Podtacular Episode 53 Show Notes

Podtacular Halo 3 and Other Game Show: Episode 53

with GMan, JVB, and Foo Mo Jive

=======FOOMO=======

This is the Halo 3 show, (explanation)

I was thinking and I think a cool name for the Halo 3 and other games
show would be “Halo 3 & other amaz.” Just a suggestion.


=======JVB=======

If I were Halo 3, what would I look like?

first off, here are the major ones that have already been mentioned

- bots
- new weapons, levels, vehicles, game types, enemies
- fly pelican/troop transport
- human version of ghost and banshee
- dynamic weather

This is LilSumSum. I don’t think there should be any major changes as far as gameplay goes. I would like to see super bounces eliminated though. I would really like to see a MAP EDITOR. Just take 2 seconds and think about how awesome that would be. If we had the ability to create custom maps and maybe even recreate some of the older maps then trade them online. We could use the online market place to sell them and get credits for other things in the market place. Another thing I would like would be the ability to “save” matches and replay them, possibly export them to a connected PC for editing or uploading to a site for download. Something similar to Gotham TV would be cool to where we could watch some of the higher ranks battle. I would be satisfied with a simple spectator mode like Call of Duty 2. I also think this would deter cheaters to some degree.

For halo 3, I want them to bring back race mode. they dropped it because it was the least played game type.

My Halo 3 wishlist would be:
- More actions (such as giving commands, doing dodge-rolls)
- More interactive environments
- More information on the forerunners and flood
- New characters, new baddies
- More customizable characters
- More campaign skulls
- More than 16 people in one game
- Being able to fly pelicans, phantoms, seraphs, and longswords (seraphs are covenant fighters, longswords are human jets)
- New gametypes and new customizable variants

=======GMAN=======

i heard in episode 45 you talking about droping guns for another person to pick up and a secondary fire on weapons. In Perfect Dark Zero you can do both of those. just simply press down on the D-pad to drop your weapon and if you dont have any weapons your can simply use your fists to punch. This is very usefull in co-op. to use a secondary fire you press RB. for example on one of the snipers the secondary weapon is a grenade launcher. I think that would be usefull in Halo 3 so you can launch grenades farther in bigger maps. In Halo 3 i would also like to see a map like chiron(sp?) except also like backwash as in it is a darker envionment so you can hide next to a teleportal and assasinate them.

I think that when MC picks up a new gun or ammo it should appear on your player. (example: you are holding a BR and you have a rocket launcher strapped to your back. You have a 2 pistols in holsters. A SMG in a sling) This way you would be able to tell what weapons your enemy has from a distance. And when you pick up more ammo it is stuck to your belt or armor like in the books when MC tapes a lot of mags to his chest.

=======FOOMOJIVE=======

One thing I would kind of like to see in Halo 3 is medals in campaign. Isn’t it more logical to have medals in the war against the enemy than the stealing flags off your friends game?

i think Halo3 should have cooler weapons… Dont get me wrong there weapons are cool but i think there should be more machine guns and more rocket lanchers. i think halo3 should have like tricked out ppl and 4 player on campaine.i havent played a lot but all that i have played its 1 of the best games i have played!!i have a ps2 and the closest game i can get to halo is Red Factiton 2!! it has cool guns like the wasp, nano gl, and fire gernades, ect. i thought wasps only sting not blow your head off lol!! i think u should try the game out it ROCKS!! plz put me on air!! ok!!!!!!

when yo bend down to pick up a new weapon, you see MC reach down and switch weapons. Also, when you look down, you should see more than just your legs, because when you really look down, you see most of your body. I also think you should be able to unlock secret marines like a marine who runs around trying to kill everyone on his team, or a gay marine. And, it wouldbe cool if you could make a squad of marines, like you could pick 10-20 marines that follow you on certain missions, and you get to pick their apperance and persionality, like agressive or defensive, and you could pick their weapons, so most of them have BRs and SMGs, while a few have shottys, and one or 2 have snipers and rockets.

=======JVB=======

This is my website all about Halo 3. There’s some really cool stuff in here! www.freewebs.com/halo3speculation

I think it would be good in halo 3 for you to be able to see the guns you are carrying. For Instance you could see the rocket laucher around your shoulder on your back when your not using it or the handle of the sword on your belt.

More easter eggs would also be great.

When it comes to customization of your charactor, I think it would be great to be able to modify small things like your visor. Let it look like mirrorglass, reflective black, red, green, etc..

Have an immediate turn around button or something. Like you click it and you immediatly face the opposite direction.

Be able to cook a grenade.

When you run out of ammo in a gun, be able to hold it in a position that hurts more in melees. Like hitting someone in the nose with the butt of a battle rifle. It may take longer to to bring your gun back to postion but since you’re not able to shoot them, you just don’t care.

Not have to hold down the joy stick to stay crouched.

Show armor damage. When a normal marine gets shot in the armor let it crack or something.

i think one thing many people are forgeting is the Jackal shield. this could save you from many noob combos because the charged plasma pistol would take down the whole jackal shield leaving you with your own shield left to pwn the other guy.

=======GMAN=======

I would addadd more vehicles to the mix like some kind of objective game that revolves around that vehicle. I would also have more people allowed to go into a custom game or multiplayer match. I hade a LAN party last week and we had 32-48 people and it was crazy. i would have been cool if we all could have gone on terminal or some larger map and just get crazy. I might also add some weapons like a realistic M-16 or a grenade that a concussion grenade. There could be a option to make your Xbox live symbol your face since Microsoft is releasing that camera. Also an ability to run more than one clan, my friends wants to play clan matches with me but I am permently in Podtacular Pro D fo life! I also had a funny idea that bungie could do, they could some how incorporate halo 3 and the movie so like you have to play the game to see the movie or vice versa.

Proxminity(I think is how its spelt) nades.
Give master cheif a personality outside of general badass.
Almost all new weapons(like halo 1).
Keep needlers, handgun, plasma rifle, human sniper.
Add a new variant of Alien sniper, or maybe a sniper that had more
flexibilty in scoping, instead of 2x, 8x or whatever.

Steal weapons would be interesting. Like have a bare hands weapon. You can fight or steal… Some
reason that sounds like something from
the new perfect dark zero… hm..?

different kinds of jump. Instead of just jump being A, hit d-pad while in the air in a direction, and do
a special jump. Maybe a back flip or
something.

Masterchief should be able to swim. then again, it’d be..odd looking.
“look out he’s doing butterfly!”

1. A Darth-Maul style Plasma Sword(Double sided)

2. In levels like terminal, i think you should be able to grab onto the
train. Of course, if you don’t get off by the time it goes in the
tunnel, you die. and when you are carrying the bomb/flag you can’t
grab on

3. There should be a Manhunt Gamertype. where you hide and try to
reach a base to win

4. Just for customization sake, a second symbol on your leg.

=======FOOMO=======

I think a great option for customs would be to actually choose exactly where flag spawns, bomb points, oddball spawns, etc, would be. For example, they could show you an overhead map of a map (Understand? Like a bird’s eye
view of any given map), and allow to click and drag (With the thumbstick) the flag/bomb/ball points to where you want them to be. Obviously you couldn’t do this in matchmaking, but I think there could be a lot of fun possibilities for crazy customs!

More levels on Earth with buildings would be sweet, defending Earth from sure destruction. More small maps for multiplayer and xbox live. I like small maps because I don’t like rockets but love snipers and BRs. Lockout and Colossus are some of the best maps along with Zanzibar.

on large maps, proxy mines in bases or on the roads would be cool. Maybe a futuristic helicopter would be cool too! I also am looking for a few of the maps to be of course like the classic ones with close quarters, but a few GINORMOUS-TACULAR maps. These maps would be bigger than containment and waterworks that would emphasize the use of vehicles to get to a central city-like fighting area.

=======JVB=======

You should duel-wield swords. 2 in each hand would give you an advantage over others but to even it out for others, they would have a hard time seeing and can’t throw grenades. A person with only 1 sword could see better and hold another weapon.

a helicopter would be pretty awsome. it would have a mini gun
on the left side and it should fire rockets.
a better melee system would be good.
a new type of grenade like a flashbang or detonators for them.
a respawn system like starwars battlefront might be sweet.

Its a war game, we need some huge war battles. I would also like to add something like a custom game list, where you can post your games on a list with other custom games, and people can join them, that way you dont need to have a lot of friends on to get a custom game going.

I would also make a Multi-Juggernaut game, where you could have two or more Juggernauts either working with or against each other. And also I would make an option for the Juggernaut to be able to only use certain weapons and vehicles, this would be cool for hide and seek and fan created games.

I would also make a gametype built in for Zombie type games, where one team could only use one weapon, and you would switch teams automatically if you were killed. This would be cool but I can see some disadvantages to it so it would be a stretch.

Another change I would make in multiplayer would be to enable indestructible vehicles, like the human ones in Halo 1.

I would also make an option to spawn with no weapons, I mean, what damage could this do? It would be great for people that made movies using capture cards, and it would be fun for Hide and Seek. Also I would make an option to take out one or more weapons in the game editor (i.e.: there would be a list of all the weapons and you could enable or disable some of them, I’m sure MLG players would love this to disable the “noob stick.”)

I would also change some options for the actual pregame lobby in Multiplayer. I would add a menu “Advanced Options” where you could do more than the Quick Options menu. I would also change when you were in the Map Select or Rules menu, if you hit “B” it would only take you back one level, instead of all the way to the Pregame Lobby. This is small, but it can be very annoying.

I would add two major options for XBL. The first would be the ability to Boot derankers. If they committed suicide more than 4 times then the option would appear to everyone on their team to boot them, and then every time after that. I’m sure anyone who plays XBL would agree with this.

I would also make the option to save other people’s gametypes. When people give you party leadership you automatically start with whatever gametype they had last, you should be able to save it to your X-Box.

=======GMAN=======

If bungie called me up today and asked me about Halo 3 stuff that I
wanted I would tell them to make sure that everything in cutscenes
loads at the same time. I don’t know about other people but I like to
know what is going on during the game before I go and destroy every
covenant guy I can find, and whenever I played Halo 2 on my old xbox I
always got so distracted whenever the cutscene would load and then a
second later the people in the cutscene would load. I think this takes
away from the Halo experience.

if your tip didn’t get read, it’s because we’ve already covered it or we didn’t have time.


If I were trapped in a basement while aliens ravaged the earth and I could only play one game
and it wasn’t Halo 2…

Other than Halo, I enjoy playing Star Wars Battlefront II, Madden 06, and Ghost Recon. I truely recommend Star Wars Battlefront series because they make you feel as if you’re really out there fighting. In Battlefront II, Some of the controls have changed so heres a hint. If you can’t figure out how to reload, its directional pad DOWN. Some people don’t bother taking a look at the controls and jumping right in.

=======FOOMO=======

In one of your earlier shows, you mentioned Halo PC Maps, and wondered what they were. Death Island is the Silent Cartographer map. Only the outside and a little of the inside is available though. Gephyrophobia is the coolest map ever! It is a huge bridge that extends across the map with balconies on the sides. When I say huge, I mean HUGE! It takes about 1 min. to drive from one end to the other.

Also, there are other Halo PC maps. Danger Canyon is a large…..... canyon. It’s great for CTF.

Wizard is almost exactly like Warlock.

Timberland is a large valley with a river and trees. Each team has a base, and a bunch of Warthogs. (8 Warthogs total on a map at a time if you didn’t know! 4 normal and 4 rocket)

Infinity is another huge map. There are giant bases and teleporters everywhere.

If I were trapped in a basement while aliens ravaged the earth and I
could only play one game and it wasn’t Halo 2, i would bring the Elder
Scrolls 4: Oblivion, Splinter Cell: Double Agent, and Burnout Revenge
for the Xbox 360.

p.s. What if the aliens destroyed the power supply? would you need
another magical plug here too?

If i were stuck in a basement….

I would bring either Need For Speed Hot Pursuit 2, SXX Tricky, and Call
of Duty 2.

(Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2)

I like this game because of the high speed chases, and epscecially because you can be the cops.

There are many things to unlock and i consider it better than NFS Most Wanted

Second (SXX Tricky)

This game is AMAZING!, the large, imaginative levels are soo cool and fun to play. The insane tricks
make this one of the best extreeme sports games EVER (at least in my opinion)

Third (Call of Duty 2)

This game has a very fun and long campaign, and even has fun multiplayer. Of course, if i were in a basement while aliens where destroying the earth, i don’t think there would many people on live.

=======JVB=======

if i was to play a game outside of halo while stuck in a
basement, I’d play the pc game “Savage.”...sooooo much fun

Ninja Gaiden! It’s unbelievably fun, and incredibly hard, so I’d be
occupied for a good while.

Also, though it’s not for Xbox, I would bring World of Warcraft,
because, well, you know, it’s like crack.

I think I would play KOTOR2 because it is really long and expansive. The
other game would be (if after March 8th) GRAW because it just kicks
ass.

If all I had was Xbox, I would play Far Cry: Instincts. But if I had my 360, I would probably go crazy before I could decide between Perfect Dark Zero and Call of Duty 2.

=======GMAN=======

Well, it would have to be Halo 1. Why? ‘Cause I can’t choose Halo 2, and
I could go all Jack Thomson on you and use it as a training simulator to
go on a massacre of aliens, then die…

if i was traped in a basement with other games than halo 2 they
would be

halo
star wars battlefront 2
DOA 4
Perfect Dark Zero

Halo because….well its halo not much really has to be said

Star wats battlefront 2 because of the bots, I love how you can just
put it in and play a 32 person battle like that.

DOA 4 because i love the series and how fun the game is itself

Perfect Dark Zero because its just so fun with its multiplayer having a
mix of normal multiplayer and a counter-strike like operation
multiplayer

If I was stuck in a basement without Halo 2, I would play Halo 1 for the
PC. There is so much you can do to liven up the game experience. I’d
also play the Splinter Cell series. The action in there is so tense
that you get a heart attack when you hear a gun shot in the game.
Finally I’d play Burnout 3: Takedown. This is one of the best racing
games ever.


=======FOOMO=======

Wrapup

=======JVB=======

=======GMAN=======

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