Nixellion

Yes! I spent half an hour trying to find the volume setting for music\fx\voice, and there is no such a thing. Why? Generally, I don't like sound in Halo 4. Thats ugly. Some music tracks are nice, like Galaxy and 117 for example. But they are not Halo anymore. They said, that they try to keep the old style, but push it forwars, so, guys, you pushed WAY TOO FAR. You lost something important from that music. And not only music! The whole sound. It was much more attractive in Halo 1-3, it was 50% of the game. Just try to watch O'Donnell's making of videos. He is in the game creation process always, he leads all sound of Halo 1-3. But now? I feel like the new composer just... Got the final halo, and made a music for it... Like for any other franchise. Competely new, and... average? Lets take Halo ODST and Halo Reach. Music is different, more mature, dark. Just what they wanted. But thats still Halo! Get O'Donnell back, guys... Or try to make more respect to Halo music. So, about sound something more. O'Donnell directed dialogues, voices and sounds, as well as ingame sound mixing engine. That is completely lost. Volume mixing is horrible, i really cant hear any music there. Warthog sound is way too loud and sharp, I cant hear Cortana's voice. And so on. As for the dialogs, just one example, which ruined the moment for me. One of the signature Cortana's words: "Dont make a girl a promise, if you know you can't keep it". They ruined the musical rhytm in this frase, by shortening it into the horrible "Don't make a girl a promise, if you can't keep it". Just try to say first, then second one a couple of times. Which one sounds more natural? More flawless? Which one's sound flow is more natural? The original one. They just don't think about sound as much as Bungie and O'Donnell did. Thats bad. I hope they will make more attention to it in the next halo games. As the original author of this thread said - the FLOW. Yes, the flow. Not only the music flow. The whole sound flow is ruined. I hope they read this... God, please make 343i read this thread. But, well, actually there are some memorable themes from new Halo. 117, Galaxy, Revival and Green and Blue. 117, I think, is the main theme. Taaaa daaaa tadadadadaaaa xD But the whole sound of halo 4 music is really average, just like in the other movies and games... No unique sounds, even... God, even some obvious rip-offs from Avatar (117 3:00-3:15), Diablo (Revival?), Medal of Honor (117 beginning), Crysis 2 (Immaterial) and Star Wars. Guys, hello, we DO remember those! Halo music was unique. Now it is not. Just another OST from another game.

Uhm, those were spartan II's in Halo Reach. Not IIIs. Spartan IIIs appeared after the fall of reach.

There is a huge discussion about it at halo nation and other Halo fan forums. So, I hope they will get cortana back. Actually there are a lot of clues to that she is alive. Like - librarian could make her copy, while you list her before meeting the librarian yourself. When the terminal with Cortana was destroyed, you saw a similar glowing "data bulb", like from prometheans and such. And there is a terminal, where Dr. Halsey says that cortana has a lot of opportunities and reasons to live over the 7 years life span. But what will she be, and when will she return? Maybe she will turn evil, like bungie wanted to make back in Halo 1? Personally, I would not like it if Cortana finally says dead or evil. Hell, americans, guys, you always made Happy Ends, dont become like us Russians, who likes to kill main characters in their stories! First mass effect - killed shepard, now Halo, killed Cortana. What next, kill chief? For me, the most epic story would be to make Cortana evil, but then turn her back in Halo 6. That way they can make a lot of story about what they want - humanity of Cortana and Chief. That way the story would be like... In Halo 1-4 Cortana always reminded Chief that he is not machine. But in halo 5-6 He would remind Cortana about who she really is. So. 343 almost did not dissapoint fans with Halo 4. Lets hope, they wont do it in halo 5 and 6 too.