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kingk170299 said:
If they are giving multiplayer a story then why not use Rooster teeth's Red vs Blue as the backdrop for the story.
why is MP even getting a story? this is so fuckin' silly and unnecessary. it's just something people do to avoid their real lives.

so unless that's the story, they could put the effort into some other facet of the game.
 

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To be honest, it's looking pretty damned good so far. But of course, reserving judgement due to the obvious fact that this game is still pretty early in development.
 

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If anyone is curious I just took a peek at the Bungie.net forums and the nerd rage is already starting to rear it's ugly head. People are still complaining about how things are different and less like Halo 3 and how it isn't MLG and competitive and how it's selling out to the filthy casuals and betraying everything that Halo stands for.

...I think I want this game even more now.
 

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Korten12 said:
Looks really really good. Now give me more Single Player info.
I think they are saving that for E3...

Although having some vidocs explaining multiplayer would be nice, especially some more clarification on the whole armor perks thing. Like what could it be? Could it be more advanced armor opponents give more points when killed as a trade off for being tougher than you? Could it be some benefit/disadvantage trade off? What?!

It sounds like that this game will be quite large content-wise from what I can hear. 100 audio tracks and they are making more?! My god, why would they need that many? Is it likely that less that 1/4th of those will be actually in the game?

Needless to say, at the very least the game play seems pretty similar to previous installments and thank god they decided against an overly scripted campaign.
 

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kingk170299 said:
If they are giving multiplayer a story then why not use Rooster teeth's Red vs Blue as the backdrop for the story.
Heheh...
AHAHAHAHAH!

Okay, the fact you guys are bringing that up amuses me. And I must say I would love 343i forever[footnote]Probably not forever[/footnote] if they did that.

The problem is, there isn't a reason that the Reds and Blues are fighting each other. Spoilers if you care about that, but it's just an online machinima web series, so you probably don't.
The Red team and Blue team are just arbitrary organizations both created and controlled by the same military command and manned by useless washout incompetents. The goal is to simply keep the people that they'd rather just forget about occupied, and occasionally use the ongoing skirmish to test one of their third party "Freelancer" super-soldiers.
That's it.
If that was applied to Halo 4, it would imply that everyone who plays matchmaking is a mindless, incompetent dullard with no real purpose. Not that the whole existence of Red vs. Blue doesn't already imply that; it goes out of its way to outline and lampshade it in the later seasons, where the cast stumble their way into actual competent threats.

343i probably has a slightly different approach. And while it's evident they must have picked up something from Red vs. Blue, they've likely also drawn some inspiration from Assassin's Creed in having a believable, plot-relevant multiplayer. I suppose we'll have to see where this leads, won't we?
 

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erttheking said:
If anyone is curious I just took a peek at the Bungie.net forums and the nerd rage is already starting to rear it's ugly head. People are still complaining about how things are different and less like Halo 3 and how it isn't MLG and competitive and how it's selling out to the filthy casuals and betraying everything that Halo stands for.

...I think I want this game even more now.
How can they figure that out based on around fifteen seconds of game play? They must either be trolls or idiots, at least the flood section is still cool.

I think the game looks great, I'm not sure how I feel about the new armor, guess I have to get used to it. I'm so glad they kept the colors. Didn't like the music too much, too bad Marty didn't get signed on.

Now if we could get a trailer explaining the story I will really start to get hyped.
 

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It looks all right, it's just a shame that none of the people at 343 seem as nice as the dudes at Bungie....

Also, it looks pretty similiar to Halo : Reach.... which is a shame, as Reach was different enough from 3 for me accept. This just seems different from Halo 3, not Halo : Reach.

So... it basically is doing just what Reach did..... and that doesn't need doing again.
 

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Ehh? Forgive me if i'm wildly off the mark here but aren't red and blue just fighting because...well it'd be a bit hard to tell who was on what side if everyone was in the same colour armour?

also I feel that this might be relevant somehow


Caboose: "Hey Church, ever wonder why we're here?"
Church: "You know, Caboose, I used to not care. I just went along with orders and hoped that everything would work out for me. But after all that has happened, you know what I learned? It's not about hating the guy on the other side because someone told you to. I mean, you should hate someone because they're an asshole, or pervert, or snob, or they're lazy, or arrogant, or an idiot, or a know-it-all. Those are reasons to dislike somebody. You don't hate a person because someone told you to. You have to learn to despise them on a personal level. Not because they're Red, or Blue, but because you know them, and you see them every single day, and you can't stand them because they are a complete and total fucking douche bag."
Caboose: "...I meant why are we up here in the sun when we could be standing down there in the shade."
Church: "Oh. Yeah, okay. Let's go stand in the shade."
 

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vrbtny said:
It looks all right, it's just a shame that none of the people at 343 seem as nice as the dudes at Bungie....

Also, it looks pretty similiar to Halo : Reach.... which is a shame, as Reach was different enough from 3 for me accept. This just seems different from Halo 3, not Halo : Reach.

So... it basically is doing just what Reach did..... and that doesn't need doing again.
Buddy if you want a game like Halo 3 then please go play Halo 3 or ODST. Some of us want Halo 4 to be Halo to be Halo 4 and not Halo 3.5.
 

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So here is random theory I thought of.

I think that the reason there is points instead of kill is so that unlocked armor can be better than earlier armor; balancing out this by rewarding people with more points for killing the guys with the more advanced armor.

Thus, meaning that while you can get better armor when higher leveled, that means players may target you more due to giving off more points on death.

Speculation!
 

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erttheking said:
vrbtny said:
It looks all right, it's just a shame that none of the people at 343 seem as nice as the dudes at Bungie....

Also, it looks pretty similiar to Halo : Reach.... which is a shame, as Reach was different enough from 3 for me accept. This just seems different from Halo 3, not Halo : Reach.

So... it basically is doing just what Reach did..... and that doesn't need doing again.
Buddy if you want a game like Halo 3 then please go play Halo 3 or ODST. Some of us want Halo 4 to be Halo to be Halo 4 and not Halo 3.5.
Wait a second 0_o

I never said I wanted a game just like Halo 3. I said that it is a shame that they seem to be building on Halo 3, which is what Bungie did with Halo : Reach. So basically they are just remaking Halo : Reach, under a different name. I don't want another Halo : Reach. I want a improvement over Halo Reach, not just another form of Halo : Reach.

What I wanted was

Halo 3 < Halo Reach < Halo 4.

What we seems to be happening is

Halo 3 < Halo 4
 

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vrbtny said:
erttheking said:
vrbtny said:
It looks all right, it's just a shame that none of the people at 343 seem as nice as the dudes at Bungie....

Also, it looks pretty similiar to Halo : Reach.... which is a shame, as Reach was different enough from 3 for me accept. This just seems different from Halo 3, not Halo : Reach.

So... it basically is doing just what Reach did..... and that doesn't need doing again.
Buddy if you want a game like Halo 3 then please go play Halo 3 or ODST. Some of us want Halo 4 to be Halo to be Halo 4 and not Halo 3.5.
Wait a second 0_o

I never said I wanted a game just like Halo 3. I said that it is a shame that they seem to be building on Halo 3, which is what Bungie did with Halo : Reach. So basically they are just remaking Halo : Reach, under a different name. I don't want another Halo : Reach. I want a improvement over Halo Reach, not just another form of Halo : Reach.

What I wanted was

Halo 3 < Halo Reach < Halo 4.

What we seems to be happening is

Halo 3 < Halo 4
Oh damnit I read your post wrong, sorry about that. Kneejerk reaction from dealing with Halo fanboys I guess.
 

vrbtny

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erttheking said:
vrbtny said:
erttheking said:
vrbtny said:
It looks all right, it's just a shame that none of the people at 343 seem as nice as the dudes at Bungie....

Also, it looks pretty similiar to Halo : Reach.... which is a shame, as Reach was different enough from 3 for me accept. This just seems different from Halo 3, not Halo : Reach.

So... it basically is doing just what Reach did..... and that doesn't need doing again.
Buddy if you want a game like Halo 3 then please go play Halo 3 or ODST. Some of us want Halo 4 to be Halo to be Halo 4 and not Halo 3.5.
Wait a second 0_o

I never said I wanted a game just like Halo 3. I said that it is a shame that they seem to be building on Halo 3, which is what Bungie did with Halo : Reach. So basically they are just remaking Halo : Reach, under a different name. I don't want another Halo : Reach. I want a improvement over Halo Reach, not just another form of Halo : Reach.

What I wanted was

Halo 3 < Halo Reach < Halo 4.

What we seems to be happening is

Halo 3 < Halo 4
Oh damnit I read your post wrong, sorry about that. Kneejerk reaction from dealing with Halo fanboys I guess.
0_o at your Avatar.

Okay, no problem :)
 

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vrbtny said:
erttheking said:
vrbtny said:
erttheking said:
vrbtny said:
It looks all right, it's just a shame that none of the people at 343 seem as nice as the dudes at Bungie....

Also, it looks pretty similiar to Halo : Reach.... which is a shame, as Reach was different enough from 3 for me accept. This just seems different from Halo 3, not Halo : Reach.

So... it basically is doing just what Reach did..... and that doesn't need doing again.
Buddy if you want a game like Halo 3 then please go play Halo 3 or ODST. Some of us want Halo 4 to be Halo to be Halo 4 and not Halo 3.5.
Wait a second 0_o

I never said I wanted a game just like Halo 3. I said that it is a shame that they seem to be building on Halo 3, which is what Bungie did with Halo : Reach. So basically they are just remaking Halo : Reach, under a different name. I don't want another Halo : Reach. I want a improvement over Halo Reach, not just another form of Halo : Reach.

What I wanted was

Halo 3 < Halo Reach < Halo 4.

What we seems to be happening is

Halo 3 < Halo 4
Oh damnit I read your post wrong, sorry about that. Kneejerk reaction from dealing with Halo fanboys I guess.
0_o at your Avatar.

Okay, no problem :)
Halo fan =/= Halo fanboy

I'm talking about the people from the Bungie forums who are still crying that Reach wasn't halo 3 repainted. Hell, the reason I came here was to get away from there.
 

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I'm guessing that the Red Vs. Blue will be a training competition between the two teams to see who is the best.

Hopefully the campaign will introduce some new enemies that aren't copy pastes of the covenant.
 

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ChaplainOrion said:
I'm guessing that the Red Vs. Blue will be a training competition between the two teams to see who is the best.

Hopefully the campaign will introduce some new enemies that aren't copy pastes of the covenant.
They said new gameplay with the new enemies, so it is likely they are different.
 

vrbtny

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erttheking said:
vrbtny said:
erttheking said:
vrbtny said:
erttheking said:
vrbtny said:
It looks all right, it's just a shame that none of the people at 343 seem as nice as the dudes at Bungie....

Also, it looks pretty similiar to Halo : Reach.... which is a shame, as Reach was different enough from 3 for me accept. This just seems different from Halo 3, not Halo : Reach.

So... it basically is doing just what Reach did..... and that doesn't need doing again.
Buddy if you want a game like Halo 3 then please go play Halo 3 or ODST. Some of us want Halo 4 to be Halo to be Halo 4 and not Halo 3.5.
Wait a second 0_o

I never said I wanted a game just like Halo 3. I said that it is a shame that they seem to be building on Halo 3, which is what Bungie did with Halo : Reach. So basically they are just remaking Halo : Reach, under a different name. I don't want another Halo : Reach. I want a improvement over Halo Reach, not just another form of Halo : Reach.

What I wanted was

Halo 3 < Halo Reach < Halo 4.

What we seems to be happening is

Halo 3 < Halo 4
Oh damnit I read your post wrong, sorry about that. Kneejerk reaction from dealing with Halo fanboys I guess.
0_o at your Avatar.

Okay, no problem :)
Halo fan =/= Halo fanboy

I'm talking about the people from the Bungie forums who are still crying that Reach wasn't halo 3 repainted. Hell, the reason I came here was to get away from there.
Hell, me too. So... yeah, glad I'm not the only person creeped out by the rabid fans.
 

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I really don't know what to think. For one thing, the whole video they were basically saying "Bungie didn't do this right, and we're fixing that," and I thought Halo was just fine beforehand. That, and they're doing the three most over-used stories in Halo fanfiction: the story of red vs blue, the story of master chief, and the story of the SPARTAN-IVs. Why can't they do something that people are going to care more about?

On the other hand, though, I like how they aren't constrained by old Halo games. If they want to make something totally new, then they should have done that, but as it is, I'm looking forward to playing a great sci-fi shooter that looks and plays well and happens to share the name of that series Bungie started ten years ago. Of course, I'll have to throw away the universe when they ruin it, but I suppose Lucas taught us that no sci-fi universe is safe from a new trilogy.