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Gamersyde Exclusive Halo 3 footage
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Okay, finally got to watch the high end film on Gamersyde.com (I'm still seeding!) It was fucking incredible. I love the scope of the single player campaign. It's vast. It feels epic.
And I completely flipped out when I saw
And I completely flipped out when I saw
one of the covenant ships in the far far far far distance using energy beams to digg out the Ark. Holy crap!
If clipping kills a game for you, then you've got issues.
If I overheard someone in a restaurant during breakfast say, "You know, that clipping in Halo 3 completely renders the game unplayable in my eyes," I'd take my whole entire plate full of pancakes (smothered with Aunt Jemima's syrup and Lando Lakes butter) and toss it in their face. Not only that, I'd call the waitress over and claim it's too cold and that it needs to be heated up before it's edible (but it's actually to burn the bastard who said something so stupid ).
To say something so retarded warrants a punishment such as that.
If I overheard someone in a restaurant during breakfast say, "You know, that clipping in Halo 3 completely renders the game unplayable in my eyes," I'd take my whole entire plate full of pancakes (smothered with Aunt Jemima's syrup and Lando Lakes butter) and toss it in their face. Not only that, I'd call the waitress over and claim it's too cold and that it needs to be heated up before it's edible (but it's actually to burn the bastard who said something so stupid ).
To say something so retarded warrants a punishment such as that.
Not initially. but I will certainly be staging combat for exhibition and screens in Campaign after the first few playthroughs. Though, I think the best moments will be the unpredictable ones - amazing grenade tags, equipment deployments and the like. I'm really looking forward to recording some of the bigger battles in Campaign and dissecting them to see all the stuff that when on while I was running for dear life.The Lamonster said:
It's someone from Bungie. He's on my list too. It's going to be a looooooooooooong month.Ramirez said:Am I a bad person for being more excited for MP over campaign?
Who is playing that Urk? MS/Bungie guy?
There's plenty of people who love MP more than Campaign, and with the new options those guys are going to be in heaven. I just hope you slum with us Campaigners every now and then in co-op.
GhaleonEB said:It's someone from Bungie. He's on my list too. It's going to be a looooooooooooong month.
There's plenty of people who love MP more than Campaign, and with the new options those guys are going to be in heaven. I just hope you slum with us Campaigners every now and then in co-op.
I personally cant wait to spend a sunday just chilling out campaign style and play through the campaign online with yall. I get so worked up playing multi sometimes that I have a hard time relaxing with it, though its still lots of fun to me. After two games or so I'm in full tilt compete mode usually, lord forbid its 1-flag on zanzi which usually revs me up quick.
Saved films are just going to be indescribably badass...I remember in one Rumble Pit I got an Overkill to finish the match, the way it happened, no one would have fuckin believed it if I didn't have it saved. :lol Guy coming out of the base on Snowbound, tag him with a spiker, jump up to the top of the base, assassinate a guy, shotgun the person he was fighting with, then did a complete 360 blind Spiker throw on to a guy sitting in the ghost to end the spree. :lol
Can't wait til I can actually edit out just certain parts of the fight, going to be so awesome.
Don't get me wrong though, I am very much looking forward to campaign, especially Legendary 4-coop. I just love the randomness of multiplayer against real people, anything can truly happen in Halo MP.
Can't wait til I can actually edit out just certain parts of the fight, going to be so awesome.
Don't get me wrong though, I am very much looking forward to campaign, especially Legendary 4-coop. I just love the randomness of multiplayer against real people, anything can truly happen in Halo MP.
GhaleonEB said:I just hope you slum with us Campaigners every now and then in co-op.
Won't be any fun for the other three players. By the time we've scouted out the Brute encampments and developed our plan of attack, Ram will have half of the enemy garrison leaking brain matter from their skulls.
Hopefully I get into the COD beta tomorrow to help pass the time, I have Metroid if that fails I guess.
I could see the troop transport hog being on the bigger map, actually that would work out really well for keeping everyone in the action, unless some tool drove it off empty.
I could see the troop transport hog being on the bigger map, actually that would work out really well for keeping everyone in the action, unless some tool drove it off empty.
InfectedZero
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Ummm....Ive been rather curious, but has the troop transport hog been confirmed for multiplayer because it was my dream to drive it in Halo 2 when it was a concept hog...*please god?*
I don't know if this has been discussed before, so, I was watching all the cinematic for Halo 1 again and the cinematic for "343 Guilty Spark" (I think, where Cortana gets mad that she changes colours) 343 kept on speaking to Master Chief like he knew him before, such as:
*explains Halo as an intergalactic super weapon* ... "I though you already knew that?!"
"you asked: 'if it was up to me, would I do it?'"
also it kept calling Master Chief as the "Reclaimer".
I might be late to this, but could someone explain, thanks.
*explains Halo as an intergalactic super weapon* ... "I though you already knew that?!"
"you asked: 'if it was up to me, would I do it?'"
also it kept calling Master Chief as the "Reclaimer".
I might be late to this, but could someone explain, thanks.
Ramirez said:Hopefully I get into the COD beta tomorrow to help pass the time, I have Metroid if that fails I guess.
I could see the troop transport hog being on the bigger map, actually that would work out really well for keeping everyone in the action, unless some tool drove it off empty.
COD 4 beta is soooo awesome. Everyone in this thread should try and get in. I've been playing it every night since I hit the first Infinity Ward lottery. It'll do way more than just past the time. I think I'll actually miss it once that goes away too.
I think the implication here is that Guilty Spark sees the Chief and other humans as an extension of the Forerunners he knew (I think this is proven by his statements in Halo 2). Not that the Chief was a time traveller or something. Note his earlier statement of "But you already knew that. I mean, how couldn't you?" He seems genuinly surprised that this Reclaimer wasn't briefed on his role - which I suppose will be explained in Halo 3 since it's obvious that the Foreunners were grooming humans for quite some time.
The interesting thing here is that the Flood don't seem to remember, or realize, that the humans are even related to the Forerunners as of Halo 2.
Or this could be a story point that was changed later, cut entirely, or just a background detail that remains in their "bible".
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
Ohhh, it's a British version, too.armubaba said:On a different note, the Collector's Edition of Halo 3 has been spotted in the wild.
Looks very, very sexy. There's still a raging debate going on in my head whether to go CE or LE. It goes back and forth by the day, and it's getting to the point where I have to make the decision soon, or it's gonna be too late.
Brits FTW. :lol
Mr Vociferous
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Who says they don't?Tzeentch said:
The Gravemind said:
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Something I noticed in the beta that I'm hoping has been fixed in the full version.
In the beta, whenever you go to pick up a weapon, you would hold down the right bumper (or left bumper if you were dual-wielding) and it would only register once you let go of the bumper, rather than registering after having held it down for an alotted amount of time over the weapon on the ground. This was slightly annoying because I found upon seeing a weapon in the midst of a firefight, I would sometimes run over to it and either a) I would keep holding the bumper down, waiting for my character to pick it up, which of course he didn't and I would die or b) I would remember and not hold the bumper down for long enough, so it would instead attempt to reload my current weapon.
In HALO 2 you could run past a weapon while holding X and you could release the button as soon as you saw your character pick it up.
Minor niggle, but still curious to see if it's been addressed.
In the beta, whenever you go to pick up a weapon, you would hold down the right bumper (or left bumper if you were dual-wielding) and it would only register once you let go of the bumper, rather than registering after having held it down for an alotted amount of time over the weapon on the ground. This was slightly annoying because I found upon seeing a weapon in the midst of a firefight, I would sometimes run over to it and either a) I would keep holding the bumper down, waiting for my character to pick it up, which of course he didn't and I would die or b) I would remember and not hold the bumper down for long enough, so it would instead attempt to reload my current weapon.
In HALO 2 you could run past a weapon while holding X and you could release the button as soon as you saw your character pick it up.
Minor niggle, but still curious to see if it's been addressed.
KookyBastard
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What I totally forgot is that we can finally WATCH the Bungie Humpday Challenges. To me that is so amazing; reading AND watching the match Bungie played against their guests. I can finally watch Luke's mad BR whoring and judge split screen lag for myself. It'll be like you were there watching as a spectator. Totally badass...
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CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
Why is it shrink-wrapped?LukeSmith said:
His statement could go in a number of directions, especially with the recent ARG and the portrayal of the Flood as the antithesis of life. He certainly never points out the Chief as a Reclaimer and doesn't appear to differentiate between him and the Arbiter in his later statements or in his assignment of goals.
The more interesting question there is how Gravemind could supposedly hear Cortana speaking directly to the Chief (in the books it's portayed as a direct connection) since he appears to respond to her statement of "What is that?"
Tzeentch said:His statement could go in a number of directions, especially with the recent ARG and the portrayal of the Flood as the antithesis of life. He certainly never points out the Chief as a Reclaimer and doesn't appear to differentiate between him and the Arbiter in his later statements or in his assignment of goals.
The more interesting question there is how Gravemind could supposedly hear Cortana speaking directly to the Chief (in the books it's portayed as a direct connection) since he appears to respond to her statement of "What is that?"
Yeah, Gravemind really intrigued me when I played Halo 2. The first enigmatic, perplexing moments spent with him really stuck out as one of the most memorable cutscenes in the game. By the end of the game, the player really is left with so many questions about him. What are his origins? Does he have any Forerunner roots? What is he going to do with Cortana? What exactly is he?
I can't wait until Halo 3, where(hopefully) Bungie answers all these questions and fleshes out Gravemind's story more. Less than a month baby!
Stachzilla
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LukeSmith said:
How close are you guys to being gold? It should only be a few days/ a weekish away right? If I'm not mistaken the turn around for that kind of thing is usually 2-3 weeks to get all the discs burned and sent out?
Also...Halo Wars demo on XBL in the next few days...woot! That'll help pass the time.
MirageDwarf
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Not the actual demo but video of E3 presentation.Stachzilla said:
EDIT: Beaten by Tieno.
Have you guys seen the videos of Guardian from PAX?
http://www.gamevideos.com/video/id/14275
http://www.gamevideos.com/video/id/14276
I'd recommend going full screen with these videos (diagonal arrow button at the bottom right of the player) so you can see what's going on better - their video player is actually smaller than the source videos' resolution.
It shows the firebomb in action - both being stuck to someone and thrown on the ground to create a temporary blockade of fire. You also see the flamethrower in action, the flare equipment being thrown (it's thrown like a grenade, so it seems we should be able to get some good distance on a throw, which is good), the sword (plenty of lunges occurred) and a plasma turret being detached and used as a support weapon. There's quite a lot of stuff here that we haven't before seen in videos in terms of weapons/equipment, in addition to the fact that we've never seen Guardian itself in motion. Oh, and there are birds flying around in the background - nice touch!
The players are using the names betaFrankie and Lukemz, but the commentator calls one of them "MNC Dover" at one point, and they don't seem to be very proficient (just like every other non-Bungie player we've seen in videos! - though not nearly as bad as the Sandtrap guy), so I think it's just random crowd members playing against each other. The crowd seem to react to what's happening on both screens while the video only shows one screen (the one playing as Lukemz) - I thought it was weird when they cheered as the Lukemz guy was just walking around with an AR until I realised the other guy had just picked up a sword or something.
http://www.gamevideos.com/video/id/14275
http://www.gamevideos.com/video/id/14276
I'd recommend going full screen with these videos (diagonal arrow button at the bottom right of the player) so you can see what's going on better - their video player is actually smaller than the source videos' resolution.
It shows the firebomb in action - both being stuck to someone and thrown on the ground to create a temporary blockade of fire. You also see the flamethrower in action, the flare equipment being thrown (it's thrown like a grenade, so it seems we should be able to get some good distance on a throw, which is good), the sword (plenty of lunges occurred) and a plasma turret being detached and used as a support weapon. There's quite a lot of stuff here that we haven't before seen in videos in terms of weapons/equipment, in addition to the fact that we've never seen Guardian itself in motion. Oh, and there are birds flying around in the background - nice touch!
The players are using the names betaFrankie and Lukemz, but the commentator calls one of them "MNC Dover" at one point, and they don't seem to be very proficient (just like every other non-Bungie player we've seen in videos! - though not nearly as bad as the Sandtrap guy), so I think it's just random crowd members playing against each other. The crowd seem to react to what's happening on both screens while the video only shows one screen (the one playing as Lukemz) - I thought it was weird when they cheered as the Lukemz guy was just walking around with an AR until I realised the other guy had just picked up a sword or something.