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Post by: Krackers87 on February 05, 2004, 05:31:20 pm: I like the Xbox, so i made an Xbox 2 ad.

(http://hades-combine.com/Upload/uploads/Gaia-X-time.jpg)
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Post by: diamondgeezer on February 05, 2004, 05:34:15 pm: I hope you're proud of yourself
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Post by: aldo_14 on February 05, 2004, 06:27:33 pm: Why does that remind me of half life 2?
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Post by: Krackers87 on February 05, 2004, 09:34:34 pm: Quote
Originally posted by diamondgeezer
I hope you're proud of yourself

I sense sarcasm....

Whats so wrong with it?
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Post by: karajorma on February 06, 2004, 05:25:55 am: Nothing wrong with the pic. Some might take exception to you turning yourself in to an MS shill though.
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Post by: Krackers87 on February 06, 2004, 09:16:33 am: explain shill....

I just do it for fun, not for money or anything. I only used two effects in this pic, gradient, and bevel and emboss
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Post by: karajorma on February 06, 2004, 09:18:15 am: Shill (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=shill)
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Post by: diamondgeezer on February 06, 2004, 11:38:05 am: Can I please turn this thread in to a Nintendo fanboi rant?
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Post by: karajorma on February 06, 2004, 12:05:55 pm: feel free :)
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Post by: diamondgeezer on February 06, 2004, 12:10:20 pm: Nice one K

Wind Waker ownz so much it's not even funny

Also, the Billbox controller is ****ING HUGE and utterly horrible ot hold
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Post by: aldo_14 on February 06, 2004, 12:16:08 pm: :yes: Go DG!
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Post by: Stryke 9 on February 06, 2004, 01:00:17 pm: Yeah, but that big unwieldy controller comes in handy when the guy next to you snipes you in HALO. It doesn't have those nice spikes like the N64 controller, but it can take a good six or seven solid blows to the guy's face before fracturing.
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Post by: diamondgeezer on February 06, 2004, 01:05:47 pm: You kidding? When I held it, the damn thing creaked

EDIT: Dammit, I was saving that 6000th post for a special occasion...
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Post by: Taristin on February 06, 2004, 01:08:34 pm: ...You do know there's a smaller version on the market, right? My Xbox controllers fit comfortably in my hands...
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Post by: Unknown Target on February 06, 2004, 01:51:54 pm: PS2 all the way!
The controllers are the best configured, and it's got the coolest and most games (with the exception of Halo for the Xbox and Super Mario bros 2 for the Gaycube :P)
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Post by: Lightspeed on February 06, 2004, 02:03:56 pm: consoles = for losers

there you go. "discuss".

Anyway, that thing reminds me of X² - The Threat.
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Post by: diamondgeezer on February 06, 2004, 02:25:13 pm: I won't since I don't want to risk offending you - I need your skillZ :)

What was that about the GayStation Poo?
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Post by: Beowulf on February 06, 2004, 03:37:33 pm: Quote
Originally posted by diamondgeezer
I hope you're proud of yourself

I'm sure he is. It's not too bad.
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Post by: redsniper on February 06, 2004, 03:45:43 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Raa Tor'h
...You do know there's a smaller version on the market, right? My Xbox controllers fit comfortably in my hands...

(http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2002/20020325l.gif)
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Post by: Stryke 9 on February 06, 2004, 04:53:54 pm: DG: That's pretty standard, after a controller's been properly weighted. If you don't want to use the controller for hand-to-hand combat, I recommend you open up the casing and remove the lead weights inside. It'll minimize creakage, but reduce it's effectiveness, and it's more likely to break after only four blows.
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Post by: Flipside on February 06, 2004, 04:58:08 pm: I like the controller on my game system, it's got 104 buttons to choose from ;)
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Post by: adwight on February 06, 2004, 05:29:58 pm: 104 buttons??? WOW.

Gamecube owns all. 'Nuff said.
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Post by: diamondgeezer on February 06, 2004, 06:32:42 pm: Yup. It's got Zelda on it :nod:
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Post by: adwight on February 06, 2004, 10:41:03 pm: I like Metroid Prime better, that game owns.
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Post by: 01010 on February 06, 2004, 10:42:16 pm: I like the Gamecube AND the Xbox, I just like games, don't really give a **** what platfom they're on as long as they're good.

Never had a problem with the Xbox controller, though that's probably something to do with my gargantuan maws.

Also, playing the **** out of Viewtiful Joe, loving this game.
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Post by: karajorma on February 07, 2004, 05:14:31 am: Quote
Originally posted by 01010
Never had a problem with the Xbox controller, though that's probably something to do with my gargantuan maws.

*Is freaked out by Ten's multiple mouths* :eek2:
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Post by: Setekh on February 07, 2004, 08:10:41 am: Heh, another good Penny Arcade. I go for the smaller Xbox controllers, myself, fit me perfectly too. :)
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Post by: 01010 on February 07, 2004, 08:34:13 am: Quote
Originally posted by karajorma

*Is freaked out by Ten's multiple mouths* :eek2:

I would edit it but it's not my style ;)

It was meant to be paws but a combination of weed, alcohol and concussion meant that my brain was operating at something like half it's power :)

My hands are huge though, I'm like 6ft 0 and the size of a small house both outwards and sidewards. It's funny cause my family are all pretty short and at family gatherings I stick out like a sore thumb.
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Post by: Janos on February 07, 2004, 08:56:33 am: XBOX IS HUGE
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Post by: diamondgeezer on February 07, 2004, 09:00:19 am: Nuff said
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Post by: Turnsky on February 07, 2004, 09:00:55 am: Quote
Originally posted by Janos
XBOX IS HUGE

so?
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Post by: 01010 on February 07, 2004, 09:07:29 am: Quote
Originally posted by Janos
XBOX IS HUGE

OMG WTF.

I mean, yeah it is pretty big, if you're trying to ram it up your arse or something, but for playing games it's not so bad.

Quote
Originally posted by diamondgeezer
Nuff said

What are you doing here man, you should be gathering funds for Viewtiful Joe. Go go go now.
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Post by: diamondgeezer on February 07, 2004, 09:11:21 am: Quote
Originally posted by 01010
What are you doing here man?

It's called 'spamming'
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Post by: redsniper on February 07, 2004, 06:16:06 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Janos
XBOX IS HUGE

another one:
(http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2001/20011128l.gif)
notice what they're sitting on
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Post by: Stryke 9 on February 07, 2004, 06:30:22 pm: They're dissing HALO. Blasphemers.
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Post by: Nico on February 07, 2004, 06:46:30 pm: They're dissing everything, guess their mothers were too close from the wall when they gave birth to them .
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Post by: diamondgeezer on February 07, 2004, 08:57:19 pm: They don't diss Tribes. Or Crystal Chronicles. Or Baldur's Gate.
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Post by: 01010 on February 08, 2004, 03:32:40 am: The main problem they had with Halo is that some sections of one of the levels repeats itself a little. Though the game isn't really about geometry it's about fighting and if you're playing it on legendary you haven't got time to look at what's going on around you.
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Post by: Stryke 9 on February 08, 2004, 03:35:06 am: And what's there is damn purty anyway, even if it is kinda similar at parts.
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Post by: Corsair on February 08, 2004, 02:02:03 pm: Since when did anyone EVER look at the scenery in Halo? I thought it was all about shooting the other guy's bloody corpse in multiplayer after you killed him... ;)
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Post by: Krackers87 on February 08, 2004, 08:52:02 pm: Quote
Originally posted by karajorma
Shill (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=shill)

you ass...

.. great now im limited to doing things i see as fun or be called names, the last ****ing thing i need.

-.-

*sigh* why cant you just see it as something i did for fun? This is what bothers me about this place.
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Post by: Krackers87 on February 08, 2004, 08:57:58 pm: Right now... you can all go to hell.
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Post by: karajorma on February 09, 2004, 02:51:49 am: Didn't say I took exception to it. Just that some might.
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Post by: Setekh on February 09, 2004, 03:45:26 am: Quote
Originally posted by 01010
The main problem they had with Halo is that some sections of one of the levels repeats itself a little. Though the game isn't really about geometry it's about fighting and if you're playing it on legendary you haven't got time to look at what's going on around you.

Yeah, apparently they're fixing that up in Halo 2. The repetitive levels can still be pretty fun when you're going co-op, you can play tactics and stuff. :)
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Post by: Nico on February 09, 2004, 04:22:52 am: beaten another level in legendary yesterday with a friend, the one with the tank. My friend didn't like me piloting the tank ( well, firing too close from him, actually :p ).
Damn, even in coop, it's a tough shell to crack, that game, in legendary .
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Post by: redsniper on February 09, 2004, 05:07:57 pm: I didn't post it for the Halo dis; I like Halo. It was just the size of the xbOX and controllers.
...but you all probably knew that already.
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Post by: Setekh on February 10, 2004, 03:15:41 am: Quote
Originally posted by Nico
beaten another level in legendary yesterday with a friend, the one with the tank. My friend didn't like me piloting the tank ( well, firing too close from him, actually :p ).
Damn, even in coop, it's a tough shell to crack, that game, in legendary .

:lol: I had a friend who kept on running me over in the Warthog. Bastard. :p But I totally know what you mean - how anyone can finish Legendary in single player defies belief.
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Post by: Nico on February 10, 2004, 04:39:02 am: I've done so for the first level, for now. we've beaten the level where you first meet the floods yesterday, btw :)
hehe, more oddly shaped skulls on my level selection screen. Too bad there's no real purpose to that, save for 5 additional seconds added to the ending sequence, I heard :doubt:...
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Post by: IPAndrews on February 10, 2004, 10:32:20 am: Quote
Originally posted by diamondgeezer
I hope you're proud of yourself

LOL. Classic.
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Post by: diamondgeezer on February 10, 2004, 10:42:46 am: :nervous:
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Post by: 01010 on February 10, 2004, 12:26:28 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Setekh

:lol: I had a friend who kept on running me over in the Warthog. Bastard. :p But I totally know what you mean - how anyone can finish Legendary in single player defies belief.

It takes a damn long time let me tell you.
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Post by: Nico on February 10, 2004, 12:28:40 pm: But it makes coop so much more interesting :)
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Post by: Deepblue on February 10, 2004, 01:32:27 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Setekh

:lol: I had a friend who kept on running me over in the Warthog. Bastard. :p But I totally know what you mean - how anyone can finish Legendary in single player defies belief.

I've finished the campaign on legendary a total of 4 times now.l And I keep coming back for more. The only level that I have trouble with is 343 guilty spark because it creeps the hell out of me.
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Post by: Nico on February 10, 2004, 03:04:33 pm: just finished the level "halo" on solo, in legendary :)
I don't even play the levels in the right order anymore :p
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Post by: Deepblue on February 10, 2004, 04:47:36 pm: All time Halo favorite is the library on legendary.
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Post by: Nico on February 10, 2004, 05:22:43 pm: the Library? That's the level I dislike the most, it's the best exemple of the room repetition thing in the whole game.
I would have loved having a whole level like the begining/end of 343 guilty spark, in the jungle. That would have rocked beyond... whatever you want that rocks a lot.
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Post by: Deepblue on February 10, 2004, 08:35:52 pm: I would love playing in the jungle on 343 guilty spark.. if it wasnt so foggy and creepy.
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Post by: redsniper on February 12, 2004, 08:52:21 pm: I hate when you're under the crashed Covenant ship, near the end, and it's all dark. I would turn on my flashlight, of course, so I could see what I was doing, and mow down a couple flood. But while I was reloading the light would be pointing away and it would be completely dark. That was when they would always get back up, and when the light swung back into place there'd be a flood right in my face. Spooked me out, man... :nervous:
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Post by: GeistKrieger on February 12, 2004, 09:07:14 pm: Tsss Consoles...:rolleyes:
Pc's still rule. Period

I hold nothing agensed people who like consoles.
:)
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Post by: phreak on February 12, 2004, 10:31:06 pm: sure doesn't sound like it.

im wondering how hard it is to do that final "race" with the warthog at the end.

also my favorite level would have to be Assault on the Control Room. If only there were Banshees in multiplayer, it would really be fun.
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Post by: Stryke 9 on February 12, 2004, 11:04:50 pm: I thought there was a map with Banshees. The one with the V-canyon and the bridges and ****. Maybe that's PC only, I dunno.

The "race" is pretty easy, so long as you keep in mind that the Warthog handles like a dead cow, and is prone to flipping. I ****ed up pretty regularly at it, still made it with thirty seconds to spare.

Redsniper: Um, when is that? I can't remember a single time I had to turn the light on in the game at all... you mean the level with all the coolant pools and ****?
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Post by: Nico on February 13, 2004, 02:34:26 am: Quote
Originally posted by PhReAk
also my favorite level would have to be Assault on the Control Room. If only there were Banshees in multiplayer, it would really be fun.

On coop, they're there, on the assault on the control tower level. they're in the middle of the bridges, there's two of them, and you have to run for them as fast as possible while shooting their pilots so they don't get into them before you. My friend and I never managed to get both, tho, there was always on of us dying before reaching them ( lots of people on that bridge :p ).
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Post by: Nico on February 13, 2004, 02:35:37 am: The level with the goo that falls for the ship and creates small goo pools uner it, in the canyons, I suppose.
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Post by: Grug on February 13, 2004, 04:51:10 am: i got it on xbox and pc. luv the game... beatin it on ledgendary many atimes, i usually play heroic tho for fun...

if u want banshees, yeh go Assault on Control or the one after the library... u have to get banshees in that 1...

hopefully when the HEK comes out i will be able to make my own levels and mods in HaloPC... :D

goo... that would be KEYES i think... the 1 where u 'rescue' the captain lol...

punch... squelch... :D ppl whov played it will no what i mean... :p banshees at the end of that 1 too...

The reason 4 Halos repetitive levels was that they were pressured for it to be released with the XBox... However Halo2 is a different story, it will be much better i think, they've even improved the grahpics somehow... :o

but yeh... thats enought of my 'shill ing' :p

-Grug
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Post by: Deepblue on February 13, 2004, 09:56:34 am: Quote
Originally posted by Nico

On coop, they're there, on the assault on the control tower level. they're in the middle of the bridges, there's two of them, and you have to run for them as fast as possible while shooting their pilots so they don't get into them before you. My friend and I never managed to get both, tho, there was always on of us dying before reaching them ( lots of people on that bridge :p ).

Or in case you are playing on legendary (tm) and dont want to die, throw a nade next to the banshee as soon as you open the door. If you do it just right it will kill the elite and flip the banshee so no one else can climb in. After dealing with the guys at the gate, run up, jump in, shoot the heck out of everything, and skip half the level by flying to the control room.
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Post by: Nico on February 13, 2004, 09:59:57 am: That's quite a long grenade lob, no?
anyway, don't care, we've beaten the level already.
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Post by: Deepblue on February 13, 2004, 01:38:13 pm: It is long, but not too long. :D
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Post by: Stryke 9 on February 13, 2004, 03:06:30 pm: I wasn't aware there was any other way to do it. Between the banshees actually in flight and the mass of Covenant on that bridge, I found you really don't get very far without one of the Banshees.
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Post by: redsniper on February 13, 2004, 04:34:11 pm: yeah, Keyes, with the coolant puddles
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Post by: HotSnoJ on February 13, 2004, 07:28:55 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Nico

On coop, they're there, on the assault on the control tower level. they're in the middle of the bridges, there's two of them, and you have to run for them as fast as possible while shooting their pilots so they don't get into them before you. My friend and I never managed to get both, tho, there was always on of us dying before reaching them ( lots of people on that bridge :p ).
OR get a rocket launcher and shoot just to the left of the pilot as he's entering the banshee. Worked for me. :P
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Post by: Setekh on February 15, 2004, 05:34:40 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Stryke 9
The "race" is pretty easy, so long as you keep in mind that the Warthog handles like a dead cow, and is prone to flipping. I ****ed up pretty regularly at it, still made it with thirty seconds to spare.

What level are you playing at? On Heroic and Legendary, you have one minute less than the other two modes, and if you stack it majorly three or four times you'll be unable to make it, even pulling maximum speed for the rest of the level. Or you're just a way better driver than I am. :p

I know what you mean, Nico. "What? There's an order to the game? Bah!" I was an idiot and started on Truth & Reconciliation when trying to beat it on Legendary, which apparently is the hardest level in the game (I didn't realise). I just had so much fun sniping people. :D
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Post by: Nico on February 16, 2004, 01:55:44 am: Quote
Originally posted by Setekh
I know what you mean, Nico. "What? There's an order to the game? Bah!" I was an idiot and started on Truth & Reconciliation when trying to beat it on Legendary, which apparently is the hardest level in the game (I didn't realise). I just had so much fun sniping people. :D

Lol, it probably is, darn, that's the latest one we tried, with my friend. The room when you teleport in the covenant ship, first, is insane. There wouldn't be much pb if there wasn't all those jedi covenants :p
We went very far, but had to give up because of an emergency phonecall, then coming back home at like 5 AM :doubt:.
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Post by: Setekh on February 16, 2004, 04:49:21 am: Ouch. Everything okay? :shaking:

Yeah, but that's fun with co-op. Have each player guarding two doors and then stick plasmas onto the cloaked Jedis when they pop through the doors. But yeah, that level is damn hard. ;)
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Post by: Nico on February 16, 2004, 05:09:43 am: Everything ok? Oh, yeah, no prob, just a tard ( my friends bro ) who ruined the whole night ( going to search him in the not-so-nearby city, then having a friend calling us and telling us he'll be two hours and a half late - the brother himslef didn't even bother to call, and the friend told us so coz we incidentally brought the matter in the conversation, he was not calling to warn us originally -since he didn't even know-. Bloody idiot. )