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11/9/2005 11:35:32 PM
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Halo 2: One Year Later
It's Halo 2's very first birthday. We clebrate by taking a look at GASP Halo and Halo 2 running on Xbox 360, and a bunch of other really cool stuff you'll probably ignore because of 720p screens.
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OMG TEH BUNGIE PWNZ!!!!!1!!!!!!!1111 - 7million copies sold? Kick ass! *kicks valve in the groin* I hope that the second audio cd comes out soon so I can piss off my brother by hogging the stereo =) Bungie is by far the best xbox game developer for many reasons...
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These feels like a semi-appropriate place for it, so im gonna go over my most memorable live game. It was multiflag ctf on coagulation, 4 vs 4. My team scored a point, and put the score at 1 to 0. And then for some reasosn two of my teammates, possibly in a party, both quit the game. This left me with the one other guy, who honestly wasnt that great, against the 4 opponents. We proceeded therefore to follow the most logical course of action, and camp the base with some shottys. And thats basically how the rest of the gme went, i died maybe once, and the other team got seriously owned. Im not sure why they couldnt beat us, they didnt do too well to say the least. This may sound pretty boring, but you weren't there to see the carnage of them trying to get that flag [Edited on 11/9/2005]
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And I have played Halo 2 everyday for this one year. And if I couldn't one day, I would give myself an extra dosage the next day. We love you Bungie.
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Yeah Happy birthday halo 2 way to go! I just noticed something about the pictures in metropolis, in one photo it's the same exact scene but in the 480p sarge and the marine on the left both have pouches on their belts but in the 720p picture they do not. Can anyone tell me why is that? Oh yeah before I forget, also can someone tell me if the Pop-in Graphics problem is fixed when playing halo 2 on the xbox 360 please? [Edited on 11/9/2005]
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From what I understand the 360 does native 720p for MOST games and 1080i for a few. But the 360 has a built in scaler that will scale these res to whatever you ask for. So you really don't have to worry about ANY of it. Just tell it what you want. If you have a standard tv then set it to 480i. If you have an HD {Like mine} that does not do 720p then set the output to 1080i. OR let your tv scale it for you. ESPN puts out 720p only. And my tv scales it to 1080i...and it look every bit at good as the 1080 channles do. :) And I think ALL HDTVs can scale. In other words "No Worries". ;)
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Happy Birthday!! im gonna go bake a cake that says 1 years old and has a master chief made in iceing on it and has HALO written in its font
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Bungie, four words: [b]I love you guys[/b]
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HAPPY BRITHDAY HALO 2 I GOT A OVERKILL TO DAY IN RUMBLE PIT THAT MADE THE HALO PARTY FOR ME
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Can anyone comment on if the 360 has an internal scaler? I mean, is it upscaling the resolution of the game internally, then outputs it to the TV? Oh, happy birthday Halo 2! Going to EB games at midnight a year ago is among my fondest memories.
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Hey Bungie!!!!!!! Read this!!!!!!! Tell everyone involved with Halo 1 & 2 THANK YOU! Of course, money is important...however all of you have gone beyond the means of making a profit and created a product that makes the consumer feel appreciated. The Halo world is an accolade to those who appreciate an intelligent story, superior graphics and tremendous game play. Excellent work!
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Happy Birthday!!!
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I wrote "Happy Birthday Halo 2" in all of my classes today!
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Shishka [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] tex mex matt I was almost positive yall were gonna put real time lights back in and all that stuff, I dont see why this wouldnt have been the perfect time to throw all that old stuff back in (you still have a copy of the old engine dont you?) I mean sure it would take a ton of recalibrating and the such, but I figured that would be your "project", guess not. It really is a shame though that halo 2 had so much more to it that no one will ever know about (to its full extent). Cool update, I'm a little dissapointed I was wrong though.[/quote] Hm, but Halo 2 HAS dynamic lights. Both in multiplayer and single player. If you were expecting the lightmaps to be replaced entirely by dynamic lighting, though, I'm not sure why you thought that would happen.[/quote] If I'm not mistaken, the old E3 2003 demo had dynamic lights all the time (I think). And just to clarify now, dynamic lights is like the lights that come from the lights in Zanzibar (from the hanging lamps) and in the level "Oracle", they are "real time" from what I understand, and display the shadow exactly as if it was under a real light. (correct me if I am wrong here). The reason why I thought this would happen was because of the Zanzibar Beach Video from the Multiplayer Map Pack that had dynamic lighting all the time, sorta like the sun was a giant light from Zanzibar. If I'm not mistaken, they took this out originally because it was to much for a 64mb xbox to handle (thats why in the E3 demo they used dev kits with 128mb RAM among other reasons). I also heard rumors of them actually having a xbox light on fire because they tried to make it run with this lighting and the thing just overloaded. So it made sense if they were gonna have to go back, and patch the game to get it to work on the xbox 360, then why not patch every level and other necessary code to work with dynamic lights in all areas. Since they now had a much more powerful system and were working on a project (close to right before xbox 360 was released and right after the announcement of backwards compatibility) it seemed to me like a very possible fit. Frankie If you can confirm I was right about my facts it would be much appreciated.... Also would like to know if that rumor is true. [Edited on 11/9/2005]
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Happy B-Day Halo 2 Wow what a post took me a while to read it. I had to waste all my money on a hdtv because my old tv's pixels were all messed up. im going to have to wait a while so I can save enough money to buy a xbox 360. And again happy b-day halo 2
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kool. since u can play halo and halo 2 on 360,i can sell my x-box and all my sisters crappy games that she thought were kool but rnt for money 4 the 360(well,some money) P.S. happy b-day halo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Yes it can.
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Can anyone confirm that Halo 2 can be played cross-platform on LIVE?
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And here I was going to curl up with a Dickens novel this rainy afternoon. No matter. Awsome article, Frankie. Brought tears to my eyes. Maybe. It's been one heck of a year. Let us know if any of you guys are going out to MOJAVE. They're cooking up a sandstorm, I hear. Thanks again for the games, guys.
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Thats very funny to me Rocke86!! I played Halo 1 on a 13" tv. It's all that I had! Then I bought the 30" HD in time for Halo 2! WOW! ;)
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Cool. But I agree with some of the previous posters, delaying H2 a year would have been worth it. I cant believe its already been and entire year!! BUNGIE ROCKS!!
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wow took me like 20 minutes to read but it was nice to c all the things that have happened with halo2 this pastyear(god has it been that long) FRANKIE i still odnt care if u get alot of requests for matches i ask u like every day cmon plzplzplzpzlplz i bet i know more about halo than u ..... : ) member just message me baq with at least an answer GJ BUNGIE I WONDER WHAT U WILL B REVEALING TO SHAKE THE XBOX INDUSTRIES -as u said- TO IT'S CORE ..MUHUHUHAHAHAHAHAHA :D
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So basically, because I don't own an HDTV, Halo 1 and Halo 2 will look exactly the same to me on the 360?
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Congrats Bungie! I recently upgraded my 13" tv with a 26" sansui hdtv widescreen crt tv I picked up at my local ShopKo for $400. It displays 1080i natively and accepts 480i/480p/720p/1080i. I connected it using a component cable and enabled 480p and 16:9. Halo 2 looks amazing! There is still a serious need of anti-aliasing. But overall it looked hd quality. I'm glad to see the 360 supports Halo 1 and 2 with anti-aliasing and 720p. Something to look forward to when I get the 360. Since I spent my 360 money on the hd, I'll have to wait till later 2006 to get my xbox 360. I am glad to wait, it will be worth it. I'm just glad I don't have to hook it up to my old 13" tv. Keep it up Bungie, you guys rock! [Edited on 11/9/2005]
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My biggest question is, will we be able to play LAN's between the systems?
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Woot happy b day
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Is the Halo1 720p widesccreen 16:9 for game play or just cut scenes? Or is the game play for halo still a 4:3 area? thanks guys.
