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[daegan]

[HalfMoon]

[latka]Thank you. Thank you very much.[/latka]

[krystyn]

This is bad: I signed up to be notified through messenger that I had friend requests and stuff coming in through Live, and this just makes it so I want to leave work even more so I can go home and play against my lovely favorite beekeepers!

[cedmond]

i should have taken the whole week off to play

[tsioc]

comments about the previous spoiler:

[Buzzkill247]

Crosspost: applies here too I think

Sorry but most of this post is going to be spoiler mode. I finished the campaign mode so here goes:

[GloryFish]

I too ordered the SmartJoy FRAG. I haven't spent enough time with it in Halo 2 to truly say how I like it. However, within an hour of practicing with it in Halo I noticed a significant increse in headshots all around. It's important to have a good mouse.

Also, I'm pretty sure that you don't need a memory card to save button configurations. I don't have one and it remembers that I prefer to have "E" as the X button. Trout me if I'm wrong.

[daboking]

I hope you are not wrong... I just had no luck until I plugged one in on saving presets. I do not have a card and will try myself tonight.

[Ranger D]

[GloryFish]

Here's another random thought:

Remember when Dana mentioned that her aunt was making a black button sage variety of honey? Somepeople thought that was a halo reference because the controlle rhas a black button and one of the multiplayer colors is sage. Now that Halo 2 is out, has anyone tried anything with that. I'm still avoiding spoilers so I haven't looked at the list of easter eggs. I woul drathe rhear about it through this forum.

Yes, I highly doubt there is anything at all related to ILB's mention of balck button sage, I just don't have anything better to do right now than play Halo 2 and my XBox is at home.

[daegan]

1. Only four people worked on multiplayer. So stop saying they paid a ton of attention to it ...they really didn't.

2. I did not have this cutscene problem that so many people speak of. Your XBox is probably older. My older PS2 MELTS under San Andreas. Deal with it.

3. The story is as big as the first game. You just lost the sense of so much discovery cos this isn't a new thing.

People expect far too much of sequels these days.

[drseuss90]

[nubee2010]

Stood in line at the Redmond Town Center EB from 11:30PM to THREE IN THE FRICKIN' MORNING. There were close to 600 people waiting in line at this tiny EB.

Because it was close, a bunch of the Halo2 devs showed up in the pimped out XBox Live Escalade (complete with spinner rims). They tossed shwag up into the crowd (poor devs don't have good throwing arms though... it took them a few tries to get things like sports bottles and empty backpacks up a few meters).

The biggest disappointment of the night was the fact that the Bungie folks were there signing autographs for only about an hour. The 50 or so people who'd been standing in line since around 1PM that afternoon got some extra special treatment when the doors finally opened and caused the rest of the line to have to wait a great deal longer when the clock struck 12:00AM.

Am I bitter? Perhaps a bit. If the devs had stayed longer or the line had moved more quickly, I would have been able to get my limited edition copy signed.

So far, I've only played about 2 or 3 hours of constant, non-stop gameplay. Takin' it easy. It's been 3 years

[JasonShin]

Before I say anything else, I haven't played Halo 2 yet. However, let's look at Halo 1. It was a short game with a decent story, well done gameplay and great atmosphere / presentation.

From what I hear, Halo 2 is not that much different. Halo 1 did not strike me as the best game of all time. I did like it. I liked it a lot because of the kind of work that went into the presentation and the fact that, despite all else, it felt like a labor of love.

If your impression of Halo 1 was the same as mine, let me ask if Halo 2 evokes a similar reaction. Strip all the hype from both games. Did you like the first, and would you have liked it if the exact same game had been published on the mac and not on the xbox and nobody had really heard of it? Sans hype and sans anti-hype, what do you really think of Halo 2?

[Rasputin42x69]