343 Industries Off To A Good Start or Bad?
 

soso, there's game companys alot worse

True.

Really? My counter arguement wont load, anyway my ultimate rebutle, masterchiefs armor changes every game and so does cortanas graphical apperance, and 343 has approx 30 people from bungie itself including the lead writer and creative developers.

To be honest I wanted someone else to take over Halo. I hated Bungie even though they make a great game they still anger me as far as some decisions they made. Such as resetting the 15,000 players for using the credit challenge bug. That's a good way to lose customers. I was hoping the rumors about Bungie employees being part of 343 Industries was false, but I guess my fears are realized. Well on the bright side of Bungie members being a part of it is it will most likely be a great game anyways.

My halo dream is to play maps sized and spaces like forge world with buildings and such and a way (mabye PC) to matchmake games like this with servercounts going to around the 100 hundred player Max range. Make chokepoints where teams fight for specified weapons such as snipers/rockets/spartan lazers and mass team vehicles such as pelican, phantoms, and vampires.

glad they made changes. all halo games were the same thing over and over again like CoD. Can't wait to see what they change next

They should've put Halo to rest when Bungie signed off with Halo Reach.
Its the greedy M$ bastards forcing this sequel..

Its pretty fanboyish but I dont like what they did to MC's armour, it doesnt even look like him anymore.
I honestly cant say I'm excited about Halo 4 nor was I excited when Halo Anniversary came out. Thats saying a lot, I'm a huge Halo fan.

@Jester Dont even compare Halo to CoD, Halo's minor improvements with each sequel were much more meaningful than CoD's. There was nothing wrong with Halo, and theres a ton of people mad that they added AA's to Reach
.Plus Halo actually had a real story and created a new entire universe

Dont hate on COD just because its a more recreational style of play.
Go battlefield 3!
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wait...
what?

if theres one overrated series that ive never understood its probably halo. jesus christ i played the first one and it was a mediocre fps, whats the big deal?

I got the second one because of just how popular it was and I was pretty disappointed. I played through the campaign and it was like... eh. Played online and didn't like it at all. Before that I used to play Time Splitters so Halo was sooooooo slow. But at the end of the day it didn't really stand out. I got some enjoyment out of splitscreen with my family but not nearly as much as Time Splitters because of the lack of bots.

But I feel most FPS games give me the same impression. Campaign-wise the gameplay never really feels more involved than going from point A to point B and shooting whoever gets in your way. They break it up with driving and crap but it's still all the same.

Hmmm its too bad Halo does not meet your, obviously superb, taste in videogames.
It was the first mainstream success for a console fps

Goldeneye 007 filled that niche long before Halo was around.

Only thing I can say about this...
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that's funny

The new armor is ment to be lore based in which mark 7 armor is aerofoiled to be basicly its own odst drop pod, i forsee some amazimg space jumps in halo4 and agreed :D

.... Words cannot describe my disappointment, halo is the epitomy of FPS. Halo is not over rated at all.

Whos still playing golden eye? Nobody. Halo has somthing like 8.9 billion dollars in sales.

Never liked the halo series.

Really? I thought people would at least like one of the features the games provide like forge, online multiplayer, co-op campaign, custom games, or that it's modding capable.

Then your in this thread... Why?

Read the title.

Point? You said it was the first mainstream successful fps on a console and it wasn't. Also just because a game isn't still popular doesn't make it any less impactful. Also who still plays the FIRST Halo?

Ok. So whos playing the first Super Smash Brothers at the moment? its a very good game still and made a huge impact on 4 player action games.

Same for Mario Party which made a huge success based around their own creative board game

And what about Mortal Kombat 1? That literally created the ESRB rating system due to Sub-Zero's spine ripper..

Point in short.. A game not being played at the moment does not prove that it did not make a huge impact in the history of video games

And idc about Halo anymore...
Halo 3 was supposed to Finish the fight... In other words, the conclusion.. Halo Reach was a prequel to the whole Halo franchise and they said that the franchise is finished..

Until 343 industries took the franchise, informing us that Finishing the fight was a false accusation to the franchise (which its not!): And then confirming a whole new trilogy to the franchise...

I don't know how is the story going to continue after Halo 3... I seriously don't..

Microsoft knows how much money Halo makes when it comes to the multiplayer... So they won't stop screwing up the Halo franchise.. Only to constantly push online multiplayer in your face so that you can go buy more Xbox live gold cards.. When all the Halo games are best played Locally with your friends...

Like GoldenEye... Which made a huge impact on FPS local multiplayer and the FPS genre itself... Nothing holds a crown over GoldenEye when it comes to local multiplayer... Its damn fun!

Actully quite alot, it seems to have been big enough to get its own remake for the 10yr anneversary. And it was the first mega-success. And yes i understand popularity=\=impact.

I despise local multiplayer because somebody always rages and kicks the console because they are sucking. And halo 3 did finish the fight with the covenant did it not? I think it did, and come on you serriously didnt want to know the story of chief after the legendary H3 ending? And i dont see how they have "screwed up" the franchise. They certaintly arent raming us up the ass with it like activision tries to do with COD.

So? Goldeneye was remade too. Now the term mega-success is being used instead? I'm not DOWNPLAYING Halo, just saying that it wasn't the first successful console FPS. I don't understand why people are getting defensive about it.

Ok... Let me inform you that
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Was not marketed as finishing the fight with the covenant... at all..
It was completely marketed as "Finish the fight".. It was informed that this was supposed to be the conclusion to the franchise and that Reach was a prequel and the last Halo game..

Literally, WTF happened to this?
http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/108/1086915p1.html

And if i wanted a game to know more about Master Chief: They should've then made a game that doesn't involves destroying the conclusion of the franchise! Like a game before Halo 1 or between Halo 1 and 2 which tells the story of Master Chief..

But no... Halo 4 is made.. And 343 industries has been focusing more on the multiplayer aspect rather than the campaign aspect of the game. Its like they don't give two damns about the story mode and decide to continue milking the halo franchise because of the multiplayer that attracted hundreds to the xbox360..

And if you're comparing Call of Duty to Halo: Halo has been the same through all of its game but with additional content. Halo hasn't changed and so hasn't Call of Duty.. They're both the same thing... Except Call of Duty so far hasn't destroyed any conclusion to one of its games.. But if i see a Call of Duty: Modern warfare 4... I can highly agree with you that Call of Duty is nothing compared to Halo..

But for now, 343 industries is starting to milk the Halo Franchise.. and thats horrible... Especially for a game which had a very strong conclusion.. The ending in Halo 3 was actually good..

For the story between games we have the novels, the one between halo 1 and 2 is called halo:first strike. And how would you know there focus on which aspect when theres barely any completely offical information out. They have a team of close to 150 people total working on it so i think either way it will turn out amazing, the campaign will be focusing on how much more badass spartans are than they have been portrayed ex. Vaulting, climing up shafts and other motions like dive rolls. And i believe halo has changed alot , all cod has gotten for the last 5 or6 years since cod 4 was a graphics update and a crap campaign. And i havent seen much milking, they seem to be doing alot of work very covertly which i love being supprised andnot knowing every detail, cant wait for E3 .... Im mad they didnt have a panel at PAX.

Oh , my bad, yeah i will give you that. Sorry :(

Im referring to as a game... Not a novel. That would be like if God of war 2 was a comic known as God of War 1.5 instead of a game and God of war 3 is named "God of War 2"

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This completely proves my point that Halo 4's story is going to be utter garbage... But it may prove me wrong... who knows..

>Implying cod only got a graphics update

-Killstreaks/Deathstreaks (varied and switched from COD4 to COD MW3)
-Nazi Zombies (COD World at War and COD Black Ops)
-Campaign sections (Tanks, Helicopters, Sleds, etc.)
-Perks (Varied and switch through the COD games)
-Survival (Also known as FireFight in Halo 3: ODST)
-MW3's class system (Specialist, Support, Attacker,etc.)

Where dafuq have you been?
And dear god... The campaign is fun but its short and repetitive at times if you play from COD4 to COD MW3. It still leaves a small grin on your face when theres some kind of fun mission.. Like the sleds

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You are completely missing out the point here and acting like a whiny Call of Duty Fanboy would do...

Halo 3 was a conclusion to the Halo Trilogy..
It had a perfect and satisfying conclusion...

But no... You think its right to revive John-117 everytime you think the Master Chief deserves better...

Imagine if all of a sudden: Solid snake dies in a game by being shot in the head... And then in the next metal gear game, he wakes up with a shot in the chest and says he had his bulletproof vest on..

Assassin Creed has shown that its sequels could tell the story of other assassins and still maintain as a really good game..

In other words, why not have the story put in the shoes of a different spartan like in Halo 3 ODST and Halo Reach? Why do you have to revive John-117 and destroy such a perfect conclusion to the original Halo trilogy?

Also, please explain to me: What new threat is Master Chief going to fight? If its a virus that infects spartans and have them all against Master Chief: That'd be cool i guess... Idk..

Why is attempting to portray somthing more accurately than bungie did a bad thing and focusing on just how amazing there is and then 343 still has to confront the fact that cortana is now rampant being approx 7 1/2 years old, no comment on the cod part im done arguing that.

And im not saying the h3 conclusion isnt satisfying .

And i will admit it would be intresting to play as one of the 15 other living spartan 2s.but there is no war anymore, well... The covanant planets are hell considering theres no gov't but the mission would have to be either really boring post war things or finding master chief.

New threat: in order of likely hood.
1.) religous sangheli(confirmed with gameiformer)
2.) forerunner death machines
3.) human insurrectionists
4.) the san- shyyum(prophet race returing on there own with some super ship?
5.) the precursor.
6.) forerunners.

You shouldnt hate Halo because they might be ruining it, you should still love it for what it was ^.^

Well they did mention a new threat for Halo 4 haven't they?
And why not a new Master Chief? or play as one of the 15 spartans? That would have been good

Im still disappointed at how John-117 is still alive.. Its really frustrating.. Especially in H3's Conclusion... where it really looked like the ship was crashing down with Master Chief and Cortana inside of it..

Then i should love the Call of Duty Modern Warfare series because i love Call of Duty 2?

Also, Im only a fan of the first three.. The rest of the halo franchise feels completely odd (ODST and Reach)

I still would be... Latency is too sporadic to play FPS now tho.

Plasma grenades were the best things ever to me.

Needs a PC Port, Halo 1 was my favorite on the PC despite it's **** net-code. Documented fun I had:

They did mention one and i am egarly antticipating e3, and they probably will do another character eventully im neutral on my opinion, what i get mad at is everytime i go on the 343/halopedia forums and see people ranting that halos dead with no proof.

They sell a pc halo 1 at walmart...

I love Halo 1 multiplayer on pc.

I'm surprised that Microsoft being the greedy jerks they are, never mandated a Halo 3 pc port like they did with Halo 1 and 2.

I'm pretty sure at the end of Halo 3 MC goes into cryogenic sleep, and tells Cortana to wake him up when she needs him.
Also the legendary ending shows their ship going towards are dark planet that starts to glow, look it up :D it gives me goosebumps.

And I didn't say you have to love it, just don't hate on it for what they're doing to the series if you already liked it before.

Its halo. Its good enough for me

I loled so hard at the 2nd vid

WAIT WE GOT RECON? SINCE WEN FOO

Playing halo3 rih lao OOH YEAAA RECON WITHOUT EARNING THE BENIFITTTS

Ugh i g2 get back to halo, i had a 9month break to go bf3 crazy, highest score 40,000 points total from one match, almost 100 hours, level 52 all gun, erriting, boss, best medic moment, killing a helicopter with a grenade, flying helicopter, engineer, g36c., assault going rambo with m60 extended mag and killing 9 people before suiciding, another for assault is c4, i love c4ing ppl and cars, and sniper was an accidental why not flukey quickscope headshot a pilot of a helicopter causing his choppter to crash killing the 5 other passangers, like a boss obvioudly, i just potshooted once as it cause i wanted to shoot my gun and got it AND I FORGOT THIS WAS HALO ohwell i luv battlefield nywayyyyyy gawt to play reach, grt mr new guns and rage quit/ snap the disc if my commando helemet and other cool gear has been reset, their fault for putting the credit gaining glitch from that mission and recon for halo 3

Also i type all my shiz fast and cbb to check over it so thats why its messeh