Halo 2 Players Refuse to Leave Xbox Live
- Thread starter Austin MacKenzie
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Maybe this means TF: FP will be finally backwards compatible! I heard the reason they couldn't do it is because of people still playing it online.
Man I remember the goold old days of playing Zombie on halo 2. It wont take long before these guys are gone though but I respect their sentiment
These people are just being stupid. I'm a massive Halo fanboy and I love Bungie to bits. And I even love Microsoft, since they've never done anything bad to me (and every time I've had any dealings with them I've been all the better for it, even when I had the RRoD and they replaced my console with a free three months of XBL thrown in).
Bungie and Microsoft together gave all Halo 2 users plenty of warning that almost everyone took as a case of "fair enough". Halo 2 was kept alive by Bungie for about four or five years after the Xbox 360's Live service came along, which is already impressive enough and a massive sign that Bungie and Microsoft do care somewhat about the gaming community. Not to mention that they threw in a bunch of extra support and nods to the community at the very end.
At the end of the day, the people who are remaining on their consoles are effectively kicking Bungie and Microsoft in the balls. That's a great way to thank the developer and publisher who did so much for you, isn't it?
Bungie and Microsoft together gave all Halo 2 users plenty of warning that almost everyone took as a case of "fair enough". Halo 2 was kept alive by Bungie for about four or five years after the Xbox 360's Live service came along, which is already impressive enough and a massive sign that Bungie and Microsoft do care somewhat about the gaming community. Not to mention that they threw in a bunch of extra support and nods to the community at the very end.
At the end of the day, the people who are remaining on their consoles are effectively kicking Bungie and Microsoft in the balls. That's a great way to thank the developer and publisher who did so much for you, isn't it?
So, what exactly is the point of this? Is it impossible to play Halo 2 on the regular new Xbox Live, or are they just doing this for kicks? Halo is like THE official "drunk frat boy" game (not your average compulsive-obsessive videogame sperglord, surely), so I'm surprised that anyone would care enough to keep these servers up for even an extra second if there was an alternative.
Why didn't Bungie just add the Halo 2 maps into Halo 3 multi? Or are the games somehow different? Do Halo 2 fans not like Halo 3?
Aw, and there I thought you were linking to a MegaLoMania capture...
Which sort of links into why it's hard to get myself worked up for all these online services. It's so completely ephemeral and fleeting. All those unlocked achievements? When they come to shut down the service... gone. And it's something that the next generation can't participate in and by that measure ever hope to understand. And if you want to revisit the good old days, playing a favourite title with a few friends... not possible.
Is it not maybe possible that they just like halo 2 more than halo 3 for some reason? Perhaps the multiplayer in 3 jumped the shark for them somehow? (Can't see it myself, but won't discount it).
Or they just want to keep on recreating classic Red vs Blue scenes forever more.
Welp, back to the 4-way one-screen bomberman.
Which sort of links into why it's hard to get myself worked up for all these online services. It's so completely ephemeral and fleeting. All those unlocked achievements? When they come to shut down the service... gone. And it's something that the next generation can't participate in and by that measure ever hope to understand. And if you want to revisit the good old days, playing a favourite title with a few friends... not possible.
Is it not maybe possible that they just like halo 2 more than halo 3 for some reason? Perhaps the multiplayer in 3 jumped the shark for them somehow? (Can't see it myself, but won't discount it).
Or they just want to keep on recreating classic Red vs Blue scenes forever more.
Welp, back to the 4-way one-screen bomberman.
This is just dumb and pointless. It won't accomplish a thing except making themselves seem like those old recluses that refuse to leave their homes even though there's a fire or bug infestation plaguing them.
I don't think Halo 3 has the headshot pistol thing that Halo 2 has. But a Halo 2 map pack release would make sense. But maybe they're going to release them all at once for Halo REach with options to take out the jetpacks, etc.FinalDream said:
Well I suppose they can be congratulated for this, though I think they're going a bit overboard.