Would not mind that at all too
Game Informer May 2012 Cover revealed: Halo 4
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He won't even be the prime ennemy by the end of Halo 4. There is no chance the Universe s still full of Forerunners, hat's too big to swallow after we've had 5 games in which it was said they wer exctinct.
Didact, Promoetheans, Librarian and some followers, Master Builder and that's it.
Halo deals in Life creation these days, so if 343i needs Forerunners they will build them using whatver reason they find fit.
Halo 4 needs to introduce the new menace, and my best guess is the Master Builder. he fits nicely with the Didact path, represents a good intersection between past Halo and future halo, can easily be represented as being controlled by Precursors and with followers that are flood infected. Didact won't be introduced carrying a rose in the mouth, he's a total badass and a vengeful one but a ennemy he's not, he simply has his own agenda and will have been around too long to simply stand by and watch the Chief deal with everything.
Didact is here to shake things up, and not let the story get simplified to Chief kicks dark new foes. He will have more lverage than the Arbiter in the story if only because he's been planned since the beginning of the new trilogy when Arbiter was meant to rinse the palette and bring new gameplay.
The Reclaiming, the vengeance, the millenia long fight and obscure destiny of sentient species.
Going into Halo 5 /6, with the help of greg Bear 343i has the chance to make ridiculously crazy things happen. The story is going to explore the origin of life, its design, its purpose, or lack of.
That was a misinterpretation of the comment; she said it was the best looking game anyone on the team had worked on.
shinobi602
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Where's the best place I can read about all of this? Between the Didact, Forerunners, Prometheans, Librarian, etc I'm getting lost here.
Well, there is Slightly Live website :
www.forwarduntodawn.com
he is thourough in his analyses.
Best is to read Cryptum/Primordium and Glasslands.
New editions of Fall Of Reach, The Flood, First Strike have each an added ending châpter with hints towards the new trilogy with subsential info in one of them.
Ghosts of onyx preludes Glasslands.
Contact Harvest is a joke.
Cole Protocole is Halo Blaxploitation.
Gabotron ES
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I play videogames for the graphics!
Hehe and they have guys from SSM, ND, iD Software, Rockstar, T10, GG etc.
I play music for the chicks!
But we've seen Halo 4. It looks nice and SP will be nicer. And then there is all the shit that's gonna blow around and the new take on SP.
I expect the game to be very nice looking with a great art and fluid animations, the AI will be nice, the levels big, the cinematics crazy.
What I want is a 10hrs campaign at minimum.
Longer campaign > dem graphix
Monocle
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Fixed.
Who doesn't?
shinobi602
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shinobi602
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Didnt some of the members of 343 work on MGS4? Its gonna look better than that?
specialguy
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When can we expect scans to leak? Not that I would ever look at such a thing.
specialguy
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Err, I would hope so...that game is pretty old and never a graphical monster...
TheBioLover
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I think the audio director worked on MGS4. Although there has been some confusion about who is actually composing Halo 4.
The Librarian
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I wonder if "big epic environments" includes bigger battles. IIRC, Bungie said bigger battles for Reach, but we never got anything larger than the biggest fights in Halo 3 (or close to it for that matter).
#Pessimist.
To be more serious, given what Bungie said about Reach and what we got, I'm approaching any claim of "bigger battles" and such with caution.
It should look better. Hell, Reach should have too, but nope.avi
AdmiralSnackbar
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ActiveRush
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I'm subscribed to the print version of GI when is it supposed to arrive? Does it come out before the digital version? I really hope it comes on Saturday or today but I'm not holding my breath.
yeah, joke is meant to convey the, well..., I don't know how to say it but Contact Harvest both gives a natural explanation to the war, yet it's a very very very barebone sci-fi book.
Not my favorite but to each his own.
Cryptum got me a boner and a man crush on the Didact.
Yep. There is only this much more this gen games can do in terms of scope.
Stuff like Gears of War 2/3 tons of ennemies is serviceable but doesn't build the legend.
Same for the campaign length. There is longer and there is meant to be long. I want it to be long, even at the cost of reused environments or some backtracking. If part of the game is structured around open world, with additional more corridory missions and the game offers to keep exploring after the credits, its GOTF material for me.
we dont know. could be today, could be tomorrow or even monday (is monday a holiday in the us?).
Don'tBeWeird
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Eh, I disagree. MGS4 is one of the best looking games this gen. Certainly better looking than any Halo game released thus far.
The character models in MGS4 were insanely detailed.
Ryan left because it seems he had misconceptions about how vastly they were going to change the Halo formula. I think Ryan had grand ideas about helping create this wild new Halo that shared the previous games art style and universe but completely altered it's mechanics.
As a fan of the series I'm glad the team has kept the core elements intact, although I can also understand how this might frustrate those who've slightly tired on the franchise. There's going to be lots of change and fresh ideas, as I'm sure we'll all see soon enough with this coverstory, although I doubt they'll be an extravagant departure from the series.
shinobi602
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Character models are about the only thing in MGS4 that are definitely above Halo: Reach.
Anything else, Reach trumps it imo.
Blue Ninja
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They apparently can't announce it yet, either, because of 'contract issues' or something. Maybe it's in the Gameinformer article, though. Would be nice.
Captain Blood
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Unless something new has happened the last word from Frank was that the composer for Halo 4 was still under wraps.
Yup that would be great.
When an FPS game gets a GI cover with its two main protagonists just looking at you, I can say the devs are not trying to sell you on da big fight first and foremost.
Clearly Halo 4 is a FPS, but it's been said to death changes will abound on how the story is told and the care given to fleshing out characters rather than relying on the tongue-in-cheek approach the first trilogy used.
A lesbian vampire slayer and a hobbit?
Well, much is always said about that. Reach was the final straw for me. Such a big and important event in the cannon....and well, let me just say that I can barely remember who the characters were.
shinobi602
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Yea. Gon b gud.
Don't care what anyone says, Chief and Cortana are superb as a duo. Chief is just an all around badass character. Defeats impossible odds and walks away like a boss. And Cortana is compassionate, intelligent, hilarious, and downright sexy all in one.
Those frames are taken straight from a game session. From very early, unpolished code. The game runs at native 720p. Those are the in-game shadows. There is no DOF in those frames. And the DOF is also an in-engine effect that will be used more subtly in 'normal' action. The gif's only 'trickery' is a detached camera -something the player can do in saved films anyway.
You weren't meant to remember the characters, you were meant to 'Remember Reach'.
Ironically all I've done since the game came out is try to repress my memory of Reach. Great campaign, woeful multiplayer. As a multiplayer person predominantly, it was tragic.
I hope 343i craft their own
'SURVIVE'
Good job Frank. A detachable camera in saved films was Game Informer's pièce de résistance.
Pop the champagne!
sounds great. just make sure that the game runs better than reach or anniversary.
dancrane212
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Wow, that's fantastic, I'm throwing it in my wallpaper rotation!
Man 343 needs to get on a Halo 4 windows theme, the Reach concept art one was great.
Captain Blood
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What is the opposite of that dream crusher hammer metal?
shinobi602
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Miggytronz
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aye dios mio
GarthVaderUK
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Amazing!
Thats just...I mean...Its crazy. That right there is some of the best looking graphics I have ever seen and I still have hard time believing you are telling the truth (which just shows how fucking good job you guys done).
GarthVaderUK
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Damn, now I'm just sitting here thinking about/waiting for the new screenshots - hurry up Game Informer!
Looking at some posts in this thread I'd say that "dream crusher" fits perfectly.
fierrotlepou
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I'm very LTTP, but is this game coming out on the 360 or the next XBOX?
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