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The Halo 3 Beta Thread
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a Master Ninja
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Knowing Bungie's obsession with the number seven they'll do something cool on 7/7/07, right?
Imperial Hot
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I can only hope.a Master Ninja said:
Buttonbasher
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VidocStriker said:They need to do an update and include the Brute Chopper. Oh, and Shrine <3.
Jesus H. Christ I forgot what a great demo that is, with the crowd going. It takes me back - reading the live feed impressions, then IGN teasing they had the video, waiting for it to go up for download. The forum carnage as their server was decimated during the download at midnight....and finally seeing it. Turrets! Dual-weilding! Boarding the mother****ing ghost! It was all so overwhelming.jet1911 said:
I wonder what E3 will bring this year.
MirageDwarf
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I expect gameplay video of Halo 3 single player campaign at E3' 07.
I agree. If they do show anything I hope they do it similar to gears, where they leave the good items out and only show a single unimportant area. I don't think I would have had a "wow" reaction to the last level in gears if I saw a crappy youtube version of it before I played it.Ramirez said:
CreepingDea7h
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If they do show campaign, it certainly won't contain any major spoilers (or anything that Bungie would deem as a spoiler) - that just isn't the way Bungie rolls. I personally wouldn't mind a cutscene of some sort, but I get the feeling that we won't be seeing anything of the campaign until Sept. 25th.tak said:
Ramirez said:
honestly, more multiplayer stuff wouldnt really get me all that amped up at this point. we played it, and played it a lot. weve seen vids of other maps that werent in the beta too.
i would love to see a slightly altered from final in-game cinematic from single player. like how the halo 2 announcement trailer was actually from the final game, just different.
Buttonbasher
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I second this.Deepblue said:
godhandiscen
There are millions of whiny 5-year olds on Earth, and I AM THEIR KING.
That would be great. MP in its almost finals state with all the custom armos options and all the new vehicles in. If they show SP, let it be a short cinematic (in-engine) trailer.Ramirez said:
DD-11 said:
It wasn't cut, it was announced at the show as a demo level that wasn't going to be included in the game before every session. The level is very small compared to your usual Halo level, if I remember correctly the Warthog drives in circles throughout the whole demo, making it appear larger than it really was.
I hope that Bungie picks that situation up somehow, the face-off with the Elites and all of that. It would be great if at some point the chief would walk around in an urban area when all of a sudden Covenant drop pods come down all around him. The scene unfolds exactly like the E3 demo but when the Chief is about to throw the grenade, the Elites offer the unarmed Chief an inactive plasma sword and tell him to follow them.
Yeah, it would be cheesy but it would be great fanservice
Instigator
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Thermite said:
Elite redesign? Why?
And please, no heretics from Halo 2 and none of those obese Elites from Halo wars.
Instigator said:
Well, you can imagine that since the events of Halo 2, there could be some armor changes to reflect the disassociation with the Covenant, but on a more practical level, I believe the redesign was also to make the multiplayer model more standardized.
yuk @ the stocky halo wars trailer elites. yuk and eww.
i imagine that yes, elites will see some new garb in halo 3. i was also thinking that that would play well into the customizable armor for MP as well, since we already have a handful of different elite armor (heretics, his cronies, standard halo 1/2, and arbiter)
i imagine that yes, elites will see some new garb in halo 3. i was also thinking that that would play well into the customizable armor for MP as well, since we already have a handful of different elite armor (heretics, his cronies, standard halo 1/2, and arbiter)
scarybore
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op_ivy said:
QFT! I will be extremely disappointed if Halo 3's Elites are similar.
That is pretty much what I expect out of the multiplayer customisations, a Heretic outfit, a Arbiter outfit and the Standard.
Lets hope so, I really want something else Halo related to dig my teeth into to satisfy my Beta withdrawals.
Karg said:
maybe i'm just a halo fanboy that hates change, but they look like a 4th graders interpretation of an elite. all bulbous, stocky and ackward. again, HUGE yuk. i hate that design so much i pray nightly that it doesnt even get used in the halo wars RTS game, as i just wouldnt be able to stand looking at it. (oh god, please dont let the halo 3 elites look anything like that)
Tieno
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What sold me on the elites in the Halo Wars trailer was the beginning and how that Elite picked up that marine and makes this animal-like low growl, so scary. I love the noble and animal aspects of the elites. Guess that's why I liked the arbiter section too, cause you were among the elites and I find them very intruiging, I love them. (especially that cutscene when you're going to that station)
Son of Godzilla
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Hey wait a sec... Does the Spartan Laser getting green-lighted mean the Hunter's green-lighted beam thang might be useable?
Kinda like how fast Chief ran and how far he jumped in the Starry Night teaser? Nah.. couldn't be.Karg said:
I wouldn't expect them to be as large as the HW media version, but there's nothing wrong with adding a bit of size while keeping the same agility. Still, the mp Spartans aren't any bigger than before, so there's no reason so expect the Elites to be any different size-wise compared to the previous version.
Interesting reasoning...Son of Godzilla said:
Rewatching the E3 2003 demo, it brings back some of the disappointment of that level not existing in the final game. That demo had so much more atmosphere (I'm a sucker for night time or dusk levels) than the pieces that demo became in the final game. I mean, you're dropping into a serious combat zone, seeing dead and dying marines, with medics trying to save who they can, hearing "C'mon, C'mon!" vainly trying to keep a soldier alive, and hearing another medic resigned, calling for time of death. Massive bombardment taking the city apart. From there, you do your action hero-thing, killing all the Covie bastards. Jump in a Warthog as the gunner, cruising the streets of New Mombasa...it was just damned exciting. Then you look at what those bits became. The city bombardment became the Scarab (which looked cool, but was anticlimactic in the sense that no matter what, the damned thing would get stuck at the end of the level, thus removing the pressure to take it down quickly). The Warthog shooting ride to destroy the Shadows became the section in the tunnels (end of Outskirts) leading to the bridge to New Mombasa, as well as near the end of Metropolis, right before the Scarab battle. The intro to the level became the intro to Outskirts, etc.
Very little in Outskirts and Metropolis was as exciting as that demo looked. The tunnel shooting was downright boring, IMO, partially because of the sealed environment (especially compared to the night time streets/city environment of the demo), for example. But that open street environment is probably one of many reasons we didn't see a section like that in the final game. As cool as the demo was, once you got past the initial drop zone and got to street level to jump in the 'hog, Bungie would have had a bit of a problem. The demo took you through very specific encounters, and those encounters were made to look as fun as possible. Now imagine that it's the real game, you get to the Warthog, and you decide, "**** it. I'm hoofing it." How do you guide the player to the various through that wide open city and make sure he gets to where he has to be? Especially since the ending pretty much required you to jack a Ghost? It just wouldn't have worked. So it was kick ass as a demo, but wouldn't work given that the Halo series tends to give players a bit of leeway in getting around in levels of that sort. But now I'm babbling.
Very little in Outskirts and Metropolis was as exciting as that demo looked. The tunnel shooting was downright boring, IMO, partially because of the sealed environment (especially compared to the night time streets/city environment of the demo), for example. But that open street environment is probably one of many reasons we didn't see a section like that in the final game. As cool as the demo was, once you got past the initial drop zone and got to street level to jump in the 'hog, Bungie would have had a bit of a problem. The demo took you through very specific encounters, and those encounters were made to look as fun as possible. Now imagine that it's the real game, you get to the Warthog, and you decide, "**** it. I'm hoofing it." How do you guide the player to the various through that wide open city and make sure he gets to where he has to be? Especially since the ending pretty much required you to jack a Ghost? It just wouldn't have worked. So it was kick ass as a demo, but wouldn't work given that the Halo series tends to give players a bit of leeway in getting around in levels of that sort. But now I'm babbling.
op_ivy said:
Well you have the Rocket Pod Cannon thing and detachable turrets, both Human right? Along with a Rocket Launcher and Spartan Laser....both Human. Whats the big toy from the Covie side? Not needed but I'd figure you'd have something along the same lines for at least one of these items.
Son of Godzilla
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Wolffen said:
The Hog section before you enter the tunnels was alot better than what was in the demo. Tunnels weren't that bad themselves.