The Librarian
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I said Woh-oh out-loud. Sorry to see that, Ghal. My Halo 3 360 is still going strong! *knocks on wood*GhaleonEB said:
And system number two goes down. Hopefully I get another new one, with HDMI this time.
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The Official Halo 3 Thread
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Wow, Ghaleon, Bladed and I go down in the span of 24hrs.
Conspiracy against HaloGAF confirmed.
Conspiracy against HaloGAF confirmed.
Mr Vociferous
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Yeah, you should. I've been through four units myself, the most recent had HDMI and was the newest version -- haven't had any overheating since. Speaking of HDMI, I finally got a cable because I moved the Xbox to the master bedroom's HDTV. A really decent upgrade from the blander colors of VGA my desktop monitor was offering. I think you'll dig it.GhaleonEB said:
And system number two goes down. Hopefully I get another new one, with HDMI this time.
And before...
GhaleonEB said:
- M6D Sex Pistol.
- Sangheili Enemies.
- This.
- Moar Violence!
You know what would make this a bit more bearable? If MS actually did a redesign of the console, then it wouldnt be such a bad idea to just buy another 360, but having to rebuy the same shit everytime is just a pain in the ass. The Next Xbox needs to have a better design and longetivity compared to the 360.Domino Theory said:
The Librarian
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watKevinRo said:
DLC BTB has been nothing but Avalanche. I've played so many matches of Multi-flag Avalanche that I wanna drive a rusty needle down my urethra. The playlist has been up for 3 months now and I for one am dying to have my Valhalla and Sandtrap back. If you aren't sick of Avalanche and feel you haven't gotten to play it enough, then you simply haven't played DLC BTB enough.-ARNiE- said:
Here's a continuous snippet of my DLC BTB game history:
I wouldn't mind if I never saw Avalanche again.
And before then it was very prevalent in DLC Objective and even though it was limited to 6v6, it held up just fine. I won't waste my time posting my entire game history from that playlist but this should give you a taste of how many times I've played these Legendary maps over the 6 months the playlist was up:
You've had your chance to play the Legendary maps in DLC hoppers and until they are made free and required across all playlists I don't want to see anymore playlists solely dedicated to force-feeding them down my through. The new BTB will be a thing of glory, variety, and awesomeness.
The Librarian
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Why would he be talking about Halo Wars? Bungie isn't making that game.KevinRo said:
I don't think Bungie would be teasing content in other developer's games. But that was over a year ago, and if anything we know that development can change plans. Heck, he may have been talking about Chronicles, which Bungie was working on at the time but has since been handed off to MS. I was more just riffing off Voc's post. Don't get too excited.KevinRo said:
Eazy: my DLC history is similar, with respect to Avalanche. I love the map, but I miss more games on Valhalla. I definitely go my money worth, so I'm fine with it being balanced out in BTB.
Captain Blood
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Sad times for the halo thread with downed 360s. I am still waiting on my old unit to get back so I can sell it. Hopefully those of you not buying a new jesper unit will get one from MS instead of an old referb.
Mr Vociferous
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No tease. It could be nothing at all, but...KevinRo said:
- Jarrard and others have said there's more surprises they're saving for down the road.
- During the lost podcast, Staten said he had a list of things he couldn't talk about.
- H3O is being developed, in part, by a handful of people who worked on Halo: Combat Evolved and it has been decidedly labeled by Staten as a labor of love that some people in the office have been wanting to do for a very long time.
- Smith, rather than just flatly saying no M6D for H3O, he had a pretty cagey answer here. Jarrard's follow-up to the question is cagey and a bit diversionary as well.
- The main gripe previously from Bungie about the pistol was its abuse in multiplayer. H3O is not multiplayer, but campaign only.
- Of course, there's the Ryan quote which everyone was questioning before, but with the announcement of H3O, it brought some shockingly clear possibilities to the table.
For months after the "Starry Night" trailer, which first debuted the now referenced M6G, I thought for certain that the weapon used by the Chief in the trailer was the M6D. It obviously looked identical and even had the pronounced electronic sight, anyone who is familiar with the first Halo game has come to cherish. And even during the launch of Halo3.com, the weapon description which initially hit MS' servers was akin to the M6D and not our present M6G variant. This happened for about 6-8 hours and who knows how many phone calls between Bungie and MS -- most of us on GAF watched it all play out here back in early '07.
Knowing how beloved the pistol is, why pray tell would there be a snafu like that? Why would MS have the wrong description of the weapon? Why would both Frank and KP at the time of the "Starry Night" trailer state repeatedly that certain elements of it would be "familiar" and "intentional", seemingly referencing the pistol itself which the Chief pulls out for no reason other than to show it off (awesome btw).
If they had no intention of delivering the real M6D in the first place, all of this rings pretty cruel. My guess, however, is that the initial plan WAS to have the M6D in Halo 3, like so many other things which returned from the first game. I think there were some heavy internal arguments with well-founded opinions thrown around and I think that ultimately the M6G, in its current inception, is what we got. I dig the M6G, don't get me wrong, but I and legions of other people who really connected with that element in the first game wanted the M6D in Halo 3.
H3O is an interesting opportunity to include it and there's some circumstantial evidence. Now don't grab a pitchfork if I'm wrong -- it could be in there now and get changed or I could simply be wrong (which is likely). Obviously a huge caveat should be lowered stating that I personally have no idea at all, nor any insider information.
BladedExpert
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GhaleonEB said:
Zeouterlimits
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GhaleonEB said:
*crossed fingers*
25 months and counting, don't die on me baby.
The Librarian
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moved to new page.
I think the website snafu was a genuine mistake. We saw in the leaked Alpha footage that Bungie was tinkering with a pistol somewhere between the Halo 2 and eventual Halo 3 version. I do think you're on track with the other stuff though - not having a MP component to ODST does free them up. And since we're not playing a Spartan in ODST, the gameplay is going to be very different. They've touched on and hinted at some ways to balance out a weaker player character, but giving him a hand cannon like the M6D sure would be one way to do it. And it would fit in nicely with the fan service nature of the game.Mr Vociferous said:
Mr Vociferous
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Yeah, I think the thing that sticks with me about the M6D name and description being part of Halo3.com the most is that MS really doesn't generate that content. The content (written word) has to have been fashioned by Bungie internally and passed to MS for its addition to the site itself. I definitely agree it was a genuine mistake to put it up, but why would MS have any info on the M6D to begin with, right? They're not making the weapon, they're only providing the information they received in this particular instance. I'd guess that they received the information a ways before the site went live and Bungie made the modification during that time, contacted MS and for some reason, likely an accident, MS's design team used the old and now incorrect information.GhaleonEB said:
I know a lot of people wondered why the M6G has an electronic scope on its barrel when in fact it is never used in the game. I'd guess it's because it wasn't the M6G when they first designed it for H3. But who knows. It's probably a wild goose chase and between the Mythic Maps and what we already know about H3O, I'll gladly fork over the necessaries this coming fall.
The Librarian
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I can see your wish to never play Avalanche again going from your match history, however currently the two DLC playlists are my only hope of consistently finding Avalanche, a map I have rarely played. I have no problem finding games of Blackout and Ghost Town as they are pretty common in TS and TSwat as I usually play with a group of people all of whom have purchased the Legendary map pack. My problem is that lately I have been entering DLC Big Team in search of playing Avalanche, only to be greeted by some variation of Standoff, Rats Nest or Sandtrap, maps that I have played for some time since launch on the previous Big Team social playlist and more recently Squad Battle. I agree that Avalanche is common in the playlist, in my case usually after the first Veto. I don't see how Bungie can't include a playlist which contains only variants of the Legendary maps, as I don't want to play the older maps when i enter this playlist no matter how rare they appear.EazyB said:
Perhaps i'm not really excited for Valhalla as it is probably my most played map in Team BR's on Ranked Slayer, along with Construct. It seems that you will be very happy come mid January judging by your previous post anyway. I just hope that with the Mythic Map Pack, Bungie support it more for players who can't create custom matches on a regular basis and who rely on Bungie to make our matches.
Good points all around. The scope is a dead give away, though they could have been tinkering with a scoped version that wasn't the elephant killer that the M6D was. And we know Halo's Story Bible and it's components cover much more than what is released, so they may have just sent the wrong weapon file over. But we're getting into a lot of woulda coulda's. Something is up.Mr Vociferous said:
I miss Halo 3 already, and my system has been dead for three hours. :\
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Well, the alternative is placing a weapon in their video game that they don't want there just because it doesn't fit into the storyline.KevinRo said:
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Self Induced
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Who needs a pistol when you have rockets?
yeeeaaahhh
yeeeaaahhh
The rockets double exp playlist is a lot more fun then I anticipated. It seriously kicks ass.
The Librarian
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The pistol in Halo 2 sucked. The M6G is far better.vhfive said:
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Everybody should check out Inside Xbox. There's an OXM Report where OXM visits Weta as they show off the real-life Warthog they made. Pretty cool. 
xxjuicesxx
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Halo 2 pistol go BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM
Halo 3 pistol go BOOM ....BOOM....BOOM
Halo 3 pistol go BOOM ....BOOM....BOOM
Stormtrooper30
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xxjuicesxx said:
Halo: CE Pistol
Halo 2 magnum
Halo 3 pistol
I think we all know which one is the best.
The Librarian
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure I'm not.TDG said:
backflip10019
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Dax01 said:
No, I'm pretty sure that you're wrong in every opinion that you have ever had ever.
The Librarian
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no ubackflip10019 said:
Kibbles
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I so want this, but in the concept art flashback they show Brutes still =\ I thought that was one of the reasons they said the E3 demo was cut from the game, because Brutes weren't on Earth at the time. The Flashback is from earlier in the day, is it not? Did all the elites just suddenly get a text message saying they were on the humans side? :lolMr Vociferous said:
As long as we're using better to mean, "the more useful weapon; the more powerful weapon; the weapon with the fastest firing rate," then it is an indisputable fact that the Halo 2 pistol is better than the Halo 3 pistol. Now, if it is somehow your (wrongful) opinion that the opposite is true, then you're entitled to your opinion. But keep this in mind:Dax01 said:
Opinions are like assholes. We all have them, and they all stink.
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TDG said:
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Dax01 said:
Yeah, uh dude, you're wrong.
Chernobyled
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Azar said:
Pre patch dual magnums were basically like having rockets.
The Librarian
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Chernobyled said:
Yeah, uh dude, you're wrong.
See, I can do it too. We can keep on going back and forth like this if you like.
More powerful? Have you played Halo 2 recently? And one weapon being more useful over the other is debatable.TDG said:
Azar said:
It was patched and made weaker. I never played Halo 2 pre-patch, but in it's current state, it isn't as good.
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