Why Microsoft Needs Halo 3 to Be A Hit ?…The Facts Unveiled

Gizmo_Logix - 839 days 22 hours ago

Yawn....Halo 3 will sell just like the other Halo's sold. To it's rabid xbox 1 base. Oh well...

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TheSadTruth - 839 days 20 hours ago

"3.6 - That's what i'm talkin' about!
Finally there are a lot more rational gamers joining the site and commenting. I hope these fanboy stages and flamewar stages die like a bad fad.

Bubbles for you sir! Bubbles for you"

Uh no.. some things will never change

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TriggerHappy - 839 days 23 hours ago

Where did you get that tag line from X Men movie ? :)

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CRIMS0N_W0LF - 839 days 23 hours ago

PFFT....Comics >>>> Movies!

Though lately movies are begining to be good. Look at 300. PERFECTLY with Comic...I was impressed.

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Xi - 839 days 22 hours ago

Microsoft is in more of an offensive position in this "war." if it does do well, as suggested, it will land a major blow to sony and the ps3 campaign. The other big thing is that this game is getting the xbox brand out there far more than last gen and that's very important.

Crimson, your hate for gaming is sad.

edit- alright crimson, you know more about gaming apparently so uh, what makes halo over hyped?

and Uh, I'm polish, now attending the university of calgary in canada where I'm studying computer science under the same professor who taught James Gosling(which if you didn't know was the founder of th java language).

BTW my first system was the atari 2600, which I still own and have accumulated 48 games for. And I'm sure you have never played great games like full throttle or phantom dust, or psychonaughts all games from extremely talented developers and all games that are critically acclaimed. I doubt you know more about gaming, because halo isn't over hyped or overrated, only if a game does poorly in both reviews and sales can be called over hyped and overrated.

What's funny is looking at your comments, they're all negative for halo 3, or how the 360 sucks in japan or how it's not doing well, rrod. Yeah I have a preference for the 360, not because I think the ps3 is bad but because I have yet to see something that truly sets it apart from the 360. I recently paid 2300 dollars for 50 shares of SNE. And if you look at my comments I rarely make fun of sony, I only defend the 360.

You my friend are a fanboy. Oh and for a PC gamer I assume you've played System shock 2, and marathon, a couple of the best fps ever made?

because you should know that much like bioshock is a blantent ripoff of it's former glory Systemshock 2, halo is much like marathon, where

pfhor - covenant (even to the organic like art style for ships)
leela - cortana
durandal - 343 guilty spark
tycho - 2401 Penitent Tangent (cept reprogrammed by the flood)

right, so as for halo being "overrated" and a "pile of turd" you know nothing as to the background and greatness of halo, much like you probably have no idea what happened in Half Life 1-2.

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CRIMS0N_W0LF - 839 days 22 hours ago

Xi I know more about gaming then you. I been gaming since games where 4 colours. I know a real game then an over hyped/rated game. Unlike you (which you are probably american due to your thinking) I know what I am saying not blind fanboyism

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darkequitus - 839 days 22 hours ago

If you have been playing that long, you should know better than to post silly fanboy comments.

All those years of gaming should have told you that the only way to enjoy all what gaming has to offer is to be planform agnostic. And further not to pass your finally jusdgment on a game noone has played through yet.

P.S. dimissing a game completely out of hind like larry007/stella/nasim does is either blind fanboism or pure ingnorance.

Don't you think you commenting about halo all the time fuels the fire and feeds the hype. Are you not part of the hype machine. You and your kind keeps the flams going, whether rubbishing the 360 or PS3 or whatever.

And how do you quantify knowing more? That is a pointless premise to a argument

PC/PSWii60 Gamer

Steam/xfire/gamespy/PSN/XBL : darkequitus

Currently playing:

360 - Bioshock + COD 4 Beta
PC - Stalker + Quake Wars
PS3 - Warhawk

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Dareaver1 - 839 days 21 hours ago

Finally there are a lot more rational gamers joining the site and commenting. I hope these fanboy stages and flamewar stages die like a bad fad.

Bubbles for you sir! Bubbles for you.

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hi6hli6ht - 839 days 19 hours ago

id cry if that was true....H2 campaign was a big letdown...especially at teh end...im hoping that there will be more things to do in the campaign mode assuming they have certain things with the co-op in mind...like 4 banshees attacking a large covenant group and stuff

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Xi - 839 days 22 hours ago

gears of war 2.

but there's still fable, mass effect, too human etc. And I'm sure bungie will take a small break before getting onto their next title, hopefully a new IP.

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Meus Renaissance - 839 days 22 hours ago

Those are, other than Gears, just great games but they wont have a significant impact on hardware sales as for example Halo or Gears of War could.

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Xi - 839 days 22 hours ago

banjo Threeie has some name recognition.
gta
those games have name recognition, not to mention if people are buying a console specifically for a game that's on both the 360 and ps3(gta, re5) they'll likely take the cheaper of the 2(360).

but fable did push consoles, on the original xbox, a friend of mine bought an xbox just for fable, he liked the game said it was short but loved the xbox because of other titles he could play like KOTOR.

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Meus Renaissance - 839 days 22 hours ago

Uncharted, GT Prologue, MGS4 and KillZone 2 to name a few - all look just as good, if not better, than Gears and Bioshock.

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Xi - 839 days 22 hours ago

uncharted doesn't look any better than halo 3, let alone gears.

http://media.ps3.ign.com/me...

http://media.xbox360.ign.co...

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DrRage77 - 839 days 22 hours ago

um, how about comparing games that are actually AVAILABLE on the ps3...not games that have yet to be released...that is just dumb. i can easliy say "well, gears of war2 is FAR SUPERIOR in graphics to killzone2, or mgs4....just wait and see"

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athlon770 - 839 days 21 hours ago

Can't agree with your statement there bud, while GoW and Bio are truly awsom games, the games released between Microsoft and Sony either look the same or the 360 edges out the PS3, but think about that statement, the xbox has been around for a very long time, and the developers are squeeking everything they can out of the system (and doing a very good job of it!), but the 1st run PS3 games are already on par with the 360, that means the PS3 "will" surpass the 360 visually. Now if the Sony camp can only get some more high quality games, that would be all the better.

Back on topic, Halo 3 has already hit gold, the pre-orders alone have proven that. A lot of people bought the game "Crackdown" just because it came with the H3 demo. This will be a huge boost to the 360 along with "Mass Effect", and once the Falcon version of the 360 hits the shelves, Microsoft will see another boost in sales.

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Meus Renaissance - 839 days 20 hours ago

Show me Gears of War 2 screens and lets compare them to KZ2. Oh wait. You can't.

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Meus Renaissance - 839 days 22 hours ago

Only fanboys would disagree with that but that's nothing new.

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Xi - 839 days 22 hours ago

still doesn't match mass effect imo.

http://masseffect.bioware.c...

http://www.killzone2.com/Ki...

but that's just me.

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DrRage77 - 839 days 22 hours ago

and what store can i go and pickup this proven graphically superior game?? oh wait, you mean you are comparing graphics of games that are out and PROVEN to have amazing graphics, to a game that has been in development for 3 years and STILL not out yet? yeah, you make a great point.....

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monkey602 - 839 days 22 hours ago

Hey DrRage I genuinely believe that Motorstorm is graphically superior to any 360 racer game available. and it's lots of fun.

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hi6hli6ht - 839 days 19 hours ago

im more of a 360 fan but i have to agree with that...its alot of fun but i think forza has a slight edge but GT5 destroys forza....

im happy about how games look now tho...i took out my ps1 the other day and played the 1st tomb raider and GT and thought....ugh WTF...

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fopums - 839 days 15 hours ago

@11.2

I think Mass effect looks good, the character models are very nice, but the backrounds are pretty bland.

but KZ2 looks much better, really its in a different league. up there with Crysis, and COD4

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Meus Renaissance - 839 days 22 hours ago

I'm afraid I don't know what you're talking about

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HowarthsNJ - 839 days 22 hours ago

Are you saying that's not good enough?

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shoota33 - 839 days 22 hours ago

yes the sales figures will make us cry in laughter lol.what sales are you talking about halo or the 360.because if you think all of a sudden the sales of the xbox are gonna go through the roof,your in for a disapointment.halo doesnt sell to anyone beside its brainwashed community in the US thats it.idk how such a mediocre game can become so popular.

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monkey602 - 839 days 22 hours ago

I can see where Shoota is going with this. I'm not saying I agree with him. But here in Europe is basically Sony territory. Halo 3 will sell systems though so for Halo 3 to be a hit here is really needed for 360.

EDIT: I cant help but wonder to myself how many of you who hit that disagree button are even from Europe let alone Ireland, And have heard peoples opinions between 360 and PS3 first hand here. PS3 is defintely the console people here are more excited about.

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Synex - 839 days 18 hours ago

Exactly! Sony sells best in all those other countries except here in America. Also, I would like to point out how Europe's economy is doing better than our's right now, and how we are having problems with education in America. :) Think about it.

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Wolfmoonstrike - 839 days 20 hours ago

dude what are you smoking I've never had a frame rate drop in any of my games, especially the HS demo.

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beavis4play - 839 days 18 hours ago

you must not notice that?

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ceedubya9 - 839 days 21 hours ago

Its the biggest game coming out between now and November. There is no real competition for this game for at least a good month. Even still, the sales for Halo 3 in the first week alone will probably be so massive that the weeks after probably won't matter too much.

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Synex - 839 days 18 hours ago

Ut3 is coming out this november, and directly competes with Halo 3's online aspect. Isn't this the first time Unreal has been on a console? And besides UT has been around far longer than Halo, and has a huge fan base, well so does Halo, but you know.

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DG - 839 days 16 hours ago

Well I had UT for my Dreamcast so no.

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