Staying Up For Halo 2

[brian]

As the release date of the long awaited video game draws near, I want to be ready for the week. And by be ready I mean know how to stay up all night on a school night without being too tired the next day. Heh.

Does anybody know of a way through timing your REM times to stay up for a decent amount of the day/night without wasting too much energy? A tutorial on staying up all night? Any help would be great, or if there are any other Halo 2 people out here just leave a message. Thanks!

[CT]

staying up? What infront of the store, or refreshing alt.binaries.warez or something all the time.

[Haz]

Hmmm, ive never tried this but try to keep your mind active, it doesn't exactly waste body energy so you won't feel sleepier, try to do puzzles and stuff.
Hope this helps
:mrgreen:

[Umbrasquall]

Originally posted by CT
staying up? What infront of the store, or refreshing alt.binaries.warez or something all the time.
I think he means staying up all night playing it. :D

[docKnubis]

some of my freinds are going to play halo right in front of the store
600+ reseved copies is a lot

[Umbrasquall]

Lol can't they wait until they get home.

[Scruffy]

I probably won't have to worry until next summer, seeing as that's when Halo 2 will probably come out for PC. Oh, the things I could say...
:mad:

I've heard so many good things about that game, I don't know how I'll survive the school year, and then manage not to spend every waking hour of next year (college!) playing that game. :eek:

[DrumCorpsAlum]

As soon as San ANdreas comes out for PC next year, I'll be up for a week straight.

[Umbrasquall]

Originally posted by Scruffy
I probably won't have to worry until next summer, seeing as that's when Halo 2 will probably come out for PC. *Oh, the things I could say...
*:mad: *

I've heard so many good things about that game, I don't know how I'll survive the school year, and then manage not to spend every waking hour of next year (college!) playing that game. * :eek:
Too bad it'll take a supercomputer to play that game. :shakehead2:

Are they ever gonna put Shenmue II on PC? I want that!

[Amethyst Star]

Someone seriously needs to make a Starcraft 3! I've been wanting another one of those games since 1993 or whenever Broodwar came out!!!

Stupid Blizzard.....

-Amé

[Damascus]

ooh i wanna get halo 2, but i dont have an xbox. so ima get all the games ive been wanting recently then (fable,halo 2, san andreas etc)

[Boof]

anyone here who got Live?? i dont but implanning on getting that halo2-live bundle... maybe we can start a kickazzDvclan :wink:
starcraft 3?? i thought there is only starcraft 1... and btw have you heard about starcraft ghost?

[Amethyst Star]

Originally posted by dj0s
starcraft 3?? i thought there is only starcraft 1... and btw have you heard about starcraft ghost?

There's the origonal Starcraft and then there's Broodwar, the expansion set. I heard about Ghost but I never saw it released. If they're still workin' on it then it'd better be a pretty friggin awesome game when it comes out!... I need to check on Blizzard and see if they're still alive. Anyone else know?

[Stalker]

Originally posted by Squall+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Squall)</div><!--QuoteBegin-Scruffy
I probably won't have to worry until next summer, seeing as that's when Halo 2 will probably come out for PC. *Oh, the things I could say...
*:mad: *

I've heard so many good things about that game, I don't know how I'll survive the school year, and then manage not to spend every waking hour of next year (college!) playing that game. * :eek:
Too bad it'll take a supercomputer to play that game. :shakehead2:
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Halo 2? Probably not since it's designed to run on the same hardware as Halo (~700MHz Celeron or whatever it is).

[Umbrasquall]

Well it took like a 2.5 ghz computer to run Halo adequately with still some lag. So Halo 2 is going to be imaginatively worse. :roll:

[Jammy]

What is worth wainting for is Half Life 2! Going live 16 November. Im going to play it to the end without sleeping... and then im going to play it again... and again and again and again til i die! WEEE

[Scruffy]

I have 2.4 Ghz and 1 Gig of ram, and Halo runs laggy at times. However, one of my friends has a computer with about half that, and he has no problem running it at all. I'm guessing the problem is that my graphics card doesnt handle trasparencies that well, since the trees (the leaves are just big texture blocks with some transparent spots) are the only thing that slow it down for me.

[brian]

Wow! I made a topic this big?!

Thanks for all the info on staying up.....wait, there wasn't much. haha, thanks anyway.

If you want to talk, watch, read and all things halo, head over to the site in my signature. Because although a dreamviews clan would be cool...I'm already in a clan, haha.

[Truthbearer]

All I know about Halo 2 is that Incubus has 2 songs in its soundtrack, which I though is great....

*listens to "Incubus - Speak Free"*

[minion_qb]

Ahhhhh. San Andreas my MILF. MY whole week's shot now since it came out today. (probaly my whole month or two). Hey can someone send me an XBOX so i can see why HALO's so great?

[Dragon]

yes... the joys of san andreas... unfortunately im too poor to afford it myself, but my cousin bought it and played it at my house while I watched for like 4 hours... lol that game is so Fing sweet...
Halo 2 I wont get to play for a while because I have no Xbox and the only experience I have of Halo is from LAN parties...

[Stalker]

Originally posted by Squall
Well it took like a 2.5 ghz computer to run Halo adequately with still some lag. So Halo 2 is going to be imaginatively worse. :roll:
Didn't have any problems at all on my slow 1.4GHz.

[Jammy]

Well i hear all of you that san andreas and halo 2 rocks... but what about HL2? anyone heard of it!? Its the freakin game of the centaury!! Come on vote for HL2!

[Stalker]

Originally posted by Jammy
Well i hear all of you that san andreas and halo 2 rocks... but what about HL2? anyone heard of it!? Its the freakin game of the centaury!! Come on vote for HL2!
I have pre-ordered the HL2 Collectors Edition. Probably won't even try Halo 2 and San Andreas.

[Kaniaz]

Halo sucks.

[Umbrasquall]

Hey give it some credit. Without it Microsoft's Xbox would have failed miserably. :P

[brian]

Hell yes, it would, haha.

I never have played any of the Half Lives. I'm not sure when San Andreas is coming out for the box.

[theroguechemist]

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is better!

[CT]

i wanna play it >.<

[Haz]

've played nearly all of most of the Half Life's:
Opposing Force
Blue:Shift
Half Life
Half Life:PS2
Well that's all but those are the main ones :P

[Boof]

12 days left...
i just read that 1.5 millions of copies have been preordered, ONLY in the usa! and they are estimating that halo 2 will earn more money the first 24 hours than ANY big movie ever have!

[Joseph_Stalin]

You guys also have to take into account, the fact that Halo was an uncertain project. It was originally going to be for PC, but then it was made for the Xbox. It was optimized for the Xbox. Now imagine trying to sort out all of your little tweaks (I am still talking about Halo 1 mind you), and getting it to run on literally hundreds of thousands of configurations. The developers went from something that was specialized with one console (at most 10 different Xbox versions), to a game that was supposed to run on people's PCs. It's not an easy thing to do.

Halo 2 might not even come out on PC (or maybe, they might use another developing team or something), and if it does, it will most likely take more time to port, de-optimize, reconfigure, etc.

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Halo 2 is a huge milestone for videogames as a whole, however. Like dj0s said with the movie sales. This will really give video games a much broader push into the world market as whole (if it wasn't already), but we might see a movie effect where games become less and less story-centered...hope not.

And if you haven't seen it already, take a look at the Halo trailer (you kind of think, by watching, that this game is coming in "Summer '05"...you'll see what I mean). Go to gamespot.com or another place.

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Ah, and my Gamer tag is VinMan11, so let's try and get a game going that day. I usually only play with friends, and I am really wondering if my expertise in my "controlled environment" is going to hurt my game play. I know I got a cruel reality shock just trying out Xbconnect...

[brian]

Alllllmost here! I don't have xbox-live yet, but I hear it comes with 2 free months.

[Joseph_Stalin]

Canceling is a bitch though, so don't try it until you're really sure!