Halo 2 Postponed AGAIN

That's fine that you like only playing games online, but I rather enjoy hanging out with my friends and playing games. PCs do not facilitate video gaming with your friends in person. Online is cool and all, but even consoles allow you to play with your friends online and be in the same room.

 

Well, the linear first person shooters have survived just fine for the past 10 years, and the games you DO like are direct descendants of them. Halo 2 online is going to be a varied, tactical player versus player environment as well as co-op.

 

Unless it has better guns, maps & better objective based play, I'll pass.

 

there will be several objective based multiplayer modes, and co-op play will be there, which is pretty much non-existant in the type of games you seem to like. Better guns and maps is pretty much a given with all the time they're taking, plus the engine hasn't needed a lot of work, so most of the time is going towards content. It sounds like your mind is already made up, if you don't mind missing out on a killer game, that's your business.

 

It's id's engine, and it's showing it's age. Quake 3 can only go so far.

 

Great, a fanboy. As if the intarweb weren't annoying enough.

 

Nope, I just don't see any reason to think that they won't improve what you claim is lacking. The developer logs have said they've spent a long time on guns and maps, plus the objective based game types. Perhaps you should do some research about what they're doing before you discount the game out of hand. One visit to bungie.net would show that they're concentrating on exactly what you mention.

Feel free to ignore my fanboyism. If thinking that a game with an average score of 95.6 (all known reviews averaged on gamerankings.com) is great makes me a fanboy, then so be it. I certainly didn't mean to annoy you, but since you've opened the name-calling up, I'll make it a point to do so in the future.

Thanks for making a good argument other than "I don't like it so it must suck."

 

Capture the flag rules. That requires all the strategy in the world, if you're playing with people who know what they are doing.

I would rather play CTF on Halo with 7 of my friends, on two TVs, than I would with 7 friends on seperate computers in different houses.

And that is a big deal, because I really hate FPS and suck pretty bad at most of them. Halo is just fun enough that I can get involved.