sixteen-bit
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Did you sell it for $10? I hope you sold it for a profit...
Halo 4 - November 6, 2012.
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Did you sell it for $10? I hope you sold it for a profit...
That...was not my point. I was commenting on the ridiculous notion that Activision would move the date of its next CoD game because Halo 4 was coming out.
COD vs Halo is not my war to fight, it's MS's and Activision's. I hope/think MS executives know what they're doing. Either way Halo is big enough to stand on its own and it's 440% guaranteed there will be Halo 5. If direct confrontation with COD will bite MS in the ass, they'll schedule Halo 5 for September. *shrug*
As for myself, I hope Halo 4 is going to be a standout game that not only has nothing to fear from competition but is also good enough to warrant strong word of mouth for many months (or longer) after its release - just like it used to be with the earlier games. I don't play COD (haven't played one since MW1), I'm ambivalent towards it. The only thing Halo 4 November release means is that AC3 will have to wait until December.
As for myself, I hope Halo 4 is going to be a standout game that not only has nothing to fear from competition but is also good enough to warrant strong word of mouth for many months (or longer) after its release - just like it used to be with the earlier games. I don't play COD (haven't played one since MW1), I'm ambivalent towards it. The only thing Halo 4 November release means is that AC3 will have to wait until December.
Miggytronz
Member
People always forget this.
My bad.
Whattup?
Demoncarnotaur
Member
I am expecting a balls out marketing campaign, they better sell this shit hard if they are venturing into CoD territory.
Also, day 1.
Also, day 1.
scOULaris is a poor butthurt soul that posts 20 messages a month about how past generations used to be so much better than the current one. Discuss with him at your own peril.
Yeeeeah, ok.
I need to see some Campaign gameplay, 343i. I need. Halo Campaign Co-op ... mmm so good.
EdibleExplosives
Member
That's a day after my birthday, and I'll probably get the game a day before release so I'm happy.
Is this the Conan reveal thing or was that something else?
Is this the Conan reveal thing or was that something else?
Yeah, I've got to imagine that the marketing machine will be pushing this super hard. It being a numbered sequel certainly helps.
Halo marketing is the best marketing for any game franchise hands down. The Halo 3 believe commercials sold me on a 360. It made me feel like, shit if I don't play this game then I'm going to miss out BIG TIME. Reach commercial with the somber music during all the chaos was also a great ad.
I'm super excited to see what H4 brings to the table, and I hope they retain the theme of slow melody music with still pieces of chaos/action.
grindamasta
Member
Day 1! I'm really interested in the campaign, don't care about the MP.
I assume that's part of it but they would have to be showing some gameplay.
Steve McQueen
Member
Very happy that Master Chief is about to return. I hope 343 is able to deliver. Best of luck to them.
There's going to be a segment on Conan tonight.
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kittens
Unconfirmed Member
Sorry, nope, five pages of people not giving a fuck.
MMaRsu
Member
Listen, I really LOVED Halo 3, ODST and Reach. And I'm pretty damn positive I will love the SP side of Halo 4.
On the other hand, I'm really not excited for the Halo 4 MP and I actually hate most of the choices that we have heard about so far for the MP side.
The fuck 343i might have been in bad taste indeed, I apologize.
Yep.
Hmm, not too impressed by the graphics, but no biggie.
EdibleExplosives
Member
Alright, thanks
Hopefully some gameplay will be shown then, but I'm not holding my breath just in case.
Silly.Mikey
Banned
Its a modified Reach engine so ya, it looks very similar. I honestly didn't really see a diff other than the lighting.
You know, i kinda wish they had weather effects in MP sometimes. It would add a little something.
Yeah, MP graphics really look the same as previous efforts. Maybe the lighting overall will be the big improvement, that really isn't shown off there.
Looks like the turret on the back of a Combat Engineer in Mass Effect 3.
Treythalomew
Member
I hope this means a solid 30 fps then because frame rate lag ruined a lot of maps in Reach.
higherARC05
Banned
If you can't see the way improved poly counts on the spartans and the super clean image quality then you must be blind to any graphical upgrades.
The_Darkest_Red
Member
The overall image quality of those videos reminds me of Gears 3, and that is in no way a bad thing. I'm excited to see how Halo 4 shapes up.
It doesn't.
B_Rik_Schitthaus
Banned
It'd be happy with solid 30, no ghosting and good AA.
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kittens
Unconfirmed Member
Seriously. I'm not that picky about graphics, and even I see a marked upgrade in visuals. But that's probably just cause it's Halo, and I pay attention to Halo.
Miggytronz
Member
OP ADD THIS TO YOUR OP
Devin Olsen
Member
Fuck yeah, this game is going to consume me.
Psychoward
Banned
I honestly thought the Rooster Teeth video was Reach until they showed the god-awful armor designs.
Sapphire Dreams
Member
Day 1! Halo is my favorite shooter franchise behind Half Life.
B_Rik_Schitthaus
Banned
Dude, look at their Reach or 3 based vids, when they work with MS they always have better looking versions to work off of.
Demoncarnotaur
Member
Yup.
Halo marketing is the best marketing for any game franchise hands down. The Halo 3 believe commercials sold me on a 360. It made me feel like, shit if I don't play this game then I'm going to miss out BIG TIME. Reach commercial with the somber music during all the chaos was also a great ad.
I'm super excited to see what H4 brings to the table, and I hope they retain the theme of slow melody music with still pieces of chaos/action.
And yup. But they still need to push Halo 4 harder than normal, make people aware that it is changing the formula a bit. They need both epic and emotional marketing as well as adrenaline filled, fun marketing for the 'casual' crowd.
Honestly, they just choose a bad map (warhouse) to show off IMO, and without any movement it all looked stagnant. Wraparound looks better, but they still could have shown off the lighting more.
I just hope we don't get a shit commercial like there is a soldier in all of us.
gaming_noob
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Genesis Knight
Member
The Halo Reach live action trailers weren't very good, especially coming off the amazing ODST live action trailer. But seriously, why live action at all? Where's the Halo version of the Eminem COD trailers? Hate Eminem/COD as much as you want; those things get the people pumped up. And Halo has awesome music of its own to use.
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kittens
Unconfirmed Member
Blech.
Captain Tuttle
Member
You were juniored? Pretty fitting
I kind of like the October release dates for Halo games. Oh well, still day one
Genesis Knight
Member
Post reading fail.
AgentP
Thinks mods influence posters politics. Promoted to QAnon Editor.
No kidding, two franchises that live because gamers need comfort food. Every over hyped shooter takes down like a dozen good original small games.
Why does every trailer have to be like that? Atleast the Halo trailers are not "Fuck yeah look explosions!".
Deliver Hope > ODST
Atleast those have some fiction in them.
What does this even mean?
Wow, this latest batch of juniors are really annoying!