| Buster 2004-11-18, 5:51 pm |
| I get your point about killing the goose that laid the Golden Egg but it
can also be looked at this way-
On February 9th Bungie releases a campaign only disk entitled "Halo 2.2:
The Battle for Earth". It sells for $30. Bungie and MS make even more
profit, campaigners are happy. Some resolutions are reached in the plot
but like any good series there is a hint of some trouble brewing on the
horizon setting the stage for Halo 3 as the killer app for Xbox 2.
And if there is a Halo 2.2 within the next 3 to 6 months it's basically
the expansion pack strategy that so many other video games have used before.
Keith wrote:
quote:
> Nah. Halo 3 will probably arrive in about 2006 or 2007. And, I hope
> that it's not a battle on Earth. Why does everyone want it to be a
> battle on Earth? You dig the idea of human society in tatters for the
> next 150 years after the game ends? Woo-hoo, we won! Now we have to
> re-learn how to run coal-fired factories, since everything else is
> smashed up and we are bankrupt. Too bad about those 200 million people
> who starved to death or died of disease, but man, we sure did get a
> kick out of pretending that Halo was Black Hawk Down!
>
> And by the way, I think it's pretty clear that "the Ark" is Earth, not
> that small Forerunner ship. If you know what an "ark" is, you can see
> why I would think that.
>
> I thought the story was great, but then, I didn't expect a resolution.
> I don't really understand why anybody would have expected a
> resolution. You know that with Xbox 2 coming, there is guaranteed to
> be a Halo 2 timed to roughly coincide with the new hardware's release.
> MS would be foolish to kill the golden goose at this point. Halo 3
> paired with Xbox 2 could increase sales of the new console by 50%.
>
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