• 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 |OT2| Hyper-Athletic Speed And Mass And Weight and Power

Domino Theory

Crystal Dynamics
If there's one thing I learned from the information that speaks volumes above being skeptical or negative, it's giving a big congratulations to Activision on successfully making the entire gaming industry its bitch.
 
FUCK THAT. I'm sick of Halo's player base being fucking split between two completely separate playstyles. Just make the vanilla game good damn it! Don't try to cater to two completely different sets of people!

I agree. If you want to alienate a certain group then do it. No need to have 4,545,864 playlists. It's obvious with these additions 343 doesn't really seem to care about the Halo CE, H2, and H3 fanbase and are just working under MS's terms to make the CoD killer.
 
If there's one thing I learned from the information that speaks volumes above being skeptical or negative, it's giving a big congratulations to Activision on successfully making the entire gaming industry its bitch.

TRUE THAT. Fuck COD. It single-handedly ruined all of the shooter genre, including Halo. You win this time, Activision.
 

Kibbles

Member
I still trust Frankie. I won't complain too much until I play it, but you (343i/Frankie) have to drop that podcast soon, so much damage done in the competitive and casual community online at the moment, wait until IGN and Kotaku get a hold of this, word of mouth a bitch and what you say later may be muffled and people are quick to judge (obviously)

I'd imagine they have to wait a while until the magazine is released and the embargo drops, whenever that may be.
 

Fracas

#fuckonami
If there's one thing I learned from the information that speaks volumes above being skeptical or negative, it's giving a big congratulations to Activision on successfully making the entire gaming industry its bitch.

slowclap.gif

Never thought I'd see the day Halo got perks (don't even care, that's what I'm calling it now until I'm proven wrong).

Makes me sick.
 

kylej

Banned
If there's one thing I learned from the information that speaks volumes above being skeptical or negative, it's giving a big congratulations to Activision on successfully making the entire gaming industry its bitch.

It's always funny when people replicate other games hoping to gain their success, forgetting that it was innovation that made the game popular in the first place. Microsoft execs got those dollar signs in their eyes.
 
So much bitching....nobody as play the game here? So calm down. Im sure that the game is being play tested by players from all skills and real fans of halo. I would not worry so much.
All I'm gonna say is that every time there has been a preview that gave me red lights like this, the elements in question have always ended up as bad as I thought they would. Always. Not once has it actually surprised me in its implementation and turned out for the better. That said, I still give everything the benefit of the doubt during pre-release. I mean, there's gotta be a first for everything.
 

Metroidvania

People called Romanes they go the house?
Welp.

Dat list. :/

Makes my post ME3 shit day complete, lol.

But I still have my optimistic hope. 343 is much better than Bioware.
 

op_ivy

Fallen Xbot (cannot continue gaining levels in this class)
slowclap.gif

Never thought I'd see the day Halo got perks (don't even care, that's what I'm calling it now until I'm proven wrong).

Makes me sick.

it really sounds like an evolution of armor abilities rather then perks. take that for what you will though
 
New info sounds really bad. I don't like the idea of buying armor abilities at all. Same with the random power weapon spawns. I want to have hope that it'll be good but so far it's not at all.
 

kylej

Banned
Will I be able to call in remote Falcon gunners to swoop around the map and mow other enemies down?

Will I be able to right click the d-pad and call in a banshee scout to let me know where other people on the map? It might be a helpful tool to go along with my x-ray vision when trying to find randomly spawning rockets.
 

Havok

Member
it really sounds like an evolution of armor abilities rather then perks. take that for what you will though
The magazine mentions a "modification" slot in addition to an armor ability slot. Taken in conjunction with the initial perks comments from March...I can see where people are coming from.
 

Fracas

#fuckonami
it really sounds like an evolution of armor abilities rather then perks. take that for what you will though

That's what I thought at first, but then "Forerunner Vision" pushed me over the edge. I mean, are you serious? There was a GAF thread a couple weeks back where Black Ops 2 info was leaked. There was a killstreak that lets you see through walls. I laughed a lot that day.

And then I found out it is probably in Halo 4.
 

FyreWulff

Member
Disappointed in no Elites in multi. Especially if they just went back to hunching them over again, as it appears in the magazine..

RIP me playing Elite 2004-2012
 

Trey

Member
Will I be able to add a weed related background to my little gamertag bar in the matchmaking lobby?

The missing GI pages talk about iron sights, kill streaks, and dual wielding rocket launchers.

Will I be able to call in remote Falcon gunners to swoop around the map and mow other enemies down?

Will I be able to right click the d-pad and call in a banshee scout to let me know where other people on the map? It might be a helpful tool to go along with my x-ray vision when trying to find randomly spawning rockets.

can't wait to get the armor ability that'll let me drop a game-ending nuke after 3 kills

Only thing to do is to laugh at this. Let's keep this going.
 
I'm going to have a giant smile tomorrow when I go cancel my pre-order if thats what your talking about ;)

Whatever floats your boat. I'll wait until we at least know exactly what we're dealing with before I smile or frown when buying the game.

But yeah, enjoy every moment of your rash decision making :p
 

Domino Theory

Crystal Dynamics
My hope is that 343's going to announce that this aspect of Halo 4 is effectively 'half' the multiplayer experience and that the other half is real Halo and that that half is getting just as much love and attention as the former.

We can only hope.
 

Yo Gotti

Banned
Your voices are nice and all, but good luck trying to make all of this sound good.

The only way you could possibly get people to stop worrying is if you outright announced that there will be separate playlists at launch for all the Reach 2.0/ArmorAbility/COD stuff and the normal Halo 2/3 style gameplay.

If they do this they might as well kiss Halo goodbye in the ranks of modern competitive shooters. I'm pretty sure every Halo fan who's stayed around until Reach is sick of that shit fragmenting the userbase and changing the rules of the game every 4 months.

If the core game mechanics, perks, progression and all aren't solid enough to allow 6 simple playlists, rotating the unmodified maps with the unmodified modes, then they wasted their time creating the multiplayer period. It won't hold the fanbase just like Reach didn't.

If you can give Call of Duty props for anything it's that they don't put their players through that bullshit. The game that ships is set in stone as the same game that's around for the next few years. The weapon bloom thing Reach went through put me off from ever playing that game again.
 

kylej

Banned
Will I be able to call in supply packages of extra nades and rocket ammo? Will the packages be dropped off by Pelicans that I can put a weed leaf on after ranking up?
 
dontbelievehislies.png
 
So much hate over a game we haven't played or seen a lot of. I'm excited to see the new changes. I'm happy that they added a drop in-out system. I know a lot of hardcore are gonna bitch, but I'm glad that I can play a few matches and quit if I have to leave without being penalized.
 

senador

Banned
Disappointed in no Elites in multi. Especially if they just went back to hunching them over again, as it appears in the magazine..

RIP me playing Elite 2004-2012

LOL

I've been waiting for this. You weren't going to play anyway though remember? ;)

You also read it has Perfect Dark vision right?!
 
It'll be amusing to look back on these posts once we, you know, actually know what we're talking about rather than guessing from some buzz words.
 
Top Bottom