What about forge?!?!
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Halo 5: Blue Team Off Screen Footage
- Thread starter Bornstellar
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What about forge?!?!
So it seems....
One of the things that make it interesting to me is that I can think of several different ways I'll tackle that level... A different way every time i playthrough it...
So no, the segment itself wasn't thrilling, but I'm excited about what I'm gonna do in that playspace with some friends...
Seriously
They were allowed to take pics of the handsome and charismatic people doing the demo.
Forge is a thing. We will talk more about it before launch.
Jessie.Bristol
Member
Was Hunt The Truth Season 2 previously revealed to start this month? Although it seemed likely given it needs to run up to the Halo 5 launch. And now when you say "this month too," it sounds like some reveals are gonna take place.
Season 1 was sooooooo good. Who were responsible for that amazing sound mixing? Totally blew me away.
I'd hope so
Delta Unit Hinkle
Member
any one have link PM please i missed it
rokkerkory
Member
forge is not part of the MVP, so it'll prob come afterwards
this way halo 5 is 'fresh' as new features are delivered imo
this way halo 5 is 'fresh' as new features are delivered imo
SenjutsuSage
Banned
As a gameplay mechanic, I still don't feel it's at all the same thing, because Halo is a very different style of game. These other games you mention are nothing like Halo, so the inclusion of a squad mechanic in those games doesn't come anywhere close to meaning the same thing as it does in Halo. And, in all honesty, I can't tell the last time I played Gears, COD or even Killzone.
In fact, Gears, Call of Duty and Killzone being apart of that list, I think, only goes to further prove my point. And the squad commands as a gameplay mechanic cannot be separated from the importance of the game's narrative. The fact that this is happening in the Halo universe at this time, with Blue Team, with a new team of Spartans hunting Blue Team led by the Chief, is what makes it so significant. The reason it's not derivative of other game/movie plots, is because other game/movie plots aren't about the larger Halo universe as it currently exists, or even as it existed back during Halo CE and Halo: Fall of Reach, and neither are they about the much loved characters that people have had years to learn about through different forms of media, particularly the books.
Call of Duty, Gears of War and Killzone are 3 franchises that honestly don't interest me anywhere to the same degree as Halo does, and a big part of that is, yes, the different feel of the game itself, but more than anything, it's the characters and the overall universe of Halo.
Same.
NobleGundam
Banned
I watched the Cinematic trailer on my 50 inch 4k HD TV and OMFG DOES IT LOOK GORGEOUS!
DAT VISUAL FIDELITY.
FRANKIE PLEASE.
DAT VISUAL FIDELITY.
FRANKIE PLEASE.
Slightly Live
Dirty tag dodger
So very cruel.
Bornstellar
Member
You are a bad, bad man.
luckygodzilla
Member
Well duh, when you tell them in German of course they won't understand!
Samurai G0SU
Member
Yesssss new hunt the truth info soon. Finally!! been waiting all month 
Fahzgoolin
Banned
Frank,
Will Halo 5 assume you are familiar with the Halo 4 Spartan Op's trailers/stories? Will reading Fall of Reach, Flood, and Ghosts of Onyx actually enrich my experience with Halo 5? There are a lot of names to keep track of at this point. The most amount of characters and information than any other Halo.
I'm kind of concerned about how newcomers and people who are only vaguely familiar with the universe (ex: my wife) would be able to digest the plot and characters.
Will Halo 5 assume you are familiar with the Halo 4 Spartan Op's trailers/stories? Will reading Fall of Reach, Flood, and Ghosts of Onyx actually enrich my experience with Halo 5? There are a lot of names to keep track of at this point. The most amount of characters and information than any other Halo.
I'm kind of concerned about how newcomers and people who are only vaguely familiar with the universe (ex: my wife) would be able to digest the plot and characters.
SirMossyBloke
Member
Is this intentional???
Gabotron ES
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I Want Your Cat
Member
Where are you people watching this vid? I can't find it.
rokkerkory
Member
Frankie will hunt u if u watch it
Outrun
Member
" it's the kids sprinkles uses the kids"
Does the bundle come with a digital game?
SpartanN92
Banned
Edit: Nevermind.
Question answered
Question answered
Yea. So far they have only said the Collectors Edition with the big statue will have a method for switching out the digital version for a physical version.
AllIsOneIsNone
Banned
Everything was there but the actual game. The grand illusion.
I'm thinking about selling my box for the halo version but I have to play it at 12. So it's so hard for me to decide.
The console will ship a week early allowing for preload.
rokkerkory
Member
Doesn't even come with the blue team levels!
BeforeU
Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
Console and Collectors edition will ship on Oct 20th so you can pre-load by the time game is available to play.
Well I think it just got easier.
Monocle
Member
That isn't even his final form.
Putting aside that Halo 4 had more than previous games, yes I do.
That doesn't magically make it any better. Bungie's games are far from perfect themselves.
Monocle
Member
If you like Halo for its classic gameplay, I'm not sure how you could be disappointed. The footage is basically a laundry list of things that would have made Halo 4 a way better game, and a worthier follow-up to the original Halo trilogy. It has that Halo essence that was mostly missing since Reach.
Fata1moose
Banned
Halo 3's campaign though
The level Cortana though.
I only had two achievements left in Halo 3 back in the day. The campaign scoring ones. I'm at 1730/1750, the last two are Cortana and the final level. I hated that level so much, I essentially stopped and never touched the game again. There was no way I was going through Cortana again. I hate the flood and that entire level design so much that I didn't even just skip it and finish the last level instead either.
If they remaster Halo 3 eventually I hope they incorporate a skip button for this one level.
AKA Gravemind's asshole - one of the worst levels in the whole series.
Foolishfellow
Banned
How so? Really curious what this supposed laundry list is. Squadron gameplay, dark blue indoor environments, and spartan abilities are not qualities that come to mind when I think of the best Halo levels.
Here's a shortlist of good elements from the best campaign levels in prior Halos.
-Tactical insertions (Master Chief inserted into battles that tip odds in UNSC's favor)
-Big beautiful skyboxes
-warthogs
-covie drop ships
-Pelicans
-short, mid, long range weapons can all potentially be used depending on play style
-Level feels like a push to gain ground or an insertion behind enemy lines
-comparatively weak UNSC grunts that fight alongside you and offer witty and ridiculous banter and die relatively easily
-Scarabs
Here's a shortlist of bad elements from the worst campaign levels.
-Dark metallic levels
-automatic door A leads to room that needs to be cleared before automatic door B opens
-scripted events
-Go to room A press button go to room B press button go to room C press button
-Be in powerful vehicle and drive forward levels; scorpion, mech (no real sense of danger)
-drive forward warthog levels while world explodes around you (felt fresh in CE, but hasn't since).
-Prometheans
The level shown in this offscreen footage looks like it has more bad elements. It mainly just looks like the High Charity from Halo 2.
From a game design perspective the most interesting indoor levels occur when you're on a big UNSC ship that the covenant are boarding it. During these moments there are "brace for impact" sequences or moments where you and the UNSC are holding a room and the covenant break into it with lasers or brute force using Hunters. I also think that the Halo CE level Truth and Reconciliation had some good threads of an idea... stealth level followed by boarding a covenant ship, but the ship portion of that level besides the opening room with the invisible elites turns into a bad level by the end (too many automatic doors, too many hallways).
Still the best Halo campaign. It's a masterpiece regardless of that level, which if you stop and really think about it and enjoy the nostalgia on that ship, it's feels-city.
rokkerkory
Member
PM me the vid please if not illegal
Foolishfellow
Banned
Definitely the best Halo campaign... although Halo CE is pretty special too but maybe suffers a little bit from level-reuse. Halo 3's campaign had the most cohesive sense of an overall vision behind it (and I include ODST in that overall vision).
Reach also had a lot of good ideas as far as an overall understanding of what makes a Halo game good, but suffers from a few really stupid design decisions and a few shitty levels...