Celtic505

Okay, so I rarely get access to xbox live at home so I primarily play Reach offline and play campaign and firefight. I am fine with that, I like playing campaign, not having multiplayer is no big deal for me. So in my career playing offline I have reached the rank of Field Marshall and unlocked almost 80% of the armoury. I recently went onto Xbox live today so that I could go onto Halo Waypoint ONLY to unlock the MP and CQB helmets for my armoury. I sign into xbox live and everything is fine. When the Reach menu pulls up on screen a message comes up and says I have too many cR for xbox live and wether I want to forfeit them or keep them but retain a default spartan model to the rest of xbox live. I have no problem with that as I do not play multiplayer. So I say no to forfeiting and keep my cR. I go through Halo Waypoint and mess around on there and just doing regular stuff like uploading files, etc. But then all of a sudden when I go back to Reach's main menu I am down to Sergeant and lost the majority of my cR and armour. I did NOT click yes to this! So I exited out and reloaded the disc hoping it would go back to normal and as you must obviously guess by the simple fact I am writing this plea for help that my cR and rank was NOT returned. So I turned off and restarted my xbox360 console without access to xboxlive this time around. Still, I have none of my original cR, armour or rank. How could this happen when I rejected the forfeit offer? I said YES to keeping my offline cR and having the xbox live world see me as a default spartan with low rank. So why would it erase it all from me? I want my cR and rank back, but even that means little to me in comparison to my Armoury. I want my friggin armour back! Does anybody know how I can restore my original profile? It must still be in there somewhere on the memory hard drive or the games history or my profile itself. I just want my armour back so I can resume playing OFFline like before. I DO NOT wish to play online at this time. So what can I possibly do to fix this problem? It got rid of my progress by mistake or error in the consoles performance. Please I need help and a solution! I cannot begin to explain my frustration and disbelief over the fact that the console basically acted against my decision to keep my offline cR. If anybody can help me fix this problem I will greatly appreciate it. Hell, I might even give you some money...

After reading many fans opinions, expectations and many overall deriding comments about Halo: CEA I have decided I must write something as a retort. I am not trying to be negative here at all, I am just trying to discuss varying opinions and expectations of the new direction of the Halo franchise. I see that a lot of people are complaining that they don't want any dramatic changes to the game, gameplay, the visuals, weapons, etc. IMHO I think Halo CEA should be improved as much as possible and not kept to a rigid standard of falling in line with the original games expectations and abilities. To me the whole reason of having a remake is to do it over again with a different or better vision. To me I envision or hope the Halo CEA to be exactly like the remake of Resident Evil from PSone to GameCube. The game retained the same settings only updated with more detail and additions that didn't detract from the original but complemented it and made it even better. Their were changes in gameplay as well such as the use of tasers and thrusting knifes, and obviously the inclusion of the well recieved "crimson-heads". The original game lacked all of those things as well as the whole lisa trevor plotline, but with the remake throwing those in, on top of redesigned gameplay while retaining the similar atmosphere and music made you feel right at home, as if you were playing the original PS1 version and not even realizing the difference, because the updated gameplay and graphics drew you in so far that you were having so much fun and weren't caught up in the notice of old outdated graphics or lack of abilities now common to most modern games. It brought you back to that enjoyment and nostalgia but without the notice of time past to draw you away from the experience as it happens a lot when revisiting old game favorites (at least for me anyways). For Halo CEA I would love to see new updated versions of costumes, vehicles, weapons, scenery, etc. Because that is what makes remake exciting to see your old love in a new light. For those detracting the new version before it has even come out should stop and think for a second about their criticism. If you are hating on a game remake for not sticking to the basic original gameplan or for making any kind of changes, then why are you interested in playing a remake at all? If you want it so much like the original, than why not just stick with your original? Remake is to create something all over again, and nothing can ever be done exactly the same over and over, which is the whole point of doing something again because everytime you experience something new, something more which keeps you coming back over and over again. I don't want to wait and wait and finally when it is released end up playing Halo CEA and it is exactly the same....I might as well just keep playing Halo CE. What do you all think?