[Mefustae]

They were short of the Limited Edition, so they gave me a regular to go along with. Not too bad at all.

A lot of the voices sound really, really familiar for some reason. Keyes and some of the marines, namely.

[diceman111]

Will wait for a PC edition, if there ever comes ones otherwise i will just have to borrow my friend's 360 did that for Halo 2


/Dice

[Deepblue]

They were short of the Limited Edition, so they gave me a regular to go along with. Not too bad at all.

A lot of the voices sound really, really familiar for some reason. Keyes and some of the marines, namely.

Firefly fan? If so,  no wonder.

[Inquisitor]

*twitch* forcing myself to wait till I am back from CO (next week) before picking up a copy...

[Mefustae]

Firefly fan? If so, no wonder.

*Looks up voice cast in manual*

Holy ****! I have a newfound respect for this game.

[Inquisitor]

I was weak, so much for waiting.

[achtung]

Oh and I'll be getting a bought copy tomorrow if I can find one.

Gamertag:  swantz

FR sent.

Should be getting it tomorrow sometime.

GT: xphreaky

You too.

EDIT: Got your FR Hippo. Hopefully I find a present in my mail tomorrow.

It'll be Thursday night before I get to my 360 again, so don't be surprised if there's a delay. 

[Deepblue]

Well, I still haven't got my copy yet so we're in the same boat.

[Roanoke]

Yet to bother with an Xbox360. Might look into it after Christmas. Or see what the reaction is to Halo3.

[Hippo]

I'm extremely impressed.

Spoiler:

Almost the entire game you were going from one epic fight to another, interjected only by some smaller ones or some **** with the flood (who are more fun to fight now too, though the parts on the flood infested high charity are annoying because its easy to get lost). But constantly running from one fight to another with plenty or targets, marine interaction, and really pretty explosions was awesome. Matchmaking is also awesome because it took what was good about halo 2 matchmaking (not a ton) and made it all better.

[Inquisitor]

Looks like they borrowed in game coop joining ala Gears.

So far it is not dissapointing.

[übermetroid]

GT: ubermetroid 



Hit me up if you want to coop the game.

[jr2]

Do any of you ppl have a capture card on your PC?  .... just wondering if I could bribe or threaten you into posting some screenies.    Puhleeeaase??

[Deepblue]

Why would you need a capture card?

Bungie Online is your friend:

http://www.bungie.net/forums/topics.aspx?forumID=127675

EDIT: Also, looks like some server somewhere exploded, matchmaking got screwed.

Or altenatively:

^Such a gorgeous level.

Graphically, the game is a mixed bag - indoors it's pretty bland, and some of the models are pretty low detail. But once you get outside and you have so many characters on screen at once, it's easier to understand why characters are a lower detail. And the HDR implementation here is just lovely. And a warning for those playing on LCD tvs with native res of 768, get the VGA cable so you don't get scaling with tends to exacerbate aliasing.

[Hippo]

you can take screens off the films of everything that are accessible on bungie.net under your friends gamertags, but they don't seem to be updating yet

[Dark Hunter]

w00t! My family back home was kind enough to pick up my copy of Halo, so I'll get to it Friday afternoon!

Gamertag: SolDarkHunter (cause "Dark Hunter" was already taken  )

I probably won't have Live come Sunday afternoon, since I don't know if I can hook the Xbox up to this school's network (I can't hook up the Wii... so who knows?).

[Frosty]

Just beat it, although campaign is short gameplay and story wise halo 3 is better than both halo 1 and 2

Tip: stay through till after the credits for a little more story

[Mefustae]

Just finished it. Good, but not great. Certainly not as good as all the hoo-hah, but at least it wasn't nearly as overhyped as Halo 2. I agree with Swantz in that it felt a little cobbled together, and way too many things were left either unexplained or completely ignored in favor of more explosions.

Anyway, it was nice that they've unabashedly set up a further sequel without making any obligations. It's a great universe Bungie has created here, and hopefully future games will be able to explore it a heck of a lot better than Halo 3 has.

Edit: Did anyone get a similar feeling that the game lacked the epic feel of the previous titles? I mean, there were plenty of "wow" moments, but there simply wasn't any grand, sweeping moments that really knocked you back onto your seat with a startled expression on your face. Seriously, I expected a hell of a lot more from the campaign of what is supposedly the reason incarnate to buy a 360.

Good? **** yeah. Killer app? Nope.

[Deepblue]

^Multiplayer options (co-op and versus) makes it a "killer-app" far more than the campaign alone.

Also, what difficulty were you playing on? Apparently that makes a fairly significant difference in enemy count.

Personally, just seeing this, much less playing it, gives me chills:



Anyway, my biggest question is: how does it compare to Halo 1 and 2 campaign-wise? Right now I'm going in with average-expectations in the hope that the experience will not be tainted by hype.

[Mefustae]

*Cough-bullshot-cough*

Anyway, yeah, I was playing on normal. The logical thing to do, really, and yet i've heard that they dumbed down normal to such a degree that i've now effectively ruined my gameplay experience by having played through on a lacklustre setting. Not happy, Jan.

And if you're wondering, the campaigns have been going downhill since the get-go. The campaign in Halo: CE was fan-****ing-tastic all-round, while Halo 2 saw a pretty good campaign weighed down only by the cheap ending. Halo 3 continues this trend, with an average campaign that's just piss-poor in comparison to its progenitors. Obvious even to the layman of the shift of effort to the multiplayer aspect while leaving us singleplayer fans out in the cold.