DECENT PEOPLE OF XBOX LIVE,
PLEASE COME BACK.
~S
i sure dont remember any glory days of Halo 2, there were so many idiots and foul mouthed kids on xbox live i stayed away from it entirely and just continued to play split screen and system link with my buddies, i cant even remember what rank i got to (and wont be able to even if such a record still existed, as this is my second xbox live account third maybe)
i went back about 2 years ago and played some online, i wasnt all that impressed, it was the same as i was playing offline, only i was having more fun then
I think the first months of H2 on LIVE was a time where people were still amazed they were talking with people over their consoles. Perhaps this teased out some iota of decency. Sure, there were irritating people out there but I feel like it was nothing like it is today.
Once the LIVE population/ culture reached a certain point, it all became the same crappy social hamburger.
I’d really like it if people used their mics again.
Everybody had a mic. So everyone took a chance on talking. Sure there was idiots, but there was plenty of good people too.
My personal favourite memory of an idiot on Xbox Live that really stands out was an American child that killed me and started singing “tea and crumpets on your face” as he teabagged me. Which gave birth to an infamous line by me and to my friends… “-Yoink!- crumpets” when I killed him again. Over and over and over again. Ingeniously I took his line and added “Look at this American disgrace” I thought it was good anyway. It did rhyme after all.
Terminal… Such fun times.
But yeah… Immature but fun times… I was an impressionable 15 year old back then. Have mercy on me. I don’t condone such behaviour now!
But for every 1 idiot there was usually 4 good people. The community was a hell of a lot better then what it is now. We just take people for granted now on Live. Another enemy to shoot at, not somebody to enjoy the game with. Sad really.
Party chat has really fragmented Xbox Live. The only people who seem like they don’t want to use party chat is idiots with the aim just to troll people (usually because their trying to entertain their houseguest) or the people who take the game way too seriously.
But I’m guilty of using party chat and private chat too just to avoid those kind of people as well. So I highly doubt things will change in a hurry. Just the way things are now. Most people don’t want to deal with immaturity on XBL, just enjoy the game. So they just block every other player just as a precaution. In Halo 2 I constantly wore and mic and talked. Nowadays I usually have the volume turned on my headset turned down, and muted unless I’m playing with friends.
Used to add people on a daily basis on Halo 2, now it’s rare I’ll actually meet good people to play with.
> Everybody had a mic. So everyone took a chance on talking. Sure there was idiots, but there was plenty of good people too.
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> My personal favourite memory of an idiot on Xbox Live that really stands out was an American child that killed me and started singing “tea and crumpets on your face” as he teabagged me. Which gave birth to an infamous line by me and to my friends… “-Yoink!- crumpets” when I killed him again. Over and over and over again. Ingeniously I took his line and added “Look at this American disgrace” I thought it was good anyway. It did rhyme after all.
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> Terminal… Such fun times.
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> But yeah… Immature but fun times… I was an impressionable 15 year old back then. Have mercy on me. I don’t condone such behaviour now!
>
> But for every 1 idiot there was usually 4 good people. The community was a hell of a lot better then what it is now. We just take people for granted now on Live. Another enemy to shoot at, not somebody to enjoy the game with. Sad really.
>
> Party chat has really fragmented Xbox Live. The only people who seem like they don’t want to use party chat is idiots with the aim just to troll people (usually because their trying to entertain their houseguest) or the people who take the game way too seriously.
>
> But I’m guilty of using party chat and private chat too just to avoid those kind of people as well. So I highly doubt things will change in a hurry. Just the way things are now. Most people don’t want to deal with immaturity on XBL, just enjoy the game. So they just block every other player just as a precaution. In Halo 2 I constantly wore and mic and talked. Nowadays I usually have the volume turned on my headset turned down, and muted unless I’m playing with friends.
>
> Used to add people on a daily basis on Halo 2, now it’s rare I’ll actually meet good people to play with.
This.
Xbox live use to be fun. I remember having Halo 2 marathons over the weekend with what little food I could scrape out of the fridge and drink nothing but game fuel. Just jumping on alone and meeting a group and playing BTB (on real BTB maps).
I met great people on Xbox live and I don’t think I’ll come across people like them again, Xbox live in general lacks something what the original Live had. And that was decent people, now when I get on Live I can’t wait to get off.
> We just take people for granted now on Live. Another enemy to shoot at, not somebody to enjoy the game with. Sad really.
Well said, my friend.
As a side note, kids on XBL now swear and try to act like they’re older than they are, and I think it’s because of what they hear others say over XBL. The bottom line is that these kids shouldn’t be on there anyway. The game is rated M for a reason. I think kids should start playing when they get a little older, that way, it doesn’t influence them as much, and in turn, doesn’t populate Xbox LIVE with a bunch of annoying pre-pubescent kids that are swearing when they don’t know the meaning of the words they’re saying.
> I met great people on Xbox live and I don’t think I’ll come across people like them again, Xbox live in general lacks something what the original Live had. And that was decent people, now when I get on Live I can’t wait to get off.
I think a lot of it is also because of how mainstream video games have become recently. I think Call of Duty really caused a lot of people who didn’t normally play video games to start playing (another one of the many reasons I hate CoD).
Haha halo has always been the classic for gaming. But not many will know its prime… back in h2.
Still play Halo 2 from time to time, in a place I can’t speak out loud.
This video makes me have so much nostalgia
Skillful, fun gameplay died with Halo 2. I was only 14-17 for the 3 years it was out but I’ve never enjoyed a game so much in my life. Halo 2 will always hold a special spot in my heart. My friends and I went to CEA’s launch, and were all reminiscing not about CE, but about Halo 2 multiplayer. If 343 could ever attain that level of immortality then i’d have faith in the Halo franchise once again.
A lot of you are definitely describing some of the sentiments I had. To be fair, there are some pros and cons to how gaming has evolved. I mean, it’s great that more people can appreciate gaming. To be a so-called “geek” isn’t what it used to be. Hell, I’m proud to be involved with Geek Culture.
It might be the case that it’s less likely we find awesome people on LIVE than before, but perhaps it’s on us to change the way we get together and play. It seems like game developers are giving an honest effort at matching people with who they want to be matched with (e.g. Microsoft’s semi-pointless Pro, Hardcore, Recreational gamer distinctions).
As social networks evolve, and the populations within the networks grow, meeting people we actually want to hang out with is going to mimic some key elements of real-life interactions. Yeah, it seems it might be more difficult. Before it was just us, the geeks; the people who knew XBOX LIVE was something you could reserve at GameStop, the people who got excited about “broadband” coming to their neighborhood, the people who stood in line till midnight on November 9th 2004…
> Everybody had a mic. So everyone took a chance on talking. Sure there was idiots, but there was plenty of good people too.
>
> My personal favourite memory of an idiot on Xbox Live that really stands out was an American child that killed me and started singing “tea and crumpets on your face” as he teabagged me. Which gave birth to an infamous line by me and to my friends… “-Yoink!- crumpets” when I killed him again. Over and over and over again. Ingeniously I took his line and added “Look at this American disgrace” I thought it was good anyway. It did rhyme after all.
>
> Terminal… Such fun times.
>
> But yeah… Immature but fun times… I was an impressionable 15 year old back then. Have mercy on me. I don’t condone such behaviour now!
>
> But for every 1 idiot there was usually 4 good people. The community was a hell of a lot better then what it is now. We just take people for granted now on Live. Another enemy to shoot at, not somebody to enjoy the game with. Sad really.
>
> Party chat has really fragmented Xbox Live. The only people who seem like they don’t want to use party chat is idiots with the aim just to troll people (usually because their trying to entertain their houseguest) or the people who take the game way too seriously.
>
> But I’m guilty of using party chat and private chat too just to avoid those kind of people as well. So I highly doubt things will change in a hurry. Just the way things are now. Most people don’t want to deal with immaturity on XBL, just enjoy the game. So they just block every other player just as a precaution. In Halo 2 I constantly wore and mic and talked. Nowadays I usually have the volume turned on my headset turned down, and muted unless I’m playing with friends.
>
> Used to add people on a daily basis on Halo 2, now it’s rare I’ll actually meet good people to play with.
this is why i played halo 2
I miss the walk speed of Halo 2.
I miss the maps
I miss the 1-50 rank system.
I miss seeing the accuracy percentage on my stats.
I miss playing Big Team Battle ranked.
I miss everything about Halo 2.