Opinions, opinions, opinions… BR vs SMG

News and Updates AU 1.1 - A step in the right direction As most of you know, Bungie has finally released the first Automatic Update. The Battle Rifle now shoots more accurately (less bullet spread), grenades explode quicker, and the melee is more powerful. (Halo C/E anyone?) I'm sure most players interested in the skillful aspects of the game are thrilled with these changes. The buzz on the forum is that the H2 noobs are quite upset - don't be surprised if we go back to 1.0 after Bungie finds out they have disappointed the most “precious” portion of their market. The only major downside we see so far to the update is the greatly weakened pistol. It seems Bungie just can’t hide their deep seeded animosity for pistols.



The update is definitely a step in the right direction; however, one can’t help but notice that all the good changes simply make Halo 2 more like Halo 1. So, if Bungie fixed every mistake in Halo 2, we would essentially be left with Halo 1 on XBL – oh what a dream… Google Banner This should help get our Page Rank up on the Google search engine, and I would like to get more bandwidth so we can host our own videos like Halo Poo. If you would like to help support the site, please feel free to visit the banner above or check out our "Halo 1 > 2... Infamy" T-Shirts - let the revolution begin! Another $20 anyone? "Unfreaking Believable!" (No allusion intended of course)



I am still working to get more details on this story, but the latest Bungie scandal to hit the reels is the extremely controversial Map DVD. After Bungie made promise after promise to give us Downloadable Content (DLC) through XBL, they went ahead and said, "Hey, why not break our promises and make more money?" It worked great for them last time - "Earth will never be the same!" - why not do it again? So, now instead of 9 maps for free (free as in pay $50 for XBL free), we, or at least those "silly" enough, get to pay another $20 for what should have been included in the game in the first place to help make up for its mediocre game play. Hooray for Bungie!



Expect a talking point or a more detailed analysis of this story to be posted soon. Search Engine Exposure Updated 3-27-05: I have recently learned that Links from other sites to our site will also increase our search engine rank. If you have a website that you can place a link to our site on, please do so. I would be more than happy to trade links with like-minded sites.



The more people that can find our site - the louder our voice will be heard. We are currently around the 275th site to come up on Google if some one searches: "Halo 2 sucks". I submitted the site/domain to the search engines months ago, the code is efficient for search bots to crawl, and we have appropriate meta tags. From what I can tell, we just need the words "Halo 2 sucks" on the site more often. So, I would like to start an initiative to have everyone put the words "Halo 2 sucks" (with spaces) in their forum signature. If you don't want to inlcude this text in your signature, no big deal, but I think this could really help us out with our search engine rank. New Site Design As I am sure you have noticed, the site's design has changed quite a bit. There are less images, so the site should load and run quicker. The layout and font types should also make it easier to read. If you have any serious issues with the new design such as browser incompatibility or screen resolution conflicts, please let me know. Enjoy! New Slogan After receiving many emails and PM's asking for a slogan change and seeing as how our original slogan - A site dedicated to figuring out why Bungie ruined Halo - is now pretty much self-explanatory, I decided it was time for a change. Bear in mind this was difficult for me since the site began with that slogan, but when the new slogan came to me it was all so clear, so simple, so... perfect... "Halo 1 > 2" The paradoxical mathematic expression is just the icing on the cake.