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The Real Napsta
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Here's a gameplay from the Halo 3 scrims featuring Classic and Ambush, crazy ending.
bonus: players having fun
bonus: players having fun
aHebrewMenagerie
Member
It wanted me to make an account, so i refreshed the page until the article stopped loading. #GSO foreign policy.com
EDIT: That armor looks like the Warrior variant from Halo 4
Computer
Member
I know dem feels. Halo 3 was the king of close games. I never played any other shooter like it. So many times the game would be a 49 49 heart racing standoff until someone fucks up. Win or loose it was awesome. Halo 4 sprint stops this from ever happening.
Orochinagis
Member
I will see you there.
Was this posted?
Love how GoW3 is struggling in that list and Skyrim would overcome Halo 4 soon.
Right now with (casual) Halo fans it's:
"Fool me once
Shame on you
Fool me twice
Shame on me."
Reach dented Halo, Halo 4 went full America History X on the rest of the fanbase. My old Halo 2/3 friends are gone, they are all talking about Titanfall. Now these are just my friends but they resemble closely to what the dudebro crowd is out like there.
NobleGundam
Banned
Oh hey Gaf, what's new?
No Halo 3 playlist update and Halo 4 is at #13, you say?
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No Halo 3 playlist update and Halo 4 is at #13, you say?
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Y U Lie 343Nelson!?
Halo hype will always bring people to the next Halo. But its retention that really matters.
HigherLevel
Member
I honestly don't see it because of two reasons.
1. Halo's decline in quality.
2. The PS4 outselling the Xbox One.
Even in this time Tashi is still optimistic! Hire.
Prinz Eugn
Member
I don't even know what Ascend: Hand of Lazily Made Up Name is. Must be... kuuuuuul
Wait, an RPG in Arcade? Jesus.
Wait, an RPG in Arcade? Jesus.
I wonder if that is true, just based on how well Halo 4 sold after Reach and all of the news of Reach-like things being continued in 4. You can argue that fans wanted to give a new studio a chance even despite how it looked like things that some fans had gripes with continued to exist. Also how many SP-only players still exist? that has always been a large part of the community. Did the SP changes/enemies/story drive those people away also?
The competitive aspect might be dead (but it seems like it could be resurrected, though I'm sure a discussion could be had if reclaiming the existing base can grow an expanded audience, and I know that discussion has occurred and some viewpoints on that are well known but I think there is still meat on that bone ), but I don't know that the franchise is dead. The launch of the next one will be telling for sure.
Matters to us and I'm sure it matters to individuals at 343, but if they get the sales numbers I'm sure from a business stand point they are satisfied.
This is relevant in like the most minor of ways, but Alvin Risk (who did a remix for the Halo 4 OST) did a collab with Skrillex and it's cool:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iQRaZje0RA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iQRaZje0RA
Yes of course, it is not like the next Halo will sell bad. But I bet it will again not hold its players by any means. Halo lost somehow its addictiveness ( is this a word? I'm a stupid foreigner
)Yes of course, it is not like the next Halo will sell bad. But I bet it will again not hold its players by any means. Halo lost somehow its addictiveness ( is this a word? I'm a stupid foreigner
Right but only the game itself can determine if it will have legs.
Its not like the next Halo will come out, people love it but stop playing because "Halo lost its addictiveness" with Halo 4.
And don't think that population isn't important to 343 just because the game still sold like 13 million units or whatever. They want Halo to grow.
Halo 5 will sell, but not nearly as much as 4 (mainly because of install base). If MP is anything like Halo 4, the population will sink like a rock. It's still a relevant franchise, but not what it was. Like you said, it's on 343 to make a game that can do more than sell on launch day.
It also doesn't help that many Halo/Microsoft fans are jumping ship totally.
Orochinagis
Member
with cross platform options if you stay in this gen and defend your area from local clans are truly amazing features.
The Galactic Conquest mode sounds interesting. I doubt that it will be around a year after launch, though.
Sure thing. I'm interested to see what they took away from Halo 4. I'm just scared we're in somewhat of a bubble of similar opinions and the truth is that 343 believe the changes they made to the franchise were loved by the majority.
EDIT: THAT FUCKIN COD VID HOLY SHIT.
HALO COPY THAT ASAP.
Finally something similar to Chromehounds War Mode.
Legitimatley makes me want to buy Ghosts.
xxjuicesxx
Member
CoD on that feature adding grind again. Remember when BO2 was fucking SHITTING on Halo 4 pre-release?
Lets go Halo ONE!
Lets go Halo ONE!
Computer
Member
COD stays true the classic game play with every new title. They spice things up by adding new features like clans and spectator mode. Halo copies Cod on all the wrong shit.
Also "but are working closely with Xbox LIVE to ensure that players have a great experience with the Games with Gold program." WTF is this? Its like a cheap way of getting out of a apology to Halo fans. Just make up something so they feel better about the shitty situation. We are not 10 years old here.
http://www.reddit.com/r/halo/commen...n_halo_players_describe_the/c832nci?context=1
Almost cried.
RIP Halo
Almost cried.
RIP Halo
xxjuicesxx
Member
So basically its just noone is still around that knows how to change the playlists...
Good stuff. So Shishka won't give up the passwords?
Good stuff. So Shishka won't give up the passwords?
Computer
Member
343 should read this. Its like this guy read my mind. I had that exact same experience with Halo. Its hard for people to understand it if they didn't play back in the day. Makes me wonder how many people at 343 had this kind of experience with Halo.
Good fuckin times damn.
I love the flexibility of party chat but damn did it kill the social experience.
Poker Face
Member
It is kind of crazy, I've seen a lot of party chat hate in the last year. People started realizing how dumb of a feature it is. Sure, it is convienent, but in early Halo 3 I always had matches where every single person has mics. Rarely in Reach and rarely in 4.
CoD 4 and Halo 3 were a damn blast with mics. Dat pre-game shit talk and post-game quit as fast as you can.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Ah, so it's the weekly top 20 RIP Halo "oh my god why is Halo dead!" time is it? Right on schedule.
It's not a dumb feature, it's just a brutal double edged sword.
I love being able to play different games with friends and still be able to talk. That being said, I also hate how it removed everyone from gamechat. If I'm ever playing a MP game with the same people in a party I always tell them to go into game chat and am always surprised people are against this. SOCIALIZE YOU NERDS!
Gears 1 and Shadowrun were awesome without Party Chat as well. Gears trash talk would get pretty ridiculous when players from both teams could talk to each other in death screen. Lot of mid game shit talk.
Shadowrun was just awesome with everyone communicating, planning strategy, and exchanging money. Then everyone could chat in the game lobby before and after the games. Shadowrun just kept going with the same players too, so after a couple games playing with and against the same players you start to build rivalries and friendships.
That Halo 2 post is spot-on, I did all of that shit daily for nearly 2 years straight.
Shadowrun was just awesome with everyone communicating, planning strategy, and exchanging money. Then everyone could chat in the game lobby before and after the games. Shadowrun just kept going with the same players too, so after a couple games playing with and against the same players you start to build rivalries and friendships.
That Halo 2 post is spot-on, I did all of that shit daily for nearly 2 years straight.
HigherLevel
Member
Did you not see the Xbox Live activity chart?
Also I can't believe other people had those Pre Game Lobby experiences. me and my friends would create gametypes with names like PGL v4. Poking fun at MLG. Or create a gametype like "gamertag is a fag" classic middle school humor.
We would sit in the lobby for hours and just shoot the shit.
Whether you blame it on the changing gaming environment or the quality of the games or both, I think Halo 2-3 was just a better era for Halo.
We would sit in the lobby for hours and just shoot the shit.
Whether you blame it on the changing gaming environment or the quality of the games or both, I think Halo 2-3 was just a better era for Halo.
Orochinagis
Member
The Halo 2 era was really that amazing?
The Henery
Member
Just how did this franchise manage to lose its way so drastically?
I said wow
Thanks for posting the latest H3 content btw, been a good watch
thezerofire
Banned
man, I miss this so much
Poker Face
Member
Yes.
One of my friends had a Wu Tang related GT and once we matched against some guys with Wu Tang related GTs. So during the match we all gathered in a circle and just starting singing Wu Tang instead of killing each other. It was incredible.
Absolutely man. He really nailed the experience completely, all the way from ranks to meeting people and just shooting the shit.
Watch all three of Jeenyus' "Trip down Memory Lane" videos for some Halo 2 reminiscing. Nearly an hour of Halo 2 memories. Pretty much everything is covered.
1.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntGTv86smqA
2.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBAfUtNr0yw
3.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c80ce3dgXa8
1.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntGTv86smqA
2.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBAfUtNr0yw
3.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c80ce3dgXa8
HigherLevel
Member
I think it's definitely a combination of both. Halo 2 and 3 were both far superior games to Reach and 4. Then combine that with the fact online gaming during those games' peak years wasn't as mainstream you had a much better playerbase and community to play with.
I posted on the old gameinformer.com forums years ago and we had weekly custom games with tons of people during the Halo 2/3 era. We also had nightly matchmaking sessions with up to 16 people sometimes in BTB. You rarely see that kind of stuff anymore, the online community isn't the same as what it was. Party chat, like people have been saying also contributed to this I think.
I'm not really sure if we'll see kind of online gaming ever again. It has become too mainstream and the industry has grown so much and is so much more about getting every dollar possible I think 2004-2009ish will always be remembered as the golden-era of online console gaming.
gAg CruSh3r
Member
Yes, yes, and a 100 times yes! No party chat, smack talking with out people being bitch about it, BTB, glitches, and much more!
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
Fixed. With what happened in Halo 2, Bungie should've fixed all the issues in Halo 3 but they only made everything worse. Without a doubt, Halo 2 was better than Halo 3 on every level except the obvious technical advancements like better graphics, etc.
Never underestimate the selling power of Halo. 60FPS next gen Halo is going to move a shit ton of consoles.
LOL and the person starts by describing Halo 2.. It sucks that 97% of Halo's population will never understand how Halo 2 began the downfall of Halo gameplay. Matchmaking was a phenomenal experience though at the time, too bad it hasn't changed in about 10 years. Let that sink in. 10. Years. No changes.
I can't wait until my Halo 1 documentary is finally complete. Soon.
Computer
Member
This makes me want to play H2 online so effn bad. 343 just updat Halo 2 and call it Halo 5. Less work for lots of moneys.
Bring back the Halo 2 shield bar!
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