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Uhm, what's the most negative thing anyone in this thread has said about Halo 4 besides 'the art design sucks'? It would be pretty stupid to call the game shit before it's even out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bobblehob
Considering the majority of this forum was pissing itself like excited dogs when MW2 was in development, you can safely bet the forums attitudes has shifted since when it comes to upcoming games.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bobblehob
On the bright side: new shit.
Yes. Good singleplayer experiences.Quote:
Originally Posted by Warsaw
Hahaha, okay.Quote:
Originally Posted by Warsaw
See top of this post.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pooky
Hey, I can be optimistic when I feel like it. :saddowns:
Watch it be awesome. And then you'll be wrong. Oh darn.Quote:
Originally Posted by Amit
I'm buying the game for single player, but multiplayer will definitely keep me coming back for a loooooong time, just like every other Halo game.Quote:
Originally Posted by Amit
Oh, and I'm buying the Limited Edition too.
I may buy the Limited depending on my income at the time. It has a lot of cool stuff, but picking it up and accumulating the funds is a completely different story.
That's fine. As long as you get your moneys worth. What's in the Limited Edition? A replica Infinity? I'd buy it just for that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hotrod
I'm done buying Legendary-type editions (that come with scale models of blah). Thankfully they're only doing a LE SKU this time around, so no added bulk and nonsense to go with the other, more interesting goodies (from what I understand, the LE may come with a dev diary, like what H3 had)
It comes with free access to the first three map packs (a kind of season's pass, if you will), a UNSC Infinity briefing packet (in the style of Halsey's Journal from Reach's LE), the extended cut to Forward Unto Dawn, early unlock for six specializations in-game (which is dumb, but whatever) and in-game content, being an armour skin, Assault Rifle skin and emblem.Quote:
Originally Posted by Amit
So 30$ for the map packs, and 10$ for the packet, Forward Unto Dawn, specializations, in-game content and a sexy metal case. Seems worth it to me.
Oh, and no Legendary Edition this time around.
3 Map packs are worth like $30 anyway. I wish they'd go back to larger map packs for Halo like they did with H2. 3 new maps just gets overplayed to quick.
Bungie was the studio responsible for that. You see, they didn't have the experience to do live action so they hired someone who specialized in it to do so.Quote:
Originally Posted by DarkHalcyon
343i DO ALL THE THINGS
Saucy sauce with a saucy video.Quote:
Originally Posted by CruelLEGACEY
Found another playthrough and commentary of the Campaign mission they showed. No big deal aside from something horrendous at 5:10...it still gives me shivers (hint: me. ODX. animator). Just after that though the guy commentates about how the Lightrifle has two firing modes where it's either single shot, or burst with single-shot in zoom (like the H2 Beta BR):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipCRm...feature=relmfu
Really, the suit isn't that bad. Looks like it's the framing of the shots that makes it look bad. I dont know why, but with such an iconic archetype, when you stick him in the camera like they have been it winds up causing him to look like a skinny nerd with too much time on his hands.Quote:
Originally Posted by DarkHalcyon
My issue isn't so much with the design, but with material of the armor. It looks like MegaBlock toy plastic crud. What happened to the kickass Halo Reach costumes?Quote:
Originally Posted by Zeph
The only part that stuck out to me was the codpiece.
WHOOOOOOOOOO! :woop:
But seriously, parts of it look like a cheap Halloween costume.
This week's HBO is actually pretty good: https://halo.xbox.com/blogs/Headline...tin-71812.aspx
And has some good pics of SDCC-goers dressed in surprisingly good MJOLNIR
Goddamn. I might have to visit the 405th website to get some good tips and tricks on making my own set of armor. These guys look like genuine badasses.
Dat machine gun.
ftfy.Quote:
Originally Posted by BobtheGreatII
seriously, that looks greater than 50mm.
Dat Noble Six.
Dose broken images.
Works fine for me lol.
It's all starting to make sense now. Halo4 is suppose to be the Japanese version of Halo. Jackas? Pffft, I think you mean Godzilla.
etc.
343i = Vidyagame America. Why? It's a bunch of random developers from other companies all converging on one location because they have a similar interest about a game series they like and how a certain game series should be. Oh and it's ultimately commanded/controlled by a series of greedy-white-men (Microsoft).
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand FraaaaaaaaankieeeeQuote:
Originally Posted by DarkHalo003
^LOL.
Frankie has half of his mind in the right place for the series. Then his other half is with Microsoft.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kornman00
I don't know about anybody else, but I love the look of those Jackals, they definitely look scary.
They look more like jackals anyways (the Earth animal, for those of you wondering) and they are menacing. I just don't like how they changed so suddenly. They don't even look similar to the Jackals in past games, which is what bothers me most of all. Either way, artistic freedom, so whatever.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hotrod
<insert pizza place name here>: "Uhhhh, who ordered the large clusterfuck of game designers, with extra cheesed artists?"
Microsoft: "ME! ME!"
"You want godzilla with that?"
MS: "Yes. But hold the codpiece please."
I had a similar reaction when I first saw the new Grunts, but after thinking about it for a while I realized that I'm happy with the fact that they're adding their own spin on things rather than just taking Bungie's design and updating it. I mean, we have a new studio making Halo now, let's see their vision of how everything should look. To be honest, while Bungie's designs are amazing, they did start to get stale after 10 years of being pretty much the same. Having a brand new look to everything makes things fresh and new again!Quote:
Originally Posted by DarkHalo003
Yeah my first reaction was "oh god wtf", but honestly I'll wait until the game comes out to judge anything. I agree with Hotrod, it might be cool to get a totally fresh spin on things. I view the new trilogy as its own thing, so if they want to make it totally different and call it Halo, as long as it's good I suppose I'll still enjoy it.
343i's fucking up big time. Come on. You can't look at that jackal and then expect the rest of the game to be unharmed.
Or maybe they are creating a different art style, ever think of that? Maybe, just maybe, its possible for them to make a game differently from the way Bungie did it, instead of copying the same shit over again. Come on man, you have to think a little more than that...
It's not the fact that it looks different. It's the fact that it looks cartoony and stupid. It doesn't look aggressive or scary. As Korn said, it looks like a goddamn plushie of Godzilla.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bobblehob
Japan is gonna be pissed when they get their hands on this game.
^
The Japanese aren't huge fans of xbox or ms to start with.
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Originally Posted by DarkHalcyon
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Originally Posted by Dozo
While I do respect your opinion, as you are completely entitled to it, I must point out the fact that not everybody thinks it looks stupid and cartoony, and many of those people think it looks aggressive and scary.Quote:
Originally Posted by Amit
Let's add scales and horns to the humans.
That would totally make things fresh, oh wait that would change the characteristics of the species.
To put in my two cents, at first the new designs for the Covenant species seemed out of place, but then they started to grow on me. I thought the designs in Reach represented each of the species' general look relatively well, but there's only so much detail you can add. I think the redesigns look fine (although those Grunts, lol), but it's nothing to really fret about and say "343i is ruining Halo". Halo is different for everybody. But everybody is entitled to an opinion.
This guy has some good cam footage of Halo 4 stuff shown/played at Comic Con:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIa23_L6J-s&feature=g-vrec
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9jDOnLgnY4&feature=relmfu
(Same mission as above, new gameplay though)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvAp37HOx44&feature=relmfu
You can look around at the related stuff and such to find more gameplay videos and commentaries.
Since everyone keeps reiterating the same nonsense "everybody is entitled to an opinion", let me spew mine. 343i is ruining Halo. It's one thing to rework gameplay, it's another fucking thing to rape the story/universe *cough*Bear*cough and change the look and feel. It's not Halo. It's a Halo mod. Meet the world's largest Halo modding team: 343i. Halo 4: Modding Evolved ('cause we have the tools! No Halo PC for you!).Quote:
Originally Posted by Delta4907
And you guys thought CMT was bad for not releasing the tags, pfft.
e: Let the record show that I didn't say I wouldn't get Halo 4. I am. I've downloaded and played many Halo mods before. This won't be any different. Well, besides that the mod isn't on a fucking PC where it should be.
:pcgaming:Quote:
Originally Posted by Kornman00
We'll see in regards to the storyline whether or not Greg Bear's contaminating bullshit has ruined it. For all we know, they're only going to only use some elements (like Mendicant Bias, the Didact, etc.) from the novels and terminals in the game to tie the games with the "new" books. Of course, the game hasn't been released yet, so for all we know the storyline could be very cohesive and intriguing.
Gameplay still looks solid though. Loving those environments. Those assassinations, especially the Flag Assassination, look awesome. Spartan Ops is looking more promising every video I watch.
Yeah, can't find too much to complain about for Halo4's gameplay from the videos they've released.
Fair enough. You're right in one regard. It is scary to look at the new jackals because of the butchery that 343i did to them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hotrod
I have no quarrel with the gameplay either, but the visual styling of the characters just turns me off it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kornman00
I mean, how did we go from this agressive, strong, and majestic looking elite:
http://ui14.gamespot.com/1229/goldelite1_2.jpg
to this hunched back reject from Hell?:
http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__...ab/EliteH4.png
Amit, have you noticed nothing? Requiem is obviously an allusion to the Island from Lost. :mysterysolved:
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF, Halo 4 is just going to be one long action event where the playing has to push the A &B buttons over and over every 108mins or else Cortana will have her period
Lol.
What does that have to do with anything I said?Quote:
Originally Posted by DarkHalo003
Don't you mean Requiem for a Halo?Quote:
Originally Posted by DarkHalo003
Late to the party, bro.
that's what I get for skipping the last 3 pages of this thread I guessQuote:
Originally Posted by Warsaw
but seriously, it doesn't even /look/ like a jackal. It looks like one of those monsters from Gears of War.
Its face looks like something out of a bio textbook.
"Hunchback reject from Hell" and Lost have something in common. Everyone was rejected to purgatory.Quote:
Originally Posted by Amit
I didn't watch Lost so I have no idea what you're talking about.Quote:
Originally Posted by DarkHalo003
Hostly, Id rather them use the halo 3 elite mesh then the one they have here. Halo 3's elites were the most bad ass motherfuckers ever. I remember playing Floodgate and having the Shadow of Intent drop down a few elites, and chief, arbiter and them just murdered everything in there path. These elites just look like iguanas with split lips. Horrendous.
I wasn't really a fan of reaches elites either. There animations seemed really stiff to me. But they look ok.
I must admit the phantoms and covenant architecture in this game look rad. I just wish they didn't ruin the elites.
They look like they are from gears of war.
http://i.imgur.com/gOCqc.pngQuote:
Originally Posted by itszutak
I told you they looked like turtles in the e3 demo!!
I hoped I just wasn't seeing it rightQuote:
Originally Posted by t3h m00kz
Yep, definitely turtles :(
Funny, I remember those very same Elites getting decimated by the Flood as soon as they hit the ground...Quote:
Originally Posted by Ki11a_FTW
On Legendary, maybe. On anything else they rape the crap out of everything in your path, hell, they do this on Legendary as well... if they survive.
First time I played the SP was on normal, they all lived surprisingly. I also saved a lot of marines through the level as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Warsaw
I remember that those Elites would stick me half the time instead of the enemy...
What am I supposed to be looking at?
the erhm meh gherrd haylowfurr on erxbahx liive people.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hotrod
New HWU. I really don't care for the H4 console's sounds. But I'm also not gonna waste my money on said console.
It sounds kind of cool, but I'm quite happy with my 250Gb Xbox 360 Slim and have no desire to shell out a lot of cash on a console I don't need.
Frankie is teaching kids the importance of voting in elections. GO FRANKIE GO!
Oh wait, was I supposed to learn more from that update? :iiam:
http://i.imgur.com/85qFL.jpg
Godzilla called, she wants her American sequel back
Once again, I'm liking those designs. The Elite's helmet looks a tad odd, but it's also very alien at the same time, which makes it interesting. The CIO helmet (one on the purple Spartan) looks pretty badass as well, I might just be using that one.
The elite reminds me of Mr. Freeze, lol
That angle of Jackal. :smith:
They mine as well say that the jackals are no longer apart of the covenant and have been replaced.
I thought jackals were supposed to be bird like, not lizard like....
They could be a different subspecies of Kig-Yar, like the Skirmishers.
I'm just going to pretend that Godzilla and her spawn joined the Covenant when I play the game.
Those pictures are disturbing. It's like 343i was afraid of a lawsuit by using hard angles and straight lines. Characterization of species by art design was a big thing in Halo and now they've got and made everything the same.
There's going to be at least two more games of this crap?
Godzilla's a she ?!Quote:
Originally Posted by Kornman00
Not if people don't buy the first one. :v:Quote:
Originally Posted by Zeph
Leave me alone, I can dream!
watch the movieQuote:
Originally Posted by itszutak
Pop culture through osmosis has failed meQuote:
Originally Posted by Zeph
only girls can have kids, duh.Quote:
Originally Posted by itszutak
DO IT.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kornman00
:bandwagon:
So I heard you guys like godly-sounding Spartan Lasers :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO0iZO1B9GA&feature=player_embedded
I like how the photons break the sound barrier and cause a sonic boom.
weeeeeeeee PHWOOOM!!!!
O.o
:woop:
Actually sounds pretty cool. Like the laser is ionizing the air like a lightning bolt.
Also sounds like the world's strongest camera flash bulb..
Man dem sounds is making me super happy! Laser sounds epic, sniper sounds epic as well... yay :D
New gametype in Halo 4 : Team Instagram.Quote:
Originally Posted by EX12693
Ohgod that would be epic
I must say, Halo 4's sounds are generally better than Reach's.
Also, a powerful laser would indeed flash-vaporize the moisture in the air, causing a detonation and thunderclap. Pretty much exactly what lightning does. Lasers should be going "cracKOW!" and not "pew!"
Yay, I can partially science! Can't wait to see and hear the sounds for all the other weapons in HD. Also, anything on the vehicles?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHF4JcUfvLs&feature=g-u-u
They kinda sound like generic Sci-Fi, and I can't really tell the difference between them :gonk:. Oh well, at least the Assault Rifle sounds nice.
But ugh, that shotgun:
