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Halo Master Chief Collection: H1-4. H2 full remaster. 1080p60. $59.99 Nov 11 Xbox One

Not a fan of Halo but my friends are and I was happy for them to see this announced and at that price ? Major kudos to MS for that, looks a bargain. The Orange Box 2
 

thenexus6

Member
DAT HALO 2 MP !!!

All the maps is such good news too. Surely MP will be really messy right? If every game has its complete own MP system. Also will Halo 3 be the exact same game or have a little face lift?
 

sangreal

Member
It's not three separate games, you all matchmake together, then the map from a game comes up and it loads you all into that game. The only separation is for each match.

Pretty sure that is not true. They showed separate playlists in addition to the combined one

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this is campaign, but I dont see why MP would be different
 

ElRenoRaven

Member
God I feel like Cartman right now. Between Destiny and this collection fall can't come fast enough. I need to be frozen stat.
 
So is Halo: Combat Evolved multiplayer running on the original engine? Or is it the Anniversary engine?

Anniversary is on the Halo 1 engine, the only difference is the textures and models can swap out.

Oh wait you mean when it used the reach multi? good question.
 

Calm Killer

In all media, only true fans who consume every book, film, game, or pog collection deserve to know what's going on.
That's not a remake

What do you mean?

My understanding at this point is that they are giving Halo 2 the full anniversary treatment. Same as Halo CEA. They have upgraded the graphics of 6 of the Halo 2 maps. I would assume the 6 most popular. We have seen ascension. We can only assume Midship and Lock out will be 2 more of those. I have asked Bonnie via Twitter to confirm the other 5 maps. All 100+ maps are available on this disk with their MP untouched. The lobby system hasn't been confirmed yet, but thy did speak about playlists during the reveal.
 

Merguson

Banned
It's nice, but I already played the old games to death so it doesn't really interest me. It's a good package though.
 

Skilotonn

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ntkrnl was already the truth with everything he said before, and if you didn't know before, now you know.

Fuck, this was far beyond anything anyone could have pictured. To think that I and many others thought it would have been far too much work just to get the single player for all 4 games redone alone, they go and remaster:

EVERYTHING including every single map?

60 fps?

1080p?

Dedicated servers?

Even redo 8 Halo 2 maps?

Well damn, between this and all of the other games shown onscreen, I guess I'll be getting an Xbox One far sooner than I thought.

Good show Microsoft, good show. To think I was already more than happy with the possibility of getting all of just the Halo 2 maps out of this. Wow.
 
Jeff Gerstmann said that when he saw the demo before E3 it was running on a pc with proper mouse support and keyboard prompts... They would'nt do that if the game wasn't coming to PC.

My god.... now THIS would be a megaton. PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD BE TRUE.
 

Calm Killer

In all media, only true fans who consume every book, film, game, or pog collection deserve to know what's going on.
I didn't get the impression that Halo 2 multiplayer was able to use the other games maps. Just that the other games multiplayer modes would have access to their own past maps.

From my understanding its not.
 

Anfony O

Member
Today is a great day in the history of gaming. Man if just we got our conker this would've been the perfect conference
 

Plywood

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Only 6 maps get the visual treatment and one of them is Ascension. Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
 
I'm confused as to what you will be able to play "online."

He said Halo 2 was getting the anniversary treatment, leading me to believe that you can only play the 6 Halo 2 maps in online matchmaking
 
I'm going to buy an xbone and this purely to play Halo 2 online. Couldn't give a rat's ass about anything else in the bundle. Just sweet, sweet Halo 2 online. Hope it ships with BxRs and all.
 
So how does this work? Are Halo 1, 2, 3, and 4 players separated by game, and then further split into the various playlists?

And this is all on original engine, including CE?

But what's up with the redone Halo 2 maps we saw at the MS conference? Is that in the remaster, which is included in the collection?

So, Halo 1, 2, 2 Remastered, 3, and 4?
 
MLG just shit a brick

i will apologize now for all the double shots i will unleash on yall come november

why is halo 5 even a thing, this is all we need, its all we'll ever need, forever, like counterstrike
 

DMeisterJ

Banned
Okay, so. There is H2A, which is the anniversary treatment like the original one, and then the MP, you get matchmade into any multiplayer map from any game? And depending on the game you play, the MP will look that way? That's pretty cool.
 

RyudBoy

Member
WOW $60? That's insane, there's so much content in there.

Can't wait to finally play them at 60fps. 1080p is a nice plus!
 

mcrommert

Banned
I just hope these servers are like titanfall where it is easy to break off a piece of azure for yourself...otherwise it will suck

but its probably going to be that
 
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