halo 2 = hype?

lintsniffer

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Ive played halo 2 beta and it doesnt live up to the hype at all. I just didnt find it as entertaining and addictive as the orginal. The weapon power adjustment feels 'too' realistic and now i cant pwn with the pistol. well really, it just doesnt live up to the hype. After played the beta a few months ago i just watch the commercials and think that that is more fun. thats just my opinion so let the flaming begain i guess....
 
Dude, you're just the first of the upcoming waves up disappointed/enraged fans. Halo 2 truly didn't live up to the hype. It's a decent game of course, but nothing more. Multiplayer can be fun if the right settings are there, but Campaign sucks regardless.

It's all just a culmination of Bungie's drawn-out lies.
 
Everyone is entitled to an opinion, but please understand that not everyone is entitled to a Halo 2 topic.
 
Don't fix what isn't broke.
GTA San Andreas didn't live up to hype either IMHO.

Opinion, everyone has one, and unless your Jeff from Gamespot or another high end reviewer no one cares.

Oh wait, that means you don't care what I just typed probably.

Doh!
 
Why do people waste time on forums if they're just going to throw around the phrase "it's just your opinion, no one cares."?

Um, that's the whole point of forums.
 
[quote name='TubeRacer']Dude, you're just the first of the upcoming waves up disappointed/enraged fans. Halo 2 truly didn't live up to the hype. It's a decent game of course, but nothing more. Multiplayer can be fun if the right settings are there, but Campaign sucks regardless.

It's all just a culmination of Bungie's drawn-out lies.[/quote]

True that. Not everyone will like the game, there will always be haters. But if the majority of the "professional" reviewers give it a 96% or better as an overall average, It's AAA title that most will find worth their time. Not everyone is paid by Bungie to say "It rules!".
 
I just hope the campaign is a little more varied this time around. No more of those same-looking corridors leading to a room then the same thing over and over that was evident in the last part of Halo.
 
Well, personally, I much preferred the Campaign levels of Halo 1 far above Halo 2's Campaign, despite the repeating environments which were a little more noticable than in Halo 2. For anyone who gives a shit about the Halo 2 storyline, everyone can agree -- it simply sucks ass.
 
halo 2 = hype?

How did you figure that out? :dunce:

Ive played halo 2 beta and it doesnt live up to the hype at all.

You played a beta? Not the actual game? How are you sure that it's not going to be fun or that it will include whatever mistakes you found in the game? I don't think you do.

I just didnt find it as entertaining and addictive as the orginal. The weapon power adjustment feels 'too' realistic and now i cant pwn with the pistol.

If the game wasn't fun enough several months ago, they will have changed it. They're not making this game to put out a boring experience. That's why it has been in development for 3 years.

well really, it just doesnt live up to the hype. After played the beta a few months ago i just watch the commercials and think that that is more fun.

And, of course, you're basing that it's over hyped from a beta.

thats just my opinion so let the flaming begain i guess....

Well, your opinion has sucky statements backing it up.

This game has a good chance of not living up to expectations. Which now is expected of this game, and kind of tones down the expectations, IMO.

Based on Game Informer giving it a 10/10 and OXM giving it a 9.7/10 (highest score given by this magazine), this game looks to be awesome.

Best Sweeney impression I could do. Now, who wants to Sweeney me? :)
 
Halo had a story?

Seriously, I'd get Halo 2 at launch if I was still living in a dorm. When I lived away at college, we played Halo for about 2+ hours a day every day for a year straight, usually 8 players at a time, and on occassion 12-16. If it wasn't for that, I wouldn't appreciate Halo nearly as much as I do.
 
[quote name='TubeRacer']Well, personally, I much preferred the Campaign levels of Halo 1 far above Halo 2's Campaign[/quote]Did you get a copy a few days ago, or are you a pirate. If you got the French version of the game, I doubt you'd be much interested in the story. I can't understand French either. :wink:
 
[quote name='sj41']halo 2 = hype?

How did you figure that out? :dunce:

Ive played halo 2 beta and it doesnt live up to the hype at all.

You played a beta? Not the actual game? How are you sure that it's not going to be fun or that it will include whatever mistakes you found in the game? I don't think you do.

I just didnt find it as entertaining and addictive as the orginal. The weapon power adjustment feels 'too' realistic and now i cant pwn with the pistol.

If the game wasn't fun enough several months ago, they will have changed it. They're not making this game to put out a boring experience. That's why it has been in development for 3 years.

well really, it just doesnt live up to the hype. After played the beta a few months ago i just watch the commercials and think that that is more fun.

And, of course, you're basing that it's over hyped from a beta.

thats just my opinion so let the flaming begain i guess....

Well, your opinion has sucky statements backing it up.

This game has a good chance of not living up to expectations. Which now is expected of this game, and kind of tones down the expectations, IMO.

Based on Game Informer giving it a 10/10 and OXM giving it a 9.7/10 (highest score given by this magazine), this game looks to be awesome.

Best Sweeney impression I could do. Now, who wants to Sweeney me? :)[/quote]

If anything, the beta was better than the final product. Turns out at the last minute before production they cut half of the features and shittitized everything.
 
[quote name='sj41'][quote name='TubeRacer']Well, personally, I much preferred the Campaign levels of Halo 1 far above Halo 2's Campaign[/quote]Did you get a copy a few days ago, or are you a pirate. If you got the French version of the game, I doubt you'd be much interested in the story. I can't understand French either. :wink:[/quote]

I'm not saying I pirated it (although it's possible), but just for your information, an English final version of Halo 2 also started circulating around the net a week or two ago.
 
The first one didn't even come close to living up to the hype for me. The game was like a 5.5 out of 10. so I'm not going into Halo 2 believing any of the hype, infact I'm going in with the mind set that the game is going to blow monkey balls like Halo 1 did. In my opinion.

The ads are really making the story look cool. But as I said I'm going into the game expecting the worst.

I just find when you get a game based on the hype you are expecting God's gift to the game world and when the game doesn't blow your mind you get all pissed off at it. That's what happen with me with Fable. I also find you can't base how good a game is going to be based on the companies past titles. I freaken Loved the Marathon series. but Halo didn't even come close to living up to it.

Anyway, I am somewhat looking forward to Halo 2, expecting the worst. Hopefully I'll have a somewhat fun time playing it.
 
[quote name='TubeRacer'][quote name='sj41'][quote name='TubeRacer']Well, personally, I much preferred the Campaign levels of Halo 1 far above Halo 2's Campaign[/quote]Did you get a copy a few days ago, or are you a pirate. If you got the French version of the game, I doubt you'd be much interested in the story. I can't understand French either. :wink:[/quote]

I'm not saying I pirated it (although it's possible), but just for your information, an English final version of Halo 2 also started circulating around the net a week or two ago.[/quote] http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=34843&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

Of course you didn't pirate the game. That would be crazy. :wink:

I know that the english version was leaked as well, I just had to mention the French since I'm pretty sure you can undrstand english. :wink:
 
If you thought Halo was a bad game, you are the type to think A Clockwrok Orange was a lousy movie, i.e just another fast food eating lowlofe. Muhahahahahahaha. Muhahahahahahahahaha
 
[quote name='TubeRacer']Well, personally, I much preferred the Campaign levels of Halo 1 far above Halo 2's Campaign, despite the repeating environments which were a little more noticable than in Halo 2. For anyone who gives a shit about the Halo 2 storyline, everyone can agree -- it simply sucks ass.[/quote]

So thats why it says newbie next to your name..

I like the storyline, and I played the multiplayer on thursday in chicago.. it was awesome. Different, but still great.
 
Oh, burn man.

Anyway, I'm sure multiplayer will be overall a success, but you'll be in the minority if you really think the storyline is good. Have you even played the game, or are you just guessing it will be good? Because from commercials and the like, the story does look good, I'll admit, but play through 'til the ending and let's see how many other people will say it didn't suck.
 
[quote name='TubeRacer']Oh, burn man.

Anyway, I'm sure multiplayer will be overall a success, but you'll be in the minority if you really think the storyline is good. Have you even played the game, or are you just guessing it will be good? Because from commercials and the like, the story does look good, I'll admit, but play through 'til the ending and let's see how many other people will say it didn't suck.[/quote]

I'm looking forward to it, it makes me happy. I read the books and I like the story. Does it make you happy to act like bungie rammed a live bear up your ass which you can only remove by bitching about halo 2 on message boards as much as possible?
 
A bear up my ass? Sorry, but that was pretty lame.

Until you've played the game all the way through, defending its storyline just makes you even less credible. Yeah, I liked the books too. It's a shame Halo 2 contradicts them in many ways.
 
[quote name='TubeRacer']A bear up my ass? Sorry, but that was pretty lame.

Until you've played the game all the way through, defending its storyline just makes you even less credible. Yeah, I liked the books too. It's a shame Halo 2 contradicts them in many ways.[/quote]

Fantastic, I'm going to resume drinking.
 
[quote name='TubeRacer']If anything, the beta was better than the final product. Turns out at the last minute before production they cut half of the features and shittitized everything.[/quote]

So if you haven't played the "shittitized" version, how can you judge the fucking final version of the game?
 
[quote name='Trakan'][quote name='TubeRacer']If anything, the beta was better than the final product. Turns out at the last minute before production they cut half of the features and shittitized everything.[/quote]

So if you haven't played the "shittitized" version, how can you judge the shaq-fuing final version of the game?[/quote]He played the illegal, leaked version and says he beat it. Although I don't get how he know's so much about the Halo 2 story since I'm pretty sure he played the French version unless he did the game again so he could hear the story. :?
 
You konw in a few days the game will be out and all this.....







...will just start all over again. There's bound to be someone who dosent like the new game and some who concider it the 2nd comming. And both sides will meet right here and continue to bitch at each other. And there's not going to be any real way to resovle it unless it's painfully obvious someone was busy diddling themselves during the development of the game... which while I dont a half a flying fuck about the FPS genre I'm still pretty sure they wil have atleast tried to live up to the hype even if they failed. Which once again is totally up to your personal interpretation.
 
[quote name='Trakan'][quote name='TubeRacer']If anything, the beta was better than the final product. Turns out at the last minute before production they cut half of the features and shittitized everything.[/quote]

So if you haven't played the "shittitized" version, how can you judge the shaq-fuing final version of the game?[/quote]

Because I did play that version. (The final.)

[quote name='sj41'][quote name='Trakan'][quote name='TubeRacer']If anything, the beta was better than the final product. Turns out at the last minute before production they cut half of the features and shittitized everything.[/quote]

So if you haven't played the "shittitized" version, how can you judge the shaq-fuing final version of the game?[/quote]He played the illegal, leaked version and says he beat it. Although I don't get how he know's so much about the Halo 2 story since I'm pretty sure he played the French version unless he did the game again so he could hear the story. :?[/quote]

I do speak sub-mediocre French, so I got most of the in-game dialogue, but I also played the English version afterward to clarify everything. It's not like it takes more than 5 hours total to beat the game again. Yeah, the English version has slightly better voice acting, but no matter which language you put the story into, it sucks.
 
[quote name='TubeRacer']A bear up my ass? Sorry, but that was pretty lame.

Until you've played the game all the way through, defending its storyline just makes you even less credible. Yeah, I liked the books too. It's a shame Halo 2 contradicts them in many ways.[/quote]

So what about those of us who aren't amazingly huge dorks that read books based on video games? Am I going to find the story line shitty? At least anymore so than the first Halo? Seriously, was there a fucking plot to the first one.
So, aliens and humans fight? Never seen that before. And there is a super weapon? Never been done before. And there are mutant zombies? Holy shit, those have never been touched before.
Seriously, did anything happen in the first Halo besides a lot of people and aliens dying besides Master Chief. And I got to be annoyed and generally pissed off by (an invincible) Guilty Spark.

While I am sure Halo 2 won't fully live up to the hype (essentially no games do), I'm sure it will still be good. And all the people saying that its story sucks, especially compared to the first, have to be retarded because the first had nothing that could be considered a plot. It's like saying that eating horse shit is far worse than eating dog shit. If you liked the dog shit, I don't see why you are bitching about the horse shit.

And I'm drunk. And everyone should see The Incredibles.
 
Call it what you want, but I think it lived up to the hype fairly well. Of course it couldn't live up to the hype it had (nothing could), but it did come pretty close, IMO. Gameplay, anyway. I haven't gotten too far into it yet so can't say anything for the story.
 
[quote name='iheartmetal']who cares how good it is, its a stupid game, ill wait patiently until jan. 3[/quote]

What comes out January 3rd that you are waiting so patiently for?
 
[quote name='Goodtone'][quote name='iheartmetal']who cares how good it is, its a stupid game, ill wait patiently until jan. 3[/quote]

What comes out January 3rd that you are waiting so patiently for?[/quote]Microsoft retail site will have Halo 2 available.



































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[quote name='Gibraltor']If you thought Halo was a bad game, you are the type to think A Clockwrok Orange was a lousy movie, i.e just another fast food eating lowlofe. Muhahahahahahaha. Muhahahahahahahahaha[/quote]

What about those of us who loved Halo but thought Clockwork Orange was an overrated piece of shit?
 
[quote name='mmn'][quote name='Gibraltor']If you thought Halo was a bad game, you are the type to think A Clockwrok Orange was a lousy movie, i.e just another fast food eating lowlofe. Muhahahahahahaha. Muhahahahahahahahaha[/quote]

What about those of us who loved Halo but thought Clockwork Orange was an overrated piece of shit?[/quote]

I'll back you up on that. I find that most people that talk about how great Clockwork Orange is are pretentious assholes with shitty taste in movies and books (it sucks as both).
 
[quote name='Tromack'][quote name='mmn'][quote name='Gibraltor']If you thought Halo was a bad game, you are the type to think A Clockwrok Orange was a lousy movie, i.e just another fast food eating lowlofe. Muhahahahahahaha. Muhahahahahahahahaha[/quote]

What about those of us who loved Halo but thought Clockwork Orange was an overrated piece of shit?[/quote]

I'll back you up on that. I find that most people that talk about how great Clockwork Orange is are pretentious assholes with shitty taste in movies and books (it sucks as both).[/quote]

Definitely. They're the same people who loved the Matrix sequels even though they were some of the most awful movies ever made. And when you try to explain why they sucked the cock, they always reply with "oh, well you hate it because you didn't understand it". It makes me just want to stab those people in the eye with a golf tee.
 
[quote name='Monsta Mack']So what console FPS is better then Halo?[/quote]

Wheres my response? Damn im quoting myself lol.
 
[quote name='Monsta Mack'][quote name='Monsta Mack']So what console FPS is better then Halo?[/quote]

Wheres my response? Damn im quoting myself lol.[/quote]
Goldeneye/Perfect Dark
 
[quote name='6669'][quote name='Monsta Mack'][quote name='Monsta Mack']So what console FPS is better then Halo?[/quote]

Wheres my response? Damn im quoting myself lol.[/quote]
Goldeneye/Perfect Dark[/quote]
Exactly. Also:
TimeSplitters, Area 51 (the demo was fantastic), and KillZone.
Geist should be good, also.

And not to mention FaceBall 2000 on SNES! That's a great game. I'd take that over Halo anyday.
 
[quote name='CoffeeEdge'][quote name='6669'][quote name='Monsta Mack'][quote name='Monsta Mack']So what console FPS is better then Halo?[/quote]

Wheres my response? Damn im quoting myself lol.[/quote]
Goldeneye/Perfect Dark[/quote]
Exactly. Also:
TimeSplitters, Area 51 (the demo was fantastic), and KillZone.
Geist should be good, also.

And not to mention FaceBall 2000 on SNES! That's a great game. I'd take that over Halo anyday.[/quote]

I was actually interested in this post until you said a DEMO of Area 51 is better than Halo.

Just shut up dude. Shut up.
 
[quote name='mmn'][quote name='CoffeeEdge'][quote name='6669'][quote name='Monsta Mack'][quote name='Monsta Mack']So what console FPS is better then Halo?[/quote]

Wheres my response? Damn im quoting myself lol.[/quote]
Goldeneye/Perfect Dark[/quote]
Exactly. Also:
TimeSplitters, Area 51 (the demo was fantastic), and KillZone.
Geist should be good, also.

And not to mention FaceBall 2000 on SNES! That's a great game. I'd take that over Halo anyday.[/quote]

I was actually interested in this post until you said a DEMO of Area 51 is better than Halo.

Just shut up dude. Shut up.[/quote]

Why. That's rediculous. I enjoyed the 5-minute demo more than I enjoyed Halo, and that's a fact. Why should I shut up?
 
I've got an idea.......everyone find a Halo 2 thread and post in it and see if we can have ALL halo2 threads on the "latest posts area". We could take over the site just for a minute or two. That would really piss all the haters off. ok 123 go!
 
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