Official HALO 2: Discussion Thread (No Spoilers) - Page 2

no scratches to be found. awesome.

now...to slipping the disc into the box and calling in sick for a week.....

Part of the fun of playing a console is being able to sit back on the couch and play a game. Hence the reason I always love FPS and sports on console and RTS on computer. I say let them have their keyboard, I'll be more comfortable..

Plus I'll be on in about an hour...

Oh, sweet marinated Jesus. It's in my hands right now. Unfortunately I won't be able to get on Live until I can buy another 50-foot ethernet cable, which could be a week. By then I should be back in top, Jacob Singer-destroying form.

Oh My God! Live kicks the shit of of anything I have ever played on XBOX Live. And slicing someone with that sword just gives me the biggest grin.

WARNING: Slater's pretty damn good at this. And Adverb... thanks for fucking up my sniping locations.

Jumping back online shortly. Anybody with me?

So has anyone been able to do a team game yet? The only multiplayer stuff that seems to work is Slayer.

I'm In!!

If there's anything more satisfying in video-gamedom than the sword lunge, I've never known it.

great games eyeball & slater. absolute nirvana playing this game online...zero latency/bugs, hectic action once people starting popping in. next to slater's beam sword - my thumb is my worst enemy, but I fared much better compared to the ass rapings experienced in rainbow six.

Crack. Pure crack. Great games tonight, guys. I'll be online a lot tomorrow, so look for me or send me an invite.

Quick question: How do I get my level up? Do I need to play in some ranked games or something?

that was a fucking AWESOME experience guys.

I don't know who was who but I know embrodak, Carl, Slater, and Darth Choc were there for sure.

BTW, i am Booty Baron in Xbox Live world.

God...I havent had so much fun playing an online shooter EVER. This includes counter-strike. It was actually very fun playing it.

And good god the vehicle physics are just awesome. Very awesome. I don't know who it was, but someone was sitting in the gunner seat of a warthog in headlong near the underpass, and i put a frag right under it, and that thing just FLIPPED dropping the gunner out to be met by SMG fire.

I love this game.


Also, ranking only goes up in the quick or optimatches. Its bungie's way of keeping a reign over ppl who in other games just fire upon noobs all day long.

Its a bit annoying having to wait for the server to link you up with a bunch of guys based on skill and connection speed only to play random levels and gametypes, but it works fine.

these live games have been great (I'm Pennyweight). So far...

-the sword rules
-I've "boarded" slater more times then a tijuana hooker
-I die too much, but still have a blast
-eyeball, goldberg, slater, Chocula, and Maijan, kick my ass on a regular basis.
-noone touches me when I have a tank in my possesion.

Oh man that was fun. More banshee jackings tomorrow night?

Thats gotta be the best halo 2 quote so far...

Just caught last 2 minutes of coagulation ctf, and the final team slayer match. Looks like we got a good group here, can't wait to meet up with everyone again !!!!

Came into my local Gamestop around 4pm. Place was filled as i've ever seen it. Got my limited edition and have only played a few levels. Enjoying it so far. Duel wielding was a tad tricky at first and the controls and sensitivity certainly seem different. Wonderful game.

There's a problem for me and maybe you to, and I complained about this while playing, sometimes it won't load the maps, I learned this is [apprently] due to Xboxs from 2001- early 2002 using a "thompson" disc drive or something which cannot read the disc 100%, I think in part to it being duel layered.

So what are the side effects of it?

1) In game cutscenes lag, have no music or sound.
2) The above mentioned "Map Loading Failed
3) My games frozen on me.........more times then when I played Enter the Matrix......

Phoned EB, told me to take it back and they'd replace it, go there, big line guy says they sold out of extra Halo 2's and that I have to wait till early Tuesday for another.

I am NOT going to take this, i'm phoning them first thing tommorow to tell them what my problem is cause I don't wanna hear no damn excuse about their extended warrenty [EB warrenty or not a game not working when you get home demands an exchange] Also if I go there and they tell me I could only exchange in the first # of dsays it was released stand back cause i'll kill anything and everything in my path.

It makes Xbox live play so annoying, every round hangs on the ability for the Xbox to load the level, it's an awe inspiring game and yeah I can play Xbox live in short bursts.... but god dammit Microsoft, short bursts suck when you can stay in a party/play ranking games consistently.

Woooo....

You were getting your share of revenge though. Especially through vehicular manslaughter. Bastard!

Jesus christ, that was fun. I wish I could talk to you guys, but I'd wake up my kid. I'm biting my tongue as it is even without the headset.

Can't wait to get off of work and do it all again tonight.

I picked this up yesterday afternoon, and the thing I like the most about it is dual-fisted shooting action. The control scheme is very nice. I love the combination plasma rifle/SMG - deplete the elite shields, then finish them off with good old fashioned bullets. The new assault rifle isn't nearly as useful as the old one was though - 3 shot bursts are fine unless you're trying to bring down shields, then it's not enough firepower. The scope is nice though.

I like this game. It is a very good game. I'm kind of wondering what took 3 years, though.

In the case of the wife, yes. She's newbie fodder. But the kid might very well destroy most of us.

Had a good time last night, for the little that I was able to get on. I was easy fodder for Eyeball, Slater, Mongy, etc. My Live handle is Poulsonator.

Damn it's fun.

God. I've never seen so many CHUD people on at once. Good clean fun last night.

I didn't run into any mouth breathers which kinda sucked, because if I can hear you I can kill you.

It has been six months at least since I have played Halo and I think I did pretty good.

Yeah, echoing the love for all you sweaty, sexy manbeasts. Great times last night. (And holy fuck, did I really spend sixteen of the last twenty-four hours playing the same video game? That can't be healthy. At all.)

Zanzibar CTF is going to be my new crack map. I can already tell.

I can now testify that Zanzibar is hard as all fuck when you are drunk.

My goddam stupid motherfucking country-bumpkin cocksucking internet connection has been randomly dropping for the past 18 hours - possibly due to all this Halo traffic? - and I have yet to play ONE goddam online game.

I'm home all day today, if anyone wants to play, but I can't guarantee I'll be able to stay online.

By the way, I've been very impressed with the single player experience so far, I'd say it's easily better than Halo 1. I'm trying not to finish it all too fast.

Had an AWESOME time playing last night.. I wasn't playing very well but haven't played Halo in almost a year until last night so hopefully I get better (a couple of people were really kicking ass..)

I really enjoyed the team games, especially when we get 14 some people like last night. Would love to see more CTF and such...

Don't know about ninjanaught that was hard as hell trying to figure out where that invisible bastard was..

Thanks for welcoming a newbie aboard, looking forward to many, many more games (haven't even touched single player yet). Gotta go check out my stats now..

I'm wayward 1 or Waymen (yeah that's my name..) from Akron, Ohio

Later...

Ohh, love the clan aspect. Makes it easy to find a game, and saves time from inviting everybody onto your friends list

Ninjanaut is a blast. Dreadnaut is pretty insane, where one player is super-overpowered, we need to try it with a bunch of people. I tried it in split screen and the non-dreadnaut players feel like Grunts or something. You just get slaughtered. But with more people, it might be a blast.

Yeah, I kinda fucked up on Ninjanaut when I was setting that match up. I should have made us all have swords-only. It would have ratcheded up the fear and adrenaline nicely, methinks.

Anyway, I want to try assault tonight after reading the last bit in this FAQ from another board:

Man, I miss the edit function. ratcheded=ratcheted

Note to eyeball kid: When you have active camo and you use the sword, the sword still shows.

Am I the only one that is having problems with controller sensitivity???

My settings from Halo just aren't working for me with Halo 2. Guess they changed some things around.

Oh well...other than controller fubar and a lackluster first level, the game kicks ass.

Darth see if you can return it to another store..maybe another location has one...
Definately major fun last night !!! Tommorrow's a holiday for me so I'll be on most of the day...gotta try the ninja game....

Great info Eyeball.. It helped explain Assault a lot. (I had the basics but couldn't figure out how to "arm" the bomb)

Where was that from? I would love to know a little bit more (or tips and tricks) for KOH and the other games.. I always feel like a moron playing a game I am not sure of..

Oh and I really like the new one flag CTF. The offense/defense aspect is pretty sweet..

thats how he got me...I didn't know that either..son of a bitch...heh

And my favorite sight so far is seeing the flag carrier in passenger seat whisking away in a Warthog..

It just looks funny.. Like we are taking a victory lap... (gotta love Coagulation for CTF.. although Zanzibar is a very hetic map that results in lots of death...

Last night was great gaming.

For those of you who don't know, I'm Brain of JG.

Pet peeve: having to hold "X" to pick up the flag instead of grabbing it by touching it. Took me a few times running back and forth over the flag before I saw the indicator to press "X" pop up. It was difficult to see the pop-up because of...

Pet peeve number two: The cutoff problem with certain HDTV sets running in 480p. This seems to happen more often with both 4:3 and 16:9 ratio CRT HDTV's, but some people with 16:9 DLP's and LCD's are also claiming to experiance it. Basically, the left and right edges of the image are getting cut off. Dropping your Xbox back to interlaced standard resolution gets rid of the problem, but it's really not a good fix, because it looks shitty in comparison. This explains why I couldn't always tell who the new Ninjanaut was last night...I thought my TV was just messed up.

Adjusting the widescreen/letterbox/standard setting in the Xbox dashboard doesn't seem to do anything. Only dropping out of HD or manually going into the service menu of your TV and adjusting the overscan settings - something that you could easily fuck up your TV doing - seems to eliminate the issue.

Thread on the Bungie forums about this: http://bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=1015179
Screenshots showing the issue: http://pages.videotron.com/lento/X/Compare.jpg
http://pages.videotron.com/lento/X/Cut-off-480P.jpg
http://pages.videotron.com/lento/X/Cut-off-480I.jpg



The upper left image is what I get.

Yeah, I'm running on a widescreen high-def TV, and it cuts the edges off too...although not as severely as in a few of those screenshots. I was still able to read the Ninjanaut announcements, etc.

It's an annoying bug, but I'm sure Bungie is already working on the patch. If that's the worst fuck-up Halo 2 has to offer, that's fine with me.

I'm itching to try Assault mode tonight.

Yep, I had that problem too. Also, the group I was playing with, we could only figure out how to adjust settings on each individual profile with the first controller, pretty annoying.

I also found a fucking THUMB PRINT on my game disc!! Why did those assholes think it was a good idea to put the game disc on top of a dvd disc? Incompetent morons... Good game though.

The wife is absolutely tanking my stats and rankings.

Word of caution: never let your no-better half have your Xbox Live password.

I just took my lunch at Borders reading every review I could find of the game..

Just got me even more pumped up to play tonight. Very ready to play soem CTF and Assault. Although Oddball looks like a fun silly game to break up the normal game. Imagine trying to run away from 12 people without being able to fire back. Although if you found a good place to hide...

I also did find out that even when you press the white button to talk the proximity sond is still on. So if an opponed is close to you they will hear you...

Heretic

Man, I'm going to be the only one voicing any slight diappointment here. From the beginning, through all naysaying and projections of disappointment, "This game is going to be like your favorite bands Sophomore effort- it may feel weird, but it'll become your favorite." Well, I have yet to feel that.

I feel like I'm playing Unreal's version of Halo mixed with Brute Force. With it's pointlessly massive yet claustrophobic environments (nothing yet to equal the Control Room Level Canyon in 1), meet as you go enemies (whereas 1 had a more fluid feel), weird rag doll physics and, I swear it seems like, dumber enemy AI... I'm not feeling the heart beating that I did in the original.

Granted, there are some pretty spectacular set pieces and I'm guessing I'm about about half way through- so I'm holding out hope. This is just taking longer for me to embrace. But, it looks like I'm the only one. Anyone else out there picking up on any of this?

You hate that? God, I love it. You have no idea how many times I had the flag in Halo 1, encountered an enemy, dropped the flag to go to guns only to pick the flag back up when I accidentally strafe by it and die.

Actually I'm not sure how many of us have invested much time in single-player yet. I played through The Heretic and the beginning of Earth so I can't comment much other than to say that I thought the original game's single-player was far from perfect anyway.. what difficulty are you playing on? I've heard Normal is somewhat easier than Normal in the original while Heroic and Legendary are harder (!) than their original counterparts. I'm on Normal and it does seem easier than the original, so maybe you should try cranking it up a notch if that's what you're on.

I don't own an x-box, and I never played the first Halo. Would you say that it is worth buying an X-box just to play Halo 2. Judging from what I've read, people seem pretty enthralled with the game. I only wonder if maybe I should just wait for the next generation consoles to jump on the x-box bandwagon. They're only a couple of years away.

What do you think?

No wonder I didn't hear anyone talking last night. I suppose when someone got close, it was death city, so not much time for words. However, when I played on some Red vs Blue teams last night, there was a lot of team chatter, mixed with "Die, Bitch, Die" type of chat.

Can't wait to get it on again tonight!

holy jesus. those were some great games...especially that last round of juggernaut. overstayed a bit - about 3-hours too long playing, or something...and still are going as I type this. but it was a blast.

dual wielding smg's is my new drug of choice.

That was a lot of fun, folks. I'll be on again later tonight after Lost.

I sorta fear them saying that they're out of LE to replace mine with, if that's so I wonder if I could get them to crack open a Normal one and just put the disc in mine cause it's really starting to freeze in campaign, and not even loading maps sometimes OFFLINE? It sucks.

Aside from complaints i'm much better than I thought i would be, I feared sucking after I played Return of to Castle Woflenstein and just gettin the crap kicked out of me.