Halo2 expansion packs

Please God, nooooooo

http://www.ebgames.com/ebx/product/256424.asp

Could this potentially be the start of a flood of Halo2 packs? Maybe an 'upgrade' with 5 extra levels (that should have been there in the first place) to bring the game upto 2.5 spec could be in the pipe-line?

 

Don`t know why they just don`t do it as downloadable...would save on production costs!

 

I thought downloadable content was one of the points of XBox Live?

 

wtf...you could easily download 9 fucking levels. Although the main reason halo is popular is the multiplayer and many will get this, it could/should be a download..

True not everyone has Live to get these, but $20.00 is too much for 9 damn maps. I'm guessing these will be released on Live sooner or later...make the people without live pay more...that's the thinking I guess.

$50 for all the new maps or pay $20 for the occasionaly expansion pack. Good advertising for Live really.

 

They will be on live but im guessing not everyone has live and some people want to have the levels for lan games. Dint think it would be charged $20 though!

 

Maybe (I hope) Xbox live and bungie will let you download new weapons and stuff, and maybe even new vehicles, and perhaps the ability to drive Pelicans and stuff.

But the main thing that would rock on multiplayer is my idea:
Team Scarab
The Offensive team has a scarab with one gunner, driver(Who drive in 3rd person view), and some crew that defend it with weapons and stuff that are in first person view, perhaps a sniper on the roof or something.
The Defensive team has 4 Banshees and Rockets and snipers.
Now I just need to know a multiplayer map big 'nuff for it.

Here is a site with some Photoshopped wish lists for Halo 3
http://stuffo.howstuffworks.com/halo-wish-list.htm

 

Fuck, $20 is only £10. Why complain?

 

I just checked out the IGN boards on the subject and apparently $20 might as well be their life savings. :smt043

 

because i have no reason to pay for 9 poxy maps ...

 

I don't mind paying $20 for a map pack. I don't have Xbox Live, so I'm glad Bungie is at least making sure people can use these maps.

 

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But yeah, I figured this would happen given what Bungie said in one of their recent news announcements. Quite frankly, they can suck a nut for charging. I'm not paying anything for new maps; it takes all of five hours to put together a new map. Ridiculous. If you put me in a room w/ the tools I could fucking make 9 maps in half the time these assclowns have taken.

 

As a mapper for both UT and HL/HL2 I must say that you are either a mapping god or a complete idiot when saying that.

 

I was joking, but with a team of 60+ people, and a publisher in MS, this is preposterous.

I was talking about MP maps btw, 1P maps take much longer (or in Halo's case, copy and pasted 10x).

 

Yes, I agree they shouldnt charge $20 for 9 maps.....

And yes, I was refering to multiplayer maps too.

 

dude, you could have said this before, i always liked the UT and Half-life map designs! :-D:smt023

and yeah, making maps is something really long, especially if you want it to be good (and i'm guessing you want it this way) You want it to be perfect in every little details and omogene, you want every pixels of your map to be useful, beautiful and exiting, it's just like being an house designer.

 

too true. :smt043

 

I'm guessing bungie just made the maps and MS is the one putting them out on dvd's for $20. It would be cool to use stuff like the scarab gun, but that would be asking for too much.

 

I hope you (and anyone else) didnt misunderstand me and think I meant "I worked on those games".....as that is what your reply seems to indicate you meant....but I could just be reading your english wrong.

I meant I am an experienced mapper for both game engines (though I have no officially released maps....I used to make them for personal LAN events or just for fun)

 

Dude, i really had alot of respect for you in the last 2 minutes. :-(

oh well, ..:smt043;-)


cahaz

 

One day, Cahaz, one day Just you wait and see!