In Response To: My Thursday morning BBQ (just add flames) *long (Ducain)
I also cannot agree more. You summed up my thoughts perfectly. It almost seems like they had four people working on the story and the rest working on the multiplayer, not vice versa.
: I'm gonna give you a few of my thoughts about Halo 2, half expecting (and
: maybe even wanting) you to flame me to cinders and tell me that I'm crazy.
: I also know that this isn't going to get me invited over for tea anytime
: soon, but hey- this is a Halo discussion forum after all. ;)
: The thing that hooked me on the first Halo was the campaign gameplay. I
: really cannot guess how many times I've played that game all the way
: through. Even today, it's still a blast. And, since I'm not really much of
: a 'gamer' (Halo was my very first console experience), it's difficult for
: me to nail down what parts of the game make it so great. All I know is
: that for a couple of years I've enjoyed the heck out that thing.
: I've tried to 'step back' and give the game a once over from the standpoint
: of someone who isn't a Halo fanatic that runs a website for Halo
: fanatics.
: Here's a few thoughts from a guy who simply loves Halo: First , to me at
: least, this entire game (I'm talking storyline here) seems like an
: unecessary parenthesis in the whole story. If you've played the first
: Halo, and you've read the Halo novels, it seems like it would be no
: problem at all to simply jump right to Halo 3 and forget that this game
: ever existed. There were very few revelations in this storyline, and it
: seems like the game ends precisely where I thought it was going to
: begin .
: I didn't have to try to like the Halo 1 storyline. It just grabbed me. This
: time around it's simply not the case. It's not that I have any real
: problem with the story, it's just that I think it's unecessary. When the
: game was coming to a close (you don't know that at the time), my brother
: and I thought, "Alright, we're finally gonna go to earth and kick
: some alien bootius maximus. Then the credits rolled.
: I'll be honest, my gut react was: anger, and dissappointment. Ya, it's just a
: game, blah blah. But remember we're talking about a game that thousands of
: people lined up for, shivering in the middle of the night for the chance
: to play before anyone else.
: Secondly , the desire to mess with the game engine (tricks), grew out of
: my love for the campaign as well. This time around, it seems that Bungie
: created a 'trixster's paradise' without the benefit of a well fleshed-out
: campaign story. I didn't start tricking Halo 1 for a year and a half,
: after I had played the game through countless times on Legendary. At that
: point, I decided to try some of this cool 'trick' stuff.
: This game seems to be chock full of skulls, eggs, easily escapeable
: boundaries, warthog launching made so easy that my three year old could do
: it, sword flying, and...
: ...ya.
: However, Halo 2 truly does not have the same replay value for me. I want it
: to , but it just doesn't. Even when I do have some free time, which has
: been kinda rare lately, I find myself thinking about cranking up the Halo
: box, and then thinking, "Na."
: And this is me!!! Ducain!!??&*^%$!!!! You know, the guy who spent 5 hours
: killing flood to steal a stupid banshee in The Maw!!??
: I feel like I need to go to a support group, lol. ;)
: After playing Halo 2 all the way through, I'm just not drawn in. I find
: myself wanting to fire up Halo 1 and do a nice runthrough of T&R on
: Legendary for fun's sake.
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: I have SO much more to say, such as specifics about why I think the gameplay
: in Halo 2 is less fun than Halo 1, but I think I've said plenty enough
: already to get the Benedict Arnold treatment from the community, so I'm
: just gonna wrap this up.
: Let me just say that the game is good- I liked it. But, it's not a game that
: I could spend countless hours playing through again and again. Sry. What's
: my point in all this? Well, I guess just to vent. I don't do it very much,
: so this'll probably do me for a few years.
: Oh yeah! XBL on Halo 2 absolutely ROCKS!!!! I mean, WOW! That's probably
: going to be where my true enjoyment of this game occurs.
: In addition, I enjoy the Halo community every bit as much (if not more) that
: the games themselves, so I plan on continuing to be annoyingly involved,
: no matter my immediate feelings about the new game.
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: I think the crux of the matter (boy doesn't that sound intelligent), is that
: I was actually standing in line on November the 9th, waiting to pick up
: what I now realize will be Halo 3.
: I just got the wrong game, lol. ;)
: *Ducain waits for the healing flame to bathe his soul, cleansing him from the
: sin of doubting the Halo gods.*
: 8)
: JH <
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