Harro Free

James Reynolds | March 12, 2009

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James Reynolds

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Just as an addendum for the various people who think the Muslim protesters from yesterdays post were just exercising their right to free speech to protest the war, consider this quote:

“I don’t want to be associated with Britain. One day Britain will be liberated from capitalism and democracy and will be living under Sharia.”

That’s a quote from one of the protesters showing us that he’s only here to destroy our way of life, way to go Free speech. By the way, there is no universal free speech in Sharia law, if you were curious.

Anyway, on to brighter subjects! Yesterday I decided to play Halo 3 of all things, so I popped it in and played a few lone wolves games, it was a bit poor if I’m honest and I didn’t terribly enjoy it. Later on however a few of my friends jumped on and we played Ranked Team Slayer, we aren’t awesome but we did hold our own and I had a lot of fun.

There was one amusing note however, when I exclaimed later on that all I really wanted to do now was go play COD4 everyone agreed and we arranged to meet up next week and give it a few goes. That’s the funny thing really because short of Halo specific cravings (which are rare) I’m probably never going to play it again, COD4 is just a fantastic game though.

Hmm. Anyway, have fun guys,
JamesR.

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Halo 2/3 Poll

James Reynolds | November 7, 2008

Just had a conversation with a friend so lets put it to the poll! For … all … zero of you to vote on!

Read below before voting ;)

[polldaddy poll=1083868]

James 1: 
Here’s a thought. Halo 2 is better than Halo 3. To me it seems that the third one hasn’t got an original bone in its body and while neither were better than 1 at least 2 tried to improve not just copy.

James 2: 
Woah woah woah woah woah woah woah woah woah woah woah woah.

Woah.
Halo 2 was NOT better than Halo 3 … Are you crazy? I would at MOST say it’s equal … But not better …

James 1:
Halo 2 tried to build on the first one but added more and changed itself (ie the boss battle, the Brutes, the Avatar and the Battle Rifle). All 3 did was put all of the ingredients of the first two together. For example they just ripped the ending of 3 from 1 (driving). While the boss battle of 2 didn’t work I think it was incredibly lazy of them not to do something original.
 
James 2:
On the contrary, your definitions of “Original” are confined within the Halo universe. Those concepts are rife throughout FPS’ globally, all Halo 2 did was abandon the stylistic and radical way of doing things and adopt a more generic approach.

Need to end on an epic note? Throw a fucking boss in … Sure … That’s never been done before. Halo 3’s last level is utterly epic and you know it – The only 2 points Halo 2 really improved on were the Brutes and the Arbiter, it’s a shame neither was ever capitalised upon and both concepts were poorly executed.

Halo 3 took you back to the grass roots but tried not to outright drop any of the things they (arguably) mistakenly brought into 2. Long story short: Halo 1 > Halo 3 > Halo 2.

James 1:
WHatever. You want to play a good Halo game play Halo, a good map editor play Far Cry, a good online FPS play COD4. Halo 3 is inferior to all those games and many more. When 2 was released it was king of the mountain (if only for a little while). It seems to me that 3 wasn’t as successful as it should have been and only did well on the backs of its older brothers. Just ask the hardcore group of people who still only play 2 online and shun 3 which one is better. I don’t think anyone will support 3 as much.
 
James 2:
On the contrary, I’d rather play Halo 3 and use Forge purely because FarCry is and always will be a lousy game.   


But I do regularly play COD4 and I would play Halo again if I hadn’t already done it 110% but you know what I will never go back and play again? Halo 2.

Halo 2 is the one that was only successful because of 1 and 3 wasn’t as successful as 1 because 2 tanked the reputation, every industry analyst will know this!

And you can’t refer to the hardcore still playing 2 because I can refer to the “hardcore” still playing any game … Hell … Korea is still obsessed with the 8 year old Starcraft O.o

James 1:
Whats that? You suck? Yeah, I know. 
We will always disagree on Halo and, as always, you are wrong.

So what do you think?

Regards,
JamesR. 
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