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[rajputwarrior]

i used full throttle :)

[stanley porkchop]

^ Exactly. It's a very good length on a respectable difficulty level (read: Heroic or higher) as many reviewers have also stated. It doesn't really make sense to go play it on Easy or even Normal and then say it's too short... come on now. :rolleyes:

I beat it on Heroic in about five hours my first run through. Don't try to pretend it isn't a short game.

Legendary extends it a little bit, but it's still fairly often that battles can be completely skipped- enemies are confined to small zones and won't leave to chase you.

The game is short. Don't make excuses up for it. That said, its replayability is infinite.

[Starman]

well after playing halo 3 since the 28th im gonna be trading that game in asap not even worth having in my house anymore almost all the people i know is trading the game in anywho im not dissing the game i just can not get into the game at all

Punctuation for the win!

I beat it on Heroic in about five hours my first run through. Don't try to pretend it isn't a short game.

Legendary extends it a little bit, but it's still fairly often that battles can be completely skipped- enemies are confined to small zones and won't leave to chase you.

The game is short. Don't make excuses up for it. That said, its replayability is infinite.

It's funny you should say that because I got into an argument with a clerk at my local Gamestop who was wearing a "NOOBS PLAY PS3" shirt at the Halo 3 launch (not for nothing, but if you're a clerk at a videogame store, don't wear shirts like that). Anyway, he asked "what good games are there for the PS3?". I said Heavenly Sword (which I like immensely). His rebuttal was "did it take you 6 hours to finish it? LOL". Funny that people can finish Halo 3 in less time.

And for the record, I haven't finished HS yet because I'm really trying to enjoy the game. However, rag's right, the replay value in Halo 3 kicks ass. I actually bought another 360 just so I can play in my computer room while my wife watches TV (moving the 360 is a pain, and this way I can play co-op/multiplayer with the kids).

Source: http://n4g.com/xbox360/News-71548.aspx

Any story could feel like it doesn't close. Even when I saw Return of the Jedi it felt like that PART of Star Wars was closed, but look at all the books and comics put out since then. I wouldn't put the game down because of that, it's a silly argument.

[giga Veteran]

I beat it on Heroic in about five hours my first run through. Don't try to pretend it isn't a short game.

Legendary extends it a little bit, but it's still fairly often that battles can be completely skipped- enemies are confined to small zones and won't leave to chase you.

The game is short. Don't make excuses up for it. That said, its replayability is infinite.

You finished Legendary by yourself in 5 hours. :| King of halo?

Heroic myself took me 10 hours. Now I'm working my way up with Legendary with several skulls.

[acies]

Well, just went to load up my game on Floodgates load up is extremely slow and it gets to 30% and then jumps back to 0%, Back to main menu I go to resume campaign option and it sits there loading for 3 minutes only to come up with Failed to Load. So I go back to a previous mission and it loads up and I play from there... as soon as I get to the next mission (floodgate) I get a Disk Read Error. The disk has a few small scratches on it, which were not there when I got it. The game had loaded up Floodgates fine the other day. :angry:

Times like this I really despise the xbox and it really feels like a shoddy piece of hardware. These kinds of problems shouldn't happen. especially with such a huge game, it's extremely disappointing.

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I beat it on Heroic in about five hours my first run through. Don't try to pretend it isn't a short game.

Legendary extends it a little bit, but it's still fairly often that battles can be completely skipped- enemies are confined to small zones and won't leave to chase you.

The game is short. Don't make excuses up for it. That said, its replayability is infinite.

You can't call a game short if you're skipping all the battles.

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[DrunknMunky Veteran]

I beat it on Heroic in about five hours my first run through. Don't try to pretend it isn't a short game.

My ass you did :rofl:

There is far better Halo players here than you and I doubt any of them took less than 10 hours.

[Nightz]

My ass you did :rofl:

There is far better Halo players here than you and I doubt any of them took less than 10 hours.

just cause you don't know them munky man, don't mean they don't exist.

sound familiar? ;) :)

[Veedems Veteran]

I'm chiming in that the AI is questionable, at best, especially when driving. At least twice now, I'd had the AI drive the warthog into a wall and keep trying to go forward while a wraith takes us out. Out of the warthog? I can't count how many times the damn AI characters jump in front of my shots and then give me the usual "same team" complaint.

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

just cause you don't know them munky man, don't mean they don't exist.

sound familiar? ;) :)

Haha just a bit. But in this case at least we kinda know ragn4rokk 2.0 in some ways :p

If he can prove it, I'll eat my words :)

Halo 3 most popular on Live

by Rob Purchese

Halo 3 is already the most popular game on 360, according to the amount of unique users playing the game while connected to Live.

The list of our current favourites was published on Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb's blog - the director of programming for Xbox Live - and saw Bungie's latest overtake previous champ Gears of War to claim the top spot.

Further down titles like Rainbow Six Vegas continued to perform well, as did the Call of Duty 4 beta and, subsequently, previous instalment Call of Duty 3.

The Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 demo also made the list, joining BioShock, Forza 2, Madden NFL 08 and Guitar Hero II to round out the top ten.

Elsewhere Sonic 2 proved to be the most popular Live Arcade title of recent times, while Halo 2 retained its long-standing seat on the Xbox throne.

Source: EG

Halo 3 smashes UK 360 Record

by Rob Purchese

Halo 3 has become the second fastest selling game in UK chart history, according to Chart-Track, with one in three Xbox 360 owners in the UK buying the Microsoft-published title.

With the UK Xbox 360 installed base at 1.4 millon in the UK, estimates suggest that the Bungie-developed game shifted more than 466,000 copies in the UK alone in its first four days on sale. That figure is dwarfed only by Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, which shifted an incredible 677,000 copies in two days when it was released on PS2 back in October 2004 - but, then again, the PS2 installed base in the UK at the time was some 6.4 million according to Chart-Track.

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Needless to say, then, that Halo 3 topped the all formats chart for the week ending 29th September. But it was also a strong week for new releases across the board.

Despite Halo 3 fever sweeping the nation, EA still managed to enjoy its best-ever opening weekend for a FIFA release with FIFA 08 charting in second place. All told, Halo 3 and FIFA 08 accounted for some 83 per cent of all 360 software sales last week. Meanwhile, last week's one and two - Tiger Woods 08 and MySims - dropped down to third and fourth.

Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights rather unpredictably outsold the far superior SEGA Rally by landing two places ahead in fifth - we blame the television advert with the boobs - while new EA IP Skate just missed out on the top ten by entering at 11th.

Activision, though, failed to break into the best sellers with Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, which was only able to manage 16th - although Transformers managed to hold onto ninth.

The rest of the top ten was padded out with familiar Nintendo names: More Brain Training, Super Paper Mario and Wii Play.

Ratatouille also failed to impact, sniffing around in 39th, but then the Pixar film on which it is based has yet to be released here.

Overall, Halo 3 managed to double the total 360 sales for the week, which prompted Forza Motorsport 2 to surge forwards 22 places, from 35 to 13.

Source: EG

[magik]

That's a big lol at 5 hours. :rofl:

[SnowRanger13]

My ass you did :rofl:

There is far better Halo players here than you and I doubt any of them took less than 10 hours.

I beat the game in around 10 hours on Legendary in Co-op. Solo Heroic in about the same time. Haven't gotten to Solo Legendary yet. I have all the skulls and have accessed all the terminals. My campaign goals are Solo Legendary and beating every level in the meta game scoring mode.

I'm a RPG fan so 10hours is not long to me but there is a lot of replay in the game, going back getting the skulls and terminals I found fun. Playing it on normal with friends that did not want to play any harder was actually a lot of fun, it was amazing to see how much different it is from Heroic Solo and Legendary Co-op.

On Easy or even Normal I'm sure I could rush the game and probably beat it in 4hours. But this is skipping a lot of the battles witch is really part of the game. I'm sure 5hours on heroic is possible, it would be very hard though rushing in there at that difficulty.

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Gamefly Charts: Halo 3 Stays On Top, Orange Box Makes Strong Debut

This week's top rental charts from U.S. game rental company GameFly, representing the most requested games for the week ending October 1st, highlight both to-be-released and already released games in a unique demand-specific chart.

Halo 3 maintains the top spot in the overall charts for the third straight week, while just over a week ahead of its highly anticipated release, the Half Life 2 compilation The Orange Box comes into the second spot, displacing EA's Skate all the way down to the fifth position. This week marks Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare's third week in the third spot, and Project Gotham Racing 4 enters the top five in the fourth position.

What follows is a breakdown of the top titles requested by GameFly subscribers across each of the major platforms:

Xbox 360

1. Halo 3 (Microsoft), 2. Half Life 2: The Orange Box (EA) 3. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Activision), 4. Project Gotham Racing 4 (Microsoft), 5. Skate (EA)

For the third straight week, the top five all-platform requests are identical to the top five Xbox 360 requests, reflecting the same movement and demonstrating a telling dominance for the console in the rental market.

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Source - Gamasutra

That last bit has less to do with Halo and more to do with the huge lineup of awesome 360 games, but who'd have thunk Halo 3 would be on top :p

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[DrunknMunky Veteran]

Hell Halo might be a short game in some people's eyes, I don't dispute that. Doing it in 5 hours on heroic though? I doubt that a lot. The very fact that the jackals in the game can kill you within 2 shots throws it out the window imo. That doesn't even take into account brutes and the flood which eat a lot of time up.

Like I said, if he can proove it, go for it :p

[Trong]

Well I did Legendary with 4 players on coop in 4 hours, does that count? :D I think we actually fought most of the battles. I can't remember, though, it was like on Thursday.

[stanley porkchop]

You guys are proving my point.

I'm working my way through Legendary right now, and I'm finding it far more difficult. Still, I've only played six or seven hours and I only have two missions left (4 and 5, which aren't exactly the longest). That said, on this playthrough I've been doing some missions with one other person co-op and some by myself. So that might have cut down some time. Still, me and brother wandered around plenty on those co-op missions, so that's some extension right there.

And I'm actually very good at Halo's campaign. I've played Halo 1 very often over the past five years. I've beaten the game on Legendary literally dozens and dozens of times. Halo 3 I've already gone through four times, I believe. Halo 2 I only finished once, for anyone interested.

Skulls + Heroic helps to toughen things up a bit, but it's still not a huge difference (unless you turn on Tilt with Famine, ogod!). Either way, it's not the difficulty we're arguing about- it's length. And the game is still short, any way you slice it.

Here's some more info for you nonbelievers: when I'm exploring, each level might take me upwards of two hours. But through normal play (not on Normal, mind), the game is fairly short. That's not a bad thing, though. Don't know what you guys are getting all tied up about.

Bioshock took me 30 hours. Metroid Prime 3 recently took me a little over 10. For some people, the times for those games were reversed. You see? Not everyone gets through games at the same pace. They're not like movies, with a set running time.

A little aside: I was just telling my brother you guys didn't believe how quickly I finished the game. He started laughing about how if we were doing co-op we probably could've finished in three hours. That's a little exaggeration on his part, but that's a remark coming from someone whose new favorite game is H3. The length doesn't matter, guys. It's the quality.

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Here's a link for u doodz.

A half an hour on Heroic, with almost all the skulls turned on. Co-op, granted, but still.

Edited October 2, 2007 by ragn4rokk 2.0

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

Hell if you did do it, I'm impressed. I certainly couldn't do it. Maybe If I replayed Halo 1 and 2 like you have I may be betetr at it. Really thoguh I just don't have the time to devote just to Halo.

Now your bro is saying 3 hours? Oh jeez, you really are pushing it :p

[Ayepecks]

Dang, you must be amazing. I'm not bad, but it takes me a little bit to beat a level on Heroic because I'm more strategic because I hate dying -- even if not dying means I take longer. Want to play co-op Legendary the week of Thanksgiving to get me that achievement? :laugh:

[Spartan_X]

TeamXbox guide to the IWHBYD Skull. :happy:

your reward... :p

[stanley porkchop]

Yeah Ayepecks, I'm all for that offer :)

The ironic thing is, I'm not all that great at multiplayer. On Halo 1 I was great- but then, so was anyone with a decent skill with the pistol. But now I think my K/D ratio is hovering around .75 :/

I'm better at objective games, but my Halo 3 slayer skills could use some work.

[Ayepecks]

I haven't played online multiplayer yet... still have to see how good I am. I can dominate my roommate and a few other people on the track team at the university I'm at at it, but that's offline, and I don't know how good they all really are.

[magik]

He did die 27 times, or 9 times... either way, 36 times total.

I haven't played online multiplayer yet... still have to see how good I am. I can dominate my roommate and a few other people on the track team at the university I'm at at it, but that's offline, and I don't know how good they all really are.

Why not give online multiplayer a go yet? It's really the only way to get better.

[freedom77]

Damn, either I am just rubbish on at this game or most others are amazing. Everyone seems to be marching through this game on Heroic and Legendary, I am going through on Normal, fairly simple but I still die alot. Though as much as I love games I am not a hardcore gamer, I just don't have the patience or concentration to play through on such high difficulties.

I might give it ago... but ehh....

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Also is there a way to rewind in the save movies?? It seems like a basic feature which doesn't seem to be there.

Edited October 2, 2007 by freedom77

[Ironman273]

TeamXbox guide to the IWHBYD Skull. :happy:

your reward... :p

Apparently you only need the last 7 notes so you don't need to do that much jumping

http://www.halo3planet.com/halo-3-skull-lo...s/iwhbyd-skull/