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Halo: Reach |OT7| What are They to Say Now?

Voltron64

Member
Don't be jelly the COD GAF community blows. :p

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FyreWulff

Member
FyreWulff
Junior Member
(Today, 09:59 PM)

Now I know why. Dr. Pepper is the shizz.

In moderation. When 100% of your cousins and aunts and uncles drink just Dr Pepper every day because grandma made all of her hams and other dinners with Dr Pepper, you start to get sick of it. Then Mr Pibb came out, and all was well. Now they died or something. They only sold Pibb Xtra and after that I haven't seen it since around here.

edit: and wikipedia results in TIL that Coca Cola owns Pibb, and apparently still makes it. Either way, Pepsi runs better contests than either Coca Cola or Cadbury/Schweppes
 
besides obvious misuse of the word apart, i would like his sad, sad mustached-faced to read this blog on the correct use of alot. and then any other grammar site to understand why he'll never get a job if he keeps spelling and typing sentences like that.

I love Hyperbole and a Half alot.
 
Just popping in and say that I'm really digging Halogaf.com. Good job to anyone involved!

In more Halo-related news, I played Reach for the first time since October or something. Downloaded the Anniversary Maps and I'm really liking what I've played so far. Ridgeline is by far my favorite.
 
All of the changes suggested on this page have been implemented.

With that, I'm off to bed. Keep making suggestions and I'll get back to it tomorrow. Glad everyone is digging the site. :)
 
All of the changes suggested on this page have been implemented.

With that, I'm off to bed. Keep making suggestions and I'll get back to it tomorrow. Glad everyone is digging the site. :)

Nice job with the site! You should add people's Twitter accounts next to their gamertags. (Probably best for people to opt-in for that, even though most Twitter accounts are public.)
 
K

kittens

Unconfirmed Member
Oh snap, HaloGAF.com? We're in the big leagues now. Wait till my coworkers at Wendy's hear about this!

But seriously, great job, Duncan. I might contribute a bit. :)
 

Tashi

343i Lead Esports Producer
As big of dweebs the Suddoth twins are, you can't knock them for busting their asses and becoming semi pro.

Also saw them at Orlando, these kids are like 5'4". Tiny lol
 

CyReN

Member
As big of dweebs the Suddoth twins are, you can't knock them for busting their asses and becoming semi pro.

Also saw them at Orlando, these kids are like 5'4". Tiny lol

Reminds me we didn't meet:( Hopes for next year!

ps: Biodome hotel was amazing.
 

Tashi

343i Lead Esports Producer
Reminds me we didn't meet:( Hopes for next year!

ps: Biodome hotel was amazing.

Shit you're right. :(

Next year for sure.

And yea, Gaylord Palms Resort is fucking amazing. I stood in the holiday inn down the road though lol
 

monome

Member
Just thinking about the lack of significant Halo 4 news recently. Should we be worried?

- About 10 months away from scheduled "gold" time
- Not a single single screenshot or video or any in-game media released
- No multiplayer beta talked about or hinted at
- Highly publicised "resignation" of a key staff member
- No tangible gameplay, story or engine details released or discussed

If this was any other game I'm pretty sure Kotaku and IGN would be running rumour stories about delays or something going wrong. Not that I'm implying there's anything to be worried about at all or anything is wrong, it's just I want to know more about the game at this point.

Every "interview" or official comment about Halo 4 has just been recycling the same stuff about respecting the original trilogy, about how the game will let us get to know the Chief more and about this mysterious new world which is active and alive. There's been no real news in ages - even the HaloFest stuff was vague and they danced around supplying any hard details.

I want facts, hints, vague or cryptic descriptions.

*goes back to re-reading Glasslands*

Well, the sooner they show stuff, the harder it is not to show too much by the time the game ships.

I may or may not have heard there may or may not be trouble in paradise :x

Oulala. Stop this, stop this now, those voices make me mad.
 

CyReN

Member
Halo 4 seems to be following the same "path" as Reach as in releasing content. We didn't get Reach reveal trailer until E3 2009, and a world premier trailer until VGA 2009 (Dec 09') when Reach launched in September 2010. We are fine..god I hope we are...say something Frankie.
 

GhaleonEB

Member
- Kill off Firefight Doubles since it just kinda drifts in space, replace with Anniversary experience with 2 players to imitate Halo 1 co-op configuration

I'll kill you off. :p

Fix Firefight Doubles, don't delete the damn thing. It holds a valuable place in the FF lineup. Just make it all DLC required (riff raff can roll in Arcade) and slot in Installation 04 as the first voting option (leave all 8 voting rounds in place).

Bam.

It's the only FF playlist I touch any longer, and if it's gone and replaced with what you suggest I'd almost never play Firefight - or Reach online - again.
 

FyreWulff

Member
I'll kill you off. :p

Fix Firefight Doubles, don't delete the damn thing. It holds a valuable place in the FF lineup. Just make it all DLC required (riff raff can roll in Arcade) and slot in Installation 04 as the first voting option (leave all 8 voting rounds in place).

Bam.

It's the only FF playlist I touch any longer, and if it's gone and replaced with what you suggest I'd almost never play Firefight - or Reach online - again.

It'd essentially be Firefight Doubles but DLC centric, and with more variants.
 

GhaleonEB

Member
It'd essentially be Firefight Doubles but DLC centric, and with more variants.

Exactly.

This can be accomplished without deleting the rest of the playlist. Unearthed is good in limited contexts (as is I04), but I'm very weary of it and the DLC maps are not enough to sustain a playlist. Make I04 the first round option, overhaul the game types, and I'd agree with the proposal.

I'm all for new game types, though. I wish I could play more I04, but I got bored on it in my first game, due to the game type. Played it to death already, and changing the geometry isn't enough. The frustrating part is, changing the game type is the easy part, and they're not doing it.
 

FyreWulff

Member
Exactly.

This can be accomplished without deleting the rest of the playlist. Unearthed is good in limited contexts (as is I04), but I'm very weary of it and the DLC maps are not enough to sustain a playlist. Make I04 the first round option, overhaul the game types, and I'd agree with the proposal.

I'm all for new game types, though. I wish I could play more I04, but I got bored on it in my first game, due to the game type. Played it to death already, and changing the geometry isn't enough. The frustrating part is, changing the game type is the easy part, and they're not doing it.

K, then make the rest of the maps optional, so Anniversary disc players still have an FF co-op list, while everyone else gets all the normal maps. But then again, there isn't an FF achievement tied to Anniversary anyway, so the Anniversary list isn't required to exist anyway.

Either way, it feels heavily redundant to have both FF Arcade and FF Arcade On One Map. Of course, this would depend on disc maps being able to be marked optional..
 

FyreWulff

Member
Time is of the essence. If anyone has variants of

Prisoner
Damnation
Hang Em High
Headlong

Also:

Condemned
Uncaged
Ivory Tower
Zealot

designed for Infection, please PM or email me at mkidder@gmail.com with a link to the map. By the end of this weekend would be great. Thanks.
 
Halo 4 seems to be following the same "path" as Reach as in releasing content. We didn't get Reach reveal trailer until E3 2009, and a world premier trailer until VGA 2009 (Dec 09') when Reach launched in September 2010. We are fine..god I hope we are...say something Frankie.

Problem is, we arnt getting a VGA trailer which means unless they debut on their own time we likely wont see anything till superbowl 2012 and even thats a long shot since all bets are off at this point.


Early 2012
Super Bowl XLVI - February 5th, 2012 (Indianapolis, IN, USA)
GDC - March 5th, 2012 ~ March 9th, 2012 (San Francisco, SA, USA).
CeBIT - March 6th, 2012 ~ March 10th, 2012 (Hannover, Germany).
GDC Expo - March 7th, 2012 ~ March 9th, 2012 (San Francisco, SA, USA).
PAX East - April 6th, 2012 ~ April 8th, 2012 (Boston, MA, USA)

Mid 2012
E3 Expo - June 5th, 2012 ~ June 7th, 2012 (Los Angles, CA, USA).
GDC Europe - August 13th, 2012 ~ August 15th, 2012 (Unconfirmed!) (Cologne, Germany).
Gamescom - August 15th, 2012 (Press only) | August 16th, 2012 ~ August 19th, 2012 (Everyone) (Cologne, Germany).


Superbowl TV spot would be good but $2million is Alot, if its anything like starry night it cant be cheap to produce either.

GDC is typically about technology more than games, and talks from devs ect

CeBIT is Technology and IT based

GDC Expo is just the open floor section of GDC

PAX East could be something, Halo and PAX have had pretty good relations in the past but PAX prime is normally the big one.

Unless we get something by PAX East its going to be June before we get anything and thats VERY unlikely. Im thinking either superbowl or a 2012 media storm starting in january on 343i Time.
 

Tashi

343i Lead Esports Producer
I hope to god we get something before February :/
Marketing trail needs to be huge. Halo 4 concept art video barely over .5 mil. Shit needs to be 3 times as much. Unacceptable. It's Halo 4 man, blow this shit up. Call up South Park and do a Halo episode. *gasp* I got it. Christmas day the NBA season starts. Huge, big market games on National TV. Christmas games are always huge and being that it's the first day of the season, it would be great to run a Halo 4 teaser.
 

wwm0nkey

Member
Marketing trail needs to be huge. Halo 4 concept art video barely over .5 mil. Shit needs to be 3 times as much. Unacceptable. It's Halo 4 man, blow this shit up. Call up South Park and do a Halo episode. *gasp* I got it. Christmas day the NBA season starts. Huge, big market games on National TV. Christmas games are always huge and being that it's the first day of the season, it would be great to run a Halo 4 teaser.

I like the way you think. a Christmas day advert would be massive.
 
"Bungie left us with a game that was a disservice to the history of the franchise in a lot of ways..."
While I agree to a certain extent, they were the ones invited to play-test it ages before it came out, and they were the ones whose tips would be taken into consideration.

So 343, while developing Halo 4, just don't fucking listen to MLG.
 

Tashi

343i Lead Esports Producer
While I agree to a certain extent, they were the ones invited to play-test it ages before it came out, and they were the ones whose tips would be taken into consideration.

So 343, while developing Halo 4, just don't fucking listen to MLG.
Do we know the extent to which Bungie listened to MLG and if Bungie listened at all?
 

monome

Member
Getting a story trailer before Primordium may not be the sensible thing to do if it spoils its revelations.

Something VGA before Christmas sounded reasonable though, but I'm content if Waypoint gets a treat before 2011 is over.

EDIT : also Anniversary and the Terminals is just better than a VGA trailer.
 

Magni

Member
Great job, this is real nice. :O


perhaps halogaf noob survey should be added somewhere in there for easy access
http://db.tt/nBZQUoSb

I remember answering some of these questions.. but not all. Was the noob survey updated while I was AWOL?

Anyways:

Are you a very recently approved member of neogaf? Not anymore (three years approved).

What country are you posting from and what's your current age. Currently 20 posting from France. I'm 'often' in the US and spent some time in Norway, hence the tri-flag avatar.

At what age did you get into Halo and with which game. I got an Xbox with Halo and Halo 2 at Christmas '04 when I was 13. I started playing Halo from launch at friends houses though (when I was 10).

For how long have you been reading HaloGAF? Since May '08, came over from HBO.

What's your absolute favorite Halo campaign? And your favorite multiplayer? (you're not allowed to pick Halo: Combat Evolved for any of the two) Not allowed to pick CE? (cause that would be my pick for both..). SP: ODST / MP: Halo 2 (dem maps!)

Highest Halo 3 level and which playlist. 47 in TD

AR or BR? BR

Absolute favorite multiplayer map from Combat Evolved, Halo 2 and 3 (just one from each). Damnation, Lockout (Midship and Sanctuary are close seconds), and The Pit (had Citadel been a launch map...)

Least hated Reach mp map.(excluding Anniversary pack) Countdown

Do you prefer BTB or MLG? (pre-Reach era) MLG

Competitive multiplayer or Firefight? Competitive MP

Games completed on solo Legendary. All of them. Multiple times. (yes, MLG guys can also love playing the campaigns).

Are you EazyB? Mike DongBlain? Of course not.

What are some of your favorite Campaign missions. H1: Halo-Two Betrayals (including The Library <3), H2: Outskirts/Delta Halo/Regret, H3: Crow's Nest/The Covenant

Favorite Reach playlists. SWAT (dat DMR!), (and now) MLG and the Anniversary playlists

Size of frankie erotica folder (in megabytes). Two 2TB external HDDs

Opinion on reticule bloom. Fun in some games, just not Halo. Get rid of it.

Opinion on Armor Abilities and the one you usually end up picking. (see above) Sprint. Pickup powerups >>> loadouts. Screw jetpack and SCREW Armor Lock

Why are you a Halo fan? Love the mythos, the visuals, the music, the competitive aspect, the community, ...

Favorite Halogaffer, and least favorite (besides Dax). (optional) option taken

Now feel free to introduce yourself and/or share anything you want so we get to know you better, some of us would enjoy reading it. (optional) I'll think of something up, but it's finals time right now (which is why I'm never online and haven't even finished my playthrough of Anniversary...)
 

vhfive

Member
lol I was squatting halogaf.com for awhile back in the day when there was talk that halogaf threads might get banned (you know the good ole days)

nice job duncan
 
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