Halo 2: - GAME.. OVER - The Last Person Just Got Booted Off

The Dude With Herpes

Chris Redfield wrote: »

It's still up, right? Jumping on now; might wake Leitner up too.

It's been a long time since Halo has been as casually entertaining as this, a shame, really...

And "The Dude Wuth Herpes", Live says they only have eleven players right now, so you could still join if you haven't already.

I meant I'm already playing with the folks here, I'm just not in the clan. I wasn't sure if there was room left.

Chris Redfield

I'm pretty sure it's not a conventional clan in that sense, just talk to Fyre about joining . Just start playing with the Bees more often, really.

The Dude With Herpes

I just meant the roster listed in the OP that is on bungie.net

I've played a good deal back when ODST came out. I just wasn't sure if the actual list on Bungie.net was going the way of the dodo's like Halo 2

Willeth

If you mean the in-game clan, it's hit the top-end limit. We can't invite any more.

KiTA

Maybe they meant midnight... tonight? As in, 20 hours from now?

Pilgrim

jesus why won't this game just die

KiTA

Pilgrim wrote: »

jesus why won't this game just die

I'm surprised at how fun it is. Wish I had tried it years ago.

I'm also gobsmacked that the people on voicechat aren't all paste-eating silly geese. They've been fairly civil so far.

YardGnome

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

Willeth

KiTA wrote: »

Maybe they meant midnight... tonight? As in, 20 hours from now?

Nah, apparently people in Canada are being turned off already.

Chris Redfield

YardGnome wrote: »

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

So sad that it must come to this... (I'm doing this from memory, so sorry if that's wrong.)

Chris Redfield

Leitner's in a game, and he's desperate to join you guys for a send-off, shoot him an invite could you?

KiTA

Never did get an invite over here, heh. But still, it's been an interesting bit of playing so far.

mxmarks

I got wicked Halo 2 nostaligic last night. I couldn't find my slipcover for the Halo 2 LE steelbook, or my AWESOME Halo 2 t-shirt...

...but I DID find my Halo 2 hockey jersey. That thing RULES. I should have worn it to work (proper attire be damned!).

Willeth

I'll see if I can't convince people to stay in the lobby long enough to get you guys in.

KiTA

So what's going on? It's up as long as you stay connected?

Ratsult2

It's just not down yet.

FyreWulff

no, once Live goes down it'll stop us mid-game because the game won't see the Live heartbeat anymore

Willeth

KiTA wrote: »

So what's going on? It's up as long as you stay connected?

At some point it'll just kick us all off, but it's a gradual process.

The Dude With Herpes

Alrighty.

I should have gone to bed two hours ago but I kept thinking this thing would be done.

Ya'll have fun.

cooljammer00

This Giant Bomb stream is a cocktease.

ASimPerson

Thanks for having me, folks. Just going to leave myself in a lobby until the service goes down or I go to bed, whichever comes first.

Willeth

Sucks that I had to bail on that Midship game. My uncle's inexplicably early coming up from London by like two hours and we're going to get my grandma and get lunch. Shame I couldn't be there at the moment of death, but I had fun tonight guys.

We need to retain some of you people for Halo 3 and the Reach beta. Stop by the Halo thread sometime.

043

It's 5:45 in the morning.

I love you all, but I can't make it to the crash. I was falling asleep with my controller over here.

Farewell, Halo 2. We knew you, very well. Too well. To the point where I was playing it, and it didn't look old anymore. It felt right. And that, so many years after release, is awesome.

DarkPrimus

God damn it, they're going to kill us before they kill Halo 2.

I am dying here.

Urrrrgh.

mxmarks

You folks are troopers and I wish I was there with you guys. Be proud at this once in a lifetime moment.

ack

watching the giantbomb livestream oh my god just die

DarkPrimus

We are living the stream

cooljammer00

Executive order. They're killing the stream.

KiTA

Um. The message in game says if you play AFTER the 15th it won't work.

The game's not ending for 18 hours.

FyreWulff

MY STREAM LIVES ON

SUCK IT GIANTBOMB

Nocren

So if you're in, you're locked in, eh?

Have fun Fyre.

FyreWulff

Calling it in after an hour or so. It'd be cool to be there when it actually goes down, but that's starting to look like it ain't gonna happen.

If they announce it's actually going to go down tonight, I'll stream again, but I'll also be sure to not bother to start playing until later..

Olivaw

Giant Bomb are true troopers

And apparently so am I for watching them try to outlast Xbox Live for six hours

Go me

Snare

It's ok, when Halo 2 goes down you can all keep playing the exact same game with newer graphics... Halo 3.

KiTA

What the hell is BXR?

Nocren

It was a button input glitch that allowed you to basically insta-reload by starting one animation, then canceling to another, then canceling to another. Specifically, reload->melee->shooting.

At least, that's my guess. I could be wrong as I was never "hardcore".

Leitner

KiTA wrote: »

What the hell is BXR?

An abuseable glitch, lets you shoot and punch instantly. With the BR it's an instant kill.

Sir Platypus

Can't believe it's still kickin.

mastrius

I wake up and this shits STILL going on. So. More Halo 2 was played. However its just not ending and I dont know if Ill keep going on.

Chris Redfield

Leitner wrote: »

KiTA wrote: »

What the hell is BXR?

An abuseable glitch, lets you shoot and punch instantly. With the BR it's an instant kill.

B: beat.
X: BEGIN to reload (removing the time-delay required between a shot and a beat).
R: shoot instead of reloading, without having had to wait more than a fraction of a second.

Effectively, you punch then shoot your opponent almost instantaneously.