RetroLogic - Episode 57 7:50 - Icebreaker - what did you buy? And what did you play? 23:21 - The price is RETRO 52:27 - Show Topic: Halo 2 1:22:56 - Community Couch RetroLogic isn’t just a podcast, It’s also a retro game store! Visit Retrologic.games to check out our growing inventory of Cleaned, Tested, and Authentic Retro Games, fair-trade fabric T-Shirts, holographic Stickers, and join our 100% non-toxic discord community for even more fun! Icebreaker - what did you buy? And what did you play? Seth: BOUGHT: Jade Empire Limited Edition, Phantom Dust. PLAYED: Animal Crossing, Unpacking, Borderlands 2. Sam: bought: nothing Played: PLOK, Megaman X, Mario & Wario, Turtles in Time, Metal Walker Dan: Beat Metroid Dread, played Cruisin Blast. The price is RETRO How to play: I’m going to list off 4-5 games. You’re going to guess how much the games are worth in total, dollars and cents. Whoever is closest to guessing the actual price of the lot, wins! Everyone has a list, and everyone guesses. The “ghost” always guesses $300 Dan’s list Sam’s list Seth’s list TheAmbassador’s list Andross’s list Trash Turkey’s list “Spot the fake game” Flightsy Check out the Price Is Retro Database in the discord server for history and stats for all of our past games! Show Topic (Game Highlight, News Highlight, Discussion topic) Topic: Halo 2 Release: November 9, 2004 Halo 2 is the best-selling first-generation Xbox game, with more than 8 million copies sold worldwide. A troubled development and time constraints forced cuts to the scope of the game, including the wholesale removal of a more ambitious multiplayer mode, and necessitated a cliffhanger ending to the game's campaign mode. Jason Jones, who had been exhausted shipping Combat Evolved, similarly burned out during Halo 2's production. Jones left the project to work on another Bungie game, Phoenix Bungie cofounder Alex Seropian left Bungie in 2002, causing additional friction and politics in the workplace where Seropian had once mediated tensions. Initially, Combat Evolved's multiplayer was supposed to involve larger maps and player counts than what shipped, and members of the team wanted to resurrect those plans for Halo 2. Local multiplayer VS warfare mode After the E3 2003 demonstration, much of what the team had been working on for 2 years had to be scrapped. Other bungie projects such as Pheonix were scrapped and teams moved over to Halo 2 to finish the project. Many planned elements, including the entire 3rd act of the story were scrapped. At one point, Microsoft executives had a vote over whether to force Bungie to ship the incomplete game, or give them another year of development time. Microsoft Studios head Ed Fries walked out of the vote and threatened to resign to get Bungie the extra time. Missing the Xbox's last holiday season before its successor console, the Xbox 360, shipped was not an option.[17] To hit its new November 9, 2004 release date, Bungie went into the "mother of all crunches" in order to finish the game. Community Couch Fight Crab Fanatic- Question: you only have enough money for one of these rare PS2 finds. Which one: A) Rule of Rose B) Garfield: Saving Arlene C) Futurama D) Time Crisis 3 E) Silent Hill: Shattered Memories Thanks for listening to the RetroLogic Podcast! We are proudly part of the Nintendo Dads family of podcasts. If you like what you hear, check me out on Twitter and Instagram @RetrologicGames. You’re also welcome to jump into our friendly and 100% non-toxic Discord Community! The link to that is in my twitter bio. You can also find everything on our website Retrologic.games