Fuckin oath I'll stay up, think we have 3 or 4 mates to likely be in chat with watching it. Wifey laughs but she's used to these annual shenanigans.
I enjoy getting hyped even if let down a little or a lot. The roller coaster is where it's at.
Same here. Was hoping my break would coordinate with Halo being revealed as an opener but instead they’ve got some robot talking about Bethesda and “family” lol
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Halo Infinite - Infinity Remake - YouTube
I never played Halo PC myself. The only maps I got a taste of were from TMCC. Was Infinity from CE or a later Halo?Anyone else on here point out that one map in the multiplayer trailer that everyone thinks is Valhalla is actually Infinity from Halo PC? I feel like I'm going crazy.
It was a CE map. Here's a video of it
I think I did play that at least once in the CE BTB playlist, but having never played it before I just ran around blindly. If it's a good map then I'll for a remake/spiritual successor.
Really feeling like Halo doesn't know what to show or who it is right now or is just plain struggling for creativity. Chief close ups for campaign and one usual forest vista just doesn't put the wow factor front and centre. Multiplayer had some moments like the Valhalla/Infinity-esue map but overall came off looking like a mash up of art direction and bright fortnite style colours not throwing back to CE bright colours but CE anniversary's gaudy colour set.
I'll wait to see what the coming days bring but Xbox killed it for the show overall and I really enjoyed the range of games on offer, however, Halo fell flat on its face again IMO. Pretty fucking average, they showed fuck all, again. Nothing of the new mode, very little maps shown, no detail, poor art on the models etc. Christ just take the multiplayer aspect vs what they're currently up against in the marketplace with very similarly playing games such as Apex Legends. The characters have appeal, detail and well personality. The Spartans in the multi-video just look like some 10 year old customised them and selected random colours.
This looks great -
This looks like shit -
Again the curated images look great, the actual in game shots look like ass and not just from a graphical standpoint but the actual creativity, art direction, personality etc.
Here's something that gives food for thought. Apex introduced a character called Fuse. This shows in real in game action curated from within the engine and gameplay, not manufactured like half of what 343 put out. There is night and day between what Respawn show and what 343 show. Perhaps the actual game is different and plays wonderfully but in terms of wowing an E3 audience 343 failed again.
EDIT: This one looks solid AF -
Good catch. I was thinking it was yet another Valhalla remake as well. Infinity was a fun map, especially for CTF. Played it a bunch on PC back in the day and even in BTB on MCC. Halo PC and Halo 2 Vista had some great exclusive BTB maps that had a great flow and were fun to play.Anyone else on here point out that one map in the multiplayer trailer that everyone thinks is Valhalla is actually Infinity from Halo PC? I feel like I'm going crazy.
Really feeling like Halo doesn't know what to show or who it is right now or is just plain struggling for creativity. Chief close ups for campaign and one usual forest vista just doesn't put the wow factor front and centre. Multiplayer had some moments like the Valhalla/Infinity-esue map but overall came off looking like a mash up of art direction and bright fortnite style colours not throwing back to CE bright colours but CE anniversary's gaudy colour set.
I'll wait to see what the coming days bring but Xbox killed it for the show overall and I really enjoyed the range of games on offer, however, Halo fell flat on its face again IMO. Pretty fucking average, they showed fuck all, again. Nothing of the new mode, very little maps shown, no detail, poor art on the models etc. Christ just take the multiplayer aspect vs what they're currently up against in the marketplace with very similarly playing games such as Apex Legends. The characters have appeal, detail and well personality. The Spartans in the multi-video just look like some 10 year old customised them and selected random colours.
This looks great -
This looks like shit -
Again the curated images look great, the actual in game shots look like ass and not just from a graphical standpoint but the actual creativity, art direction, personality etc.
Here's something that gives food for thought. Apex introduced a character called Fuse. This shows in real in game action curated from within the engine and gameplay, not manufactured like half of what 343 put out. There is night and day between what Respawn show and what 343 show. Perhaps the actual game is different and plays wonderfully but in terms of wowing an E3 audience 343 failed again.
EDIT: This one looks solid AF -
The Needler was shown to have it too, if I had to guess it seems all non-scoped weapons will have it.
Which is a return to Halo 2 and it's the best Halo news of this E3.
So true. Every character in Halo 5 felt somewhat lifeless, except for maybe Buck.
I'm bet that is exactly what they will do and they will continue to add more stuff to keep people playing.
Yep agreed. I saw there was some discussion on resetera regarding the same concern. The good thing is that flighting will allow some feedback and 343 will have the option to tone things down if people don't like something.
Ancillas are just Forerunner AI. The Primordial is a mutated precursor, and probably the last surviving precursor of the galaxy.
I really, really hope so.
Mendicant Bias was a Forerunner AI that eventually defected to the Flood. Offensive Bias was the AI they used to combat it.
Yeah I really want them to start showing more of the campaign (among other things...) soon. Are there any other events coming up?
Gamescom
Gamescom would make sense, didn't remember if it was happening this year. I'd hope for campaign gameplay and details on forge.
Right but there are some that feel the primordial isn't actually a precursor. I get the part where the precursors basically offed themselves into precursor dust with the intention of that dust bringing them back some day (since the forerunners were hunting them all down). The dust was corrupted however and instead we got the flood? And the primordial very much resembles the flood and a gravemind. I think the primordial could be a precursor reborn from the corrupted remains of precursors. With the way precursors and the flood retain information the primordial would likely know everything from the past. There are a few that believe gravemind in Halo 3 is the primordial. I thought it was super interesting. I know it's extremely unlikely but I really want infinite to give us more answers to the past. This is what happens when I start digging into Halo lore. It may be time to reread the forerunner saga.
