Thread 725162191

What was Halo 2 and Xbox Live like in 2005?

People were super mentally ill on voicechat. It was a new thing and i dont think people could handle it

It was the best time for gaming, unironically.
People used to actually use teamchat to help each other know what was happening and strategize to win

>>725162302
>teenagers being edgy on microphone is le MENTAL ILLNESS

>>725162519
Little did we know that would become the norm of the internet
Was funny when it was contained in the lobbies of gaylo, not so funny now though

>>725162612
it was the same shit on counter-strike

it was just incoherent babbling and cracking mics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNWTi5Dowvc

>>725162191 (OP)
https://youtu.be/1l6vD7OHYVY this and gayboy (which was taken off of YouTube) are perfect time capsules

>>725162932
unfathomably kino

>>725162519
Males having male banter is mentally ill according to that faggot redd*tor.>>725162302
Now everyone is in their own bubble possibly getting groomed or radicalized to be a furry.

>>725162191 (OP)
It was fun looking back but at the time incredibly annoying. Going into MP lobbies and people were playing shitty music into the mic, eating loudly, had their fucking family yelling in the background or whatever. Always had to mute people back then or at least go into party chat so you can only hear your friends, that being said often times you'd get invited to parties full of retards like that if you were a good enough player (or were playing a team based mode like slayer or TDM).
Still it was fun because mostly everyone had a mic. 360 Elites came bundled with them. Quality of the mic was terrible.
As an idort in the late 2000s, playing on 360 and PS3 was a completely different experience. 360 lobbies were what you'd expect, but I hardly heard anyone use mics on PS3, it's more like how it is nowadays.

>>725164798
>Always had to mute people back then or at least go into party chat
he didnt ask how it was on the xbox 360

early 2005 was kino, late 2005/2006 was when modders figured out how to fuck around with matchmaking, they'd set it up so everyone spawned at the same place while they'd have guns that would autoaim with instant headshots, fucking gay when you'd join one of those games
(at one point there was like a 25% chance of each game being one of those)
got so bad I'd just play custom games, load up zombies gametype or tower of power and spam the recent players list with invites, could get a full game pretty quick

>>725165235
He said Xbox Live in 2005.
The 360 came out in 2005. I didn't own an original Xbox back in the day. The PS2 was better anyway.

>>725165603
parties were introduced in 2008

>>725162191 (OP)
Never played on Live, but we did plenty of split-screen.
>8 of us playing in seperate rooms through sys link
>one friend nods off mid-match
>wakes up and nades his own team, giving us the win
After seeing how much worse shit could get, I feel pretty blessed for the experiences of my youth.

>>725162191 (OP)
Indescribably kino. 16 man Tower of Power lobbies was some of the most fun I've ever had in online gaming. This anon is right >>725165292
, you could just spam anyone on your friends list (which was usually huge because everyone just added everyone else on a whim) and there was a 90% chance your lobby would fill in less than a minute.

>>725165652
I was speaking comprehensively about the era. The 360 came out in 2005. I didn't even own a 360 until the Elite came out.
From my perspective, literally nothing changed in between those years, in fact it only got better. If you have something important to bring to the conversation, then go for it.

>>725165954
>From my perspective, literally nothing changed in between those years,
this is why everyone hates you retard zoomies
>"oh I dont know what actually happened, here is my experience presented as objective facts"

>>725165954
You got exposed as a larping zoomer, just stop man.

>>725166036
>>725166083
>"What was Xbox Live like in 2005 (Xbox 360 era)?"
>make post talking about it
>HAHA LARPING ZOOMIE HE WAS TALKING ABOUT THE OG XBOX ALSO SOME ARBITRARY YEAR THAT ONLY MAKES SENSE WHEN TALKING ABOUT THE 360
K? Whatever floats your boat, man. I don't need to prove my gamer credentials to you, faggot.

>>725166274
>webm of Halo 2
>360 was out all of barely over a month in 2005
>"Oh when i played xbox 360 in 2012 it was like..."
get fucked zoomie, enjoy WW3

>>725166396
>he thinks anyone gave a shit about the OG Xbox and Halo 2 when the 360 came out that exact same year
The OG Xbox was a dead console with shit games, I'm doing the Xbox a favor by only talking about the peak which was the 360. No one ever talks about game chat on OG Xbox because no one owned it. Everyone had a PS2.

If it wasn't for Halo, I wouldn't have any online friends today. The earliest people I came across were from Halo 2, and the other half from Halo 3. It was so sociable, if batshit, that even a stunted introvert could make friends.

>>725166659
>The OG Xbox was a dead console with shit games, I'm doing the Xbox a favor by only talking about the peak which was the 360. No one ever talks about game chat on OG Xbox because no one owned it. Everyone had a PS2.
>my parents said I could only have 1 console and they bought the PS2, so no one ever played Halo 2
surprised you can even type with such a low IQ

>>725166659
>he thinks anyone gave a shit about the OG Xbox and Halo 2 when the 360 came out that exact same year
Halo 2 was literally the biggest launch of 2004, and the 360 came out in November 2005. You're a retard.

>>725166729
>>my parents said I could only have 1 console and they bought the PS2, so no one ever played Halo 2
Except in an earlier post I literally said I was an idort, keep up.
I just didn't own an OG Xbox because I didn't give a fuck. GameCube and PS2 were always better consoles. I only picked up a 360 for Halo.

>>725166659
god its embarrassing seeing this melty, just move on already man

>>725166781
>Halo 2 was literally the biggest launch of 2004
Bzzzttt!!
Wrong, it was San Andreas on the PS2, a game which the Xbawks literally did not have until almost a full year later.

>>725166986
keep being wrong about things that happened when you were 4 years old, zoomzoon

>how was this game franchise that is still talked about today
it was pretty good

>>725162191 (OP)
fun and exciting would be the words to describe it. mind you I also played on PC, but for a console to go to the internet it was pretty cool. everyone had mics because the initial live time people bought came bundled with the mic. it had built in voice changers, so the old guys would use the child preset and kids would use the el anonimo deep voice for fun sometimes. lots of banter with randoms. foreigners would made fun of my accent but made some cool friends from my country.
I wonder where they are now... never bought a 360. shoutout to any finnish dudes from back then.

Could you play original Xbox games on Xbox Live when it was still up with the 360? I only recently got an OG Xbox and never really tried playing BC games on my 360

>>725167186
>rapes Gaylo 2 in it's first week
Based

>>725162191 (OP)
BTB ctf on that map was great, but people usually vetod it because they were bad in favour of coagulation.

If you were a warthog god or really great with the wraith you absolutely blitzed (dont go into the caves, only grenades await)

>>725166659
It's oscar season, is there a cope award too?

>>725167379
for a time, yes, they killed it off eventually, cant remember exactly when

>>725167432
san andres wasn't console exclusive
it's not a 1:1 comparison like you think it is

>>725167543
>>725166924
>>725166781
It's weird seeing so many xjeets around especially after the news that Gaylo is coming to the piss5. You would think they would know better by now.

>>725167379
Until 2010, which looking back on it was pretty ridiculously early to kill support considering they released a Halo 2 map pack in 2007 to help backwards compatibility encourage 360 sales, but it's fucking Microsoft.

>>725167695
>san andres wasn't console exclusive
It was as console exclusive as all the Halo games are.
It was a timed exclusive. It just took a year to come out on other platforms instead of a generational Xbox assraping.

I remember going online for the first time and seeing all of the tryhard playlists like Slayer Pro and SWAT where everyone spawned with a Battle Rifle. It was nothing like the goofy matches I had with my friends in splitscreen

>>725167816
>"xjeets"
Saar you are confused saars

>>725162191 (OP)
Why don't we want this again? What is the point of all of the content moderation when it clearly makes everything worse?

>>725165603
Our family had OG Xbox, PS2, 360, PS3, Dreamcast, Gamecube, asst. handhelds and a family PC. My Grandpa worked for Chevron though and is a very nice man. We shared everything with siblings and friends as we were raised by Catholics.
Xbox online > PS2 online without a doubt the atmosphere was just a lot more energetic and reactive on there.. more people talking and not as many college kids or sweats.

same is true moving from PS3/360, 360 online was better without a doubt.. PS3 had some classics like warhawk and uncharted 3 mp but 360 just had the better community again. both were the better syslink consoles and way more kids in my town had xboxes so we played a lot more halo 2 and 3. GC was the sleeper because of Mario Party and Double Dash, me and my friends also dabbled in a bit of Rogue Agent.. really miss those days.

do they even pack in headsets with consoles any more?

>>725162191 (OP)
People that haven't played this aren't allowed to give their opinions on Halo.

>>725162191 (OP)
it was shit
dont believe the psyop

>>725170771
But anon I was just playing on my original Xbox 2 hours ago it was peak

>>725162191 (OP)
White teenagers raising, baby sitting, white pre teens. White teenagers chilling, playing, and bullshitting with other white teenagers.

>>725162932
Better times. Brighter times.

>>725162302
Retard gorilla nigger

we didn't know how good we had it

>>725162932
Y..yeah... It was definitely like this across multiple FPS, and there were always kids with those voices in every game. I grew up normal so I didn't stoop to lame shit talking like this. Usually muted those players because I wanted to game and not have a headache.

>>725162191 (OP)
I actually don't remember nigger being said that often back then. Really feel like its said more often in the last 10 years more often in voice chats.

It was more like being told to watch 2girls one cup by multiple people and then getting frequent messages about it.

>>725170921
Why'd you censor your name?

>>725162302
Shut up you pansy faglord

>>725162302
someone post of that graph of male teenage suicide rates dropping dramatically at the same time that slur use in voice chat was at its highest

>>725162191 (OP)
Bunch of red and blue master chiefs killing each other

best time for gaming ever
playing ranked in a small squad actually working together was peak

>>725162302
It was human beings being real for the first time in 100 years.

>>725168159
It’s about control and not about making things better.

>>725162191 (OP)
The gaming experience was fun. It was completely different to pc multiplayer and you suddenly had the option to play halo multiplayer outside of lan parties or couch mp.
XBL was the wild west and especially the voice chat was just unfiltered garbage, it was hilarious.
Most surprising was how well it all worked. It was easy to set up and "it just worked". Good times.

>>725162191 (OP)
there are no words in the english dictionary that can properly articulate what a magical time it was.
i don't have any cool halo 2 images so this will have to suffice.

>>725162302
Yet somehow less mentally ill than the people online today. It was a better time.

>>725178568
unfiltered garbage" is a good way to put it, I loved every second of it
>Most surprising was how well it all worked. It was easy to set up and "it just worked". Good times.
this, too. I dont think it ever gave me trouble in any way.

you could actually use voice chat back in the day. it was basically the default way. because our countries weren't overrun with foreigners and leftists yet. these days, multiplayer games are extremely asocial by comparison. you might as well be playing with bots. but every game of halo 2 was a new experience, with new people.

>>725162191 (OP)
can anybody tell me why the graphics are so bad and the game play so floaty?

always liked glitch modes, using sword cancelling/butterfly so you and a buddy could get outside and go off to explore some barely-rendering part of the map, chill on top of the buildings and talk shit for half-hour
then halo 3 added soft barriers to stop that even in custom modes, fucking faggots

>>725167987
Oh God you just unlocked a 20 year old memory I buried where I was active on the bungie.net forums and had this weird crusade against MLG where I would shit on MLGfags dke literally no reason. Goddamn what an autistic little sped I was. Still, I miss hanging out on the campaign sections of the forums and speculating about the plot of Halo 2 and eventually 3. I participated in their Iris ARG for Halo 3 goddamn it was a blast.

>>725181472
i liked the hacked maps that had NPC's spawned in just standing around idle or with kill boundaries disabled.
always bothered me back then how Bungie went through all the effort of making something as cool as forge mode but still purposely made it extremely limited and didn't let people spawn NPC's or campaign locked vehicles like AA wraiths in.

>>725162519
I got told to blow my brains out on my first match and I never said a word the whole time