Hey guys
I loved Halo CE Anniversary, I thought it was great to play one of the best campaigns ever with improved graphics and I also thought it was awesome how 343 handled the mulitplayer aspect of it. They didn’t divide the community (Reach, Anniversary)and made is so they were both connected.
I would love to see the exact same thing happen again with a Halo 2 Anniversary in 2014 (10 year anniversary). Presumably on the new xbox I’d love to see a remastered campaign with maybe a Halo 2 map pack for Halo 4 (or 5).
How can we bring this to 343’s attention, how can we make it so they know we the fans want it to happen ?
> Hey guys
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> I loved Halo CE Anniversary, I thought it was great to play one of the best campaigns ever with improved graphics and I also thought it was awesome how 343 handled the mulitplayer aspect of it. They didn’t divide the community (Reach, Anniversary)and made is so they were both connected.
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> I would love to see the exact same thing happen again with a Halo 2 Anniversary in 2014 (10 year anniversary). Presumably on the new xbox I’d love to see a remastered campaign with maybe a Halo 2 map pack for Halo 4 (or 5).
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> How can we bring this to 343’s attention, how can we make it so they know we the fans want it to happen ?
They did divide the community. CEA MP sucked and very few state that it was great. A lot of people are pissed about it so I think that qualifies as ‘dividing the community’.
If 343 had done justice to Halo CE MP there would not have been a divide, you just play one game for a while and then play another for a while. Where’s the division if they had done it that way? The only way to create a divide is to screw up a beloved game.
I say we demand the H2 original MP.
If H2 splits the population, then they better start thinking about making better new games.
Halo 2 was a place to learn and work as a team to get to places you couldn’t get to on your own by sword flying, or butterfly, or make it more challenging by super bouncing to places.
Some of my greatest memories are of me with my friends setting up to sword fly through these mazes. Each map posed different challenges, different ways to set up positions to get where we wanted to go. We always jumped to get that little extra lift for the person that is trying to sword fly to you. We’d travel the maps over and over, showing them the highest waterfall on Sanctuary, to the lowest point on Gemini.
Each battle was different as the lag was always different. There were always new challenges within a team or against a team.
Halo 2 was fun for glitchers, modders, machinima makers, montage makers, custom game players, BTB players, TS players, hardcore players, sniper players, rumble pit players, etc. The maps weren’t the best in the series as so many say it was the game.
If you didn’t know I’d be there buying H2 again if MP was back the way it was.
> They did divide the community. CEA MP sucked and very few state that it was great. A lot of people are pissed about it so I think that qualifies as ‘dividing the community’.
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> If 343 had done justice to Halo CE MP there would not have been a divide, you just play one game for a while and then play another for a while. Where’s the division if they had done it that way? The only way to create a divide is to screw up a beloved game.
According to whom? Halo CEA MP maps were handled in a unique manner that prevented a rift. The community stayed in one game that offered a near like Halo CE experience and a halo reach experience. Had it been different then two population would exist separatly. A division of the population.
> > They did divide the community. CEA MP sucked and very few state that it was great. A lot of people are pissed about it so I think that qualifies as ‘dividing the community’.
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> > If 343 had done justice to Halo CE MP there would not have been a divide, you just play one game for a while and then play another for a while. Where’s the division if they had done it that way? The only way to create a divide is to screw up a beloved game.
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> According to whom? Halo CEA MP maps were handled in a unique manner that prevented a rift. The community stayed in one game that offered a near like Halo CE experience and a halo reach experience. Had it been different then two population would exist separatly. A division of the population.
Are you blind, CE took a dump on the MP, it’s not popular at all. Plenty of people are complaining about it so yeah, the community is divided because 343 dropped the ball on CEA MP.
As far as the community being divided if they made CEA with original MP, it’s made-up nonsense. People don’t quit playing or ‘separate’ from one Halo game just because they prefer another and in fact we gamers tend to switch from game to game if they are any good. It has nothing to do with separation, you just made that up. We buy all the Halo’s and switch around playing them, there’s absolutely no community divide over that. We buy them all and play them all.
The only divide is with the players who wanted to play Halo MP, not the -Yoink!- that came out. Definitely divided the community.
My opinion is 343 was afraid that CEA would outshine Reach, they had so little confidence of taking Halo to the next level they ran from CEA original MP. That might have divided the community, with people saying Reach is no good compared to CEA. I think that is what they meant by ‘dividing the community’ but they didn’t want to say it. Now they are frightened of H2A original MP.
> Are you blind, CE took a dump on the MP, it’s not popular at all. Plenty of people are complaining about it so yeah, the community is divided because 343 dropped the ball on CEA MP.
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> As far as the community being divided if they made CEA with original MP, it’s made-up nonsense. People don’t quit playing or ‘separate’ from one Halo game just because they prefer another and in fact we gamers tend to switch from game to game if they are any good. It has nothing to do with separation, you just made that up. We buy all the Halo’s and switch around playing them, there’s absolutely no community divide over that. We buy them all and play them all.
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> The only divide is with the players who wanted to play Halo MP, not the -Yoink!- that came out. Definitely divided the community.
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> My opinion is 343 was afraid that CEA would outshine Reach, they had so little confidence of taking Halo to the next level they ran from CEA original MP. That might have divided the community, with people saying Reach is no good compared to CEA. I think that is what they meant by ‘dividing the community’ but they didn’t want to say it. Now they are frightened of H2A original MP.
Again according to whom? Where is the division? Who is complaining about the Halo:CEA maps? There was no division and there is no one complaining except you.
People liked the Anniversary maps
You completely missed the underlined portion. A separate Halo game would splinter the Halo population among two games making each respective population smaller. You back up your claims with zero evidence.
Halo CEA could have been a shinier gem then Reach with its own multiplayer, but still smaller. Halo CEA was one of the least selling Halo titles next to the PC ports. Adding a ten year old multiplayer portion wouldn’t change the sales dramatically. Halo CEA was never intended to outshine anything it was service for the fans and added more to the current Halo platform at the time.
> > Are you blind, CE took a dump on the MP, it’s not popular at all. Plenty of people are complaining about it so yeah, the community is divided because 343 dropped the ball on CEA MP.
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> > As far as the community being divided if they made CEA with original MP, it’s made-up nonsense. People don’t quit playing or ‘separate’ from one Halo game just because they prefer another and in fact we gamers tend to switch from game to game if they are any good. It has nothing to do with separation, you just made that up. We buy all the Halo’s and switch around playing them, there’s absolutely no community divide over that. We buy them all and play them all.
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> > The only divide is with the players who wanted to play Halo MP, not the -Yoink!- that came out. Definitely divided the community.
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> > My opinion is 343 was afraid that CEA would outshine Reach, they had so little confidence of taking Halo to the next level they ran from CEA original MP. That might have divided the community, with people saying Reach is no good compared to CEA. I think that is what they meant by ‘dividing the community’ but they didn’t want to say it. Now they are frightened of H2A original MP.
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> Again according to whom? Where is the division? Who is complaining about the Halo:CEA maps? There was no division and there is no one complaining except you.
> People liked the Anniversary maps
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> You completely missed the underlined portion. A separate Halo game would splinter the Halo population among two games making each respective population smaller. You back up your claims with zero evidence.
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> Halo CEA could have been a shinier gem then Reach with its own multiplayer, but still smaller. Halo CEA was one of the least selling Halo titles next to the PC ports. Adding a ten year old multiplayer portion wouldn’t change the sales dramatically. Halo CEA was never intended to outshine anything it was service for the fans and added more to the current Halo platform at the time.
I didn’t say anything about maps, you pulled that one out of your butt. CEA is not popular for people playing MP, the numbers are not there, that is the point that soared over your head.
You are the one insisting that there would have been a division if CEA MP was separate, that’s in your quote. It’s ridiculous to say communities would get smaller if CEA was a full game, we would simply divide the playing time, it’s all the same community anyway and the community as a whole would grow if CEA had been done right imo. We play all Halo’s, nobody just sticks to one or another if the game is good. If the game is lousy, then that game is not played. You take the uninformed route and call it splintering when all we do is buy every -Yoink!- halo and play them all. To say there could be a division is to say one game is butchered and another game is not. That is the only thing that separates the players…a lousy game or a lousy MP, like CEA. The sales of CEA were really good until the release and when we got to play the MP, sales dropped off.
So, because CEA MP was lousy to a lot of people (as reflected in sales and MP play) a division did occur and it would be a mistake imo for 343 to do the same with H2A. My point stands.
What can we the fans do to get Halo 2 remade?
Id do anything I could.
Can we Fundraise for 343?
Hell even a Bake Sale at this point.
Brute Shaped cupcakes anyone?
> What can we the fans do to get Halo 2 remade?
> Id do anything I could.
> Can we Fundraise for 343?
> Hell even a Bake Sale at this point.
> Brute Shaped cupcakes anyone?
Well, we tried talking about it and making threads, thinking they would have to listen but all Waypoint did was lock everything except 1 or 2. They think we’ll be happy with that and now the forum is a Halo PC forum. Fine for them, sucks for us. Look what happened with the PC, there was a rash of threads griping about the servers being shut down and they were listened to. The squeaky wheel gets the grease but we didn’t, lol we got the shaft.
If they shut us out of H2, I’ll lose interest in anything Halo.
I sent a letter to 343 about a halo 2 remake. No reply yet. LOL
> I sent a letter to 343 about a halo 2 remake. No reply yet. LOL
Were it so easy.