Yeah as I understand it, they just have too many different codes running in one executable. We got 5, soon to be six different games, 6 multiplayer suites, firefight, UE for character customization, etc etc
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Yeah as I understand it, they just have too many different codes running in one executable. We got 5, soon to be six different games, 6 multiplayer suites, firefight, UE for character customization, etc etc
My nostalgia for Reach comes solely from friends and community at the time. We were younger, coming off that Halo 3 hotness.
Reach was damn near panned across the board on HaloGAF but it felt nice to play a new Halo game, hitscan was a welcome change coming from the H3 netcode. Forge just exploded.
Once Halo 4 hit and disappointed it felt like we couldn't take the hit of 2 disappointing Halo games in a row and the community basically fizzled out. I wonder how different the community would have been if Halo 5 had taken the place of Halo 4.
I like the DLC maps and campaign matchmaking. Also the customizable Firefight. I have reverse nostalgia for Reach gameplay mechanics.
Yeah, playing with my friends from H3 and making new ones on bnet was still good. But we were getting so frustrated with the game and people praising the AA's and bloom lol. Halo 4 killed my friend group and the community after a few months which I'm still salty about.
I always thought that Reach and 4 were equally terrible but 4 at least nowadays is more playable.
The DLC maps were pretty good! Some solid BTB maps as well.
Highlands and Condemned were great maps. Had some other solid ones too.
I can't wait to play this on PC. It's going to be great without the shitty ass FoV and FPS.
Yea, tbh I'm looking forward to Reach now. Back when the TU launched I couldn't play much, and I lost some love for Halo at that point (burnt out).
Hopefully they launch Reach with good MP settings, Vanilla sucked.
I just want them to do even starts with sprint only, I want the same for 4 as well. I doubt it will be that way at launch but if the community advocated for it then maybe.
I'd be down with that. I wouldn't even mind a weekend JetPack playlist lol. Just to be able to goof around.
It would also be cool if 343 was able to put in awards for ranked playlist that could carry over to Halo Infinite :(, it won't happen tho and I understand why. It just sucks because ranked playlist are mostly dead.
does this mean no more AI squads in infinite?
THANK GOD
jk, all that shit was decided long ago, this is more than likely not a dramatic exit representing some massive issue at 343i or with infinite.
THANK GOD
jk, all that shit was decided long ago, this is more than likely not a dramatic exit representing some massive issue at 343i or with infinite.
I just finished listening to the audio book of Contact Harvest which was genuinely really good.
Nor really any useful info for Infinite though.
The books you probably should read are the Forerunner trilogy. I read them a while back and I seem to remember thinking they were okay but not brilliant. Might give them a re-read.
... why did I go into that gaming thread....
Any news about possible infinite info at games on or maybe I just need to wait till xo19?
Any news about possible infinite info at games on or maybe I just need to wait till xo19?
yeah, its a joke - as expected
i wouldnt hold my breath for gamescom, but i expect pretty BIG things at xo, like flighting things. :crosses fingers
I hope the squad system has been scrapped for Infinite. Or at least, something like in Halo 3 (sometimes Chief is alone, sometimes the Arbiter or some Marines/ODST are joining him).
I want more creepy levels like 343 Guilty Spark. It would be impossible with the squad system.
Sad times tbh. Mindshare of shit is too strong.
XO might be in November?
on one hand, anyone leaving an important creative role usually stinks
on the other hand, he thought the squad AI mechanic in Halo 5 campaign would be the most important and impressive feature of the game
maybe he just wasnt a good fit
shoutout to republic commando tho, you crushed it that time longo
People are far too sky is falling, though I think some general concern over the news is warranted.
Anyhow, still hyped as shit for the game. I just hope we do get news sooner rather than later.
The one silver lining of that gaming side thread is that I saw this post...
I wonder what's happening on the 22nd of December...
I assumed people had noticed it already? Here it is in the trailer:
You can see it at 3:29 in the trailer, right as VISR boots up.
Also, that series of periods and colons (. : : . : : : : , etc.) when converted to binary (: is 1, . is 0) and then to ascii translates to "oh hey....." That same phrase occurs later in the sequence too.
Alas, haven't discovered anything else in the trailer.
EDIT: Just did a google search and there is a small halo waypoint thread about it, but it doesn't look like any major gaming news outlet has mentioned it, so maybe this isn't common knowledge lol.
I wonder what's happening on the 22nd of December...
Haha, yeah, people seem more interested in the director leaving than on that tidbit of info.
My most anticipated game. Halo CE got be back into gaming, so it has a but spot in this cold heart
Nah, it's just missing in action. :)
I'd imagine that the Forerunner Saga is still relevant. For example, "Primordium" takes place on Zeta Halo, where Halo: Infinite will also take place.
But you should probably drop into the Lore Threads and ask there. I've been out of the loop after the 3 Forerunner books.
Going by your avatar and you posting in this thread, I see you're a person of culture. Good on you for having taste 👍
Smash + Halo = LUV
It's hard to say what ties in to Infinite given what they've told us of the story, but probably New Blood/Bad Blood and The Forerunner Trilogy are safe bets.
Personally, I think the Halo novels rank from "good as tie-in media" to "good on their own"; even the weaker ones have their charms, but I wouldn't go out of my way to read them unless I was really into the lore.
I was going to suggest some of the Greg Bear novels but then I remembered the copious diarrhoea stuff.
I believe I read Fall of Reach and it was pretty good. Don't know if the newer ones are as good though.
Nylund was the greatest with Halo lore IMO. Kinda stopped reading after Ghosts of Onyx. TFoR, FS, and GoO were all amazing.
Recently listened to Silent Strike and enjoyed it though. The Forerunner trilogy was pretty good, but parts of it were too slow.
Sucks that he's partly retired and doesn't have interest anymore. Remember Stinkles saying something like that in the old place.
Found the quote:
Sad to hear, but he deserves his rest in the proverbial cryo-pod.
Hey at least we got him back for the Halsey Journal :P
Good thing is that at this point there's a Halo novel out there for every type of fan, from the technical, military sci fi to the more fantastic or interpersonal ones.
personally ive never really liked most halo books besides the forerunner stuff (since its basically its own sci fi story) and silent storm (which has some pretty cheesy renderings of the insurrectionists but it all feels in good fun)
am I crazy, or wasnt Chris Lees supposed to be the main lead from the start for infinite? I don't recall Tim being mentioned at all other than that he was still there, similar to Josh Holmes on H5.
am I crazy, or wasnt Chris Lees supposed to be the main lead from the start for infinite? I don't recall Tim being mentioned at all other than that he was still there, similar to Josh Holmes on H5.
Nah that's how I remember things too. Makes the situation all the more confusing.
Chris Lee is the head of the "overall vision" for the game. Meaning, he is the head of what the game turns out to be, while Tim Longo was somewhere underneath him in terms of pecking order.
I mostly just read the older stuff:
The Fall of Reach
The Flood
First Strike
Ghosts of Onyx
Contact Harvest
The Cole Protocol
Forerunner Saga
The last thing I read was Saint's Testimony, which wasn't bad. It was interesting to read about a different topic than the typical spartan stuff.
Out of everything I read, I would have to say the Forerunner Saga was the most interesting and compelling.
The Fall of Reach
The Flood
First Strike
Ghosts of Onyx
Contact Harvest
The Cole Protocol
Forerunner Saga
The last thing I read was Saint's Testimony, which wasn't bad. It was interesting to read about a different topic than the typical spartan stuff.
Out of everything I read, I would have to say the Forerunner Saga was the most interesting and compelling.
Forerunner saga was incredible. Quite enjoyed Bad Blood, and now I'm going through Renegades and enjoying that as well.
I have also been looking back at some of the halo 5 vidoc stuff and I believe Longo was brought in during a time when halo 5 was in a rough point of development, and a lot of the mechanics in halo 5 were attributed to him. So it's possible that he left due to a disagreement of vision and was demoted and then left due to this. I'm sure we will hear about all of this once the game launches .
I think if Lee left I'd be more worried because it seems like his fingerprints are on the game more than anyone else's.
Which books are part of the forerunner saga and where do they take place in the overall timeline?
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