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  Phokal 5:43 pm on January 10, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: halo, I finally beat ( 17 ), Nathan Fillion, ODST, review ( 24 )   

  I finally beat: Halo 3 ODST 

  Halo 3 ODST is the latest Halo game from Bungie.  Originally planned as DLC (that’s downloadable content for you greens), there’s enough spit and polish gone into this fine example of a game to push it into prime time status.  A full retail release.

  It don’t hurt that it also includes a Halo 3 multiplayer disc. The full Halo 3 multiplayer suite as if you were playing the original and it’s fully backwards compatible. Anyone out there tho didn’t jump in on the original Halo 3′s “map packs” can get them n’ more here.  That makes this disc shiny and your Halo 3 disc all manner of useless.

  For the fans who did pony up the dough, you’re fan enough to appreciate the main adventure. For fans who don’t care about playing Halo multiplayer, this title ain’t for you. It may be the best Halo single-player campaign, but make no mistake: this is still Halo.

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  Phokal 10:28 pm on November 1, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Avatar Awards, halo, metagame, preview, Waypoint   

  Halo Waypoint is meta-achievements, Avatar Awards, and News 

  If you follow Halo, you probably know about the upcoming Halo Waypoint channel coming to Xbox Live.  It functions very similarly to the Netflix, Facebook, and Twitter channels; it is an extra box on the interface that you download and launch.

  Halo Waypoint will be available to all gold memebers (and for a limited time available to silver members).  It is otherwise free and currently in beta testing.  If you are apart of the Dashboard Preview beta (Facebook, Twitter, Last.FM), then you now have Halo Waypoint, too.

  Halo Waypoint is a News channel with videos, which is handy but also kind of lame.  But, as a bonus, it is also a meta-game itself.

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    Hunter 11:43 pm on November 7, 2009 Permalink | Reply

    i downloaded waypoint and i got the monitor but i should have the hoodie shirt and odst helmet for getting the required acheivements but thhey arent appearing for me? can someone help me as to why its not working?

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      That One Person 4:54 pm on November 10, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      I am having the exact same problem…

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        BR 4:57 am on November 21, 2009 Permalink | Reply

        Just download Waypoint, play it. and select Campaign. then it will scan ur acc and give u ur AWARD You welcome

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    BR 4:02 am on November 21, 2009 Permalink | Reply

    Me too. I think we are required to restart the game. Get the achievements, and log on to waypoint. ALL MUST BE ONLINE I THINK… but i spent time playing and getting all the achievements except Vidmasters.

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  Phokal 6:12 pm on April 8, 2008 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: blood gultch, halo, kittens, pLayday ( 42 )   

  

  pLayday: 4/8 – Halo 3

  Let’s go with a staple everyone likes that supports split-screen. Plus, we have a new map we’ve never even played on. The remade blood gultch. And everyone likes Halo.

  And kittens. Everyone likes kittens, too.

   
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  Phokal 1:12 pm on February 11, 2008 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: bungie, fighter punches mage, games ( 33 ), halo, listening to fans, melee, updating the game   

  

  Halo 3: Update 1 is fixing Melee

  You all may not know, but Halo 2 was initially very broken. As in, not even that fun. Imagine, if you will, a Halo without melee damage. Melee damage was nominal, requiring several hits to take down an opponent. A hit to the back didn’t even kill. Grenade splash area was small, and damage was low. Everyone simply used two weapons because melee and grenades were useless, which subsequently removed all two handed weapons as well from many matches as being useful.

  Then bungie released Halo 2 version 1.1 (the only update released). The increased melee damage and grenade damage and overall tweaked the game to be more like Halo 1. This was great, and made Halo 2 my choice of lan game.

  Now, Bungie preps Halo 3′s first update. Amongst the fixes, they are changing melee. Currently, whoever has the most health wins melee matches. There is also <1 second delay that still lets slightly delayed hits count as simultaneous. This is to help lag. It is a very simple rule that leads to people shooting and running straight at each other, and then whoever fires first / is the better shot wins because he has more shields at the time of impact, and that almost every melee battle comes to this because the delay allows both players to always throw melee attacks into one of these tie-breaker battles.

  This will change.

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    hintzilla 8:12 pm on February 11, 2008 Permalink | Reply

    I’m pretty eager to see these changes in effect. Halo whiners are some of the loudest in all of the internets, and I’m actually surprised that Bungie is throwing in a change of this magnitude.

    The melee issues are the most frustrating part of playing Halo 3 online, especially after being used to Halo 2′s system, even if it was largely based on latency and connection speed. Like the b.net update says, if you learned to just swing a bit early, it became second nature to get a few rounds out and then melee at the right moment. But I do think you bring up a good point in the fact that in nearly every other shooter, close quarters combat is rare to the point where it can be awkward when it does actually happen (ever run circles around a guy in COD4? Embarrassing.)

    The only other game I can think of that involves as much up close combat as Halo would have to Gears. The first few months of Gears of War online were nothing more than running around holding down the B button hoping an opponent would run into the thing. Then people discovered the power that the shotgun had when used the right way, and it became (and still remains) the ever frowned-upon noob’s choice. Anyways, getting back to Halo; every game is going to have one way of getting kills that is only slightly easier than the other methods, and it will be exploited to no end and looked down upon by the ‘hardcore’ fans. I give Bungie props for taking steps to do something about a feature of their game that the community protested. I can’t imagine that it’s very easy to admit defeat to the message board whiners, let alone actually go back and make changes to suit their impatient needs.

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    Phokal 9:49 am on February 12, 2008 Permalink | Reply

    Hah. Internet whinders. Hence the title of their post:
    “OMG Fix Mayleeey, Bungle!”

    It’ll definitely be interesting to see how this changes things. I know our matches involve full clips expended at each other, then a melee. If the Tool of Destruction is something other than a fist, it is weird.

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    hintzilla 4:31 pm on February 18, 2008 Permalink | Reply

    Yeah, it’s funny when you get online, and if you’re on a big enough map, guys will just sprint at you as soon as they see you, squeezing the AR trigger until they get close enough for a bash. I’ve found that carrying a BR around and backpedaling when this happens nearly always results in a kill since your opponent is probably going to be going in a straight line at you, keeping him right where your BR scope hopes he is. As long as you see him coming early enough, his AR spray will not be enough to kill you by the time you get a good 4 or so BR shots off on his dome.

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    hintzilla 1:06 pm on February 21, 2008 Permalink | Reply

    i like the change thus far. it feels a lot more like halo, not sure how to explain it really. the melee just feels right.

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    phokal 1:36 pm on February 21, 2008 Permalink | Reply

    its out? niice.

    pLayday next week: Halo 3

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  Phokal 11:14 pm on January 28, 2008 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: corpse hump, halo, halo 3 ( 7 ), hello?, oddball, pLayday ( 42 ), red vs. blue   

  

  pLayday: 1/28 – Halo 3 multi-team or ffa

  So far, 8pm seems to be a fine time, so let’s run with that for now. People are free to start a bit earlier, but hopefully you’ll stick around for the 8pm-9pm timeslot. We can also run later, too, depending on if people want to.

  As for the game of the week….

  Halo 3

  Let’s pick an easy one. No thinking needed: we ALL own it. I suggest we start out easy and play as a private match to start with, eventually taking it online after a couple of rounds.

  Any suggestions as to the type? Multi-team oddball was pretty fun near the end. There are also a couple of Race types, where multi-teams race around the map to a series of checkpoints. Also, I know no one likes to comment, but a roll call of the vocal would let me know if SOMEONE is planning on showing up

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    KFlair 9:18 am on January 29, 2008 Permalink | Reply

    I’m aiming to be home by 8 pm to join in. I’m not a big fan of free-for-all, as I have zero chance of winning.

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    phokal 9:25 am on January 29, 2008 Permalink | Reply

    It’s never as much about winning, as it is about doing some cool “thing” during the match: sticking someone with a grenade, hitting a sniper from behind, shooting 2 guys chasing the flag carrier, etc. And there is always multi-team if we get enough people. I just noticed people didn’t enjoy the traditional two team approach too much, since it was easy for the teams to be unbalanced.

    Of course, if we play more regularly, we may be able to find balance in a two team approach.

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    Boramis 7:30 pm on January 29, 2008 Permalink | Reply

    I’ll be on as soon as I’m done with dinner. No preference for play type, though team oddball sounds interesting.

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  Phokal 10:20 pm on January 15, 2008 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: don't leave it to chance!, games ( 33 ), gears, halo, let's play together, live, pLayday ( 42 ), rainbow six ( 4 ), undertow ( 2 ), xbox ( 9 )   

  

  Organizing pLayday

  I want to organize a day of the week where we all attempt to get online Xb Live and play a game. Instead of leaving it to chance, we make an effort to log on a particular day and play together in a game we all have.

  I can even post ideas for the game here ahead of time (map or gametype preferences can be expressed in comments).

  I have been gathering potential days from everyone, and so far the best day looks like Tuesday.

   
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  Phokal 9:00 pm on January 11, 2008 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: ctf, deathmatch, games ( 33 ), halo, I finally beat ( 17 ), lan, zombies ( 8 )   

  

  I finally beat: Halo 3

  This is a bit delayed, as I actually beat Halo 3 within two or three days of its launch.

  Halo 3 is just the natural progression of Halo-ness. Halo may have revolutionized FPS with it’s two weapon system (How can I carry these 18 weapons at once? Where does that chainsaw GO when I pull out my Sniper Rifle, Pistol, Shotgun, and Assault Rifle) and Regenerating Health (I’m bleeding deep in enemy territory. Good thing there are all these bullet healing health packs lying around EVERYWHERE), and a fun Co-Op Campaign (Mobile Respawn Point) but the 3rd game should bring something new to the table. After all, that’s what Halo did to make itself so popular. Let’s split this into two parts: Campaign and Matchmaking. (More …)