"Halo 4: I Get a Woman!" - Sgt. Mjr. A.J. Johnson, RIP

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But with Halo 4 intended to be the beginning of a new trilogy based on the continuing story of Master Chief, the vision is a long-term one. Frank O'Connor, 343 Industries' franchise development director, says Halo can -- and ideally will -- last 20 more years.

The Halo 4 audio team visited wildlife reserves in Tasmania, recording animal sounds to use as the basis for alien grunts, groans and screams. The samples they recorded include enraged Tasmanian devils and a pair of tigers having sex,

[Hotrod]

I fail to see the problem with them using animal sounds.

[=sw=warlord]

I fail to see the problem with them using animal sounds.

Would you really like the Elites sounding like tigers getting their act on?

[Tnnaas]

Back in the day, they simply applied effects to the original Marine sounds.

Did you know the elites knew how to say, "Worthless piece of crap" in the first game?

[TeeKup]

I'm still curious to how the weapon unlocks are going to work. Is it going to be like CoD with different categories like Assault Rifles? (MA5C, BR, DMR, MA5K Plasma Repeater?) Side arms? What are they going to do there besides the Magnum and the Plasma Pistol? Does the Mauler return as a side arm (it technically is for the brutes.) I'm so curious as to how Halo puts itself into this formula, especially with such a small weapon base. Will the reach AR return with a ridiculously high rate of fire compared to the MA5C? Will the M45 Shotgun come back and have more range than the M90?

WHAT DO 343 WHAT DO!? D:

[Hotrod]

Would you really like the Elites sounding like tigers getting their act on?

Well they're obviously going to modify the sounds as they've always had.

[=sw=warlord]

Well they're obviously going to modify the sounds as they've always had.

I'm sure Johnson would love to hear two elites getting their groove on.

[Pooky]

Yes, it runs at a native 720p, and I believe Reach was at something like 640.

Hopefully it's a little better optimized than Reach was. Reach ran like garbage on my 360, even by the standards of a Halo game.

[Higuy]

I personally dont see any of this as truly being Halo, and not becuase its being developed by 343, simply becuase it dosent even resemble Halo 1-3 in any real way. Even the environments are totally different (for example, the ship). I dont see why game designers/artists have to go and change everything, games like this should have a consistent look, even if they do change somewhat throughout the series...

My biggest concern atm though is the covenant characters, and while they do look detailed and cool looking, they also:

a) are not consistent with the last 3 games which all had the same basic over view and design, why would the covenant change this
b) why would the covenant change this so the grunts have less armor and elites in some areas as well
c) change the overall style of the armor to something that dosent even look covenant alien anymore, rather locust from gears of war.

also, alot of things simply have to much detail (GREEBLEEE) which could be simplified while still retaining a very awesome look.

[Amit]

Grunts look fucking disgusting now. They used to look cute in Halo 1 and 2 and then Halo 3 gave them creepy little mouthes, but that could be overlooked. Then they started looking more and more like shit I want to stomp on quick instead of fuck around with for the lulz.