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  • Halo 3...

  • Because playing them is not enough, we have to bitch about them daily, too. We had a Gameplay forum, but it got replaced by GameFAQs.
Because playing them is not enough, we have to bitch about them daily, too. We had a Gameplay forum, but it got replaced by GameFAQs.

 #111609  by Blotus
 Sat Oct 06, 2007 9:56 am
100 posts! When the fuck was the last time that happened?

 #111617  by Nev
 Sat Oct 06, 2007 10:27 am
DOWN WITH TEH HALOZ!!!!!!!

 #111623  by Tessian
 Sat Oct 06, 2007 4:24 pm
Current count for people online playing Halo 3 at this minute: 902,744

I don't think I ever saw it go over 550k... that's just ridiculous

EDIT-- Right now: 1,036,597 wow...

 #111664  by Lox
 Mon Oct 08, 2007 4:40 pm
Check out this sniper suicide video I saw posted online...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXfwd4_ydLM

That sucks. haha


Oh, btw, Tessian, sorry I didn't accept your invite Sat night. Some friends were leaving and I was just getting off when I saw the message come through.

 #111666  by Chris
 Mon Oct 08, 2007 5:55 pm
yeah sorry. I broke down today. got a 500 paycheck and broke down and bought it

 #111671  by Blotus
 Mon Oct 08, 2007 8:42 pm
Lox wrote:Check out this sniper suicide video I saw posted online...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXfwd4_ydLM

That sucks. haha
Wow, I had no idea that could happen.

 #111681  by Blotus
 Mon Oct 08, 2007 11:27 pm
Chris Hansbrough wrote:yeah sorry. I broke down today. got a 500 paycheck and broke down and bought it
I see that. What kind of pansy plays the campaign on Easy? Play it on Heroic or not at all! You won't get the full effect if everything's a pushover.

 #111683  by Kupek
 Tue Oct 09, 2007 12:28 am
New rule! Sine has to qualify all judgments with whether or not he has direct experience with what he's judging. So, this:
SineSwiper wrote:Yet, reviewers are giving it perfect 10s and such glowing reviews, and everybody in the world is pumped for it, and millions of millions of dollars is going to Microsoft for creating...

...an above-average game!
Would become:
SineSwiper wrote:Yet, reviewers are giving it perfect 10s and such glowing reviews, and everybody in the world is pumped for it, and millions of millions of dollars is going to Microsoft for creating...

...an above-average game!*

* I have not actually played Halo 3.

 #111684  by Andrew, Killer Bee
 Tue Oct 09, 2007 12:38 am
Haha!

According to Xbox Live, Sine has not played Halo 3. Surprise!

 #111685  by Blotus
 Tue Oct 09, 2007 12:40 am
Kupek wrote:New rule! Sine has to qualify all judgments with whether or not he has direct experience with what he's judging.
That is a total slap in the face to Shrine tradition. I think we're all in agreement that Sine does not have to personally experience, see, read, or even hear about anything in particular in order to make a ruling on it.

 #111686  by Blotus
 Tue Oct 09, 2007 12:41 am
Andrew, Killer Bee wrote:Haha!

According to Xbox Live, Sine has not played Halo 3. Surprise!
Chris and I were just playing Halo with your girlfriend(!?). You. Lucky. Bastard.

 #111688  by Chris
 Tue Oct 09, 2007 12:59 am
Black Lotus wrote:
Andrew, Killer Bee wrote:Haha!

According to Xbox Live, Sine has not played Halo 3. Surprise!
Chris and I were just playing Halo with your girlfriend(!?). You. Lucky. Bastard.
that was a pretty good game it was. second and third matches with andrew I remembered my shit and was kickin all kinda pooper

 #111690  by Nev
 Tue Oct 09, 2007 1:05 am
Black Lotus wrote:
Kupek wrote:New rule! Sine has to qualify all judgments with whether or not he has direct experience with what he's judging.
That is a total slap in the face to Shrine tradition. I think we're all in agreement that Sine does not have to personally experience, see, read, or even hear about anything in particular in order to make a ruling on it.
I think I've bitched too much about Sine's posts in this vein to actually have anything to say on the subject. It is worth noting, however, that a very small part of me actually felt a bit sad at the thought of Sine actually taking the time to know what he's talking about when he posts. This place has soaked up some of the magic of his experience.

(This feeling will last until the next time Sine says something completely bizarre and unresearched that tips me right off the edges of sanity, again.)

 #111692  by Andrew, Killer Bee
 Tue Oct 09, 2007 1:12 am
Black Lotus wrote:Chris and I were just playing Halo with your girlfriend(!?). You. Lucky. Bastard.
Haha! Yeah, she just told me about it. I'm surprised that she's braving the fiery furnace that is Live. I can't play online without muting everybody and pretending that I'm playing with insanely good bots.

 #111694  by Tessian
 Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:08 am
Black Lotus wrote: Chris and I were just playing Halo with your girlfriend(!?). You. Lucky. Bastard.
God damnit... I can't even get my gf to play WITH me.. and she has her own f'ing Xbox! Keeps complaining she's no good at it (which is her defense for not playing any FPS)...

 #111699  by Blotus
 Tue Oct 09, 2007 9:44 am
Tessian wrote:
Black Lotus wrote: Chris and I were just playing Halo with your girlfriend(!?). You. Lucky. Bastard.
God damnit... I can't even get my gf to play WITH me.. and she has her own f'ing Xbox! Keeps complaining she's no good at it (which is her defense for not playing any FPS)...
You think that's bad? I can't even get mine to cook for me because she complains she's no good at it.

 #111702  by Lox
 Tue Oct 09, 2007 12:39 pm
Wait...you guys actually have girlfriends??????

I kid, I kid. :)

Yeah, I understand the feeling. My wife will play Mario Party, DDR, and sometimes Smash Bros, but that's it. I can't get her to try GH and I know she will never try an FPS.

 #111704  by Zeus
 Tue Oct 09, 2007 2:16 pm
Black Lotus wrote:
Tessian wrote:
Black Lotus wrote: Chris and I were just playing Halo with your girlfriend(!?). You. Lucky. Bastard.
God damnit... I can't even get my gf to play WITH me.. and she has her own f'ing Xbox! Keeps complaining she's no good at it (which is her defense for not playing any FPS)...
You think that's bad? I can't even get mine to cook for me because she complains she's no good at it.
Wait 'til you get married, pal. My wife will occasionally play Mario Party, she watched us play Bioshock 'til it scared her, and she hardly touches the DS Lite I got for her that she so badly wanted. And now she's "too busy" to cook even though she works 15-20 hours a week less than me and I get home often after 7pm.

Women, can't live with them........................................

 #111709  by Nev
 Tue Oct 09, 2007 2:36 pm
Single and looooooving it!

 #111710  by Chris
 Tue Oct 09, 2007 2:42 pm
Zeus wrote:
Black Lotus wrote:
Tessian wrote: God damnit... I can't even get my gf to play WITH me.. and she has her own f'ing Xbox! Keeps complaining she's no good at it (which is her defense for not playing any FPS)...
You think that's bad? I can't even get mine to cook for me because she complains she's no good at it.
Wait 'til you get married, pal. My wife will occasionally play Mario Party, she watched us play Bioshock 'til it scared her, and she hardly touches the DS Lite I got for her that she so badly wanted. And now she's "too busy" to cook even though she works 15-20 hours a week less than me and I get home often after 7pm.

Women, can't live with them........................................
Playing Mario Party with your wife was the highight of that year I came up dude. she talked more shit than the rest of us combined.....I think I fell in love......you are one lucky fucker dude

 #111711  by Chris
 Tue Oct 09, 2007 2:43 pm
Andrew, Killer Bee wrote:
Black Lotus wrote:Chris and I were just playing Halo with your girlfriend(!?). You. Lucky. Bastard.
Haha! Yeah, she just told me about it. I'm surprised that she's braving the fiery furnace that is Live. I can't play online without muting everybody and pretending that I'm playing with insanely good bots.
aye....after the last game I sent a message about it being crazy and she sent one back....I was like.....wataminit....this isn't andrew.....wha?

 #111713  by Blotus
 Tue Oct 09, 2007 3:08 pm
Andrew, Killer Bee wrote:
Black Lotus wrote:Chris and I were just playing Halo with your girlfriend(!?). You. Lucky. Bastard.
Haha! Yeah, she just told me about it. I'm surprised that she's braving the fiery furnace that is Live. I can't play online without muting everybody and pretending that I'm playing with insanely good bots.
You'd better pipe up if we actually play together some day. I hate playing team games (objective ones anyway) with mutes.

 #111716  by Chris
 Tue Oct 09, 2007 4:53 pm
Black Lotus wrote:
Andrew, Killer Bee wrote:
Black Lotus wrote:Chris and I were just playing Halo with your girlfriend(!?). You. Lucky. Bastard.
Haha! Yeah, she just told me about it. I'm surprised that she's braving the fiery furnace that is Live. I can't play online without muting everybody and pretending that I'm playing with insanely good bots.
You'd better pipe up if we actually play together some day. I hate playing team games (objective ones anyway) with mutes.
aye exactly....plus yer an aussie and we need the accent....don't force me to put on my fake scottish accent while fucking up little kids

 #111760  by Zeus
 Wed Oct 10, 2007 1:50 pm
Chris Hansbrough wrote:
Zeus wrote:
Black Lotus wrote: You think that's bad? I can't even get mine to cook for me because she complains she's no good at it.
Wait 'til you get married, pal. My wife will occasionally play Mario Party, she watched us play Bioshock 'til it scared her, and she hardly touches the DS Lite I got for her that she so badly wanted. And now she's "too busy" to cook even though she works 15-20 hours a week less than me and I get home often after 7pm.

Women, can't live with them........................................
Playing Mario Party with your wife was the highight of that year I came up dude. she talked more shit than the rest of us combined.....I think I fell in love......you are one lucky fucker dude
Heh. She doesn't play too much any more, unfortunately. I'm gonna try and get her into an adventure game, maybe something like Beyond Good and Evil (I may try Dreamfall). She's a sci-fi nut so I think she'll like these things if I can get her to sit down and check it out.

 #111808  by bovine
 Thu Oct 11, 2007 12:26 am
my girlfriend LOVES the dreamfall. She played it to completion off of renting it (twice), and eventually bought it to play it for a second time.

 #111814  by Flip
 Thu Oct 11, 2007 9:15 am
The only thing my ex played was Dr. Mario... She tried Katamari and Guitar Hero, but gets pissed when i do much better and doesnt want to play anymore... even if its co-op mode.

 #111889  by Chris
 Sat Oct 13, 2007 1:15 pm
what is it about halo that everyone you play against is a goddamned 3 year old. Seriously. I got trash talk in vegas and gears but never....never have I heard trash talk like I hear after a match in halo.

I found out last night that I'm a "Fag homophobic n-word" wow. a fag.....and a homophobe and a nt gonna say it er

 #111895  by Blotus
 Sat Oct 13, 2007 2:17 pm
I lost track of how many times I've been called a nigger, jew, faggot, or a combination of those, in Halo 2 and 3. Love the Halo community!

 #111897  by Chris
 Sat Oct 13, 2007 2:44 pm
Black Lotus wrote:I lost track of how many times I've been called a nigger, jew, faggot, or a combination of those, in Halo 2 and 3. Love the Halo community!
it really amazes me. that has been my favorite so far but I still loved after winning a 1 flag ctf game 3-1 the other guys winning the last one they started talking about how we sucked and then to my buddy whose name is HumanBong all they could come up with was "Yeah well.....(long pause) why don't you go um....(short pause) smoke your bong.....

just so inane and had to think so long to come up with it....I love it

so the main crew I play with now starts singing after every match so we don't have to hear people. different songs every time but there is nothing more entertaining that winning a match and the irst thing they hear is 3 idiots going. "-an fly, I believe I can touch this guy, think about it every night and day, spread his legs and pump away. I believe I can soar. I can't believe you are a whore" and so on

 #111898  by Blotus
 Sat Oct 13, 2007 3:00 pm
That's pretty funny, man. I LOL'd. My Halo 2 people and I used to taunt the opposition with renditions of Scatman.

 #111907  by Lox
 Sun Oct 14, 2007 2:26 pm
Hey, Chris, I meant to tell you this last night on Live...

Your voice sounds nothing at all what I imagined in my head. haha I don't know why I felt the need to tell you that. :)

 #111909  by Chris
 Sun Oct 14, 2007 3:49 pm
Lox wrote:Hey, Chris, I meant to tell you this last night on Live...

Your voice sounds nothing at all what I imagined in my head. haha I don't know why I felt the need to tell you that. :)
because I don't sound or look like a geek. I'm mantasticularly sexy...

and I'm not sure if I ever really used my real voice last nigh. I just ran around screaming shit that was pretty much batshit insane....

wooooo it was fun. Rocket Race rules. you missed out Tessian......

wait...were you there at all for the rocket race or pirates? I think you may have left before that. needless to say it was fuckin fun. rocet race is awesome fun and pirates is grand as well......dueling elephants rule

 #111911  by Tessian
 Sun Oct 14, 2007 4:22 pm
Chris Hansbrough wrote:
Lox wrote:Hey, Chris, I meant to tell you this last night on Live...

Your voice sounds nothing at all what I imagined in my head. haha I don't know why I felt the need to tell you that. :)
because I don't sound or look like a geek. I'm mantasticularly sexy...

and I'm not sure if I ever really used my real voice last nigh. I just ran around screaming shit that was pretty much batshit insane....

wooooo it was fun. Rocket Race rules. you missed out Tessian......

wait...were you there at all for the rocket race or pirates? I think you may have left before that. needless to say it was fuckin fun. rocet race is awesome fun and pirates is grand as well......dueling elephants rule
You told me about it but I didn't play yet...

 #111913  by Lox
 Sun Oct 14, 2007 4:43 pm
No, I ducked out around 2am (EST) right after we played through the 2nd level in Campaign. Sounds fun. I shall have to try it with you guys sometime.

 #111917  by Chris
 Sun Oct 14, 2007 6:00 pm
aye we'll invite you guys the next time we run them. soooo much fun the rocket races are. it's essentially team Vip where you have to get the vip from checkpoint to checkpoint. teams of 2 and everyone on a mongoose. so it's a massive race with rockets flying everywhere and you pretty much can't be killed. insane fun. Pirate is also awesome. it's 2 territories that are located on the elephants and if you leave an elephant your armor depletes so you pretty much try to ram the other elephant to take controll of both territories. weapons are sword and pistol and it's also great fun.

 #111925  by Blotus
 Sun Oct 14, 2007 10:39 pm
Ben jam FTW.

 #111926  by Chris
 Sun Oct 14, 2007 11:29 pm
Black Lotus wrote:Ben jam FTW.
actually it was for le win......or something as equalliy retarded....still not as good as last night when we played agans a guy named Iloveamercia.

 #111927  by Blotus
 Sun Oct 14, 2007 11:35 pm
No, that was Paulo (or something) FLW. Benjam was another guy... the guy jamming all over Paulo.

 #111928  by Chris
 Sun Oct 14, 2007 11:42 pm
ah. sorry I have trouble mixing up m holoz trash talk sometimes

 #112011  by Sephy
 Wed Oct 17, 2007 2:55 am
Damnit I want this game but I don't need another distractor :(

 #112012  by Chris
 Wed Oct 17, 2007 4:33 am
oy andrew bro. your girlfriend was able to keep up with my insanity while you were in the kitchen. you are a lucky bastard. although it kinda confused me as she has the exact same voice and vocal mannerisms as an artist from up there that I have nown for a bit. kinda spooky it was. now I want to get the 2 of them in a game and play try t figure out who the hell is speaking....

 #112013  by Tessian
 Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:01 am
Chris Hansbrough wrote:oy andrew bro. your girlfriend was able to keep up with my insanity while you were in the kitchen. you are a lucky bastard. although it kinda confused me as she has the exact same voice and vocal mannerisms as an artist from up there that I have nown for a bit. kinda spooky it was. now I want to get the 2 of them in a game and play try t figure out who the hell is speaking....
Damnit Chris, stop plotting to destroy space and time!

 #112052  by SineSwiper
 Thu Oct 18, 2007 8:52 am
Kupek wrote:New rule! Sine has to qualify all judgments with whether or not he has direct experience with what he's judging.
We already knew that I didn't buy it. However, I take 0Punc's comments as Jesus's divine truth, and he says it's an above-average game. Therefore, it's an above-average game. It LOOKS like an above-average game.

Anyway, screw you wankers with Halo. I'm playing Orange Box, and just one of the games kicks Halo's ass, much less all 5.

 #112056  by Blotus
 Thu Oct 18, 2007 12:52 pm
Who the fuck is 0Punc? Sine, stay out of the Halo topics or I'm going to troll you to no end.

 #112063  by bovine
 Thu Oct 18, 2007 2:14 pm
I believe he is referring to the british born game reviewer who calls himself zero punctuation.

 #112065  by Blotus
 Thu Oct 18, 2007 2:26 pm
Being British + speaking quickly without pause + being witty =/= truth.

I do find his reviews very funny, though.

 #112067  by Chris
 Thu Oct 18, 2007 2:29 pm
funny guy....and I actully agreed wth him about the game being average. the game is average. but they fixed the hell out of the multiplayer. the multiplayer is really fucking fantastic fun now. something I didn't really thing about Halo 2 which I didn't last long playing. and I am damn glad they fixed it as I have been having shitloads of fun with you guys crankin out the MP madness rankin up and fightin bitches. really fixing that was necessary and they definitely fixed it to the point where I can actually play against people not my friends without wanting to tear someones nuts off and cram em down their throat. so yes....this game is about the multiplayer and not the solo

 #112074  by Andrew, Killer Bee
 Thu Oct 18, 2007 4:40 pm
Black Lotus wrote:Being British + speaking quickly without pause + being witty =/= truth.
I'd go further. Being British + speaking quickly without pause != being witty.

It may be my inherent Australian disdain for the hated British, but I find Zero Punctuation's reviews more irritating than funny, and particularly when he's so wrong so often.
SineSwiper wrote:Anyway, screw you wankers with Halo. I'm playing Orange Box, and just one of the games kicks Halo's ass, much less all 5.
Enjoy The Orange Box, as I'm certain I will when it gets released over here. But GET THE FUCK OUT OF THIS THREAD. Jesus Christ, what is it about Halo that compels people to troll it so fervently?

 #112130  by Chris
 Fri Oct 19, 2007 3:08 pm
Andrew, Killer Bee wrote:
Black Lotus wrote:Being British + speaking quickly without pause + being witty =/= truth.
I'd go further. Being British + speaking quickly without pause != being witty.

It may be my inherent Australian disdain for the hated British, but I find Zero Punctuation's reviews more irritating than funny, and particularly when he's so wrong so often.
SineSwiper wrote:Anyway, screw you wankers with Halo. I'm playing Orange Box, and just one of the games kicks Halo's ass, much less all 5.
Enjoy The Orange Box, as I'm certain I will when it gets released over here. But GET THE FUCK OUT OF THIS THREAD. Jesus Christ, what is it about Halo that compels people to troll it so fervently?
he was playing the desert level and got himself a sandy vagina.....sine seriously....the douchebag offer is good for you too....first come first serve.