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[maskdmirag]

Honestly, the very moment I saw the live gameplay demo of halo 2 at e3 two years back I was expecting an amazing gripping storyline. ILB has only intensified that. It would suck if it doesn't live up to my inborn hype .

[devolver]

[Scumbag]

[Buzzkill247]

[MNPundit]

[skilletaudio]

Am I the only person out there who thinks that FPS's are perfectly justified, nay, expected, to be slim in the "story" department?

Even back in the day when FPS's were new, the coolness of the story came in the manual, and nothing else. Like DOOM. "Marine base on Mars. Hell itself opened up on mars." You say to yourself, "Sweeeet idea". From that point on, its just bang bang bang. The two biggest moments of an FPS, for me, are the "Sweet, look at what just happened" moments, like when you pull off some sweet trick of physics that has yet to be explored in other games, and the "Oh, sweet god, look at THAT" moments, ,when some fresh hell turns the corner and you KNOW your ass is grass.

[DarkStorm]

Other than RPGs, I'm of the opinion that story isn't at all important in a game, or of minimal importance, at best. Yeah, a story will be good for one playthrough at most. If the game is no fun to play, the best story in the world won't save it.

I mean, how much of a story did Pac-Man and Tetris have?

-DS-

[GWing_02]

Sure, but Bungie's always been known to write extensive and gripping stories. The Marathon Trilogy was amazing in this respect, and Halo was pretty good too.

Halo 2's story is great, it's just the ending that makes people bang their heads and want to cry.

[thunderclap8]

the story is wonderfully complex, i was on the edge of my seat in the last cinema scene in particular. unfortunatley, it is indeed the last one...

[guantes]

[thebruce]

[Ikkarus]

[Smoke]

A story has no meaning without its ending. Everything up to it can be interpreted and thought about and picked apart, and some good information can be gleaned from it, but, ultimately, something has to end. Otherwise, it is not a good story.

Halo 2 is very, very dissapointing in this regard. Months and months of building, years of work, to have it all end at the point, the very instant, that I truly wanted to *play* the game and save humanity, is unacceptable.

That is mitigated if they are planning a sequel. Or a book. Or a movie. Or *something* that will resolve everything. But now I'm hearing they aren't going to do it? What reason do they have? What excuse?

If they don't resolve this somehow, I'll never buy another Bungie product again, and I will heartily endorse my associates (including you all) to do the same. Not as a form of economic protest, for fools will always buy their games, but as a prevention of extreme disgust and dissapointment.

I find it very hard to take, all of this. I feel very much betrayed. Here is this amazing story, this thing, nearly an entity of itself, building up to something, and it is for nothing.

How would you feel if ILB had stopped, say, as Jersey were entering the airlock? Or when Indiana Jones' father was shot? How about the Odyssey stopping right when Odysseus walks into his home after decades of wandering, to find his fortunes spent and his wife besieged? Star Wars without Return of the Jedi?

If you answer anything less than apalled and desirous of more, I honestly think you'd be lying. Or in need of serious therapy.

What does this say of Bungie? They tell an awesome story, but withhold the ending? Are they sadists? Do they enjoy denying something to fans who have waited a very long time to enjoy? Are they sellouts, slapping a story onto a very pretty multiplayer game?

This is not a good thing. Halo 2 does not have a good story, because it does not have a good ending. This is insulting and bastardly and really disturbing that Bungie would do something like this, and it continues to piss me off. I feel cheated and swindled. No amount of new vechicles or Spartan customization or lag-less internet play is going to make me shut up and enjoy the game.

[daboking]

I respectfullly disagree with you, smoke... well, not on the ending as I, too, was left wanting more. It WAS the point in game that I really was most excited to play, but where I disagree is the bungie protest. The ending did not ruin the experience for me... and I have too much love for past bungie titles and the way they make games to pass up on what I am sure will be incredible launch titles.

[Thumper]