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Halo |OT 24| In Before the Locke

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jem0208

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I thought the campaign demo was fairly good. It was obvious they wanted to show off the new squad features and to do that it was gunna be pretty scripted.

That said the art design was freaking gorgeous, the new Prometheans look a hell of a lot better than the Knights and the story hints at the end with the Promethean boss thing were really interesting.

Tsumiya said:
Xbox Conference was really strong overall. Time was clearly an issue this go around. I am surprised people are in arms at the linear demo style. Even Halo 2's reveal was a scripted on rails thing. Same with Reach. These shows are mostly geared to be as easily digestible as possible by press / average consumers.

We that dig for more details and want more will get it in due time I'm sure. Super hyped for warzone and all its potential. I really hope its not just slayer with A.I. Please give us an objective variant in the form of invasion all the pieces are there!

Play as elites with covies helping you vs spartans & marines.

343! (ノﾟДﾟ)ノ
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Yeah, I think it's funny people are complaining about linear and scripted gameplay demos when pretty much every E3 gameplay demo ever was linear and scripted.
 
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LinkToTheFuture

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Xbox Conference was really strong overall. Time was clearly an issue this go around. I am surprised people are in arms at the linear demo style. Even Halo 2's reveal was a scripted on rails thing. Same with Reach. These shows are mostly geared to be as easily digestible as possible by press / average consumers.

We that dig for more details and want more will get it in due time I'm sure. Super hyped for warzone and all its potential. I really hope its not just slayer with A.I. Please give us an objective variant in the form of invasion all the pieces are there!

Play as elites with covies helping you vs spartans & marines.

343! (ノﾟДﾟ)ノ
 
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Fahzgoolin

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Blueblur1 said:
These Banshees look different.
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LOL are those rock textures from "The Witness?"

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Halo 5's graphics looks pretty horrible up even from a medium range distance. Pretty disappointing.
 
Sikamikanico

Sikamikanico

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I thought everything looked great. Going to be a blast with friends.

The campaign demo seemed a bit....linear, but the scale was huge. I'm excited.
 
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Brojito

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jem0208 said:
That said the art design was freaking gorgeous, the new Prometheans look a hell of a lot better than the Knights and the story hints at the end with the Promethean boss thing were really interesting.
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The prometheans still look bad to me. Someone at 343 needs to get over their obsession with glowy orange and random floating bits that serve no purpose. They're the most "un-Halo" looking thing in the 343 games.
 
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daedalius

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Sikamikanico said:
I thought everything looked great. Going to be a blast with friends.

The campaign demo seemed a bit....linear, but the scale was huge. I'm excited.
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Everyone seems to keep saying this, but it was a demo for a press conference. They are always super scripted.

Its not what we want, but that's what mainstream audiences want to watch apparently.

Karl2177 said:
They could have shown meatspin and you'd have drooled all over it.
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Definitely not true, but you didn't answer my question.

Way to deflect.
 
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Forerunner

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I enjoyed it, pretty much what I expected. The campaign was alright, seems like a huge improvement over H4. Warzone just looks straight up fun. It's pretty much Invasion 2.0, which is great because I loved Invasion. Definitely can't wait to see more.
 
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CliQ

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VinFTW said:
I think Warzone looks fucking amazing.

Big ass maps, 12v12, mini-bosses, bosses, objectives etc.

Not to mention regular BtB is still in?

Great showing for H5 for me.

https://twitter.com/RobSemsey/status/610515478281261056
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I'm assuming 12v12 wont be limited to just Warzone and we can also have 12v12 in custom games. Infection will be pretty crazy. I hope forge turns out well, should be pretty cool to make big opens maps for 12v12. Just make Blood Gulch so I don't have to, Thanks.
 
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Slightly Live

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Karl2177 said:
E3 showing further cemented my thoughts that 343 doesn't understand what got people interested in Halo in the first place.
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But they have 2 employees who spend 90% of their time with MLG wannabes. They go out of their way to pay for tournaments for the wannabes (even MLG doesn't want Halo these days). They get a lead developer to court these people in the Beyond forums, despite the torrent of direct and personal abuse thrown at 343 employees by folks there.

Obviously 99% of the entire Halo audience are MLG babies, why else would they spend a disproportionate amount of time and money on them?

Instead of using a beta to test the brand new online experience with untested networked AI and new modes and scale, they instead focus on the Arena mode for the MLG babies. Obvious the baby's mode is more important to test.

MLG babies love the shit out of COD. COD single player is almost entirely scripted with cinematic moments. Now Halo has all that too.

Trust them. Etc.
 
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Mix

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Hey frank, could you say what the protector of the domain's name is? He say it but so much is going on it's hard to hear.
 
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Brojito

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Overdoziz said:
Rock and tree textures look rough.
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I'd rather have rough textures if it means that they can have these massive epic battles they're talking about, rather than super high res textures and a max of 10 enemies on screen at any one time. Art style is more important anyways.

Unfortunately I'm not the biggest fan of 343's art style, but whatever, I respect the emphasis on "bigger" rather than "shinier".
 
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Tawpgun

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I like the story direction. Looks great. Love the coop.


But the gameplay is exactly what made halo 4 campaign a snooze fest.

It's like 343 doesn't know what made halo campaigns so fun and unique. But it is just a slice. Maybe it opens up and isn't as scripted set piecey. Wish they would show that off like the halo 3 e3 scarab fight.
 
gamerguy2002

gamerguy2002

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jem0208 said:
You guys are both really fucking annoying, you realize that right?

This pointless "oh of course you like it, huehuehuehue" is seriously tiring and really rather sad.
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I have to agree, I heard NeoGAF's Halo fans were cynical but jeez, its either really hard trolling or if this is legitimate complaining there will be nothing that will please you guys.

I liked what I saw, the campaign demo looks great mind you I'm expecting different ala the Jungle scene in Halo 4's E3 Demo compared to final but hell if they can just keep a fraction of that then it will be tight.

Warzone looks very fun, a neat blend of Invasion and Firefight with BTB right in the middle. it looks like its gonna be chaos and I hope that whole dedicated server thing is actually legit (compared to MCC's promises) because if I'm hearing right this is gonna be 12x12 and plus this Covenant and Promethean chaos is gonna equal some serious frame rate and connection lag.
 
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