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The human weapons in the trailer didn't look human. They looked like an artist made them really fancy just because it was possible. I mean, the grunts and elites that I saw already look like they came out of some kid's Saturday morning cartoon, but at least make the weapons right please?
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I say, if 343i is committed to the fans, maybe you should remake the game REACH? I was telling my friends from the first day I started the campaign that the armor was wrong, and that the Spartan III's were too old. Regarding this, there are fans who write articles over at the halo.wikia site who have done a marvelous job of integrating as many of Bungie's mistakes into the true storyline as possible, and they all deserve widespread recognition and thanks by all HALO fans who care about the story. Thank you halo.wikia. If you want to know what I'm talking about, look up the spartans of Noble Team, and it will explain how spartans as old as Carter managed to make their way into the REACH storyline, and it explains how their armor was advanced well beyond the Semi-Powered Infiltration suit. All of that work is very well done, and they explain it as things that happened in the storyline, but were simply not in the books, or were done outside of the timeframe covered by the books. Again I will say, excellently done, thank you very much.
Despite all that, however, is the issue of Pillar of Autumn. That part of the game is simply NOT CANON. Even on the wikia pages, where people have worked so hard to cover Bungie's mistakes, they simply have to resort to game>book when it comes to the storyline of Pillar of Autumn. I would like to see 343i rectify the mistakes of Bungie, if that is cost effective, and I would like to not see the same carelessness that Bungie put into it's final product. To 343i, if possible please change the mistakes made in REACH, and please do not ignore your fans like Bungie did. I understand that there are many people at 343i who were at Bungie. I hope you individuals moved to 343i because you love the series and you will treat it with all the care you can. Thank you again, 343i for picking up HALO when it was in a place where it could've fallen away. All of us are grateful, and cautiously hopeful that you will bring back the attention and passion to the story and game that Bungie forgot.
But really, yeah, the game REACH is invalid in respect to the story.
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I am sure most of you have heard, but the game informer cover of H4 has been leaked. SOmeone scanned the entire article onto the internet. After spending the last 20 minutes reading it, I can safely say that Halo 4 looks like the biggest fail of a game I have ever seen. I am sorry, I had high hopes for this, but as far as reach was a departure from H3 and H2, this takes the cake. For those of you that do not know I will sum up, AA's are back and you can purchase them at higher levels like CoD, Sprint is standard, weapon spawn are not set, they are drop podded in to prevent skilled players from being skilled, they are adding in X-Ray vision to see through walls and prevent anyone 1 shot or protecting the now random power weapons from staying hidden, there is instant respawns to completely F-Over anyone who just won a BR fight and it 1 shot and hasn't already been cleaned up by an xray toting idiot, and you can join in-progress games to put a definitive NO on the "will there be a 1 - 50 true-skill system like in H3?" question. Halo 4 sounds completely moronic. Let me explain all that is wrong with those changes.
1. Instant Spawns - THIS IS NOT COD!!! You are not 1 shot 100% of the time like in cod where that mechanic doesn't matter. In Halo you have shields and require 4 shots. If you are playing a game and you kill someone they can just instant-spawn back and kill you while your shields are low. Effectively shafting better players because they had the audacity to be better than an other player and kill them, oops, your dead for being better.
2. Jet-Packs and other AA's - Jet-packs destroy map design, plain and simple. Armor abilities in general do nothing more than screw up a good flowing MP experience. Why should someone carry around the right to be invisible any time they want, or have temporary invincibility to save all unskilled players from a certain death, nope, armor lock to again destroy the better player who had them dead. Don't even get me started on this new Forerunner Vision X-Ray garbage. That is quite possibly one of the worst ideas I have ever heard. Okay, now you can no longer hold onto a weapon, retreat when 1 shot, or plan an attack without the other players knowing exactly what you are doing. OMG, this makes me mad just thinking about it. X-Ray vision again takes a shot at the knees to players who actually took the time to become acclimated to the game and, oh God, were loyal to the series and played enough to get a thing I like to call anticipation.
3. Randomly Spawning Weapons - Okay, lets continue to chop down the loyal, regularly playing fan-base by not allowing them to time weapons or the now non-existent power-ups. Timing weapons is something simple that every player can do, but only the good ones ever seemed to remember to do, so what dose 343 do now, oh, lets see, take yet another thing away from the competitive Halo base. The excuse, "it ads more points of focus to the game." Okay, great, not the team winning by 3 with 2 seconds left gets a rocket spawning in the middle of their base, what does the other team get, plasma pistol, GREAT IDEA!.....Why couldn't you leave something as simple as weapon spawns alone, my goodness could you mess anything else up?
4. Joining in game sessions - YES YOU CAN! So now to fix the problem of quitters, you get join mid game. Okay, common scenario, oh, i join a game, my team has 12, the other team, 49 and 50 as I join, oops, there is a loss that I got without participating. There goes my 50..... oh yeah, there is no 50 because if you had them, you'd probably need to buy a few hundred thousand TVs for raging gamers who put their controllers through theirs. Now, just like reach and every other non-competitive POS game on the market there is no skill measuring system, just a stupid RPG style if you spend time you will rank up system, lovely.
Final Thoughts. Why does this game go from being oh boy, a return to the classic halo series that was so successful to boy what a POS this will be. It is like 343 has taken a battle axe to the players who loved the game and spent time on it to get good and gave a big fat F U to everyone who liked and was good at Halo. Now all us 50's from H3 will get to be put on par with first timers since there is no more hiding or escaping, no more player intuition, no more timing, NO MORE SKILL OR REASON TO PLAY. So let me take this time to give a thank you to Bungie for making H1, H2, and H3 the best competitive games on the market (I will forgive Reach), and give a than you to 343i for making me drop the last part of my childhood I was looking to hold on to and destroying the best MP game on the market and thank you again for removing all stat tracking from H3 and destroying the last game I love and any evidence that Halo ever had a good game in the series. I guess you guys all thought that video games were juvenile and that we all should grow up. Guess I'll be, and it burns my tongue to say this, playing CoD from now on, at least they improve their games, even if they still aren't as good as H3 or H2.
P.S. For anyone who doubts my information I have attached the link to the scanned in article, take a gander and you can be the judge. Goodbye to anyone who I played with or against over the years, best wishes everyone, and finally, Goodbye Halo, you will be missed.
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THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS. IT MAKES ME QUESTION WHETHER OR NOT I WILL SPEND MY MONEY ON A GAME THAT BETRAYS WHAT THE FANS WANT.
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I FOUND THIS LINK IN A DIFFERENT FORUM SECTION. PLEASE TAKE A LOOK AT IT. CLICK ON THE PAGES TO OPEN THEM UP AND ACTUALLY READ THEM.
http://gamingsquid.c...former-magazine
IF I PURCHASE THIS GAME AND FIND THIS ARTICLE IS TRUE, I WILL TRADE THIS GAME BACK IN AND NOT PLAY IT. NOBODY WANTS A COD/HALO MIX. DO NOT MAKE HALO LIKE COD. YOU WILL LOSE FANS. IT IS THAT SIMPLE. YOU SHOULD NOT GET TO BUY BETTER STUFF THAT WILL CHANGE GAMEPLAY IF YOU'RE BETTER. IT SHOULD STAY BALANCED. PLEASE, 343i, PRETTY PLEASE, DO NOT DO THIS TO US. KEEP HALO. DON'T TRY TO COPY COD.
ALSO, THIS STUFF ABOUT THE SECONDARY CAMPAIGN THAT YOU PLAY AS A SPARTAN IV, PLEASE DON'T MAKE US PAY FOR THAT. DON'T MAKE THE PLAYERS PAY FOR EVERY LITTLE THING LIKE BUNGIE DID WITH REACH.
THE NEW, INTERESTING THINGS ARE FUN IN THE CAMPAIGN, BUT THE MULTIPLAYER SHOULD ALWAYS BE AN EVEN PLAYING FIELD.
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I WILL START THIS OFF BY SAYING, NO BLOOM ON THE WEAPONS. IF YOU WANT THE GAME TO BE REALISTIC, THEN HAVE A RISE ON THE WEAPONS AS YOU FIRE. BUT BLOOM, THINK ABOUT IT. IF SPARTANS WERE REAL, WHY THE HECK WOULD THEY HAVE ADVANCED HEADS UP DISPLAYS THAT MAKE IT HARDER TO SHOOT? THE WEAPONS ARE UPLINKED TO HUDS, SO THE HUDS SHOULD ENCHANCE THE WEAPONS, NOT MAKE THEM MORE DIFFICULT. ALSO, THE BLOOM JUST PLAIN OLD FEELS LIKE IT BELONGS IN OTHER GAMES. NOT HALO.
I DID NOT HAVE ACCESS TO XBOX LIVE WHEN HALO 3 WAS AROUND, SO I DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE RANKING SYSTEM. I LIKE THE REACH SYSTEM BECAUSE PLAYERS WHO ARE NOT AS GOOD CAN STILL GET CREDITS AND UNLOCK ARMOR CUSTOMIZATIONS. MAYBE MAKE RANK AND CREDITS SEPERATE SYSTEMS, THIS WAY YOU GET RANK FOR PLAYING WELL, BUT EVERYONE CAN GET CREDITS.
ALSO, I UNDERSTAND THAT THE BETTER PLAYERS WANT SOMETHING FOR BEING BETTER, BUT THAT IS RANK. PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE ANY PERFORMANCE PERKS FOR BEING BETTER. EVERYONE, PERFORMANCE WISE, SHOULD BE ON A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD, JUST LIKE THE HALOS OF THE PAST.
AS HAS BEEN MENTIONED BEFORE, PLEASE BRING BACK THE WEAPONS FROM HALO 3. NO DMR PLEASE!!!!! BATTLE RIFLE!!!!!! THE HALO 3 WEAPON SELECTION WAS THE BEST.
PLEASE DON'T BRING BACK THE ABILITIES FROM REACH, BUT THE EQUIPMENT FROM HALO 3 WAS FUN.
A HIGHER GRENADE COUNT THAN JUST TWO OF EACH KIND. BACK TO FOUR PLEASE?
I LIKE THAT IN THE TRAILERS IT LOOKS LIKE THE SHIELD SYSTEM FROM HALO 3.
A CUSTOMIZABLE HEADS UP DISPLAY WOULD BE LOTS OF FUN.
A CUSTOMIZABLE BUTTON SETUP WOULD BE GREAT(THINK STAR WARS BATTLEFRONT 2)
FINALLY, HALO 3 FELT LIKE THE HALO GAME WAS EXPANDING AND EVOLVING, REACH FELT LIKE BUNGIE WAS TRYING TO BRIDGE OVER AND BE LIKE COD. I AM NOT TRYING TO SAY THAT COD IS BAD, OR GOOD. I LIKE THE COD GAMES JUST FINE AND I PLAY THE CAMPAIGNS, BUT I DO NOT WANT HALO 4 TO BE COD. I KNOW THAT THE TRAILERS ARE OUT, AND THAT MEANS THAT SOME ASPECTS OF THE GAME ARE FIXED AT THIS POINT, BUT MOST POSTS I HAVE SEEN DO NOT WANT ARMOUR ABILITIES, BUT DO LIKE THE EQUIPMENT PICKUPS FROM HALO 3.
PLEASE KEEP THIS GAME A HALO GAME AND DO NOT TRY TO MAKE IT MORE LIKE OTHER GAMES. I FELT LET DOWN WHEN I PLAYED REACH BECAUSE THE CAMPAIGN IS DULL AND UNINTERESTING. THE HALO 3 CAMPAIGN IS SOMETHING THAT I PLAYED FOR HOURS AND HOURS AND HOURS.
FINALLY AGAIN, I FELT BETRAYED BY BUNGIE BECAUSE THE FANS WERE OFTEN DISREGARDED. I FELT LIKE HALO REACH WAS JUST A HALF DONE PROJECT BECAUSE BUNGIE WAS QUITTING ON HALO. PLEASE DO NOT REPEAT THIS.
I THINK TO SUM UP WHAT WE, THE FANS WANT, THE FOLLOWING CAN BE SAID. HALO CE, 2, AND 3 WERE ALL VERY RAW IN A WAY. SIMPLE CONTROLS, EVEN PLAYING FIELD FOR ALL PLAYERS. GAMES LIKE COD AND OTHER SHOOTERS HAVE TRIED TO PACK ALOT OF "STUFF" INTO THEIR SHOOTERS, AND THE STUFF HAS TAKEN AWAY FROM THE GAME ITSELF. HALO, UNTIL REACH, WAS VERY BASIC. WE COULD ENJOY PLAYING WITHOUT WORRYING ABOUT A BUNCH OF "STUFF" PACKED INTO THE GAME.
MOST IMPORTANTLY, THANK YOU 343i FOR PICKING UP THE HALO FRANCHISE. AT FIRST, LIKE MANY OTHERS, I WAS ANGRY THAT BUNGIE WOULD DROP THE GAMES AND ABANDON THEIR FANS, AND I FELT PERSONALLY BETRAYED BY BUNGIE. BUT YOU GUY AND GIRLS HAVE ALL PICKED UP WHERE THEY LEFT OFF AND HAVE CONTINUED. SO, ALTHOUGH I HAVE TO ADMIT THAT I WAS ONE OF THE PEOPLE THAT USED TO COMPLAIN ABOUT HOW BAD THE CHANGE TO 343 WAS GOING TO BE, ULTIMATELY, I AM GRATEFUL TO YOU FOR YOUR DEDICATION TO THE HALO UNIVERSE AND YOUR FANS. WITH THAT SAID, PLEASE LISTEN TO YOUR FANS. WE DO NOT WANT A SHOOTER THAT IS LIKE OTHER SHOOTERS.
REMEMBER THAT OTHER GAMES CAME AROUND BECAUSE OF, AND WANT TO BE AS GOOD AS, HALO.
HALO DOES NOT WANT TO BE OTHER GAMES.
WE WANT HALO.
THANK YOU,
~ A FAN
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I am not going to post the picture of the AI symbol again in this post, but when it says "ancient evil" I also don't think of the Didact. I think of Mendicant Bias. I have not read the latest book in the Forerunner series, so I don't know exactly what is happening with the Didact, but I remember him having a certain respect for the humans. I do recognize that the glyph is the glyph for the Didact, but why would he be against humans/reclaimers? Perhaps he took control of the ship to control the crash landing because otherwise they would have died? It wold be cool to fight the original betrayer, Mendicant.
Halo 2 Remastered for 12th Halo Anniversary
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I think it would be nice to have the campaign remastered like CE, and maybe some of the old maps remade.