[kupoartist]

Originally Posted by trunks69420

so is anyone else sharing in my anguish of severe frustration but at the same time anticipation of perhaps the greatest game ever ... well share your thoughts or comment on my insanity

Perhaps its because I don't have an XBox. Perhaps its because Halo was IMO, the seriously most over-hyped and disappointing game i've ever played. Perhaps its because the latest batch of multiplayer screenshots look like nothing has changed whatsoever. But i'm finding the wait for perhaps the best game ever (and I agree that it has a serious chance of this, despite all of the above) totally bareable

Delays aren't particuarly nice... but at the end of the day, there'll be a million other games to make the wait a little bareable. I think of it this way: If Bungie were forced to release the game tommorow, they'd go and copy and paste all the maps again. You're waiting for the kind of quality that Halo had oozed out of it the minute that Microsoft employed Bungie and told them they had only a few months to complete the game. A Concrete release date of November 7th is also a good thing: it means that finally, they're getting confident about when they're going to ship the game. Bungie are a half decent company (unlike Valve. Sep 30th 2003 my bum), and provided nothing really bad happens, you'll get your Halo 2 on November 7th.