[KillerGremlin]

I'm not a Halo hater though. I'm a huge Halo fan, I was a diehard Halo fan. When I saw the E3 video for Halo 2, two or three (forgot how long it was) years ago, I crapped my pants. Halo 2: The Fight To Save Earth. As that one guy pointed out in his conspiracy rant thing (not a conspiracy anymore), Halo 2 looked like the focus was on Earth. Halo 2 comes out, some 3 years after development starts. There is only 1 earth level, and it sucks. The rest of the game is pretty uneventful, and the game unexpectedly cuts off. What's worse, the game seems like it lost content from the initial developement date, some 3 years back. And to top all that off, the final product, Halo 2, looks like a game that could have been completed with 1 year of work. Screwed over royally? YES DAMMIT. Microsoft got its corporate fingers all over Bungie, and told them to take stuff out of Halo 2 to make it fall short of expectations, and now they are using that to sell Xbox 2. Was that cheap as hell? YES. Was it a good marketing scheme? Maybe. We'll see.........if Halo fans are like me, they will be equally as pissed.


And, on second though, I probably will be playing Halo 2.5. By the time I build my new PC next year, I should be able to emulate next-gen hardware. I'll make sure to emulate that one in spite of Microsoft. Hell, I'll even emulate it on my pirated copy of XP.