Halo 4 Announced (MS Conf, 2012, Start Of New Trilogy)

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At this rate all we'll get is a few more pieces of concept art and maybe a sound sample or two.

This is 100% okay with me. Actually I would love it to be this way.

Come HALO 4 launch and of course staying away from the internet I want to be awestruck and amazed by all that is going to be in this game without any clue about what to expect to see.

Yummy


But of course a early glimpse of the game will always make happy.
 
E3 is going to blow minds
One would hope. This time without leaks please.
The beating heart idea was a pretty fantastic one for last year, but what's needed in the coming months is one that gets people excited about what the Chief is fighting and what we'll be doing.

I want to have my crumpet and eat it of course, because somewhat like higherARC05 I'd like to go in a bit blind e.g. I'd like to have gotten to fight the Scarab in the Storm without knowing from a preview that it was going to happen. Similarly for going into space in Reach.
 
This is 100% okay with me. Actually I would love it to be this way.

Come HALO 4 launch and of course staying away from the internet I want to be awestruck and amazed by all that is going to be in this game without any clue about what to expect to see.

Weren't you going on about how wet Halo made you and how you couldn't wait any longer for news, not too long ago?
 
wonder if they will keep with the traditional Microsoft AAA September release strategy...im getting married on 9/29 and I just know that whole wedding/honeymoon thing is going to make me miss out on halo goodness
 
wonder if they will keep with the traditional Microsoft AAA September release strategy...im getting married on 9/29 and I just know that whole wedding/honeymoon thing is going to make me miss out on halo goodness

It's not like the game will be going anywhere; just come to it when you're ready. Halo is a patient partner.
 
It's not like the game will be going anywhere; just come to it when you're ready. Halo is a patient partner.

my post had some soft handed sarcasm in it, i know halo will be there, still curious if they will push for a september release or a later release this time around.
 
my post had some soft handed sarcasm in it, i know halo will be there, still curious if they will push for a september release or a later release this time around.
Call of Duty has become such a huge part of the Xbox's holiday season, financially it makes too much sense to not release Halo 4 in September just makes the most sense.

I wouldn't mind a later release date, of course. More time in the oven can only mean good things.
 
Definitely Halo, 100%, but tonally a bit of a change.


YEAH BABY! YEAAAH

Ou, la, la...Is it darker, mysterious yet colorful? with a tint of electric boogaloo? More seriously, is the artwork
a Forerunner lovefest?


Why do I feel like a 15 years old virgin young girl ready to jump the shark?
And how do I know how a 15 years old virgin young girl feels like?

And my 2 cents on release date is no september.
 
My absolute best guess is that it's going to be a video game. But Halo 5 and Halo 6? Well, if the next Xbox isn't a game console, then I have no reason to believe those two will be games.
 
It's "key art" designed to generally rperesent the franchise. Retailers will often 9and are sort of encouraged to) use this as temp box art while they create their preorder campaigns and so on.

Often the key art evolves and changes throughout the campaign, often leading to a specific event (like the launch or the boxart etc). We are working on the Halo 4 key art now, which started obviously with the stuff from E3 last year. the direction we are heading is very interesting, and it's already looking very cool. Definitely Halo, 100%, but tonally a bit of a change.

Thanks, I was hoping you would clarify. I just remember confusion as it first showed up, then changed, then we all raged about which was better.

Looking forward to the new stuffz.
 
Why do I feel like a 15 years old virgin young girl ready to jump the shark?
And how do I know how a 15 years old virgin young girl feels like?

Maybe we should sacrifice a 15 year old virgin infront of the 343I studio maybe then the info gates will open.
 
Maybe we should sacrifice a 15 year old virgin infront of the 343I studio maybe then the info gates will open.



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Totally spot on. This is GAF. We beg and take ourselves seriously but it's free and you guys are good. Let's not transform Neogaf into Kotaku.
 
You see, not only is Greg Bear an award-winning author, but he is also contributing to Halo 4 in more ways than we can currently talk about.

From the Halo Bulletin this week and spotted by Dax.

I'm think Bear-style Terminals ala Halo 3 a nice fit considering the subject matter of the Forerunner books. This adds some weight to the speculation of which rabbit hole we're going down in the game too.
 
my post had some soft handed sarcasm in it, i know halo will be there, still curious if they will push for a september release or a later release this time around.

Soft handed sarcasm, we meet again! You have proven to be my undoing once again.

Good to see Greg Bear really immersing himself in the Halo lore.
 
Just curious, when did Bungie start showing Reach screenshots? It seems like 343i would have shown us something by now. Not to say they aren't handling it correctly, but...just a taste, just a little taste.
 
Just curious, when did Bungie start showing Reach screenshots? It seems like 343i would have shown us something by now. Not to say they aren't handling it correctly, but...just a taste, just a little taste.

We started off with a Reach leak in January, IIRC. That was our first bit of information.

Tom Morello.
 
Just curious, when did Bungie start showing Reach screenshots? It seems like 343i would have shown us something by now. Not to say they aren't handling it correctly, but...just a taste, just a little taste.

They showed half a cutscene at the Spike VGAs, then there was a Gameinformer article in January.
 
You see, not only is Greg Bear an award-winning author, but he is also contributing to Halo 4 in more ways than we can currently talk about.

<3

I'm think Bear-style Terminals ala Halo 3 a nice fit considering the subject matter of the Forerunner books. This adds some weight to the speculation of which rabbit hole we're going down in the game too.

Using Terminals to tie-up Halo 4 story with the recent books' threads is a nice trick to get the convoluted stuff out of the "game" and give me a fuck-a-ton of MC's erotic heroic barbarism.
 
Dear Zeus!

The day 343i reveals anything meaningful about Halo 4, the internet is going to explode the same way Reach (The planet not the game), did.

Keeping the game's information sealed is proving to be a great tactic since Hype Anxiety is increasingly making us make up stuff out of little in order to survive the lack of proof.

I cannot wait to see something! anything! and then condemn myself to NOT watch more, LOL! Easily one of my most wanted games in a long time.

Good times!
 
Dear Zeus!

The day 343i reveals anything meaningful about Halo 4, the internet is going to explode the same way Reach (The planet not the game), did.

Keeping the game's information sealed is proving to be a great tactic since Hype Anxiety is increasingly making us make up stuff out of little in order to survive the lack of proof.

I cannot wait to see something! anything! and then condemn myself to NOT watch more, LOL! Easily one of my most wanted games in a long time.

Good times!

Thankfully most folks are keeping a cool head. There's a douche who was plastering the 343 logo on old weapon concepts from earlier Halo games and trying to pass it off as Halo 4 stuff but the asshattery has been minimal.

I'd happily punch a lion for some Halo 4 news though.
 
Thankfully most folks are keeping a cool head. There's a douche who was plastering the 343 logo on old weapon concepts from earlier Halo games and trying to pass it off as Halo 4 stuff but the asshattery has been minimal.

I'd happily punch a lion for some Halo 4 news though.

This is tame compared to the Halo 2 days. Surely we have not already forgotten the time when a full YEAR passed without a single bit of info. Those were dark times. /patricstewart voice

lol, then Joseph Staten eventually revealed "It's cause we didn't actually have a game after the Halo 2 footage was shown at E3."
 
Thankfully most folks are keeping a cool head. There's a douche who was plastering the 343 logo on old weapon concepts from earlier Halo games and trying to pass it off as Halo 4 stuff but the asshattery has been minimal.

I'd happily punch a lion for some Halo 4 news though.

We have that guy and Halo4Follower who takes those pictures and acts like they are real and spreading that stuff around.
 
This is tame compared to the Halo 2 days. Surely we have not already forgotten the time when a full YEAR passed without a single bit of info. Those were dark times. /patricstewart voice

lol, then Joseph Staten eventually revealed "It's cause we didn't actually have a game after the Halo 2 footage was shown at E3."
:lol Is that why Halo 2 got delayed for a full year? I've never really bothered to look up the Halo 2 development process, but I remember being absolutely crushed by that delay.
 
This is tame compared to the Halo 2 days. Surely we have not already forgotten the time when a full YEAR passed without a single bit of info. Those were dark times. /patricstewart voice

lol, then Joseph Staten eventually revealed "It's cause we didn't actually have a game after the Halo 2 footage was shown at E3."

Some of us were jokingly teasing the 343 guys in one of the other threads about the possibility of a delay or disruption in the development and they were pretty quick to reassure us things are going smooth behind the iron curtain.
 
:lol Is that why Halo 2 got delayed for a full year? I've never really bothered to look up the Halo 2 development process, but I remember being absolutely crushed by that delay.

Yep. They basically restarted Halo 2 halfway through development. I don't remember any other date than the one it had, though.
 
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