Halo 3

[DigitalS3r4ph]

Re: Halo 3 Next Tuesday!

I mainly keep going because no matter what I write, you keep interpreting it as something completely different and it's funny to watch.

I'm not misinterpreting anything you write, mate. Just because I don't touch down on everything, doesn't mean that's the case. Some points you're right on, but others are just garbage imho.

You're right for once. Halo isn't Tetris. They're both the same thing though. Tetris was a console-pusher for the original Game Boy.

Halo was the console pusher for the Xbox and Halo 3 is pretty much going to be a console pusher for the 360. That's why our Best Buy store is going to have a pretty big booth displaying the game as well as some 360's (Including the crappy imho, 'new' Halo edition 360's)

Halo 3 is record-breaking. For being the fastest pre-order to hit one million?

No, what I meant by record breaking was that not only did it sell out of pre-orders, it also broke the 160 million dollar margin in presales alone. Since your PS3 numbers don't matter (The system didn't sell worth **** because of it's miniscule amount of systems out there. The PS2 however, /was/ record-breaking as far as sales go.) Analysts all say that Halo 3 could be the fastest selling game of all time by reaching $200 million in sales within a timespan of hours. Bit early to say that now, but who's going to argue, really? (Sans the people who think it's all 'overrated.')

That's kinda like the PS3's record-breaking. It's a completely trivial "record" to break but whatever gives your company press I suppose. "Hey we sold out the fastest in this one region! Go us! Nevermind the fact that our competition would've sold more had they had the supply out there!" Yeah, breaking records. They only matter when the record isn't some insanely trivial matter.

I've already said my peice about this here. PS3 sucks anyways imho, but it sure does make a good grill.

Pre-order sales mean nothing.

What? You're joking, right...? *Reads on*

Other than the fact that they show how many people are probably going to buy the game, of course. I don't recall Grand Theft Auto III/VC/SA had millions of pre-orders but they sure sold more copies than Halo!

Pre-Order sales are essentially actual sales themselves. Ask any retailer and they'll say that once you've pre-ordered it, you've pretty much bought the game. (Despite it not being in your possession.) Now, as for Grand Theft Auto... First of all, we all know that the big winner of the series was San Andreas. It's exclusive to the Playstation 2, as of now. I love how you keep going around the fact that there are more Playstation 2's in homes than there are xboxes, but then again, we're not discussing that matter. In my opinion, San Andreas sold so many more copies than the Halo games did because there are simply more consoles available. I remember you naming the numbers between Ps2 owners compared to Xbox owners. People aren't going to buy games for a system they don't own, unless they're for gifts.

Yes, Halo is popular! You're right again! Congratulations

Yep.

George Bush was also elected president, winning the popular vote! That must mean he's the BESTEST PRESIDENT EVER!!!!!

Irrelevant. No where did I say Halo was the best game ever. I merely said it was popular. GTA is popular, Mario is popular, Zelda is popular, Guitar Hero is popular, list goes on...

Oh, and the age thing. I didn't say that to go "lol im smrter den u". I said it to say "hey we're both in college.

You seemed like you tried to make some sort of point out of it, and...

You should know (as a fellow college student (I assume)) that college students make their own schedules and generally don't have classes on Saturdays." That's why I put in the college note.

..If it's for that, I really don't understand what you're trying to prove here. Yes, college students do make their own schedules. However, I've got Composition and Rhetoric II 1302 later today so unfortunately I'm not one of those students. (No, I did not misinterpret what you said, don't jump at that and try to pick that apart.) What point does this make?

You misinterpreted it yet again. You just seem so full of angst to try to mudsling.

You know what you just seem so full of?

But hey, you agree that not everyone in the world thinks Halo 3 is the greatest game ever, so I'm pretty much done here.

Again, don't patronize me.

Gahhh...I keep posting about it but I'm just too excited about Halo 3... Good bye social life, hello noob pwnage.

EDIT: Ohh man rofl Darkjakk, is he using Tartarus' hammer in the first image? That's sick XD I didn't know you could stop vehicles with it.

[zidart]

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it doesn't matter if the game is popular or not, as long as is good, maybe overrated and overhyped but if it's good i'll buy it ( not pre-order it)

in fact i can think of one game that it didn't have a lot of hype and that it was underrated but still it is a great game (i think squeek knows this one), i'm talking about tales of symphonia, that game is awesome however it is not best selling of anything or it has a super high score or whatever.

my point is do not belive in hypes and anti-hypes, sure halo 3 got a lot of pre-orders i bet that a lot of those people haven't even touched the game.

example number 2 lair and heavenly sword, overhyped games too but they were a great dissapointment (except heavenly sword, the only bad thing of the game is the lenght).

halo 3 might be a good FPS, but you don't know that right now, it might be the same thing as the second one (or might not) but i think this is not an issue for halo hardcore fans anyway.

let them be happy with their hype if they think halo is the best game ever let them say that it's their opinion, (in my opinion final fantasy XII is the best game ever but no one else thinks that), the game is not bad (talking of halo 1 and 2 here, and i can say that because i started playing the first).

[Squeek]

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Ok. Let's do this.

Say a game gets five million pre-orders. Then the game is released and nobody buys it. It gets five million sold copies. Yes, it had a lot of pre-orders, but that doesn't change the fact that the only people who wanted the game were people who pre-order.

Say another game gets ten pre-orders. Ten. But it sells forty million copies.

Which game did better? One was "record-breaking!!!!" and had massive hype, but it ended up selling less than the other game. Get my point yet?

If everyone thought like Halo fans, then there would be more than a million pre-orders for every game. I don't pre-order games because I know they'll be in stock when I go to the store, so there's no point in putting a down payment on a video game. Some people are insecure and figure the production won't meet demand, so they pre-order.

Edit: Oh way to go. You geniuses have your numbers wrong. Halo 3 doesn't have a million worldwide pre-orders-- it has four million in the US. That's a great way to make me sound like an idiot. And you yell at me for giving "false numbers".

[DigitalS3r4ph]

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FYI...I said that it's already sold over a million preorders. That in itself was the record... The fact that it's in actuality sold 4 million by now in the US alone(Wow) is an astonishing new fact to me.

[evilbutterfly]

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Squeek why are you even still here. Let the people that like Halo discuss Halo 3 in peace. We know you don't like Halo and think it's overrated. Those of us that agree that UT did Halo years before it should just leave the other boys alone.

Play nice, Mike.

[Squeek]

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Because all along, this should've been in the Xbox 360 thread or in the dozens of other Halo-related threads we have.

It was just a reminder that a game was going to drop in a few more days. I post those kinds of things all the time in the Wii thread. I don't make a thread every day going "WE'RE ONE DAY CLOSER!!!"

[evilbutterfly]

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Why is it you don't complain about the threads for other games coming out for Wii/PS3/DS/whatever? You're a hypocritical fanboy that's JUST as bad as they are. I REALLY don't see why they put you on staff. =\

[sjoecool1991]

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Why is it you don't complain about the threads for other games coming out for Wii/PS3/DS/whatever? You're a hypocritical fanboy that's JUST as bad as they are. I REALLY don't see why they put you on staff. =\

The reason he did not whine about those threads, is because the threads for those games were not made over and over again like the Halo 3 thread was.
Calling him a fanboy was stupid, and it pretty much proves you are a fanboy yourself.

[Squeek]

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Thanks joe.

It's funny because I keep saying this. You're not reading what I'm writing.

Because all along, this should've been in the Xbox 360 thread or in the dozens of other Halo-related threads we have.

The only one of your examples I was going to lock was the God of War 2 thread until I realized we never really had one to begin with. That's why I left it alone.

I left this thread alone because the OP rationalized his decision.

[Darkjakk]

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If you hate these threads so much, than you know..don't post in them. HO****SON. Problem solved. Its a video game forum. People are going to posts threads about games they like. Its alot easier to just be able to go a thread about said game than having to try and have a discussion about it in the 360 thread while 4 other people suddenly start talking about how excited they are for Beautiful Katamari.

[zidart]

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If you hate these threads so much, than you know..don't post in them. HO****SON. Problem solved. Its a video game forum. People are going to posts threads about games they like. Its alot easier to just be able to go a thread about said game than having to try and have a discussion about it in the 360 thread while 4 other people suddenly start talking about how excited they are for Beautiful Katamari.

true true, besides halo is halo and 360 is 360, and look in the bottom of the page for related threads, if i'm not mistaken there's only 5 threads about halo and not all of them are of halo 3.

now tell me squeek why do you still bother the halo fans?

[The Great Shake]

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Rofl thats a stupid reason to not try a game because U think its overated. I would try the game that is overated see why its overated, and if I like it ill get it if I dont then I wont. So many idiots on these forums.

[Squeek]

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If you hate these threads so much, than you know..don't post in them. HO****SON. Problem solved. Its a video game forum. People are going to posts threads about games they like. Its alot easier to just be able to go a thread about said game than having to try and have a discussion about it in the 360 thread while 4 other people suddenly start talking about how excited they are for Beautiful Katamari.

Except we've had dozens of threads for Halo 3 so far.

Also, we manage with the Wii thread and it's much larger than the Xbox360 thread.

It's my job here to keep clutter down. I know some forums are stupid enough to allow a new thread for every new episode of a TV show. Every week it's like "Bleach 240!" "Bleach 241!" "Bleach 242!". Seriously.

It's been our mission to reduce clutter for a long, long time.

true true, besides halo is halo and 360 is 360, and look in the bottom of the page for related threads, if i'm not mistaken there's only 5 threads about halo and not all of them are of halo 3.

now tell me squeek why do you still bother the halo fans?

Do a search for Halo. There have been many other threads. The announcement of the game, the announcement of the Beta, the impressions of the Beta, etc.

I hope I'm not bothering anyone. I ask yet again: tell me where I said Halo 3 is a bad game and that nobody should play it.

Rofl thats a stupid reason to night try a game because U think its overated. I would try the game that is overated see why its overated, and if I like it ill get it if I dont then I wont. So many idiots on these forums.

No, I won't play it because I don't own an Xbox 360. Nor do my friends, my neighbors, my relatives, my college buddies, or my co-workers. My friend does own an Xbox and bought Halo and Halo 2 for his Xbox. I tried the first one and found it fun on co-op campaign for about an hour or two. Driving the car off the cliff in the 2nd level over and over again lost its charm. Then I played the 2nd one for about an hour or two and found out the game's single player was pathetic. Seriously. Horrible, horrible single player.

I'd love to play Halo 3 so I can have a subjective opinion on how badly I think it sucks, but it just looks like that won't be possible. So I'll resort to just not playing it.

I haven't been wrong about a video game franchise yet. Final Fantasy has 12 games and several spin-offs. Millions of people love the series. I call it overrated. I hadn't even played a Final Fantasy game before I made that statement. Then I played FFX and FFVII. Both of them were horrible games. I confirmed my suspicion and promised never to doubt myself again.

Though I appreciate the irony in your last statement.

[The Great Shake]

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Rofl why do u care about how the the flash forums are with the console. This is for people getting the game on tuesday not some jackass to come in and bash on it.

[sjoecool1991]

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Rofl why do u care about how the the flash forums are with the console. This is for people getting the game on tuesday not some jackass to come in and bash on it.

My God, an ignorant forum noob, how surprising [/sarcasm]
I would actually read what Squeek is saying before making such a stupid comment.
Now if this was the ONLY Halo 3 thread, than Squeek probably would not bash nearly as much as he is now.
Is it just me, or am I the only one who paid attention to all of Squeek's posts?