VivaLebowski

Man, you people insist on writing a 24 page thesis on why you are happy you got trusted member. Me? I just walked in here and was like, Sup! Trusted. Now gimme that salt befo' I slap you up the side of yo head.

I'm bad at restraining my anger when some piece of **** takes MY Banshee and immediately gets blasted out of the sky by the opposing team.

God F!@#*# DAMMIT!

Hello Spartans? What about the honourable Sangheili? Ever since I was a young whelp, fresh off Sanghelios, I have been looked down on. I travelled the streets of a angry and intolerant halo community which looked down on me for my elite allegiance and over the top role playing. Now I find myself here, using my energy sword of truth to cut through your devilish lies. Okay, that was a joke. But beware of Role Playing Elites, Super Competitive foaming at the mouth MLG loyalists, and ******** like yours truly. You have been warned. Welcome to the forums.

If I step on you will you quack? Welcome to the forums.

Thumbs up if you came here beacuse you saw "343 is idiotic" in the main forum page.

Hmm...on the subject of map remakes...Guardian, Valhalla, Avalanche, Sandtrap (maybe).

Slow, steady growth is key. Would not be a good thing for the forum to suddenly get deluged in thousands of new members....people should come in here organically. Also, im wondering if forX is even aware that he is famous lol... AND, congratz to the forum in general. Let's hope for a happy climb to 30k.

@sly "To go and say all those things are from COD is pretty stupid." That would be pretty stupid if I had said it. COD established the current industry leading model, the same model that Halo 4 is moving towards, and thats a fact. This is not completely dissimiliar to how Halo 2 established matchmaking. Of course, Halo 2's contribution and "trend" setting was a much bigger deal than COD's was, and much more innovative, since, as you pointed out, COD did not invent things like custom classes, but still, as COD copied Halo 2, so Halo 4 copies COD. I didn't say COD had invented Sprint, customizable classes, etc. Besides, if all games prior to COD had had the features which I am referring to, my statement "Halo 4 is becoming more like COD" would still be completely true beacuse COD has those features regardless of who "invented" them. "Frankly, 343 is just adding realism to Halo." What in the name of God's green earth do you mean by that? Realism? You mean like a game set 500 years in the future where they still use gas powered shot guns that wouldn't be out of place in WW2? Jeeps with open seat, exposed, back turrets? That kind of realism?

Who the hell knows? I would bet its going to be really really good, but I won't say it was truly a success unless its better than Reach and provides the real substantive successor to Halo 3 that I was looking for. Point is, we wont know until we play it. The changes 343 is making to the basic formula are risky from a gameplay standpoint but they have balls. Also, Halo 4 looks to have some of the best art direction of the series. And as long as Neil Davidge comes through as Marty's replacement...then it won't have that much further to go before it truly gains my allegiance... All that said, it could take quite a while for me to make up my mind. I mean, I played Reach's campaign and felt like it was lackluster pretty quick but it took me months to come to the conclusion that its MP was sub par compared to 3.

Im gonna cry, *Sniff* I miss him so much! Oh wait...he's not totally gone and hes coming back anyways? Damn...thought I had him for a second. But seriously, good luck Az. You have the official honor of being the first person I have said goodbye to on this forum (since I don't know who the hell all those other people are )

Double SMG's will beat an Assualt rifle at close quarters. The regular weapons are not "vastly" superior in CQC.

It will be good once the playlist sizes increase...which I'm hoping for in the next generation. For the time being though, it would be nice to have it in forge, customs and campaign BUT theres no critical reason for its implementation in Multiplayer while Halos games are still relatively small scale. Once we get up to huge maps with 24 players or whatever, maybe then.

This "roleplaying" stopped being in good taste a long time ago Fal. Take it less seriously, I mean it.

Im gonna say honestly I'm getting every bit as annoyed by these counter threads as the original "OMG HALO is become TEH COD!" threads. Its just redundant. As redundant as the COD threads. Also, second point, can we all just get out heads out of our @sses and admit that, yes, for better or for worse Halo is becoming more like COD? I ain't saying thats a bad thing.I ain't making any qualitative judgments at all...I'm just saying, with the introduction of things like customizable loadouts, customizable weapons and Spartan ops, we have a more COD esque formula. The point is, we have to weigh each of these elements in turn. Not simply generalize the quality of the entire game based on arguments like which go like "OMG HALO IS GOING COD THEREFORE BAD" and then, in response, "BUT OMG HALO ISN'T BECOMING COD". Beacuse, newsflash, Halo is becoming more like COD and that, by itself, is neither a good nor a bad thing. It is entirely dependant on the peculiar design elements. This argument is getting pretty stupid on both sides. Tired of hearing about how Loadouts automatically equal fail and also, frankly, tired of hearing about how we should just have "faith".

Agree with the Director that the graphics were not too good in HWar's actual gameplay..but the gameplay itself was dynamite. Frankie and other people at 343 have routinely left the door open to another Halo Wars and considering the first one was a fair success, I think Microsoft will push someone to do it assuming enthusiasm for the rest of the franchise remains high.

If your Covie go with the vampires Or Brute Chieftain...he's the best leader for taking out Scarabs. For UNSC beating the Engee Scarab combo is difficult if your not playing Anders...if you are playing as Anders you can just cryo them. Otherwise, you just have to hope you have enough small cheaper units to surround and overwhelm the scarab and take out the engineers 1 by 1.

If its a holographic deck which is capable of generating complete synthetic maps out of thin air, wouldn't they be able to temporarily graph Elite stuff unto a Spartan? IDK, honestly the whole Infinity training deck is a cool idea, and I have no problem with it from a gameplay or aesthetic standpoint, but it really doesn't make that much sense .

I'm betting the armor customizations are going to follow something along the lines of, for example, "Stealth Specialization" and it might make your footsteps quiter, your name less prominent when targeted, and your range to motion tracker detection less...and maybe throw in a few cosmetic elements like the camo cloth (I forget what its called) that Jun had in Reach. I highly doubt individual pieces of armor, such as helmets will apply changes, though personally, I would actually like that form of modifications since that has never been done before in a major FPS.

I feel like the whole "Spartan training" simulator was a good but nontheless BS reason for there to be no elites. After all, if it was a training sumulator, wouldn't you have people playing the opposing forces, armed with realistic weaponry, armor, tactics, etc, etc? So if its a training simulator it makes more sense for the Elites to be in then out. Point is, I think the primary reason 343 ditched Elites was beacuse they didn't want to take the time to implement a comparable number of cosmetic customizations for Elites as they did for Spartans...

Liam Neeson Pulp Fiction

Bet you didn't use the word belated tho

Oh, dont be such a debby downer.

I'm going out Mel Gibson style. FREEEEEEEEEEEEEDDDDDDDOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMM! (from internet facists). If that doesnt answer your question you need to google Braveheart. WYR explosively decompress in space or exprossively COMPRESS in a submarine thats collapsing?