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Re: Halo: Oni Revisited
Posted By: DeAdLy_cOoKiE <deadly_cookie@yahoo.com>	Date: 9/5/01 2:44 p.m.
In Response To: Halo: Oni Revisited (noddy99) : First, Oni. A game with huge potential, Oni was dumbed down to nab a Teen : rating for the PS2. Tekken-like flashes, total absence of blood -- in my : opinion the game was Bungie's biggest mistake. But surely, with Halo, they : will redeem themselves, as they should have done with Oni while the Bungie : fanbase was reeling from the whole Microsoft-assimilation shock. PS2 version was different than the PC/Mac version? I can't remember the PC version having blood. I remember flashy bitmaps. Enjoyued the game nonetheless though. : But when I saw the Teen rating on Halo, my worst fears sprung from the back : of my brain and slapped me in the face. Bungie is dumbing down Halo for : the consoles as well. : But then my better sense kicked in. Look at Marathon and Myth. Those games : were of infinitely superior quality to Oni and sported lots of blood and : guts, realistically and not to the extreme of Soldier of Fortune. Bungie : wouldn't add colored flashes and invisible blood to Halo, the game : everyone has been dying to play for more than two years. I have read about blood spurting or something similar in the updates. I hope they didn't mean that blue graffity on the grass. : And while I know from the gameplay movies that there are, indeed, no impact : flashes and there are actually a few splats of blood, I feel that Bungie : is pushing for a Teen rating for the sole reason that more kids would be : allowed to buy a cool-looking Teen game than a cool-looking Mature game. Teen ratings are better suited for movies perhaps, (A movie can looks extremely realistic, a game will always be a game). (I must say I had some nightmares watching 'the thing', but in the end I'm glad I saw the movie when I was 8, it was fun) : I mean, what else could explain the vast difference between the levels of : gore in Myth and Halo? What if they had tried to get Myth a Teen rating? : Say goodbye to having any fun with dwarven grenades or satchel charges, : because there's no gibbing people around here, it's a family game! Heck, : wights probably wouldn't even be in the game at all! And that Soulblighter : fellow, he should wear a mask or something because his skinless face could : unsettle ten year olds. I can see we may have a hard time encountering a : villain of Balor's or Soulblighter's stature and bad-assedness in Halo, so : we can probably hope to see something like Muro in the Covenant ranks. Did you know that they replace certain $*%&#^ words with beeps in England. How fun it is watching Die hard over there, THIS is exactly what pisses me off, what angers me. : In a Teen rated game, you have to make sure your content is not : objectionable, obviously. That means that you are going to have one hell : of a time scaring the player shitless, or make a longtime Halo fanboi : mutter "Awesome." Very few swear words in Teen rated games, : either. No siree bob, these battle hardened marines on the front lines : have squeaky clean mouths. "Dang, Johnny, they got me. Those fricking : sons of biscuits got me cornered in this poophole outnumbered twenty to : one. Oh, fudge, here they come." : Don't expect to see me waiting in the virtually nonexistant line for an Xbox. Hehe, well.. the xbox is okay, if it had a mouse and keyboard. : This worries... no, alarms me, because ever since I started up my little Halo : fanboi website two years back, I had vivid dreams of the game. No, really. : Not playing the game, but being a marine IN the game, only it wasn't a : game, we were fighting these damned Covies for the ringworld one inch at a : time. If I blast an unlucky Cov trooper with a 120mm tank shell, he is : going to explode and his contrails will paint the surrounding terrain. He : will not fly through the air and slide across the grass, free of blue : blood. Yes, Halo supposed to bring realism to your PC no? Grenade soccer can be fun ofcourse. Never tried it in real life. : I want to scream, "Oh, yeah!" when I detonate a plastic explosive : on the overturned jeep in the midst of their ranks and watch the closest : ones reduced to kibble and the outer ones fly through the air and hit a : tree or a rock, leaving believable plasma behind. I don't want to scream, : "WTF?" when an explosive throws an enemy against the wall, or : against a window (like in Oni) and his body merely slides to the floor : supinely, instead of smashing against the wall or through the window as : was promised in the BungieVision that came with my copy of Myth II. The gibbing in Quake3 looks great, or better, Halflife. : I trust Bungie. I really do. They are without a doubt the finest game : developer of all, in my opinion (Well, until Oni. Then, Blizzard with its : flawless track record looks mighty appealing, but its fanbase is mainly : composed of pre-teens and posers, like Counter-Strike), and I believe that : Halo will come out the best it could possibly be. : However... I would kill to see an M rating on the computer version. What kind of rating would Doom III get, on the xbox? I think it's scary..brrr..

Message Index

Halo: Oni Revisited	noddy99	9/5/01 1:14 p.m.
Re: RIGHT ON!!!!!! *NM*	Macphisto	9/5/01 2:24 p.m.
Re: Halo: Oni Revisited	MercilessKK	9/5/01 2:29 p.m.
Re: Halo: Oni Revisited	DeAdLy_cOoKiE	9/5/01 2:57 p.m.
Re: Halo: Oni Revisited	Hethal	9/5/01 5:23 p.m.
Re: Halo: Oni Revisited	DeAdLy_cOoKiE	9/6/01 8:10 a.m.
what's with you people?	gcc -configure	9/5/01 5:35 p.m.
Re: what's with you people?	Riley	9/5/01 5:49 p.m.
Re: what's with you people?	noddy99	9/5/01 8:27 p.m.
Re: what's with you people?	Riley	9/5/01 8:49 p.m.
Re: what's with you people?	gcc -configure	9/5/01 9:20 p.m.
Re: what's with you people?	Dan Rudolph	9/5/01 11:45 p.m.
Re: what's with you people?	vector40	9/5/01 11:52 p.m.
Re: Halo: Oni Revisited	DrBill	9/6/01 10:13 p.m.
Re: Halo: Oni Revisited	DeAdLy_cOoKiE	9/5/01 2:44 p.m.
Re: Halo: Oni Revisited	Darkman	9/5/01 3:22 p.m.
Re: Halo: Oni Revisited	vector40	9/5/01 8:32 p.m.
gameplay doesn't matter, huh?	gcc -configure	9/5/01 5:38 p.m.
Re: gameplay doesn't matter, huh?	Hethal	9/5/01 6:57 p.m.
Re: gameplay doesn't matter, huh?	gcc -configure	9/5/01 7:02 p.m.
Re: gameplay doesn't matter, huh?	Riley	9/5/01 8:17 p.m.
Re: gameplay doesn't matter, huh?	Hethal	9/5/01 8:44 p.m.
Re: gameplay doesn't matter, huh?	gcc -configure	9/5/01 9:14 p.m.
Re: gameplay doesn't matter, huh?	Hethal	9/6/01 4:33 p.m.
Re: gameplay doesn't matter, huh?	ramy	9/6/01 5:35 p.m.
Re: Hey Ramy	Hethal	9/6/01 9:42 p.m.
Re:What does Ramy know ??? :-)	Dee	9/7/01 2:04 p.m.
Re: gameplay doesn't matter, huh?	Lophan	9/6/01 8:46 a.m.
Re: gameplay doesn't matter, huh?	gcc -configure	9/6/01 11:58 a.m.
Re: cool it with the language...	Lophan	9/6/01 8:19 a.m.
Re: cool it with the language...	gcc -configure	9/6/01 12:00 p.m.
Re: yuppers!	Lophan	9/6/01 1:06 p.m.
Re: Halo: Oni Revisited	Dan Rudolph	9/5/01 11:35 p.m.
Re: Halo: Oni Revisited	vector40	9/5/01 11:55 p.m.
Re: Halo: Oni Revisited	Dan Rudolph	9/6/01 12:04 a.m.
Re: Halo: Oni Revisited	vector40	9/6/01 7:16 p.m.
Re: Halo: Oni Revisited	Dan Rudolph	9/6/01 11:36 p.m.
Grrrr.	Matt	9/6/01 10:41 a.m.
watch out... he bites!!! *NM*	no7orious	9/6/01 1:30 p.m.
Re: Grrrr.	The Tiny Toad	9/6/01 3:14 p.m.
Re: Grrrr.	Darkman	9/6/01 3:23 p.m.
Re: Grrrr.	gcc -configure	9/6/01 4:27 p.m.
Re: Grrrr.	OutSource	9/6/01 3:52 p.m.
Re: Grrrr.	vector40	9/6/01 7:22 p.m.
Why no blood in Oni? Don't overanalyze...	Miguel Chavez	9/6/01 4:31 p.m.
Allow me...	chef	9/6/01 6:25 p.m.
Re: Allow me...	Louis Wu	9/6/01 8:09 p.m.
that's nonsense... i invented electricity...	gcc -configure	9/6/01 8:52 p.m.
Aoud mulsere nte qwue...	Louis Wu	9/6/01 9:01 p.m.
Re: Allow me...	vector40	9/7/01 12:00 a.m.
i sorta implied that...	Miguel Chavez	9/6/01 11:52 p.m.
Re: Grrrr.	OutSource	9/6/01 3:47 p.m.
Re: Grrrr.	vector40	9/6/01 7:18 p.m.
Re: Halo: Oni Revisited	*Ar-Isildur of *WP*	9/6/01 3:03 p.m.
Re: Halo: Oni Revisited	Forensic	9/6/01 4:29 p.m.
Re: Halo: Oni Revisited	Sound of Onion	9/7/01 2:37 a.m.
Re: Halo: Oni Revisited	ThamasTah	9/7/01 5:15 a.m.