Yeah I'm done for the night. Dark Souls 2 until she come home. Some other time.
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Yeah I'm done for the night. Dark Souls 2 until she come home. Some other time.
Purdy yet ugly at the same time.
edit: Also sorry if this is old, but just saw this on the Halo Reddit.
Frank O'Conner is not amused.
Welfare
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Could be what Halo 4's Laser would have looked liked. If it isn't, makes me wonder what Halo 5 is going to look like.
Orochinagis
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It could be used as a human focus beam
Syphon Filter
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Halo 5 needs
Plasma stun begets high lethality from weapons and an actual skill gap, which I support.
Not sure what market research and soccer mom playtesting has to say about that though.
Syphon Filter
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maybe that is hwy it was not here lol. Isn't the "replacement" similar?
aHebrewMenagerie
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just got followed by reality check on twitter, what in the actual fuck?
Youarealreadydead.jpg
Exploratory
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Will we ever get a Halo game focusing on any of the EU? There's so much that happens outside the games.
Also Halo 2 Anni needs to include some Halo: First Strike in it. New content please.
ncsuDuncan
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I assume the floor is covered in spiders.
NobleGundam
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Shutting down the light bridges in that level to drop those pesky covies was amusing.
S0cc3rpunk
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Thanks
well i can do halo 1 through 4 i tell my fans what they wanna see then they tell me to keep making halo 4 gun syncs but if anyone asks me to make a halo 2 or 3 i can yeah each one has different sounds like i made a halo reach one, but it didn't come out good. Maybe i'll try it again i got a little better Thank you
yeah that one came out awesome i'm trying my best to get big that way 343 can send me halo 5 early lol 
i wishl Zealot l
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Either that or a extended version of the demo level everyone talks about. Also a level of cheif aboard the Forerunner dreadnought would be amazing.
I prefer the "classic" look of the plasma rifle.
ha.
Feels like it should be followed by a massive explosion like when
Requiem goes boom or maybe when Alpha Halo/ Ark explodes, Delta Halo firing sequence gets interrupted or PoA explodes or.... all of the above.
But which sound effects?
Bass-y CE,
higher pitch H2/H3
higher pitch w/ bass undertone Reach
or the flat crackle in H4...
l Zealot l
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Such a tease.Guy tweets E3 2004 Halo 2 Multiplayer Demo video to Phil Spencer and this happens:
Don't let us down, H2A with MP.
Halo 4 was heavily based on EU concepts, with the notable exception of the Dawn and MC/Cortana.
Everything from the Ur-Didact to the Covenant remnant to the Infinity were all recent EU inventions. Some things were briefly mentioned in the Halo 3 terminals, but otherwise 99% of our knowledge comes from Halo Evolutions, the Kilo-5 trilogy and the Greg Bear trilogy.
Halo 4 is essentially focusing on Halo's EU. However, I think that the campaign could have been longer, and should have spent more time explaining the EU concepts to the average Halo fan. I think that 343i will make an effort to improve this in Halo 5, as this was a common and valid criticism.
l Zealot l
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Bit off topic but when has that stopped us? (Spiders, Jurassic Park etc.)
Most of you probably have seen it already on the thread in gaming side, but wow,
that's a lot of money that was pumped into the cancelled Halo MMO.
I knew about it's existence and cancellation but didn't know $90,000,000 was spent and nothing came from it.
Some out there weapon designs in the above video also.
https://web.archive.org/web/2011030...ers.com/News/21928/cancelled-halo-mmo-details
So what happened to the Halo MMO? "There was a bit of a changing of the guard at Microsoft at this time," explains Monk. "Microsoft, from its gaming division, was really changing directions. They were looking really hard at the Nintendo Wii and they were really excited by the numbers that the Wii was turning. This was about the time that Microsoft decided that its Xbox platform and XBLA really needed to go more in the direction of appealing to a more casual, broader audience."
Casuals and Kinect killed Halo MMO confirmed.
Or perhaps it is the other way around. They make these concepts. introduce a bunch of them in the books, and then in the game.
To me, it looks like 343i is keeping tighter rein over various Halo things, trying to fit them together better than before (no comment on retcons like Dawn's looks).
God damn that Spartan Laser is ugly. I'll save my "DO THEY HAVE TO RUIN EVERYTHING" comment for official confirmation. But still. Ew
If there's a Spartan Laser in Halo 2's campaign I will cry.
Okay, first person view is alright... but side on?
If there's a Spartan Laser in Halo 2's campaign I will cry.
Looks fine to me (too big in first person, maybe).
It probably doesn't mean anything at all, though.
God damn that Spartan Laser is ugly. I'll save my "DO THEY HAVE TO RUIN EVERYTHING" comment for official confirmation. But still. Ew
Okay, first person view is alright... but side on?
If there's a Spartan Laser in Halo 2's campaign I will cry.
Looks fine to me--it's supposed to be a somewhat incomprehensible human gun o' doom. But that design definitely looks more like a "prototype" as someone earlier said rather than a refinement of the current design.
Also, speaking of sounds, it's kind of amazing that you can go back and almost every game was an improvement in the sound effects department. H1 > H2 the plasma weapons sounded *much* better. I loved the meatiness of the PR especially when dual-weilded. Then a lot of sounds got toned down in H3 (though H3 SMG > H2 SMG), brought up in Reach (PP and Spiker benefited the most I think) and then again in 4, which I think has the overall best sound, even though there are ones I would definitely change (I love the crack of the Sniper Rifle, but miss the old sound... and the FRG's sound is distinctive, but "dropping a sewer grate" isn't the best 'distinctive' there could be.)
EDIT: Also, anyone know what the display is rendering? Doesn't look like any Halo map that I can tell...
That one actually looks good!
Hated how the Laser looks in Reach and Halo 4, Halo 3 model was good. And so is this one.
gAg CruSh3r
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I was going to say something about this too. I believe there might be a ghost in front of it too.
Gabotron ES
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Also said he was told pretty much everything ntkrnl posted is true.
As much as it could be awesome, I still love the traditional level-structure.
Plus we already have Destiny if we need an open-worldish Halo.
Also said he was told pretty much everything ntkrnl posted is true.
If true, very interesting. Risky, of course, but interesting.
I really hope MS has something interesting for the Xbone, other than Halo though. Halo alone doesn't sell me Xbone.
I do wonder if it is actually open world, or if it is more like hubworld/map and you choose levels non-linearly (something akin to ODST).
However, i don't think a true openworld would suit a game like Halo, not unless the world is really huge (much larger than Skyrim, which isn't that big at 16 square kilometers). Still not going to say no for experimenting, for all my dislike of Reach, i did like how Bungie did try some new things.
User 73706
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I'm not even interested in Destiny, though.
But it would definitely fit the Halo open-world vibe.
Where's the openish world sequel to ODST? I mean that would be ideal for open world.
Only if it has non-linear story too.
ODST suffered from linear story, and the beacons were too close to each other, bunch of the city ended up unused.
I can imagine something like a city on the Ark (perhaps with a UNCS base) (because the place in the Halo Xbox One trailer looks a bit like the Ark) where you can do various things, and then choose a portal or some such to activate a mission elsewhere.
ncsuDuncan
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Guy tweets E3 2004 Halo 2 Multiplayer Demo video to Phil Spencer and this happens:
Jeepers, I can't wait for E3. Hopefully I score an invite to the MS press conference, it was really fun being in the crowd last year when everyone realized the cloaked figure was Master Chief.
I wonder if we'll see Halo on the show floor as well. Last year's Spartan Assault booth was nice just because it had friendly 343 people staffing it, but the game itself wasn't super exciting.
BigEvilTurtle
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I was going to say something about this too. I believe there might be a ghost in front of it too.
First inkling was a side view of Waterworks red base?
Halo 2 2004 trailer at E3 would be amazing.
Orochinagis
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Also said he was told pretty much everything ntkrnl posted is true.
Halo 4 was supposed to be like this too so yeah I dont buy it.
NobleGundam
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Why is he talking about H5 while H2A is supposedly the main focus this year?
Also said he was told pretty much everything ntkrnl posted is true.
FUNKNOWN iXi
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A Metroid Prime Halo game could be legit if they nail the exploration and details of what makes Metroid great. For example, something like AotC where you needed Banshees to access new areas instead of a weapon/ability upgrade like in Metroid.
I'd like for them to do something drastic for the Campaign.
I'd like for them to do something drastic for the Campaign.
Either of these would be fine by me.
To be fair, 343's situation was much different throughout Halo 4's development than now.
Poker Face
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Do we know when Microsoft's E3 press conference is?
Visual "rectons" are a necessary evil that will continue as long as tech keeps getting better. Some are simple enough - a new weapon variant gets a new designation and a visual overhaul, some are fidelity-based - we can create objectively more complex objects. Some are a combination of that and design imperatives - Chief's armor being a notable one - it has changed in every single game, in some ways just to approach dated looking industrial designs that were exacerbated by early low tech. Sometimes that also means a Mjolnir variant upgrade.
Those changes are sometimes the easiest and sometimes the hardest to communicate or justify.
Story is tougher - there are spackle-y things that are necessary to patch together small canon issues (PoA orbital position in Halo Reach, for example) - and game-specific issues that were tongue in cheek, but need to be firmed up - Sgt. Johnson dying in Halo CE, for example.
It's an ongoing process, but certainly I think really old school fans of stuff like the early Nylund novels, and deep "never before exposed to the public but known about in Halo nerd circles) will genuinely embrace some of the stuff we have planned for the future.
I can confirm he is more or less talking out of his ass, or by proxy talking out of his "source's." I am not confirming or denying anything specific, just confirming that he has no special insight or information.
Not that I disagree with your entire sentiment on visual retcons, but I cannot see any reason why the exterior of the Dawn had to be changed beyond "we can get Megbloks to sell another toy". In the actual game you basically only had three shots of it.
Halo 5 with a Nexus, Cortana is your Maiden in Black in the Nexus. Touch the Didact inside me.
Insight to the stuff like that is always interested to read. Thanks.
I don't mind the visual changes really, some i even like a lot, like the Chief's new armor.
Except what you did to the Forward Unto Dawn. And that's only because i don't think the end result looks at all like its Halo 3 counterpart.
EDIT also creeped out by my own avatar. Chose a too creepy one...
I don't mind the visual changes really, some i even like a lot, like the Chief's new armor.
Except what you did to the Forward Unto Dawn. And that's only because i don't think the end result looks at all like its Halo 3 counterpart.
EDIT also creeped out by my own avatar. Chose a too creepy one...
As long as the story is easy to decipher and not a Where's Waldo hunt for information, then I'll be happy. I always liked the story no matter how silly or retconned it was. Actually, I was never bothered by it or even noticed anything strange.