Halo 3 Pre-Release Discussion

[Candyman5]

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Has anyone pre-ordered Halo from www.liongames.com ? I'm considering the Collector's edition for $50, but I wonder how long their shipping times are. Does anyone have experience with the site?

Thanks

Wow, Regular Halo 3 at $40.00 and Collector's Edition for $50.00, I wonder how much the Legendary Edition was going for? I got $130.00 on Halo 3 Legendary Reserve at Gamestop, to bad they are sold out of the Legendary copy's. I would take them deals but keep proof of purchase just in case something happens.

[Pete1210]

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Has anyone pre-ordered Halo from www.liongames.com ? I'm considering the Collector's edition for $50, but I wonder how long their shipping times are. Does anyone have experience with the site?

Thanks

I preordered the regular version for of Halo3 for $39.99. I had preordered GRAW2 from liongames and it arrived 1 week after the release date. The owner Tony explained that GRAW2 was a small order for him so he got it later from his supplier than he would with big order like Halo3.
Even if I have to wait a week its worth it to me to save $20.

[Flawless]

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Halo 3 Campaign Screenshot

http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=12621

Well, well well, what's going on here? We're saying nothing about what's going on in the above image other than it is a screenshot taken in-game from Halo 3. You may now commence rabid speculation, inevitably followed by wishing that you were friends with a super genius doctor who was willing to drive you to Sept. 25 in his '80s sports car.

[sportsdude]

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I am looking forward to this a lot, but I can't get past the feeling that the graphics are sub-par for what a Halo title usually is. Some shots it looks like they just upgraded the textures and refined the player models. This will definitely not deter me from getting the game, but am I the only person who feels this way?

[Flawless]

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I am looking forward to this a lot, but I can't get past the feeling that the graphics are sub-par for what a Halo title usually is. Some shots it looks like they just upgraded the textures and refined the player models. This will definitely not deter me from getting the game, but am I the only person who feels this way?

Are we talking multiplayer?

Because the above campaign screen certainly doesn't have sub-par graphics.

[Candyman5]

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I am looking forward to this a lot, but I can't get past the feeling that the graphics are sub-par for what a Halo title usually is. Some shots it looks like they just upgraded the textures and refined the player models. This will definitely not deter me from getting the game, but am I the only person who feels this way?

I think to many people go by the way multiplayer and the beta looked graphics wise. People has got to stop basing single player graphics on multiplayer graphics and from what i have seen so far single player is coming together pretty nicely. IMO

[Flawless]

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I think to many people go by the way multiplayer and the beta looked graphics wise. People has got to stop basing single player graphics on multiplayer graphics and from what i have seen so far single player is coming together pretty nicely. IMO

Those graphics in the campaign screen coupled with the scale of Halo 3...

"The thing is, if you took every single multiplayer map and stitched them together into this unholy fusion of a multiplayer map, it would probably be about the same size as some of the single-player maps, right?" - Tyson Green

"Yeah - half of a small single-player mission!" - Jaime Griesemer

"We've got so much more processing power for AI that we're putting battles together that you've never seen in Halo. They're huge. The fights are just enormous." - Jaime Griesemer

"It was a battle of such ferociously large scale, that it stood out even in the newly embiggened Halo 3. I mean, scale. Scale of combat and literal, physical scale. There’s a couple of things I’m not at liberty to reveal about that encounter, and the one immediately before it, but it was big. Think dozens of fiery explosions, plasma fire coming from everywhere. Aerial combat in the skies above. Jerks with turrets on the ground below. Rockets flying everywhere and dozens of ways to approach the combat. It was epic and mind numbing, and still 100% Halo." - Bungie Weekly Update

Average Halo 3 encounter

• Scary Post Apocalyptic Environment: 1
• Phantoms: 3
• Grunts: 14
• Marines: 6
• Brutes: 8
• Jackals: 3
• Wraiths: 3
• Ghosts: 6
• Mongoose: 1
• Warthogs: 1
• New version of old favorite: 1
• Chief: 1
• Giant Bad Guy in distance: 1
• Frightening and Inexplicable Maelstrom: 1
• Ancient Forerunner Artifact: 1

- Bungie Weekly Update


Yes please.

[Candyman5]

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• Scary Post Apocalyptic Environment: 1
• Phantoms: 3
• Grunts: 14
• Marines: 6
• Brutes: 8
• Jackals: 3
• Wraiths: 3
• Ghosts: 6
• Mongoose: 1
• Warthogs: 1
• New version of old favorite: 1
• Chief: 1
• Giant Bad Guy in distance: 1
• Frightening and Inexplicable Maelstrom: 1
• Ancient Forerunner Artifact: 1

- Bungie Weekly Update


Yes please.

Where are the Elites? And Giant Bad Guy???? WTH lol

[Flawless]

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Comments from Frankie on the campaign screen.

"It's not a cutscene, it's a carefuly posed screenshot from Campaign. You can carefully pose and take your own screenshots in Campaign, in the game, in Sept 25th. You can recreate this pose exactly."


Being able to take our own screenhots during campaign confirmed.

I wonder if all the Bold Letter characters above are on one side? And Giant Bad Guy???? WTH lol

The Brutes aren't on the same side as the Chief and Marines. As for the giant bad guy, I have no idea. Maybe the thing we saw a very brief glimpse of in the CG trailer with that big hammer?

[Candyman5]

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Being able to take our own screenhots during campaign confirmed.

The Brutes aren't on the same side as the Chief and Marines. As for the giant bad guy, I have no idea. Maybe the thing we saw a very brief glimpse of in the CG trailer with that big hammer?

Kewl about the pics in the Campaign...I EDITED my question. I meant where are Elites?

[ThaGenecyst]

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[sportsdude]

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Are we talking multiplayer?

Because the above campaign screen certainly doesn't have sub-par graphics.

From the movies I've seen which I believe were all from the beta multiplayer.

I don't put much stock in screenshots because, well, they're not moving. You could take a hi-res, HD picture of any game and make it look good.

[sportsdude]

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Comments from Frankie on the campaign screen.

"It's not a cutscene, it's a carefuly posed screenshot from Campaign. You can carefully pose and take your own screenshots in Campaign, in the game, in Sept 25th. You can recreate this pose exactly."

Does this mean the release date is Sept. 25?

[Miles_Yuhas]

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Does this mean the release date is Sept. 25?

Yeah, its been known for some time now.

[Candyman5]

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Does this mean the release date is Sept. 25?

Yeah, they announced that during the beta.