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Halo 3 in Sept rumor picks up steam (IGN)
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meltpotato
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DSN2K said:
Halo 3 is comign to Dreamcast 2?
If the Sep time is true. Halo 3 fever will spread early!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOFwmVM8g8E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9brTxpDwKgs&NR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOFwmVM8g8E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9brTxpDwKgs&NR
Karma Kramer
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GhaleonEB said:
I honestly think Too Human is coming out sooner than we think. Denis already said he knows the "date" when it is coming out and with his new philosophy about not allowing the press to preview games until the games are complete (IGN is previewing the game next week), I can see Too Human coming out in May or June.
ToyMachine228
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Really hoping that Halo 3's single-player is everything I wanted Halo 2's Campaign to be. Online Co-Op is also a must as well.
Barry Lightning
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squicken said:
i didnt even know this was in question... :/
PhoenixDark
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Sounds like a very good strategic move on MS' part. There are many people out there holding out on an Xbox 360 purchase until Halo 3 drops, and this is just going to reel them in earlier. Also, consider the month. GTA comes out the month after September (or at least it's scheduled to). Halo 3 and GTA in the same month on the Xbox 360? Instant success.
Plus I wouldn't be surprised if we see a September price cut to go along with this. Right now it seems like MS is controlling the biggest cards in the game
Plus I wouldn't be surprised if we see a September price cut to go along with this. Right now it seems like MS is controlling the biggest cards in the game
Buttonbasher
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Stinkles said:
You Tease!
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I can agree on the polish thing, but if t is ready by then, no reason to wait an extra couple of months. I doubt it has anything to do with pressure though. The 360 is going to sell like hotcakes during the holliday regardless of the exact release date of Halo 3. This will give them an extra two months of big 360 hardware sales,
Fatalah said:
you'll be too involved with waiting for GTA 4? it doesn't come out till october!
C4Lukins said:
the whole idea is that it makes a good 1-2 punch. Halo 3 will be a media frenzy again and with GTA 4 right afterwards, it makes the xbox 360 an easier christmas purchase. It'd be a very smart plan.
Mr Vociferous
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I don't know how well you can judge a Halo game's development timeframe by the version of the multiplayer build, but to give you an idea, I'm pretty sure the beta for Halo 2 was conducted sometime during July/August of 2004 based on some people I've talked to who participated in it. This was the actual beta and not the delta (next developmental step beyond the beta) which came out shortly after I believe in September sometime and was only for a limited number of people.
Now, Jarrard has confirmed that our beta will in fact be the delta. This means two things: we'll be playing a near final build of Halo 3's multiplayer during the beta and secondly, Halo 3 will be much further along far earlier in the year than Halo 2.
If the campaign and the multiplayer are this far along now, they could be completed by sometime this summer and then they would have some comprehensive debugging to be done and probably loads of testing, but overall, I think the September deadline could work. It would definitely give other games room to breath in a really quality/costly fall schedule for Xbox 360 fans.
I could be wrong about the above H2 beta info. Frank, feel free to correct me on it if necessary...
Now, Jarrard has confirmed that our beta will in fact be the delta. This means two things: we'll be playing a near final build of Halo 3's multiplayer during the beta and secondly, Halo 3 will be much further along far earlier in the year than Halo 2.
If the campaign and the multiplayer are this far along now, they could be completed by sometime this summer and then they would have some comprehensive debugging to be done and probably loads of testing, but overall, I think the September deadline could work. It would definitely give other games room to breath in a really quality/costly fall schedule for Xbox 360 fans.
I could be wrong about the above H2 beta info. Frank, feel free to correct me on it if necessary...
Just ran across this, pics inside;
http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/13021/Halo-3-Legendary-and-Collectors-Edition-Pictures/
http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/13021/Halo-3-Legendary-and-Collectors-Edition-Pictures/
Oh man, I love this cover:
http://screenshots.teamxbox.com/screen/57577/Halo-3/
It doesn't even freakin' say Halo on it. They're too cool for that! How awesome is it when you can release a game that is so iconic it doesn't even say the game's name on the cover?
http://screenshots.teamxbox.com/screen/57577/Halo-3/
It doesn't even freakin' say Halo on it. They're too cool for that! How awesome is it when you can release a game that is so iconic it doesn't even say the game's name on the cover?
BenjaminBirdie
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Falagard said:
DAMN. I love the Collector's Edition but CRAVE the Legendary Edition's content.
WHAT. TO. DO.
siamesedreamer
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9/11/07 is a Tuesday.......and 5 weeks before GTA IV hits.
Finish the Fight - Save Earth on 9/11?
Finish the Fight - Save Earth on 9/11?
siamesedreamer
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Falagard said:
Dude, where have you been?
Mr Vociferous
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Lakitu said:
I agree, the story and dialogue of Halo 2 were superior to Halo 1 in almost every way. The only problem I had with it was the excessive linear environments and the fact that they cut out the last two or three levels (according to something Staten apparently said during a conference at his university).
I think it would have been better with the original ending. There's a G4TV screenshot...here it is which shows the Ark and to the left it reads Chief/Dervish. Dervish was the Arbiter's code name during the development of Halo 2. On other storyboard shots like this we usually see the name of the character involved in the scene and a sketch of the environment. No different here, except we see that both the Chief and the Arbiter were involved in this scene.
My guess is that the game probably would have felt a lot better for people if they would have returned to Earth, battled some more there, and then had the Chief and the Arbiter approach the Ark (similar to the Announcement Trailer).
Heheh. Ironically, this spits in the face of my previous post on this very thread. Ouch.
thestopsign
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Kuroyume said:
Considering there is Super Mario Galaxy, Metroid Prime 3, Super Smash Bros Brawl, Metal Gear Solid, and Grand Theft Auto all coming out this fall, I think it atleast has some competition.
Mr Vociferous said:
We thought that folks would be super-excited to find out they got to go to another of the seven Halos, so we deliberately set all of the marketing and so on at Earth, saving the journey to Halo as a surprise. That backfired on us when some of our players felt "tricked" that we'd promised an all-Earth campaign, which would have been repetitive and not really in the spirit of Halo IMO.
Mr Vociferous
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Stinkles said:
Point taken and I've heard you say this before in an interview. I agree, an all-Earth campaign would have been boring and repetitive and not a particularly good decision in the light of some of the issues people had with Halo 1.
Stinkles said:
Back in October 2003, Bungie put out a vidoc in which Joe State describes Halo 2 as, "a galictic romp from one place to the next". Give how famous this video was - it has the "30-seconds of fun" quote in it - I thought everyone picked up on that line as well. I took it as a clear message that surprises were in store after the earth battle and am still surprised people are pissed given signal Bungie sent.
http://www.gameinformer.com/News/Story/200703/N07.0315.1215.33382.htm
GI: In a previous Bungie Weekly update, you guys reported that the Beta could arrive in "Late Spring." Spring is technically March 21 - June 21. So potentially, are we looking at a June release for the beta?
Jarrard: Pulling together all the various pieces for something of this magnitude is no small order. Everyone is working hard to make sure we get the beta into the hands of our fans sometime this spring as promised. You'll have to stay tuned for further details.
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New Interview, or at least new to me.
GI: In a previous Bungie Weekly update, you guys reported that the Beta could arrive in "Late Spring." Spring is technically March 21 - June 21. So potentially, are we looking at a June release for the beta?
Jarrard: Pulling together all the various pieces for something of this magnitude is no small order. Everyone is working hard to make sure we get the beta into the hands of our fans sometime this spring as promised. You'll have to stay tuned for further details.
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New Interview, or at least new to me.
Mr Vociferous
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Yeah, I talked about it in my first post in this thread. In that interview he talks about the beta being the delta build of the game, which for me is awesome. Whenever I've heard that term used when referencing a game's development, it's meant "near final build." It makes sense being that we've already been told there will be decorators, atmospherics, and others final build effects in the beta.
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