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Halo 4 development is complete + New Screens (Spoiler)
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Ein Soph Aur
Member
It looks glorious.
November 6th can't come soon enough.
November 6th can't come soon enough.
How could you.. Hate.. Halo 2...
Lol.
I just loved the multiplayer. First Xbox live game I ever played. First online game ever actually. Holds a special place in my heart.
Don't fight ignorance with ignorance guys.
He got called out enough, lets gets back to the real party.
Halo has had good faces since 2 years ago.its always been the shitty character faces in Halo that stood out for me, glad to see they finally have good faces...certainly taken long enough
Looks incredible. No, really and truly incredible.
Amazing to me that the series had to be pried from the hands of its creators before finally rising to its true potential. At least I hope that's the case. I've bought many Halo games and have been mostly disappointed with them. But I keep coming back, hoping that this is the time they finally get it right.
It looks like this time, they did, in spectacular fashion.
Amazing to me that the series had to be pried from the hands of its creators before finally rising to its true potential. At least I hope that's the case. I've bought many Halo games and have been mostly disappointed with them. But I keep coming back, hoping that this is the time they finally get it right.
It looks like this time, they did, in spectacular fashion.
Phonomezer
Banned
I've only played Reach and H3, but I have Anniversary and ODST.
I feel like playing through them in the lead up to Halo 4, hopefully in the right order. Can someone correct me if I'm wrong
Halo Reach -> CE/Anniversary -> Halo 2 (God knows where I'm going to find a copy) -> Halo 3 -> ODST
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Yeah that's about right.
Edit: actually I forgot but odst takes place during halo 2 I think.
flyinpiranha
Member
Amazing. This still has 4 player co-op missions right? After I beat my game SP I like to go through it with friends.
Ein Soph Aur
Member
Well, ODST takes place during Halo 2.
The Librarian
Banned
If Bungie was like that, Reach's storyline would have hewed as close to FoR as possible, but it made some pretty significance changes. I've never gotten the impression that Bungie put story before gameplay when hearing about their development processes.
Ein Soph Aur
Member
Yep, there's still 4-player co-op in Campaign and also in Spartan Ops.
Phonomezer
Banned
Play them in order of release. You'll get more out of them that way. ODST and Reach are better if you have prior knowledge from the previous games.
CE->2->3->ODST->Reach
And you can find a copy of Halo 2 on eBay for pretty cheap.
Phonomezer
Banned
Oh. Okay, I'll take your word for it!
I didn't hate the MP, but even by 2004 standards, it was nothing amazing to someone who had playing online shooters for five years on the PC.
Halo 2's single-player meanwhile was objectively bad. Like, one of the worst I've ever played. It had the same shitty bottlenecked corrodor segments where every second area was a copy-paste job of the last, every single time they go to something interesting - they disappointed you. I'll never forget getting to that first scarab, seeing a rocket launcher and thinking "this is gonna be awesome", only to find out you had to jump on the thing and press a button to defeat it. The arbiter segments were brutal, there was less open environments, and then the flood. I don't know what they did, but they made shooting things unfun. I didn't know that was possible in a game with fairly tight control, but they pulled it off. No feedback at all. And then what little shit I gave about the story died when it ended on the stupidest goddamn anti-climax ever.
It was hard for me to not despise the game, especially as it was right around the same time that Metroid Prime 2 and Half-Life 2 came out - both completely superior, both completely overshadowed.
So it was really weird when I eventually decided to try Halo 3, a game I knew got shit on, and pretty much loved the SP. Flood was way better, vehicle segments were way better, more open environments and variety. I thought the game looked beautiful, and I loved the warthog escape ending. I even didn't mind the cryosleep, "maybe we'll be back" ending.
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MeisaMcCaffrey
Oh it's definitely a massive leap, no doubt about that. Seeing a 7-year-old console pull this off makes it certain that Durango will blow our minds away. I think what we're seeing here is a team that has taken complete advantage of what the Xenos has to offer.
GarthVaderUK
Banned
Should be. I believe there'll be a story recap vid at the start of the game. I'd suggest being daring with the difficulty BTW - with previous Halo games, IMO a lot of the greatness is lost when you play them on Easy. Also, be sure to experiment with the weapons, some newbies don't realise what an overcharged plasma pistol can do for instance.
AbandonedTrolley
Member
I own a PS3 not had a 360 since about 3 months after launch and found it ended up being an expensive and underused DVD player. But damn this looks good, could make me go out and purchase a machine just for this game.
Yes Killzone looks good on the PS3 but this is a totally different art style and it looks mightily impressive. Unless GG bring something like KZ4 to the PS3 then Sony don't have an answer to this game this generation I don't think.
Yes Killzone looks good on the PS3 but this is a totally different art style and it looks mightily impressive. Unless GG bring something like KZ4 to the PS3 then Sony don't have an answer to this game this generation I don't think.
Lol now that you mention it, I definitely agree on that Scarab part. Such a let down.
And I was completely surprised to by the character change to Arbiter. I didn't like that at all but I guess we all had to roll with it. Haha.
Screw the flood. Hated them in Halo 1, 2 and 3. Hate hate hate them. Always dreaded those levels whenever I would do a second play through.
Guerrillas in the Mist
Member
If MS had more top-tier 1st party studios, there'd be more great looking exclusives like this. It's definitely a contender for best looking console game of this generation.
GlamFM
Banned
Don't fight ignorance with ignorance guys.
He got called out enough, lets gets back to the real party.
As I said - amazing and very, very embarrassing for Bungie.
Wiggum2007
Junior Member
Awww, do the Covenant weapons not light up the environment any more?
Ein Soph Aur
Member
Ah, I see. Are there any new books on the horizon to go with the new story?
Ein Soph Aur
Member
Glasslands and the upcoming Thursday War which are both part of a trilogy takes place after Halo 3 and bridges the gap between Halo 3 and 4.
Cryptum and Primordium focuses on the Forerunners. Silentium will release in Jaunary 2013 because it probably contains spoilers for Halo 4.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
How is it embarrassing for Bungie?
jesus..
ElzarTheBam
Member
No, didn't you hear? It looks exactly the same!
InvincibleAgent
Member
Mm because it's way better than they did with the same tech?
fuzzyreactor
Banned
pretty bullshots
game should be fun though
game should be fun though
Ein Soph Aur
Member
For me they are. Thx!
I plan on reading them as well.
Currently going through Cryptum.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
You know, his face is one thing but what bothers me the most is how his shirt and medals almost look cell shaded because of how bad they are.
To be fair to Bungie, Reach looked very good and this tech is now 2 years removed from that. Also this team is the best of the best, and has nearly unlimited resources.
some ex-retro people are working on this.
WHAT THE HELL IS THIS? 343 said there wasn't any flood, and truth be told this doesn't look like the flood. But it doesn't look like the Prometheans/Forerunners either. Looks like infected humans/spartans, but with what?
Holy crap that looks awesome!!! Can't wait!!!