Ragnarok Flames
Banned
I dont think Black Tusk will shit on Gears and make needless changes As much as 343 did with Halo.
-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
Halo |OT19| 793 Posts, And None Worth Reading
- Thread starter Ozzy Onya A2Z
- Start date
- Status
Enter The 36 Chambers
Member
God no. Don't tweak anything in halo 2. Shit was perfect. Leave it untouched.
Leave that stupid weapon balancing and tweaking to games like halo 4 that need it.
Leave that stupid weapon balancing and tweaking to games like halo 4 that need it.
Prinz Eugn
Member
Like that's not what we've been doing for months now... pretty sure there were just 5 pages of UI mockups that will never see the light of day.
Yeah, I think it's ultra-tricky, which is why it was basically a niche in 3 and ditched completely for Reach and 4.
EDIT: yay 100 post-per-page top-of-page. Have a thing I'm working on for Wahrer:
As I said before, I believe they just want Master Chief's story redone.
Halo 2 wasn't without fault.
That's all. why everyone is turning their nose to it is what I am bent about. maybe over the top a bit but acting as if this is not a complete lie is crazy. its not like I am the only one, how many people bought the xbox one thinking next gen halo in 2014. why would they think that?
aHebrewMenagerie
Member
Halo 2 was damn good, but it was not perfect, there were many flaws w/ the game.
NERF THE PLASMA PISTOL TRACK RANGE PLEASE
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Well, take out BXR because fuck BXR. Aside from that leave the superjumps if you want, I don't care.
We still don't know if these rumors are even true.
Very few? I mean why would you be upset that an unannounced game, with no real promised title or release date, is theoretically pushed back a year, when you didn't really know if it would have been released next year or not.
My guess is, they anticipated stuff like this and rather than flat out lie, they purposely kept it vague. Additionally, would you rather they release another game that is rushed, or one they take their time on, have a beta etc.
TS x Massacre
Member
So true man. hahah. But yeah, idk i hope they leave it mostly as is and once it comes out make tweaks from there ONLY IF COMPLETELY NECESSARY.
Improve graphics/netcode, ship it. that's all i ask.
Prinz Eugn
Member
I think button combos should be toggle-able and off by default in matchmaking unless there's an ultra-classic MLG playlist. At the very least they need an in-game guide or tutorial.
Yeah, I dunno. I think there's a lot of stuff that could obviously be fixed and no one could complain. But I wish it was still running on console so we could at least see what it's really like without rage memories or nostalgia goggles, since it's hard to be objective with stuff that happened like 7+ years ago.
Caayn
Member
Imagine a Halo Trilogy anniversary. All three original Halo games. Bundled together into one massive campaign stretching from the first touchdown on installation 04 to the destruction of the Ark.
aHebrewMenagerie
Member
I would pay very good money for this.
It was announced! its like a denial of an announcement. Your journey "begins" this is vague to you?
if anything that is more deceitful than anything to show a new story and content and show a release time knowing it was halo 2. 343 is not even doing halo 2, u know that is going to be outsourced. all they really need to do is let us know whats going on once in awhile and be truthful, is that so much to ask for?
And on Steam!!!!
That might come for Halo 3's anniversary lol.
God, no. Perhaps make the targeting for the Rockets track less on ground vehicles like the Ghost and Warthog, but make it normal for the Banshee. Whereas a Laser would be an easy button for any player, as it was in the hands of any player for Halo 3, Reach, and Halo 4. Plasma Launcher is ideal, but that won't happen. And EMP'ing stinks and does nothing but slow down the gameplay. Stop making vehicles super strong like the chaingun in Halo 3 and the Banshee with its fuel rod bomb, then you won't need to damage the gameplay with garbage like stunning a vehicle or adding in something like the Laser.
This is real. Not shopped, apparently.
Translation: Halo 2 Anniversary bonus mission where Chief fights in space and then touches down, beginning the events of the Halo 3 campaign.
This is real. Not shopped, apparently.
Should we watch the Super Bowl for any other reason than to watch football? *hint hint*
Prinz Eugn
Member
It was announced! its like a denial of an announcement. Your journey "begins" this is vague to you?
if anything that is more deceitful than anything to show a new story and content and show a release time knowing it was halo 2. 343 is not even doing halo 2, u know that is going to be outsourced. all they really need to do is let us know whats going on once in awhile and be truthful, is that so much to ask for?
I wouldn't be surprised if this was all due to high-level Microsoft pressure to have some new Halo to show for the Xbone launch, 343i's planned schedule be damned.
Yeah, rockets should work the same against the Banshee more or less. Plasma Pistol freeze I think is reasonable as long as it's a smartly doted out map pickup, especially if vehicles are impervious to gunfire again. The Halo 2 chaingun could in turn use a little buff IMO, but nowhere near the super face melter version in 3.
My God, you have only vendetta out for 343i don't you?
Also this, my next journey is Halo 2? this is not lies?
If 343 would have come out at E3 and announced H2 anniversary with H5 beta we would have gone apeshits. but they lie so how can you trust them?
So what does "your journey begins" mean to you? The Halo journey is continuing on the XB1. Halo games are going to continue on XB1? Well shocking news indeed.
The fact that you conveniently disregard everything around it is kind of baffling.
Maybe that was the alternate ending Ntkrnl was talking about haha.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Also this, my next journey is Halo 2? this is not lies?
If 343 would have come out at E3 and announced H2 anniversary with H5 beta we would have gone apeshits. but they lie so how can you trust them?
Huh.
This is real. Not shopped, apparently.
Oh wow O_O
It was announced! its like a denial of an announcement. Your journey "begins" this is vague to you?
if anything that is more deceitful than anything to show a new story and content and show a release time knowing it was halo 2. 343 is not even doing halo 2, u know that is going to be outsourced. all they really need to do is let us know whats going on once in awhile and be truthful, is that so much to ask for?
I've said this numerous times.
THE TRAILER HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH HALO 2.
No, it likely had to do with Halo 5 if they released this year, and if it didn't, about the TV SHOW, similar to how Forward Unto Dawn introduced Halo 4.
Caayn
Member
No offense AvalonX but release dates often get pushed back and plans are subject to change over time. 343i isn't a god that can bend time to their will in order to give you your Halo game on time.
See it like this, they've pushed Halo "5" back because 343i wasn't happy with what they got so far. So they decided that they needed more time to create a Halo that we deserve instead of rushing it out of the door just to keep their "promise".
See it like this, they've pushed Halo "5" back because 343i wasn't happy with what they got so far. So they decided that they needed more time to create a Halo that we deserve instead of rushing it out of the door just to keep their "promise".
Now you just stay there with the camera while I'll climb all the way up there, don't forget to take a picture.
Also this, my next journey is Halo 2? this is not lies?
If 343 would have come out at E3 and announced H2 anniversary with H5 beta we would have gone apeshits. but they lie so how can you trust them?
Look man, you're getting heated unnecessarily. Yes it's not exactly ideal if these are the plans, but yes, I'm more excited to replay an HD reskinned Halo 2 with a possible alternate ending, than whatever the ancient evil/Halsey is evil/rogue Chief storyline is happening.
You're journey begins in 2014 on Xbox One, this could include the beta. That's really more of a vague statement than anything concrete and like I said would you rather they rush the game? Furthermore, everything this leaker said could have been bullshit, so we don't know and didn't really know anything.
This is real. Not shopped, apparently.
#12thman
Ragnarok Flames
Banned
No offense AvalonX but release dates often get pushed back and plans are subject to change over time. 343i isn't a god that can bend time to their will in order to give you your Halo game on time.
See it like this, they've pushed Halo "5" back because 343i wasn't happy with what they got so far. So they decided that they needed more time to create a Halo that we deserve instead of rushing it out of the door just to keep their "promise".
Now you just stay there with the camera while I'll climb all the way up there, don't forget to take a picture.
during Halo 4's production they had a working Classic style Halo but decided to scrap it, at that point 343 lost my respect and disrespected the Franchise of Halo.
I, for one, would dolphinately wait until 2015 for H5 and would turtley play H2A until that came out! H2 is beast. I am stoked if the rumors were true, 3 years is a good main story cycle anyway. Would be excited for H5 in the fall as well, but either makes me happy.
Who cares if the date got pushed back. Happens a lot, even to Bungie with destiny. Which sucked but i'm gonna try titanfall for my spring game instead
Who cares if the date got pushed back. Happens a lot, even to Bungie with destiny. Which sucked but i'm gonna try titanfall for my spring game instead
NobleGundam
Banned
Hmmm...This is real. Not shopped, apparently.
Space + Space man suit + attached to robotic arm possibly connected to space station = H2A Elongation Map Remake Confirmation
There's quite a big hint:
Seriously some one has quite a vendetta.
It is as it suffers from making either the weapons weaker so the balance when duel wielded is maintained. Or just removing it in place of having the single weapons itself that is the only solution I can think of for the needler for example.
Caayn
Member
I know, and please don't get me wrong. 343i isn't a studio that I respect, more the opposite in fact. I still don't trust what 343i promises us. I've spend more than a year being angry at 343i, I still am, burned through a lot of waypoint accounts fighting against them(mostly the mods) on waypoint.
But I've come to realize that it will never be like it was when Bungie was still around. And that endless rants, such as AvalonX's(sorry mate, but you just popped in my mind), don't solve a single thing. So I try to keep my hate down as much as I can and be constructive as much as I can.
Hypertrooper
Member
You could have said it numerous times, but most people aren't reading your posts.
The trailer only was to tease and to announce that Halo is coming to Xbox One 2014. If you had checked Bonnie Ross' wording at the announcement, you would have noticed she carefully only refers to Halo:
None of this say a new Halo game. None of this really refer to the next installment of the Reclaimer saga. Yes. Wording is still questionable.
BeekleMatter
Member
Halo 2 can only be remade if it is literally untouched. Everything that was imperfect about it made it perfect, and it won't be the same unless all the glitches, superbounces, button combos, little easter eggs, and all our nostalgia remain. If they touch any of it, it isn't worth the time.
Hypertrooper
Member
I would say its multiplayer should be untouched, but the campaign? Can people please play Halo 2 again before posting? Play it right now. It is an great campaign, but compare it to Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo 3? You would notice that its single player is as great as Halo 4's.
Yeah. I'm just dying inside every time I read someone suggest things like "put the AR in campaign", "change levels" blah blah blah.
^^^
And what in the world. There is no comparison between Halo 4's QTE snooze fest and Halo 2's campaign. Hell, I just finished playing it on Heroic a few days ago. Everything from the gameplay to the story is better than what we got in Halo 4. Most questionable element is the brutes, but I'd take those over teleporting OHK weapon carrying bulletsponges, any day.
BeekleMatter
Member
Who cares about the campaign? Halo 2's campaign sucked besides getting out of every map (which needs to stay) and Delta Halo. Halo 2 wasn't about the campaign, it was about the multiplayer. That said, I think campaign should be untouched, too.
samurai1226
Member
For me, i really got trust issues with 343i right with Halo 4 in a big way. Just enjoy the following words about Personal Ordanances from Bulletin 7.6.12
"Personal Ordnance - As you earn medals, you fill up your ordnance meter. When that meter is full, you earn a reward drop for yourself from the Infinity. The reward comes in the form of three randomized power weapons, grenades, or powerups (two of the former, one of the latter). You can then choose which one you want, and the Infinity will drop the ordnance (if youre inside, it will teleport in). You wont get the highest tier power weapons (e.g., rockets) in personal ordnance, but everything you do get is powerfully awesome. And awesomely powerful. And everything in between. "
Oh yeah, I'm so glad they just changed their mind til release and that it will be much more fun when personal ordanance can give a Rocket Launcher, Binary Rifle, Incineration Ccannon, etc. Not like the game was totaly broken by this...
After teasing Halo 5 for 2014 so much with it's really mean when they finally say "We showed you how the story will go on with Chief doing lone wolf stuff on a search for some forerunner-thingy - But actually heres Bungies old game since we knew a lot of people would be disappointed when the lineup of xbox box would've been teasered by old Halos from Bungie"
Its kinda mean for people who bought Xbox One near launch knowing that Halo 5 is on its way in 2014, but actually it will release in 2015 when you get bigger harddrives etc in your xbox one...
Prinz Eugn
Member
Nostalgia Goggles to MAX
"6 hours of griefing in a single one bomb game was delightful, what are you talking about?"
"Host plasma bolts faster than the speed of light and to which walls are no obstacle? Sign me up!"
"I really like starting on Coagulation with an SMG, really adds to the feeling of scale."
Seriously, there are parts of Halo 2 multiplayer that were legitimately and irrevocably bad. The game wasn't just MLG Lockout on a good host.
I definitely don't agree about the campaign sucking. The game has been out for almost 10 years and I still find myself returning back to it and having a blast playing through. To each their own.
but I like your conclusion, whatever the case
Apparently it is faked after all. I just read the worst piece of satire ever though, so that's a plus/
BeekleMatter
Member
It doesn't fucking matter. You can't change it because it wouldn't be Halo 2 if they did. It would be some other Halo game that looks like Halo 2 with it's sounds and guns... but it wouldn't BE Halo 2.
Okay sucking was pretty harsh, but I replayed it with a friend about 6 months ago and well it wasn't the best XD
Enter The 36 Chambers
Member
Kinda says something when people are more excited for a 10 year old re release than upset that halo 5 might take another year
- Status