[Tunavi]

Aw, sweet! snag me a beta key

are they...giving them out?

[Plywood]

are they...giving them out?

i wish

[Steelyuhas]

Anybody expect Bungie's next game to be a direct threat to Halo?

No, for a couple reasons. First, it appears that it is some form of a MMOFPS, so it's not the same type of game as Halo. Second, and much more importantly, I don't believe that there really is such a thing as a direct threat at this point in the life cycle of these consoles. The install base is so outrageously big that there is room for everything to sell and room for everything to be played by a lot of people for years after launch.

I expect it to be a direct threat to my free time.

Now this is probable.

got my tickets to RTX, I play Halo 4 in 17 days

Of all the people to play it early, you are the least deserving.

I'm just jelly. :p

are they...giving them out?

MS Internal test that we got the leaks from is over, so unless they plan on running another MS test, there is no chance (I doubt there is any chance even if they are. It's called an "internal" test for a reason).

[Biggest-Geek-Ever]

Destiny is going to be a 720 launch title, right? It could really become a monster if becomes buyers first experience with next-gen, and is you know, a great game.

[Steelyuhas]

Destiny is going to be a 720 launch title, right? It could really become a monster if becomes buyers first experience with next-gen, and is you know, a great game.

Based on both the leaked documents about the 720 and Destiny it would appear that it will come to the 360 and to the 720 next fall/holiday.

[Hypertrooper]

Spartan Ops will have things similar to Fire Fight. Also I HIGHLY doubt Destiny will have Firefight as it is an MMO.

That would be Marathon but that is only being done by like 5% of Bungie right now and will not be out for awhile.

Looks like you have insider-sources: Where do they clearly say that their next game is going to be MMO?

[wwm0nkey]

Looks like you have insider-sources: Where do they clearly say that their next game is going to be MMO?

In the Activision court documents?

[Hypertrooper]

In the Activision court documents?

No. It did not say that the game is going to be a MMO. Or not clearly.

[Steelyuhas]

No. It did not say that the game is going to be a MMO. Or not clearly.

I think it's pretty clear that although it probably isn't going to be a WOW clone, the games structure will have MMO properties to it.

[TCKaos]

Nice games with the guys I was with. Especially this one.

[VivaciousJazzy]

Nice games with the guys I was with. Especially this one.

Sorry, we encountered a problem while processing your request.

[Biggest-Geek-Ever]

Based on both the leaked documents about the 720 and Destiny it would appear that it will come to the 360 and to the 720 next fall/holiday.

It'll be interesting to see if that can actually help sales of the 720. It works for a brilliant marketing campaign: This is Destiny, THIS is Destiny on Next-Gen

[wwm0nkey]

It'll be interesting to see if that can actually help sales of the 720. It works for a brilliant marketing campaign: This is Destiny, THIS is Destiny on Next-Gen

Wonder if MS is a bit pissed that Activision pretty much had to say when the "720" is releasing.

[Steelyuhas]

Nice games with the guys I was with. Especially this one.

First time I clicked the link it sent me to my own game history. I clicked it about ten more times and "Sorry, we encountered a problem while processing your request."

Failing to link in the 21st century, come on 343.

It'll be interesting to see if that can actually help sales of the 720. It works for a brilliant marketing campaign: This is Destiny, THIS is Destiny on Next-Gen

Yeah, I would probably just purchase the new console sometime in spring-mid 2014 instead of right when it comes out, but if Destiny is a launch title, I might spring at launch.

Certainly gives MS their must have title for launch (which the 360 lacked). Although it will be availably on the 360 as well, so I don't know if it has that much of an impact.

[heckfu]

Been a quiet night for wolfgaf. Sad.

[monsterfracas]

Been a quiet night for wolfgaf. Sad.

It's been a quiet few days for HaloGAF.

People just...stopped posting.

[Plywood]

Been a quiet night for wolfgaf. Sad.

FOOL WE ARE MERELY LURKING FOR MOMENT TO STRIKE

PLAN RUINED

It's been a quiet few days for HaloGAF. People just...stopped posting.

I blame the off topic-nature of the thread these past couple days and lack of anything new. People can only glean so much info off of the same couple of gameplay vids.

[heckfu]

FOOL WE ARE MERELY LURKING FOR MOMENT TO STRIKE PLAN RUINED I blame the off topic-nature of the thread these past couple days and lack of anything new. People can only glean so much info off of the same couple of gameplay vids.

WHY DIDN'T YOU CALL ME ON THE SPECIAL WOLF PHONE AND LET ME KNOW

[Ryaaan14]

I heard a fuckin wolf.

[Biggest-Geek-Ever]

I suppose Comic Con is going to be the next place that big Halo 4 news will come from, and it's going to be nothing but articles and shitty camera phone videos (still holding out for a trailer with The Dark Knight Rises Frankie plz, etc).

[Barrow Roll]

Plywood, get a wolf avatar.

[Steelyuhas]

WHY DIDN'T YOU CALL ME ON THE SPECIAL WOLF PHONE AND LET ME KNOW

WOLF INSTINCTS

COME ON!!

[Rickenslacker]

Yeah guys, post more! It's not like this thread has a post rate that trumps every other thread in Gaming Community by several orders of magnitude.

[FyreWulff]

WHY DIDN'T YOU CALL ME ON THE SPECIAL WOLF PHONE AND LET ME KNOW

I don't have a wolf phone. Where do I get one? Is that something Verizon sells?

I suppose Comic Con is going to be the next place that big Halo 4 news will come from, and it's going to be nothing but articles and shitty camera phone videos (still holding out for a trailer with The Dark Knight Rises Frankie plz, etc).

HaloWaypoint had direct feed videos of the Halo panels up shortly after it last year

Of course, if you want it early you can watch Machinima.com slather their logo over poor sound balanced vidcam captures

[TS x Massacre]

I hope something substantial comes before/around RTX.

[Plywood]

Plywood, get a wolf avatar.

You see this? This is a saiyan:



This, this is a Super Saiyan:



And this, this is known as a Super Saiyan that has ascended past a Super Saiyan:

[Ryaaan14]

I'd make Plywood a custom wolf avvy based his current one, but it would look like mine.

[Biggest-Geek-Ever]

HaloWaypoint had direct feed videos of the Halo panels up shortly after it last year Of course, if you want it early you can watch Machinima.com slather their logo over poor sound balanced vidcam captures

Sounds positively charming. Thanks for the heads up about HaloWaypoint <3

[Barrow Roll]

You see this? This is a saiyan: [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/jN4d6.jpg[IMG] This, this is a Super Saiyan: [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/3x0lT.jpg[IMG] And this, this is known as a Super Saiyan that has ascended past a Super Saiyan: [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/QR7iI.jpg[IMG]

I don't get what you're saiyan.

[Plywood]

I don't get what you're saiyan.

That's okay, neither do I.

[mastrbiggy]

That's okay, neither do I.

UNACCEPTABLE!!!!!!

[Blue Ninja]

UNACCEPTABLE!!!!!!

[ElzarTheBam]

Damn, Plywood changes his avatar as much as Kittens changes his gamertag.

[zap]

Yeah guys, post more! It's not like this thread has a post rate that trumps every other thread in Gaming Community by several orders of magnitude.

We're on the 12th thread since Reach...

~230,000 posts so far... - we still have ~ four and a half months before Halo 4.

Crazy.

[user_nat]

Had a random thought earlier that I can't test currently, so figured I would ask here..

If you install the ODST multiplayer disc, can you then use the regular Halo 3 disc to boot it? Since the ODST multi disc shows up as being Halo 3. Could be useful.

[Hypertrooper]

I think it's pretty clear that although it probably isn't going to be a WOW clone, the games structure will have MMO properties to it.

Still there is a difference between properties and "The game is a MMO". Activision and Bungie are not dumb. They both know hopefully that a MMO is not the perfect introduction game to a new Universe. Especially the case of TOR shows that even a strong licensed game with solid gameplay does not deliver profit to the publishers. Let us face it: The Old Republic was a big failure, financially, for EA, LucasArts and BioWare. A MMO a) is expensive in a long-term; b) needs consistent user base which is not guaranteed. Do not forget that Blizzard is working on their new "rumored Sci-fi" MMO "Titan". Why should Activision release a MMO when their partner is going to release one too? The thought that Bungie's new game is a MMO is dumb. The game will focus on Singleplayer but with "massively-multiplayer style" elements. This could mean a world map like Hybrid, Chromhounds or a trading system like EVE.

[ElzarTheBam]

Halo in 1080p, 60fps will "suck up all the power you have in next gen" - John Carmack

[Kuroyume]

It's been a quiet few days for HaloGAF. People just...stopped posting.

[Garrett 2U]

It's been a quiet few days for HaloGAF. People just...stopped posting.

Everyone has been busy playing Reach.
Grinding away at that Firefight.
And 20 multiplayer games for 4300 credits!

[Biggest-Geek-Ever]

Halo in 1080p, 60fps will "suck up all the power you have in next gen" - John Carmack

I doubt that'd be true even if console didn't force devs to make truly optimal engines.

Of course, his argument is that innovations like motion control are what drive sales, which I can get behind. That said, though, I do think next-gen consoles will be able to get quite a bit out of consumers just by offering graphically superior products. Star Wars 1313 made quite a splash at E3 because it looked unprecedented, visually, and Watch_Dogs impressive graphics helped it to really blow people away.

[Hypertrooper]

Halo in 1080p, 60fps will "suck up all the power you have in next gen" - John Carmack

The topic of this article is: "Controllers are boring, Kinect, Move does not exist in my world, Next Gen is going to be only a update in terms of graphic, my virtual reality headset is going to revolutionize the gaming world"

The first comment was lol. Xbox 360 is at its limit. Still he says that games are going to get better graphics. Nope. It is at its limit. He is right with story etc.

[JuanGGZ]

Not sure if skulls are really out, or if it's just an error from UK OXM.

[Hypertrooper]

Not sure if skulls are really out, or if it's just an error from UK OXM.

Franklin is the Lead designer for PvP. And skulls were never part of the competitive aspect of Halo.

[FyreWulff]

It's pretty true though.

Number of pixels rendered to make a final Halo image on 360 @ 720p (HDR, so 3 views per render):

2,764,800 per frame(82,944,000 pixels per second)

1080p native with HDR @ 60FPS:

6,220,800 per frame (373,248,000 pixels per second)

So now you need to push around 3x the pixels AND bump it up to twice the update rate? Yeah, sure.

1080p isn't going to be a standard next gen. Actual 720p native as a baseline with some 1080p games? Okay.

[Biggest-Geek-Ever]

There are multiplayer skulls? Wat

Edit: Well, at least I'm not that much of a Halo knob.

[Shadders]

I think Carmack is probably looking at the specs from a PC developer's perspective. It would be unwise to think that the console is going to offer similar performance to a PC with the same specs. In reality the console will be able to do much more.

If you tried to run Rage on a PC from 2005 with the same specs as the 360 it would probably melt, whereas the game runs fine on an Xbox. So where the paper the specs of the Nextbox might suggest it's underpowered, in terms of the games we'll actually see running on it, I'm sure it will be fine.

[Gabotron ES]

HaloGAF is dead lol

[Shadders]

Maybe everyone got banned.

[ElzarTheBam]

HaloGAF is dead lol

I demand more Halo 4 news! Demand, I say!

[Tha Robbertster]

I demand more Halo 4 news! Demand, I say!

If you would've listened to Robbert's predictions™, you'd know we'll get some news in 2 weeks!