HALO 2 ENDING. SPOILER ALERT!!!

Yeah I did watch those now, after Ive beatent he game. I can see why they gave the game they did. I think that maybe they wanted it out for Christmas. Tsk, tsk, I would of bought it either way. I think most everyone would agree. The biggest thing I do not like about Halo 2, besides the cut-off ending, is the normal mapping loads too late and things appear out of no where. This is a bug and for the most part, it kind of felt like a beta test. ALl in all though, I relaly love the game. Its replay value is incredably high, and I will be playing it for years to come. This as well as Halo, the classic. Halo 2 is a good game but they shoudl have given it another year, I know I would have waited, I will have Half-Life 2, Far Cry, Doom 3, World of Warcraft and Knights of the Old Republic 2 to keep me busy.

By the way, I went though the last level on Legendary, it was the same. Some of you already posted, but I felt like dropping my 2 cents in. Thanks for the posts.

 

By the way,does anyone have opinions on Multiplayer these days?

I mean, I bought Halo 2. So if they think I am gonna run out and buy XBOX live just to download what seems like only one level, I will just have to do that. But Ill be mad because I had to. The wisest thing for Bungie to do is make a sequal, and Im crossing my fingers for it within 2 years. Theres no need to remodel the characters, they look decent as is, all they need is levels and story, maybe a few weapon changes and thats all. Anyway, back to the topic at hand. I hate how games are going these days. BUY ME, then PAY TO PLAY ME, as well as PAY TO PLAY ME ON THE INTERNET YOU ALREADY PAY FOR, and O WHILE YOUR AT IT, BUY XBOX LIVE TOO SO YOU CAN DOWNLOAD STUFF FOR THE GAME THAT MAY OR MAY NOT BE VITAL. I hate that. I like the old days where you pay the friken $50, get the game, all the stuffs there, and you can play online for free. If you wanted anythign extra, go download it for free. Why do we support buying a game then paying to play it. If we dont support that, they wont do it. All I am sayign is that the least they should do is lower the game price to about $10, then only make you pay like $5 a month. Or go back to the way things were, $50, heres you game, go have fun. Not $50, now go home and go online and pay more money to play this $50 game. Its all hitting the fan now and I dont like it one bit. Tell me your thoughts and opinions.

 

Obviously they either ran out of time or money to finish it, or they plan to make a sequel, but when you think about it, as 2005 is right around the corner and next generation systems have been projected for as early as 2006 / 2007, why bother make the game if it's going to take two years, why not just wait till the next system and make it a premier game, which not only sells the game but the system as well? If they don't announce the sequel within the next six months, then I bet they're just going to wait for the next system.

What's more is that this ending had so much stuff going on at the end of it, that you can be sure that all these rumors about downloading an additional level just aren't going to happen. First, why would you bother making a single player level downloadable? Second, it can't be just one level it has to be tons of levels, because not only do you have to stop the covenant fleet from destroying earth (which is going to take more than a single level), you have to get to the Ark, and shutdown the Halo system, which will probably have a number of obstacles in the way. The entire single player game is built on religious allegory. Think about it, it's called the Ark, evidently the Forerunner species, or whatever they're called, built this thing to salvage their species in the event that the halo would destroy them all, it probably has all manner of DNA on it to save all the species in the galaxy (like Noah), so it's probably gaurded by a bunch of clones and maybe even some robot sentinels or something like that. Not only that, but even though the parasite is trying to help you stop the Halo, it is obviously nobodies friend. AN ENTIRE SPECIES OF EXTREMELY ADVANCED LIFEFORMS WIPED THEMSELVES OUT TO KILL THAT THING AND THEY DIDN'T EVEN SUCCEED. The parasite just wants the halo to stop, and then he's going to come along and start assimilating people and making them into freaky ass zombie monsters, so there's gotta be a whole additional set of levels for taking that son of a bitch down. Frankly, I considered the storyline very compelling, even if one might consider the characters of the Master Chief and the Arbiter rather unoriginal, but they weren't mean to be original. Because it's a first person shooter, you, the player, are meant to be able to identify with them so they aren't refered to by name, but instead, by title, and they are given generic personalities - which I think was an interesting way of approaching the issue of drawing us in. All in all, I'm very interested in what they'll do with a third game because they certainly have everything set up for one, and if they work things out correctly, they could even have a story line for a fourth game set up.

 

Nice summary of the game... Shame that some of the what-happens-next questions weren't answered. I feel that the Bungie guys are preparing the hype again for the sequel whether it be an Xbox or Xbox2 game that must be for certain. It makes money, and just like any hit they will make sequel after sequel until people start losing interest. It's the curse of successful games - at times they try to suck as much as cash out of a concept as they can and instead of trying to create something worthy of a hit they just change the colours of some models then call them a new race, add in a new weapon or hey, put a weapon in both hands. They they slap a 2 on the end of the title and call it a brand new epic adventure.

Some games should just end it when they're ahead. A game like FarCry doesn't need a sequel but those guys should make another game considering how good their first one was.

Other games demand a sequel like starcraft - god dam it! when will that sequel come out?

And as for that other question - "what do you think of multiple payments streams for the same game?" I think it would have to be justified. If the online content was worthy of spending extra cash then so be it.

But after playing enemy territory (a completely free game) and a bloody good one at that. Then you don't have to pay anything extra either. Maps, patches, updates are all free, I know developers can't live off love alone but you don't need to pay for every slice of entertainment they try to drip feed you. Cut the crap and give us the complete game from the outset.

One thing I'm not a big fan of is these online games like EverQuest, Ultima, StarWars Galaxies. The thing that bugged me is Lightspeed - which looks like a great space combat system only works when playing online. Now that just pisses me off. Perhaps this is the scary future. All games will be online ones and soon we'll have all these monthly payments to play games.

 

Hey im new and hello to y'all!

I am very disappointed in this as the endin is very crap! but i hav a friend wo has a little film preview of halo 2 before it came out like a year ago!

And it showed footage of halo 2 but none of it i saw WAS in halo 2! It showed me the Brutes landin of earth comin out from their ships! Also it shows u a hospital place outside where it shows loads of injured Marines! Now tell me this, hav u seen any of this footage in Halo 2? Definitly i havent!

But it is tellin me that there is a next Halo 2/3 which has been made before Halo 2 had even came out!!
So dont get ur hopes up and know this, Halo isnt over!

For sure, when the Master Chief lands on earth, he will be goin against Brutes and ur'll be seen that little hospital place where all those Marines are injured!

Please tell me if any1 knows when da next halo 2/3 is cumin out please! I really need to know! Thankz

Dis website rocks!!

 

You may wanna know that Halo 2 is only a build up to Halo 3 an Halo 2's ending left at a good place with MC saying 'here to finish the battle' but i didnt like the Cortana bit of the ending with Gravemind.

 

Yes Halo 3 looks like a sure thing, but the million dollar question is when? Christmas?, next year?, Xbox2?

They should follow it up soon while it's all fresh in our minds, and so the story flows better. Wait too long and it will lose it's impact.

 

Aye i see your point some of my friends say its for Xbox2 im just praying it isnt that late

 

Well at the end of the day, both halo 1 and 2 are some of my favourite games of all time, and ive played alot of games, if it comes out on xbox or xbox 2 ill still get it and love it lol.. jus hope it dunt take 2 long.. i think the next installment is alredy made anyway..

 

Well at the end of the day, both halo 1 and 2 are some of my favourite games of all time, and ive played alot of games, if it comes out on xbox or xbox 2 ill still get it and love it lol.. jus hope it dunt take 2 long.. i think the next installment is alredy made anyway..

 

heard you the first time

True, because if you look at games like halflife which is an amazing game. How long did people wait for that... all that hype, the missing code drama, yet still people waited. I guess it doesn't matter how long it will take to release the next in the series - BUT it would be nice to have it follow on sooner better than later.

Anybody heard any gossip - surely there must be some info leakage from bungie? How could they hide something like Halo 3...

 

exactly wat i was thinking, sum1 must know something - outside of bungie

 

Halo 3 is not out for xbox 2 as it has the same graphix as halo and halo 2, so it it cant be for xbox2.

The demo that i saw had the same graphix as halo 2 and it didnt hav proper good quality of the new xbox2.

 

Where did you see a demo of Halo 3? But if they leave Halo 3 for quite abit i think all the hype about it will go down but then again a game like this who could think negetavely on it

 

i rekon the ending woz gud cuz it left it open for halo 3, maybe more

 

There cant not be a Halo 3 with that ending, has the Halo 2 soundtrack come out in the UK?

 

DGMorris hate to disappoint you but that was the E3 preview for Halo 2... I also saw it on xbox.com and they had another video.... the file for the video you mentioned said it was the E3 Halo 2 preview... I do bet there will be a Halo 3.... but not for a while.

 

the game i8s perfect in every way its like the hope diamond of all games so WHAT ARE YOU PEOPLE COMPLAINING ABOUT......ti took three years to perfect halo 2 don't you think during those three years they were also designing halo 3 by the way theres going to be seven halo games

 

7 halos i doubt it... maybe 4 but that might be the longest gamein the history of video games cept maybe james bond theres a lot of those but they all have different plots.... its a good game but it could be better i beat it on legendary the first day i bought it it should have been longer....

 

I have a new, interesting question.
I beat the game on Legendary and there was nothing new aside rom a messgae I got. I dont know why I got this messgae and I dont know if it was only me, or it was becuase the date on my XBOX is wrong. The messgae said:

Coming February 9th

It doesnt say what is coming. I have my fingers crossed for Halo 3 but I doubt it. What do you think?