Halo 2 PLAYABLE Demo

[tribalman]

Whats an ARG?

when i was looking around, i saw that also, i eventually found out it stands for alternate reality game. and if you see someone talking about a PM in a forum, not it's not private message, it refers to the Puppet masters, or game masters, or the people running the game. as has been stated quite a lot, good chance this is halo/marathon related. we will see on august 24th.

seeing as how the first timer is up, i decided to go back to ilovebees, there is new odd stuff posted on the honey page. i'm sure you all have heard that this might be a backstory to the game, or infact the plot line.

[_tMAN]

ramenjames,
I'm fine. No mofo has tried to attack me, anyone else?

[ramenjames]

it could be a coincidink....but i dont know man ...i was attacked around the time i visited the site

[SCpoloRicker]

7h3r3 3v3ry111h3r3 !!!

halo.bungie.org

Check out the forums on the backstories of the earlier Marathon games. When Halo was first announed, it was supposed to be the be-all end-all Marathon game. Pushed into Xbox and its dev cycle (launch game), I actually found Halo the LEAST interesting in terms of plot and "world immersion."

But yeah, the goons at Bungie are notorious for twinking its fans with little tidbits. Check out the "Cortana Letters" as well as some of the emails sent to Hamish, from a rogue AI within the Bungie mainframe.

"Halo 2 is like Halo, but going 1000 miles an hour. Being chased by monkey ninjas. On fire. Wrapped in bacon."

Do you have your pre-order in

[tribalman]

as i was looking at this stuff people kept mentioning marathon or something else like that. i've never heard of them, what are they?

[SCpoloRicker]

Marathon Explained

Marathon, as well as Marathon 2: Durandal and Marathon Infinity are all FPS developed by Bunie for the Macintosh in the mid-late 90's. They were renowned for their immersive world, told through your interactions with Durandal, an AI (possibly rampant) and your guide, as well as billion year old extinct races (Forerunner, S'phitt, the twelve clans, etc.)

Bungie also used a lot of numerology, religous (biblical isn't exact), and other references.

Marthon 2: Durandal is, IMO, a far superior experience in terms of when it was made, than Halo, System Shock 1/2, Goldeneye, blah, blah, blah.

7h3r3 3v3ry111h3r3!!!!! *Bobs*

They were ported to PC as well, amazing titles, and highly recommended.

Halo was crap in terms of Bungie-esque plot and world development.

Ricker

[Lesta]

Wow.. Marathon.. that brings back memories!

[awesomePballer11]

i found this on the shirt for i love bees thing,
It has started, the killers are among us. August 24th, there is only one who can save us now. "
kind of wierd dont ya think

[_tMAN]

rofl

http://www.xbox.ilovebees.com/

Actually, it seems to be the sequal to an Alternate Reality Game (ARG) that was called "The Beast". The game was in the vein of Majestic where it was played as if real and was developed by, get this, some guys at Microsoft. Here is some info: http://www.seanstewart.org/beast/intro/

Apparently it has been rumored that a sequal was in the works going by the name "The Hive" and it seems the now surfaced www.ilovebees.com oddity may in fact be the start of the new game. This would explain why it was in the Halo 2 trailer. Since Microsoft had a hand in producing the trailer they may have thought this was the perfect place to let the public know about the new game.

so basically they wanted more attention to "the hive"

sorry guys

[warthog2t0]

I don't see how people didn't think of this biblical code before...
Halo 1 obviously had the refferences in the game, but didn't any one think of looking at the algerythms of the origaal game?
If you look closely enough at any of the coding, Most of teh coding is using biblical text, and refferences for loading, and character movement...
Infact if you read the code, I believe you should find that most of Halo's programing is done in old texts, if not biblical, prophosies that are well known...

It only makes sence that they would do this for the second one...
Why didn't someone try to read the old code, or at least try and get an answer from a beta-tester of the sequal? Most likely it would clue some of us into some major events of the game...

then again, I could always go for a good suprise with this game... couldn't you?

[awesomePballer11]

ya i could probably wait, but atleast this gives me something to do.

[Head knight of Ni]

Sorry to bring this back but here is undeniable proof it's tied in to Halo in some way.

proof

scroll to just below "All right old joke:" read the paragraph.

[_tMAN]

Head knight of Ni,
Did you read my post? and how is that proof of Halo 2?

[Head knight of Ni]

Marine, covies = Covenant, MC(Master Chief) is a spartan hence the part about a spartan.

Of course they could be screwing with people, but I only found that page once for some reason. If you can find the womans phone number on the site call it there's this creepy message.

[WickeDKlowN]

Whenever you get a 404(page not found) it shows random corrupted pics of some girl.