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

[Kornman00]

Yeah, one of the great things about past Halo games was the ability to just 'jump in and play'. This is a new breed of Halo, trying to compete with the other 'major' FPSes.

[DarkHalo003]

I'm...not liking this. Aside from making the game all the more ridiculously complex, now I'm going to be screaming at my TV more because of the bullshit.

Sigh, more crap thrown into the ring for stupid "player customization" that even further offsets the balance of the game. Welcome to modern gaming :[

Don't be so ODX. There is also a lot of positive opportunity for this. Maybe if all you play is classic Halo, then you'd be kind of pissed with this, but after playing a lot of other games I'm kind of glad to see more personalization outside the cosmetic models. I love FPS games with complexity because they become both a puzzle and a shooter in one.

[Tnnaas]

I'm betting a month into Halo 4 I will send Frankie a well thought out and constructed email detailing mistakes they made and improvements that could be done in preparation for Halo 5. He'll probably reply five hours later with, "Let me talk with everyone else in the studio to see what the general consensus is." And then never respond after that.
That's exactly what he did when I asked them to release Halo 3 tags to the CE community. It was laughable.

[ODX]

Don't be so ODX. There is also a lot of positive opportunity for this. Maybe if all you play is classic Halo, then you'd be kind of pissed with this, but after playing a lot of other games I'm kind of glad to see more personalization outside the cosmetic models. I love FPS games with complexity because they become both a puzzle and a shooter in one.

Bad animations = terrible experience for me. Can't stare at ugly all the time, the only decently animated thing is the DMR...and that's from Reach.

And I'm mad because I loved the arena gameplay of Halo and how simple yet great it was. Now it's just getting annoying how different and complex everything's becoming.

[DarkHalo003]

Bad animations = terrible experience for me. Can't stare at ugly all the time, the only decently animated thing is the DMR...and that's from Reach.

And I'm mad because I loved the arena gameplay of Halo and how simple yet great it was. Now it's just getting annoying how different and complex everything's becoming.

I guess it really does come at a matter of opinion here. Honestly, the animations don't bother me much, nothing like what we saw in HA10 with that Assault Rifle shit rig. I'm not a pro animator, so I probably couldn't find the obnoxious minor details. However, we both know I'm mainly in the gameplay and story side of things, so like I said it's merely a matter of opinion. But I totally get what you mean. If there's a detail in the game that constantly stares me in the face, especially when it's a detail about an asset I like, then the game simply becomes unplayable. It's sad to be honest.

[Tnnaas]

Weapon skins.



The diarrhea-yellow yellow stripe pales in comparison to what I see in the middle.

[Hotrod]

I'll be honest, those are pretty damn fugly. I'm glad we can choose the regular skins over these...things...

[Arteen]

I like that they suggest armour from previous games will be returning. I find the new armour absolutely repulsive.

Incidentally, the already-revealed scout and recon helmets are the best-looking so far.

[Tnnaas]

They've also got the GUNGNIR helm (damn front-facing view and annoying armor skin aside), which I thought looked cool in Reach because of its menacing, faceless appearance. You know they'll have to add ODST, which should remain largely unaltered, and Mark V should be making a comeback as well, but how that looks is a mystery.

Fake Edit: CIO helm looks like Sam Fisher. D:
Fake Edit 2: Also, Oceanic helm might be a Big Daddy?

[Hotrod]

More pics and details in this week's Bulletin : https://halo.xbox.com/blogs/Headline...tin-81512.aspx