That's pretty badass, actually.

>I am going to treat /v/ as one entity

Well, /v/ is some kind of horrible hive-mind, so that's fair.

Halo has gone downhill since CE. Reach will probably suck ass anyway,

I like games with good single player. Therefor I dont like most FPS

Playing ODST right now.

Feels good man.

>>54182457

>implying Halo 2 wasn't by far the best Halo.

i like halo 1
2 was ok
3 was shit
odst was rather good
hopefully reach will be good

Personally I'm looking forward to the new Veto Choice thing.

Proud, lifelong member of the master race and pro-Microsoft troll here.

I enjoy Halo very much, and I am in fact hoping to buy my first 360 when Reach is released. This only cements my desire.

>>54182490

Halo 3: Running Through The Forest - The Game

Well, at least the single player.

Bungie can't mute people, that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

Unless it's just for Reach. In that case, I don't care because after Halo 2 the series turned into a casual pile of shit and gets worth with each game

>>54182490
Halo has good single-player, though. It's a solid run-and-gun with some neat gimmicks and a plot that's both silly and serious. It's also very colorful.

The multiplayer isn't very good, though, largely because of the community. This mute ban stuff seems like a great idea, though.

I want to let the people who dislike Halo know that in Reach:
>the Battle Rifle is out,
>there is Fall Damage and Healthpacks,
>it takes longer for your shields to recharge
>Field of View is changed from 60 to 78ish
>Modern Warfare 2 style EXP system covering up an invisible Trueskill system
>Credits to buy armor pieces to customize your spartan
>daily challenges each day that reward EXP/cR
>weekly challenges that reward EXP/cR
>MUTE BAN FUCK YOU LITTLE KIDS YES
>'The Arena' which is a new competitive type of matchmaking hopper
>Spartans vs Elites mode
>ELITES HAVE A MUCH LARGER PLAYER MODEL BUT RECHARGE SHIELDS FASTER AND HAVE MORE HEALTH
>FUCKING JETPACKAN SPRINTAN AND ROLLAN

>>54182490
OP here, let me just say that I am a huge fucking halo fan and I have been hooked on the shit since 2001.

True that Halo's single player plot-wise has gone south since the first one, but the trilogy is not void of fun. Try and play Halo 1, 2, 3, and even ODST with some bros and you will indeed have a great time. If you are looking for a "deep" and "engrossing" experience in your games, then halo's single player is not for you.

Halo 1 is the most story-driven game; however, even I have to agree that there are plenty of games out there that possess much more entertaining single-player experiences. They are made more to have fun than to give the player a cinematic experience.

>>54182729
The mute bans will only be for Halo: Reach. They will not extend to other Xbox titles. Details have also not been given on whether or not the mute bans will prevent players from using party chat while playing Halo: Reach. So the bans might only be for in-game voice chat. Still not a problem.

JETPACKS

>ABOUT A MONTH TILL THE BETA FUCK YEAH

How does one get in this beta?

>>54182806

>Fall Damage

>>54183291

Own a copy of ODST

I've never been into Halo but this looks decent.

DOOOOOMEEEED

>>54183291

Have a copy of Halo 3: ODST.

>>54183333
Or play Halo 2 sometime soon. I think.

>>54183333
Meh.

Needs more asymmetrical maps.

>>54182999
It'll probably only mute you for the enemy team/not for people you're in party chat with.

This lets trash talkers be punished but prevents someone griefing by getting their hundred friends to file a complaint or whatever against you.

>>54183303

It's nothing significant. The Lead Sandbox Designer said that you have to be TRYING to kill yourself with fall damage for you to die from it. The most it'll do on the average map is take away a quarter of your health and stun you for half a second, and that's probably from the roof of the main building on the map Last Resort.

>>54182806
>the Battle Rifle is out,

I can taste the Halofags' tears.

Playing Halo 3 online right now actually.

Tonights rule: PISTOL ONLY
Unless its fucking Team BRs.

Surprisingly, out of every 10 games or so, I'm top scorer for both teams 8 times.

FUCK YEAR PISTOL

>>54183291
Have an ODST disc

Hello Beach

>>54182806
>No BR

THANK. GOD.

>>54183303
this guy put some simple explanations of halo reach fall damage in this thread. Sage Merrill elaborated on it in the Bungie podcast that was released today if you want to listen to that. It has a lot of good info on Reach.
http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=42493838

I love Halo. Its the best co-op game of this generation

>>54183587
But what about in custom games? I hope it is an option only.

Mute ban sounds like a great idea.

Still won't buy the game.

Someone explain why people are so excited over this besides the fact that it's halo. From the footage I've seen, specifically of the multiplayer, there's nothing that new. Sure, jetpacks, but you've had spring boots since day 1. Assassinations just look silly. Can someone shoot you off? When is someone just standing still online? Doesn't a melee hit to the back instant kill?

And I liked the first and second halo, the 3rd and odst were disappointing.

>>54183459
The only maps they've shown to the public (in the form of the multiplayer beta trailer) look to be asymmetric. Can't say for sure though.

>>54183365
They're also doing the whole Friends and Family thing like they did for Halo 3. If I were to somehow magically get a fuckton of codes from that, I'll post them on /v/ or something.

>>54182806
>fall damage
>you play as superhumans wearing supersuits

>>54183303
Maybe because it adds to the tactics and pace?

Ever since it was removed after Halo 1 I thought it was a horrible decision.

Keeping in mind that a lot of you probably never played much Halo 1 multiplayer: You were able to reduce fall damage by crouching just before touching the ground.

It was one of those little things that helped differentiate a good player from a bad. Good players would land that crouch at the end and survive an otherwise unsurvivable fall, bad players wouldn't. IIRC the damage was based on your velocity; you could extend the falling distance by sliding down an incline instead of jumping off, because you'd hit the ground slower. Although there was still a set distance where you'd just automatically die no matter what if you fell that far.

>>54182806

so... it's MW and Halo3 with a few odd ends? (muteban sounds awesome though)

>>54183692
>>54183587

Doesn't sound that bad I guess, but I'd still prefer it not be in the game.

>Get into the passenger's seat of a Warthog controlled by the opposing team.
>They completely ignore me.
>Chill out while they run down and gun down the rest of my team.

>>54183942
By saying its like MW2 you might as well all FPS are the same as all other FPS.

>>54183835
Halo: Reach will be no different than any of the other Halo games. According to the cannon, the AR and Shotgun are extremely accurate weapons, but we don't see that happening in any of the games. At Bungie they put gameplay and fun over realism and canon. Because, you know, it IS a video game.

>>54182240
All of which is redundant, because it's that shitty mid-tier console.

>>54184013

Might as well what?

>>54184096
It's exclusive to that shitty mid-tier console.

>>54183835

They have a loophole for that in the form of 'your supersuits shields can only absorb so much shock.' When they removed fall damage and health in Halo 2, they made it apparent in the story by showing you getting a new, enhanced suit. Since Halo Reach is a prequel to Halo CE, they don't have any of the new upgrades.

>>54184025

I like the weapons the way they are.
I love the concept of mute banning.
I dislike fall damage. Guess I'm to casual for tactics.

Also being changed:

DUAL WIELDING IS GONE

FUCK YES NOW I CAN HAVE MY PLASMA RIFLE WITH STUN AGAIN

I'm personally hoping that Reach just doesn't have any horrible, game breaking glitches like ODST did.

I'm referring to that thing where, if during a single player mission you saved and quit, upon starting the game again, your progress within the mission would be saved but everything else was completely reset. As in any missions you'd already done were no longer done, and you had to do them again. So... you couldn't quit until you beat a mission and went back to the hub world, or you were fucked.

That made me rage so hard...

>>54184413
>PLASMA RIFLE WITH STUN

One of my favourite weapons in CE for that reason, and it worked against people in vehicles too. Made it a god-tier assassination weapon. The stun would freeze people juuuuust enough that they couldn't just whip around and shoot you before you meleed them. [course it all depends on range, you had to be fairly close]

>>54184413
more like FUCK YES SMG, PLASMA PISTOL AND PLASMA RIFLE ACTUALLY WORTH USING

Before the trolling and questioning get out of hand, let me explain some things.

1. The EXP system is NOT like CoD's in the sense that you gain rank or anything. It can be more appropriately compared to Uncharted 2's money system. Whereby you can gain "money" in all game modes and spend them on your character. Only in Halo: Reach, the things you buy are PURELY AESTHETIC.

2. There are no more number ranks, but the game still uses an invisible truskill to search in matchmaking like the social playlists in halo 3. The main difference is the new "Arena" game mode, which is made up of slayer-only gametypes. Players who play in the Arena play in different divisions. There are 4 divisions and the better you play, the better division you will be in. Then, after every month it all resets and a new season begins. The old stats will go onto your player card, like the back of a baseball card, if you will. A player's skill and rank will be based off of a multitude of stats and equations, primarily consisting of k/d and assists (daily progression).

>>54184695

Thanks for clarifying Cereal Guy. I only drew comparisons to MW2 because I'm a faggot and couldn't think of any other game at the time.

Sprinting? You mean I can actually make a modern FPS not slow as fuck for once?

>>54185088
In order to Sprint, you need to pick it as an Armor Ability. Otherwise, you're walking the same old SLUGGGGISH pace.

>>54185222

>>54185293

>>54185088
Sprinting will be an armor ability. You may have noticed in the Halo: Reach multiplayer trailer, the word "loudouts". This is nothing like CoD, where you unlock new weapons and shit but instead you can choose what armor ability you want to use during the match. Once used there will be a long recharge time until you can use your armor ability again.

So far the confirmed Armor Abilities are: Sprint, Jetpacks, Active Camo, personal impenetrable bubble shield thingy, and rolling (for elites only).

They all have a downside as well. For example, when someone is using the Active Camo ability, they will temporarily lose their radar capabilities.

bump

>>54185433

Also, it's been confirmed in the recent Bungie podcast that you can sprint and throw 'nades at the SAME. FUCKING. TIME. and your velocity effects how far you throw it.

The new single shot DMR. (BR replacement)

>>54185433
>>and rolling (for elites only).

In the newest Multiplayer video, it has a Spartan rolling, good sir.

FUCK YEAH RETICULE BLOOM

>>54186136
No, it was only Elites.

At least, I think so. I've seen it like 100 times but I may be wrong.

All of you do know that this game will be a Xbox 360 exclusive, right? For some unknown reason.

No real point talking about it then.

>>54186136
You are incorrect, good sir. If you would like to prove otherwise, you will have to provide indisputable video/picture evidence.

>>54186251
>a Xbox 360 exclusive
>a Xbox
>a

>>54186338
an*

My bad. Woke up not long ago.

But regardless, why make a game that looks decent, only a Xbox exclusive? Not even PC? That's really sad and won't get a lot of sales. Get a lot more if it's on PS3 and PC.

But, why aren't the Halo series on other platforms? Apart from H1 and 2.

Looks like I was wrong. I just went through the video again, and realized I mistook one of the Elites as a Spartan simply because of the angle and movement of the camera.

I FUCKED UP.

>>54186408
Microsoft enjoys making money, and not allowing their competitors to get in on it. Like most businesses.

Halo 3 did sell like 11 million copies.

>>54186408
Microsoft owns the franchise

>community

Halo 3 is a fantastic game when played over LAN multiplayer, Xbox live is a festering shithole however.

It's just one of those games that you have to be good at, and if you're just starting out you're going to have a hard time and hate it.

Can't wait for Reach.

>>54186571
>>54186578
Fucking hell. Are any other company just as bad as microshit? Silly how people are competitive just for money, why not make your customers happy, and get more money in the long run and make all your shit available to everyone?

If I wanted to play a game where you crawl around at a snail's pace then I'd play Bioshock 2 and at least have some cool abilities.

>>54186694
>microshit

I see what you did there. You replaced "soft" with the expletive, "shit", so as to show your displeasure with that particular company and/or product.

>>54186707
>cool abilities.

JETPACKS

>>54186833

>mr.obvious.jpg

But that's neither here nor there.

>>54186864

setting people on fire with your hand > jetpacks

>>54186694
Businesses tend to like it when people actually want to buy their product. No one would even consider buying an Xbox if it didn't have the Halo franchise.

>>54186949

Xbox owner. Never played Halo, nor will I.

>>54186934
Depends on the scenario.

I could easily light someone on fire with something I throw from my hand, and then just as easily snipe someone across the map while I fly using my jetpack over grenades

Reach is pleasing me so far. It sounds a lot more Halo 1, which I much preferred. The weapons felt more concise, no dual wielding shittiness, Elites were the primary enemy in SP, grenades had power and didn't feel like golfballs.

I'm also liking the changes in the art design, the characters are a bit more detailed and less Fisherprice.

>>54186949
Fairly sad, that. Halo is the only thing keeping Microsoft with it's shitty console.

I'd buy a 360 if I didn't have to pay for that 'gold' bullshit. What a joke that is, should be illegal.

>>54187122

sucks being poor.

>>54187122
Most people who aren't oblivious got 3 free years of Live recently.

>>54182806
>ELITES HAVE A MUCH LARGER PLAYER MODEL BUT RECHARGE SHIELDS FASTER AND HAVE MORE HEALTH
So you are heavy weapons guy?

>>54187321
I'm actually not poor.

>>54187412
How? Legit?

Bungie didn't make Halo and Halo 2 for PC. Gearbox did. Complain to them.

>>54187613
>How? Legit?
Yeah, Microsoft let you get a 1 month code through their Netflix promo. You didn't need Netflix, just a reuseable code to punch into the website which would constantly give you new 1 month codes.

People accumulate 100 or so each.
Queue up 3 years of Live which is as much as a single account can have at any given point.
Still have years of Live codes left behind.
?????
Free online play. Woo.

>>54187658
Actually a B-team or whatever at Bungie did Halo 2 for PC.

Halo 1 PC was pretty fun online despite its glaring netcode flaws. I didn't have to deal with the retarded matchmaking communism.

>>54187804
Daymn, would this work for anybody? IE. Australians. (Yes, I'm an ausfag.)

This is relative to my interests. Although I don't %100 believe it, I always get told Microshit are so tight on their live things, and even things like that 'free' live thing, they'd ban it/won't allow.

>>54187878
I never had Halo 2 on PC because I refuse to run Vista. However I am fine with the console version.

>>54183811
regular melee hit beatdowns were too easy, thats why assassinations take time and remove control of your character, so someone can blast you off with a rocket launcher and save their bro

>>54183600
and it is DELICIOUS

Uhm OP..../v/ likes Halo, quite a lot. You must've not been in the very bro-like threads nighttime /v/ has on it when all the kiddies are asleep.

So I'ma call you a fucking idiot for looping us ALL in on the Halo hatetrain.

In other news, I'm excited for Halo Reach.

>>54187938
http://neogaf.net/forum/showthread.php?t=390592

Check it out, yeah, a shitload of people got in on this-- myself included. Microsoft does jack shit to people exploiting their promotions.

Too late now, though. Promo's long over.

>>54185433
I doubt roll would be a suit ability

>>54188133
Then fuck it, Microshit can get bent, not paying those lazy, selfish fucks money to play a console I would have originally paid for to play it online.

Sony are true bros.

>>54187994
>blast you off with a rocket launcher and save their bro

... Wait a minute...

>>54188357
somebody isn't a rocket sniper

>>54188414

Sh-shut up.

By the way, I assume everybody's dealt with this at least once hmm?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VaoJwKDOaE

>>54188521
Sort of. I just mute everyone outright because I don't want to listen to anyone's shit.

Though I do have random kiddos shooting at me or trying to go for a betrayal.

I dunno, it's just one of the reasons I hate matchmaking so much, unlike a laid back server browser experience where you can find what you want and play to your heart's content, you're bundled with a grab bag of scoundrels and you have to complete a match from start to finish unless you want to incur a penalty.

Especially bad when part of your team leaves immediately at the start of the game. What a garbage method of online play.

>>54188851

About betrayals and quitting early, I hope Bungie fixes this because I certainly don't want to deal with this bullshit anymore.

Also I'm tired of dealing with shitfucks who teamkill each other on Grifball when I'm trying to make a score.

HOLY SHIT HALO REACH JETPACK GRIFBALL

I hope they keep the Zombies gametype, and if they do they have the players models change into a Flood, not a different color.

>>54188979
speaking of grifball, is the HAMMER still in reach?

>>54189227
It is.

>>54189227
Oh yes.

>>54189166
ehhh...

Fuck that, I like it how it is. What they need to do is get rid of Save One Bullet as a Zombie gametype; what's the fucking point of zombies having shields THAT RECHARGE? They're zombies, they need to be able to be killed with a single pistol shot. I've been killed so many fucking times by the bullshit that's

>wait for zombie to get close
>shoot him in the face
>the system lags or something else happens, and the shot never even affects him
>get killed and turned into a zombie

>>54189418
>the system lags or something else happens, and the shot never even affects him
Shotgun vs shotgun story of my life.

>>54188218

I think that Spartans get Sprint and Elites get Roll. Seeing as how Elites have more health and better shields than the Spartans.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLQ46C35b18

OP here, I'm going to bed it's fucking 3:40am, but I'll leave you with my Funtage. Enjoy!

Sup /v/ Watch this for two of the greatest kills you will ever see. Look in the bottom right corner for the kills marked Bwendon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcSm9ez04E4

>>54188521
LMAO

Ya know what, I might just play Halo 3 again, cause that video reminded me of the ragefags I used to run into.

>>54189710

:22 and 1:05
fucking lold

Man do I suck shit at Halo 3. People call it casual, but god I feel more comfortable with just about any other shooter. The 60 FOV is disorienting, and the way the crosshair is lower than every other game that keeps it in the center is awkward.