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Haha Excellent. I am glad I got in here early. I have only been on about a week or so here. I like that I have a lot more freedom in the forums here to talk about future stuff. One of the Forge forums I am regularly on is really picky about how often you can post and what you can say about future halo projects.

I like how people are like" Sweet I'm a hunter!" Ummm no your not. You have 70 posts. Haha

I have been looking for this. Thanks for the post. Only a ton of more posts to go! Woohoo!

I will predict Win because of the Franchise itself. I hope that 343 stays true to the legacy of Halo and does not try to do to much weird stuff.

Right no major gameplay changes but maybe some new armor available. Stinks for those that have completed their armor collection already haha.

One you are correct. I think they wanted to get back to that with Reach since Reach was before halo 3. Maybe we will see it again in Halo 4.

Yeah 4 player co-op would be cool but AGAIN (please read from 343) they are not changing the gameplay! Its not going to happen. the engine is not built for 4 payer only 2. Changing it to support 4 would change then gameplay also for single and 2 player co-op which they are not doing.

Can't wait. Glad 343 is respecting the heritage of this great game.

T2T was a great way to kill a little bit of time. I am looking forward to trying again on CEA. 343 said they are leaving in all glitches so that the gaming experience is identical to the original. T2T will still be achievable in CEA!

Why do you post this in every thread? I have seen it a hundred times now. AnywAys. It is worth it for the maps and for the campaign if you don't already have the original. If you don't want it don't buy it. Seriously why do people keep complaining that its a waste of money. No one is making you buy it. I think new COD games every year are a wast of money but I don't complain when they come out with a new one.

They are not Adding armor abilities. Do you guys even watch or read anything 343 has put out about CEA?. They have adamantly said over and over in every interview and article that the only thing they are changing is the graphic engine and remastering the sound. They want you to have the exact same experience as before. If you read anything about changes it was about the addition of terminals. If you are familiar with terminals from halo 3 then you understand how this does not change any gameplay but is just something you will be able to find in the levels. They even went as far as to say that all the same glitches that are in CE are in CEA. They said if you are trying to make a jump that you could in CE but for some reason can't in CEA you can toggle back to the original mode, make the jump then switch back to the new graphics again.

I didn't think about videos. That would be good too. I always forget which games were good and wind up watching six vids of games trying to remember which one had the awesome headshot or warthog fail haha.

Man I would love a Green Visor. Either that or some new Armor effects. Maybe one that gives you the appearance of being covered in blood.

Do you guys play as elites when given the option? I am more of a spartan guy. I think bungie didn't spend much time on it because not many people used elites often enough. Instead they spent most of the time creating armor for Spartans. I don't like how none of the Spartans look like Chief though in reach.

It dosent look to different to me. I don't think there will be a lot of upgrades to his armor until he reaches the planet at least. Once he and Cortana land on the planet he will probably find some new stuff.

Here is how I see it. Whining is complaining about something that happened in previous games or under a previous company (Bungie). Constructive criticism is about things that are projected or have not happened yet (343). We all have criticisms of Bungie of 343 or whatever. I see the goal of these threads tho to be about things we would like to see added or removed from future games to make them better. I think majority opinion should win out unless through testing it proves to defeat other respected elements of the game. I haven't heard a lot of whining except directed at Bungie (who does not read or cares about these threads). However, a lot of guys from Bungie signed on with 343 to keep working with the Halo project. They see Halo as something bigger than just a gametitle that a company holds the rights too. I feel the same way. I love the work Bungie did in the past and wish them the best in the future but I am a Halo fan first and a Bungie fan second. So with that said I am optimistic about what 343 will do with the games. In the mean time I am going to keep posting about things I hope to see in future games.

No love story please. The lame love story in ODST made it barely tolerable because otherwise it was a good game and decent plot. The only love story anyone cares about it the relationship with John and Cortana. That is the closest thing to love a Spartan can have.

The forerunners were destroyed by the Flood. I don't think they are still around unless the stored their own DNA in one of the Arks. However I have always been under the impression that the Forerunners DNA was used to create the humans. I have always thought that possibly there is a second Ark. Possibly sent to the far side of the universe. This could start a whole new story arc with new enemies and so on. They could start completely fresh or tie in elements from books here or there but they would be free to do whatever they want. All I know is there will probably be Flood, there might be covenant and there will most likely be a ring. Haha.

The Forerunners were wiped out by the flood. Since covenant and Human forces have been able to hold off and destroy the flood keeping it at bay I would say they are both stronger than Forerunners.

A revision to my first post. I still think Forge should come on a second disk but to reduce lagging because of to much stuff..... What if when Forge is loaded into your xbox, all the forgable objects (vehicles, weapons, the different forgeable maps etc.) are saved on your hard drive. Everyone who wants to play custom games will need to only put their forge disk in at least once and download the content from it. This way all the information is not pulling from the one person who is hosting the game but some of the content data could be pulled from your own hard drive. I honestly have no idea if that would even work or help with lagging. Maybe the other option is whenever you want to play a custom game with a friend he loads the map and it prompts you and any other xboxes connected via xbox live or system link to download the map and the game type. Then after the game is over it immediately asks you if you would like to save the map and game type instead of storing it in your temporary files.

I doubt Halo 2 gets remade. By the time they get around to remastering halo 2 it will probably be sometime after the new trilogy is completed most likely. By that time, and maybe even before, Microsoft will have released a new console system. CEA is a great remake because CE was not on the 360 and not compatible with it without an extra download patch thing. H2 is compatible with 360, the online multiplayer is just not supported any longer. If they do anything they might make campaign multiplayer live again for H2. I would really like that so that I can still go play campaign with some friends in H2. I think thats the best we can hope for with H2. The other thing about multiplayer is they will probably never keep more than 2 games multiplayer live at one time. (Halo 2 and 3 then Halo 3 and Reach) They want to push those who have the older games to the newer ones. Easiest way to do that is remove the option to play online. Seriously do you know anyone who only has Halo 2? No because once the option to play online was gone they were forced to either go get H3 or wait for Reach. The same thing will happen when H4 launches. Halo 3 will probably get dropped from the servers.

I liked ODST. Bungie made it because they had 2 games left on contract with Microsoft.

Halo 3/ODST will be online till just before or after halo 4 launches. They will always keep at least two Halo games live all the time.

I actually was playing the campaign last night. It is one of my favorite campaigns. I like the VISR option for dark rooms and the city feel. I generally only used the H3 disk when playing multiplayer.

Any changes to firefight won't come till Halo 4. 343i isn't rewriting the firefight engine with the CEA unfortunately. Firefight is a part of matchmaking which they said will be the same as reach. The CEA release will only be adding a new map or two. I really hope firefight w/ flood and any new enemies that are introduced in Halo 4 will be in firefight in Halo 4. I was expecting Flood firefight it in Reach but Bungie decided against it.