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I've never posted in this thread but I just wanted to drop in and say that I'm seriously considering buying an Xbox One just for the MCC. Seeing the remastered gameplay clips are reawakening my dormant Halo thirst.

Today I wanted to tease myself for some reason, so I dusted off my 360 just to play one match of Halo 3, it's been years since I last played it. Searching took forever but it was so worth it. Team slayer, Guardian. And boom my team drop out and it was just me and this guy. Dude was pro and I was terrible. But we own the other team, we score 47, and then this dude decides to kill me, teabag me, and then quit.

I have no idea why he did that, but it was hilarious.

Thankfully I did manage to win.

 

[FUNKNOWN iXi]

Today I wanted to tease myself for some reason, so I dusted off my 360 just to play one match of Halo 3, it's been years since I last played it. Searching took forever but it was so worth it. Team slayer, Guardian. And boom my team drop out and it was just me and this guy. Dude was pro and I was terrible. But we own the other team, we score 47, and then this dude decides to kill me, teabag me, and then quit.

I have no idea why he did that, but it was hilarious.

Thankfully I did manage to win.

Halo

Spoiler

Soon.

 

[Leyasu]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNQhUTyxm7k

Looks nice

 

[ElzarTheBam]

 

[Omoshai]

For some reason this video just really hit me and made me realize how fucking incredible this game looks:

http://www.ign.com/videos/2014/09/19/halo-shrine-gameplay-tgs-2014

Now if only those boring black medals would be replaced by those amazing colored ones for 2.

Really is awful, their incredibly generic and uninteresting post Halo 3.

 

[ViewtifulJC]

For some reason this video just really hit me and made me realize how fucking incredible this game looks:

http://www.ign.com/videos/2014/09/19/halo-shrine-gameplay-tgs-2014

Now if only those boring black medals would be replaced by those amazing colored ones for 2.


Also, someone on Waypoint was saying Zanzibar's Dynamic Lighting or some shit wasn't stable so they turned it off for the recent gameplay reveal (it WILL be there at launch though)? Did anybody hear anything like this?

don't like black, but want them colored?

so sick of the racism in HaloGAF

 

[ElzarTheBam]

don't like black, but want them colored?

so sick of the racism in HaloGAF

I say we build our own racial utopia.

 

[Granadier]

I say we build our own racial utopia.

"The Black Dream"

 

[Mix]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNQhUTyxm7k

Looks nice

wow, it looks nice.

Anyone else think the spartan models look, like, amazing in motion? They remind me a lot of Halo 4's in the screenshots but in actual gameplay they look so good.

 

[TheOddOne]

I don't see color, I only see ViewtifulJC. Racism against him is ok in my book.

Spoiler

You belong in the same group as Viewtiful, Elzar.

 

[bidguy]

wow, it looks nice.

Anyone else think the spartan models look, like, amazing in motion? They remind me a lot of Halo 4's in the screenshots but in actual gameplay they look so good.

yeah

i know yt is capped at 30fps but this looks fluid as fuck

 

[TheOddOne]

Looks like someone got a promotion.

 

[ElzarTheBam]

I don't see color, I only see ViewtifulJC. Racism against him is ok in my book.

Spoiler

You belong in the same group as Viewtiful, Elzar.

I know what you look like, this black on black crime has to stop!

 

[Mistel]

Looks like someone got a promotion.

Was he the infinity designer guy or was that someone else?

 

[TheOddOne]

Was he the infinity designer guy or was that someone else?

He was Lead Multiplayer Designer on Halo 4.

 

[darthbob]

Has this been downsampled?

 

[Ampoc]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNQhUTyxm7k

Looks nice

I'm so glad on what they did with the multiplayer. I was at first skeptica at first when they said it's not the same engine and instead the multiplayer is on a different engine designed emulate Halo 2's feel. Now that I see it, I love how they kept the way Halo 2 looked at it's core with the weapons. The Battle Rifle is held just like it's held in Halo 2, as well as the energy sword and pretty much all the other guns.

And for some reason, I really love how the spartan models look.

Looks like someone got a promotion.

I'm not sure whether I should be happy for this or not. He was the designer for the multiplayer of Halo 4.. right?

 

[Madness]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNQhUTyxm7k

Looks nice

Don't know how anyone can say movement is slower than Halo 3. Maybe it's just me, but the move speed looks similar to how it was in Halo 2 and definitely faster than Halo 3 which feels/looks like moving in molasses now. Same with Reach. And while 4 was faster than 3 or Reach, the inclusion of sprint made it seem like you were super slow when not using it. Look at how slow the move speed and gameplay was In Halo 3, just a random BTB match from Avalanche.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1cKn8DAbPg

 

[matthieuC]

And for some reason, I really love how the spartan models look.

Yep. They really did nail them. Halo 4 multiplayer models were really bad (though I did think chief's model looked excellent).

 

[Karl2177]

Don't know how anyone can say movement is slower than Halo 3. Maybe it's just me, but the move speed looks similar to how it was in Halo 2 and definitely faster than Halo 3 which feels/looks like moving in molasses now. Same with Reach. And while 4 was faster than 3 or Reach, the inclusion of sprint made it seem like you were super slow when not using it. Look at how slow the move speed and gameplay was In Halo 3, just a random BTB match from Avalanche.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1cKn8DAbPg

Is it bad that I knew what video this was about 30 seconds in?

 

[Demoncarnotaur]

I don't really like the H2A armor. It's all too rounded or something.

By pre-ordering at one of the above locations, you’ll gain exclusive access to the corresponding Skull, so choose wisely! After a certain period of time, the Skulls will become unlocked for all players.

Oh, ok, well that's not bad. Glad they're taking this approach.

ODST turns 5, great game.

<3 ODST

Now I feel old.

Totally a lighting error bro

:lol

Forgot about this.

They actually made the Hayabusa for H4, even though it was never released (or even finished)

I like this armor.. at the very least, it has some unique design language that is a clear read, standing out from the rest.

 

[Akai__]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNQhUTyxm7k

Looks nice

No shaky/potatoe cam and actually decent gameplay? WTH is this?

yeah

i know yt is capped at 30fps but this looks fluid as fuck

Isn't YouTube capable of 60FPS now? I'm pretty sure I saw a thread on GAF about it.

Not saying, that the footage is at 60FPS, though.

 

[Woorloog]

And for some reason, I really love how the spartan models look.

The shoulder armor isn't good, it is too prominent, compare it to Halo 3's, where the shape is the same but it isn't as protruding. It is almost the same as in Halo 4's Mark VI. (Indeed the whole Mark VI armor seems to be lifted from Halo 4, with some superficial tweaks. It wasn't a bad version of the armor by any means, i just never liked that iteration of the shoulder armor. Not as bad as Reach's Mark V shoulders though...)
The color, the surface texture isn't that good either, it is too shiny. I'd prefer it to be less shiny, more... rough but not entirely dull either.

Otherwise, they look pretty good, and ultimately the texture/color isn't that big deal.

I wonder when we will finally get real time reflections for the visors, been waiting for them for 10 years...

BTW, is there any good pic of a Halo 2 Anniversary Multiplayer Elite?

 

[HTupolev]

I wonder when we will finally get real time reflections for the visors, been waiting for them for 10 years...

They'll probably give them some garbage screen-space reflections. "Problem solved!" Then in another 10 years, when Halo moves over to a real-time world-space ray tracer, we'll actually get proper real-time reflections. Somewhere around 2025, Halo 1 will be supplanted as the Halo series real-time reflections champion.

 

[FUNKNOWN iXi]

It has finally been found, Bungie's original Bubble Shield concept.

 

[Woorloog]

It has finally been found, Bungie's original Bubble Shield concept.

No comment on the video but i remember the first in-game footage of the Bubble Shield.
It rolled down the hill on High Ground! It was awesome! Too bad the model got changed and even the round equipment (Power Drain, Radar Jammer, Flare) were kind of sticky and didn't really roll.

 

[The Real Napsta]

Hopefully this will make a return in Halo5

I hope not.

 

[FUNKNOWN iXi]

No comment on the video but i remember the first in-game footage of the Bubble Shield.
It rolled down the hill on High Ground! It was awesome! Too bad the model got changed and even the round equipment (Power Drain, Radar Jammer, Flare) were kind of sticky and didn't really roll.

lol I've been looking for this for a while and I just stumbled upon it; it's so adorable and catchy! One of those things that stuck in my head for years, like Halo 2 Yoda on Backwash and HMV Hell ;b

 

[Woorloog]

lol I've been looking for this for a while and I just stumbled upon it; it's so adorable and catchy! One of those things that stuck in my head for years, like Halo 2 Yoda on Backwash and HMV Hell ;b

???

 

[Gabotron ES]

???

I think he's talking about this vid?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGh7cTdYa0s&search=halo 2 noob

 

[aycb]

???

HMV Hell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLq4DB9egb8

 

[ViewtifulJC]

HMV Hell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLq4DB9egb8

man this is some real throwback shit here

 

[Woorloog]

...
I don't get Halo... fandom?
Whatever it is, i don't get it.

EDIT i mean, i don't get these videos. I have missed everything, and will keep missing everything most likely. An utterly incomprehensible world to me. Seriously, the only Halo videos i've ever watches are Red Vs Blue, i think.

 

[Ampoc]

It has finally been found, Bungie's original Bubble Shield concept.

lik if u cry everytim

HMV Hell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLq4DB9egb8

Wow. Too much nostalgia. I remember watching this for the first time, it's been so long.. And there's a new one? Welp, time to go watch it.

 

[Nowise10]

So is this real?

 

[VinFTW]

So is this real?

If that's Warlock I'm gonna be pissed...

We already have like 3 similar maps...

Why not something like Terminal? Relic? ANYTHING but another small, symmetrical map...

 

[Poker Face]

So is this real?

probably

 

[VinFTW]

probably

Was Warlock even a good competitive map? It just seems so... boring... 4 similar platforms and something in the middle. I mean, it was a great map but one of 6? Pft...

I really wanted something awesome like Beaver Creek, Ivory Tower, or something bigger (Terminal, Relic, Containment, Waterworks, Headlong, etc).

 

[Karl2177]

Was Warlock even a good competitive map? It just seems so... boring... 4 similar platforms and something in the middle. I mean, it was a great map but one of 6? Pft...

I really wanted something awesome like Beaver Creek, Ivory Tower, or something bigger (Terminal, Relic, Containment, Waterworks, Headlong, etc).

Warlock was probably one of the best competitive maps. There was almost always action and the strategies for MLG 2 Flag were easy to learn, difficult to master. Although Warlock wouldn't be my first choice from Halo 2's maps, I'm still fine with it.

 

[VinFTW]

Warlock was probably one of the best competitive maps. There was almost always action and the strategies for MLG 2 Flag were easy to learn, difficult to master. Although Warlock wouldn't be my first choice from Halo 2's maps, I'm still fine with it.

Well.. I mean I guess that's good. If it will help bring the competitive scene back with some awesome CTF/Slayer matches I guess its better than some casual BTB map. Although I think we needed another one

 

[ViewtifulJC]

wouldn't be the first remake of a remake

Halo 2 Anniversary BTB playlist, Coagulation and Zanizbar all day

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

So is this real?

Great I can relive my online celebrity shame match with Aussie pro Cabel from Halo 2 on Warlock, first time playing a pro...10 vs 3 kills to him. Twat settings he had setup for Carbine spawns and starting weapons as autos.

Spoiler

RIGGED!

It was like getting spawn killed on Zanzibar wall in a 1v1 match.

Spoiler

still salty at that custom game setup all these years later.

 

[CyReN]

I like me some Warlock.

 

[Demoncarnotaur]

So is this real?

I like the map.

A lot.

But, I dunno. I was hoping for something different. Turf, maybe.

 

[The Librarian]

I wanted Waterworks

But that map is cool too

 

[link1201]

I am sad it's not Containment. :/

 

[Granadier]

They are probably focusing on the small, arena-style maps in order to bring back the good old Halo competitive multi.

At least that's the delusion I'm keeping in my mind.

Spoiler

please be true 343, you're my only hope

 

[antigoon]

Oh SHIT Warlock. What a great map.

I always played SO poorly on it, but man it was good. Really liked the art direction of that one back in the day as well.

 

[FyreWulff]

So is this real?

Hope not, that map can easily be remade in Forge

 

[Havoc2049]

Hopefully this will make a return in Halo5

Considering Team Ninja's output here of late, I think Halo needs to find another partner. Maybe Killer Instinct?