The Director

It would be amazing to have the same type of customization for elites as for spartans, but as far as playing as an elite in matchmaking goes, I'm all for it. I'm not an elite player, but it's nice to play against elites every once in a while.

The awkward moment when you talk trash in the pregame lobby and get pounded in-game...

No, it doesn't overlook that. What I was getting at was that the "lucrative exclusive deal" wouldn't mean jack if no one bought the console that it was for. Do you remember FFXI? Probably not, because it was only available new. You had to have a brand new copy of it to play it. That game died out a few days after it hit the shelves. If an entire CONSOLE wouldn't let used games be played, but a console just as good as that one did, then obviously the one that does will sell WAY more than the one that doesn't let you play them. If the console doesn't sell, then neither does the game, and the company that decided to go with the console that didn't sell would sink HARD. And the only reason that COD is such a "lucrative" game is because it is cross platform. If Halo was cross platform, it would probably outsell COD by a boatload. Most people don't buy consoles for specific games, they buy them because the console has features that they like. Console companies know that their profits would drop if they sold consoles that didn't allow for used games to be played on them. That's where the red and black come in. If it is less profitable for the console to not play used games, then the console WILL play used games. Microsoft and Sony didn't get where they are today by being brain-dead. They got where they are today because they know how to get people to buy their stuff, and you can bet that if they DO make a console like that, then it will sell a whole lot less than the previous ones they made.

I highly doubt that Activision would threaten that simply because they sell more on the X-Box than they do on the PS3, and if they left Microsoft then Microsoft would not sell the games for PC or for the X-Box. Not to mention that they would have to use the same tactics on Sony as well, and let's face it. Sony doesn't give in to pressure like that. That's how the PlayStation was invented, you know. If a gaming publisher went console specific because the console company wouldn't give in to their demands, then they would be kicking themselves in the butt because they would be losing all of that profit for just a little bluff. And if they did threaten this to both companies, and both companies said no, then they would be thoroughly screwed. Not to mention if one company said no, and they left that company to go work with the company that said yes, they would lose a lot of profit simply because the console that DOES play used games will sell more than the one that doesn't.

The awkward moment when you realize just how many mindless sheep there actually are...

This could severely impact the gaming industry negatively. It will eventually put game rental companies out of business, as well as severely damage the profits of the companies that specialize in games. A for instance of this would be the companies GameStop and GameFly. GameStop makes almost as much money off of used games as they do anything else they sell. Used games create roughly 45% of their profit. Eventually, unless they made drastic changes, they would go bottom up. Considering this company is a major gaming company that buys a decent chunk of games from Microsoft, their downfall will also be felt by Microsoft. GameFly is an online game rental service that rents and sells new and used games. Most of their profit comes from renting though, and since they also buy a lot of their games from Microsoft, there is another hit. Honestly, I don't see Microsoft creating a console that won't play used games, mainly because of the bad PR. Most consumers will not like that they have to buy the games new, and environmentalists won't like that people who get tired of their games have to throw them away. Not only would they lose money by doing this, and hurt many companies that help support them, but the PR campaign would be a disaster, and many gamers will go to the new Sony and Nintendo consoles instead of the new X-Box if one of those companies decided to include used game playability. There were also talks about this tech being included in the original X-Box, and in the X-Box 360 if any of you can remember that far back. In summation, I really, REALLY doubt that they would do that.

The awkward moment when you start screaming obscenities at someone on the other team in the post-game lobby and your party leader backs out.

It's been what, a few decades since the SOF went missing? It would be pretty miraculous if the ship managed to maintain it's systems for that long. It's possible, but not very likely. I think it would be better to branch it into a different story, one that tracks where the SOF went and what happened to it. I would like there to be a Halo Wars 2 just because of this little loose end. Halo Wars didn't have the best gameplay, but it had a pretty decent storyline.

The awkward moment when you jump, spin, and manage to snipe the guy behind you and you are so stunned by how awesome that was that you get killed by the guy you didn't see to the left...

The awkward moment when you remove someone from your friends and block communications on XBL, and run into them in a Team SWAT lobby five minutes later...

Oh I pray that they have bots. Something like Combat Training in Black Ops would make my day. It gets boring playing 2 player versus with your friend when the internet goes out :/

Can't wait to see the rest John Be sure to get someone to edit it for grammar though.

I think it would be a good idea. It could have a couple sections too, like "General Art", "Fantasy Art", "Halo Universe Art" and such.

The awkward moment when you are going for a snipe and a badly damaged warthog full of your teammates jumps in front of your shot at the last second... Does it count as an overkill if you actually got the shot?

Yeah, those things get bigger than that... If you'd let it grow up you would have trouble killing it with your boot one day.

Honestly, I love some of the community content. Granted, there are a couple maps that I thought shouldn't have made it, but the rest were pretty solid. It would be great if Halo 4 forge allowed us to change the texture, shape, and color of objects as well. Random thought at the end there.

I can't believe no one has said this yet, but GTA. DEFINITELY GTA. Feeling sad or angry? Killing spree with a chainsaw! Tired from a long days work but can't afford a car? Steal one! Tired of lonely nights all by yourself? Prostitutes! And if you kill them, you get your money back! I would love to live in a world like that lol

Lol I'm not sure why, but when I read defensive player I imagined someone camping. xD Don't worry, I don't judge lol Welcome to the forum and I hope you have a great time here

Good to go. I also am busy this week, on the Epic Map Series.

Alright, send AAN2 a friend request, and tomorrow I will jump on and give you some pointers, if you'd like. Or you can fill out the form and I will do it at my leisure.

To be fair, the reason everyone is jumping his bones on this post is simply because he spammed the forum earlier with several posts that were nothing more than a couple words, emoticons, or phrases that were not in response to anything previously said and did not contribute to the discussion. Everyone knows that that is a no no. I myself saw easily a dozen posts that either made no sense or were blatantly spam in EVERY forum. Want some for instances?How about this one? http://www.343industries.org/forum/topic/5832-new-halo-clan-excepts-nearly-all-members-hackersmodders-not-wanted/page__pid__54365?do=findComment&comment=54365 Or this one? http://www.343industries.org/forum/topic/5567-if-you-need-help-with-a-map/page__pid__54428?do=findComment&comment=54428 This one? http://www.343industries.org/forum/topic/4815-the-halo-universe/page__pid__41410?do=findComment&comment=41410 There are more, but I CBF to track them all down. These are just the ones that jumped out at me. Fact is, this insults me because even though I have been here for a VERY long time, I know I would get banned or have my posts deleted if I did this. As a matter of fact, when I was breaking my posts per day record AD told me to be careful not to spam or he would have to take actions. I managed to do more than 90 posts that day, all of which were legitimate posts. That said, I believe he should be let off with a warning, and have the offending posts deleted. He IS an inexperienced member of this forum, so it IS plausible that he didn't realize that what he was doing has gotten members black named in the past.

343i is not to blame for this problem. That blame goes to Microsoft, who is the company in charge of the XBL servers that Reach uses. You see, Reach does not have dedicated servers, so it has to use the servers that Microsoft sets aside for it's other multiplayer games. Any problems you are having with connection are not 343i's fault, they are your ISP or Microsoft's. That being said, here is what you can do. Set your search restrictions to "Good Connection" and "Language", connect your xbox to your modem using a good Ethernet cable, and call your ISP to see if you are actually getting the connection that you are paying for. If you do all of this and are still getting laggy games, try calling tech support. They may have you do something that you haven't thought of yet.

The awkward moment when you leap out of a falcon to hijack a banshee and the falcon drops on three of your teammates guarding the core on Spire...

lol it IS bigger than it looks. It supports BTB and BFFA.

To me, recon looks dumb. I have Recon armor on my Nocturn account, and never wear it. And honestly, I don't care about people who preorder. They shouldn't get anything except for the game. Most people who preordered Halo Reach are still in the generals. I would like to see more armor, but am willing to wait for Halo 4. I don't like the preorder bs because Halo Reach came out just before I got back from deployment, so I wasn't able to preorder a copy to get the GS Recon helmet. It's a good thing that it doesn't affect armory completion, because I would be REALLY pissed. And no, I'm not jealous of your little trinket helmet. I wear Haz-Ops. I wanna look like a badass who can take on an entire covenant fleet, not a tiny little recon spartan. As far as Bungie not listening Mystic, the reason they didn't do anything about the actual gameplay was because they couldn't. They didn't have the manpower or time to set up a TU like 343i did. Look how long it took 343i to do so! They aren't even completely finished with it yet! Bungie did what they could for the fans, like the contest to bring some community created content (which was something almost EVERYONE wanted at the time) to matchmaking. They had Super Jackpots, just like we asked for. They did a lot for us. However, 343i>Bungie in my opinion, because so far 343i hasn't done something that tore what we knew as cannon to pieces yet.