2/13/2010 9:38:39 AM

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"We absolutely want Reach to tell a human story and that's going to require us to invest significantly in higher fidelity models..."

More polygons. Yea, that's definitely the solution.

[Edited on February 13, 2010 at 11:54 AM. Reason : Wow. That was before they said "polygons" like a dozen times.]

2/13/2010 11:49:10 AM

good lord, people will buy anything with "halo" slapped on the box

2/13/2010 12:12:18 PM

This looks pretty good.

I don't know if the story will be good, but it looks like a lot of fun.

2/13/2010 12:19:54 PM

I like the way they are going about it. More character driven.

2/13/2010 12:45:29 PM

I'm going to enjoy the hell out of this.

2/13/2010 1:26:37 PM

I read an article about it in game informer mag. and the graphics on this game are going to be absolutely ridiculously good.

2/13/2010 2:15:47 PM

How can they get these kind of graphics out of the X-box and still be that far beyond halo 3?

2/13/2010 2:54:10 PM

whatever new shit they're using it doesn't load the entire map in full detail at once. It loads things in more detail when they're close and has them less detailed from afar. doing that allowed them to get things in ridiculous detail without compromising performance.

2/13/2010 2:56:31 PM

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"whatever new shit they're using it doesn't load the entire map in full detail at once. It loads things in more detail when they're close and has them less detailed from afar. doing that allowed them to get things in ridiculous detail without compromising performance."

[new]

2/13/2010 3:05:29 PM

woo, maybe we can get over 20ish fps this time round?

2/13/2010 4:00:51 PM

Will be buying, launch day. And this is coming from someone who generally thinks Halo is "meh."

2/13/2010 4:22:43 PM

^^^ Dont they do that in MW2, resulting in blurry shit when looking at anything outside of 50 feet?

2/13/2010 5:44:35 PM

^they've been doing that shit for at least a decade in various games.

This reminds me of something someone said in an Avatar thread and my response:

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"^from reviews i heard its like comparing a mazda miata to a chrysler crossfire in other words 3-d is childs play compared to this this will make you really thing you are there the technology uses 2 cameras and filetering glasses, which filter different part of the image through to your left and right eye so you see just like in real life umm... sounds like you've just described the 115 year old process of creating 3D films"

[Edited on February 13, 2010 at 5:51 PM. Reason : d]

2/13/2010 5:50:56 PM

The new weapons look pretty cool. Looking forward to the details and wide open levels.

2/13/2010 7:04:18 PM

well it's not something they've been doing in halo games. so it's new to that according to game informer/bungie

2/13/2010 7:23:45 PM

I doubt that seriously. But if true, Bungie must be pretty stupid.

2/13/2010 7:41:53 PM

it's what was in the magazine. either way, random shit is going to have 923456 times more detail than in previous halos

2/13/2010 7:56:15 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udhQ9KkoQ3I

multiplayer footage. looks hot.

3/3/2010 10:49:39 AM

man oh man that looks like a good ol' time.

3/3/2010 10:54:12 AM

OMG

3/3/2010 11:11:47 AM

Looks good, but there's only one futuristic shooter for me and I'll never be truly happy until it comes back. Timesplitters, where did you go?

3/3/2010 12:06:16 PM

Holy... I almost had a Tribes flashback just now. Are they actually flying around?

3/3/2010 12:25:15 PM

want.

3/3/2010 1:12:13 PM

I don't know how I feel about the flying. might be kind of gay.

3/3/2010 1:58:35 PM

Arena System Explained: http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/62873
Matchmaking Changes: http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/62865

love these new tidbits.. the UI looks great (IMO) and I'm really looking forward to the new additions to matchmaking, especially the Queue-joining, assuming they get it all implemented correctly.

[Edited on March 19, 2010 at 4:58 PM. Reason : Map+Gametype voting also brings the hotness]

3/19/2010 4:57:44 PM

Halo 2's live support is being dropped after tonight. :'( Logged a whole lot of hours playing that game online. Anyway, if you play tonight (I know this is way late) there are prizes to be won, and "Halo: Reach flair".

4/15/2010 3:41:56 AM

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"Streamlined Party-Up - After a Halo 3 match, players were presented with the option to "Party Up" and merge lobbies with all willing players. In Reach, it will be an opt-out system. After a match, players will be kept together and it will automatically roll into looking for the next match."

MW2 ripoff anyone? and the arena system in a clear cut product of blizzard. at this point i feel that WoW is a bastard of a game, but blizz puts quite a bit of hard work into the arena system.

don't get me wrong, though. i'm all for a game that takes all the best parts from other multilayer systems and combines them into one sexy beast...

4/15/2010 7:33:04 AM

Just when i thought i was out, they pulled me back in

4/15/2010 8:21:44 AM

more like Halo: Reacharound

4/15/2010 8:48:27 AM

should post this in the year of games thread
message_topic.aspx?topic=592470

[Edited on April 15, 2010 at 12:30 PM. Reason : .]

4/15/2010 12:29:51 PM

^^^^I know I might be feeding a troll, but you'd have to be an idiot to think they're stealing Blizzard's Gladiator Arena setup in WoW, because not only is it nothing like it, but it's nothing like it.

4/16/2010 3:10:03 AM

Looks like it might end up being very good.

I've got a lot of reservations, though, since:

1) They're marketing the single-player story in a Halo game... The book was pretty good, but as a Halo game, anything single-player is basically pointless. Unless, of course, they manage to make a harder difficulty in Reach that is actually legitimately challenging.
--Either way, this means that they're targeting (among other things) the group of Halo fans who are very bad at multiplayer... and catering to shitty people is one of many aspects that made H3's multiplayer terrible. It's not so much a bad mark against Reach as it is just a bad omen.

2) Basically everything Bungie has done right (Halo 1, Halo 2's multiplayer) has been almost entirely on accident. The time they finally managed to make a game that was technically sound/not full of bugs, they made the consistent/consistently-bad Halo 3. Better to have a game which tries to be great but has flaws and inconsistencies (H2) than make a game which succeeds at being mediocre (H3).
--Though I will say that Firefight mode in ODST ended up actually being good, on purpose.

3) Bungie has absolutely no idea how to make a good competitive multiplayer map. They've gotten lucky a few times (Midship, Sanctuary, Construct, a couple others), but the vast majority of maps in H2 and H3 have just been completely unplayable. Hell, if they'd just grasp the basic concept of "mostly symmetrical = generally good" they could do very well.


...I wish I didn't know so much about Halo, but a lot of the people I know (used to) play it all the damn time. It's hard not to involve oneself somehow.

4/16/2010 3:38:04 AM

fuck reach, people need to get back on that OG on xbc

4/16/2010 4:00:16 AM

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"They're marketing the single-player story in a Halo game"

What gives you that impression? Of course the first trailer for the game relates to single player, but over the past 2 months they've been hyping up the multiplayer beta...

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"Bungie has absolutely no idea how to make a good competitive multiplayer map"

I'm going to have to disagree with you there. I think Bungie makes better maps than any other developer. The "vast majority" of maps in this series are actually well-balanced and perfect for competitive play. If every map was symmetrical we wouldn't get great ones like Zanzibar, High Ground, and Lockout.

4/16/2010 8:41:23 AM

I <3 lockout

4/16/2010 10:06:25 AM

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"They've gotten lucky a few times (Midship, Sanctuary, Construct, a couple others)"

Construct is a piece of shit map.

4/16/2010 11:48:45 AM

^You don't like balanced, symmetrical maps? Ok...

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"...I wish I didn't know so much about Halo, but a lot of the people I know (used to) play it all the damn time. It's hard not to involve oneself somehow."

You know you liked it. Wolves Den H2 play was pretty epic.

4/16/2010 12:00:27 PM

Construct isn't the worst map in the series, but I certainly wouldn't place it anywhere near Midship and Sanctuary.

Are you sure he didn't mean to say Citadel or Colossus? Those are both very good symmetrical maps. (Construct is mostly symmetrical, but not completely.)

Turf, Ascension, Ivory Tower, Ghost Town, and Chill Out/Cold Storage are all great asymmetrical competitve maps.

4/16/2010 12:27:31 PM

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"They're marketing the single-player story in a Halo game... The book was pretty good, but as a Halo game, anything single-player is basically pointless. Unless, of course, they manage to make a harder difficulty in Reach that is actually legitimately challenging. "

FWIW, the campaigns in 1-3 were all very enjoyable.

Lockout was awesome. Midship was too. Vahalla is awesome. Avalanche is fun (mostly because of the vehicles). Construct is pretty awesome (great BR map). Narrows is pretty average (awesome 2v2 map, but anything more and it's too much grenade spamming). Guardian is also pretty average. The thing with the giant wheel is fun for one bomb/one flag types, and is a decent BR map.

Sandtrap can be okay. Big team heavy and it's good. any other mode and it fucking sucks. Sandtarp is the worst map ever. Snowbound is ridiculously shitty. I hate ghost town for anything but sniping.

4/16/2010 12:43:03 PM

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"Unless, of course, they manage to make a harder difficulty in Reach that is actually legitimately challenging. "

i must be shitty or something but legendary is pretty tough with one player. i mean i beat it but i can't breeze through it like you make it seem.

4/16/2010 5:02:05 PM

I'm pretty pro. Legendary isn't that bad except for a few parts by yourself if you know what you're doing, what's coming, and what weapons to use when. sure you might die a couple times, but it's not that bad.

4/16/2010 5:40:54 PM

I loved legendary in H1, it felt like it was exactly what Legendary should be. H2 legendary was appropriately hard for the most part, too.

H3 legendary was a breeze up until the last non-driving level (...whenever you have to climb the big multi-tiered tower covered in flood, is what I'm talking about)... you couldn't get by just by rushing through and being stupid/reckless, obviously, but if you generally knew what you were doing it didn't really present too many challenges. Like ^ said, sure you might die a couple times, but there aren't really any major hurdles except for that last flood level.

4/16/2010 6:48:44 PM

Analysis of some multiplayer video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvDta8m5y58&feature=player_embedded

4/22/2010 1:36:30 AM

Very interesting.

4/22/2010 10:02:55 AM

anyone know how much it is to fix the red ring of death if the warranty has expired? I think I want this game.

4/22/2010 10:11:53 AM

10 days

Lets start a White Warrior contingent on this game as well

[Edited on April 22, 2010 at 11:48 AM. Reason : x]

4/22/2010 11:41:33 AM

^ You can't use One Man Army in Halo, so I doubt it will gain a following...

4/22/2010 11:59:13 AM

wow only 10 days. I need to finish my prestige asap

4/22/2010 12:08:40 PM

..... very not impressed

4/22/2010 12:47:17 PM