Yeah, you’d think I’d be over this whole Halo thing by now, but trust me, not a lot of other interesting things are around to grab my attention these days, so…
And therefore, I feel that it is my responsibility to let you know of a few helpful pointers, regarding Halo 3. First of all, you should definitely go ahead and play the campaign on legendary. It is at times frustrating (snipers… urgh), but you’ll enjoy the game so much more. Every encounter suddenly springs to life as something other than a bump in the road as your convoy of warthog’s pass through on your way to victory.
There are literally parts of the game I hadn’t seen before, but which I was forced into on legendary. So keep you eyes open, and you might find that the guys at Bungie left you a present or two out of sight.
Secondly, stay for the end of the credits when you do finish. The pre-credits ending is quite blah… without its post-credits counterpart that is. Having already heard teenagers whine about the campaign being a) too easy, b) too short (even on legendary… riiiiight) and c) daft, I can only surmise that they are true morons, in every since of the word.
Thirdly, it seems that moving your Xbox’s HDD from one Xbox to another flushes your ‘Recent Films’. At least I’ve now lost all my recent films several times, and I’ve been dragging my HDD with me to and from work.
Fourth, be sure to create an account on bungie.net, and share your kills and thrills with the rest of is, like I’ve done.
Fifth, for some reason you can’t create a specific kind of game on a specific kind of map and have it fill up with random people to play. No. You either play entirely random modes on random maps with (mostly) random people, or you create your own and play against invited people. There doesn’t seem to be an in-between, which is universally hated it seems, at least judging from the groaning on the chat channel when it says ‘VIP’ or ‘Bomb’.
That would be the one improvement I really want; let me create a customized game and have it fill up with the matchmaker. Or at least allow me to search for specific types of games; I for instance enjoy CTF and Team Slayer; it should be easier for me to find these games.
Anyway, that’s it for now. Remember, I’m ‘Heilemann’ on Xbox Live; chat me up.
PS: Playing on ranked servers seems to be the surefire way of getting your ass creamed, served and handed to you. I at least, was always matched up with people waaay out of my league, which was quite frustrating. Though whether this was due to poor matchmaking service or lack of players on my skill level, I don’t know.
I’m with you on the servers/hosting/custom game issues, drives me up the wall, I really don’t enjoy being forced to play a game mode which I don’t want to be playing. If I want to play CTF there is no way of guaranteeing CTF which sucks.
There seems to be a different community on Halo from other games, I can’t drop into a group of say 10 friends and really play with them in any cohesive way, we get bounced from room to room and always end up being matched up the exact same way every time which makes things rather tedious. Where as on Rainbow or Forza it’s an absolute doddle to create fairer teams by self-balancing where the game gets things wrong or just creating a better atmosphere for everyone.
Overall for me Halo 3’s online play is way to automated, there’s a lack of control in the game.
The frustration level is pretty high online as well, always seem to be going up against folk way out of my league and yet I’m paired with people much worse than I am so end up getting creamed while working my ass off for a handful of kills. Usually I can deal with getting my ass kicked because it’s something that is clear and easy to see why I got killed but Halo seems a bit random, emptying an AR clip into someone and running upto them for a final melee which doesn’t even drop their shields only for them to leap over you and smack you in the back of the head gets tiring.
Quite possibly going to finish campaign and trade it in for something else.
not binary bonsai, oh my no.. its now called “the online blog of a halo enthusiest”.
i added enthusiest to add some sass to the title. i seriously think you should change it!
Go ahead.. i’ll wait
get a wii
Got a Wii… And boy is it a waste of space.
Now that you have officially declared yourself a MS fanboy, isn’t it about time to get yourself a Zune and start browsing with IE7?
Which version of the 360 have you got? I was looking into buying one a few months back, based on the fact that Mass Effect was coming. Decided not to buy one at the time. And I don’t like the idea of buying a console for ONE game (probably be more 360-exclusive games in the future I’d like to play – but that’s not a certainty after all).
I’ve got the premium. Good value for money. And between Gears of War, Halo 3, Assassin’s Creed, GTA4 and Mass Effect, there’ll be plenty of things to play :D
The campaign on Legendary WAS too damn easy. Just because you had trouble with it doesn’t mean its all that hard. I beat it easily with my girlfriend, who almost never plays video games, and you can play with up to four damn people!
BS. I want to see video clips of you ‘beating it easily’ with your non-game-playing girlfriend before I believe that.
It sure is a really exciting game, I especially like co-op. If I were to get a 360, it should be to play Halo.
Pongsifu, you can’t beat it on Co-Op then call it easy. Its way more difficult doing it yourself instead of co-op kamikaze runs…
I would go as far as to say that there is either a design implemented or bug in co-op in that I can take a lot more shots in co op on legendary then I can when i play solo.
But anyway, multilayer has its drawbacks, but if you have group of friends that you always play with, it can be ok.
Well I think the game is too easy on legendary, at least in comparison to its predecessors. I could never beat Halo CE on legendary, and Halo 2 was challenging but doable (and i had to take a lot of the shortcuts where you avoid fights), but Halo 3 in comparison is a breeze. I’m the first to admit I’m not a great gamer (I get my ass kicked more often than not online) but I have to say H3 on legendary is not a challenge in any way. Even the jackal snipers have been dumbed down in legendary compared to H2 – they take so long to aim at you and miss half the time.
BTW i’m talking about solo – not co-op.
Let me get this straight; You couldn’t beat Halo on legendary, and Halo 2 only by cheating, basically. And so you’re complaining that Bungie made legendary playable? You’re complaining that the game designers at Bungie did their job? That they balanced the legendary mode to such an extend that it can be fun?
Huh?