Halo 3 goes gold

4 years ago

Three cheers for Halo 3
I will play this game for a week straight before doing anything else, it will be awesome

Skiller

4 years ago

Meh, easily the most overhyped series ever, at least GTA deserves the hype. Still I can't argue that it's not one of the best console FPS games but IMO it pales in comparison to most PC FPS games.

4 years ago

Skiller wrote

Meh, easily the most overhyped series ever, at least GTA deserves the hype. Still I can't argue that it's not one of the best console FPS games but IMO it pales in comparison to most PC FPS games.

GTA Does not deserve any hype, GTA games get boring pretty quick IMO

GooberMan

4 years ago

I'm getting off the internet for a month in four weeks.

(but yes, even though I really dislike the series, I'll give the game a go, I have played through Halo and played the first half hour of Halo 2)

RAMPAGE

4 years ago

Can wait to try out this game. Iv never played a halo game. So will be interesting for me to see if it is all its made out to be.

4 years ago

GooberMan wrote

Halo games have single player?

the multiplayer is where its at

4 years ago

Tell them to release it early then!

4 years ago

The quality of Halo 3 will actually show me what Bungie are really made of...the first game was awesome in every way possible....it really is one of those games I consider perfect in every way and could quite honestly be the game i've actually spent the most amount of time playing all up. When Halo 2 came out I was frothing at the mouth but was actually quite dissapointed because there were so many parts of that game that didn't seem thought out or were just rushed/unpolished when like I said I considered the first game to be perfect in every way. Halo 3 will prove to me Bungie are able to get past the hype and develop a title that lives upto their company motto: "For gamers, by gamers".

4 years ago

^ Well, if it's gone gold a month early, then it's a good good sign.

ret the roman

4 years ago

I hope this improves over halo 2.
I'm a fan of halo but halo 2 was utter garbage IMO.

4 years ago

^ good man!

Yea it going Gold early is a good sign but really that's the norm cuz you still gotta finalize marketing etc but yea I have a good feeling, i'm just keeping them bottled up because I was dissapointed last time and atleast this way I might be pleasantly surprised.

ObsoletE

4 years ago

LeonJ wrote

^ Well, if it's gone gold a month early, then it's a good good sign.

it's not a month early, it's on schedule.

most games go gold 3-4 weeks ahead of release in order for the appropriate number of units to be made. if they left the golding process until the week of release, then they wouldn't be able to make enough units, nor ship them to their destinations in time for release.

4 years ago

retroman wrote

I hope this improves over halo 2.
I'm a fan of halo but halo 2 was utter garbage IMO.

Right. Did you forgot about the revolutionary multiplayer that came with Halo 2? Has a game used Matchmaking on the level that Halo 2 has done even to this day?

ObsoletE

4 years ago

^ yeah, because multiplayer is everything.

4 years ago

ObsoletE wrote

^ yeah, because multiplayer is everything.

Damn right. Big factor. A 10 hour single player campaign + 100 hours of multiplayer certainly adds a lot of grunt to a game.

Easy-to-use party system + matchmaking = bliss.

4 years ago

I agree with you Leion, I always have more fun in multi player even if Halo CE had better single player than Halo 2

Frozencry

4 years ago

LeonJ wrote

retroman wrote

I hope this improves over halo 2.
I'm a fan of halo but halo 2 was utter garbage IMO.

Right. Did you forgot about the revolutionary multiplayer that came with Halo 2? Has a game used Matchmaking on the level that Halo 2 has done even to this day?

I guess you don't play many PC games then.

Anyway, bring on Halo 3. The multiplayer at the press event was f**king awesome, and I feel the need to teabag some more.

4 years ago

There was a paragraph in the Eurogamer Bioshock review that summed up my feelings on multiplayer:

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Inevitably certain sections of the shooter hardcore will grumble loudly about the lack of multiplayer. It's a fair point, but the most obvious riposte is are there not enough shooters out there that cater for this niche? Would Bioshock even benefit from the kind of tacked-on me-too multiplayer that most FPS titles sport like some sort of apologetic 'will this do' badge of dishonour? We'd much rather Irrational focused all of its energies on providing its audience with the very best that single player gaming has to offer than water down the experience by wasting time cobbling together yet another take on Deathmatch and CTF, thanks.

Honestly I found that statement applied to how I felt (about multiplayer in all games, not just Bioshock or Halo) so perfectly I wish I could have it in my sig! Quite honesltly Halo 2's multiplayer was awesome but I do think it was at the expense of the single player campaign and this imo is absolutely taboo! It was all about the campaign in the first Halo game so to see it as an afterthought in the sequel just enraged me! So yea multiplayer is fine....but you better hope the single player aspect of your game is perfect otherwise the whole package is useless to me.

4 years ago

No I agree with you Ugh. Bioshock with multiplayer does not make sense and I would not like the developers to even harbour thoughts with that type of game.

Halo 1 had a giant cult following for the LAN multiplayer, and was the first game to show the true potential of Live. They have a small team working on multiplayer and a giant team working on the campaign. So for this game, I don't think you will see any scarifices either way. But not all studios have the power of a M$ backed game like bungie has.

No I don't play PC games (anymore) Frozencry, but I can't see PC gaming online being anybetter then Live. Halo 2 back way when, certainly was the benchmark. Perhaps not in terms of online gameplay, but the way the system matched games has fair, awesome and so easy.