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...and Chester's reaction to your reaction.*SP*
Posted By: Chester the Destroyer <Lofo87@Gmail.com>	Date: 11/13/04 7:25 p.m.
In Response To: Alexis's Reluctant Thoughts on Halo 2 (*SP*) (Alexis) : Hey guys, Howdy! : (Great to see the forum back--keep up the great work, Claude!) Ditto. : The following are my thoughts about the story for Halo 2 and how Bungie went : about telling that story. There will be both positive and negative : criticism, so please, please, please keep your negative comments about me : to yourself. Kapiesh. : Halo 2's story was superb. I enjoyed the game thoroughly. The graphics are : amazing, the gameplay is fun, the character development alone adds a huge : amount. I loved playing from an Elite's perspective and the fact that MCPO : John 117 sided with the Elites at the end. I thought it was incredible to : be playing with the Hunters instead of against them. However, there are : several things which are a bit irritating and I would like to address. I personally found the Elite segments... bleh. Not my cup of tea. It's probably the "Arbiter" level that left this in my mouth: An Alien commander fighting rebels and zombies on a gas refinery? IMO, it seems like a overdone plot. Until the Covenant cvil war erupted, I always saw the Arbiter levels as spots in between Chief levels. Just how I feel... : First, much of the story that I was expecting was simply missing entirely. : After playing Halo 2, I have no idea why First Strike was even written, as : nothing contained within that novel is alluded to within Halo 2, save for : the destruction of Halo 04. There was an incredibly large amount of story : detail that yearned to be included and expanded upon within Halo 2. The : most interesting part I was hoping to see expanded was where in the heck : did Dr. Halsey go with Kelly? What happened after the Gettysburg traveled : to Earth? It's not even worth mentioning that there were other SPARTANS : alive within the novel, as Joe Staten did address that one specific issue : by saying there are discrepencies within the novel that are not within the : game in order to make it playable (I guess). (Also, I had a very hard time : hearing Cortana much of the time, so I missed much of the story from that : perspective. Any chance subtitles can be put at the bottom the screen in : the MC's and Arbiter's specific HUD colors as a sort of communication : built into the armor?) I somewhat share your position on this, save a couple things: 1) FS explains how Johnson got back (When I got the game Monday night, people were watching the demo of "The Armory" in EB and wondering "how the **** did he get back?") 2) FS has some possibly vital info on Cortana - is she really pro-human? After seeing her exchange with Gravemind, I'm not certain. Also, if Halo3 is the series finale, they'll probably tie the Halsey-Kelly thing up, and in a big way, treating the "Hardcore" of us who read the books religiously. Another small theory of mine about the Spartans is this: Chief spent a good amount of time on Delta, and when he arrives at earth before the ending, the Covenant and Humans are fighting. Since we know Covenant have a bad habit of wiping the floor with homosapians, who was keeping them alive all that time we were on Delta? : I remember specifically reading an the November 2002 : issue of EGM that specifically stated that Halo 2 would bring : "closure" to Halo's story and that Universe. Many things in that EGM ate it: ATV, Sprinting, "Looking," I could go on... : I guess the problem I see here is that I wasn't expecting a trilogy. Do I : have a problem with the (very likely, in my humble opinion) fact that : there will be a Halo 3 and yet another (amazing) trilogy from Bungie? Of : course not--Bungie makes great games and I've been enjoying them since I : was 11 or 12--but I am very, very afraid that Bungie may have made a : mistake with the ending of Halo 2 and they very well may have lost some of : their fans and those fans' support. Lost fans? Over a cliffhanger ending? I doubt it. If the game completely sucked, maybe, but over an ending? Pshh. Besides, believe it or not, the vast majority of Halo and Halo2 players will never complete the Campaign modes. Why? Because the common lure of the game - the lure that sold 5 Million copies of the original - is multiplayer. At my brother's school, there is a contengient of about 100 people who play Halo consistantly (Definately more, but that's all I know of). Of that 100, maybe five could tell me Halo's story. One could tell me the plot of H:tFoR. The rest play halo lanfests through the dorm's network nightly, or online through XBC or H:PC. One may play campiagn weekly to hone his skills. Multiplayer is what created the massive fanbase for Halo. It would still exist if Halo was purely story, but it wouldn't be nearly the size. Most people won't know how Halo2 ends, so the threat of alienating a large part of the fanbase is unrealistic. : --Alexis Chester.

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Alexis's Reluctant Thoughts on Halo 2 (*SP*)	Alexis	11/13/04 5:53 p.m.
Re: Alexis's Reluctant Thoughts on Halo 2 (*SP*)	knight premier	11/13/04 6:09 p.m.
Re: Alexis's Reluctant Thoughts on Halo 2 (*SP*)	king	11/13/04 6:22 p.m.
Re: Alexis's Reluctant Thoughts on Halo 2 (*SP*)	BlueRuiner	11/13/04 6:41 p.m.
Re: Alexis's Reluctant Thoughts on Halo 2 (*SP*)	Alexis	11/13/04 6:43 p.m.
Re: Alexis's Reluctant Thoughts on Halo 2 (*SP*)	Jinno	11/13/04 6:44 p.m.
Re: Alexis's Reluctant Thoughts on Halo 2 (*SP*)	Stavros	12/6/04 9:38 a.m.
...and Chester's reaction to your reaction.*SP*	Chester the Destroyer	11/13/04 7:25 p.m.
Re: ...and Chester's reaction to your reaction.*SP	Jinno	11/13/04 7:36 p.m.
Re: ...and Chester's reaction to your reaction.*SP	Dundradal	11/13/04 8:01 p.m.
Re: ...and Chester's reaction to your reaction.*SP	Jinno	11/13/04 9:17 p.m.
Re: ...and Chester's reaction to your reaction.*SP	Dundradal	11/14/04 4:28 p.m.
Re: ...and Chester's reaction to your reaction.*SP	ygodnik	11/28/04 6:25 p.m.
Re: Alexis's Reluctant Thoughts on Halo 2 (*SP*)	Glaive	12/12/04 3:08 p.m.
Re: Alexis's Reluctant Thoughts on Halo 2 (*SP*)	Ibeechu	12/18/04 10:48 a.m.