PopcornMegaphone
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Reach is my favorite Halo campaign.
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Halo Master Chief Collection: H1-4. H2 full remaster. 1080p60. $59.99 Nov 11 Xbox One
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Reach is my favorite Halo campaign.
Deviousx
Member
Probably what it has always been. 4v4 Team Slayer. 8v8 BTB.
BigTnaples
Todd Howard's Secret GAF Account
Reach is the best Halo game in existence.
The Librarian
Banned
Halo 3 will probably get remastered in 3 years.
Nope! Opinions and all, but campaign wise, it's Halo 3.
Miles Quaritch
Member
Will check this out in the morning. I'm off to bed, need to get some sleep before the Sony presser...
Source ?
But firefight!
7DollarHagane
Banned
The single player was fun though.
I wish it had ODST also for single player. It can't be that hard to port if they ported over Halo 3 already, it's basically an add on for the Halo 3 engine.
SeriousApes
Member
True, the IQ was the main thing, and that'll obviously be improved in this release. Those Halo 2 shots look fantastic though!
BeforeU
Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
lol wtf
link1201
Member
oohh....nice.
BigTnaples
Todd Howard's Secret GAF Account
Thats blimblim....he is the source.
Snowblindvictim
Member
Firefight was ODST. Reach's sucked.
Reach's MP sucked. The campaign was a good story. ODST had an amazing campaign, maybe the best.
Digital-Hero
Member
Not in the foreseeable future.
"I want to ask you guys this, I believe you confirmed this for me earlier: two player online co-op for the... halo 2 campaign?"
"That's right, we're going to have that for, in particular for 2, 3, and 4..."
"Yep."
"We're going to have those across the board for those, which is going to be a tremendous amount of fun. Similar for forge as well. You're going to be able to forge on 2, 3, and 4."
"Forge on 2?"
"That's correct."
"How is that possible?"
"Well, that's more of the magic."
Direct quotes.
BlazeBreak
Member
I won't lie, the prospect of having all the multiplayer together is very enticing. I'm not even too worried about the leg's - 343 has done a pretty awful job of keeping Reach tidy for the long term (admittedly all of the issues weren't their own doing), but stuff like DLC maps obviously won't be an issue for this and the entire population will always have access to all the maps.
Any enthusiasm for the franchise is kinda counter-balanced by what I feel was Halo 4 being more about PR-management than addressing the actual game. But I guess that's more of an issue to be concerned about with 5's direction than anything with the collection itself.
The big problem for me is, entirely because of Microsoft's own doing (with some help from Halo 4), the XBO is #3 on my console to-buy list. The Wii U is its own separate thing since Nintendo's Nintendo. Dropping Kinect and dangling Halo 1, 2, and 3 multiplayer in front of me, coupled with Microsoft's shift in attitude, is enough to make me interested in an XBO much, much earlier than I thought I'd be if you asked a few short months ago. But I kinda feel like the damage has already been done - my friends have been scattered about. We now game together primarily on PC and getting us all onboard a single console again probably won't happen too soon. I don't see any reason to go back on my choice of wanting a PS4 first - the multiplatform, console-only games I'm interested in will run better on that; and several Japanese games of note that I'm going to need to get my hands on are gonna be PS4 exclusive (or PS3-PS4 cross-gen, and I don't own a PS3). So that means that, for the immediate future, I'd effectively be buying an XBO just to try and recapture the glory of H2 multiplayer.
Basically, tl;dr: I do really want Master Chief Collection for all the multiplayer content, but it's still a damn hard sell when there's the $400 console gate on top of it, after all these other costs I've already consumed (building a PC) or still plan to incur regardless; many of which wouldn't have taken precedent if MS hadn't dug its own grave to begin with.
Any enthusiasm for the franchise is kinda counter-balanced by what I feel was Halo 4 being more about PR-management than addressing the actual game. But I guess that's more of an issue to be concerned about with 5's direction than anything with the collection itself.
The big problem for me is, entirely because of Microsoft's own doing (with some help from Halo 4), the XBO is #3 on my console to-buy list. The Wii U is its own separate thing since Nintendo's Nintendo. Dropping Kinect and dangling Halo 1, 2, and 3 multiplayer in front of me, coupled with Microsoft's shift in attitude, is enough to make me interested in an XBO much, much earlier than I thought I'd be if you asked a few short months ago. But I kinda feel like the damage has already been done - my friends have been scattered about. We now game together primarily on PC and getting us all onboard a single console again probably won't happen too soon. I don't see any reason to go back on my choice of wanting a PS4 first - the multiplatform, console-only games I'm interested in will run better on that; and several Japanese games of note that I'm going to need to get my hands on are gonna be PS4 exclusive (or PS3-PS4 cross-gen, and I don't own a PS3). So that means that, for the immediate future, I'd effectively be buying an XBO just to try and recapture the glory of H2 multiplayer.
Basically, tl;dr: I do really want Master Chief Collection for all the multiplayer content, but it's still a damn hard sell when there's the $400 console gate on top of it, after all these other costs I've already consumed (building a PC) or still plan to incur regardless; many of which wouldn't have taken precedent if MS hadn't dug its own grave to begin with.
7DollarHagane
Banned
IGN asked Frankie on their livestream and got a bit of a stumbling stuttering response like "its not in the plans right now but Microsoft understands how important the PC market is"
Which sounds like a canned response that Frankie didn't have on the tip of his tongue but was told by PR to regurgitate upon asking about a PC port that he knows about.
At least in my opinion.
Fox Mulder
Member
just give the campaigns then, as Reach and ODST were great.
Sho_Nuff82
Member
Fuck.
Mother of God. I dare say it makes the original... look like a PS2 game.
Miles Quaritch
Member
Nah, it was just awful across the board. How can anyone think it's the best Halo game. Madness, I say. Madness.
I will concede that firefight was great though.
I truly hate it. It was the beginning of the end for Halo in some respects. They decided to start chasing the CoD crowd and it resulted in a Halo that lost its identity.
ODST was indeed great, the less said about Reach and great in the same sentence, the better. Not that it was bad, it just wasn't very good.
God's work, Blim.
Did Frankie contradict himself?
Yep.
One of the best campaigns in the series...
NullPointer
Member
Somebody tell somebody to ask somebody about Spartan Ops.
dragonelite
Member
Ooh dam they have to do a multiplayer demo this week right!!!1????!1!
7DollarHagane
Banned
I think it's probably in the works but won't be announced until early next year.
The horse, he speaketh.
Frankie's back around so I hope he can confirm, but it looked like it showed up on the IGN stream in the H4 menu.
BigTnaples
Todd Howard's Secret GAF Account
Haha. Clarity? Also, any chance of a collectors or legendary edition?
dancrane212
Member
It's in the game, you could see the option in the IGN demo.
Its okay, we still love you <3
Portugeezer
Member
So which is true?
Darkmakaimura
Member
Damn, the Halo 2 Anniversary Terminals require an Internet connection? Why?
http://www.halopedia.org/Halo_2_Anniversary
http://www.halopedia.org/Halo_2_Anniversary
Unless of course that's erroneous info.
CGI and in-game cutscene, not the same thing.
divinedbullet
Banned
Does this have any pc exclusive? I need Death Island and Danger Canyon
Do you have any plans to clarify the matter?
PopcornMegaphone
Banned
What's funny (and kind of cool) about Halo is there is so much disagreement about each installment.
7DollarHagane
Banned
Sir, I love you and your games.
Are those cutscenes in Halo 2 Anniversary real time or pre-rendered?
Pre-Rendered is fine, we just are eager to know!
Also with the games running at 60fps, will animations for enemies and the players be updated to 60 as well? Halo 1 on PC had this issue with 30fps animations and 60fps gameplay, where things look odd.
infinityBCRT
Member
I assume it includes the Halo 1 Anniversary HD multiplayer maps? Anyone know about this?
Miles Quaritch
Member
I just can't agree. It's in distant last for me and yes that includes Halo 4.
Halo CE > Halo 3 > ODST >> Halo 2 >> Halo 4 >>> Spartan Ops, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Reach.
Fuck.
Keep seeing people quote this but idk why.
Yeah it looks great but the new one isn't even an in-engine cutscene. Apples to oranges.
How should I know ! Argh, so many insiders, its too good to be true. I really feel that 343i is listening to its community and Halo 5 will be a GREAT game with a form of true skill system.
The Campaign was pretty good though.
please tell me forge on 2 allows me to build maps with basic geometry
unless forge on 2 isn't map building but map rearranging...
BigTnaples
Todd Howard's Secret GAF Account
They are not just prerendered, they are CGI done by blur, and will be as close to photoreal as it gets.
We are probably 3 generations away from doing that in real time.
Multiplayer-wise it's pure trash
Rickenslacker
Banned
I mean, the in-game result will still do the same but that comparison is CGI vs in-game.
7DollarHagane
Banned
yep, agreed.
I actually like the campaigns for all the games, 1-4, reach, and ODST. I think that 1 and Reach are my favorites though.