SPARTAN: Earth's Last Defense

[Bladz]

SPARTANEarth's Last Defense
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Club Info
Spartan is a club dedicated to all things Halo. We will have Halo discussions, along with help on the game if you need it. Along with that Hero of Time will be leading us in a Halo RPG. Some of us also Play Halo online.
If you would like to join Spartan, post in this topic.Please include your email address. If you are a member help us out by adding a link to us in your signature.
I know a ton about Halo, so if you need any help don't hesitate to ask. I can help you with strategy to beat different parts of the game as well as multiplayer.
Stuff For Members-If the thread goes off the first page bump it. Posting and participating more willl help you to get promoted faster. If you have room put a link to the clan in your signature.
My IM is pete8831 and my email is pete-sc@sc.rr.com (pete-sc@sc.rr.com)if you need to talk to me or have a question

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Members
Spartan II (pete-sc@sc.rr.com)
funkmon (funkmon@msn.com)
aomweaselking (cam@camcompanies.com)
MasterChief117 (obkichan@cs.com)
Silenced_Weapon
Master (KaneCaswell@hotmail.com)
Dark_Link
darksk8er22 (littlewhelpbigflame@yahoo.com)
anti_casper00
~SmS~
a_ak57
Covenant_Grunt7
Eggman2001
oneshotonekill
Halocrazy43
Elite
DESTROYER_666
DVigilanteKilla
steven_b_03
the red wolf
roco415
BCRACER
Dead_Elite
John117
Bruteforce123
BLADZ
Mjg09
evancooldude
spidy_44
Sargent Johnson
drawkcaBstIeduD
blackagumon
OmegaUranium
UNSC-helljumper
cloud321
sealion
343guiltydollie
Tiller 059
Terrorist4Life (HiddenDragon04@hotmail.com)
Hero of Time
SNPR 722 (InaneVayne@wmconnect.com)
CaMmO~KaZi (kamikaze_cammo@hotmail.com)
padmasher69 (storm_fang2000@yahoo.com)
Meathos
MechaMonkey
Led Jester (Darkfiend8804@aol.com color=limegreen)
PhsycoGrunt
blitzito
ChipperJones
MasterChief5
papersun87
Master Shake
Dub
Tichondrius
AussieHalo
Yayap
quick&dead1000
kite25
Fire Emblem
SpartanS2 AM
ikilledkenny
Scratchy
Deus
Adriel


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LinksSpartan RP Training Area (http://www.gameadvice.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=2728371#post2728371)
Halo Forum (http://forums.gamewinners.com/forum...splay.php?f=198)
Halo RPG Forum (http://forums.gamewinners.com/forum...splay.php?f=237)
Diablos, the Ultimate Clan (http://forums.gamewinners.com/forum...35&page=1&pp=15)
The OFFICIAL XBOX Club (http://forums.gamewinners.com/forum...393#post4130393)
Bungie (http://www.bungie.net)
Red Vs Blue (http://www.redvsblue.com)
Halo.bungie.org (http://www.Halo.bungie.org)


Join The Spartan Earth's Last Defense User Group (http://forums.gamewinners.com/forums/showthread.php?t=354156)

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[Saint!]

Yeah shark is pretty cool. In other news my Xbox showed the 3 flashing red lights today. I almost cried.

[Bladz]

I went through it a few months back. Bad times. =/

[MasterChief117]

Yea, I went through it in July :(

Fortunately it didnt take long at all for Microsoft to send me a new Xbox, so it was great. I hope it doesnt take long for you either :)

[SaNcTuS.]

ouch that sucks! I might have to get a replacement soon as well. I'm bit getting any red lights but the system freezes so much...I'm just waiting a bit for the 360 with the new processors to spread out more. Prolly wait till April and go to best buy and use my warranty.

[The Eye in the Sky!]

Hehe, split. (http://forums.gamewinners.com/forums/showthread.php?t=561454)

[halo34life]

can i join??My email is glen.weldon@yahoo.com

[blitz]

I haven't had the red rings of death ever... granted I turn on my 360 like once a week. lol

[Bladz]

Yeah I barely play mine anymore, my dad is on Call of Duty 4 all the time though.

Halo34life sure you can join.

[Saint!]

Yeah I didn't play my Xbox much, maybe the weekends or a couple times I was free during the week. But suddenly it just kinda freaked out on me. I sent the box out yesterday, hopefully its not 4 to 6 weeks.

[SaNcTuS.]

hey Blitz, what's your gamertag? I'll play some cod4 with ya. :)

[blitz]

I don't have Live at the moment, sorry bro. Also... holy bump, Batman. :O

[Bladz]

It randomly gets bumped a lot.

Btw I've changed my gamertag from Bladz89 to i cutthoat i

[Saint!]

I didn't get Halo 3, I mean buy it, I played the hell out of it before call of duty 4 came around.

[Bladz]

I barely touch my Halo 3. Call of Duty 4 honestly blew it out of the water.

[MasterChief117]

Ugh, every time someone says that I just dont understand.

I mean sure, COD4's campaign was a blast to play through. But the multiplayer just isnt very fun. I honestly dont see what people see in it. The whole thing that made the campaign mode fun for me was the way the game immerses you into the world, with the way they force you into other characters (even if the characters aren't going to last much longer), and the way they reacted in the world. The nuclear explosion scene was phenomenal, I think. But the multiplayer just doesn't have that level of immersion, and that is why I think it lacks. The maps feel like tacked on versions of the campaign mode maps, and the way you can customize weapons and choose your weapon at the start takes away something from the game I think. I dont know, I really just don't know what people see in it.

And awesome sig blitz.

[blitz]

Honestly, I'm starting to lose my love for console gaming. I don't play much of anything anymore. :(

Call of Duty 4 campaign was fun, multiplayer was meh. Halo 3 disappointing... at least for a fan of the story like myself.

[MasterChief117]

I thought Halo3 was more disappointing than the other games, but not too disappointing. I saw it as more of a "wrap up" game to the story. Which, granted, should have only taken up the second half of the game, with the first half of the game including more interesting rising action. It felt like the entire campaign was falling action into the end, without any real climax anywhere in the middle. So yea, I definitely see what you mean by that.

I just dont understand what people see in COD4's multiplayer. There is nothing special about it at all.

[Saint!]

The multiplayer is what makes COD4 so great, its the customization of the guns that adds to the game. No longer do you have to rush to one weapon and have one guy kill with it over and over while everyone else starts with the assault rifle and tries futiliy to kill him. In COD its not just Paper beats Rock, its any combination of weapons against the paper, there are so many more choices than the intiail 12 or 14 guns in halo 3.

I will admit the campaign was really cool in Halo 3, but I only got to play with kids half my age in Matchmaking, which often got the same levels over and over. I love halo 3, but I love Call of Duty 4 more.

[Azthris]

Thats a fair point. I would probably like Halo 3 quite a lot less if I hadn't read the books. For some reason, anything that resembles anything or reminds me of Halo gives me joy...

I played COD4 multiplayer a little bit with one of my guy-friends recently. It was pretty fun, and I was OK, but I didn't like the fact that my friend was pretty high in rank and he kept getting experienced and seasoned players.

[blitz]

My favorite FPS multi-player was Counter-Strike. No contest there.

[Saint!]

I haven't really noticed if being a high rank in COD4 makes a difference, it could, but I play people who are in their 9th prestige and people who are level 9. Then again, those in the said prestige are typically cage match whores who get their guns and fancy things by cheating.

[MasterChief117]

Yea, that is a pretty good point Saint!. But to me that is one of the points that I didn't really like about COD4's MP. I dunno, call me old fashioned, but I didn't really like the weapon customization or the perk features. There's nothing wrong with them, and I do agree that they add a little bit of interest to the tried and true formula of online shooters, but it just kind of bugged me a little bit. I guess you just can't please everyone all of the time. But I loved COD4's campaign mode.

And yea, the Halo books are great. I remember how happy I was back when the first book came out. The chance to read further into the Halo universe was just great.

[Azthris]

I loved the COD4 campaign very much as well. As my first time playing I did on Hardened, or the third hardest setting (I forgot what it was called). The extremely hard part of the game was waiting for the helicopter to pick you and that Irish officer dude up. I eventually figured one way out on how to do it.

The Halo books are one of my favorite, although a fantasy series writen by David Eddings called the Belgariad and Mallorean barely beats it. Heck, I've gone on the writer's (Eric Nylund) homepage/blog several times to see if he would write anymore Halo books. He said that he is working on a project at the moment, but he would clarify what.

[Bladz]

He's writing 2 more Halo books.

[Saint!]

Yeah you know in this clan we used to get so excited about Halo 2 coming out, is it just me or did the whole fun rumors thing stop? No more ilovebees.com trying to decifer a small bit of text to figure out things that would be in the game. I still play the first Halo sometimes, and I miss the challenge of guessing what'll be on the next game....

more importantly, will there be another one?

[Azthris]

Another Halo game? There MIGHT be, but it won't have the title Halo on it. Heck, maybe even Master Chiefs Adventures...

Bungie is working on some top secret again, but it might not even be related to Halo. Who knows?

Now that you mentioned 2 more Halo books coming I remember hearing that somewhere. I'll look into it more.

[Bladz]

Microsoft is making future Halo titles, not Bungie. They're the ones who own the franchise.

[Azthris]

Ahh, I see. I also heard something about that but I wasn't sure if the source was trust worthy. I guess its clarified now.

I want the Halo universe to be expanded and everything, as long as it is reasonable, but I just don't want microsoft to ruin the Halo franchise.

[MasterChief117]

Microsoft better use Marty's music, that's all I have to say. If it aint Marty's, it shouldn't be there :/

[Bladz]

Well Frankie left Bungie to work with Microsoft on future Halo projects, but other than that I'm not sure.

[Saint!]

It'll still be a long ass time before anything comes out. I think they'll try pretty damn hard to not ruin their flagship series.

[blitz]

So... my realm's went down on WoW and I decided to go out for a run since the weather was nice. When I got back, I noticed a dusty Halo 3 case sitting on my shelf so I decided to play it. I really got into it and remembered why Bungie kept me as a fan for nearly eight years. There are so many possibilities you can make with a story like this. I'm really looking forward to finding out who is going to work on the next game. (Not Halo 4)

[Azthris]

My WoW realm went offline as well, but I just read a book. Speaking of books another Halo novel is coming out this fall. Its called The Cole Protocol, by Tobias S. Buckell. Read about it more here. (http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=14284) Frank O'Connor resigned from Bungie a month or so ago so he could continue to work with the Halo series with Microsoft. So I don't know exactly what that means but maybe another game thats related to Halo is coming out by them.

[Saint!]

You know, as much as we worry about Microsoft messing the series up, I'm really not that worried. They probably know well enough how serious people take the series, and I'm confident that the next game will be at least worth a buy. Whats the worst they could do anyway?

[MasterChief117]

Whats the worst they could do anyway?

Show us Master Chief's face..... That would kind of suck.

Yea, I'm pretty excited to see what comes out of Microsoft in the future. I've been getting pretty pumped for Halo Wars recently too :)

[blitz]

What server are you on, Azthris? Also, I'm not to worried either considering a lot of the major players from Bungie joined Microsoft.


Edit: "takes readers into an unexplored conflict of the Human-Covenant War where unlikely alliances are formed and shattered..."


Unexplored? I think they might be talking about the Spartans that were too far away to be recalled to Reach for the mission to capture a Prophet.

Unlikely alliances? I hope they aren't talking about Elites and Spartans working together that would just be a repeat of the Halo games. ><;

[Azthris]

I'm on Bloodscalp. I know I'm not on your realm because a while back I created a character on your realm and started to bothered you and asked you questions...

Anywho, I think the next game and book should be interesting, but I hope that they don't pull the same cards as they did, like you said.

[Bladz]

I'm most interested in Peter Jackson's project. As epic as his stuff normally turns out, Halo: Chronicles should be amazing.

[blitz]

I hate being out of the loop. I just stopped caring after the Halo forum died and TTIOT threads died because speculation was answered. I need more theory discussion so I can bring out my inner nerd.

[MasterChief117]

We can make this another TTIOT thread, because there still are things out there in the Halo universe that are unexplained.

Ah man, The Truth is Out There was quite a fantastic era for the Halo forum. Now its gone rather south :(

[Saint!]

Well remember how much undeveloped Halo was? I mean there were so many questions and stuff we had, I remember when we were all speculating on the Flood. Where they came from, why, and who the Forerunners were.

[Azthris]

Has anyone read Contact Harvest yet? I've read it twice now, its a good book, but not amazing. I liked the other ones better though. That could bring up some discussion if a few of you have read it.

[blitz]

I've read it once, then gave it to a friend, I think? I don't really know what happened to it. It was decent, but it didn't leave any mysteries... it actually answered a lot of questions.

[Bladz]

I still wanna know what the Sharqoi are. They were mentioned in the Conversations From the Universe extra with Halo 2 SE.

[Azthris]

I must not have explored or have seen that before. I should really look into that.

Contact Harvest did answer a lot of questions, and it also gave me much more information about prophets, Hunters, and all the rest of the Covenant. It didn't leave anything hanging, like Ghosts of Onyx did...

[Saint!]

I never finished Ghosts of Onyx, and I also never finished Contact Harvest, despite me having both. lol

[Yayap]

I must have missed the bumping that was this clan back when it was spurred into activity whenever ago. What's sad is that the oldest reply is 20 days old and the clan is still on the first page of C&C.

I'm on Bloodscalp.
I used to be on Bloodscalp. Still have a toon on there, but I don't play anymore.

I remember when we were all speculating on the Flood. Where they came from, why, and who the Forerunners were.
We still don't know where the Flood came from.

Who are the Precursors? Aside from being like the Jjaro of Marathon or the Xel'Naga of StarCraft, where are they? What did they do? Did they leave anything behind?

What happened to the Forerunners? What happened to their bodies, their equipment, their personal items? Why aren't any of those ever seen? How did the Forerunners live? What kind of shelters/abodes did they have? Why would they need doors able to fit 3 Scorpion tanks leading into the control room, when they have ramps that would suit a Mongoose?

[Saint!]

Well they died out in a war against the Gravemind
Their bodies were destroyed to prevent flood infestation to continue.
The equipment has been left on Halo, and other planets, the Covenant have been reverse-engineering it.

They probably lived on other planets, or something like Onyx, since Halo was a fortress world.

And they probably liked to be fancy? I mean it looks like they pretty much owned everyone.


I think the Flood were found somewhere and taken to a Fortress World (Halo) for study, the Forerunners were basically fascinated, kept them in the Library had this whole joint-research thing with other installations.

As for why 343 Guilty Spark says to Chief "You ARE the Forerunner" in Halo 3, I have no idea what that's about, I've heard things like maybe the forerunners looked like humans, but then why would the Covenant attack us on whatever planet that was that started the whole war?

More importantly, where the hell is Chief? and whats all this sudden interest in Marathon?

[Yayap]

The Prophet of Truth has the Covenant go to war against humanity because humans are reclaimers. If this became known, that could shake the foundation of the Covenant and lead to a civil war!

[Saint!]

I was close, lol.

So do you think they'll make another Halo 4?

[Yayap]

They're definitely making a fourth Halo, but I don't think they're making Halo 4. Harold Ryan (President of Bungie) said in a recent interview that they are making more Halo games.

[Saint!]

So what's the connection to the Marathon games? I know Bungie made Marathon but I heard something about the two being connected.

[Yayap]

There are no connections, just homages. People look far too deeply into things.

[Saint!]

Well, Bungie encouraged it, remember the I love bees thing?

[Yayap]

I Love Bees was later declared non-canon and then became backstory for Nicole-458 in DoA4.

[Saint!]

Canon? The only thing that comes to mind is the camera company. Lol

[Yayap]

Canon is basically official story material.

[DuckQuackAttack]

Hey I'd like to join this group. Email: mgb116@comcast.net

Also, I'm looking for people to play online with, maybe help me level up. I'm a 35 in doubles and team slayer and I'm stuck and its driving me nuts!

[Saint!]

I never understood why people cared so much about their levels. Its like if you put a ranking system in ANY game people will strive to get to the top. At least in Call of Duty 4 you get different guns and such when you level.

[Bladz]

Call of duty 4 isn't really rank. It's not based on skill so much as how long you've sat on your ass and played. You can't ever go down in levels like Halo.

[Saint!]

It has skill value, if you totally suck, you won't level up as fast.

Cage Match ruins all that it could be...