HALO REACH BETA

[ReservoirWOLF]

I'm excited, anyone else going to be playing this?

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meh, same old shit

[ReservoirWOLF]

Wow, not a halo fan eh?
Same gameplay mechanic I guess but alot has changed.

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well I was a halo fan back when halo 1 released

halo 2 was a disappointment, halo3 same old shit, halo ODST crap..

[ReservoirWOLF]

Halo 1 and Halo 2 didnt have problems, H3 blew i hardly played it.
But halo 2 was the best online game on console for like 3 years.

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Halo 1 and Halo 2 didnt have problems, H3 blew i hardly played it.
But halo 2 was the best online game on console for like 3 years.

well I am not really an online console player bacause
A. I refuse to pay for Xbox live
B. I got banned from xboxlive

[Surfa]

Halo 1 is one my top ten for greatest game.
Halo 2 is like top 20 for me (xbox live took too many hours of my life)
Halo 3 is like in my top 10 worst games ever made same with odst

I imagine halo reach will also be one of the worst games I have played. But only time will tell.

[Pwnd_Ja]

Yet another installment of this dissapointment.
Halo 1: Story seemed solid (Though if you actually look at it it is translucent, flimsy, and cliche as any other pice of shit zomg aliens game. I.E. YOU are the one, and only one, that can save the entire fucking everything from destruction even though there are plenty other fucks that could easily take your position, though lacking some piss poor shields. Not to mention it is a direct rip from starcraft: Zerg = Flood, Terran = Humans, Protoss = Covenant.) and was backed by some pretty decent and fun gameplay, and the fun is what matters.
Halo 2: See Halo 1 but with some tighter graphics and more floating rings of death, only it was the exact same fucking thing as Halo 1 thus gameplay was repetitive.
Halo 3: See Halo 2 but with more floating rings of death and.... I think they were yetis or something, not really sure actually. Just getting overly redundant at this point.
ODST: Microsoft trying to leech more money out of a dead franchise.
New installment: They never fucking give up.

Remember the 3 R's of game design children:
Repitition
Redundance
Repitition

The halo series has been doing it for years, and there are still wierdos drooling over the damn series and actually buying books (Not that I am bashing the books, I havn't read them. But I am assuming its the same fucking everything without interactivity.) to further their knowledge of the Halo universe. They begin to resemble the lifeless drones that play WoW in their mothers basement the more you look into it, actually....

*Edit*
In Halo Reach, if there is a super halo, or some halos combine or some shit, I'm just gunna say right now that I fucking called it.

[Unstoppable Florence]

Halo: Combat Evolved was more or less my first shooter (besides Jedi Outcast *misty eyes*). So almost for that reason alone it is in the top ten for me. But hey, I replayed it on pc while back and my reaction was along the lines of: "Bugger me sideways and call me Rachael, it stands the test of time!"

Which was a massive surprise since Halo 2 was an incredible dissapointment (still didnt stop my juvenile self from soaking my days in the multiplayer) and Halo 3... Well, a mate lent me it me it, and I played it for about 3 hours then woke up from my trance. It turned out that Halo 3 was designed to hypnotise its players instead of actually being a game. I woke up vaguely recalling lots of colours and explosions, but I didn't recall actually having fun at any point.

Seriously, this game was so terrible at drama that the entire African contient was turned to glass and I didn't give a flying monkey shit about it.

Oh and Halo: Reach's art direction absolutely reeks of MW2 and Army of Two. Blergh.

[nub]

I loved the first Halo, it was my 2nd shooter (CS 1.5 being my first) and I had countless hours of fun playing it with my brothers. Halo 2 was great online but I cared more about the singleplayer than anything, and neither the 2nd nor the 3rd Halo had a good campaign. Sure Halo 3's was all "cinematic" but it was fucking...stale. Halo's campaign just had this incredible spark of originality to it and I could literally go install Halo CE on my PC right now and play through it again.


That being said, if Halo 3 ever does come out for PC, I will probably get it. Granted it would no doubt be a shitty port, but I get this nostalgic feeling when playing a Halo game on my PC. Dunno why.


Back on track though. Halo Reach looks like Halo 3, but taken further down the pit, but no pit is bottomless, so I imagine that after Halo 3, Bungie hit the bottom and realized that they really needed to reevaluate their game plan with Reach. Then again, M$ owns the Halo franchise if I recall, so it probably won't happen. I have hopes for Halo Reach because they make it sound a lot like Halo 1 (minus the fact that there are now multiple Spartans, with their helmets off). Aliens won't speak English like they did in Halo 2 and 3, which pleases me. I just hope the campaign isn't some dried up scab like ODST was.


PS: Did anyone catch news about how Bungie signed a 10 year contract with Activision? I fear Bungie may meet the same fate that IW did, and I would be terribly pissed if that happened since I loved Halo CE so much.

[ReservoirWOLF]

In Halo Reach, if there is a super halo, or some halos combine or some shit, I'm just gunna say right now that I fucking called it.

Reach occurred before halo 1, thus no halos.

[Major Banter]

I love the opionated nature of people.

They were all good, but Halo 3 suffered from being copied endlessly. Halo clones made Halo shit.

Still, Reach looks good.

[Gary]

I am going somewhere that I can bring my X360 so I can download the beta.

And this is my idea of the halo games:
Halo 1 = Awesome
Halo2 = Good
Halo3 = okay, not-so-good in some parts.
Halo3 ODST = Good, I had fun playing it.
Halo Reach = I don't know yet, but from the looks of it, Awesome.

[Pwnd_Ja]

In Halo Reach, if there is a super halo, or some halos combine or some shit, I'm just gunna say right now that I fucking called it.

Reach occurred before halo 1, thus no halos.

Well, in that case, so long as they remove the cataclysmic force driving master chief to save the universe and give the game an actual story, maybe, JUST MAYBE, the gameplay will be good.

Also, was ranting/rageing earlier when I posted that. Halo: CE was potentially one of the funnest games I have ever played. Part of the reason I hate halo is because people cum buckets every time something new in the series is announced, when the games are just average at best(Hold CE, because that, as aforementioned, was fun.). Nothing truly innovative in any of the games besides the story, and the cliches present in that are overwhelming.
I guess what I'm trying to say is: I really fucking hate fanboys.

[Trupanzine]

Wow, for a bunch of gamers you sure are missing out the fact that Halo 3 was a lot more competitive and superior multiplayer-wise to Halo 2, which had a lot of broken gameplay online, for instance. I remember being able to sweepshot easy for easy kills it was that broken, didn't take any skill. And Halo 3 for what its worth was a lot better then number 2. It may not be so legendary status and number 1 but it was a decent contender. It was a fine way to end the series.

ODST was more of a graphical test then anything. It wasn't meant to be long. It wasn't meant to do much. It was meant to push into new territory and prepare the graphic overhaul for reach, which will be a long game, akin to Halo.
And it's looking great. I cant wait for the beta.