Podtacular: The Unofficial Halo Universe Podcast

Podtacular Halo 3 show, Episode 79
for the week of September 4th, 2006

(hosts Foo Mo Jive, JVB, Laird from Sponsors vs. Freeloaders)

Halo 3 show (explain)

Interview with Laird

  1. tell us a little about yourself and SVF
  2. you’re working on another Halo film too, right?
  3. So you also do some work for Red vs. Blue? How do you know these guys?
  4. I’ve seen some of your collection of halo related signatures, photos, paintings, etc. You’ve got quite the collection!
  5. How was PAX?

Halo 3: what you want to see

1.gun that shoots out sticky grenades
2.a lava or mountain themed level

You know, it’d be really cool if MC could run as fast as the books say he
could.

Hey guys, it’s Doc. First off, some Halo 3 amaz.

I can’t wait to see how the Halo 3 engine handles, and especially in
Multi-player. I would like to see some HUGE maps, but accesible by all
means of travel. Not like Containment or Waterworks where it takes a few
hours to get across the map, but maybe have a lot of vehicles; a garage
full of some mad crazy rides, and an armory, so you could literally take
on an entire army. I’d also like to see Hang em High make an appearance,
just with a much needed upgrade. I think it would look cool like how they
did Warlock and Wizard; it went from high tech, to jungle-ish, like
thousands of years had gone by, and i used to hate Wizard, but now i love
Warlock.

I would like to see another spartan; i know that people say there isn’t
going to be one, but they should bring Maria or Jennifer or Kelly into the
game, to mix it up a little bit. Maybe even play Grunts and/or Brutes at
one point in the game, even if for a little bit, that would be sick. Maybe
even in Multi-Player, but then that would be the whole Weapons limitations
based on size, but seeing a grunt with a rocker launcher bigger than the
grunt itself, would be awesome!

ok i have a few things to say. I think guests should be able to have mikes
so when your level 30 friend comes over and everyone is like haha im gonna
own your guest he can get a killamanjaro and an overkill off them and talk
total smack! Also i think that there should be more community inspired
game variants already made into the game (zombies hide and seek)and if
bunngie puts them in the game they can have it to were the human
automatically turns green (zombie) when he dies instead of people cheating
i hope that made since. ALso you should be able to send your anyone game
variants and if someone gives you party leader and the last game they had
it on u dont have it should allow you to save that one. Well i hope all
that made since. AnD sInCe i NoE hoW u gUyS lik two mak fun of speelleen thar u go

I want plasma ping pong in halo 3. This is a one on one extreme ping pong
match between master chief and the arbiter. They would use anti-stick
paddles and table to bounce a sticky, trying to stick each other. This
would be the awesome climax to the entire game series.

I would love to hear the ideas that you and your co-hosts have for
Halo-related games of different types. Bungie has stated that H3 is the
last game of this story arc, which leaves other game types with other
story arcs available for development.

How well do you and your co-hosts think the Halo story could relate to
other game types like RTS’s and RPG’s? Would you even like to see Halo
related games gravitate away from the first-person shooter style?

In halo 3 i want to be able to ride on the take like in halo. I also want
to see a guideable roket launcher type thing.

In halo 3 I can see the elites, grunts, hunters, and grunts joining the
humans ( since the arbiter sided with them) OR separating into separate
factions. If they separate into factions MC would have the option of doing
“side missions” for them to try and get them to join.I would want to see (
in halo3 ) more interactive environments like, you throw a gernade bits of
rock and dirt are kicked up.I would also want to see MC to be able to use a
type of “stealth mode” to sneak up upon unsuspecting victims and break
their necks.2 more things: To use the d-pad (since it is useless) To give
commands to your marines like “Get in the hog!!” or “Follow me!” or “Move
out!” or something like that, and just a thing to say If you look at your
Spec ops Marines on delta halo (ya know the ones with the helmets and dark
armour) They have a knife in their backpack type thing on their back, so it
would make sense for you to be able to use this and it be in a slot like a
gernade.

I’d like the ability to place, or set down grenades where you’re standing, or near yourself. Not to have them blow up, that would just aid griefers, but to be able to pile up grenades for later use. This would really open up exploration possibilities, without having to herd marines around like you have to now, or having to kill each other in co-op just to pile grenades. Think of the grenade piles you could make just by gathering them and placing them wherever you want! One way to do it could be: Hold down the “switch grenade button”, and then pull the grenade trigger. This would make you drop all of whichever type of grenade you have selected. This option could also open up other possible tactics such as setting up an “artillery” like location were one guy is just chucking grenades from a strategic location while his teammates supply him with grenades. The bummer here of course would be, if you’re sitting on a pile of grenades while you’re throwing them, one enemy frag could be disastrous.

I’d also like to have the ability to dual-wield the energy shield with other weapons. I heard this mentioned before, but what wasn’t mentioned was what I think is the most obvious combination: Energy Shield and Energy Sword. I think this would even out some of the sword battles out there, ‘cause right now it’s really just who pulls the trigger first. It’d be nice to have a feasible way to block the sword. And think of the new gametypes; Medieval Tournaments and the like, “Halo Jousting.”

Hi this is cowsrule, and Ive recently been
re-listening to the “Halo 3” Episodes, and I dont
understand. here is what I mean.

People want the Sniper Rifle to be “More Realistic”.
Why? We are Far in the Future and your a 7 foot tall
monster. There is no need for this game to touch
reality. I think the Sniper Rifle is perfect the way
it is now.
I want to see new guns in halo 3, but I dont want the
Assault Rifle. I want guns that take skill A.K.A.
Pistol or BR. People say the Pistol is “Un-Balanced,
or Broken”. I dont find that true at all. Yes, it can
shoot far, yes its a pistol. But we are in the FUTURE.
If you can consistintly 3 shot with a Halo 1 Pistol,
you are incredible.

I dont want to see more “Vehicles”, like a human
ghost, or a Pelican. Yes, i wouldnt mind it, but I
wouldnt like it. I also dont want bots. If you have
played Super Smash Brothers, or any other game with
Bots, you can see that they do stupid stuff no matter
how smart the A.I. is. They wouldnt play like a normal
smart Human Player.

But im sure that not everybody agrees with me. I want
Halo 3 to be a super competitive game. I dont want to
see Rockets, I dont want Vehicles, I dont want Giant
Parties on Huge Maps. I want Balanced 10 Person Max
Maps, with Guns that Take skill to use. And Spawns,
that dont suck.

But one thing I wouldnt mind having, is the return of
health packs.

so a formless void with health packs. nice.

First off, I think that the argument about explodable vehicles is sort of misplaced. I think most people like the fact that the vehicles can explode they just don’t like how easy it is to blow them up. In Halo 2 you can blow up a hog with 1 rocket. Furthermore, the H2 rockets track, so it’s really easy to destroy a hog. If you remember from Halo 1, it took about 2 rockets to stop a hog driver, and you could miss pretty easily. Bungie usually works very hard to balance their weapons and vehicles, but I feel like this might be the exception to the rule. So in Halo 3 I’d like to see the same explodable vehicles ( or at least the option to make vehicles explodable ), but this time make them a little more damage resistent.

Second, bots. Yeah, bots suck. If you play any other game with bots you eventually learn their tricks and how to fool them. It becomes stupid to play them. If Bungie implemented bots for H3, it would probably cause more problems than it would fix. I know I’m just sounding off on this topic, but have you ever really enjoyed playing against bots?

A cool weapon for Halo 3, would be an EMP grenade that wouldn’t actually
damage the opponent but would disable their shields for a few seconds.
They could have a bigger effective radius than say the damage radius of a
frag or sticky. Imagine the benefits of shutting down the shields of a
team who have the power weapons and who are dug into a particular area of
a map. The down side would be if you threw it too close your shields would
be gone too making it SWAT time.

Hey guys it’s Ares925. Pronounced Air-eez. My idea for Halo 3 multi and
singlr player is geo mod. Geography modification. What it means is the the
environments are completely destuctable. You would be able to blow holes in
walls to get around enemies in single player and in multi player you could
choose between using the rockets to take down vehicles, or make huge
potholes so they can’t drive. Instead of having to go through the heavily
defended door, just blow a hole in the wall. It could be balenced by only
having one rocket launcher and it would be hard for offense to control.

like Red Faction!

Halo 3 will indefintely change the way we play Halo 3 in one way or
another, but what if Bungie put minigames into the epic conclusion of the
Halo series? Yeah, it’d be pretty lame, but here are some of my ideas on
Halo 3 Minigames:

Marine Tea Parties! Everyone knows that the only thing Marines love more
than popping a cap in some Elite’s head is drinking tea in a social
setting. Playing as Sgt Johnson in the party, you must chat it up with
your fellow Marines while sipping tea by playing a text-based minigame
simillar to “Truth Or Dare”. You can choose to either “Talk Or Walk”, but
watch out! One wrong move could embarrass you in front of your squad for
LIFE!

Cortana Horse Adventure! Cortana isn’t going rampant in Halo 3 as people
expected, she’s just hacked into a “Barbie Horse Adventure” emulation and
must play her way out of the game or continue to talk in cryptic and
meaningless sentences FOREVER! Based solely on the “Barbie Horse
Adventure” engine, this minigame will force you to play from start to
finish, just to get on with the rest of the game. Bungie is out to get
you!

1) Pelicans as a vehicle option… i know you’ve heard this suggestion before, but i think it would be even better if kind of like in Star Wars Battlefront before the match the game would randomly select a player from each team to be a pilot, who would only be armed with a plasma pistol or a Magnum, and would be in charge of using the Pelican to pick up and drop off teammates, defend the base, etc. In the books, the Pelican has a 50mm chin gun, so maybe the pilot (or copilot if there is one) could man that while the pilot does the driving. Also in the books, it says the Pelican can pick up and transport Warthogs in its undercarriage. This would be a great option.

2) Jackal shields that you can dual-wield, maybe as an option. These shields can take quite a bit of damage in the game, so they would be a good first line of defense when dual-wielding with an SMG, plasma pistol, etc. the shield could be activated or lifted to protect you by pressing the L trigger. you would not be able to fire while the shield is lifted, but it would obviously provide you with substantial protection while you reload or whatever with your weapon. There could be a meter in the upper-left corner of the screen that shows the strength the shield has left after taking certain amounts of damage, like the Master Chief’s conventional shields.

3) A great new weapon that could be introduced for something like base defense would be a satchel-charge type weapon. With the left trigger you could place the charge, and stand back and detonate it with the right trigger when you want.

4) I also want to say that all those who say the Master Chief should pull scopes up to his helmet when zooming, read the books. it describes the Master Chief as having an uplink to his armor from the weapons, so the scope appears in his HUD, no matter where the weapon is pointing.

If you have a plasma weapon that is overheating, it’s melee should do more damage.
amoliski out!

it would be soo cool if halo 3 had mini games! i know
it sounds gay but it will be cool to have a mario
party kinda thing halo style and it would be cool if
we get to see the M.C.’s face plus if the M.C. dosent
die in H3 how his life is after the war… dont you
think?

In Episode 63 you mentioned that the structure in the
video was the ark and i belive you and I have seen the
stills that mentioned it was the ark but i belive that
inside the ark not only are the halo controls to all
the halos but it also belive it has forerunner people
inside becouse in the bible the ark is a mythical boat
that saved moses and the animals of earth from a huge
storm and i belive the forerunners did the same thing
and that the build the ark in order to survive after
they activated halo soo now that the covenant have
taken control of earth and have dug up the ark the
forerunners emerge and we have new aliens seems to
make sense what do you guys belive?

My Halo 3 wishlist has some pretty practical, useful ideas:
1 “Canned Messages”. What I mean by this is that it would be useful to
have a few pre-typed messages that you can just select from to get your
point across.

2 “The Ability to Message Just Online Friends.” Everytime we go onto live,
we get like 10 “inv” messages that were sent by people who weren’t even on
at the same time we were. And imagine how good it would be to send a
good-bye message or be able to announce that you’re online without
spamming your offline friends.

hello, we have this ability. Use it, everyone!

I don’t know if this is where I make my Halo 3 comments, but here I go.
There are quite a few things I’d like to see in Halo 3, but most have
already been stated. there are a few other things I’d like to see that
have been mentioned yet, though. (I think o.0)
1. In Star Wars, Republic Commando, when the clones want to melee, a
small knife, imbedded in their wrist covering, comes out and attacks the
enemy, then quickly slides back in. I was thinking it would be cool in
Halo 3 to be able to ocme up behind someone and have a knife similar to
this in the wrist armor, and slit the throat of the enemy or other player
in Xbox Live. That, or you could just knife them to death.
2. I think another cool addition would be to maybe have pre-written
messages in Xbox Live so that you wouldn’t have to go through the
mind-numbingly long process of picking letters to form a message to your
friends.
3. I think, since the Covenant technology is so advanced, there could be
a vehicle (like a ghost) that could transform while in use to, say, a
banshee, and start flying after being on the ground awhile. This would be
helpful while carry the flag, perhaps. If there’s not a banshee around,
you can just grab a ghost, which can be pretty vulnerable in some places,
and simply transform into a banshee and fly away, making you safer. I
don’t know how this would work, or how they would balance it, but it just
sounds pretty sweet.

What I’d like to see in HALO 3. Grunt sidekick named Short Round. Follows
him at all times and holds an extra gun and ammo saying, “Mista Chief
Mista Chief! Reload, relooooad!”. Drives the warthog while sitting on a
stack of New Mombassa phone books as you man the gun. Infiltrates enemy
camps and plants nukes as a playable character. Im sure this will never
happen. Id also like to see a swarm of 8 grunt snipers on live take down
8 Master Chiefs. GRUNTACULAR!

in Halo three i want to see a blowdart gun with armor piercing poision
darts like if u have a killing spree someone hits u with a dart and then
suddenly u just drop dead. also decapitations and de limbing with the
sword. and mines and C4 and the ability to mount a gun on a tripod. what
do u think?

i think the ability to knock out opponents and take them hostage. i also
think that steath attacks with a knife would be cool. and last i think
that there should be a armory with every weapon on the map in it and it
should respawn in random locations around the map and u have to blow the
door away and then when u leave it respawns around the map again.

what i would like in Halo 3 is for the marines, if there are any, to be
better drivers. many times in halo 2 i wished that i could be a gunner but
i wasnt because the marines suck at driving. they follow a pre-determined
couse every single time and they drive like zombies. what i would like is
for them to drive like a normal person, put the pedal to the metal and go
zooming towards the enemy. is that how normal people drive in your town? drive around in wild patterns so you can shoot.
drive like another person in other words. if it is possible then it would
be great to have a marine who can plow down grunts rather than drive on a
pre-determined couse.

I Think it would be cool if in Halo 3 You could have the option to Goto Your friends list select a friend and watch what ever they are doin or maybe jus like Spectator Matchmaking that match’s u to a random match to watch

I think halo three should include a completely new type of multiplayer
where there’s almost nothing but water, Master Chief can swim, and boat
forms of warthogs can be used. It would be great to try sniping someone
from just below the water level as well. I think a lot more can be done
with a feature like this, such as all new vehicles and some rather
interesting weaponry. If this were the case, I might put down my Wii
controller and consider looking at a 360.

Here are a few of the things I want to see in Halo 3.

-Sniper Recoil. Sniping in Halo 2 was too easy. With the addition of
sweep sniping and auto-aim, anyone wit hbasic shooting skills could rack
up kills with the sniper. In Halo 3, what should happen is after each
shot is fired, the reticle should move a few inches in a random direction.
This adds shill to sniping as you would have to re-adjust your aim after
each shot.

-Sword changes: For starters, Id like to see the sword lunge distance
slightly increased. The infinite ammo should remain too. But make it so
that the most damage the sword does is lower the victim’s shield’s. This
would actualy add strategy to the sword as to when to lunge, as opposed to
the lunge-and-kill system they have now.

-Less user frienldy plasma pistol. In Halo 2, if someone fired the plasma
pistol, the reticle didn’t even have top be on the person for it to track. I would like to have it so the only way the plasma bolt could track is if
the reticle is on the person when fired. And make it so that the bolt is
dodgable.

Let me first start by saying what I dont want to see in Halo 3. Halo as it is now has plenty of strategy involved, and they dont need to make it any crazier by adding features like those seen in Ghost Recon or Rainbow Six, ie: Leaning around corners, weapons that change how fast you run, flash and smoke grenades, a knife etc… Also, I dont want a million remakes of old maps, I want Halo 3 not Halo 2.5: Remix Edition. Finally, there isnt a word that exists that can describe how much I dont want the Halo 1 pistol in Halo 3, as it would cause balance issues. Ok, what I would like to see is different weather options for some, if not all, of the maps. Imagine a map like Zanzibar after a huge snow storm. Since the snow would still be on the ground you could track peoples foot prints, stalking them like the Predator on hours on end, and then go ice skating on the frozen lake. I would also like to be able to see peoples secondary weapons strapped to thier backs or something. I hope that in thier new physics engine, the Whorthogs feel like they have some weight, instead of Halo 2, where the Whorthogs feel like Hot-Wheels. And last, but certainly not least… a JVBizzle Bot.

ok well i dont no if u will even get this message but here is what i want in halo 3. first i would like they to be a medal for no scoping so people cant say o no-scope and rub it in when they didnt even get one. second thing is if u are holding rockets or a brute shot in ur wallet or “backpack” or whatever to long, the dude with the deep voice will come up and say “You have did from scoleoses” and u should fal and snap ur back and die.third thing is that every time u go in a warthog 1000 miles should pop on and blast. o yeah! the last thing is there should be a custom warthog that u can make how ever u want.

I think that you should only be able to play with a phantom or pelican in
one player. I dont see why people want the pelican soo much in
multiplayer, if they had it then it would be completely unbalanced and
people would only care about the pelican. They would only want to play
levels with the pelican. What i want to see in multiplayer is the Shadow.
I would be awsome because it could carry many people, hold a ghost, and it
wouldnt be as cheap as the pelican. I would also like to see an all
waterlevel, with several island for the flag, spawn pointes etc… I would
also like to see a water type vehicle that would look like the spectre for
the covenant.

In Halo 3 I would like to see damage that affects vehical handling. Like
you could shoot out the warthog tires or blow one of the banshee’s wings
off and it would make it harder to control. Because in Halo 2 a banshee
thats missing half its parts flies like a banshee that’s brand new.

I would like to see a cliff hanger ending so that the story doesn’t have to
end. (Halo 4)

i think in halo 3 u should be able to throw ur sword for an instant kill,
and then be able to run over and pick it up. the hogs should also be able
to have customizable weapons. from rockets to gauss cannons to grenade
launchers. sweet beans i think.
keep on fraggin trucks

For Halo 3, I think that Bungie should really consider revamping the whole
ranking system. I for one,think that there are too many ranks for so many
types of gametypes and that,this part of the matchmaking system is all
oggely boogely. I think that all slayer type playlist should have one
overall rank and so should skirmish type playlist respectively. This is
how a see it going down ;), all slayer type playlist have to be wieghted
with in each level. For instance, you have to win “X” number of Sniper
games and “Y” number of Slayer games and 3 SWAT games to level up.Each
level shud require some certain number of experience points in order to
gain it.I think its crazy that you can have a Team Slayer game with
everyone between the levels of 22 and 25 but somehow a guy with a level 37
sniper in snipers gets to jump in. With this system, ranks would really be
fair in my opinion, especially in matches.Idealy 4 ranks is what I had in
mind for some variety.

When you go into scope, other players should be able to see you looking
down the scope, with the scope up to your eye. this would make it look
alot more realistic.

yeah but master chief has a visor with a HUD. I think the idea is that he uses that to zoom in like he did with the pistol, but the zooming integrates with the gun.

In halo 2 everyone liked the individula player emblems. Will these be
included in halo 3 or will they use your gamer picture instead?

Somesort of human equivalent to the banshee would be good, such as a
really small attack helicopter thing. Bungie could go wild with their
designs on this aspect, because who knows what flying machines they will
have designed in whatever year halo 3 is in!

Halo 2 is a great game, fantastic I dare say! But there are a few things
that should be changed for peak realism.

1. There should be a two-week waiting time for getting weapons. If the
Master Chief was just walking down the road and he found a Battle Rifle,
he wouldn’t keep it! He would take it straight to the police and wait
two-weeks for someone to claim it! So why should we be able to run rampant
on Multiplayer maps, stealing weapons that belong to someone else! Next
time you’re playing Halo, think about this: THat Battle Rifle could’ve
belonged to some little kid, and you’ve heartlessly stolen it! That
doesn’t seem like proper behaviour for the saviour of humanity!

2. Death should be permanent. What kind of message do you think we’re
sending our kids when they can just “respawn” when they die?! When a
player dies, the Xbox should melt the disc and then open the drive. A
message will pop-up saying “Better luck in Halo 4”. This would root out
the n00bs quite easily!

I think if Bungie could rectify these mistakes, Halo 3 would be truly
perfect. Oh, and maybe an easter egg where the Arbiter reads Weekly
Porridge?

1. When you have a BR or a sniper and shoot someone in the crotch, their
screen will go blurry and will not be able to see for a short amount of
time. Therfore, you can pwn him and then t-bag him.

2. In campaign, there will be a fight in Disney World involving Master
Chief and the Covenant. The objective of this part will be for Master
Chief to board a rollar coaster and ride in it. After he wins the fight,
there will be a big cut scene where he will go on one of the rollar
coasters, and ride in it while laughing at the Covenant.

Every Halo fan boy has, I think, his own ludicrous Halo 3 ideas. Mine would
have to be the idea of an EMP Launcher. However, this is not about that. I
think it’s something that if added, could enhance gameplay considerably.
As it is, turrets are seriously underpowered, being that they have
slightly worse weapons than vehicles, yet are completely immobile, and can
take less damage before they explode. In addition, they can be locked
onto.

Thus I think that turrets in Halo 3 should recieve a tune up. I have a few
ideas for this.

1)Larger, but incredibly powerful turrets. Perhaps some maps could almost
center around control of one, where being inside the turret would allow
you to score a quick Killtacular, however, everyone would be aiming for
you, and you would quickly be overwhelmed.

2)Carryable turrets. Yes, it has been suggested a lot of times. The
secondary fire on the weaker kinds of turrets would fold them up into a
carryable weapon whose primary fire is to deploy it into a turret, and
melee similar to the Rocket launcher.

3)Slightly mobile turrets. This one just sticks in my head. The idea of a
climbing vehicle was mentioned in an earlier podtacular episode. The Shade
could be brought back, but with the ability to slowly “walk” on it’s three
legs. It would move about the speed of someone crouch-walking, but go
climb straight over any obstacles at the exact same speed. This would
allow it to climb walls. Obviously enough it would be influenced by the
same invisible wall that stops the banshee from flying too high. Employing
this would allow you to position the shade in a favourable spot to fire
from, but without making it a full blown vehicle.

Halo 3 needs sucide bomber vests. The Master Chief would pick it up like
any other weapon run into to the base screaming the name of ala then
exploding causing parts of the base to crumble and anyone in side to die.
It would balance out by because the opposing team would see it and you
couldn’t defend yourself. But if your like me you just want to blow
yourself up.

hey guys. i think it would cool in Halo 3 if co op mode, when one of the
players dies, the enimies could pic up that guys weapons. so for instance
if he was carrying a sniper when he died, when you respawn and go back to
that same place, you see a jackal that has picked up your sniper.
this could also work for fallen marienes. it wouldnt be that hard to do,
but would add an interesting dynamic to the game.

Hey, portalfire here. I think the arbitar guy should plegde allegiance to
the humans, BUT, cortana will get fed up with waiting for a rescue mission
so she helps the covenant and gives them all the tech info on the first
Halo and they build a HUGE mega halo…thing.

get killed by some1 u join their team but u do it automaticly. Also i want
more realistic assualt rifles like the m9 a1 which is a rifle with a
gernade launcher and a knife, also it’ll be sweet if get a map like hang
em high from halo 1. For the story i think they’re going to make the
master cheif die and probebly in the last level the master cheif will do a
suicidal mission to stop the arc from activating and make it backfire
destroying all other 6 rings at once. I think the structure they found in
the trailer can also be used to activate halo thats why the prophet wants
to get to the arc first to destroy earth.

I am agreeing with JVB with his plot theory in that Master Chief will die
in Halo 3. The MC will die at the end of Halo 3 for two reasons. First if
Bungie end Halo 3 in a cliffhanger, that will lead to the fans wanting
another game and Bungie have said that this is the end of “this” plot line
also it would be very boring to have a “Earth is saved hero lives on”
ending that is in so many games. The second reason is that nothing would
be more of a dramatic ending to Halo 3 than Master Chief going out with a
bang saving humanity from the covenant and dying in the process. The end
of Halo 3 may also see another SPARTAN introduced into the game, just
because Bungie have ended the Master Chief plot line it doesn’t mean that
there can be no more games set in the Halo universe.

ok what i want for halo 3 new maps of course i know alot of people want to
bring back halo and halo 2 maps but i would like new maps complelety new
maps,also of course bots so when ur board or if you dont have live u can
play with other people without live.i would also like a new game variant
like survival were u and your friends are trapped in a room and u either
have to find a way out or see who can survive the longest.that would be
awesome.the things I wouldnt like would be map editor, because to me that
would take the strategy out of the game and no one would play the new maps
kinda like in far cry, well anyways hoped you like my ideas and keep
fraggin trucks!!!

One thing that I really don’t want, is for Halo to become “Ranbow Six-ised” for
lack of a better term. If you look at all of Halo’s weapons, they’re very
simple and are generic. Like, a SMG. It doesnt have anything that looks
around corners, etc. The smg is a bullet hose, the sniper is a sniper etc.
Any guns that they add, need to be basic things. Flash grenades, Smoke
grenades, could be added, but Bungie will need to remember to put in
measures to stop people from whoring it, for lack of a better term. Some
things I would like to see though, are a pelican (ooh original). However,
this will need to be balanced too. If not balanced right, this will become
a banshee, but with more firepower and armor. A mortar cannon might be good
too. Sort of like the wraith, but it would shoot higher, and have a bigger
payload. A more military feeling rifle would be nice, perhaps with a
bayonett or grenade launcher, but as with the pelican, it would have to be
balanced. And one last thing, what happened to cocking all the guns? I
remember how bad-arse the sniper felt when you’d reload it, and you would
cock it back.

it’s my theory that the structure on earth is indeed the ark,i know, it’s
been said before, but if that is the ark, that means the forerunners have
been on earth, which could mean we are their descendants, and if so, maybe
at the end the covenant realise this and submit to us, mwhahahahaha

This might have already been said but I want/need a way to capture moments
to my hardrive. Lets say I’m in a vicious sniper duel with someone and we
both run out of bullets and he throws a plasma grenade just as I try and no
scope him, I miss him but no scope the plasma grenade and blow it up right
in front of his face with 13 of his teamates standing right there. No one
but me will ever be able to see it and it would be a shame not to be able
to save stuff like this and bragging to your friends. Also as I’m typing
this I realized how awesome it would be if you could send video clips of
in game stuff over xbox live. How cool would that be eh.

first in halo 3 if u fire a rockert to fast one after another the “hank” aka the deep vocie guy will come and said “you have die from recoil”. and the last thing is at the end of halo 3 master cheif should remove his helmet to be none other then Dick Cheny!

First I would like they to
be a medal for no scoping so people cant say o no-scope and rub it in when
they didn’t even get one. second thing is if u are holding rockets or a
brute shot in ur wallet or “backpack” or whatever to long, “hank” aka
the dude with the deep voice will come up and say “You have did from
scoliosis” and u should fall and snap ur back and die. Third thing is that
every time u get in a warthog 1000 miles should pop on and blast. O yeah!
Forth of all if u shoot a rocket one after the other to fast “hank”
will come up and say “you have died from recoil” sixth thing is at the
end of halo 3 master chief takes of his helmet to be no other then Dick
Chany! The last thing is there should be a custom warthog that u can make
how ever u want. Thanks for listening podtacular! I love u! ps whats ps mean and y do they use it if u can put it in the letter up there

In Halo 3, once your rocket launcher is out of ammo, you should be able to
load your gernades in the rocket launcher and use it as a gernade
launcher.

1. No fall damage, I can see why some people would like it but I am a fan
of glitching/superbouncing sessions and also a fan of jumping from high
places. So I feel that this will take away from the game.

2. If done right then a human version of the ghost but if this is done
wrong like a mo-ped with an smg duct-taped on the front then it could go
terribly wrong.

3. The return of Beaver Creek, Coagulation and Warlock. The reason for
this is because I am a very big fan of the origional maps from Halo Battle
Creek, Blood Gultch and Wizard. So it would be great to be able to see 3
generations of these maps.

4. The return of Lockout, Ascension and Turf, simply because those are my
favorite Halo 2 maps and don’t want to havta stop playing on them.

5. Multi-Player Grunt matches. 2 teams of 4 go head to head in slayer CTF
and all the other gametypes. And as you probably could of guessed everyone
on both teams will be a grunt.

The one thing that I want to Bungie to do in Halo 3 is to fix the sword. They need to add a battery like in the campaign and fix the physics. Halo’s physics are really good for being on the xbox, but I hate how the sword is the only thing that doesn’t obey the laws of physics. I wish that they would make it so that you could only lunge at someone if you were on the ground. I don’t like how you can jump and then change direction while in the air. To me that just insn’t cool.

I also wish that they would make more differences between the Elite and Master chief players on xbox live. I think the master chief should be about 50% stronger, but the elites should be able to use active camo for a few seconds. I think that this is a good idea becasuse in the books the Chief’s shields are stronger than the elites, but the elites have active camo.

In halo 3, Bungie needs to put a self-destruct attack thing. You could use
it when you get killed in the enemey’s base and take out the camper protecting the flag or bomb plant spot. They could make it where you only
have so long after you die to use it. Pod REC D

i would like to see job classes like in battle field 2.
some people could specialize in demolitions, sniping and mabye a medic.
also increase the amount of people able to play in a game.
oh and bring back jump damage. i think it will keep people on there toes.

I think that in halo 3 if you are playing assault and you get the bomb into
the base and blow it up the base should get damaged. If you blow it up it
should cause minor cave ins every time so that you blow it up the base
becomes more mazelike

My theory of Halo 3 is just a small idea that I got and I eventually pieced everything together that made it seem plausible and it answers some questions the Halo series leaves open. I’ll start with the Ark.

During the last cut scene of Halo 2 343 Guilty Spark says “the Ark” is the way to activate all the Installations. But why does the light bulb refer to this as the Ark instead of some technical term like Installation 0. Well perhaps this name Ark means something. If you were to look into the Bible (I read the bible for this get over it) the one that catches alot of people’s eyes is “The Ark of the Covenant” where the ten commandments were kept. This makes no sense in Halo so I looked at the other option Noah’s Ark. People tend to think of Noah’s Ark as that cute little story they heard as a child but this is one of the important parts of the book of Genesis. God purged the Earth because it was full of sinners. Wait… purged? That sound like what Halo does purge the Earth of life…but then that would imply that the Ark would be some sort of way to save life from this purge. Well if that’s true then maybe some Forerunner survived the only real activation of Halo and hen they’d be on Earth. That ties in to the humanity if the Forerunner theory because if humanity was the forerunner this explains why and that explains something else later on.

The prophet-elite war was, like the name implies, a war between the prophets and elites before the time of the Covenant but when the Forerunner artifacts were discovered on their home world then they formed the Covenant to carry out their mission to the Great Journey. If you read the Covenant Writ of Union Canto 1 which is a deleted scene also from Halo 2 I’ll include it later for those who want to see it. It says the prophets are to find the path while the elites keep them safe. As these two races conquered the cosmos searching for Forerunner artifacts they encountered other alien races and defeated them and promised them salvation by bringing them into the fold of the Covenant. Well then they found humanity and, since this really can’t be put nicely, beat the living tar out of them pushing us back to the inner colonies and eventually Earth without ever offering us so much as a chance to surrender (For this I cite the book “The Flood” and Conversations from the Universe which was included in the limited edition copies of Halo 2) Why wouldn’t they accept us in? It’s probably because we are the Forerunner but why would the Prophets want to kill the descendants of their gods?

The prophets don’t plan to do anything but activate the installations, or Halos, and kill off the other aliens who have joined the Covenant along with the elites. This is to win the war they started so long ago. They save themselves in the Ark, shoot th rings, we all die and then the Prophets supposedly win.

Here is the Covenant Writ of Union Canto I promised

COVENANT WRIT OF UNION, CANTO I

So full of hate were our eyes
That none of us could see
Our war would yield countless dead
But never victory

So let us cast arms aside
And like discard our wrath
Thou, in faith, will keep us safe
Whilst we find the path

-High Council of Concordance,
First Age of Reconciliation

Other games Halo freaks play

I play Counter Strike on xbox, and Call of Duty: 2 which is
probably the best 360 shooter out right now (even tho it’s been out for
awhile) anyway, thanks a bunch guys, call me if you need anything in the
digital art category. ;)

Hey guys, i just thought i’d let you know about BattleField 2:Modern Combat
for the Xbox and Xbox 360 (pretty much no differencec between the two). I
haven’t gotten around to the champagne (campaign) mode yet because the
Xbox Live play is really fun. There are vehicles like tanks, choppers, and
Humvees to drive, which is really fun to do. There are different soldier
classes you can choose from; for example Sniper or Special ops. The
sniping is much, much different than halo 2 sniper but you should get used
to it. Well, just thought i would share another fun game with you all.
Thanks, DarthBALLZ 45.
PS i didnt use spelchek. sorry!

Some other games I play are Oblivion. If you have a 360 but don’t have this
game you are not a gamer and should be shot. I also play Astropop. It is an
excellent but underappreciated puzzle game on XBLA.

I play a lot of other games than Halo. Other than Halo, I pretty much
play two other games actively.

Gunz The Duel(www.gunzonline.com). This game is very fun, it includes
running on walls, using your sword and gun to do cool combos, but it also
requires you to have a good micro(having good dexterity with your hands as
in typing letters uber-fast to do multiple combos). Gunz is a great, fun
game.

The other game I play actively is Ragnarok Online(iro.ragnarokonline.com).
The official servers for it cost about 12 bucks a month, so to avoid that,
you can play a private server(which IS legal), and can have as much as a
couple thousand people playing at a time. Ragnarok is a very fun MMORPG. You get to start out your character with a few stats, then you change to
one of many various classes, such as archer, wizard, swordsman, merchant,
and so on. Once you play on that class, and get to a high enough level,
you can change to another class that leads on from the first class you
chose, for example if you were an archer, you become a Hunter, or a Bard. If you were a swordsman, you become a Knight or a Crusader.
Both of these games are very fun, and I urge you to try them out. Gunz
The Duel is free, and so is Ragnarok Online, if you play on a private
server. If you have any questions just private message me on the forums.

Counter-Strike for the Xbox is probably the best FPS for the xbox aside
from those made by Bungie. It is also as Platinum Hit so you can pick it
up for about $15.

Another game that grabs my intrest is the Metroid Prime 1 and 2 for the
gamecube. These games offer some great first person elements and lots of
pretty colors accompanied by some pretty bitchin techno music. In these
games you play as a female bounty hunter by the name of Samus Aran
(sam-us, uh-ran). Throughout the game, you upgrade your suit with
diffrent
weapons and visors, like the X-ray visor (very pretty btw) and the Dark
visor (very scary).If you like exploring stuff and getting lost and
everything pretty, well my friend these are the games for you, but i
recommend you play the first one first. It also has lots of legitimate
aliens too. and also try out Metroid III for the super nintendo. that is
the best side scrolling game in the series.

For some reason, right now I’m thinking bak to the good old days. When there were contollers that you could only hold if you had three hands.
That’s right! The N64! Wow, its been a while, huh? The game that really
sticks out in my mind is StarFox64. Ho-ly-crap. That was SUCH and awesome
game! Abd then of course there was that Zelda game. Both Zelda games.
Didn’t own the first one, but that mask one? Heck yes. That was sweet. And
Mario64. And Banjo Kazooie. And Super Smash Bros. And Goleneye007. And
Mario Kart64. And Wave Race64. WTF. Why can’t we get games like this
now??!

besides Halo 2 and Halo 1 I like to play the
original Spiderman for the original xbox. For me it just never gets old
beating up villans like Shocker, Green Goblin, Vulture, Kraven the Hunter
and many more. Another reason I like this game is because there are about
50 specific button combos to use special attacks, and the timeing for the
button combos are exactly like the BXR, BXB, RRX, and all those other
specail weapon glitches. So if you need practices with your BXR play the
original SPIDERMAN for the original xbox. Shoutout to Reddotonyour4head
for helping me impute a sig after 1 and a half stressful hours.

There are a lot of other games I’ve been into since I finally got a 360. So
far I’ve only got two games, Perfect Dark Zero and Far Cry Instincts
Predator… both of them are incredible games, Perfect Dark Zero gives you
a stunning multiplayer, and incredibly campaign, while Far Cry has two
stories in it (the instincts story and the Evolution story), Instincts
story to me is personally a little better, Evolution’s story seemed
rushed. Anyways Far Cry is equipped with a retard map maker, so even my
cousin (he = illiterate), can make some incredible maps without needed to
write one line of code, like you do for Halo Custom Edition, and several
other computer map editors.

Far Cry is M-rated (and actually should be), very gory, scary at some
points, and definitely not for younger audience, the language is brutal.

I’ve also had some fun in the Xbox Live arcade playing games like Texas
Hold ‘em, Geometry Wars, Uno, Marble Blast Ultra and classics like Pac-Man
and Galaga.
I still play Halo, and I am also into Battlefield 2 but haven’t picked it
up yet for the Xbox 360. I don’t really want to invest in it, I’m looking
out to Gears of War, Splintercell Double Agent and NHL 07 (which should be
out pretty soon).

One of my all time favorite past times is wall ball. As an elementarian
schooler (something like that) I had to stay in After School cause both my
parents work late and I was the big man on campus who got to choose
whatever we played. I eather played a game called lurish (which will be
my next game I will talk about during the Halo 3 and AMAZ show) and wall
ball. The rules were simple, just chuck the ball at the wall, if someone
catches it off the wall and it does not bounce then they have 1 OUT. If
someone throws it against the wall and someone else attempts to catch in
and drops it, he/she must run pelmel to the wall to try and touch the wall
before the ball does, if he does not touch the wall in time he has an out. There were also several times where I accidentally threw the ball on the
roof because I have huge guns (arms) especially in elementary school. I
had to always go to the boiler thing and get all the balls and barely make
it out alive because there was a myth that there was a dog back there like
on the sandlot. But anyways once someone got three outs they had to go to
the wall and do “BUTTS UP”, now I know this sounds suggestive but we were
in elementary school so get your head out of the gutter. “BUTTS UP” meant
you had to be pegged with the ball while facing the wall, the point was to
keep the game going and have everyone play, all in all it was one of my
all time favorites which does not get enough recognition. Sorry for
typing so much but I had to get this game out on the market.

As we all know Halo 2 is the greatest game out there. But for those times
when I want to let Master Cheif take a rest I play Deus Ex. It is kinda
old but it is an amazing game even compaired to todays games. In Deux Ex
you play as a new agmented “super agent” fresh from the training academy. Your first mission is to take back Liberty Island from a group of
terrorists called the NSF. What is great about this game is that their is
no trial and error (meaning like if you are supposed to take a person alive
and you kill him instead, the game continues with just a few slight
differences) and you can play the mission anyway you want. You have to be
careful what you do and say because that can affect what kind of help you
get later on in the game. This makes for a lot of reply value. One of my
favorate things to do on the first level is to try to capture the terrorist
leader without firing a single shot or killing or knockingout any
terrorists. For extra diffectulty try doing this on Realistic Mode
because it is basicly one shot and you are dead.

Wrap up