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Off-Topic Discussion => Gaming Discussion => Topic started by: carbine7 on October 13, 2008, 05:43:06 pm
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Yes, thats right, I said Halo. Bungie's secret project who's announcement at E3 was shelved due to Final Fanatsy I don't know what number is somehow more important :confused:
This is their next game, Halo 3 Recon
www.bungie.net/Projects/whvidldshbyjsdo/default.aspx (http://www.bungie.net/Projects/whvidldshbyjsdo/default.aspx)
Discuss and enjoy :)
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Huh. Another Halo game.
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Failure to care imminent.
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I suspect this will be a case of too much hype too little substance, as it was with Halo 3.
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They're calling it an expansion set, not a full game, and an 'endcap on the Halo 3 experience'. It's more of a valentine to the fans than a full game -- a chance for a more tactical experience.
They're working on full games in a new IP, possibly more than one. I think Bungie's handing Halo off to Microsoft so it can be milked to death.
I'm really excited about one thing, which is the scale. You're playing as an ODST marine, not the Master Chief, which means the seven-foot-tall Elites will actually look huge, like they should. At least I hope so!
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I'm interested to see how Bungie got permission from MS to do a 'somewhat' Halo game. Probably in the form of $$$$$$$
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Failure to care imminent.
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I'm interested to see how Bungie got permission from MS to do a 'somewhat' Halo game. Probably in the form of $$$$$$$
Well, if Bungie volunteered to do any more Halo, Microsoft would be all over it. They're still on good terms, and Microsoft is probably going to continue publishing many of their games.
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Failure to care imminent.
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I know, I know. I'm sorry I enjoy Halo, I'm an uncultured buffoon. Can we just talk about it a little without too much disdain?
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Eh, Halo's fun, problem is like anything, some folks just take it a leetle too seriously. :P
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If you can excise it from the massive hype machine built around it, it's a genuinely entertaining game in its own right. I've only ever played the original on the PC, but it would be interesting to see what else they can pull off in this universe.
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But that's it. It can amuse you, but if you search a good story, go play a RPG. If you want tactics, go play Raven Shield or something.
It's fun when you don't take it too serious.
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Failure to care imminent.
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But that's it. It can amuse you, but if you search a good story, go play a RPG.
Compared to a majority of RPGs Halo's story is actually fairly awesome, as it requires much less severe levels of invoking the idiot ball and the like. Certainly it has any Final Fantasy you care to name beat all to hell in that department. It's also often much more coherent.
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I've seen the video, i just need to hear more about the gameplay. All in all, i will be playing this. If only for more story. :yes:
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But that's it. It can amuse you, but if you search a good story, go play a RPG.
Compared to a majority of RPGs Halo's story is actually fairly awesome, as it requires much less severe levels of invoking the idiot ball and the like. Certainly it has any Final Fantasy you care to name beat all to hell in that department. It's also often much more coherent.
Yeah, I agree. But we really don't need another discussion on the merits of Halo.
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No, we do not.
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This is HLP, we don't let dead horses rest without giving them one last good kick. :p
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But that's it. It can amuse you, but if you search a good story, go play a RPG.
Compared to a majority of RPGs Halo's story is actually fairly awesome, as it requires much less severe levels of invoking the idiot ball and the like. Certainly it has any Final Fantasy you care to name beat all to hell in that department. It's also often much more coherent.
Yeah, I agree. But we really don't need another discussion on the merits of Halo.
How about the merits of Halo 3.5 (which is what this seems to be)
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This is HLP, we don't let dead horses rest without giving them one last good kick. :p
x 1000 times.
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But that's it. It can amuse you, but if you search a good story, go play a RPG.
Compared to a majority of RPGs Halo's story is actually fairly awesome, as it requires much less severe levels of invoking the idiot ball and the like. Certainly it has any Final Fantasy you care to name beat all to hell in that department. It's also often much more coherent.
Yeah, I agree. But we really don't need another discussion on the merits of Halo.
How about the merits of Halo 3.5 (which is what this seems to be)
Right, because it's an expansion set. This isn't a big project, just filler before their new IP.
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*Cracks knuckles* I'm a total curmudgeon when it comes the pile of shattered dreams that has become of the Halo universe, so you'll excuse me for taking a few extra kicks at the deceased equine.
But that's it. It can amuse you, but if you search a good story, go play a RPG.
Compared to a majority of RPGs Halo's story is actually fairly awesome, as it requires much less severe levels of invoking the idiot ball and the like. Certainly it has any Final Fantasy you care to name beat all to hell in that department. It's also often much more coherent.
See, that's the thing, you're right and wrong here. The Halo universe is a great damn sci-fi smorgasbord of spaceships, aliens and plasma. It's a well structured, coherent and logical creation. Above all, the universe is interesting. Which is why it's such a crying shame that it was utterly wasted and smeared by the abortion that was Halo 3.
As per a previous post of mine:
Halo 3 really fell down in the story department. And by fell down, I mean down a disused elevator shaft. Onto several dozen bullets.
The transition from Halo to Halo 2 was relatively smooth. Master Chief escaped, Halo was destroyed. The opening cinematic picked up pretty much where the game ended. Apparently, that was too much to expect from Halo 3, which began a good while after the conclusion of Halo 2 and stoically refused to help the player fill in the gaps. Better we just do what the game tells us, and don't ask questions later.
Everything sort of spirals downward from that inauspicious beginning. Ignoring the innumerable smaller issues, the biggest problem with Halo 3's storyline was that it took itself way, way too seriously. It aimed for complex, and hit confusing. It aimed for poignant, and scored laughable. I went in at the start expecting to be blown away by new revelations and having the mysteries and complexities of Halo revealed to me. By the half-way point, I had resolved that I would be happy just to have a few loose ends tied complete with a nice ending. By the finale I had totally lost any interest I had in the storyline, I just wanted to get it over with so I could give the multiplayer a half-assed go.
If you're like me and actually felt immersed and interested in the Haloverse story by the end of Halo 2, don't bother looking any further. You'll find nothing but overwhelming disappointment. Such a promising new sci-fi universe, such a ****ing waste.
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I agree that Halo 3's story was a horrible letdown. I can't help but feel that it was somehow dumbed down or neutered for the younger fans.
The announcement trailer was so spectacular, too. It was disillusioning to realize that when they rendered that trailer they didn't know where the story would be going from there -- it wasn't until later that they conceptualized the whole idea of the Ark being a distant megastructure rather than an artifact buried on Earth.
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I too was expecting loose ends to be tied up, questions answered, and to actually 'Finish the Fight'. But no, the ending I get screams HALO 4, but will, of course, not deliver. Made it seem half-baked and rushed
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I particularly hate the "happily ever after"ish ending. I want to know what happens to Human-Sangheili relations, I want to know what happens with the remnants of the covenant, among many other things. =/
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buy the next MS console, you will have to, to find out.
or youtube it when it arrives.