Screech

Really good stuff dude but how did MC get a sword from Cortana? IS SHE STILL ALIVE? DO YOU KNOW SOMETHING WE DON'T KNOW?!?!?!

I'm fairly certain this isn't gonna be Halo 5, considering the fact that they've just been calling it Halo for Xbox One or something like that ever since it was 'announced'... I mean, I hope it's H5, but I'm seriously doubting that right now. Either way, a new Halo game is a good Halo game so I'm not complaining!

I honestly thought Spartan Ops was seriously lacking in comparison to Firefight... You're basically just playing short snippets of campaign missions over and over again w/ really crappy cut-scenes. I wasn't a fan.

Count me in for the US Playdate! Gamertag: dylan guitar P.S. - I have the Garbage Man gametype + map for Halo 3 and I will beg you to play it.

Well, Reach was released in September, 2010 and the Beta went live in May... So that's roughly 5 months before release. Destiny's being released around the same time Reach was so I'm guessing the Beta will also go live in May.

Sgt. Johnson fo' shizzle mah nizzle, even if his cigar looked like a flaming turd.

Thanks for sharing, Josh. I remember running home from the bus stop in middle school to play Halo 3 with my friends until my mom forced me to go to bed, haha! Halo 3 will always hold a special place in my heart.

Awesome! Loved playing Stockpile on Reach, gonna try to get some people together to give this a go!

I've been gone from the forums for a while - the last community event I participated was the Halo: Reach race day that happened back in... 2011? - so I'm excited for the all-day Ricochet dealio! Just liked the FB page and subscribed to the YT channel as well

I don't think it should be completely scrapped but I think there's some room for improvement. Maybe put less energy into putting a dozen types of walls in and focus more on creating more variety in the items players can use. I also agree about what some other people said about being able to re-size pieces to your liking / being able to re-skin pieces. On a somewhat unrelated note, I think 343 should do more to create variety in the environment of whatever 'Forge World'-type map they include in Halo 5... Maybe, instead of making it all look similar, they can use different landscapes in the different sections of the map? Or just make multiple, different-looking maps designated to specifically Forge.

I, like a lot of other people here, think they need to make it a standalone game... not make it so the campaign is its own thing and the multiplayer is literally nothing more than a map-pack for the latest installment in the Halo series. I was sooooo disappointed by the fact that they did that w/ CE anniversary. Besides, anyone can go back and play H2 on their original Xbox but nobody on console can play the multiplayer anymore... a re-launched multiplayer system would the be main reason I'd get H2: Anniversary.

I just got back into playing Custom Edition. My laptop has a HDMI port on the side so I hook it up to the flat screen and play with my 360 controller. If anyone ever wants to play, I'm usually in one of The Ashclan.com's servers... Bloodgulch CTF mainly. My name one there is "Screech."

I like the gameplay, but I absolutely hate the fact that we have to pay for credits to get guns other than the default ones. It's not a free iPhone game or anything... it's a game I played $15 for, so why should it cost money to play with the weapons I want to use?

Solution - play with a full party as much as possible. That's what I do, and it works

I don't think it has a quicker kill than the Battle Rifle, but I think it's easier to stay locked onto an enemy with it, due to the fact that it doesn't fly around as much as the Battle Rifle. Even though I don't do as well with the BR as I do with the DMR, I still use the BR a majority of the time and usually do well.

The multiplayer isn't anything to write home about, but so far, the campaign is pretty awesome. There's one part that i'm not enjoying too much, though; between the 4th and 5th(?...) mission there's a little side-mission that you play in a RTS style. I'm not a fan of that genre, so needless to say, I failed at that and didn't enjoy playing it. I spent my first 2 hours on the multiplayer losing gunfights that I should have been winning, but eventually I went on youtube and found out from WoodysGamertag that, if I adjusted my search settings to find games with the "best connection," I wouldn't be put in such laggy games and I would probably win more gunfights (or at least the ones I deserved to). Maybe i'll get more into it as time goes on, but right now i'm not digging it too much. I used to be able to rack up pretty good kill/death ratios in previous CoD games, but on this one it feels like i'm always breaking even or going negative.

So, according to the specialations trailer that was on the dashboard a few weeks ago, we need to reach level 50 by the 20th (aka today) to become specialized... Is this true?

Hey, everyone! According to a friend who was on when the new Spartan Ops/Matchmaking update when live earlier today, there was a "Free For All Throwback" playlist showing up in the playlist options. After a few minutes the playlist disappeared... So, I wanted to know; does anyone know anything about this? I'd imagine it was accidently put online until 343 took it down and that it'll be coming in a future matchmaking update, but I still would like to hear what you guys think/know.

Don't know if anyone has posted this yet, but i'm pretty bummed out that the file sharing/browsing system doesn't work right now. I heard from a friend that they plan to fix it in an upcoming update; does anyone know when that will be taking place?

Pros: - This game is probably unlike any other Halo game i've ever played (In a good way - It keeps things fresh) - New gametypes (Dominion & Regicide) are pretty awesome - Promethian weapons are pretty cool as well - again, keeping things fresh - Campaign is a fair length & isn't impossible to beat on Legendary - Sprint is available as a default now, instead of being an armor ability Cons: - Not nearly enough maps - Co-op campaign still lags like hell - Numerical ranking, as opposed to levels (Sergeant, General, etc.) - Spartan Ops is kinda disappointing as well (would have been fine with more Firefight) - Hit detection in Matchmaking is a bit off at times - File sharing/browsing doesn't work AT ALL - No search preferences - a step back from the Halo: Reach matchmaking system Other than those few cons, I am enjoying this new game a lot more than I thought I would. I was pretty skeptical about how good this game would be with 343 at the helm, and I have to admit that I was surprised by their work.

I like both games, but I think it's obvious that people will play the newer game in a series. Everyone complains about how much Modern Warfare 3 sucks and how good Black Ops is, but there are still more people on MW3 than Black Ops... People will complain to no end, but at the end of the day, will still play the newer game just because it's new! According to my xbox live history, I haven't played Halo 3 in months. I still thoroughly enjoy playing that game and prefer it to Halo: Reach in some aspects, yet I play Reach more for some reason.

I think that option 3 would make the most sense, considering leaderboard stats usually update faster than a person ranks up, making it a more accurate interpretation of how skilled the player is at the game. I'd like it if they returned to Halo 3's playlist system (social playlists, and competative playlists) though.

I don't think they are planning to add anything else onto Halo: Reach in the last few months before Halo 4 is released... I mean, there are only 4 months left until the new game is released so they wouldn't really get any mileage out of additional DLC for the game that's out right now. It'd be nice to have something to hold us over for the last few months, but it's highly unlikely and they probably wouldn't make any money.

Glad you enjoyed! That part during the second one when he got hit by the other drop pod almost made me piss my pants! I'll post more as they get uploaded.

I've been trying to get into a stockpile match too but sadly have not had any success I almost got into one in Swat but it got passed when voting in the lobby. Swat probably gives you the option of playing Stockpile the most. I'll add you and we can play a little to hopefully get into a game of stockpile.