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Podtacular Halo 3 and Amaz Show Episode 61:

for the week of May 1st, 2006

with your hosts Foo Mo Jive, Kimo 23, and JVB

Halo 3 show (explain)

I’m sure you guys have already seen this, but we should cover it anyway. The main changes are:

Backwash is being removed from playlists where appropriate
Rumble Armory is being removed
Rumble Hardcore is being added
Big Team Battle Team Options

and other playlists are being updates, but really small important stuff.

What we know so far

(CNN, HBO, Forerunner rumor, Major Nelson slip up.)

Coming from an offical source (everyone else who wants to make stuff up says this so i will say it also) Halo 3 will actually be a platformer. No more pwing the noobs with the noob combo or the overly exxaggerated pistol from halo 1, from now on Halo fans will be making their way through courses by making tedious tasks, much like the one’s found in mario.
Also, the newest game will be the first MMO platformer, which can be used as an rts. Instead of playing in first person, players will also be able to use the overhead look and play with millions of people at once. The game will be relased TOMMOROW! GO TO GAMESTOP NOW!

But seriously, halo 3 will be kick ass no matter what bungie does.

Hey Podtacular, I heard a rumor that bungie was going to recreate
Zanzibar and two other maps in Halo 3, I forget the two others though
(sorry), I’d hoped they would recreate Blood Gulch/Coagulation a third
time but I dought it, that map is sweet, Keep up the “Can I Rope You?”

Microsoft will release Halo 3 in March 2007, according to two unnamed
sources. The sources, one from Microsoft and the other close to the
company, told IGN that the company had no plans to launch the next
addition of the Halo series at the same time as the Playstation 3, but
rather a few months later.

I know it’s just another rumor, but what do you guys think about this
one?

H2. Halo 3 Wishlist

bring back sidewinder with more bases, Zanzibar after like a
nuke went off, so it’s just like a wasteland with remains of the base
and the wheel, and hang em high but just way bigger. if you’ve read the
books, Lisa is “killed” and John puts her in the chroyo-chamber, to try
and save her, i think an awesome twist would be to have a story with
John and Lisa. Maybe have the two stories combined, but then they split
up or something. Also they should have a version of a human ghost and a
human banshee. I really would like to see more customable and malleable
characters as well. More icons to put on your armor, or different
things
you can add on to your armor, like scracthes or color disfigurations. I
was looking through my Xbox Live Marketplace, and thought it would be
cool if there was stuff you could unlock to put on your spartan or
elite if they’re in the next game. like if you beat certain parts of
the game, you’ll get more stuff, or get more Gamerpoints. Kind of like
the more hours you play, the more stuff you get, i don’t know. It’d
kind of be like an RPG; the farther you go in the game, the more stuff
you get to battle harder bosses. But hey that’s just my oppinion.
Thanks, peace.

Warthogs are awesome. Everybody knows that. But how could Bungie make
the next generation of Warthogs better? Here are my predictions:

  1. Warthogs will come equipped with hydraulics and a huge stereo
    system, playing “Lowrider” as you race over to your opponents base (if
    your opponents don’t know that you’re coming, they are either deaf or
    stupid).
  2. All 9 year old XBL players will be forced to sit in a Child Safety
    Seat upon entering the Warthog.
  3. The new Warthog will be equipped with a “Chuck Norris Launcher”,
    which will deliver a roundhouse kick to your opponent, giving you an
    instant kill. 5 kills in the Chuck Hog will give you a “Chucktacular”
    medal.
  4. When jumping a large hill, the Warthog will send out a deafing “YEE
    HAW!”, Duke Boys style.
  5. Instead of a horn, the Warthog will have an Ice Cream Truck bell.
    Nutty Buddies and Chocolate Fudge Bars will also be available in back,
    next to the gunner.

it would be awsome was if halo 3 had a multiplayer gametype that was a
beach assault like in saving private ryan. but instead of transport
boats, have drivable pelicans that can drop off players and vehicles
and be shot down by plasma artillary.

Also, if there was a huge 20 plus player gametype that was space
battles between the covenant and humans with player controlled fleets.

It would be awsome if halo 3 was an open-world game like oblivion or
gta. (ala forerunner)

hey podtacular, heres a few new ideas i would think would be cool for
halo 3.

  1. in assualt on multiplayer, i would like to see maps be more
    interactive with the bomb. for instance, if you play assualt on lockout, and
    you arm and plant the bomb, when it explodes, the whole bridge
    collapses.
  2. for there to be a 1-click option with crouching. so when u crouch
    you dont have to hold down on the analog stick.

maybe they could incorporate a character edit mode(edit helmets, armor,etc.) or even just add more character model (grunts, etc.)

or for xbox live matchmaking a human vs covenant playlist were they make one team human make them choose the model they want to use for the match and the same for the covenant team. A time limit would be applied so no team could stay in the lobby to wait for one person to choose their character.

Just a thought for halo 3, why doesn’t bungie add in a new powerup? When halo 2 was released i was dissapointed that the old powerups hadn’t changed except for the colour of the oversheild from red to orange and the upgraded textures. I was thinking maybe if they could find a way to incorpirate a green circle powerup which gives you temporary super speed, extra dammge, or something. Bungie i hope your listening!!!

My wishlist for Halo 3 is…

  1. A remake of Lockout. Remakes of other maps would be cool too, but it
    has to have Lockout.
  2. Bots. But not stupid bots like in PDZ. They have to be smart bots.
    Smart enough to figure out a way to break out of the virtual TV
    dimension and eventually take over the world.
  3. A level where you have to take on a whole ARMY of enemies, with
    hundreds of covenant. You would be in a tank for this bit, or perhaps
    the gunners seat of a pelican, like GRAW.

What i want in Halo 3…

  1. Importing Maps from Halo CE using your computer
  2. A Map Editor/Creator
  3. A way to mod the weapons in a certain map (if edited or created) and/or game type like in Chaos Gulch in Halo CE
  4. A Lot More People In 1 Game of MulitPlayer
  5. A Campaign kind of like True Crime where you have consequences if you don’t do an assigned task
  6. A Bigger Campaign that takes 25+ Hours to complete through Legendary Mode
  7. 2 Separate Disks, A Campaign Disk and a Multiplayer Disk, so you can fill the campaign disk with 25+ hours of campaign and you can fill lots of MultiPlayer Maps
  8. And a way to download every map bungie made since that we all like to see most (if not, all) of the Halo 1 Maps in Halo 3
  9. Free Live Multiplayer Action in Halo 3 (hey, why not, Square Enix’s Final Fantasy 11 only needs Xbox Live Silver to play online…) that’s because it costs 12.95/month to play it!

halo 3 wishlist

  1. when trying to pull off an assasination,atleast make it so you like
    snap there neck or something.
  2. the ability to crawl
  3. to go unarmed and have a variety of punch combos ULTRA COMBO!! ala Killer Instinct
  4. a gun you can deploy as a computerized turret
  5. DO NOT PUT ACHIEVEMENTS FOR LEVEL BOOSTING ONLINE,PRONE TO MOODERS
    CHEATERS STANDBYERS AND WHAT EVER THE HELL CHEATERS DO.
  6. to make custom weapon lists
  7. have each gun have a secondary effect
  8. in big team battles,be able to initiate an air strike ala Mercenaries
  9. to pick up,put down and toss fusion cores
  10. be able to pick up boxes(big boxes need multiple people)
  11. to open,close and bombard the hell out of doors
  12. to change distance of grenade toss
  13. some sort of survival game having you and friends pinned up against a
    wall by flood
  14. some sort of woods or forest enviorment
  15. have a tv program to watch the worlds best like pgr3’s gotham tv
  16. new types of game variants
  17. 2-4 player co-op online campaign
  18. to pick up debris from the ground(imagine throwing a 10 lb rock at a
    grunts head)
  19. remote detination mines
  20. more ways to be killed by the guardians

This is my halo 3 wish list. I think Jackal shields should be in multi player and just as powerful as your own shield because it would help with all those fatty’s with a noob combo. it would be a dual wield so if you pick up a battle rifle it would either go on your side if there wasn’t another weapon on you or fall on the ground with just that circle in the middle, just on the ground unactivated.

I also wish that Bungie would bring back first person in the side-seat of a warthog, it seemed so cool and if you move up on the left stick your view would move up to as if you sat up in your seat more or right you would sort of lean out of the hog. In-fact first person no matter what like in the drivers seat of a hog and right stick moves your view so you can move your head with the right stick and left moves.

In the turret it would be awesome 1st person just picture that in your mind the huge turret on the bottom of your screen maybe

for the banshee you should be looking at a monitor inside the banshee that shows the view in the front of the banshee.

In halo3 it would be cool if when someone locked onto your vehicle with a
rocket launcher or any other weapon that will have a lock on feature,
that you should get a warning that says someone is locking on to you. This
would give you a chance to hop out and avoid being killed.

Got a great idea for halo3, I am sure every one has come across people
who fail to load a map and how annoying it is when people won’t admit
it so the host has to start asking question and then booting people, I
know foo mo has come across this, so why not make it obvious who failed
to load the map like put a symbol next to there gamertag that would
save a lot of time and effort would it not?

Hey guys for my Halo 3 wishlist I want more in depth character
customisation. I would love it if you could change your visor to a
color other than orange and could use custom colors that you choose for
your armor. I would also like it if your emblem could have different
colors than your armor. Also like everyone else I want A.I. Keep it up
Podtacular and lets get our 1500 listeners.

hey guys. i am writing this on my psp so it is really hard. i think that
you should be able to kick the enemy with your foot. i think that would
be a great feature. lol

Halo 3 requests:
I know alot of people have said that they wanted troop commands and the
such for halo 3 but i am here to lobby against it. i think if bungie
started making the game too complex it would lose the fun, action
packed feel, and become to much of a chess match, and im not very good
at chess. The intense battle of out manuevering and outshooting your
opponent is much more fun then having to figure out a way to get the
retarded marines to do what you want

the main thing i do want is BOTS. Bots would make halo 3 last forever,
it wouldnt ever get old, in 15 years, if people arent still playing on
live, i would be able to whip it out and play it for a little “old
school” gaming.

another thing i want is a minor thing but i want my color black back. i
was always the black guy in halo 1 but now i cant be that color. Come
on Bungie, stop being so damn racist!

and of course like everyone else, new guns, vehicles and multiplayer
levels, and of course, 16v16 team battles, that would be so awesome!
the 360 should be able to pull that off!

What i would like to see in Halo 3 is a golden sniper rifle that kills
anyone with one bullet no matter where it hits. (as long as it hits the
body) I remember how Goldeneye had the Golden gun, so i thought it
would be badass to have a golden sniper.

I would like for halo 3 to have thier own “Kenny” . I think it would be
pretty cool for the flood to kill Kenny then have Sgt. Jhonson be like,
OMG! They killed kenny! you basterds! But then have him mysteriously
come back to life in the next level, only to be raped to death by
t-bagging brutes =(

  1. Really big battles on Earth 4. A longer range for the shot gun
  2. Can be used on the xbox not just the xbox 360 (PLEASE BUNGIE I AM
    BEGGING)
  3. And more funny glitches!

Well, the biggest thing I’d like to see in Halo 3 is the story of
the books. I don’t know if you’ve read them, but there’re amazing. Halo 3 should start out like a flashback of when the Spartans were
kids, and maybe have a level or two of that, then swing back to the
“present” (and have it flow nicely). Other than that they’ve done so
many changes with Halo 2 I don’t know what they should change. By the
way, if this goes on I’d like to give a shout out to “FSU
bulldogs”!!!!!

I think that in Halo 3 there should be a map maker and also a character
builder. This i think would lower modding because most people only mod
for machinima purposes. So basically i think that there should be a
Machinima setting on the Xbox Live Menu screen along with the
Optimatch, Custom Game, and Dowlnoads.

What i really would like to see in halo 3 is an option where you can
breake off a branch from a any tree and hit someone in the head with
it.

No function what so ever, but it would have been awesome.

It would be cool if you could drop all your weapons and use your fists
as weapons, you know like jab, block, etc. And it would also be cool if
Halo 3 had an open-world like Oblivion, where you can interact with
everyone buy your equipment and go to certain place, do certain things,
or talk to certain people to get missions.

1 you should be able to Customize every thing your right and left arms and lefts you should be able to change your hight and not your weight though not every master cheif is 5,9 or what how ever tall he is 6,0 foot somthing, you should be able to be a grunt, elite, marine, jackle, Brute with there own speical abilities

Halo 3 wishes:

Be able pan the view in and around your dead body and teammates while
waiting to respawn, maybe even a first person view.

I would like to see more detail in the player. I know this has been
mentioned before, but you kind of forgot about it. What if when you got
shot in the arm by a sniper, there was a dent. Maybe if you got beat
down from behind, the helmet could be cracked. My personal favorite
would be, if a grenade bleww up next to you, some of your arm armor
would be blown off. This detail could also include showing weapons when
you are not using them, or swaying holsters. Thanks

I would like to see in Halo 3 a whole different melee mode where when
you hold B, your fists come up and to punch right hand, you
press X and for your left hand, you press Y, like the dual-wield
system. If you just press B, then you just do a regular melee. The only
other thing would be if there were massive battles, with 100s of
covenant, and the ULTIMATE cool thing would be to have the first level
be the battle of reach and fight all the covenant as a prelude to the
real story.

halo3 should have a target range /training room for perfecting your
targeting and use of all halo3 weapons. kinda like the danger room for
the x men. you could have bots in there and program them to be
aggressive or elusive depending on what you wanted to work on and what
weapon you were using

More customisable armor would be cool. Ya know, more color options,
colored visors, and more customisable emblems. A crazy option would be
the ability to make your own emblem on your computer with, say, a
certain template to follow and Photoshop, and upload that as an emblem.
Of course, people would probably put “dirty” images in their emblem,
so that probably won’t happen…

Maybe a grenade launcher? Not like the Brute Shot though. Something
with a 1-Frag capacity that can bounce nades accurately, and they still
have 1.5 or 2 second timer. Same frag power, same trajectory as the
Brute, but it will only shoot from your off-hand frags (ie. the four
you can carry.) Cool idea IMO, more ability to hit people with nades
across the map, but better than the Brute in that it doesn’t blow up on
bounce impacts, but instead on a regular timer. shrugs

A Human equivalent for the Banshee would be cool. Kinda like the
Broadsword in the books. Make it like a mini Jet fighter. Or you
could make some type of bomber to drop a few nukes on the opposite side
of Coag or Containment before you buttrush. XD

Ok, I’m done. And, notice this? GRAMMAR!! ^^^ GRAMMAR! :P

Swager here, some things i would like to see would be:
  1. and this one would be awsome, I think that for multiplayer games each
    team should have a personal pelican with either a bot pilot that just
    flys you around the map and you can sit there and snipe out other
    players from inside. or a team mate could be the pilot and fly other
    team members around the map for quick pickups for the guy with the
    flag. However just to make it fair the pelican should be able to be
    destroyed with like 4 rockets or something.

Other games Halo freaks play

If i was stuck in my mothers basement(which im not) and all i had was
my 360 i would bring nhl 2k6 and elder scrolls oblivion. i just got
elder scrolls and that game is the shiz! i am also madly addicted to
nhl 2k6 and an avid redwings fan. its getting even more intense now
that the playoffs have started. GO WINGS!

MORROWIND GAME OF THE YEAR EDITITION.
This game has awsome grapgics. this game is a fantasy rpg game.
you can get all kinds of different armor and different weapons,also you
can go anywere you want.Theres many many monsters and many other
characters that are on the game.kill anyone you want and do
quests.become a wrewolf or vampire. choose from about 7 other races
(werewolf and vampire arent races you choose from)also you can steal
anything watch out for the guards though

Splinter Cell Chaos Theory is an awesome game to play online. I like it
because you have to use more strategy than in Halo and you are forced
to work together as a team, while in Halo people rely too much on a
certain person to win for them and help them get a higher level. Chaos
Theory also has badass graphics, fun addicting gameplay, and some
awesome music by Amon Tobin. While Chaos Theory has ranked games, most
people play the unranked games, and for some reason you find less
annoying little kids and dicks on Chaos Theory. Chaos Theory also has
an awesome campaign mode, and co-op missions which you can play online
as well. This game rules, and is only 30 bucks now, brand new. Hope you
guys check it out. -Classicrockguy

Hey Podtacular, 1 game that I know about that is fun, it is Conker: Live
and Reloaded, I got pretty addicted to it but then I stopped when I got
back into Halo 2, Conker is a shooter based on wars between two teams,
sometimes the gameplay consists in the past where you get old uniforms
and in the future with high tech gizmos, Xbox Live on it is awesome, if
you lose you wont get deranked (HA, take that derankers!) and its
pretty
sweet. Keep up the “Can I Rope You!”

As far as games i’ve been playing… Hum.. I just got my 360 a few
weeks ago and Ive been playing a lot of Need For Speed Most Wanted and
Call of Duty 2…. Those games are awwwwweeeeeeesome… Love CoD2 the
effects and the game play is so realistc and fun. Well.. i’m really
kinda waiting for Fuzion Frenzy 2… that will be after halo the best
game.. lol I love those mini games type of games.. if you play with 4
people at the time it gets really intense… It’s so much fun…
Well.. i guess this is it for now guys… Let’s help Podtacular with the Podtacular 1500 Campaing and also Please
make sure you keep your ears open for everything that’s going on with
the Seasonal Tournament. It’s gonna be fun.

I have been playing alot of the greatest game ever!! Elder Scrolls IV
Oblivion. It is very, very good, and somehow addictive like drugs.
Haha, Well any way I would give it a 10 out of 5!!!

Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter minireview

Pros:

Cons:

Overall a great game, especially if you want it for the multiplayer,
but just make sure you have some music on your 360 to pass the time
while you’re looking for a multiplayer game, I do my homework while it
loads, but I’m sure there are other productive thigs you can do while
you wait.

overall 9/10

Price of Persia: the two thrones, this is an awesome game. Much improved
from Warrior Within, cut-scenes still have room for improvement but
this
is still a must have for everyone who likes a combination of wits and
swordplay.

Wrap up

Shoutouts

  1. vote4JR turned 15 on May 27th! Happy Birthday!