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Halo 3 PUBLIC free preview: IMAX screen, Seattle Pacific Science Center, August 21
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Mr Vociferous
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Okay, it was just tsavo and some forgeries. Megatonnage averted. Hope everyone enjoyed the show. I can't wait to get some more detailed accounts.
Memphis Reigns
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Gadfly said:
Ya I looked away when they chose difficulty. But the menu screen is also awesome. But enemies went down pretty quickly. They couldn't get everyone in the first showing so they had to make the presentation a little quicker so they could get the next showing underway. That is probably why the set it on an easier difficulty.
Spaceman Spiff
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Everyone who has seen it seems absolutely floored by the Covenant cruiser flyover. Hot damn, I cannot wait to see it myself!
YES.
armubaba said:HOLY FUCKING SHIT. I CANNOT WAIT DAMNIT. BUNGIE RELEASE TEH VIDS PLEASE!
I can't tell you how jealous I am right now. Next show better be in SF. Come on Luke, rep the Bay, yo.
YES.
godhandiscen
There are millions of whiny 5-year olds on Earth, and I AM THEIR KING.
Seriously, I want the number of steps per meter they had!Gadfly said:
Bungie and their dirty tricks. Hiding their jagz with with the IMAX projector which surely adds 16xAA.aaaaa0 said:
Memphis Reigns
Member
Spaceman Spiff said:
When it happened, my mouth literally dropped open and I couldn't say anything. You haven't seen anything like it yet trust me. It was truly a FULL next gen experience when it happened. It was so massive and the sound design is incredible
Spaceman Spiff
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Memphis Reigns said:
Awesome! Did it cast a massive and ominous shadow over everything as it passed overhead? Moments like this are exactly what I want to hear about; and to think, this is just what they're willing to show. Who knows what later encounters will have in store. Geez.
godhandiscen
There are millions of whiny 5-year olds on Earth, and I AM THEIR KING.
Cliffhanger ending? I kid... I kid.Spaceman Spiff said:
Moments like this are exactly what I want to hear about; and to think, this is just what they're willing to show. Who knows what later encounters will have in store. Geez.
Memphis Reigns
Member
They also showed a close up of the Elephant on Sandtrap during the saved film showing. It is massive, as you know. But they didn't show anyone driving it. The had this saved film from a while back I guess, and showed how the free camera worked, the slow motion, zoom, everything. They showed awesome encounters in the saved film and would zoom up and do it in slow motion and it was very VERY well done. Explosions, particle effects, you name it, you could see when paused. You can even hear the audio when the film is paused if you get close enough to anything that makes noise.
Memphis Reigns
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michaeld said:
Ya know what. I like Halo, but I am not a crazy ludacris fan that is just saying this because I am high on the experience. If it weren't amazing or things looked bad, I would tell and be honest about it. But not one thing looked to be out of place or weird. Everything was perfect from the graphics to the gameplay to the sound. Hell even the MP looked better. I mean, ya sure there are probably a few things to nitpick at here and there, but the presentation was so good that you were just enjoying it too much to find any flaws. But someone always does so I dont know what to tell you
Flesh Into Gear
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I require moar info
Foolishfellow
Banned
michaeld said:
These are all impressions that are readily available at multiple places online. The press has already seen forge, and the highway level.
MirageDwarf
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For MS it is nothing but change. You should know better.Gadfly said:
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All hate all lucky fans.
MirageDwarf
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Oops. I was reading it fast. My bad. :lolGadfly said:
professor_t
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aaaaa0 said:One guy won a legendary helmet signed by the dev team.
The rest of us got nuttin.
You got to see Halo 3, you ingrate bastard. ;p
Memphis Reigns
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Flesh Into Gear said:
Yeah sorry I am trying to type and remember as much as I can, as fast as I can. If you ask specific questions it'll be easier for me.
The gravity hammer was used on Highround during the Forge part. Frank smacked Luke on his mongoose and it exploded and went flying into pieces. He then hit him directly and it knocked him back a few yards. The effect seemed to be very satisfying and had a "oomph' to the hit.
At times Luke pointed the camera to the sky and showed Banshees flying overhead while the ground battles were still in play and the framerate didn't dip at all. It was very epic and you felt like you were in the battle for the Human race.
element
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I just got back from it. I was pretty impressed.
1. Halo fans are crazy
2. Having friends at Bungie that let you cut with them is awesome
3. Halo fans are crazy
Some of the Bungie guys were saying that people started lining up at 10 am this morning. If anyone knows the Seattle Science Center, the line went all the way to the Fun Forest, and there were already 400 people inside at that time. It was pretty amazing to see how many fans would show up with about 36 hours notice.
The campaign mission they showed was pretty cool. I'm going to get flamed but it looks like Halo. They are doing some nice effects and stuff, but has a samey feel to it. Some parts were pretty cool though driving out of the tunnel and HDR and bloom crazy and then all the sudden you see a Covenant ship fly right above you. It is a pretty awesome site. Also you when you go over a bump you see the huge circle cloud with a huge volcano behind you. The spaces are really huge.
The replay they did was pretty awesome. I was more in awe of the backend server side stuff and just how far they have taken the Xbox Live Server Protocol API. Playing a game, then saving it, then send it to a friend, then take a screenshot, and then access it via Bungie.net at twice the resolution. It was pretty freaking awesome.
Forge was pretty neat. I kept think that this is what Bungie did after seeing littlebigplanet. It is a great tinker idea, being able to spawn stuff in, move stuff around, save it off, share your creation. The idea of buying things was kinda interesting. I am wondering if the dollar amount changes or is fixed. It would be an interesting way to control frame rate and what not by making things that hurt perf more. But who knows. Still major thumbs up to Bungie.
1. Halo fans are crazy
2. Having friends at Bungie that let you cut with them is awesome
3. Halo fans are crazy
Some of the Bungie guys were saying that people started lining up at 10 am this morning. If anyone knows the Seattle Science Center, the line went all the way to the Fun Forest, and there were already 400 people inside at that time. It was pretty amazing to see how many fans would show up with about 36 hours notice.
The campaign mission they showed was pretty cool. I'm going to get flamed but it looks like Halo. They are doing some nice effects and stuff, but has a samey feel to it. Some parts were pretty cool though driving out of the tunnel and HDR and bloom crazy and then all the sudden you see a Covenant ship fly right above you. It is a pretty awesome site. Also you when you go over a bump you see the huge circle cloud with a huge volcano behind you. The spaces are really huge.
The replay they did was pretty awesome. I was more in awe of the backend server side stuff and just how far they have taken the Xbox Live Server Protocol API. Playing a game, then saving it, then send it to a friend, then take a screenshot, and then access it via Bungie.net at twice the resolution. It was pretty freaking awesome.
Forge was pretty neat. I kept think that this is what Bungie did after seeing littlebigplanet. It is a great tinker idea, being able to spawn stuff in, move stuff around, save it off, share your creation. The idea of buying things was kinda interesting. I am wondering if the dollar amount changes or is fixed. It would be an interesting way to control frame rate and what not by making things that hurt perf more. But who knows. Still major thumbs up to Bungie.
professor_t
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Flesh Into Gear said:
I require . . . Ghaleon.
Memphis Reigns
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professor_t said:
ya ok i get it. I know I am not the best "impression" poster but i am doing my best. I saw that people were getting anxious to hear about it so i thought I'd give some quick impressions before I go to bed. It was a long night. I know someone will probably give some more detailed impressions when they have time. I am only trying to help
Community Forum
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<editing huge photos lol>
professor_t
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Memphis Reigns said:ya ok i get it. I know I am not the best "impression" poster but i am doing my best. I saw that people were getting anxious to hear about it so i thought I'd give some quick impressions before I go to bed. It was a long night. I know someone will probably give some more detailed impressions when they have time. I am only trying to help
Sorry, dude, I wasn't trying to belittle your efforts. I really appreciate it.
It's just that Ghaleon has more knowledge than just about anyone when it comes to Halo, so it's nice to hear what he has to say.
Tieno
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Greatly appreciated! You're a welcomed new member!Memphis Reigns said:ya ok i get it. I know I am not the best "impression" poster but i am doing my best. I saw that people were getting anxious to hear about it so i thought I'd give some quick impressions before I go to bed. It was a long night. I know someone will probably give some more detailed impressions when they have time. I am only trying to help
Flesh Into Gear
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Memphis Reigns said:ya ok i get it. I know I am not the best "impression" poster but i am doing my best. I saw that people were getting anxious to hear about it so i thought I'd give some quick impressions before I go to bed. It was a long night. I know someone will probably give some more detailed impressions when they have time. I am only trying to help
No problem :lol thanks for everything
Memphis Reigns
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professor_t said:
Its all good. My stuff is kind of the appetizer before Ghal's stuff ( I was saving the big, more detailed stuff for him). He is from Portland right? Frankie kind of gave him a shout out i think, saying "we have people from as far as Portland here tonight"
Memphis Reigns said:ya ok i get it. I know I am not the best "impression" poster but i am doing my best. I saw that people were getting anxious to hear about it so i thought I'd give some quick impressions before I go to bed. It was a long night. I know someone will probably give some more detailed impressions when they have time. I am only trying to help
You did a fine job. I dont see what else can be brought to the table at this point as youve pretty much covered it all. What some folks here want to see is gushing, orgasmic, hype filled reports of single player overwhelmation.
Tks for posting the info.
Yeah so no useful information not already made public knowledge could be gleaned from this demo. The line was huge, they ended up doing two shows and played the Epsilon.
Got to see Campaign and it does look sexier but not that sexy, Lukemz and Franklez played system link co-op. With Frankie always talking up his driving skills looks like they need to tune up the split screen lag on level three. They played Tsavo Highway on heroic but not much of it so it was hard to gauge a lot about it from that small piece, they did die a lot more than expected but they were also screwing around a bit. Still it seemed like Halo 2 with just more stuff goin on but I certainly didn't see the AI jump and it looked pretty easy from where I was sitting. Modifiers will be great and the Chopper is badass.
Next they showed off Forge and how it worked. This was probably the most disappointing demo of all because they didn't really do anything too cool with it. Everything works like they said, you can tweak a good amount of settings but they didn't really impress. You have a global budget and everytime you spawn items you use the budget. Weapons and fusion cores are cheap, vehicles are more expensive. Once you budget is used up no more tweaks can be made. Spawn points, cap points, and any other points of interest are visible on the map as blue icons. I assume these can be dropped and dragged much like the items and weapons. Press up on the dpad to instantly turn into a monitor and place or rotate items but you can still be hurt or die in this form. They demoed on High Ground but they didn't build up to anything spectacular. Luke built a bunch of fusion cores, I was hoping Frankie would build a ramp above them. They could have detonated them right as a Mongoose was above the cores and sent that fucker flying, maybe even over the front gate. Instead they spawned a gravity hammer and blew up the cores, then spawned Scorpion. Couldn't tell if you could snipe the dude in the tank but didn't look like it.
Finally they closed with a save film of Sandtrap with the almost final feature set. Took some screenshots, rotated the camera to see spectacular vehicle combat action which looked like a blast. It's everything they said and you expected and it works great but I knew all of that already.
I was just hoping to see something new or something cooler, don't get me wrong the game will still be fucking amazing with all the shit packed in but it was all public and previously revealed info. I thought maybe we'd see the new live action Blogkammpf short or something new and juicy but why bother with a bunch of locals.
No Luke ass grab but I did meet up with Ghaleon by pure coincidence and we shot the shit. Poor guy is on his way home right now and he was to be at work at 8. Luke called him up after and slipped him a dvd disc in a sleeve. Full version? Believe!
Got to see Campaign and it does look sexier but not that sexy, Lukemz and Franklez played system link co-op. With Frankie always talking up his driving skills looks like they need to tune up the split screen lag on level three.
They played Tsavo Highway on heroic but not much of it so it was hard to gauge a lot about it from that small piece, they did die a lot more than expected but they were also screwing around a bit. Still it seemed like Halo 2 with just more stuff goin on but I certainly didn't see the AI jump and it looked pretty easy from where I was sitting. Modifiers will be great and the Chopper is badass.Next they showed off Forge and how it worked. This was probably the most disappointing demo of all because they didn't really do anything too cool with it. Everything works like they said, you can tweak a good amount of settings but they didn't really impress. You have a global budget and everytime you spawn items you use the budget. Weapons and fusion cores are cheap, vehicles are more expensive. Once you budget is used up no more tweaks can be made. Spawn points, cap points, and any other points of interest are visible on the map as blue icons. I assume these can be dropped and dragged much like the items and weapons. Press up on the dpad to instantly turn into a monitor and place or rotate items but you can still be hurt or die in this form. They demoed on High Ground but they didn't build up to anything spectacular. Luke built a bunch of fusion cores, I was hoping Frankie would build a ramp above them. They could have detonated them right as a Mongoose was above the cores and sent that fucker flying, maybe even over the front gate. Instead they spawned a gravity hammer and blew up the cores, then spawned Scorpion. Couldn't tell if you could snipe the dude in the tank but didn't look like it.
Finally they closed with a save film of Sandtrap with the almost final feature set. Took some screenshots, rotated the camera to see spectacular vehicle combat action which looked like a blast. It's everything they said and you expected and it works great but I knew all of that already.
I was just hoping to see something new or something cooler, don't get me wrong the game will still be fucking amazing with all the shit packed in but it was all public and previously revealed info. I thought maybe we'd see the new live action Blogkammpf short or something new and juicy but why bother with a bunch of locals.
No Luke ass grab but I did meet up with Ghaleon by pure coincidence and we shot the shit. Poor guy is on his way home right now and he was to be at work at 8. Luke called him up after and slipped him a dvd disc in a sleeve. Full version? Believe!
Stachzilla
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Kuroyume said:
I was unaware that gaming needed to be saved. Seems pretty bountiful these days.
Unless you mean like bringing sexy back. I was unaware that sexy had left, but apparently I was wrong.
Memphis Reigns
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Tieno said:
I am glad to be. I only found out about GAF not too long ago and just recently joined so...that is greatly appreciated!
btw, someone over at ign that also went asked me if i was the guy wearing a backwards Arizona hat, and I was. It was pretty random.
OK, I bite.michaeld said:
Graphics were meh. I would describe it as Halo 2.5.
I tried to count steps per yard but the damn thing kept moving. I thought they were trying to hide something.
They obviously copied the forge from little big planet.
It is the same Halo fanboys have come to love. Nothing more, Nothing more.