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One of most awaited games has gone GOLD.......HALO 2
Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 6:35 am
by Holy imperial Gloriano
alo 2: Gone Gold
story by Frankie (posted by Sketch because Frankie is away on a diplomatic mission)
They said it couldn't be done! Actually, they didn't say that, but if they had, we'd have proved them all (the fake people who didn't say anything) wrong! Halo 2 has gone gold. We finished every line of code, every pixel of art, every frame of animation, every phoneme of dialog and every note of music. We finished it when we said we would (when it was done) and shipped that baby right on time to make its November launch date. And we're kinda proud of it. We think it's "fun."
"Gone Gold" is a somewhat archaic expression, since the "gold discs" are actually digital tapes and eventually silver discs. But it certainly feels golden. This basically means that the game has been shipped to retail manufacture. Somewhere in the world, a gigantic DVD pressing factory has started making Xbox game discs with the utterly complete version of Halo 2. Maybe there IS a gold disc somewhere. Perhaps it's time for an epic quest!
We now have retail versions (test samples) here in the office. In fact, one sharp, and presumably jealous-eyed reader saw the following legend appear in his Live-linked MSN Instant Messenger window: "Anm8erJB is now playing HALO 2 on Xbox Live." Now THAT'S a tease.
It's been a long, hard road though. When you're playing it, and we[url] hope you enjoy it, think of the 116 hour work weeks, the long nights, the bad food, the really long corridor to the bathroom (people use scooters to get there) and the utter lack of places to curl up and sleep.
This is a copy of the email sent out to the team to announce the final RTM.
It’s official! Halo 2 (all versions) has released to manufacturing! Hooray!
http://bungie.net/News/TopStory.aspx?st ... dAnnouncer
Bungie earns more respect than Valve cos Bungie did get game ready in target release date
Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 8:02 am
by Knight Templar
I hate X-Box.
Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 9:34 am
by liberator
I lothe it as well. This is good news for those of you who like playing shooters with nothing but an analog stick for fine aiming control though. Give me a mouse sampling 200 times a second any day.
This reminds me, i've got to play the first one...
Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 4:14 pm
by Taristin
How does a game not released yet go gold? This is f*cking lunacy.
And I haven't even reserved a copy yet...
Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 4:39 pm
by phreak
in the music industry, "going gold" means selling 500k copies.
here, "going gold" means that the master DVDs have been shipped off to a factory so the game discs can be pressed
Re: One of most awaited games has gone GOLD.......HALO 2
Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 4:44 pm
by Black Wolf
Holy imperial Gloriano wrote:Bungie earns more respect than Valve cos Bungie did get game ready in target release date
Bungie didn't get hacked and have their source code stolen.
Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 5:15 pm
by Swamp_Thing
In the gaming industry, going Gold means it was finished, past the beta testing.
But if i read this right (and i didn´t), it means only for X-Box. Where´s the PC conversion, gawd dammit? Why are we PC users always getting the short end of the stick?
Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 7:49 pm
by karajorma
Swamp_Thing wrote:In the gaming industry, going Gold means it was finished, past the beta testing.
But if i read this right (and i didn´t), it means only for X-Box. Where´s the PC conversion, gawd dammit? Why are we PC users always getting the short end of the stick?
Cause Bill Gates is using Halo as a big stick to drive the masses into buying the X-Box.
Why on earth do you think that he bought Bungie and then stopped development of the PC and Mac versions?
The PC version will come out once the sales of the X-Box version have tailed off and they decide it's worth trying to get some more money out of the game.
Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 10:21 pm
by CIH
no doubt a shoddy port.
Thank f**k my bro has ab x-box.
Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 11:35 pm
by Hippo
Finally... Took long enough...
Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 1:32 am
by Taristin
phreak wrote:in the music industry, "going gold" means selling 500k copies.
here, "going gold" means that the master DVDs have been shipped off to a factory so the game discs can be pressed
Oh.
Well, cool then. Stupid terms...
Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 2:13 am
by Grimloq
halo sucks. i mean, MP is kinda fun, but thats it.
xbox sucks even more. and i can tell you why halo 2 isnt ported to PC yet: how often do you see computer games (computer, not those consols which are an insult to the name) advertised? rarely, if ever. so, everybody buys xbox, etc, because their f**king idiots who cant find their own f**kin asses without both hands and a roadmap. AND EVEN THEN THEY HAVE TO ASK FOR DIRECTIONS!!!
[edit] ok, many apologies... that was somewhat uncalled for.
im under a TON of stress, as well as im in a short temper anywayz...
Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 2:16 am
by Hippo
Meh... I love halo...
Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 2:21 am
by Top Gun
Played it once, couldn't stand it. Give me Descent any day
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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 3:32 am
by Grimloq
FREESPACE
descent 3
halo
