343 Industries Halo Studios Microsoft always manages to ruin everything Halo-related, so I don’t have my hopes up.

I know things have changed since I last did an RGH setup, which is probably where the confusion comes from; things are changing even though the scene was most active 10+ years ago.

I imagine you don’t need a NAND flasher now that ABadAvatar exists, but I could be mistaken. The process used to be, at a really high level: solder the NAND flasher/dumper, dump the original NAND, solder the RGH timer, then flash a NAND with a good timing profile for that console.

If you want a mod that persists, you’d need to do a hardware modification called the RGH exploit. It’s doable on an Xbox 360 S, but you need decent re-soldering skills to pull it off. I haven’t done it in years, but it sounds like ABadAvatar could make the process a lot easier than it used to be.

Halo 3 ODST also has cross-platform campaign, so if your friend who was missing it gets it, it should work for everyone.

Source: https://www.ign.com/articles/halo-master-chief-collection-adds-pc-and-xbox-crossplay-to-halo-3-and-odst

Edit: Added source for verification.

I was introduced to it around 2010 and I thought it looked mid. I then finally tried it in 2012 and it played exactly how I expected it to, which, in my opinion was not very well at all. I like Morrowind and Skyrim, though.

Get ready, this one’s sure to ruffle some feathers:

• BioShock
• Oblivion
• Any hero shooter
• R.E.P.O.
• Most overhaul mods for Halo games

Edit: typo Edit 2: I’m adding more based on what other people have said

• Breath of the Wild
• RDR 2
• Super Mario Odyssey

I would play matchmaking in Halo MCC more if the game wasn’t filled with cheaters. At least when I host custom games, I can ban them and move on.

And before you know it, Android will no longer be open source for “security” reasons.

Halo 3: ODST. You start with your squad, get separated, get back together, and then the game is over. Nothing significant changes except some sexual tension is resolved and an engineer joins the humans for a brief moment.

Right, the books that also seem to constantly have continuity errors with the games. :P

Reading the books has actually taught me to not take Halo’s plot so seriously and instead just try to enjoy whichever piece of the story I’m currently engrossed in.

We’re at that age where you have to exercise and watch what you eat if you want to be in good health (and not have your back hurt.) The friends I grew up with who haven’t touched a vegetable in their life, no longer happen to look healthy and thin.

I got mine as soon as they were being sold and was disappointed. It felt incredibly awkward to use in comparison to both a K&M and a traditional controller. I ended up selling it about 5 years ago and don’t miss it.

To judge my friends, of course.

This site puts my lowest cost estimate at ~$400 USD. Out of curiosity, I then went through my purchase history and added everything up, which came out to ~$1,000 USD. The average was ~$14 and the median was ~$10.

Watch Dogs 2. I’ve barely touched the story and just mess around.

It’s not just 12 year old kids either; this is how most people in the console market make their decisions. They prioritize the availability of games on the console over the hardware’s specifications and operating system.

Good luck finishing it up and redoing that level on CE! Note that the pelican (pictured in this post) is the vehicle that is typically used to transport marines. You were driving a falcon.

There is an easter egg on that level that lets you drive a pelican, though!

Halo 2 on Legendary is a pain. I know you said in your OP you thought you might as well have done LASO, but that is 1000x worse, trust me.

I can carry you through the level sometime, if you want. I’ll test the invulnerability glitch on co-op at some point and see how well it works. My guess is it won’t work due to co-op teleporting.

You can make yourself invulnerable on the Oracle level (at least for the last fourth or so of it) by activating the lift to the room where you cut the cables while off the lift, then activating it again so it comes back down, and letting it squish you. It’ll yeet you to the top of the lift and you’ll be invulnerable for the rest of the level. I don’t know how well it works in co-op though.

It was a glitch that originated in the Halo 2 Vista port and carried over to the MCC since they based it off the Vista port.

Sometimes I think I should revisit BioShock. When I played it over a decade ago, I did so on the Xbox 360 because my PC would’ve probably played it at around 15 FPS. I recall the game not feeling optimized for the console, felt tired of the game at the end, and that its gameplay was overall tedious. I wish I enjoyed it like everybody else.

It looks like the number of people who RuneScape (3?) is less than that, but OSRS seems to have a healthy population.

https://www.misplaceditems.com/rs_tools/graph/

Because they make a lot of money.

Would you be happier if it were paid DLC? It’s more fitting as a mod anyway, since the whole thing was very on-the-rails.

You’re right about that, but that doesn’t address the main concerns I made in my post.

Listen, I love my Steam Deck, but it isn’t a reasonable replacement for heavy Switch users, like this guy and his family. It’s not exactly a high-spec’d machine and as a result, in my experience, none of the Switch games play at their original FPS on the Deck. Some are so bad that they are unplayable. Online play is going to be, at best, limited and far more difficult to manage. Heck, setting it up in general for kids that probably just want to play the damn games is going to be more annoying. The worst part would be listening to, “Dad, why can’t we just buy a Switch?” a thousand times.

Reminds me of some encounters I had when I used to play RuneScape.

“I don’t think I’ve ever knowingly lied”

And this is how you immediately tell everybody you’re a liar.

Every now and then, I consider using a Google product, and then I remember this.