Live up to the Hype.

[Cowutopia]

Is it gamebreaking? No. Is it ugly and borderline unacceptable for a professional release, especially one this huge? Yes. Would you be running up and down every thread saying Metroid Prime 2 was the worst game of all time and Retro was steaming shit if MP2 had the same problem? Definitely. So stfu.

Absolute truth. And the cutscene character models are terribly ugly. Some of the female marines in-game have all white glowing eyes, as well. Scary demonspawn marines I guess.

Actually, I don't, since multiplayer is so godlike. I'll beat it someday.

Agreed.

[Mzo]

All of these fanboyish comments involving Halo 2 are giving me a headache. I swear that if you didn't know any better you'd think remnant and Mzo were brothers.

Yeah, that's pretty harsh, dude.

And I don't know where you've been, but I'm not a Halo fanboy at all. Multiplayer on Live is just beyond fantastic, though. You gotta give props where they're due.

Am I hearing this right? Do I hear people complain about Halo 2 not living up to its hype because of graphincs and then proceeding to praise GTA SA.

In a nutshell, yes.

[Cowutopia]

But all the other GTA games had the same graphical problems, didn't they? Or are there new problems that go above and beyond the old ones? I don't remember this texture pop-in shit happning in the original Halo, and I don't remember the cutscenes too well but the people could not have looked as bad as they do now.

Lesson: Don't make the models more sophisticated if the end result will be worse than what you had. It's mostly just the faces and animation. The other stuff is okay.

[Yoshi]

Who gives a shit? We get Half-Life 2 in five days.

[LOL]

wait, i'm a bit confused.. so is there online co-op? I thought there wasn't.

if not, wouldn't it be attainable through an XBL update? </wishful thinking>

Nope. Not even System Link. You have to do the splitscreen on one Xbox.

It doesn't matter though, because the campaign is so frustratingly dull that you'll only want to play online multiplayer anyway.

[Andy]

Halo 2 looks worse than Halo 1. It is hideous, and vomit-inducing. End of story.

Who gives a shit? We get Half-Life 2 in five days.

[Opaque]

Halo 2 looks worse than Halo 1. It is hideous, and vomit-inducing. End of story.

Watch the new episode of Red vs Blue where they switch to the new game half way through.

It's almost mind blowing how improved the graphics are.

[epmode]

Halo 2 looks worse than Halo 1. It is hideous, and vomit-inducing. End of story.

crazy talk. unless you're just referring to the texture fuck-ups.

in other news, omg why doesn't my damn flashlight stay on?! it only remains on in select "dark areas", even though lots of other places are dark enough to require a light.

[Andy]

No, I literally vomitted on my TV.

[epmode]

your poor tv!