#2049 - Blade Runner editionCampaign Evolved News:>August Update and Free Armorhttps://www.halowaypoint.com/news/campaign-evolved-august-update>Campaign Evolved has sold 1.2 million copieshttps://alineaanalytics.substack.com/p/halo-campaign-evolved-has-sold-12m>Campaign Evolved reportedly had "troubled development"https://www.ign.com/articles/halo-campaign-evolved-reportedly-had-a-troubled-development-that-impacted-a-now-canceled-multiplayer-projectGeneral Halo News:>Campaign Evolved reportedly outsourced to numerous studios, potential future Halo project from Sledgehammer Gameshttps://wccftech.com/halo-studios-outsourced-campaign-evolved-15-studios-activision-sledgehammer/amp/>Martin O'Donnell claims he was disinvited from event for being a Republican Politicianhttps://nypost.com/2026/08/13/media/composer-of-halo-video-games-marty-odonnell-says-he-was-disinvited-from-convention-event-for-being-a-republican-politician/>Halo Studios hit by Layoffshttps://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/halo/halo-studios-is-the-latest-xbox-games-studio-to-be-hit-by-layoffs-just-days-after-campaign-evolved-launch-as-reports-reveal-troubled-developmentPrevious >>578314350
>>578596559Hope you boys had a good weekend
Halo 4 should have been about discovering that Humans = Forerunner.The antagonist is a rogue human element (ONI?) which abuses this fact to make a splinter faction which enlists the covenant, where they worship the generals of this group as the rightful gods of their religion, displacing the prophets. You get a kind of heart of darkness style storyline where chief and the UNSC have to crush this rebellion as they seek to use the Halo rings and the flood,(and maybe those big robots from 5?) as ransom against humanity in order to secure their territory in space and become a dominant force in the galaxy. It would be the first time that you face human players as enemies, as they fight alongside elites, grunts etc. They have some kind of spartan like augmentation making them formidable. Additionally you could see what life is like on covenant home worlds, seeing their civilian life, maybe even have some "are we the baddies" moments where some elite women are begging not to be killed or whatever.Then the climax of the story is at the point of crushing the splinter, Cortana goes rampant and we get the premise of what Halo 6 was meant to be. All this time we overlooked the impending AI threat while the organics were busy nearly destroying the galaxy all over again.You have the theme of: is cortana actually wrong? or is she the correct ruler of the milky way.Then 5 is the conflict of chief needing to destroy his GF big sad.Its crazy because this is so much better and could easily have been thought up instead of FORERUNNER = AYYLMAOSand its actually retarded that the cortana storyline was just all finished off screen between 5 and infinite. 343 are so fucking retard
humman is forrerunners
>>578596767>>578596772it's overI'm sorry but it's over
>lore autism>reddit spacingshan't be readingI probably agree with what most of it says even, but I'm just not gonna do it
>>578596743A
>>578596857
>>578596743FUCKING
>>578596743CUP!
>>578596857its not lore, its story. thats the exact mistake that 343shitters make.learn the difference faggot.>yes i use spacing and i have also never used reddit.
THEY'RE SELLING GAMES WITH A FUCKING CUP
>>578597119
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>its not lore, its story
>>578597119green man go shoot aliensthere's your storyif you have a problem with that, you hate pure undistilled raw halosimple as
>>578597338trvke
the forerunner tank
>>578597503yawn
>>578597338that is literally 343 propaganda to cover how fucking shit they made the story of their shit trilogy to the point they had to reboot it like 3 times in a row.people loved bungie halo because the shooting ayylmao was punctuated by an epic story which draws from biblical and poetic themes. it gives a motive to the gameplay, to get from A to B.
>>578597567>yawnfiltered
Bleach is the root of all.
>>578597578>if you're not a lore autist, it's because you're a 343 shill!Whatever helps you sleep at night, buckoNobody is defending 343's scripts.
>>577892768Halo is endless.
>>578598428False.Halo is not a Coloring Book.
The Endless has arrived
>>578598421erm ackchually that picture you posted relates to the halo rings, youre not allowed to do that because thats lore autism. youre only allowed to look at the funny grunts as you plap them with the BR with the confetti skull on otherwise you hate halo. just consume product and get excited for next product.
>>578598923are you autistic?Be honest.
>>578598923nah he's rightThe forerunners were better when they were surrounded in mystery. Yeah H=F makes sense but we could piece that together back in the first game, with the second game having it in the original storyboards. We don't need to be beaten over the head with it in the 4th game on top of that. The plot trend had run its course. Halo is about the Warthog and the world the devs made to drive around in it. The story takes a back seat to the gameplay.
>>578598810>Halo is not a Coloring Book.Not so fast.
>>578599463trvke
>>578599498AAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>578599498>had to add adult to itkek
How can I be a Halo Youtuber that can make money talking about the games I grew up with?It's not fair.
>>578599498WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
>>578599498AAAIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>578599463This writeup of mine doesnt require going into the lore that much, hence why it isnt lorefaggotry. you could even leave it ambiguious and have the ONI group assume they are forerunner because they can activate the rings. autism or not this is the halo general, and i like writing fan fiction and correcting the mistakes we all saw in the 343 series as best i can. and in the 5 minutes it took to write that slop i think i did a better job, so what does that tell you about 343. i just fucking hate them...
Humans = Forerunner, and it was a good thing that the Halo 2 sarcophagus scene never made it in.
H/F posting has become autism unfortunately
how do i get a halo friend
>>578602264all lorefaggotry is autismIf you're still playing halo for the story in 2026 you lost the plot a long time ago2's story was a rushed mess, and 3 is a hack job
>>578602346people might play tomorrow nighteither way hang around enough and a game night will prop up
Microsoft literally just needs to make me in charge of Halo.I should have say over what weapons, maps, abilities, deployables, cosmetics, story elements, and characters are in the game.I don't want to toot my own horn but I'm about as big of a Halo superfan as you can get, not just because I love Halo and grew up with it, but because I actually UNDERSTAND it.My Halo would be the ideal next step for the franchise, and anyone who has a problem with it or doesn't like it is just too retarded and shouldn't have a seat at the table of discussion on what Halo is and isn't in the first place.
What if Master Chief was BETRAYED and TRAPPED in da cord for a ten year plan?
forced
>>578602346Message Gobiin Slayer
>>578599463>Halo is about the Warthog and the world the devs made to drive around in it. The story takes a back seat to the gameplay.
IT'STHE MOTHA FUKIN
>>578602703he's too pervy. i just want a normal buddy :(
I ain't gonna do anything perverted calm down.
Male Spartan II on Female Sangheili
>>578603104Male Spartan II (Me) with Biological Female companion AI (Cortana)
CEASE
>>578603104Male Spartan II (me) on Female Kig-Yar
Halo has no real fans. The tools have been available to the fans to make their own shit for ages, and they barely do anything with them.The only thing we got is SPV3 and Ruby's Rebalanced.Can /hg/ refute this?
That's enough, Gobiin.
>>578604374>hey man you need to suck off at least 3 big name modders in the discord if you want to know anything about these tools :)
>>578603079shut up clown
I met the arbiter
the greatest multiplayer since halo 2
Black Ops II?Yeah, and it's cool to see it get a revival as well
soon
>>578608258keith david?
RIP>San'Shyuum (Latin Perfidia vermis, meaning "Worms of Treachery")Prophets lied to Elites
Marty's not gonna like that one.
>>578575459idgi
what does that mean
>>578604374I started making a map at the beginning of the month. It sucks. The lighting engine is so fickle and has so many esoteric rules. Shit will break at a moment's notice, and it takes 5-10 minutes to build lighting on even the lowest settings. I don't even want to think about what the workflow would be for something bigger than a 1v1/2v2 map.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1UtRnGn5hc
GOOD MORNING MINTO
>>578596559Durandal > Cortana
>>578604374I'd use them but I'm just one guy and not a very intelligent one at that
Is this the halo thread?
>>578624586It's not that hard to figure out general concepts, but small details will drive you mad.
They should get rid of everything after Halo 3 and get Chris Avellone to write the new Halo 4, also you should play as a new Spartan like in Reach. Oh, and bring Marty and Michael back.
>>578627503You can't have a consistent and well written universe and keep Halo 3 in it.
>>578627503What could you even do with a hypothetical Halo 4 that would both be able to stand alongside Halo 3 and not diminish anything from it?The Covenant was only barely defeated with the help of the Elites, humanity would have gone extinct without them. Humanity as a whole is in no shape to be fighting wars. Bringing back the Flood would make the entire ending of Halo 3 moot.
>>578628308>mootwho?
>>578602465I believe you king
>>578628308Not wars, maybe. Secret missions by ONI to help stabilize the UNSC and allow humanity to survive in a warlord-era Covenant, perhaps. The warlord would be more interested in fighting each other and taking scraps, rather than finishing off humanity, it's all about making sure pro-human warlords like the Arbiter win.
>>578629060Halo is at its best when you're in large-scale environments with combined arms combat.
>>578629286wrong
>>578630064>silent cartographer>metropolis>the ark>the covenantI'm right.
>>578630179nuh uh
>>578630403ya huh
Ya'll need to hop on Quake fr.
>>578631042nah
>>578632401yah
>>578596767ah yes, and i forgot to add, at the end of halo 5, john halo kills cortana and its top 10 emotional moments in all of gaming, earning critical and mass praise, and at that moment the precursors come to take over the galaxy again, and the only thing which could stop them was cortana. THAT WAS HER KNOWLEGE ALL ALONG. SHE STILL LOVED HUMANITY SHE WASNT CRAZY AFTER ALL.then halo 6 is fighting against eldrich time manipulating precursor giga chads as the entire galaxy unites to resist them, mass effect style. you also have to revive cortana and reunite with your wife, and modify the halo to kill the precursor genetic code.CINEMA
Classic Forerunner architecture.
>>578596559Reach a good shit
>>578636172>dual wieldingYeah, that's Halo.
>>578614908communist faggot, good riddance
>>578638601What is Atriox's political and economic ideology?
>>578638846he was a voluntarist until the infinite rewrites made him a comically evil retardhttps://youtu.be/mRYWiHg1Oo4
>>578639534Shame about that. Should not have made Banished main enemies, I suppose.
I need to rip Cortana's models from Halo CE, 2, 3, and 4. Have people made uploads of them on the internet with intact scale and weights or am I better off trying to rip them myself from MCC? I want to play around with modding them.
>>578639858could still have them be the main enemies without them having rape camps and breaking chambers
>>578640109Anon, what are you planning to do with them...?
>>578631004>>578632242First time I actually laughed at anything flood related since seeing a combat form do a gangam style dance
>>578640349ayy
We are not mind-broken. Of this I am certain.
>>578640312There are some experiments I've been wanting to perform for a long while.
They turned him into an elite then had him try to rape john halo
ONI glowies...
>>578640312he is going to load the models into modded skyrim, if you know what i mean
>>578627282despite the wreath of public modding knowledge, small concepts of builtin game dev shenanigans is what filters midwits and seethers so it checks out
>>578632401this
>>578627282If you want to do rebalances and small scale shit sure. BSP's will fuck you up.Not in the error way where it's clearly bitching about portals or open edges, in the way where it will compile with 0 errors but won't generate pathfinding navmesh or light properly because fuck you.
>>578640312Don't get any funny ideas.
>>578604374Only modding I have done is for Crusader Kings 2, where you just edit the text files, scripts, maybe import png files and such. Even that was annoying, even if easy.
>>578641137no such thing. even in odst and reach where they were treated as sort of shadowy, oni were just a recon force like they are in real life. they spy on the enemy and study their technology. halsey was doing this in reach. dare was doing this in odst. oni recon 111 was doing this in halo 3. you have been subverted by 343's fag fiction. in the cold war, oni were sonar operators, number crunchers, and electronic warfare officers. they were always at sea. never got any time to see their family or just rest. they always had some special task to accomplish, which could be something as simple as comparing a narrowband frequency from the maiden voyage of a soviet submarine to it's 2nd and 3rd deployments. with this microscopic change in acoustic signature, they could predict when a nuclear submarine would be brought back into home port for refit. all of this data coalesced into a bigger picture that showed the general timetable of the entire soviet navy. Halo's oni is no different than that. >but le spartan programhalsey was a rogue. constantly doing shit she wasn't supposed to like making an ai that could break into encrypted files far above her clearance level. she does not represent the organization
>>578643339Why does AI need this sort of curvature?>>578643574ONI, pls.
>>578643663343 faggot
>>578629286>Halo is at its best when you're in large-scale environments with combined arms combat.nah6v6 is the sweet spot
retard above
>>578643884The best 6v6 maps have vehicles on them.
>>578629286this
>>578643339Holy heavy duty thighs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98MAUutsvVk
>>578596559Did Halo (let's say just Bungie ones, but you can include everything) or original Marathon games have a better story?
>>578647645Halo is the better one.
>>578647645Marathon's story is too cryptic to even be considered a "story". It's not told directly to the player either. I shouldn't have to run around the map looking for a terminal just to get some vague text about what's actually happening behind the scenes. There's a difference between having a mysterious story and simply refusing to actually explain what's going on. If the player has to piece together basic plot points from scattered terminals, cryptic dialogue, and obscure bits of lore, then the game isn't really telling me a story, it's giving me homework.Environmental storytelling and ambiguity can be great when they're used to add depth to an otherwise understandable narrative. But when the entire story is presented that way, it becomes difficult to care about what's happening because I have no reason to be invested in the characters, the conflict, or the stakes in the first place. I shouldn't need to dig through every corner of a map or research the lore outside of the gameloop just to understand what the hell is happening.
>>578648703I see. Maybe the age of those games is what caused these problems, or rather maybe the budget. But I wouldn't know. Weird if it was intentional.
>>578648703>I shouldn't have to run around the map looking for a terminal just to get some vague text about what's actually happening behind the scenes. There's a difference between having a mysterious story and simply refusing to actually explain what's going on.It was still pretty early in the game as far as 3D titles went, this was 1994 after all. Marathon walked so Halo could run.
>>578649145“Marathon walked so Halo could run” might be true, but that doesn't really refute the criticism. Games like System Shock and Wing Commander were already doing more direct storytelling, so it's not like Marathon had no other options. Maybe Bungie was too dumb to figure out how to put the story bits at the center of it's presentation.
>>578650214Wrong
>>578644160>The best 6v6 maps have vehicles on them.What does this have to do with anything?There are 4v4 maps with vehicles.
I feel like a lot of people don't realise just how many assets Halo 2 Anniversary reused from Halo Reach (it's almost as much as CE Anniversary did), just with 2K textures and specular/gloss PBR. t's really not much better.
>mfw discovering the Halo 3 flood transformation animations for the first time on YouTubeI never actually got to see any in the game during the floodgate level because we killed all the infection forms before they could infect any marines
>>578648703>If the player has to piece together basic plot points from scattered terminals, cryptic dialogue, and obscure bits of lore, then the game isn't really telling me a story, it's giving me homework.You just described modern Halo
>>578654184I dunno, original Halo 2 is kind of fugly to me, well, mostly. With CE it was different, and while I don't have this hatred for CEA graphics, I can understand not liking them. While for H2A I like how it looks.
>>578650214System Shock was significantly harder to run on hardware from its era than Bungie's Marathon on top of having very different system specs to target. System Shock received a CD-ROM version with full voice acting for SHODAN and audio logs out of the box. Macs running Marathon in its original release targeted standard floppy disks with CD-ROM being an afterthought, and they didn't have the sound processing capabilities that the PC had. That's why you had a MIDI soundtrack instead of a CD-ROM soundtrack.
>>578653330They're still large-scale areas with combined arms combat.
>>578657907ok
>>578655169CD a shit
There is no inner circle.
Irregular circle, however...
The unusuals?
>>578627282Niggsy I can't even mod gen 3 Pokemon without my brain going splat like a giant popped whitehead, I'm legit retarded
>>578661537Gen 2 is easier to work with, I think.
Marathon... it's finished.
>>578604374>SPV3>Ruby's RebalancedYou missed one.
>>578665653>>578665870>>578666036purchase a requisition
nah
humans are forerunner
>>578674262this
HE is not gonna like this...
Are you a Halo hater? (Yes or No)>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWACLbMjHfU
Honestly Halo CE is pretty overrated.
>>578676696The custom games were good, better than infinite
>>578654184>I feel like a lot of people don't realise just how many assets Halo 2 Anniversary reused from Halo Reach (it's almost as much as CE Anniversary did), just with 2K textures and specular/gloss PBR.>t's really not much better.343 contractor dev said in the H2A vidocs that it's easier to reuse an asset than to make a new asset from scratch.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9-Wk_R3SPwBungie always went harder because they wanted to. Microsoft expected Halo 3 ODST tier quality from Reach, but Bungie revamped their engine, remade every animation, remade every asset, just cause.
>>578678420>343 contractor dev said in the H2A vidocsStates the engine was outsourced to Ruffian Games https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65_lBJbAxnk
>>578678420The Halo 5 ghost has a texture resolution of 2048 x 2048 while the Halo: Reach ghost has a resolution of 1024 x 1024. While the textures in Bungie's games are lower resolution due to hardware constraints, they use tiling detail textures and detail normal maps to give the impression that they're higher resolution than they actually are. See those scratches and gouges on Bungie's ghost? That's the result of a 256 x 256 detail normal map tiled and overlayed on top of the ghost's base 1024 x 1024 normal map. The hexagons are also 256 x 256 and are tiled over the diffuse, which is also 1024 x 1024. Bungie used these tricks for almost every asset in Halo 3 and Reach. When you combine that with good shading, you get a fantastic looking model.343 does not use detail textures like this. The only one I can remember was in Halo 4, where they had a detail normal map for scratches and cuts on the armors.>No real LoD system in Halo1, 2, 3 and ODSTBungie did some clever kind of layer stacking/ LOD streaming in Reach that makes everything look pin-sharp when you're up close. Reach relied heavily on post-process effects like bloom, fake hdr, ambient occlusion, grain, and motion blur. Since it had been made as an Xbox 360 exclusive, the look and strength of the effects were tied to its resolution of 648Automated Level of Detail Generation for Halo Reach (Bungie's Xi Wang)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnzcuJOT1ek
>>578678296>The custom games were good, better than infiniteInfinite's forge and customs are literally just a better version of 5'sYou just have nostalgia for playing with friends when you were younger. The game in question is largely irrelevant. Most Halo diehards will say 3 and Reach's customs were the best because the community was more alive.
The part where Cortana says "and yet" has to be the cringiest line in the ip.I think it rivals or dethrones "to war"
>>578679075QRD>Certain Affinity's Bryan Moss>H2A was built for Xbox 360 and was too ambitious for the Xbox One Jaguar CPU>7 months development to make 6 maps for MCC>Reused assets because lack of dev time and because it keeps the franchise consistent at the time>Certain Affinity devs thought polygons were free lol>Engine was outsourced>They had no time to make assets and reused assets from other games>The LOD system in halo is actually it's it's pretty neat it's got some cool things to it at a distance it will actually create a very low res version of the geometry it puts a cheap shader on it actually bakes some vertex colors on there well when it samples aligning it if lens pretty well for bloodline we had to bring that way way in because the shaders are very expensive now so you actually most people couldn't even see them so it did a pretty good job very few detail objects in the middle of math when in the middle of map you're actually playing if they did a good job clearing everything out without it feeling too naked and open. the grass doesn't help with that we had some strategically placed rocks but we couldn't have a lot of objects in the middle we just couldn't afford to render it and the poly counts we had to keep as low as we possibly could this map had the lowest poly count of any of our maps>Couldn't afford vehicle visual effects >"Polygons with be free next gen! Polygons with never be free!">H2A maps have a weird colour palette
>Bungie HaloHalo CEHalo 2Halo 3 + ODSTHalo: Reach>Ensemble HaloHalo Wars>343 HaloHalo 4Halo 5>Certain AffinityHalo 4 MP mapsHalo 2 Anniversary MP>15+ contracting studiosHalo InfiniteHalo: Campaign Evolved UE5
Whoa Cowboy!
>>5786816045 sucks
>>578679075>the engine was outsourced to Ruffian Games...Bau Bau...
>>578681805>>578682331Halo 5 was actually well balanced. H5 Magnum was also top tier kino. Tom French is based
>>578681604For me, it's Bungie Halo, minus Halo: Reach.
>>578682331Still not as bad as 45s had a shitty marketing campaign that didn't represent what actually happens in the storyTook time away from Blue Team for Osiris missions but at least the missions themselves were more varied and weren't as monotonous as 4s, go here, press this switch4 had the worst faction in the franchise to fight, much more tolerable in 5Basic multiplayer was much improved over 4Better post launch support (even with microtransactions turned up)Not oversaturated as fuck like 4 which again is the worst looking game in the franchise4 is so bad that it makes it sound like 5 is being praised when people point out how terrible 4 is
>>578596559>giant Cortana is gianternew fetish unlocked
>>578664879No, I think it's just getting started
I'm tired of Cortana's character assassination by 343 going completely under the radar since Halo 5 and InfiniteThey massacred my girl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvWe-uJ8jMw
neat
>>578682701>Halo 5 was actually well balanced.yes they made every weapon hyoer viable and as a result gun grabbing was doaShit game
I....AM...ANON...!THE VOICE OF /HG/!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9R_W23yiyI
>>578689983shut up
>>578689495They always were.
Would you play this game mode if it came back to MCC?
Define "Being true to Halo."
Does being true to Halo mean add sprint to CE? Or maybe it means changing the voicelines of some characters but not others? Or perhaps it means retconning the original game's lore.
Halo 2 was the perfect game. Excellent story, amazing gameplay, satisfying multiplayer. It didnt hold your hand. The music....perfectYou can't understate how disappointing Halo 3 was back in the day>worse campaign>worst writing>worse maps>Floodgate and Cortana are arguably the worst maps in the entire franchise>Guardian is a worse Lockout>Blackout, Guardian, Construct, Foundry, Orbital, Snowbound all sucked as far as comp goes>Construct, Guardian, The Pit, Narrows were shit>they had to remake Zanzibar, Lockout and Midship lol>H3 AR is a joke>H3 BR feels very janky, especially when compared to the Halo 2 BR>Equipment is so bad that they were removed in matchmaking lolDebate me.
>>578692767>>H3 AR is a jokeThis is how I know you did not bother to actually use it.
>>578692767>>Guardian is a worse Lockout
its over
>>578694749>Halo 2 has better maps than 3yeah obviouslyHalo 4 maps even give 3's a run for their money
>>578694749I did not say thatbut I do agree with it
>>578692767>Halo 2 was the perfect game.No and I won't read any further because you've already lost.Halo 2 is an awesome game and I have so much love for it, but it fundamentally can't be perfect because it's objectively unfinished.The nicest thing I could say about 2 is that it might be one if the greatest unfinished rushed games ever, but it's still unfinished and clearly rushed.
Halo 3? Wide as a puddle deep as an ocean, I always say.
>>578647645Marathon by far. Yeah it's not in your face but it's filled with so many interesting sci-fi concepts. You need to break out the flow charts to talk about Marathon Infinity's story.Halo is in your face and shallow as hell, fuck most of the "depth" Halo CE has is just a Marathon reference lmao.
>>578682719Based based based
>>578692767kill yourself
>>578596951>clown shoes343 or whatever they call themselves need to be shot
>>578647645Halo has a really interesting world and setting with cool lore but the actual game narratives peak at simple and effective (CE) and devolve into unfinished lopsided action movie (2) and weird minimalist fever dream (3).Marathon has the more interesting narrative, and takes a much bigger swing.
>>578602346do you have supple thighs?
Remember when Halo 3 had these concept art static backgrounds and then they just slapped a vehicle flying on it.
>>578701484unfinished game
>>578701484I always thought they looked pretty bad. The transition to resolutions above 640p really didn't help them either.
>>578620219I am 200% sure that after this, any future "no PvE mode at launch" plan Halo Studios, and generally the majority of Xbox and Playstation studios had planned for their shooter games, is no longer releasing without at least some dumb shootable NPCs either in their own primitive PvE cope mode made out of spite or a full blown proper campaign or maybe even straight up as part of the whole game at large as complex enemies.Marathon is still fucking baffling to me. Bungie really confi-fucking-dently released the "Halo spiritual Prequel" with no fucking "Spiritual Prequel Covenant" (the P'fhor) present in the fucking slightest in any of the pseudo-open-world extraction maps besides a single cannon fodder enemy, practically a grunt or shieldless jackal, buffed to the level of a Destiny raid boss, given touhou bullshit attack patterns alongside a lazer and also hidding it in a room that can only be accessed by doing some "PayDay 2 Death Sentence difficulty" ultrabullshit strats that less than 99% of the playerbase ever got to because the game is, will soon be a "was", atrociously sweaty and the vault that bitch is hidden in also asks for multiple unmarked passkeys that are not even guaranteed to spawn all at once every single session, that also coupled with a not any generous timer and the map filled with hitscan armed knockoff robo-UNSC spawning in bulk and other players tweaking out of their minds trying to accomplish the same stupid near "nintendo hard" objective. Even with the kitbashed PvE only vault breaker, that is, was, still insanely hard. How i would hope the NDAs would expire tomorrow so all the beans could be spilled while collective memories are still fresh of the soon to be cancelled or severely downsized Bungie and also Marathon's development entirely or almost entirely.
>>578701860>pretty bad*kinoyou are a soulless devil spawn
>>578701947but but but PVP is THE braaaaains..
The requirement of humans to fire the Halo rings was always really fucking stupid to me. What was the plan if the flood escape containment and spread throughout the galaxy, due to being accidentally unleashed by a third party (e.g. Sangheili, San-Shyum, other species from outside the Milky Way etc.) while humanity is at a stage that it hasn't left the planet. How to fire the Halo rings then? Or what if a mass extinction event occurred and the entire human race was made extinct.
a general would get into a game with a bunch of 20s and his teammates were so jealous and envious that they threw the game to derank him
hey /hg/,Lets rewrite the post Bungie Halo story.Rules:> 1 line of greentext per post>must reply to the last poster in a chain>posts not in chain are invalidGoal:>piss (You) offI'll start:>Thicctana wakes Chief from cryo sleep>...
>>578705298>>Thicctana wakes Chief from cryo sleepalready ruined
>>578596767>Halo 2 credits - Community TeamFrank O'Connor>Halo 3 credits - EditorFrank O'Connor >Halo Legends credits - Creative DirectorFrank O'Connor>Halo: Reach credits - FRANCHISE DEVELOPMENT DIRECTORFrank O'Connor >Halo 4 credits - Franchise DirectorFrank O'Connor>Halo 5 credits - Franchise Development Director Frank O'Connor>Halo Wars 2 credits - Franchise Creative DirectorFrank O'ConnorJust a qrd that Frank O'Connor is a former Official Xbox Magazine editor that wrote Bungie's Weekly Updates and then became Halo's franchise director, retconned the lore, hired Greg Bear, Karen Traviss, Kevin Grace and Brian Reed to write the Reclaimer Saga
how do i meet cute halo boys
>>578697913>>578692767Leftover files from early builds in the Halo 2 modding kit explain Chief's presence in the Quarantine Zone storyboards:Originally after killing Regret the Chief was to steal his Command Shuttle to escape and rendezvous with Miranda and Johnson. There's even leftover dialogue scripts about how Cortana hails Johnson for extract after killing Regret but there's too many Banshees preventing him from getting near.
>>578705298>Chiefs heart shatters due to damaged equipment
>>578706656>Cortana is left alone wondering if she'll ever get to experience balls slapping against her clit
>>578706774>suddenly the forward unto dawn shutters and creeks
>>578706893>Cortana uses the ships remaining cameras to see whats going on
>>578707124>The ship is in a in a jar that is about to be inserted into the rectum of the big humanoid she's ever seen
>>578707267>another humanoid cums in the jar before insertion
>>578707378>A banished fleet contribute their loads to the jar
>>578707664>the unsc spirit of fire cums out of slip space with an all hands on deck order to fill the jar
>>578597578>>578598421The passionate group that made Halo CE and Halo 2 are long goneJason Jones.Joseph Staten (wrote Halo CE, Halo 2)Marty O'Donnell and Michael SalvatoriJaime GriesemerMarcus LehtoRobert McLeesShi Kai Wang (Covenant designs and Halo's anime influence)Paul RusselPaul BertoneDavid Candland (Halo main menu / HUD / UI designer)Max Hoberman (Halo 2 MP)Chris Carney (Blood Gulch)Steve Cotton (Forge World)Tyson Green (The Library, Sniper Jackals, Halo 3 MP)Chris ButcherHao Chen (Halo 2 and Halo 3 water)Mat NoguchiLee Wilson (Halo CE, Halo 2 Beta, Halo 2 Retail, Halo 3, Reach storyboards)
>>578708060>The jar was a Flood trap to get enough biomass to take over the galaxy
>>578708535> gunnery Sergeant Cuck zips up his suit and realizes what hes been apart of
>>578702602Nah. I love matte paintings in films.But low res compressed matte paintings that have nothing but a vehicle flying by the camera ain't it.
>>578701484>>578701860>I always thought they looked pretty bad. The transition to resolutions above 640p really didn't help them either.They remastered them in MCC.>Halo: The Master Chief Collection Patch Notes – 7/14/20 Audio has been updated with Waves integration, aligning closer to Xbox 360 quality. Several matte paintings have been updated with higher fidelity versions in Campaign cinematics.Customization has been updated to support individual armor pieces and tertiary colors. Emblems now display on armor in gameplay. Footsteps in the snow no longer appear with black textures.Fixed some incorrectly lit particles when Scarabs or Phantoms were destroyed.Hornet and Brute Chopper turning speed has been improved to better match Xbox 360.Added the Fuel Rod Gun, Sentinel Beam, Carbine, Mauler, and Plasma Rifle as starting weapons to Custom Games.Fixed an issue where the prowler was misrepresented as the mauler in tools of destruction on the Post Game Carnage Report.Fixed issues where some strings extended outside of the gametype objective widget in non-English languages.>Halo 3 and Halo Reach’s audio predated higher level sound middleware such as WWise or FMod studio, and was built directly on top of Xbox 360’s XAudio. (A low-level sound API that predated XAudio 2)https://web.archive.org/web/20200731204512/https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/mcc-development-update-june-2020https://web.archive.org/web/20200801033832/https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/mcc-development-update-july-2020https://support.halowaypoint.com/hc/en-us/articles/360045689232-Halo-The-Master-Chief-Collection-Patch-Notes-7-14-20https://www.halopedia.org/Series_2:_Spark
>>578708778>Cuck and a small teem of ODSTs get one last goon in before battle
>>578708831>>578708936When performing these updates, what did you see as the most challenging or rewarding parts in performing these updates?Horia: The challenge was figuring out how the old cinematics were built. There were a lot of brilliant, yet very old school tricks used to fake a bit of motion and flare to these scenes, and sorting out how the texture masking systems worked to pull off some of these illusions (billowing smoke for example) took a little bit of trial and error on our part. In going through this process, was there anything you found or cool parts you wanted to share with the community?Horia: One cool surprise was that I found a source texture for one of the backgrounds that was painted by the original artists, yet this final version was never checked in. So, in the Cortana mission, the shot that has you flying over burning wreckage- well, what you saw in Halo 3 was not the final art that was intended. Now we have this more detailed, finished piece of artwork that was never implemented either mistakenly or due to time running out, and I was able to up-res that version into our game. I felt a bit like an archeologist! You could say that in a very small way, this most recent release will be a more true and complete version of the original Halo 3. Now where's my Indiana Jones hat?
>>578708996> The jar overflows forming a second Milky Way
>With the move to Xbox One, our entire codebase needed to shift from XAudio 1 (which existed only on Xbox 360) to XAudio 2 (publicly released). For PC, due to Windows 7 compatibility XAudio 2.7 was the only version available. Unfortunately, XAudio 2.7 had some instability around device switching and source voice stops (which cause audio pops at transitions) – Recently Microsoft has made a version of XAudio 2.9 available for downlevel platforms and we’re currently moving MCC over to a consistent XAudio 2.9 everywhere. The result is more stable gameplay with audio device changes and fewer artifacts (clicks/pops).Who knew it would be so hard to port OG Xbox games and Xbox 360 games to modern Windows.
Halo MCC Updates (Ruffian and Kornman00) that were 404>MCC Development Update - April 2019 (Reach)https://web.archive.org/web/20200903125808/https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/mcc-development-update-april-2019>MCC Development Update - May 2019 (Reach)https://web.archive.org/web/20200906131442/https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/mcc-development-update-may-2019>MCC Development Update - September 2019 (Reach)https://web.archive.org/web/20200903111443/https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/mcc-development-update-september-2019>MCC Development Update - December 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20200903141845/https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/mcc-development-update-december-2019>MCC Development Update - February 2020 (Halo CE)https://web.archive.org/web/20200903115140/https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/mcc-development-update-february-2020>MCC Development Update - March 2020 (Halo CE)https://web.archive.org/web/20200903141642/https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/mcc-development-update-march-2020>June 2020 (Halo 3)https://web.archive.org/web/20210422055739/https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/mcc-development-update-june-2020>MCC Development Update - July 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200827151147/https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/mcc-development-update-july-2020>MCC Development Update - August 2020https://web.archive.org/web/20200930185843/https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/mcc-development-update-august-2020>MCC Development Update - September 2020 (ODST)https://web.archive.org/web/20201001110450/https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/mcc-development-update-september-2020>MCC Development Update - November 2020https://web.archive.org/web/20210306111832/https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/mcc-development-update-november-2020>MCC Development Update - December 2020https://web.archive.org/web/20210228190159/https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/mcc-development-retrospective-december-2020
Is we playing Halo Effect?
done bullying vulnerable retards for the night on /vg/.good night /hg/ love yall niggas <3fun lobbies 'n games soon...
>>578712334one more thang>>578596559https://youtu.be/8r7RWTaGezc?si=yvW5vmUOGCXK5DRV
>>578706351I always said that Quarantine Zone was over too soon. Or at least the post-barrier fall segment. It really looked like both the UNSC, pre-schism Covenant, Flood and Sentinels were supposed to have one final playable all-out-throwdown akin to CE's late stages before the radical ending of the status quo as we knew it with the inevitable Schism.If they modify Halo 2's story harder than CE in the remake, I hope they make Sacred Icon and Quarantine Zone considerably longer, hell, i still wish they would add UNSC enemies to at least Quarantine Zone. There's only one in the entire level, the Marine flying away with the Pelican while sitting in his Scorpion after the Reclaimer/Genesong segment. That guy is very fun because he can shoot back and he can instantly kill the player in one shot in Legendary despite physically having no angle to achieve that shot. Good times. How i hope the inevitable H2 remake would make them even better.
>>578665653Something like Ultimate Firefight should be in all Halo games, but with more optionality and polish.
>>578706351>>578714705Post more Halo 2 dev history and cut content
>>578692767I can only speak about the campaign, but yeah it was kind of boring. 2 was better, even if it has more contrived writing than CE. I would say Reach's campaign is more fun than 3s.
>>578692767>Excellent storyOh no he's confusing good dialogue for good story.
>ELITES DINDU NUFFIN THEY WUZ THE TRUE VICTIMS THEY WUZ LIED TOFuck 2 and 3's story. Master Chief watches from the cuck chair while the Arbiter gets revenge on Truth for being lied to. Humanity doesn't win shit.
>>578717323>>578717381Post your genuine criticisms of Halo 2's story and writing. Debate me.
>>578720969I have been posting bits here and there.Like why are there so many Flood human or covenant forms when it should be from that other race on Delta Halo.Why Gravemind does shit it does, instead of like taking Amber Clad and fucking off somewhere and building an army that Covenant wouldn't be be able to stop and so on.I don't even like premise of Halo themselves, because if you can just kill all random life on the Galaxy then you could create smaller targeted weapons to wipe out Flood in large areas but without nuking the whole Galaxy, but this is not really Halo 2 specific. I think the less info we had on Flood, Halos the better it would be, since you could just speculate away.I think there are more contrivances in the plot, but I forget it now, as I don't do as well with logical points in the plotlines.
>>578721970>I think the less info we had on Flood, Halos the better it would be, since you could just speculate away.Joe agreed that bringing back the flood in Halo 2 was a mistake>Jaime GriesemerI think if we just kept ourselves to the things we cut from Halo we would’ve been okay, but we didn’t do that. We tripled everything. The engine was torn completely apart—for the first year of Halo 2’s development, we couldn’t play it, which makes it impossible to make any real progress. >Joe StatenWe didn’t want to churn out another copy of Halo. We wanted to do something unexpected and give people a view on the Halo world that they didn’t think they’d get, and make that really relevant for gameplay. On that score, I think Halo 2 succeeded pretty admirably. >Marty O'DonnellWe had a great plot twist in Halo when you discover the Flood. We kept that secret from everybody—it was a wonderful moment and a great reversal, as everything you thought you knew now was different.I told Joe that I didn’t see that in Halo 2. He replied, “It’s when you realize that you’re playing as the Arbiter.” But no, that’s not a plot twist. It just isn’t. I could never convince them it wasn’t. It wasn’t a good reversal; it was just a mechanic that was unsatisfying. >Joe StatenWe wanted to explore more about the Flood itself, which was a challenge because I couldn’t quite wrap my brain around it. I couldn’t quite figure out how to make them a race you cared enough about. And I think you can see that in the Flood sandbox being more of the same. I mean, no knock on Jaime, as he spilled tons of blood on the project. But I don’t think we really ever got Halo 2’s Flood right in a way that anybody was satisfied with.
>>578722383I would say those quotes show that they were not sure how to move forward. But I think Halo 2 is overall still a satisfying game.
>>578722383>We didn’t want to churn out another copy of Halo. We wanted to do something unexpected and give people a view on the Halo world that they didn’t think they’d get, and make that really relevant for gameplay. On that score, I think Halo 2 succeeded pretty admirably.Halo 2 could have just been a CE map pack.
>>578722383God Bungie liked to fucking whinge.
>>578722383>>578722857Arbiter? Covenant? Writ of Union? Grunt Rebellion? The taming of the Hunters? Talking plants?Come on, Joe. Halo should be darker with a more grounded military feel. Reach is the best and ideal Halo.
Every time I see that Atriox mustache man from bleach on twitter or tiktok I giggle to myself like a retard. I haven't even watched his stupid cartoon you fags broke me.
It's just Baza.
>Halo Infinite
Stencil Shadows, coming to a Project Cartographer near you! A toggle video option is planned to swap between the twohttps://xcancel.com/Halo2_PC/status/2089695117800054871
Rise and shine nigga
waga na wa juhabaha
>>578716347This.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGXZH3PAEEY
>>578726913Isn't this just the mcc mod?
>>578735327It's probably better and easier to work with.
https://x.com/i/status/2092056930374062123halo on the wii i guess
>>578726913Strap a bomb to stencil shadows
>>578708464nah
>>578722857They were having a midlife crisis for sure.
>>578602465is this true
>>578748041Yes.
>>578602264this can't be true..
>>578701484it was a better time.
>>578686717yeah
Tell me, why did some of The Regulars buy Marathon?
Tell me, why do room temperature eggs taste so mid?
https://www.reddit.com/r/halo/comments/1vy0rsz/xbox_x_mcdonalds_side_missions_ad/
>>578629286yup
ForcedAll of it
When you first saw Halo Reach in 2026, were you blinded by it's petroleum shmear? Paralyzed? Dumbstruck?
>>578640996what happened to him
We just don't know.
Where the fuck does the "nooo Forerunner structures aren't metal they're like stone/concrete!!! not metallic!!!" thing come from?
>>578756205From real Halo games and Bungie devs. Next question.
The Plasma Rifle should have been the weapon capable of causing an EMP on vehicles. The Plasma Pistol was already too versatile.
>>578756283You mean the game where all the forerunner shader names are like "metal plate floor.shader_environment"?That game?
>>578756753And Master Chief is a cyborg too, yes.
>>578756753This is autism.
>>578692767>worse campaignMy opinion of H3 is lower than many but H2 campaign is a bore>worst writingIdc about story shit>worse mapsbest H2 maps > pretty much all H3 maps > worst H2 maps>Floodgate and Cortana are arguably the worst maps in the entire franchiseYes but Uprising, High Charity and QZ are up/down there>Guardian is a worse LockoutYes>Construct, Guardian, The Pit, Narrows were shitThey're all solid>they had to remake Zanzibar, Lockout and Midship lolLast Resort is kino>H3 AR is a jokeEvery AR aside from the pre patch cemake AR is a joke>H3 BR feels very janky, especially when compared to the Halo 2 BRPrefer H2s BR but it's whatever to me>Equipment is so bad that they were removed in matchmaking lolWhat no it wasn't
Halo 2 Anniversary multiplayer is pretty underrated, in my opinion.
>>578762319It's alright. It plays well enough because it's just a fixed Halo 4, but it's ugly as sin.
>>578761176>>Guardian is a worse Lockout>Yes
>>578762319It's definitely overrated, it's just Halo 4 with a different skin without out the bloat
halo 5 - the last amazing halo
>>578764437trvke
halo 5 - the least amazing halo
>>578703867Halo's story is better the less you think about it
>>578766051+1
NHH
Nigga hates Halo
3 > 2
2 > 3
3sk > all
CE > all
SPV3 >
>>578771815
all > 2
my peenus weenus > all
yhwach > all
>>578770609>>578771227>>578771815>>578772045>>578772128>>578772785>>578773098>>578773475Forced.
>>578773475>yhwachThe Who?>>578773823The What?
The Endless.
The Meh?
Eh? Sex?
halo was JUST mentioned at gamescom
>>578776085What did they say?
Project ACKer will save us...
I love Halo!
>>578776435I love Reach femspartan ass.
Is there a particular reason why they didn't add the DMR, Grenade Launcher, or Concussion Rifle?Playing through it, they put the Beam Rifle and Submachine Gun into the vanilla campaign so it's just weird how they selectively avoided Reach stuff.
>>578779448They haven't added the Brute Shot in infinite, a Brute centric game, and you want them to add the lesser Brute Shot in Campaign Evolved?
>>578779846the spiker is in there
brute cock is nice owo
pretty small tho
>>578783167compared to their size sure but it's pretty big compared to humans
I would NEVER submit to Brute Cock!Change the subject.
>>578785595meow
oh god she's hereabandon thread
This thread is out of tune, because I neglect it
This thread is seared just the way I like it
How do you think he's taking the news?
Boo nigga.
This is boring without Brazil.
>>578788530
>>578788983nah
you don't speak for me.
OH SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT
>>578789253>slops up 343 shit>the mere MENTION of another dev getting a chance has him screaming at people about how terrible they areI am warming up to the idea that he could be an unironic actual paid shill
>>578701063uh yeah i gues but i've got a nasty (imo) tanline, i exfoliate and use cerave SA cream on the regular but why does that matter
>>578716529During development the devs had sex with actual women, a trend that would continue until sometime after Halo 4's Cortana design was finalized.
(You) are getting the Master Chief McDonalds skin right?
The thread, I'm going to sage it.
>>578789869watch out
What do we think of the new E-Day trailer?
you now remember Cal 141
>>578793294who?
>>578792702what?
>>578793294Umm that isn't JOBsuel
>>578721970>instead of like taking Amber Clad and fucking off somewhere and building an army that Covenant wouldn't be be able to stop and so on.Sure, go basebuild in a corner and don't interfere with the group that is about to fire all the Halos and wipe out the galaxy again by accident, sounds like a brilliant plan.
>>578790907I want someone to get it for me
it's UPhttps://www.halowaypoint.com/news/mcc-mod-minute-3
>>578796667Buy an ad.
>>578796667Actually a shit mod with decent ideas.
halo pingas evolved
>>578796806That's every mod
>>578796920nah
>>578796667>dino mod first thing firstlol
SixSeven
Dead meme
Do you kno da way
racist dead meme
>>578797671SPIT ON HIM!
>>578797730kek'd
>>578797671hawk tuah!!!
Was MacReady The Thing?
>>578798453Nah but it doesn't matter either way.
>>578778943I love any gigantic fem-Spartan ass
>>578798453My ex sorta got spoiled from the beginning when i got her to watch that movie with me lol because she understands the language being spoken by the guys chasing the dog
The Thing or the Flood? Who wins?
Is we reading Maria Holic 2?
https://x.com/Grummz/status/2092293733714915648
>>578803820What did they order?Besides the moa nuggets.
>>578803941Fish Filet
>>578803820Does this mean Halo is Overwatch?
I'm literally Tracer.
>>578804109Yeah.
>>578804109Fallout too
>>578803820FORZA IS HALO. FORZA IS HALO. FORZA IS HALO. FORZA IS HALO. FORZA IS HALO.
>>578803820Sir please understand, Moas are an endangered speciesLimit 2 cartons per costumer
I really don't get it.McDonald's is like the most American thing ever.Xbox is the American video game console/publisher, and Halo is their staple franchise.Why is the fucking McDonald's/Halo crossover not happening in America?
Halo is Irish nowDeal with it chud
Maybe they're afraid of losing the European audience for good and are pushing some marketing strategy over there.
>>578806653>Maybe they're afraid of losing the European audience for good and are pushing some marketing strategy over there.Halo was only popular in USA
>>578807115Halo was pretty popular in JapanJapanese fans were pissed that Atsuki Tani and Akiko Koike were replaced by Rikiya Koyama and Ayumi Fujimura in Halo 4>On August 24th, Soutaro Tojima, the audio director for Halo 4 announced that there would be a change in the Japanese voice over cast for the main characters, Master Chief and Cortana. While the English version voices would remain as Steve Downes for Master Chief and Jen Taylor for Cortana, the Japanese cast (originally Atsuki Tani and Akiko Koike) would be replaced by voice actors Rikiya Koyama and Ayumi Fujimura.>The change in cast was almost immediately met with a stream of confused, worried and angry twitter posts directed at Tojima and his decision. Tojima replied that the voice cast choice was “strongly influenced by ‘my own feelings'” and that when the game is released and people play it, if they are disappointed by the cast, it will be entirely his responsibility. Unsatisfied with Tojima’s response, Japanese fans have put up an online petition to have the original voice actors reinstated.Halo's Japanese cast:>Master Chief John-117Atsuki Tani>CortanaAkiko Koike>JohnsonKôsei Hirota>343 Guilty SparkRyûgo Saitôhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is9Rud2V1Wohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn07wS3lqughttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYRaHLSzpGc
>>578807771>Halo was pretty popular in JapanThis may be one if the least accurate statements ever made in this generalHalo has sold abysmally in Japan.You can find random twitter posts for anything, it doesn't change the facts on the ground or come close to representing something "pretty popular"
>>578807771This is literally the Asian equivalent of "there's even a petition that's garnered tens if signatures"If Japs want to have a say in what happens with Halo, they should actually play the games (they don't)
>>578807115Halo is also liked in Mexico and England, which are generally more Xbox-friendly than other parts of the world
hmm today i shall reply to pastas.>>578807771delicious
MACDONALDSMACDONALDSKENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN AND A PIZZA HUTMACDONALDSMACDONALDS
da cord is being too racist
>>578808125Campaign Evolved sold really well in Japan thanks to the PS5 release. The fans even love the dub.>ボイス取り直してるんだな。昔より自然な訳になってる。>おかえり、マスター・チーフ>全体的に演出がクッソしょぼくなっているし、声優の演技もなんか棒読み過ぎないか?あえてこういう声にするよう指示しているのかわからないけどセリフ回しのテンポもとにかく悪い。洋画的な小気味良さがなくなってないか。リメイクは素直に嬉しけどさhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcScqQGDuks
>>578808647>Campaign Evolved sold really well in JapanOh so they like fake Halo, cool, good to know
>>578808647>Campaign Evolved
>>578808647the euros don't play halo tho
>>578808647nah
>>578808870>Halo is not Japanese in the slightestAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>578808870>stores stocking less than 10 copies>can't sell them allfucking kek the absolute state
>>578808870the ai got that one!
pictured: the only countries that actually matter for Halo
>>578809145based and the superior PNW is north of the border pilled
>>578808694>>578808774Japan doesn't like Xbox consoles.Peter Moore tried with Xbox 360 and even beat PS3 to retail stores. Steins;Gate, the original Xbox 360 release. Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon. Kinda crazy Xbox had exclusive JRPGs. They never came close to being successful in the Japanese market but Microsoft was really trying in the 360 days
>>578809145where does the new zealand fit in all this?
>>578809246If you're talking about just the level 2 biome, then sure.Overall though Washington State has significantly more biome diversity than British Columbia does though
>>578809307Which is weird because they're kind of obsessed with American Culture.
>>578809307MS should keep tryingSony is a cancer
>>578809307got any more tasteful pasta?
>>578809498They're not even big on Sony anymore either.It's almost all Nintendo.The Switch 1 almost sells as much as the PS5 does there. The switch 2 dominates.
>>578809446microsoft is inflective of the culture tho. it is america C, not B or A for that matter.
>>578809628>They're not even big on Sony anymore either.>It's almost all Nintendo.You forget that this whole thing started when Jim "there is zero interest in games and IPs from previous generations" Ryan somehow managed to become CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment.>Forced every PS Studios developer to work on a GaaS project>Kept buying other game developers to add more GaaS projects to the growing list>Bought Bungie but gave them full independence from SIE, which is what allowed them to do all the stupid bullshit from the past 3-4 years>Put Bungie in charge of every GaaS project, who wasted no time sabotaging them all so that Marathon wouldn't have any internal competition to worry about>Forced the Japanese PS5 to use X as confirm, and then told everyone that Japan is one of the least important regions for Playstation>Gave himself nearly a billion dollar bonus and put the Horizon Zero Dawn creator in charge of SIE before taking the golden parachute out the door>Shuhei Yoshida says the rise of AAA games shut down Japan Studio because Sony "wanted to drive hardware sales with games like God of War and Uncharted" >Naughty Dog spent the entire PS5 gen without releasing 1(ONE) game, with Intergalactic still years away eating up budget >Insomniac had to clean house after everything got leaked and restarded development on Wolverine >Sucker Punch absolutely fucked Yotei up so vad they shut down the MP after 2 months>Bungie still pouring money down the drain with Maraflop and now having shut down Destiny 2, the only game that was making money And yet they shut down Japan Studio, the only dev who didn't have any internal drama nor where they bleeding moneyPS6 is going to flop in Japan
>>578809768>What's stopping Sony from shutting down Bungie and firing the person who had the idea of buying them?Jim already left (see above), and while Sony might want to give Bungie the Soprano special they can't make a move until their shareholders vote on it. It doesn't help that SIE put Bungie down as an impairment loss for the previous fiscal quarter, severely downplaying just how much of a financial black hole they're dealing with in layman's terms, they're waiting until next quarter to write down $4.5B as a loss just in case Marathon somehow, someway begins making profit for them.
>>578808237>If Japs want to have a say in what happens with Halo, they should actually play the games (they don't)Satya Nadella wanted to kill Xbox a decade ago, Phil Spencer held off Microsoft from gutting the Xbox division, including Halo, until they fired him and thus they lost the only one fighting for them to keep their jobs for the past decade. Not even Microsoft cares about what happens to Xbox lol>Xbox Indian CEO Asha Sharma just announced firing 3,200 Americans.>She filed for 5,000 H-1B visa hires this year.>Asha was appointed CEO of Xbox in February by Indian Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.
>>578803820Buy an ad.
Halo is anime and Japan is Halo.>https://youtu.be/9dwp8sWNstY?t=287
You now remember the Halo 2 French leak>Is it true? Is Halo 2 really leaked?>It seems to be that way, yes. It would seem that the french PAL version of the game has surfaced on the internet.>Did Bungie get hacked or something?>Of course not. This is almost positively the work of some jerk in the manufacturing plant who pocketed the game as it is being printed in mass for world release on the 9th of November. >Last night a pirated copy of Halo 2 was released onto the internet. Needless to say we think this really sucks. Aside from years of hard work being stolen from us, we've gone to great lengths to ensure that the details of the Halo 2 campaign remain a mystery for players to experience for themselves on November 9th. Microsoft is currently engaged in a full scale investigation and to those foolish enough to partake in this piracy, you will soon witness the firepower of this fully operational battle station.
>witness the firepower of this fully operational battle station.
i will show you a french leak...
>>578810558Funny how GTA6 doesn't have a physical release to prevent leaks and yet it got leaked anyway lol
>>578808931>Halo is not Japanese in the slightestThank god
>>578809770>PS6 is going to flop in Japanthat would be glorious
it's over
will you quit the halo hobby?
>>578809246>the superior PNW is north of the borderHalo is based on WA, not leaf land.kys
>>578805541Promotions are weird.Notice how there's no Gears even though that's the big game for Xbox this year.Sometimes these things are in the works a long time ahead of time.
>>578811857>Notice how there's no Gears even though that's the big game for Xbox this year.You can't stress enough how Xbox's soul and old guard is gone>Ed Fries >Seamus Blackley (he wanted Xbox to be Dreamcast 2)>Peter Moore>Bungie and Halo>Peter Molyneux and Fable>Todd Howard and Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim (Where's Elder Scrolls VI???)>Cliff Bleszinski and Gears of War>Bioware and KOTOR and Mass Effect>Shane Kim>Phil Spencer>Microsoft 'Gutted' id Sofware with layoffs>Microsoft outsourced Campaign Evolved to 15+ studios It's just Indians now
>>578812868You forgot Ensemble who were closed down by Don Mattrick
Halo should be outsourced to Japan.
>monkey rape guy's mass blocking the community againYour franchise writer btw.
...who?
Alex Wakeford/Haruspis
>>578818083The fernando retcon makes no fucking sense. If the family in the video wasn't even his, why did jega use it to torture him?
>>578818730I thought it was implied that the hologram thing wasn't his because he stole the pelican itself, but maybe I'm just racist and assume the spic would steal shit by default.
>>578790907China skin looks dope!
>>578790907put the fries in the bag
It's over.>https://youtu.be/AG4ssBG0WlI?t=857
>>578816564Considering how anime-inspired were the designs of most stuff all the way up to Reach's weird and controversial western-eastern mixed artstyle, i can't see how a Japanese studio could fuck it up. Halo Studios would still inevitably seethe about having to address the mandatory loli in waypoint posts or later through the expanded lore though.
>>578821092nah
Bungie's intended ending for Halo>Halo 2Arbiter stops Tartarus and Miranda deactivates Delta Halo. Chief is on Prophet of Truth's Forerunner ship as it emerged from slipspace over Earth.The Ark was to be a Forerunner structure buried under the city of New Mombasa.Arbiter confronts Truth on his lies and snaps Truth's neck as Master Chief deactivates The Ark. The Ark then begins collapsing in on itself and the Master Chief-Arbiter pair prepare to follow 343 Guilty Spark and escape the structure once and for all. Chief fights his way out and Arbiter follows 343 Guilty Spark into The Ark's Data Vault and learns the truth. Miranda and Johnson survive.Cortana is trapped with the Gravemind as Flood overtaking High Charity. The Covenant is in civil war.Marty O'Donnell: "All that stuff was going to culminate and end on Earth. And it was going to be the end of Halo. We had no plans to do another game after this. It was like: this is how Halo ends." Joe: You know, even at the end of Halo 2, we never planned for the Master Chief to make good on his promise to Cortana to come back and get her.>Halo 3While being held captive by the Gravemind in High Charity, Cortana sends a message to Chief about her plan to get the Flood to go there, activate an unfinished Installation 04(B) and have that wipe out the Flood completely without having to kill all life in the galaxy. The Ark is now a portal to Installation 00. Truth kills Miranda with a spiker. Arbiter confronts Truth on his lies and stabs his sword through Truth's back as Master Chief deactivates The Ark. Chief rescues Cortana and destroys High Charity. Spark kills Johnson. Chief kills Spark. Arbiter and Chief escape through the portal, but the backside with Chief doesn't make it. Arbiter and Rtas ‘Vadum – the Spec-Ops Commander hunt down the remaining Prophets. Master Chief and Cortana drift forwards "forerunner planet".
>>578822213neat friend
>>578799082BRAAAAAP
>>578822213>Rtas ‘Vadumhe's called halfjaw
Goodnight.
good night minto
>>578796667cool
What would you do in this situation?
>>578803820holy cringe
>>578807115CE was popular in Eastern Europe, but since Halo moved to consoles it only regained more audience recently.
>>578832692Brute Hunter meeting some Homo Brutes.jpg
>>578816564
>>578822213Bungie's cut story ideas for Halo>Halo CE- After T&R: Captain Keyes and Chief return to Alpha Base and commands that he will take a team to capture Halo's weapon cache while Chief and Cortana search and find Halo's map room- Silent Cartographer was going to be about assassinating a Covenant Prophet who had the keys to Halo's control room (moved to Halo 2)- Assault on the Control Room was originally going to be centered around a Volcano where Covenant was trying to break into the Control Room with a proto-Scarab- Master Chief returning to the Control Room of Halo, only to find Cortana had gone mad with power and now wanted to take over the universe - Master Chief was meant to burn Keyes' skull out of the Proto-Gravemind with a flamethrower- The Maw was supposed to feature a 343 Guilty Spark boss fight (moved to Halo 3)- Cortana stays behind on the Pillar of Autumn while Chief escapes on an Bumblebee escape pod (no warthog run)- There were ideas for Flood be a bioweapon engineered by the Covenant in 1998>Halo 2- Covenant ship was supposed to have a gondola section. Forerunner Tank was supposed to have a gondola section. Jason Jones had a thing for moving BSP- Heretic Leader was going to be a Hunter- In the original confrontation between Thel and Sesa: Sesa tells Thel to "ask the Oracle about Halo.." only for Tartarus to interrupt by killing Sesa. As opposed to in the retail, Thel hears the Oracle out and Sesa just opens fire on Thel instead of holding out hope that his old friend can learn the truth.- Delta Halo's opening was supposed to be first person with the player looking out the windows from ODST Pod and be a stealth mission with silenced SMG (moved to ODST's opening)- Prophets would explain the Writ of Union (Prophet/Elite war) to Arbiter before Sacred Icon / Quarantine- Miranda was going to strap a bomb to Chief and push him into Delta Halo's ventilation shaft to destroy the Gravemind in an earlier draft
>grunts are canonically called goyswhat did bungie mean by this?
>>578698772>>578700975Maybe so. Maybe you could say that Marathon's story is delivered in a poor fashion, but themes it explores are deeper. Durandal was based.
>>578838083Ungoyim trust the Prophets.Goyim nations abandon their gods to worship Abrahamic god that will supposedly give them Salvation (Great Journey).lole
>>578832692plasma grenade
>>578816564>>578821092R3000 Spider Tank from Mamoru Oshii's 1995 version of Ghost in the Shell in Halo 2 storyboardshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIBKvocczU8
Halo 2 has peak designs
>>578837629- Arbiter Introduction was to start in first person with full movement and camera control. You would have been sitting in a jail cell and then have been able to melee attack the Brutes as they unlocked your cell etc.https://twitter.com/joestaten/status/1067193426964230144- In Delta Halo, after Chief kills the Prophet of Regret, he would have commandeered a banshee to meet up with Johnson and Miranda (H2EK deltatemple.hsc)- Team UNSC and Arbiter would be on two gondolas both charging for The Index / The Icon. Miranda and Johnson get it first and fail to radio while Arbiter and the Chief get into a fight. Tartarus interrupts and his brutes take Miranda and Johnson, who have the index, to High Charity. "Flood Hulk" appears and crashes into the platform that drops Arbiter and Chief into Delta Halo's ventilation shaft. Chief would land on a ledge, find a brute shot, and get caught in the Gravemind's grasp. Arbiter is not far behind and later snatched by Gravemind. Cue the "Gravemind" cutscene>Arbiter and Chief into Delta Halo's ventilation shaft and Forerunner Tank fan remakehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA3tpTqBuIg- Gravemind / High Charity was supposed to end with Prophet of Truth shutting out Prophet of Mercy, and Mercy becoming a wizard boss fight- Cortana is left behind because the Chief couldn't get her in time, with Chief physically reaching for the hands of an AI, regrettably leaving her. H2 Retail Cortana chooses to stay in High Charity.- The Great Journey, when the Arbiter saves Johnson, he was originally supposed to fight the Brutes in an awesome cutscene. But this got shafted to game play. - Master Chief emerging from the dust cloud (moved to Halo 3 E3 2006 and Starry Night)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9Ezd2FqxAU- Prophet of Truth would have a special medallion https://web.archive.org/web/20210406174730/https://twitter.com/joestaten/status/1358173717659066376https://x.com/joestaten/status/1358173717659066376
>>578837496link to mod
>>578842386get some clothes, Slutana
>>578845124
The Banished and Durandal work for the same goal.
>>578851126What goal do the Banished have?
Why does the Witcher 3 remaster look better than Halo Crap Pain Evolved, and how is it free while Microsoft charges money for a game that doesn't even have multiplayer?
>>578852974Escape demiurge's whack ass universe prison.
>>578858326How does a game's popularity peak during the couple days of paypig early access?
>>578858326post numbers
>>578862112We dont have the real numbers because everyone plays on gamepass and Steam isn't that popular.
>>578862484It is estimated that it is the second most played Halo game after Infinite so that should tell you something.
>>578865845It tells us nothing as the number of gamers has grown exponentially since 2001 and comparing player counts of games today against those of games even just 10 years ago is completely meaningless.
>>578858326I only play MCC, sometimes with mods.
>>578866697More than 600 people were playing Halo PC 20 years ago.
>>578867924I was one of them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lZKfM77PO8
>>578858326We made this fiction as a inside joke.
this thread means so little to me now
We don't care.
We are the relevant
especially with the faggot above still going just put this shit on youtube or somethingpeople may actually see them
I'd filter his channel there, too.
Nelson Mandela
New book announced >Coming in early 2027, the next novel by acclaimed author Troy Denning is Halo: Fireteam Noble. Today, we're thrilled to reveal the cover art by Garrett Post depicting Jun-A266's return to combat alongside characters both familiar and new!
>>578873140just use the ai to filter.
>>578873695Troy Denning is perhaps the most demented rapist of Halo that The Devil could possibly conceive of. 343 sucked but at least they never brutally murdered any beloved characters.
>>578874236What about Cortana?
In case you missed it>Sandstone Ancient: L563-J46G-PZN1-SBF2-AXN6>Damascus Prototype: GWT9-DNBT-7X9S-DJCX-8KH3>Recompilation: ZS75-7UM8-C2BL-JE3D-4BFZ
how do you strafe in halo if everyone has aim assist?
>>578875832By moving left and right, mostly.
>>578873695What's going on with that plasma sword
>>578876272but aim assist will follow you no matter what
>>578874496i don't understand the question. are you implying that wasn't a really well put together storyline?
>>578876605do you just never challenge your preconceptions? this is why you fucking niggers are still living in mud huts and shanties while we have central heating and insulation
>>578876605Your roads have no camber to prevent aquaplaning and balance outward centrifugal forces.Do not talk about aim assist until you have mastered these concepts.
>>578873695It's an energy sword variant that was mentioned in one of the Staten or Nylund books, can't remember which one though.Other things that should be noted from this image:>The Phantom and the Banshees are the same models from Halo Wars 2>Spirits are the same model from CE.>The Seraph is the same model seen in Halo 2, the one that the Heretic leader tried to use to escape before the Arbiter stopped and killed him.>That random ass female Elite (Atis 'Moramai) in the cover is using the Accord harness from Halo MCC, armor for Elites made by the UNSC due to the join cooperation pact between them and the Swords of Sanghelios, it's also made in Anvil Station, where Halo Online and MCC multiplayer happen.>Jun and Rosenda are using Gen III refits of his Mark V[B], basically the Infinite version>Rosenda is using the Halo 2 useless pistol>Sigrid is using the Halo 2 BR>Dinh is using the Avenger>Important:I could be wrong but I think that ship in the background is the Ghost of Kholo, the ship of Ilsa Zane, the leader of the Banished absorbed New Colonial Alliance, the "Banished Spartan", the fucking traitor. That ship is very likely filled with Banished humans and Venezian Janissaries.>If Janissaries appear. The book is going to read like an Elimination PvP match.>I could be wrong, but I think they are on Reach or Suban, the red sky and desolate surface is something noticeable of both places.Janissary bosses in "Halo 7"?
>>578880045>Make Noble Team 2>They all die on their first mission to TEMU Spartans.Fucking Jun KEK.
>>578880045If the rumours about the new multiplayer including Elites are still somewhat true, then i wouldn't be surprised if that harness is a hybrid with MJOLNIR technology, so they can wave away complaints about random Elites killing Spartans with ease in PvP. They are all Swords of Sanghelios Elites using harnesses upgraded harnesses in simulations.
>>578880862Nigga who gives a fuck about multiplayer lore loooool
>>578873695There's only 5 nuNoble Team members in that image, my theory that our multiplayer Spartan will become the new Noble Six next game is getting stronger.Helps that our rookie Infinite Spartan did survive and escaped the Academy attack.
CJNPI-P5XNA-5FXNK
>>578882552>code still valid 12 minutes later>RE8thanksnot gonna play it but maybe my wife(female) will
i'm gonna unwatch the threadsee you tomorrow
It's over.
>>578872057I still want immortal grunt, jackal, marine, hunter and so on companions. Would make the mod great.>>578887645>mfw he hits the pozzhole
alright hg your time is up
>zzzzzzzzzz
Is just an ancient slumber.
>>578894285Sleep tight littul pacha
>>578892342Do they like Halo over there?
>>578873695Genuinely seems like an interesting concept. Would've been cooler in a game form.Also why doesn't 343 make more spinoffs? They obviously can't handle the Master Chief story but I could see them be competent enough to make a halo RTS set in the human Covenant war like Empire at war or an Xcom like game.
>>578894789A lot.
>>578881892See the problem with that theory is that it requires 343 to actually continue a plotline between games instead of haphazardly rewriting the canon again because people hated the last one
>>578873695I thought the banished weren't supposed to be the covenant but red
Halo 5 MP is wide as a river, shallow as a pond. I can easily see one shore from the other, and while I probably can't wade across there won't be much swimming either.
Dihn... he's a fighter.
...Why? Why here?
which one of you faggot niggers posted this >>>/fit/77482033
>>578894285fuck you lil nigga
>>578905764Ugly gook thinks she is it
language
Janissaries.
I play Infinite and YouTube just recommended this to me. Is it over for me?
>>578911614>bimboficationCringe.
>Halohttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/lhvumoOR3bU
ULTIMATE FIREFIGHT ANON SHOW THEM WHY I CHOSE YOU
You look nice. :3
>>578873695I like how they mimicked all the poses but completely fucked the plane on which the characters are standing so they all look extremely awkward. They're supposed to be moving up an incline.
https://youtu.be/Dr1sn4jPMMw
Where are they now?
>>578932629like either dead or trans, broski
>>578932629>dead>twitter addicted pedo who doesn't play halo, nothing has changed>sad gay retard, actually plays halo but will probably kill himself soon>active, doesn't play halo, will likely be in prison for rape or kill himself>MIA>dead>dead
the usuals however, well... they're alive... but UGLY
The limited edition Xbox is already sold outYou can still get the controller
Why do 343 have a fetish for retconning things? It's not even limited to the major stuff like the Forerunners, because they go out of their way to write stupid little blog posts retconning minor things where it's just like, what was the point?>In Halo 2, Rtas tells us that Arbiter's armour is an antique piece of shit>The player wonders: "Huh, why did the Prophets give him an old suit?">Halo Wars clears up that question: the previous Arbiter's suit was vaporised and couldn't be passed down to the next unlucky chap>"Ohhhh, okay, that's why they pulled Thel's suit out of a museum">Several years of literally no one complaining later>"HEY GUYZ 343 HERE, UMM SO IF YOU READ OUR NEW BLOGPOST THEY AKSHULLY DON'T PASS DOWN THE SUITS ANYMORE AND THEY AKSHULLY JUST TAILOR-MAKE SUITS FOR EACH ARBITER EVEN THOUGH THEL'S TRIAL WAS LIKE ONE HOUR AGO SO UHHHHHHH EVERY CHARACTER IN HALO 2 WAS LYING I GUESS"
Save Halo in one sentence. Go.
>>578936660Remove sprint and bring back dual-wielding.
>>578936635But give was already retconning shit before 343Yes, 343 was even more cringe about it, but growing and maturing as a Halo fan is leaving lore autism at the door and just enjoying the gameplay loop which is, when done right, one of the best in the industry
>>578936891nvm i'm clearly too tired to post nowI look like an ESLGood night
>>578936782This guy knows ball (Halo)
MODERNWARFAREFOURWONjk it's actually pretty bad
>>578936660Mint and Doki Halo 3 Co-Op
>>578936660Blam engine released under GPL.
>>578893997>>578894285WAKE UP>>578936782>remove sprintok, whatever>dual-wieldingcringe
>>578932629The regulars have been supplanted by... *shudders from the immediate drop in temperature* the Usuals
>>578932629replaced by Irregulars
>>578936660>mega construx announces a new line of sets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK2ZlV5Qdg4Tartarus, put down the popcorn.
>>578940161Ip grabber, DO NOT CLICK
I..... already clicked it
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Straight sex with yeezeid and tavult
peepee grabber, do click :)
>>578940161>Ultimate Firefight SeriesNice.
Ultimate Orgy
of Ultimate Destiny
halo 5 for pc
>>578955448soon
Who got that funny Hiddenxperia image
>>578961472https://rule34.xxx/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=5936998&tags=halo_%28series%29+prostitution+
IP grabber above
>>578961976*peepee grabber
i guess thats it
I am hoping that the increased notoriety lehto is getting lately will get him a role in developing the next halo. If he wants it.
*farts*
Sooo how's it hanging?
Tartarus, how hangs thy hammer
>>578978657is he even trying to win?
>>578980106he's busy lil bro
>>578980106No.
>>578980106His heart clearly isn't in it.He really only identifies as the Halo music guy.
New Marty Cope just dropped for when he loses."he wasn't even trying to win"screencap this
>>578980548>>578980632>>578980712he's busy lil bro
>>578980106He thinks being a trump endorsed candidate is enough
>>578983884>He thinks being a trump endorsed candidate is enoughPretty sure the pendulum has swung the other way on that ideology.
>>578984404pretty sure thats not how any of that works but both of him are busy lil bro
>>578984404Marty isn't exactly the smartest guy, pls understand. He literally won a legal battle against Bungie and still managed to find the biggest rake to step on and fuck himself over immidiately afterwards.
I went to McDonalds todayNo Moa nugs... :-(
>>578984739you're not exactly the smartest guy either
I HAVENEVER ONCEIN THE HISTORY OF HUMANITYHAD THE LEGAL RIGHTTO OWN OR DISTRIBUTETHEMUSICOFTHESPHERES
>>578937023Even /codg/ hates the new CoD>>578984873Marty's not gonna fuck you, budNo matter how much you shill for Israel on /pol/, it's just not gonna happen
>>578985039good of you to acknowledge that he's busy lil bro
>>578985223aaaiiieee...
what is this forced meme?
>>578985223
bringing up marty running for office is certainly forced
>>578985528He's bumping my general, that's all that matters to me
>>578985702it's gonna be great when he loses againWe're gonna clown on him hard
>>578985702indeed it helps to bump the thread with the offtopic posts tho.
>>578985808TRVKEcan't wait for the salt(that being said if he wins I'll give him his roses)
>we
Is MCC ever getting more updates or...
>>578986151this bitch did NOT age well
>>578986151michelle trachtenberg looks weird here. its prolly the lighting.
>>578986151>MCC comes to Switch 2>Tendies can't play it for shit>I can actually start going positive againIt's not fair, but I guess Nintendo is just allergic to shooters not named splatoon
>>578986406>splatoon>shooter
>>578986406The hair in front of the face that abruptly will never not be cringeI said the same thing about the bunny girl in Genshin and the Blonde Blade girl in Xenoblade 2
>>578986406>Nintendo is just allergic to shooters not named splatoonahem.
>>578986878AAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>578986878>even when both franchises are dead, CoD is STILL fistfucking Halo
I want the Wii60 alliance to return
>>578988263>implying it ever left
>>578988263>>578989223theseI've been buying Xbox and Nintendo consoles since gen 5
>>578936396These should have just been options by default. This shit looks so much sicker than those boring black bitch boxes. I would get a controller if I hadn't already gotten a custom one with tmr sticks off ebay. Not buying another.
marty share his thoughts
>>578995512marty has lost his marbles
>>578994694AAAAAAIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>578995512>continue the current sagaWhich saga is that? Why this saga and not any of the others 343 started and dropped immediately?
>>578990598I like to have 4 pads for when the boys come overAlso, my initial one has weird inconsistent slowdown when moving the left stick forwardMaybe there's a way to check with a program
>>578994694the most based thing he has ever said
>>578995512>winning choice so fardark and gritty bros we fucking WON!!!
>>578997110Zeta Halo, the Banished and the Endless I guess
>>578994694I have the exact same question
>>578596767Halo 4 should have been more like Marathon 2 with regards to Cortana's rampancy. 343 had a tremendously missed opportunity for a good story arc here, as she is considerably closer to Durandal's narrative function than her later characterization would suggest.Halo 5 or 6 could have been the final realization of the Cortana letters.
>>578995512>dark, gritty, groundedThat depends on who you ask as to what that means. Is Halo CE an epic space opera, fun and lighthearted, dark, or all of the above?>AtrioxWho?>PVP and PvE equally>competitive is somewhat importantWhat kind of cattle partook in this poll?>their story is completeIn Halo 3 maybe, but what took place since 4 could barely be considered a "complete" story.
>>578936782I still wonder why it can't be a temporary powerup. A couple seconds of twice the firepower with whatever you have at hand save for turrets.
>>578994694If they want to off him, at least have him as Halo 7's final boss, then introduce the Endless giga-nigga afterwards and have him end the saga in Halo 8. Then idk what happens with 9 because by then Steve Downes is 100% dead and the recast will be controversial.
>>579000812>>578999339>>578936635Halo 4 itself is built on hard retconning and hard rebooting everything Bungie established. By retconning Humans=Forerunner, the Human-Covenant War doesn't even make senseBungie's series had two main plots:>Human-Covenant War (Prophets lie to Elites to exterminate humanity)>Stopping the flood Halo 3 resolves these.
>>578994694Atriox is too based for Halo
>>579005027Halo 3 already fucked up the forerunners along with plenty of other plotlinesLooking to it as a resolution is hilarious
>>579008536arguing with H/F autists is not worth itThey have a just cause but like all lore autists they have lost their mind to itI wouldn't bother
All this Forerunner talk, did people actually cared about that shit? I didn't. Like so what if they were humans and it was reveled like that in 2 and 3? What really changes.
>>579008696the forerunners were best when they were mysteriousneeding to constantly go back to them as a story crutch is bad writing.
>>579008785this
I went back to halo 5 and holy hell is it terribleIt wasn't even as dead as I thought it would be, but the gameplay is pretty terrible.I assume 4 is even worse.
>>5790089804 has better maps but worse gunplayI think 5 weeks it out over 4 but yeah, anyone who ever told you 5 was good was smoking some damn good kush
>>5790089805 along with Reach has the worst maps in the seriesBeyond that, 5 as it plays now isn't even the same game people are nostalgic for when they talk about it. There was a major title update that drastically changed the entire game, from weapon spawns to bloom to damage tables to headshot damage to zoom damage (yes that's real)And not just for multiplayer, for campaign as well
Halo peaked with H2 system link
>>579008980>>579009067The problem with Halo 4 and Halo 5 etcUNSC>Spartan IVs are introduced, we are told that pretty much anyone can become almost as capable as the IIs and even cheaper than the IIIs, and they are kinda chumps>In the opening of Spartan Ops, Fireteam Majestic boasted about leveraging their status as Spartans to fuck ladies and then seemed wholly taken aback by the concept of a woman being their the Spartan Commander. >Halsey's Spartan-II's or Ackerson's Spartan-III's, were so far into a moral grey area. Even after the nature of the program becomes public - abducting children, brutal training, drug and surgical enhancement with a failure rate that killed or incapacitated around half of them in the process. Yet they're all willing soldiers who view Halsey as a maternal figure rather than a monster. Hell, they say the Spartan-II program gave them meaning and purpose. But the sad reality is they literally don't know how to be anything else. >Everyone is just like “oh, chief is here, great we can use the help.” Nobody seems to care that he finished the fight.>Ackerson and Parangosky were ONI to the core>Kilo-5 butchered Nylund's lore and this was used as a foundation for Halo 4. The flash-clones being Halsey's idea is something Kilo-5 retconned into the canon. As described in the Fall of Reach, the flash clones were an ONI black op that Halsey authorized. Forerunners>Forerunners are not humans. The entire franchise stopped making sense here>Frankie creates Ur-Didact as the final boss of the lore only to kill him in a comic book>Requiem is clearly inspired by Onyx. Onyx Sentinels are stronger than the ones on the ringsCovenant>Jul M'Dama is built up in the books as this rising Covenant leader with real motivation, to continue the war against humanity until we couldn't threaten Sanghelios as a power or the Elites as a species, then jobbed out in a cutscene
>>579008536>Halo 3 already fucked up the forerunners along with plenty of other plotlinesQRD?
>>579009567>The problem with Halo 4 and Halo 5>autistic loreshit essaynah
>>579009724muh terminals
>>579009213>Beyond that, 5 as it plays now isn't even the same game people are nostalgic for when they talk about it. There was a major title update that drastically changed the entire game, from weapon spawns to bloom to damage tables to headshot damage to zoom damage (yes that's real)MCC players wouldn't know how bad Halo 4 was on release. No weapons on maps, killcam, Infinity Slayer, removal of flag juggling, no red X's, CoD loadoutsHalo 4 had this major title update btwhttps://www.halopedia.org/Halo_4_Title_Updates#Weapon_Tuning_Update
>>579009567>bookshit
>>579010117terminals are basically bookshit tier
>>579010165the tu didn't really fix anythingit just changed the meta gun from the DMR to the BR
>>579009567>built up in the books
Gears of War unironically has better books than Halo
>>579010761343 hired a bunch of authors who hate military scifi to write their books
the 343 books are worse but the bungie era books are terminally overrated
Remember when Halo Infinite was supposed to be about Mendicant Bias? ...I have walked among men and angels for three thousand years. Time has no end... no beginning... no purpose. I wander the earth, seeking forgiveness for my horrible crimes against God and man. I live to see death and destruction, evil... over the light. But the light cannot be extinguished. I live in a prison of my own demise. I am lost... in time
>>579011312>Remember when Halo Infinite was supposed to be about Mendicant Bias? no?
>>579011192>>579011306>the 343 books are worse but the bungie era books are terminally overrated343 writers overall are better than Bungie's writers.Frank O'Connor, Greg Bear, Karen Traviss, Troy Dennings, Kevin Grace are far better than Joe Staten, Eric Nylund, Rob Stokes
>>579011708
>>579010117>>579008536>Halo 3 already fucked up the forerunners along with plenty of other plotlinesHalo 3 concludes Joe Staten's story perfectly. It is a flawless run.>Contact Harvest>Halo CE>Halo 2>Halo 3Truth knew the rings would kill everyone, and he purposely wanted to reset the galaxy with himself as god-king. This explains his callous attitude towards his fellow prophets, and why he was okay with starting a civil war between the Elites and Brutes - he was removing his competition and causing a distraction at the same time.Arbiter kills Truth. Chief destroys Gravemind on High Charity and Installation 04B.Meanwhile, after 2008, Frank O’Connor was a nobody media guy with his own headcanon of what Halo should be about. He was put in charge and appointed Brian Reed to write Halo 5.>Frank's first job in the magazine industry was Amstrad Action's position of Staff Writer. Frank left AA after issue 71 to work on EMAP's Computer and Video Games (a.k.a. C+VG). After his stint on C+VG Frank came back to Future Publishing to edit the Nintendo games magazine Total. Appeared, as co-commentator, on many GamesMaster episodes during the second and third series from 1992 to 1994. Later moved into the games industry; worked as Editor in Chief on DailyRadar.com, an online video games site. Later held the position of Executive Editor on the Official Xbox Magazine. Worked as Content Manager for Bungie; the developer of Halo series, Myth, Oni, and Marathon.
>>579011708>343 writers overall are better than Bungie's writers.That's possible? Like maybe their overall bodies of work are better but their Halo works are worse.Like I said though it doesn't really matter that much to me because the Bungie books themselves are nothing special.
>>579012867>lumping in bookshit with the trilogy>>>/out/
Halo 3's narrative focus is just kind of shit in generalEverything from the terminals to the overreliance on exposition dumping and contrived convinience of plot details.Halo 2 should have been the end as planned.3 does play well though, which I guess is really what matters for the most part, but it's still annoying that we could have had a perfect duology and instead had to settle for a flawed but still great trilogy.
>>579017137it makes senseAfter H2 Bungie was checked out, and it really shows in 3 and Reach.The fact that they are as good as they are given the dev's heart no longer being in it as much is honestly impressive
>>579017137>>579017262Halo 3 is Halo at its peak>Most memorable story moments>Best ending>Best levels>The Ark and The Covenant are peak Halo, nothing else comes close>Best multiplayer maps>Best weapon balance, everything is viable>Best ForgeHalo 2's campaign is busted jank compared to Halo 3's extreme polish and great design.
>>579017137>Halo 2 should have been the end as planned.Cortana trapped with Gravemind is not a satisfying ending.
>>578873695Loads of people really dislike that an elite is being attached to a Spartan team.
>>579017543More weapons are viable in CE.
>>579017543>Halo 3 is Halo at its peaktoo cartoony
>>579017543thanks for the pasta /v/bro!
It would be cool if some of the Mega bloks alt builds were turned into actual vehicles. Like this little tankette thing reminds me of the M50 ontos or M56 Scorpion. Either keep it as an recoilless rifle or a gauss rifle could work.
>>579018637M56 Scorpion and M50 Ontos in comparison
>>579017925meh
Which era buck broke Halo the worst?
>>579024949the GOLDEN age era nuff said
>>579024949GoldenThat's when most of the bleeding and transfer happened.Halo really just didn't have as much competition in gen 6.
i really wanna die
>>578995512Idk if "dark & gritty" is the right term but I definitely prefer the more grounded military scifi horror of the original game(s) over the mean monke saga. I wouldn't even call it space opera since characters are constantly dropped and forgotten and what little characterization there is mostly sucks.
>>578807771Isn't replacing a seiyuu/voice actor a cardinal sin in Japan?
>>578832692360 and walk away
Is it finished?
no, it's beautiful
halo dies with me
>>579027965>seiyuuIt's so funny weebs have to have a special word for VA. Weebery is so performative.
>>579042360you know what's also performative? me raping you :^)
Okay... so... hear me out... Johnson is a used car salesman, and chief is in the market for one and willing, but cortana won't let 117 get hoodwinked. And action:
uh, is my cock out?
>>579024949The future era, except COD had nothing to do with it
>>579045981This is cope. Halo was already on its way out back then.
>>579046052It wasn't though. COD MW2 was where it overtook Halo and then Reach was solidly behind MW3 and some other games but it was still doing fine. Then Halo 4 insta-killed the playerbase in 2 weeks and one year later you had to move to a new console with one of the worst launches. If you stuck with that, your reward one year later was one of the worst game launches with MCC.
>>579045981>t. 24 year old zoomer
>>579046295>It wasn't though. COD MW2 was where it overtook HaloCoD 4 overtook Halo 3 in weeks
>>579046295This is true. I was there btw!>>579046359This isn't true. I was there btw!
>>579046359It didn't though. It overtook when it launched since it was later, but then it fell in behind Halo 3 once that initial hype died down, though it wasn't far behind of course.
People in 2009 be like>lmao you playing gaylo still bro? that's a kiddie cartoon game dude hop on cod bro that's the real shitThis is exactly when Halo died and became irrelevant. When the dudebro normie gamer moved on.
>>579046608Related article for some evidence, I know some months of the old Xbox Live top 10 chart can be accessed on wayback and stuff but it's a bit of a shitshow of dead links and I'm at work so don't want to deal with it right now
Lorefaggots are killing halo
>>5790469562008 too, still on top.
>>579047208I liked the screeching from them when Lehto says he'd put a bunch of the lore in the bin and ignore it.
>>579047282It's not inside the bin though. It's the ODST treatment though.
>>579047249And then 2009, Halo 3 is still top of total users, but since you can see MW2 is below the first one, which was obviously not the case when it launched right at the end of the year, you can assume that during the relevant period of November and December that MW2 was top game
>>579047462For some reason 2010 alone is ranked solely by Live users for the first week after launch of their respective games, so I'll skip it (Black Ops was above Reach at number 1 and 2 respectively)2011 though they go back to total users and you can see now that as I said, this is the point that COD actually overtook Halo, and yet the game was doing fine as the 2nd biggest behind that.
>>579046608>>579046956>>579047249>>579047462>>579047725You are looking at the yearly results and nit considering CoD splitting its fanbase with itself.CoD overtook Halo permanently in 2008
>>579008536>>579009724>>579010117The Terminals were written by Frankie (aka proto-343). The actual story of Halo 3 doesn't corroborate any retcons.
But where does the Endless fit into this?
>>579048030The terminals are the least of Halo 3's story problemsPlus at the end of the day they greenlit it, so it's in there and is another problemHalo 3 is just a mess.
>>579048078>The terminals are the least of Halo 3's story problemsHalo 3's script was boring, but it didn't retcon a damn thing.
>>579048138bro there are multiple plotlines that are just dropped99% of players think it happens right after halo 2It's a mess
>>579048045Key to all of this
>>579048191To this day I have no idea why the hunters are bad again or why there's no good hunters at allSomeone once told me "read the book" and I told them to duck offThe terminals, as retarded as they may be, are at least in the game and therefore more relevantI'm not reading some gay book. It's either in the game or it's not. I wasn't surprised at all that bungie went on to pull this crap ad nauseum in Destiny with over 75% of the lore on some internet website
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I didn't like that suddenly the flood can instantly take over bodies. I liked it better when there were corpses lying around as if it took some amount of time.
>>579048343A mix of playtesters being retarded shooting at friendly Covenant (a bunch of friendly Elite encounters still have spawn points in the retail game but it's all unused) and Bungie just not wanting to do anything like that because they hate Halo 2.Why there is only like 2 pairs that you ever fight on foot is another mystery.
>>579048343+1 for the take-1 for the mobilepost
>>579048191That isn't a retcon, at all. Do you know what a retcon is?
>>579048543bro read this book bro
>>579048027I don't think that really makes a significant difference. Most people playing COD at that time likely moved to the next game when it released, and only a small amount got left behind.
>>579048614>TH-THAT DOESNT COUNT!Not even him, but answer why Guilty Spark suddenly has an instant kill laser that he never used
>>579048660>Most people playing COD at that time likely moved to the next game when it released, and only a small amount got left behind.Nope. Its pop was exploding during the late 2000s.
>>578596559Nu-Cortana may be a bit of a butterface, but she has a decent body.
>>579048546>Why there is only like 2 pairs that you ever fight on foot is another mystery.3, actually.One in The Storm, the first Hunter encounter on the Ark at the under construction AA gun and one at the third tower on The Covenant.
>>579048723this actually, World at War and CoD 4 together were dominating Halo 3I actually have some of the charts from the weeklies saved. I'll post
>>579048748>Nu-Cortana may be a bit of a butterface, but she has a decent body.I agree. When I saw her in game I kept getting more distracted by it than I expected
>>579048673>TH-THAT DOESNT COUNT!Anon....a retroactive continuity is when they retroactively change something that was previously established......at no point was "Halo 3 takes place right after Halo 2" established, so you literally can't retcon that.>why Guilty Spark suddenly has a kill laser that he never usedThank you. THAT actually is a retcon. The closest thing to a sensible narrative reason is "the Sentinels were accompanying him in Halo 1 so he left battle to them", but ultimately they gave him a kill laser in Halo 3 so they could have a boss fight.
>>579048660Not really. I'm an Ausfag so small population, games die real fucking quick here, ect and I could play CoD4 even during Black Ops 1's time.WaW was a bit harder, was mostly a primetime weekend thing to get local ping.
shut the fuck up
tl;dr Halo 3 is poorly written
>>579048957okthank you for the kind words
>>579047249I'm fascinated by Gears of War 1 and 2 being there, I genuinely had no idea it was that popular. It's such an oddly NA specific series that it basically never existed here.
>>579049052Fortunately they focused on what matters. (Environment and Physics interactions, such as floating objects in water, vehicle handling/traversal/destruction, etc.)
>>579048343>To this day I have no idea why the hunters are bad againThe Covenant were having a civil war. If the Prophet of Mercy in Halo 2 is to be believed, the Hunters are just beasts to be tamed, so the Hunters you fight in Halo 3 are the ones that were under the command of Brutes.
>>579049575>when the fucking netcode prioritizes the physics doodads rolling down the hill over hit registration
>>579049847Based.Also, worked on my machine.
>>579049847Based Halo 3 devs.
Can we admit that Halo 2 and 3's sandboxes are fucking awful the moment you use anything that isn't a BR?
>>579050204Halo 3 gets better as soon as you remove the BR from the equation.
>>579050204No, because it's not true
>>579050341What makes it fun to kill things with the Plasma Pistol in Halo 2 and 3? What's fun about entering a vehicle and immediately being Splaser-flicked?
>>579050496It just is
>>579050496>H2 PPThe tracking silly. It's also great companion to the SMG and the Magnum.>H3 PPEMP is great.>Spartan LaserOne of the more problematic weapon of the game. Still not oppressive enough to completely shut down vehicle play.
>>579050647>The tracking sillyThat doesn't kill things. Well, 32 consecutive charge shots in Halo 3 can kill a player.>EMP is greatHumiliation of vehicles
>>579050734Almost like different guns do different stuff, crazy
>>579050734No one use the Plasma Pistol to directly kill things, silly.>Humiliation of vehiclesAnd that's a good thing.
>>579050647>Still not oppressive enough to completely shut down vehicle play.Have you only ever played with shitters who picked it up or something? I singled handedly can shut down all vehicle play by being the Spartan Laser guy. Banshee? Nope you don't get to exist with me around. Warthogs? Oh nice free multikills.
>>579050909You're not that good. Don't kid yourself.
>>579050819>No one use the Plasma Pistol to directly kill things, sillyIn Halo 1 I did>And that's a good thingNo it isn't. Vehicles are supposed to force coordination among infantrymen.>>579050981Splasers take zero skill with a mouse because you can just charge facing a wall and flick your wrist in the last half second to kill an unsuspecting enemy.
>>579050204>Can we admit that Halo 2 and 3's sandboxes are fucking awful the moment you use anything that isn't a BR?awful? noBut the BR is situationally overpowered in both games
>>579051027>In Halo 1 I didAnd you didn't get many kills, I assume.
>>579050909You can only do that if you're playing against shitters. Fighting for control of the splaser and managing vehicles around it is part of the fun, like snipers on most maps.
>>579051097>And you didn't get many kills, I assumeThe charged shot one-hits Sentinels and Flood combat forms lol
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>>579050204>>579050259It's more that the BR is just too good. It just needs a nerf to put it more in line with the focus rifle. It would be a support weapon you'd use to keep enemies occupied/suppressed, while a couple guys flank with assault rifles and magnums. And then you could also reduce the sniper rifle's rate of fire to compensate for having less competition. But then you'd also need to rebalance the map since it was built with specific kill times/ranges in mind, which would take a lot of work. And at that point, you might as well make a brand new game.I've actually imagined a BR (with 4-round burst) where it takes 7 bursts to remove shields and an additional headshot burst to kill. And have other weapons balanced around this, but also changing the BR's role to a support weapon instead of a mainstay finisher like it is now. The game would be more close quarters-focused, with higher range weapons being used to soften enemies as you approach them, then swap to an AR or SMG for the final approach. I think I might just try to make my own game with this type of combat, I think the kill times would be too long even if I turned it into a Halo mod. Not to mention this would also muck with vehicle combat balance.
>>579051156based
>>579051149We're talking about multiplayer, silly.>>579051156You're not paying attention.
>>579051239>>579051239>>579051239
>>579051218>We're talking about multiplayer, sillyI started the conversation so I get to decide whether I'm including the campaign (I am).
>>579051195It will always be a finisher weapon because it is ranged and headshot capable.If you see someone with no shields you can always pull out your BR and one-shot them. If you don't have a BR then you will do it with a carbine, and you don't have that a magnum, and then you don't have that you will use a power weapon even on a no-shield target and only if you have nothing else will you actually use the spray and pray auto at range to try and kill.
Forced.
>>579054804OPEN IT
>>579051195It's funny how much precision weapons mindbreak shitters. Really, 8 bursts to kill?
