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  I thought the hunters were easier. :( Maybe Legendary will change my mind. : geedeck
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    They were harder for me. No more single pistol shot to the back. : DKo5
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      Ah, I guess I never got that hardcore w/ Halo 1. I gotcha then. : geedeck
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        I was about to say - if you think Halo2 hunters are harder, then you sucked at fighting them in the first... : action roommate
        • Too true. I was disappionted that you couldn't gut the Hunters with a single Plasma Sword swipe though. :... : Ajax
  • Yeah they don't seem as deadly up close. : Carnivac
  • they were harder for sure. My Halo 1 tactic of dodging their charge and meleeing them in the back doesnt ... : ashke
• Yeah, they're about 20% bigger I think - I'll have to check the Art of Halo book when I get home, but I'm... : DKo5
• yes I laughed my ass off at the marine that jumped down from the "balcony" when they appeared for the 1st : Jayx77
• Hunters now seem taller and quicker. : ariakaz
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  Definitely bigger and more intimidating. They don't leave themselves open to attack as much as they used : bounty838
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    taking on 2 of them is kind of daunting now, especially when your low on ammo. It used to be such a cake walk, but in those cramped spaces it gets pretty hairy. I like that. :)

    Nov 18, 2004 2:42pm CST
    taking on 2 of them is kind of daunting now, especially when your low on ammo. It used to be such a cake... : Silent Wolf
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  In the city level where I first met the hunters I was manning a machine gun turrent and complety owned th... : matrix
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    Interesting. I might just have to load up this level and try it for fun! : action roommate
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      That level is alot of fun anyway. Gunning down the flying dudes with the turret is a party. : CSParsons
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        a party in your pants ? am i rite ? : jedi_27
        • Guess what! You're invited! : CSParsons
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  LOL @ WTF: Most first person shooter games, such as Quake or Unreal, are built on a graphical engine. : PUPSTAHS
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    I think he's trying to discuss technical details in layman's language, so a lot of the content gets lost.... : darweidu
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      But the engine does work that way last time I checked. The camera never moves, the world just rotates aro... : Pink0r
      • that's still missing the point... the guy in the quote was trying to explain how the engine disects thing... : DoubleAught()
  • It's a big difference that's evident if you've played those games quite a bit. In Quake 2 things prett... : EvilDolemite
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    you mean halo has more advanced AI than games that came out 5 years earlier?! : ansuble
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      No, it's not just that. It's the entire world which is more advanced than most current games. : EvilDolemite
      • yea he just did a terrible job of explaining it. need more technical deliciousness =( : PUPSTAHS
      • Several other current (years older than Halo 2) games use bots (i.e. they're abstracted from the engine a... : nudel
• Thanks, enjoying the read. : jrock
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  the hunters seem easier to me, i just get some distance between them and myself and they seem to go down ... : virus
  • I guess I never really battled the hunters in Halo 1 - maybe they are harder? I'd just take em down wi... : action roommate
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  For instance, if I have memory of seven characters in this room and one of them is my friend and the othe : Nighteyes
  • that makes sense if it is. you always count yourself when you count number of people on your team. : *metal*
  • Well, he's Chris Butcher, not Chris mathematician! Being a butcher means he's got fewer fingers to cou... : darweidu
• Awesome article. The AI in both Halo and Halo2 is some of the best I've ever seen (save for HL1's marines... : BaBOon
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  The AI didn't seem special at all to me. He talks about it like it's completely different to the AI in ev... : nudel
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    Did you play on Normal? : EvilDolemite
    • Heroic (2nd hardest level). Yes, the AI is better than generic "run towards the player" AI but I didn't s... : nudel
• honestly halo 2 on legendary has some of the best AI I've seen ever. period. : dilutedq
• wow, that is amazing. definitely worth the read! : DoubleAught()
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  lol @ cashing in on halo2 success. I wish they went more indepth on how it works more so than an intervie... : tomatoactivator
  • ...they did do the review before Halo 2 was released. : DoubleAught()