounds like it has the potential to be a winner though.
The map pack is not good. Its only worth it for the one outside map - which I think is probably the best Halo3 map so far, but it always gets vetoed for whatever reason. The 2 indoor ones are total garbage.
One of the indoor ones, Foundry, is basically a blank canvas for forge. Thats just how they filled it with the assets. You can actually build some pretty rad stuff in it.
Not that anyone cares, but one of the new maps has been revealed. Looks pretty awesome if you ask me. Though I won't know until they are free.
That does look neat.
I haven't played any of the new maps. Ever.
From what Bungie's said it looks like I'll probably be picking up the second pack.
That map looks great, and he says that it vaguely reminds him of Lockout, whcih can only be a good thing.
When are the other maps free? I want to have a foundry contest and shit.
Im actually suprised how few people here bought the maps.
I learned my lesson about buying shitty DLC maps from Gears. If the next pack lives up to expectations though I have no problem paying for it.
I'm not. TNL makes sense like that.Quote:
Im actually suprised how few people here bought the maps.
If these new maps are $5, I'm sold. They won't be, so I'll be waiting for freeness like Brand.
Does anyone still play this? Matchmaking sucks and I miss TNL's Halo 2 fun.
What Bungie needs to do is release the popular maps from Halo 1 and 2. There's a valid complaint that there aren't enough good maps in Halo 3, and bringing back updated versions of the best maps from the prequels can help remedy that. I like new maps when they're awesome, but I really want to play on Lockout, Turf, and Midship as well.
<3 the new melee. That is all.
If they price the next three maps at $5, I might consider buying the next pack (ideally, I would love if each map costs $1). They keep mentioning Spring as the release date, so expect this new batch (and the first DLC map pack to go free) around April or May.
I expect them March 9.
New (awesome) maps are seriously needed. Remakes or otherwise.
New maps would get me playing this again, as long as they're good and priced reasonably.
Looks like Bungie is going to be able to get me playing Halo 3 again....for a weekend.
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Originally Posted by IGN
That sounds like a lot of fun. Played this last night with some friends and we got stomped, this game can be so god damn aggravating.