Halo 3 Map Pack Out. Who Cares?

U.G.O writes: "The emphasis in that title should be clear. I wasn't being sarcastic, I seriously want to know, how many of you will actually be going out (or rather sitting on the couch) and throwing down cold, hard Microsoft points for three new Halo maps?".

[boodybandit]

I was really into Halo 3 until COD4 came out and I haven't played it since. Halo 3 was a blast but I like what IW did with COD4 more. I don't think I will go back to it but I always think that and usually end up revisiting old titles during slow months (Spring).

How crowded are the Halo servers today?
Have they dropped off drastically, some, or not at all since COD4 hit?

[Dukester101]

I've been playing Halo 3 less and less since I got CoD4 and I hate going back and forth.

I love Halo (in fact, people even call me a Halo freak sometimes), but I've loved it for it's story, not its MP which is trumped by CoD4 IMO. If only CoD had the replay and screenshot feature... then it'd be AAA.

Naturally, I'll grab the maps when they're free... no need to drop $10 on something that should have been included in the game (especially the new Forge features as I love Forge, but it is limited).

[jmoneezie]

@dk_2ka - although you were not trying to be sarcastic, you were trying to be a jerk. (And you succeeded) If you knew anything about writing, you would know that unless you are trying to start something you should not title a submittal the way you did.

I guess you just wanted some attention. If you were curious who was interested in buying the maps you could have addressed that as a comment instead of putting your question out there in neon lights so to speak. But, it's cool I would expect nothing less from some of you guys on N4G, you're just a bunch of firestarters.

@Dukester101 - Funny you should say that, being you played halo3 yesterday..lol But, it's not my business anyway.

[halo3betasnatch out]

yeah same, I'm a big halo fan but i think Bungie could of done alot better with the games, what I'm really into is the phenomenal story!

[lou]

I have COD4 and I picked up Unreal Tournament III today on the PS3 so why would I want to play Halo 3. Plus everyone is playing Mass Effect or Uncharted, Orange Box on the PS3

[Douchebaggery]

I'm gonna get them when they're free.

[InMyOpinion]

It's about time for MS to understand that this form of marketing is only making gamers hostile towards them. The maps should be free.

[soulhonda]

I totally agree with Jenzo above. Why would anyone buy these map packs knowing that they will be free in Spring? Riddle me that BATMAN!

[BLACKJACK VII]

Who cares ? Probably the 5 million plus who bought the game.

[BloodySinner]

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[Shaka2K6]

Who cares about generic halo 2.1 pls.

[jmoneezie]

I have never ever seen a game that has generated as much hate as halo3 has done with the typical sony fanboy. Halo 3 must give you guys nightmares, because you folk never pass up an opportunity to lend a couple words to the halo hate library. It's kinda pathetic.

First off, the game is NOT bad, it's actually a very good if not great game. Perhaps 360 fanboys would hate R/C and uncharted if they sold the way halo3 did. (oh well, pipe dream) I'm just saying, the only thing halo3 did was sell, it didn't talk about anyone mom, date anyone sister, rob any old ladies, it just sold and now it's hated by PS3 Fanboys all over the globe...SAD!

[PS3PCFTW]

hate?

its more like laughter.

i point and laugh at it.........

[KingME]

I see you're still out trolling. You are one poor angry, depressed soul. I actually feel sorry for you man. You must have been beaten by 360 people on the 360th day of the year while 360 people watched and laughed at you for another 360 days for you to have this much hate for the xbox 360..lol

[Spydiggity]

what a coincidence, now we're all pointing and laughing at you

[DarkSniper]

Halo 3 is nothing more than the Trojan horse used by Microsoft to extract funds from the hard working slaves of XBOX Live. Not only are you just only receiving three maps, but you will not be able to pay a solid dollar amount to make the purchase. Microsoft points were designed for consumers to overpay and then recieve products that under-deliver.

The Playstation Network has garnered the identity of the most user friendly market combined with open source tools. On the PLAYSTATION 3®, the competing title Unreal Tournament 3 has provided gamers with an unlimited amount of extra maps, and the ability to use these maps at no charge. Completely free. This feature alone helps the PS3 gain a significant advantage over the vastly inferior XBOX 360 console.

By spending so much money on Microsoft points, Microkids are doing nothing but JUMPING IN debt even further.

$niper

[Honeal2g]

these fanboys just never stop...no halo is not good dont buy (goes on to sell over 4 millions copies)360 has the highest attach ratio.. its ppl like you that give sony a bad image...i mean u talk that system up to death yet they cant sell games to save there life. why is that? you guys scream blu-ray when some one says something positive about x360 is better yet ppl buy videogame systems ot play games not watch movies ...

And you guys obviously feel threatend by this game because u actually clicked the link to comment on a game that has nothin to do with ps3. its evident halo3 has gotten under your skin ...that game alone has sold more copies than a handfull of ps3 games put together... and trust me i plan on buying a ps3 but i;m waiting for an exclusive that is actually exclusive...ff13 , killzone etc etc. go crawl back in your whole and do something ....

About the maps i downloaded them stand off and foundary are pretty sick maps ..havent tried out rats nest yet i;m out!

[XxZxX]

yeah go ahead and enjoy a game that even a 9 years old kid can be pro of this games. LOL

[R M Spender]

the maps prob should be waited for but i got em and played and there were about 40,000 people playing so i guess that who is gonna buy it. and i gotta say that they were the worst of the worst when it came to racist trash talkers but hey.

[Spydiggity]

hate to break it to you XxZxX...9 year olds are kicking our asses in every game.

[XxZxX]

after playing COD4, it make HALO 3 feel like kid play. wake me up when COD4 release it's map pack.

[The Chief of Mjolnir]

Call of Duty 4 is full of campers and sneaky bastards. I´m level 55, and have been sniped by a guy from across the map too many times. And that gets repetive.

I take Halo 3.

[Nameless]

The people asking who cares cares because they would not be wasting their time asking who cares. So that means that they care.

[XerockX]

I bought the maps this morning for my son mostly,cuz I dont really play halo.I'm addicted to headquarters in cod 4.
But come on.
I spent ten bux on lunch.
10 bux for 3 maps isn't bad.
There's also new objects in forge as well. great things for making big ramps.
I'm just sayin.

[FirstknighT]

...I bought a $10 meal that consisted of a burrito and a drink today for lunch.

3 maps for only $10??? No problem!

[00]

doing in the 360 thread?.

[dachiefsman]

are you new to this site?

cause this has been going on forever....unfortunately

[lou]

in the PS3 thread.

[InMyOpinion]

They click the disagree button...

[FirstknighT]

COD4 is a great multiplayer game but it didn't affect Halo's multiplayer in anyway. This past weekend their was over 2 million players online in Halo 3.

The problem with COD4 is all the camping. Snipers that have that "shoot thru the walls gadget after playing a 1000 games" really ruins the games for the rest.

[StupidTeenagersMust-]

That actually sounds kind of cool.

[Rhezin]

because they love to hurt 360 owners, but they do it in a retarded way that it's just funny how stupid they are seeing as halo 3 surpassed any and all sales record of any ps3 game. YOUR WASTING YOUR TIME, F@GS.

[XxZxX]

I should give you applause for #1 hypocrite. You got 1 bubbles for being a troll in PS3 thread. What can't take it now when XBOX 360 finally has a ps3 troll?

[dachiefsman]

but is it is no COD 4....I will get the maps when and if they become free...

[Bnet343]

when they are free.

[DJ]

They better keep pumping these out! Though I remember the Map Pack being pretty cheap. I only paid 20 bucks for 9 levels, which was sweet. Personally, I'm more of a Call of Duty/Warhawk person, but I'm sure a lot of Halo 3 owners will want this.

[jackdoe]

I'm not gonna go out and buy the maps and will wait until they go free. Map packs are never worth the money IMO.

[name]

While I don't own a 360, I can only assume Halo 3, like the previous Halos, is a game people will eventually return to. While the hype may be on call of duty 4 right now, I'm guessing the Halo formula is something people'll return to when the COD4 fever wares off.

[OOG FunK]

wild guess the kids who still play halo?

[slak]

Am that guy played halo3 saw COD4 played that a lot but now its back 2 halo 3.... 10$ is noting

[Rick James]

Any of the 5 Million+ Halo 3 owners. Thats who? I have yet to ever buy any DLC for a game. So I will wait to get feedback on these maps, and extra features to see if its worth 10 dollars. 10 dollars is alot to me right now after having spent $800.00 to fix my car :(

Most likely I will wait till it's free.

I notice the same 3 guys trolling in the same articles today. PS3PCFTW, DarkSniper, Shaka2K6. I think we are missing a few of them. Do these guys ever give up?

[Jdash24]

in terms of customation, foundry is a dream, i plan to make many maps on foundry....like maybe a big maze and in the center is the oddball......mazeball......it would be pretty sweet :P

[Jrome]

I really like what COD4 did. I even stopped playing Halo 2 and started playing multiplayer COD3 when my friends came over. I just like being able to shoot someone...and kill them...without having to shoot them 5 million times.

1. It's a lot more fun.
2. It's a lot more fun
and 3. I don't have to waste bullets shooting people 50 million times.

BOOOM HEADSHOT

[WilliamRLBaker]

I got em purchased:)

[Asylumchild]

After buying Unreal tournament 3 for ps3 there is no way of me buying more halo3 maps.... and I havent been playing it much becuase I injoy playing CoD4(xbox360) much more.....

[Daxx]

I'm going to purchase them right now. :D

[cr33ping_death]

i got halo 3.....not spending money on the maps.... my live buddies are all playing COD4. HALO has been in its case ever since. ill just wait till they are free thank you.

[JokesOnYou]

but again ONLY the haters count.

COD4 is sweet but Halo3 takes skill to be really good, seriously its so easy to get kills in COD4, but I guess its more realistic so I can see why some like that, I do too, but when I play Halo I know I have to bring my A game or you get your ass handed to you quickly, I pick up COD4 and I easily get kills in fact the skill ranking doesn't carry much weight, its basicly whoever shoots first, Halo3 multiplayer is kickass if you got skillz and Halo3 still has high traffic online. sonykids simply hate Halo because its insanely popular and it wasn't released with the ps logo on it.

JOY

[DJ]

Sorry dude, but Halo has nothing on Call of Duty. True, Call of Duty's skill ranking doesn't mean much (and simply unlocks really sweet weapons and perks), but it's definitely not a game of "Who shoots first." Maybe you should actually try and improve in Call of Duty before making such newbie comments.

"sonykids simply hate Halo because its insanely popular and it wasn't released with the ps logo on it."

Again, yet another immature comment. Most of the people I know own PS2s and (and a few are getting PS3s right now) but we love Halo 2 still and play it at parties from time to time. My big gripe with Halo 3 though is that it doesn't do anything particularly different than Halo 2, other than the anti-vehicle mines. Too bad it suffers from a screwed up melee system where whoever 'punches second' wins. The vast majority of us still prefer Halo 2 over Halo 3.

[JokesOnYou]

I got my copy of COD4 the day it launched, I have beaten the entire game and have 1000 gamerpoints to prove it (Mile High Club Achievement on Veteran, fcking hard achievement) I'll put up pics on n4g if you need proof and I've played my fair share of online too, only the last 2 weeks haven't played because I'm concentrating on my 2nd playthrough on Mass Effect, in fact if you read my above comments carefully you would know that I dont say its basicly more about the one "Who shoots first." because I'm a "newbie" at it, but because its actually *Very easy for me to get kills, compared to Halo3 where I struggle to get to the top of the leader boards= in fact if you want to go a few rounds in COD4 on the 360 to test me, then just pm me, we can setup a match and then we can share the results on n4g, Iam willing to bet you most people who have actually played *alot of both games* will tell you that Halo3's multiplayer has a significantly higher learning curve if you want to succeed (win consistently) against the even the above avg players.

And again I stand behind my statement: "sonykids simply hate Halo because its insanely popular and it wasn't released with the ps logo on it."

come on DJ, you're not new sonykids have hated Halo3 since before they saw the first screen of the game.

also DJ, seems your info about Halo3 melee system is "off", its not who "punches second" wins, its actually more about whoever "shields" is lower, or in other words if you have lowered your opponents shield *MORE from shooting or a grenade and you both clash with a melee the one with the lower shield will die.

JOY

[WilliamRLBaker]

COD4 is amazingly easy it is vastly easy to get kills in that game because FACT the weapons are insanely unbalanced.

The m16a is the weapon of choice it is the best weapon an cheapest in the game, its got long distance, accuracy and its 3 shot burst is a guranteed kill with each pull of the trigger, alot of the weapons in that game should be burst, single shot and autofire *the m16a in real life has all those options* but many weapons are limited to either single shot, burst or rapid fire.

Light machine guns are insanely accurate and distance shooters *in real life they are not*

Single shot weapons that should be more powerful since they are single shot aren't, and Sniper rifles? some are so underpowered compared to the others that you have no real choice BUT to use those others.

Nearly every one that snipes in that game uses the .50 berret because regardless of where you hit em they are dead.

CLaymores act more like c4 in that they blow up and kill all around instead of being directional shrapnel charges like in real life *which is why in real life and in game it says POINT THIS WAY*

The game is unbalanced, if your in a clan the choice any more is every one use m16a's and thats it.

[FordGTGuy]

the maps.

[cain141]

Those of us who cared were playing the new maps, not crying on n4g...

[The Dude]

Halo 3 Map Pack Out. Who Cares? Maybe the five million + who own the game.

[otherZinc]

All I have to say to this Fool is: there are over 600,000 people playing HALO 3 at peak hours every single night 7 days a week!

[Spydiggity]

I think it's unfair to charge 70 dollars for any game. we are already coughing up 60 dollars. now game creators and releasing their games with fewer maps because they know with quick access to patches and updates, they can release more content later. then somebody realized that since these are closed networks, they can charge us for these maps. I wouldn't be as upset if it were 5 dollars per 3 maps. especially for these games that already sold millions of copies. But the truth is, it's greed and as long as ppl are willing to pay for it, the companies aren't going to stop doing it. that goes for halo...gears of war...and even everyone's precious COD.

[JosefTor]

Yup... don't care. Halo 3 was released wayyyyy too early and it shows. Call of Duty 4 rocks and they took the time to get it right and not just rehash something. Why would I pay extra to play multiplayer? I will wait just like I did for Halo 2 maps. Except... those maps weren't in the rotation and these maps aparantely are going to be in the rotation.

[Spydiggity]

COD 4 is a total rehash...and not just of COD3 but of COD2. it's the same engine, same gameplay, even the same GUNS! all the guns feel exactly the same as they did before they even sort of look like the old wwII guns. all they did was put a red dot on some of the sights. the pace of the multiplayer is exactly the same. in the single player game the enemies still just line up in the same hiding spots and peak out the same way, and they all still have the same 3 or 4 death animations. The only improvement in COD4 is the lighting effects. the graphics are cheap, the gameplay is horrible. all COD every had was good cinematics. i'm so sick of hearing about how great this game is. i actually went out and got it cuz i was constantly hearing about how good it is, and it is a total let down. COD is proof that to trick the majority of the consumers into thinking something doesn't suck all you have to do is over hype it. gears of war is exactly the same way. and so is the Wii. i find it amazing that i'm the only person that can see through cheap tricks and notice that a game runs on an old dated engine or has VERY shallow gameplay. i'm sure you COD 4 owners have COD 2 or 3 as well. put those discs in and then immediately switch to 4 and maybe then you'll notice there is NO enhancement. It's the same exact game with a different skin.

[AAACE5]

I learned my lesson from the rainbow six map packs! I bought the first one cause all my friends had it, but I waited for the second one and was lucky enough it became free a few days after it came out.

It seems like a cool thing to do when these packs come out, to buy them and enjoy them, but when something new comes along like H3, CoD 4, you see that money is pretty much wasted, cause you really didn't get your moneys worth out of them.

I'll wait for them to become free, and save my money for the games coming out in early '08!

[DARK WITNESS]

um... the halo fans.

ok, i am a Halo fan, but i am not getting the maps simply because i don't like M$ pricing on the market place. Its not just Halo, i think most of the game content on the marketplace is way over priced.

some people will agree, some people will say who cares, its just a few $ or £ if your in my part of the world, but as long as we just go along with it they will keep charging.

considering half the games coming out already feel short changed for content, paying that bit extra does not feel right.

i would love to have the new maps now and play on them because i feel the layout of the current maps is not as good as they should be.
the maps in the beta felt more competitive due to the weapon layouts etc which bungie changed for the final game. its still great fun, but i don't take it half as serious as i did in halo 1 or 2.

as for COD4, if they brought out new maps for that and charged the same price, i would not get them either... its the principal !

[bloop]

... Halo 3 is the most over-rated, mediocre game I have ever played. Give me Gears or CoD4 any day. I never had the original Xbox so I first played Halo 1 on the PC, and I'll have to say it's possibly up in my top 5 fave games of all time. Can someone please tell me, was Halo multi-player always like that on console?? Going online with Halo 1 on the PC was awesome. There'd always be about 3 Hogs, 2 Ghosts, 2 Scorpions and a Banshee to each team on the PC and it was just total carnage every game. Then I got Halo 3 on the 360, and man was I let down. Has it always been like that on console, or did Bungie really f#ck up the multi-player on 3?? What the hell happened??

[Afterburn]

If you really enjoy a game you'll buy the maps that release for it. I'm sure they had no trouble selling these.

I've bought Resistance map packs twice and will gladly pay for COD4 maps as they come out.

As for unbalnaced weapons in COD I think you are totally wrong, any weapon you have is very capable of killing someone. The M16 is very powerfull, but you can't afford to miss with it. BTW - the G3 takes 2 shots to kill, so it's technically "more" powerfull than the M16. Most of the guns on that game = 1 to 4 hits and you're dead unless you have juggernaut on.

[Nevers]

for the price of two coffees and have enjoyed them more than 4 coffees... and CoD4 would get more love from me IF they had the theatre mode that H3 has. This mode should be seriously considered for any and all upcoming releases. Screenshots and clips are so incredible. CoD4 looks so pretty I really wish they had that feature.

[ThichQuangDuck]

or if i get microsoft points for christmas. But i will be getting Call of duty 4 soon and playing that

[jinn]

i want more maps!!!