500 Million Halo Games, Halo 3 Documentary 48
Gamespot reports on some interesting information for Halo fans. Bungie has created a seven minute documentary about the Halo 3 Trailer run at E3 this year. The short piece allows fans to see the trailer from different angles, and provides insight into its creation. They've also released word that there have been 500 million Halo 2 games played since the game's release. From the article: "This is just the latest of several impressive accolades the game has achieved. In just its first few months in retail, the game sold 6.4 million copies worldwide and logged 91 million cumulative hours on Xbox Live. According to NPD, the game has sold more than 5.1 million copies in the US as of April 2006, accounting for almost $253 million in sales domestically."
Orchestra, Chorus, I am amazed. (Score:2)
But I am amazed that they have a full orchestra for a game.
Halo 3 production these days doesn't seem any different from a big budget Hollywood production.
Are other games doing this?
Re:Orchestra, Chorus, I am amazed. (Score:3, Insightful)
> Halo 3 production these days doesn't seem any different from a big budget Hollywood production.
I agree, and that's exactly what's wrong with today's games...
Oh what a ridiculous thing to say. Just because a game has fantastic production values, does not make it terrible... in fact it can help a great deal. I was just playing Hitman - Blood Money the other day and it's music, environments, voice acting etc. are all supurb and only enhance the feel and realism of the game.
Half Life 2... another example (
Re:Orchestra, Chorus, I am amazed. (Score:3, Insightful)
I can't put words in GP's mouth, but my understanding was that he believes that the problem with games today is that they *need* these ridiclous Hollywood-like budgets.
--Jeremy
Re:Orchestra, Chorus, I am amazed. (Score:1)
He starts by saying he's played both Halo games, then trashes them for a lack of a story (huh?), and then complains about the money being spent.
I don't think it's a very big leap to draw the inference that the GP believes the money and resources should be spent on something other than the score.
Re:Orchestra, Chorus, I am amazed. (Score:2)
500 million games played, 6.4 mil copies sold... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:500 million games played, 6.4 mil copies sold.. (Score:2, Insightful)
But they don't. But hey, lets throw a party, based on some stupid "games played" rubric. Next party will be celebrating "500 trillion braincells killed" by the people who've played halo games.
Re:500 million games played, 6.4 mil copies sold.. (Score:2)
Hey, if it works for Budweiser and Miller...
M$ vs Nintendo (Score:2, Insightful)
Please note that Nintendo makes quantity "Quality" games so this isn't really a fair comparison. If it was Random Port or Sequel VS Halo 2 then it would clearly be Halo 2 being the winner of quantity vs quality.
M$'s Buys Quality Devs (Score:2)
Person years (Score:3, Insightful)
Let's see... 91,000,000 hours / 8 hours in a day / 5 days in a week / 50 weeks in a year = 45,500 person years.
That's utterly... amazing.
In comparison, David A. Wheeler's paper Estimating Linux's Size [dwheeler.com] approximates the work on Linux so far to be about 4,500 man years. (He uses the COCOMO model [wikipedia.org].)
That reference was off the top of my head - I think it was mentioned on /. before. Didn't have much luck finding other interesting estimates...
Re:Person years (Score:2)
Re:Person years (Score:2, Insightful)
This is obviously in jest, but it's annoying when people (especially the media) use comparisons like that. Sure, that's 500,000 person years "wasted" on Halo, but spread that over 6.4 million people and you get an average of right around 19.5 person days per person (based on the 50 weeks * 5 days per week calculation), or 156 hours (assuming 8 hours per day). That's certainly reasonable for a multiplayer game lik
Re:Person years (Score:1)
senf-centered (Score:1)
it's an empty vessel repeating "my game is beautiful, buy it!"
saw it on GT and gave it a 1/10 for saying nothign new.. nothing interesting...
Re:senf-centered (Score:4, Funny)
Planning ahead... (Score:1)
Get Sick of every Big Budget Game (Score:1)
Re:Sick of Halo (Score:1, Flamebait)
Pity the poor people who develop FLAMING CAT TURDS IN A BOX. They have to obsessively give interviews, produce special
Nah, I'm sick of Infomercials (Score:2)
I'm not just talking Halo 3 - but MAN was that a freaking infomercial or what?
Have you ever noticed that these days, games rea
Re:Sick of Halo (Score:2)
There's more to Xbox than Halo. (Score:2)
The Xbox's catalog is smaller than other consoles... But there are a surprising number of quality titles, like:
Knights of the Old Republic
Jade Empire
Ninja Gaiden
The Splinter Cell Series (on Xbox first, and arguably best)
Forza
Riddick
Panzer Dragoon Orta
Crimson Skies
Jet Set Radio Furture
Doom 3 - yeah, I know... but other current-gen consoles can't even h
Re:There's more to Xbox than Halo. (Score:2)
Great, that's what the 360 needs, a THIRD version with HD-DVD support. That leaves us with what?
Re:There's more to Xbox than Halo. (Score:2)
a THIRD version with HD-DVD support.
GP was referring to 2nd gen games, not another model of the hardware. As for your other comments:
A) The base model is for low-budget buyers who just want to play the new games. If they wanted all the add-ons, they wouldn't buy the base model, would they?
B) I assume you're claiming the developers won't take advantage of the HDD. They already are [gamasutra.com], plus many others use it for pre-caching etc if it's there. There are a lot more HDD-equipped 360s out there than base mode
MOD PARENT UP (Score:1)
Re:There's more to Xbox than Halo. (Score:2)
Knights of the Old Republic, Jade Empire, Ninja Gaiden, The Splinter Cell Series (on Xbox first, and arguably best), Forza, Riddick, Panzer Dragoon Orta, Crimson Skies, Jet Set Radio Furture, Doom 3
Awesome. That's like one game every four months over the life of the Xbox. And people bash Nintendo for not releasing enough quality games per quarter.
It doesn't say much for your favorite console
Re:There's more to Xbox than Halo. (Score:2)
Also - I never said the Xbox is my favorite console. I said that I own every console. Big difference.
*rolls eyes*
Re:There's more to Xbox than Halo. (Score:1)
CounterStrike (Score:1, Informative)
Re:CounterStrike (Score:1)
Re:fuck halo 3 (from a halo fan) (Score:2)
I blame Soul Reaver for this recent trend towards unfinished games. But in truth, the first game I came across that did this was Digger T. Rock. You finally completed all the levels, solved every puzzle, got infinite items, no saves whatsoever, defeated all the dragons, and what happens? To be continued. Except it never was. I was pissed. St
Re:fuck halo 3 (from a halo fan) (Score:1)
Re:fuck halo 3 (from a halo fan) (Score:1)
Halo (Score:2, Insightful)
Suprisingly true (Score:1, Informative)
I decided to look it up, and I admit I was wrong.
GameDaily [gamedaily.com] has Halo's opening day sales (first 24 hours) at 2.4 million, which multiplied by the $60 price tag (which isn't a static value in itself, as some collector's editions were made, and I assume sold at a higher price) gives us $144 million.
has Revenge [boxofficemojo.com]
Re:Suprisingly true (Score:2)
So sayeth the Anonymous Coward.
This is the internet. Keep your ignorance to yourself. Please look up your own shit. It's pretty widely known that Halo2 is the biggest thing since god(s).
Re:Suprisingly true (Score:1)
Props to him, lay off the harshness.
Cocop
Direct link to documentary (Score:1)
Nitpick (Score:1)
Nothing special. (Score:2)
What kept coming into my mind while I played the game, however, was how much better the game would have been if it weren't an FPS. The game would have been far superior presented as an adventure game with minimal gunplay. Instead a fairly simple story is drawn out and interrupted by p