Bungie Bids a Silly and Fond Farewell to Halo 2
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Whilst I was never an Xbox owner, I was a vicious opponent in that console war. Sad now, that the greatest triumph of the console, the ONLY one that truly let it become a major player, is to be ceased. Even I will admit that Xbox Live put gaming where it is today.
We'll tell your tale to those who ask. We'll tell it truly, the ill-deeds along with the good, and let you be judged accordingly.
The rest is silence.
We'll tell your tale to those who ask. We'll tell it truly, the ill-deeds along with the good, and let you be judged accordingly.
The rest is silence.
Never had an Xbox and never played Halo (any of them).
Nevertheless, I recognise the importance of Halo 2 in the development on online console gaming.
I salute your passing, good sir.
Nevertheless, I recognise the importance of Halo 2 in the development on online console gaming.
I salute your passing, good sir.
Well it was good while it lasted..*throws hat in the hair* enjoy your time in the Afterlife Halo 2 servers.
It had a good run - I think everyone involved can be very proud of how well it did. I'd say the only thing comparable to Halo 2's multi-player success would be Counterstrike.
Also, I thought the teabagging message was pretty funny.
Also, I thought the teabagging message was pretty funny.
It's actually for technical reasons - there's no way to upgrade Xbox Live in certain ways and keep compatibility with the original games. For example, the 100-person friends list limit. They can't increase that without breaking all those old games anyway. Sure, you can say it was a bad design, but how can you plan for "forever" when you're building something that has never been done before?Hopeless Bastard said:
So there we have it, the longest you can possibly play a console game online is five and a half years.
Credit to Bungie for keeping it working, but it's a crying shame when a peer to peer multiplayer game is killed for arbitrary reasons. In fact it's worse than a shame, it's pathetic, communities should decide when they want to stop playing a game, not some bloody marketing executive.
Byebye Arby.
Credit to Bungie for keeping it working, but it's a crying shame when a peer to peer multiplayer game is killed for arbitrary reasons. In fact it's worse than a shame, it's pathetic, communities should decide when they want to stop playing a game, not some bloody marketing executive.
Byebye Arby.
This is a fucking travesty, and I'm not a Halo player.
<Filter game: Half-Life 1>
Hey, look. There are some 70-100 servers available for Half-Life 1 Deathmatch. And that doesn't even count mods.
When was Half-Life released? It was sometime before 2004. 2001? No...actually, 1998.
I have seen UNsuccessful games get longer support than that.
<Filter game: Half-Life 1>
Hey, look. There are some 70-100 servers available for Half-Life 1 Deathmatch. And that doesn't even count mods.
When was Half-Life released? It was sometime before 2004. 2001? No...actually, 1998.
I have seen UNsuccessful games get longer support than that.
I don't care what people say about Halo 2 paving the way for online console gaming. It'd been happening much more successfully on PCs for years and years. And it was inevitable that this generation of consoles would be highly focused on online connectivity. Playstation 2 had it's PSN, Xbox had Live. The only difference between Xbox and the Dreamcast is that the Dreamcast was a little too early to the game while the Xbox came in at the perfect time.Katana314 said:
Therefore, no props to Halo 2. I'm surprised people could mindlessly play it for that long without any real mod support.
More like: "Remember the campaign mode? It's the one with the cliffhanger ending that made millions of people around the world shout WTF at the exact same time."SniperWolf427 said:
I saw these last night. One of my favorites:
Halo 2 helped introduce me to a certain online community (GeezerGamers.com [http://www.geezergamers.com], a community of adult gamers that prefer to play, enjoy the game, and respect our fellow gamer without 12-year-olds insulting our mothers). And with a community of people to play with and a decent game to play on, a game that made it easy to play together (to this day, we still wish games would "just copy Halo 2's lobby" for multiplayer), not to mention fun (even if they were basic by current standards, the customizable settings made for some really fun and creative game types), it really set the stage for the way I've been playing games for the past nearly five years.
As much as I'm looking forward to whatever features are so big and important that they'd do such a drastic move as this in order to implement them, and even though before this week it had been almost two years since I'd played Halo 2 (my Bungie.net stats show my last played game was August of '08), this still makes me sad.
There are a couple more Reach-related jokes in there (one about BUNGLE PRO signups starting on May 3rd).
Halo 2 helped introduce me to a certain online community (GeezerGamers.com [http://www.geezergamers.com], a community of adult gamers that prefer to play, enjoy the game, and respect our fellow gamer without 12-year-olds insulting our mothers). And with a community of people to play with and a decent game to play on, a game that made it easy to play together (to this day, we still wish games would "just copy Halo 2's lobby" for multiplayer), not to mention fun (even if they were basic by current standards, the customizable settings made for some really fun and creative game types), it really set the stage for the way I've been playing games for the past nearly five years.
As much as I'm looking forward to whatever features are so big and important that they'd do such a drastic move as this in order to implement them, and even though before this week it had been almost two years since I'd played Halo 2 (my Bungie.net stats show my last played game was August of '08), this still makes me sad.
