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Getting our hoes up

Is halo Reach worth it?
Or should I just buy more marines for my other chapters that I need to start on?

Asherian Command wrote:Is halo Reach worth it?
Or should I just buy more marines for my other chapters that I need to start on?

Definitely get Reach, you may be able to play with your marines once or twice a week, but you can always go on reach if you have spare time, and if your a marine player you would certainly love the weapons and armor that spartans use.

HALO: REACH IS THE gak!!!!!!!!! BEST GAME EVAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1!1!!!!!

Cheese Elemental wrote:Hit Lt. Colonel Grade 3 recently. Rocking a robotic arm and HUEG PAULDRONS; feels pretty good, man.

How did you get the Robotic arm!?!? I so want a robotic arm!!!!!!!!!!

I want the haunted Helmet SOOO BAD

Have fun getting to max rank. The time it would take (based on getting the maximum credits allowed, every day) was estimated at about one and a half years.

Warlord Gazghkull Thraka wrote:

Cheese Elemental wrote:Hit Lt. Colonel Grade 3 recently. Rocking a robotic arm and HUEG PAULDRONS; feels pretty good, man.

How did you get the Robotic arm!?!? I so want a robotic arm!!!!!!!!!!

Just get to a Lt. Colonel, you can see it and buy it for 75k but you have to buy a prerequisit torso first. Personally I don't think it looks good on male spartans. It looks to small, on females it's ok.

I just finished the game..... and hated the ending.....

Did you not read the book or know the timeline?

Warboss Imbad Ironskull wrote:Did you not read the book or know the timeline?

The plot had lots of holes in the game. Such as, there were no SPARTAN 3s on Reach. Thats way after reach. (Even though I think Halo 4 will be Onyx, ruining the story plot even more but eh, it would still be cool.) But yeah, I loved the ending. I almost cried.

Mewiththeface wrote:Such as, there were no SPARTAN 3s on Reach. Thats way after reach.

"Way after Reach" is a period of about six months, after which the war ends. I think you have your timeline backwards. S-3 began over 20 years before the fall of Reach.

Mewiththeface wrote:

Warboss Imbad Ironskull wrote:Did you not read the book or know the timeline?

The plot had lots of holes in the game. Such as, there were no SPARTAN 3s on Reach. Thats way after reach. (Even though I think Halo 4 will be Onyx, ruining the story plot even more but eh, it would still be cool.) But yeah, I loved the ending. I almost cried.

remeber that 'Fall of Reach' was written from a 2's perspective, they didn't know about 3s

also

"On December 27, 2531, the first group of Spartan-IIIs, known as Alpha Company, were sent to Onyx to be trained at Camp Currahee."

get your times in order, although Ghosts of Onyx was a very jumpy book

Sorry to many dates to keep track of.

So, still no hints at a Windows release for Halo Reach?

Heh, I imagine that by the time it actually gets released it'll be long out of date...

There hasn't even been talk of a windows version of Halo 3 yet, and that came out 3 years ago. I'd save up for a 360, or find a friend with one.

Only if I can use my mouse+keyboard. I hate the 360 controller.

Are you more of a playstation girl or do you just not like gamepads?

I don't particularly like gamepads. I'm a PC gamer at heart, having played PC games from Apple 2 all the way to Windows 7.

Oh, I wish I liked PC games more but they are hellova hassle. Software and hardware always will need to be upgraded which can be time consuming and costly. The thing with consoles is the one update you have to do it the occasional system update. So I spent 40 bucks on dawn of war II only to realize I couldn't play it on any computer and a new graphics card would be about 100 bucks+. Also, the xbox does have a usb port which you can plug in any usb keyboard and type with it. However, I believe you meant in game so sorry.

I spent 1000 USD on my computer (not including my monitor) three years ago, and I expect it to be useful for another two years at the current rate of technological advancement in gaming (barring, perhaps, an upgrade to Windows 7 so I can play new games that require it) before having to do any hardware upgrades.

AND my computer has use outside of gaming, as well.

I custom-built mine, and it's built to last whiel not being expensive. Meanwhile my friend with the 360 has had to send her 360 in numerous times.

To be honest I'm worried about the next Halo game since Bungie won't be at the helm

I hope there won't be a next Halo game.

Do we really need Halo to become another Medal of Duty / Call of Honor?

Well, there is certainly more scope in the Halo universe for new games, settings, characters and technology.

I would be interested to see what future games bring to the series, especially with a new company at the helm.

It just won't be the same, they may be able to pull it off but personally I'm sceptical.


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And at the same time I doubt the Halo franchise would become another Call of Duty/ Medal of Honor. Halo will always have its own pedistal slightly above and off to the side from other shooting games.

I wouldn't know, I haven't been able to play it because they're too douchey to release it on PC before it comes so horribly outdated that it not only feels like I'm playing a decade old game, I actually am.

Melissia wrote:I wouldn't know, I haven't been able to play it because they're too douchey to release it on PC before it comes so horribly outdated that it not only feels like I'm playing a decade old game, I actually am.

Well, you could always ask Santa (or Satan) for a console for Christmas

HEh. I'm very, VERY tempted to sell my PS3 and games to get a 360 at this point. There's very few PS3 games that I want that don't have a PC port that's 100x better.

I find that gamerscore on the 360 keeps you hooked to the system. But then I am a mug

My wife has a PS3 and I have to agree that there are few games on it which I want which are not on PC/360.