<![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack - Kotaku Comments]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack - Kotaku Comments]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> any clue of when the legendary map pack will be free?

BOOZHAH

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> any clue on how long till legendary map pack is free???

-BOOZHAH-

BOOZHAH

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> I was already sold on this for the remake of Sidewinder. Good times with Warthog races on that map in the old days!
And the reveal of Lockout Mk2 is music to my ears too. Always found that this map was better for local multiplayer though.

Xylophone

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> @Karazzin: day one for me to :-)
i love the new maps, especially avalanche.

Herbal23

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> Remember a couple things. Microsoft decided the cost, not Bungie. And the remakes are here because the Halo community wanted those maps. It's not bungie being lazy or cheap. They are just giving the fans what they want.

I myself will be buying the maps the day they come out.

Karazzin

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> I'm so over Halo myself. But hey, maybe this'll stop people whining about Guardian (both sides). Hah.

Xeogred

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> These maps seem alright, but I don't think I'll be paying for them. I never much cared for Snowbound or Lockout.

I'd rather they made new maps. Or remade Marathon maps. I always loved Foundation, but there were lots of better Marathon maps I think.

etho

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> This is easily the coolest map ever.

Taco Bell™

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> @okenny :): Yes...

ErskinPig

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> @ErskinPig: You are aware that we're talking about a console game here right?

okenny :)

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> Halo 2 maps are better [right now at least they are] because they're free and CLASSIC.

Allen750

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> @amatecha: Gephy was okay, but Ice Fields and Danger Canyon were fantastic. Bungie needs to remake either of those maps, pronto.

Arteen

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> Is it just me or does that pic look like the view across the helipad from the first MGS?

RandolphCarter

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> Or you could all wait and get it free later. I'm just now downloading the Heroic map pack for free, no doubt the Legendary pack will follow suit. Patience, my friends.

JohnnytheFuture

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> Oh and while we're requesting maps from older Bungie games, I want Mars Needs Women from Marathon 1. I know Bungie could give it to me through XBL, I want it. I'd pay 800 pts just for that and 5D Space in Halo 3 :)

DaiMacculate

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> @Spiffyness: What kind of Router/Modem/etc setup do you have?

My recommendation is to get the Xbox 360's MAC address and then use MAC filtering on your router to assign it an IP (so it always has the same IP), then tell the router to either open the ports for Xbox Live (ports 88 for UDP/TCP and 3074 as well) to that IP, or make that IP your DMZ, though that basically exposes the Xbox so it may pose a security risk (I recommend that more for the Wii, as I'm much less worried about that).

If you have more questions that aren't answered here, hit me on my profile, I'll try to help if I can ;)

DaiMacculate

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> Pretty great. Someone might have said before that this is the first MP map at night, but, no, Halo PC had the first nighttime map, called "Gephyrophobia" (which is the fear of crossing bridges). Look it up, pretty cool map. I've wanted a nighttime map for THE LONGEST TIME, so I am super ultra stoked about this "new" map. And Lockout was one of my faves, so it's cool to see it remad

amatecha

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> I love Avalanche, but Ghost Town looks the best to me. I donno, it just looks like it'd be good for MLG somehow. I never really cared for Lockout, sorry, but I just didn't.

Gigith

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> Hey, I suppose this is as good a place as any to ask a question. My 360 has had problems connecting to LIVE for months now, but the last time I actually used the console was back when the whole system was screwed up (so I figured it was just the servers), but now I realize that it's still messed up. Any help would be appreciated.

Here's the problem: I connect to Xbox LIVE just fine. The "connection test" goes all the way through with no issues. However, after I connect, the two leftmost blades on the dashboard (the ones that load up with LIVE-related stuff) fail to load. They just keep showing the "loading" symbol forever. Naturally, you need these blades to buy stuff or do friend stuff.

And it's not just the blades, but any buying or friend-related stuff (basically anything that actually uses LIVE) doesn't work. If I try to download the Maps through Halo 3, it stays at 1% forever, and if I access my messages by pressing the center button on the controller, it won't load up voice messages.

But, like I said, the 360 SAYS I'm connected, but nothing works. I know this isn't exactly on-topic, but I figured you Kotakuites could help me out. And besides, these comments are seldom on-topic anyway, right? Thanks in advance.

Spiffyness

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> @JustJake: Wow, I'm so impressed by your high paying job, that's totally relevant to this subject and has really put things in perspective for me. I'll add you to my friends just for that...8-)

Don't worry, I don't think Bunjie are going to go hungry or anything. ;) But still, I'm sure they sleep soundly at night knowing your giving MS superfluous cash in their name.

ErskinPig

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> I'm sorry but 10 bucks for old maps with updated graphics? no thanks. and yes it takes money to put these things on live but didn't we all pay 60 bucks for the game in the beginning? I think when you sell 3 bazillion copies at that price you can afford to put something out for free for once....

robokasey

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> Yes, i do apologise for that comment, i was being a bit silly but i ment no ill towards Mr.JustJake.

Lokku

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> @DaiMacculate:
I understand now. Thanks for taking the time to explain (you most certainly didn't have to!). I often find myself guilty of coming off more confrontational than I meant to. As I said I like to read your comments, they are very level headed and the last thing I wanted to do is sound like I was attacking you. Not like what we say about DLC will acutally make difference in the world one way or the other, no? Healthy debate is always fun, though.

Oh, I didn't see Lokku's comment you pointed out, and it is indeed asinine :)

ca$h

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> Woot Lockout! Now we need BG and Boarding Action and anyone who says we need Midship should go die in a hole. Midshape sucked.

What we really need is a good outdoor BG-esque fully Forgeable map. Imagine, Halo fans, a big ol' box canyon with two bases, but then you remove all the bases and crap and build in whatever you want. 'twould be awesome.

sephycloneno15

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> @Demonbird: "All you've proven is that you can't argue your point without just throwing out insults or trying to sound superior."

BUH?!

I said OFFICIAL free content. That means made by the damn devs themselves. And yes it use to be FREE *gasp*

You know Epic? You know UT2k4. They made an official huge pack of content with maps, player models, new vehicles. ALL FREE. A many many more DEVS have done this and still do to this very day.

Sorry to tell you this buddy, I do understand the way the world works, you are a sucker, and people like you are the reason gaming is going downhill.

Lokku

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> @JustJake: That first sentence just made my day :D

I can understand supporting devs, I really can. And i can see where you are coming from, when a game really has that entertainment value, and then adding more content for it.

Yes LIVE is cheap, but it's just the whole principal of it all, I just find disgusting what MS is doing with all the nickel and diming and other publishers as well. What the games industry is becoming makes me a sad panda. :(

Lokku

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> @DaiMacculate: Sometimes you should just walk away, my friend, especially when the topic is this unimportant. I just think if you don't want to pay for it, don't. Just wait for it to drop in price (if it does, which is tradition in Bungie's case) and don't complain. I really want it but I may not get it anyway because I'm so cheap.

Erwin

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> @Lokku:
If that is what you consider an unnecessarily low comment than you don't have very thick skin. All you've proven is that you can't argue your point without just throwing out insults or trying to sound superior.
I don't know why you can't figure this out. Content made by individuals, in their own free time, is generally free content. Why? Because those people usually just make such things for fun.
Companies DO NOT behave like this. If you want free content go get it on the pc from other users. Don't ask why the multi-billion dollar corporation won't spend their time, money, and resources to make something for you, for free, when they could do something else to make a profit.

Demonbird

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> @ca$h: Sorry if that came off asinine, I was just asking if he played the game because he is just railing against DLC in general, an interesting point but not one that relates to this particular post. I love a good debate, and I don't think my opinion is more valuable than others (obviously I think its more accurate, it being mine and all [G]), I just like it to be a bit contextual. As I said to ErskinPig, I have no problem with him continuing to repeat himself on post after post (heck I do it on some subjects, won't deny), but I have an equal right to let him know that not only do I disagree, but I think that the excess repetition only hurts the case being made after awhile.

That, and I did think This Comment was a bit out of line, but I tried to show restraint in my response, whether I succeeded in that is another question...

I do have a tendency to use rhetoric that represents my opinion as objective fact, when in fact I neither think it is nor would do I really want others to feel I think that way, but its a failing, I'll admit ;)

DaiMacculate

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> @Lokku: Sorry that you are dyslexic. I have a good paying job and could care less about 800 ms points. Bungie works hard on it's maps and at everything they do so I think they deserve my money. 60 bucks for Halo 3 that has given me hours and hours of entertainment is a steal.

JustJake

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> @Demonbird: damn right it was condescending I thought it was fair for that unnecessarily low comment you threw at me ;) And clearly you understand that official content is free before, why not now? MS is benefiting much much more from this than the devs.

Lokku

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> @Lokku: Heh, you don't have to tell me to hate MS man, I really really do, Mac user from back in the 80s among many, many other reasons ;)

Its not my fault they bought one of my favorite devs, or that they persuaded Team Ninja to release Ninja Gaiden games to them first...thats why I bought the first Xbox, not because of Halo, I tried it and found it cool but not system-worthy (like Resistance, great game but not 500 bucks great), I was and Xbox 1 HATER...then I played Ninja Gaiden.

Bought a used Xbox 2 days later, along with that and Otogi, never regretted any of that purchase, because both those games are really fun. I still played my GC and PS2 far more, but neither had those games, not to mention Halo 2, which was far better than the first simply for having real MP.

The problem with user created DLC in this context is that it requires a PC, consoles will never have the peripherals/apps required, and shouldn't IMO. Forge is about the best that can be hoped for at the moment. It remains to be seen if Sony will actually effect real change for the better, I won't argue against your basic point that MS should not be allowed to set the pricing and depth of the market...

Like I already said to ErskinPig way up at the top of the page, there are plenty of great examples of DLC that is way overpriced (Guitar Hero) and so horrific it should never be downloaded (Bullet Witch), I just think this is not one of them.

Particularly since it will be free eventually, a point that has been mostly lost in all this ;)

DaiMacculate

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> @red: @ca$h:
Yes. Some DLC is too damn expensive. I understand them charging but charging too much is just atrocious.

Demonbird

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> This is gonna be free in a few months just like the last map pack too anyways probably, you know. If you guys really don't want to pay then don't and then just get it later. I see the price as a kind of 'get it early' thing before it becomes available to everyone.

TalAarahk

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> @Lokku:
You have a very condescending tone. No shit there has been free content before. The point is that you are asking for companies to spend money and time to give you something for free. It would be great if we were able to download free user created content, and there was a method of making user created content, but right now there isn't.
OH NOES evil M$ is coming after our money! They are totally the first and only company in the world to do this!
Please. Grow up and stop listening to everything Steve Jobs tells you while he picks your pocket.

Demonbird

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> 800 is too much for any dlc. i dont demand that it be free, just reasonable enough not to make me question the purchase. im not buying a new pair of pants here, dont make me think about it that hard.

especially when so much chaff is thrown in with the wheat. in this pack, for example, the only map i want is avalanche - since i only play large games. why not charge me 150 points for that one map. instead they bundle three together when ill rarely play 2 of them and wont like it when i do.

i havent bought the mass effect dlc despite being a big fan of the game. because of the way theyve implemented it, via playing through the game again, im not going to play through 5 different times to experience 5 different dlc they release over the next few years. ill wait until theyre all out, even if thats a week before mass effect 2, and play through all at once.

dlc doesnt have to be painful, but they keep making it so for various reasons. as a concept im still not convinced its worth waiting for it to be polished. i rarely see real success stories with it.

red

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> @DaiMacculate:
I like you man, but just because you don't agree with Lokku or is no reason to question his participation in this thread. That comes off as arrogant, and your opinion is no more or less important or 'right' than his as you seem to be implying.

Sorry if you're not, but that is how your comments have been coming off through the entire thread.

And to add to the discussion, no, I realize content over a closed system like Live can never be free, but it doesn't have to cost so much either. Corporations are always trying to get as much money as they can out of consumers (see: Guitar Hero II's DLC), and it should be up to consumers to do the opposite - try to pay the least amount of money they can. That creates a nice happy balance and is as close to 'fair' as the world is probably gonna get. That's the joy of a free market. I think it is a good idea to wait til the packs are free to lower sales. Who knows, of course that could backfire and make them charge more to 'recoup' costs, or just not make it free eventually. Don't know til you try I guess. /opinion

ca$h

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> @Demonbird: lol, there there m8 <3. Free content has been around for years b4 your precious LIVE came along. It's hard to believe, I know.

@DaiMacculate: OFC it's evil, it's MS... Just like EA they are all suits caring only for profit. No love or creativity goes in their products and then they release a half assed game, and tag on DLC crap later and rake it all in. Not talking about halo, just in general. Finally quite a few people are seeing that now.

What DLC needs is maps/mod made by the people. Cause you have to admit, some stuff is really taking the piss. Sony is actually doing something right in that regard.

Lokku

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> @Spiffyness:

Nobody likes Chiron. I'ze a making with teh funnay.

Slothboy

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> When asked why half of american Xbox gamers do not want to pay for New "old" halo 3 maps but do so anyway

I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unwilling to do so because, uhmmm, some people out there in our nation don't have Microsoft points and uh, I believe that our, I, Bill gates like such as uh, Canada, and uh, the Movies, everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should, uhhh, our Xbox 360 over here in the PS3 should help the Halo, uh, should help Microsoft , it should help the Xbots and the Xboxmoron so we will be able to build up our future, for Bungie."
Lauren Caitlin Upton - Miss Teen South Carolina 2007




Eragon117

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> @Lokku: Do you even play Halo 3?

I'm just trying to figure out why you're even here, we have received your oh-so-holy message of DLC freedom. Those who can be salvaged to your "cause" already have been, the rest of us will continue to judge paid DLC on individual merit on a game by game basis, rather than make blanket statements about how evil it is.

DaiMacculate

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> There's no good reason except for fanboys to pay 1/6 of the game's price for some most likely average maps for a mediocre game with already mediocre gameplay and maps.

Gamer4250

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> I'm just ignore this DLC should be free debate.

Anyway, the map pack looks great but I don't think I'll buy it and I'll wait until it's free. After buying the first map pack and only using the maps once in the entire 3 or 4 months it's been since I bought them, I'm definitely gonna wait on this one. Especially since I have so many other things to get to right now along with other DLC (like the Mass Effect content and the Boston Rock Band pack) I haven't had time to play yet. Along with maybe 10 or more games I have yet to finish.

Samos42

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> @Lokku:
It costs companies money and time to make things like DLC for games. If they didn't charge for DLC there would be very little DLC being made.
Get a job and grow up.

Demonbird

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> @JustJake: What was that? All i saw was "please charge me for everything and anything I am yours and with my loyalty i shall blindly defend you!"

Lokku

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> @Slothboy: Wait, people actually LIKE Chiron?

@KilgoreTrout__XL: My favorites are Lockout, the original Hang-'em-High, Sanctuary, Last Resort, and (maybe the best of all) Relic.

Spiffyness

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> @Lokku: I like supporting game makers that give me endless hours of entertainment. If Bungie had their way I am sure they would be next to free. They are not the ones that control the prices Microsoft does.

See how well the Free Xbox Live thing went. Yeah nuff said.

JustJake

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> Stand up and fight my gaming brothers! Do not be fooled, do not give in and say "YES PLEASE MS, charge me CHARGE ME BABY!"

NO DLC UNLESS IT'S FREE!

rally the troops!

Lokku

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> The Map pack's looking good. One medium sized map, one small map, and one big map. Though it'll be interesting to see how Blackout really plays if it's as faithful to Lockout as it says it is, cause Halo 2 and 3 do play pretty differently.

TalAarahk

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> @sadisticfreak432: Naw- a good map though. Honestly, my 4th would probably have been Sanctuary. Maybe Zanzibar afterwards, but I miss Wizard and Beaver Creek a lot too.

Last Resort seems like fun, but I mainly play TS and FFA- vary rarely rarely objective (I guess I'm too impatient.) LR hardly ever seems to come up.

KilgoreTrout__XL

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> @Slothboy:
Maybe people want old maps because a lot of the new ones suck. Lockout was an incredibly fun and solid map. I'd rather have it remade in halo 3 than have to go back to halo 2, with its devastated player base, just to play on it. A midship remake is probably in the works too. There is no problem with bringing back old things that were awesome.

Demonbird

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> @sadisticfreak432:
If you were getting devastated by camping snipers on Lockout then you really really blow.

Demonbird

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> Lockout has really been the most requested remake, so I'm not surprised about this.
Either way I'm glad, I felt they needed some better, smaller maps for the game.

Zeouterlimits

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> @ErskinPig: I agree with you. If suckers stopped paying for new maps that will be free soon enough, maybe we could get a complete game instead of 3/4 of one. Or God forbid go back to the days when new content was added for free to add value to a game and/or reward the consumers who made the game a success in the first place. Most of this greed is coming from publishers. The developers, the people who devoted lives into acutally MAKING the game, usually are all too eager to give the new content away for free.

ca$h

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> Hooray for more rehash!
Another excuse for sniperfags to camp and snipe again!

sadisticfreak432

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> Wow. Why does everyone cry about DLC not being free? If you don't want to pay for it, then don't buy it. It's almost always free later, so just wait it out. Maybe I'm just a sheep, but if I like a game, and I want to support the developer... I buy the DLC. It's not like they force you to buy it.

C0MB1N3 C0MPL3X

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> @KilgoreTrout__XL: Zanzibar isn't on your top 3? you're insane =)

lasttimeyouaskedme

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> I blame all the kids on the bungie forums demanding old maps back. Really? You'd really rather have an old map that you could STILL PLAY ONLINE IN HALO 2 than a new and original map that might be better than a map that was developed for a game FOUR YEARS AGO?

It looks great and I'm sure it's fine, but I feel like Standoff, from the Heroic Map Pack, is one of the best MP maps I've ever played in Halo. It makes me sad to wonder what we have missed out on because everybody demanded a remake of Lockout. Especially if I am going to pay $10 for it. And I will. Because I wipe my ass with $10. But seriously. Let's start demanding Originality instead of demanding that they regurgitate content.

Am I the only one able to see the irony there? People are pissed that Rainbow Six Vegas 2 is so similar to the first Vegas. So they get on the ubisoft forums and bitch and moan. Then they jump over to bungie.net and demand a remake of Chiron TL-34. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?

Slothboy

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> EA needs to start taking micro transaction tips from Bungie. Who knew you could sucker so many people in to buy a multiplayer game without any good maps and then force you to pay $10-15 for map pack bundles that should have shipped with the game. Puts the whole buying guns thing to shame.

KirbyMorph

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> Just about all the original Halo 3 maps are horrible. So bring on the remakes.

AnEternalEnigma

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> I'm ready and willing to pay for those old maps remade for Halo 3. I don't care if it takes them three hours or three months to make, and I don't care if they host them or if they are magically floating through the air waiting for me to throw money at them.

skrame ☆

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> This map sucked in Halo 2. There are several others I'd rather see redone if they aren't going to make new stuff.

Spartan1308™

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> Well as i stated in the other Halo map post. Sidewinder was not enough to get me back into halo...but lock out definatly is. Oh i cannot wait

batdrox

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> When i heard that there was a spiritual successor to Lockout (guardian) in Halo 3, I was pretty excited, but like many of you have said, it doesn't quite play the same. Glad to see this old standby (no pun intended) back in its original form. Thanks bungie.

..... but

WE PAID FOR IT ALREADY WHEN WE SHELLED OUT $50 FOR HALO 2... this one should be on the house guys.

ForAllThatEverWas

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> Nice maps, Just as I am getting back into Halo 3. I just hope theres some more playlists.

flukielukie

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> @DaiMacculate: Ultimately, I don't care whether people agree with me or not. I just express my opinion and hope people see the sense in what I'm saying, but if they don't I'm still going to express it regardless. ;)

I too, call it like I see it, and the way I see it DLC is, by and large, a con and a means of exploitation.

That's the last I'll say on it. For now. :P

ErskinPig

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> @DaiMacculate: Indeed; I totally agree here.
@ErskinPig: Your point has been refuted by tens of people here. It's just silly. No one except a few people that idealize PC gaming and have short memories agree with you.

Guizzy

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> Reminds me of a MP map in Sin.

Shinryoma

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> @ErskinPig: I'm just calling it like I see it buddy, me and Stormrider aren't the first to think your point is meaningless, sure some agree with you but again, in my anecdotal observation you're in the minority here.

Thats the last I'll say on it; I'm not trying to fight with you. :)

DaiMacculate

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> @Demonbird: Hey, mine too.

sir_carrot

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> Umm, I said I was not going to pay for the new map pack, but now I might. Stupid Bungie.

OGHowie

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> @ErskinPig: Hey, I'm just trying to save you some time, feel free to keep making points that fall on deaf ears, no skin off my back. I didn't say they were of no consequence, just that most of us don't care, and if anything repetition will just make us care less.

In a nutshell, save it for when the DLC really is total garbage, you won't have to wait long for another story like that ;)

DaiMacculate

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> @DaiMacculate: Oh, and please only speak for yourself. Don't speak on behalf of 'most of us'. ;)

ErskinPig

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> I'd love to download this... If my xbox weren't sitting in some back room at the repair center.
Lockout was my all time favorite halo map. I just hope this version isn't so dark it affects it a whole lot.

Demonbird

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> @DaiMacculate: Perhaps not, but then none of the comments here are of any consequence to anything at all are they?

ErskinPig

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> Holy crap Iove this map :DDDDDD

hotgarbage

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> @ErskinPig: Yeah, you've made your radical Anti-DLC point on many posts, and most of us still don't give a damn. We're not agreeing, we're not disagreeing; we just don't care.

So yeah, probably a waste of your time to continue making that point, in general, over and over. Its not going to dissuade anybody from buying DLC for games they like and consider the DLC to be of good value for. There is a huge difference between stuff like this and, for example, Bullet Witch DLC ;)

DaiMacculate

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> @DaiMacculate: It's still veerry similar. I would like a new map, but this is so different in style from all the other maps I'm still excited.

Erwin

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> @liquid_kore: You're correct. My bad.

mind in rewind

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> I thought Guardian was fine as a Lockout replacement. Woulda preferred a new map.

Xiedo

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> Hooray! Lockout was the best map in H2.

Gray665

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> That comment should have been @kashraz, sorry ;)

DaiMacculate

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> @Stormrider: Well they've certainly got you fooled. You've obviously never been a PC gamer. Still, I've made my point enough times recently, so provided you don't make any further ill-informed comments, I'll let the matter slide. ;)

ErskinPig

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> @KingDavid73: Guardian was close, but still not quite the same as Lockout, more curvy geometry in it for one.

I'm not surprised its another remake, but thats not a big problem either; as far as I'm concerned below a certain size all FPS deathmatch levels can basically be considered remakes/rehashes of ones from older games, there are only so many basic room layouts and such that work for multiplayer DM. Halo 2 had 2 or 3 maps that could easily be considered rehashes of Marathon 2 maps, Foundation is just the most obvious (Thunderdome), but since so few Halo players have played Bungie's older FPS games it went unnoticed for the most part.

DaiMacculate

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> I'm not sure but I think Blackout may be the first multiplayer map in Halo with a night setting. Which is about time!

3 maps only? That's disappointing. I'll get it when it's free.

Tofu_Survivor

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> @kashraz: It's Guardian. And while Guardian and Lockout may look similar they do play surprisingly different.

kojirodensetsu

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> A remake of lockout! Sidewinder and Lockout back in tha game, so excited!

Sir_Crocidile

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> A night map! And a remake of my favorite Halo 2 map! Sweet.

But, no thanks, I'm not gonna spend money in such expensive things, I'll wait to download em' for free.

Han Daimond

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> At first glance you wouldn't think that was lockout but the new paint job looks great. Also with some minor forge tweaking I think this can be a great infection map.

ODST VII

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> i thought lockout all ready was back in halo 3. was it guardian or epitaph, i can't remember the name, but it seemed like a spiritual successor. so now it seems that there are two of these maps?

kryzhal

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> This is dumb, I'm sick of remakes. I want some new maps.

KingDavid73

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> Did you hear that Mario Kart Wii is going to have old maps in it (just like Mario Kart DS)? Oh nnnnnnoooooooooooooes!

So much whining.

james castle

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> @ErskinPig: Yeah, right. The fact of the matter is, DLC costs developers to make, and it costs Sony and Microsoft bandwidth costs to host it on their servers. If they didn't charge for it, they'd lose money, and no company will willingly do that. Sorry to break it to you.

Stormrider

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> @liquid_kore: No it hasn't been officially confirmed but every single Bungie map pack has become free eventually so it's probably safe to assume this one will be free as well.

@ErskinPig: They aren't just rehashes of old maps, but rehashes of some of the best maps the Halo series has had. So it's worth it to me.

kojirodensetsu

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> @AGROS: Me too. I haven't played it since the before the last map pack was released....

Mr.SithNinja

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> @mind in rewind: Have you seen that confirmed anywhere?

As far as I know that hasn't been confirmed or even talkd about.

liquid_kore

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> Wait, so they're not even original maps, just rehashes of old ones!?! Jesus, just when I thought they'd taken the DLC con as far as it could go...you know what's coming. Here it is:

NO DLC UNLESS IT'S FREE!

ErskinPig

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> Man, Halo 3 really never had a map as good as the three best in Halo 2 (Lockout, Midship, and Ivory Tower), so it's great to see this one back. I even like the new coat of paint. Nice job.

This upcoming map release is looking damned good these days.

KilgoreTrout__XL

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> @JN64Lover: They will be free. If you don't want to pay, then wait.

I'll be buying them.

mind in rewind

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> They had me at Sidewinder. But this just makes the legendary pack so much more awesome. Time to buy some points..

kojirodensetsu

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> YAwn!!! i'm so over Halo already....

AGROS

]]> <![CDATA["Blackout" Completes The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack]]> I don't feel the need to pay so much for old maps, if they release so many older maps then they should be free.

JN64Lover

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