That Game Which Must Not Be Named!

[Wrestlevania]

I'm caving in, I admit it--I think I may buy Halo 3 after all. It just seems like too much co-op goodness - from the main campaign to the Forge game editing tools - to pass up out of sheer, bloody-minded elitism.

That is all.

PS: I can feel the pubes literally shedding from my groin with this confession.

[Roderick]

Two days ago, I was the owner of Halo 2 for approximately 11 hours. Then I sold the unopened game on a national trading website because I smelled a good deal when I saw the game in stores for a trifle 2,50 Euros. I was not disappointed and made a good tenner on it.

This is as far as my ownership of any Halo game will go.

[n0wak]

I'll buy it too. As much as I hated the single player game the multiplayer in Halo 2 was the most fun I had with XBox Live. I'd regularly play games with a group of local guys -- some I knew and some I didn't -- and that took away some of the random internet douchebaggery. That's the thing. Halo 3 will sell millions and that means there's a bigger chance that the people you would like to game with will have it too. So, yeah, catch me online.

[DanJW]

More units sold means more chances to play against interesting people

[Noyb]

Yeah. I'm way too hyped up about Halo 3, mainly because, like N0wak, I usually play online with a group of friends that I know well. The party system is damn good, and surprising that most other online games don't provide an easy way to keep a group of friends together and on the same team through random matches. Forge looks ridiculously cool, being able to completely customize the weapon and item placement on the maps down to the spawn rates.

[elmuerte]

I'm annoyed as heel about Halo3, it's mostly due to advertisements. A Dutch radio station (3FM) is giving away Halo 3 and they're announcing that every 15 minutes or something.

[SpiderMonkey]

I'm deeply fascinated to know how the numbers will compare to Halo 2. What is the comparative install base at this stage? It can't be nearly as many Xbox 1's as they had in 2004. Or can it?

[miffy495]

I'll be buying it eventually. Still haven't played Halo 2, but I have a friend who's bored of it and will be giving it to me to play. Once that's completed, I'll give 3 a shot. No rush, but yeah, I'll eventually be in there too. What I don't understand is the obsession that so many people seem to have with completing it the day it comes out. to that.

[Coldkill]

Halo

Halo 2

Halo 3 ?

It's on my list, along with an XBox 360, a car, a new graphics card, a flight into space and a longer wish list.

[Noyb]

What I don't understand is the obsession that so many people seem to have with completing it the day it comes out. to that.

I guess to avoid the inevitable (and apparently currently available) internet spoilers of the ending? Granted, Halo's story was never that great (oh noes! kill the aliens! oh noes! different aliens to kill, that also want to kill the first aliens! oh noes, a ring will destroy all life! oh noes, it's a septuply-redudant system with six more rings!) but it is a part of the experience.

[twmac]

I enjoyed both previous installments of the game, but on this one I need to stand back and wait for people to stop talking about this game.

It is like listening to Metal Gear Solid or Final Fantasy fans talk about their franchises like they are god's gift to gaming when (although very passable) they haven't made any progress in years.

Halo 2 really was a step up from one, even though some of the cut-scenes failed to load textures for a few seconds, the game play was solid and thye attempted, for the most part to change the scenary. The one thing they pussied out on that could have made a massive impact, basically, I wasn't happy with the outcome between the arbiter and Master Chief.

[n0wak]

I guess to avoid the inevitable (and apparently currently available) internet spoilers of the ending? Granted, Halo's story was never that great (oh noes! kill the aliens! oh noes! different aliens to kill, that also want to kill the first aliens! oh noes, a ring will destroy all life! oh noes, it's a septuply-redudant system with six more rings!) but it is a part of the experience.

That excuse doesn't hold since the spoilers for Halo 3 are already out there.

[Wrestlevania]

It's definitely stigma that's kept me wary of all things Halo up to now--certainly from an online point-of-view. I've played through pretty much the entire single player campaign of the first and second games, but never dared take either of them online because of the seemingly omni-present Halo moron squads.

Something that's really fucked me off about Halo 2 just recently is that, whilst co-op is specified as a multiplayer feature, the box never actually says "you must be sat next to each other, playing on the same machine, for co-op mode." Completely oblivious to this, I roped a friend into getting a used copy of Halo 2 in the hope we could play through the main campaign together--only to discover this wasn't possible over Live thanks to a little blurb of text in the multiplayer lobby when I switched to co-op mode.

I'll be selling my copy post-haste, before its trade-in value likely plummets next week.