Halo 4 Teaser Trailer

[Bynary Fission]

http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged...220417062.html

It's a little light on the story tidbits — we know that Master Chief will face a new foe, but we have zero idea who or what that is yet — though 343 does mention a number of cool factoids. Chief's armor and HUD (head-up display) have gotten serious facelifts, the burst-fire Battle Rifle makes a return, and plenty of multiplayer gameplay footage shows that yes, you will be getting your butt kicked online again.

But perhaps the most interesting news comes at the 2:55 mark or so, when Halo franchise development director Frank O' Connor mentions that they're finally going to give "a convincing reason" why the Red and Blue Spartan soldiers (the two opposing sides in Halo's long-running multiplayer) are fighting in the first place. A damsel in distress? The last pop tart? Just plain bored? The possibilities are endless.

Wow, this game doesn't come out until the end of the year but I'm already pumped for it. The part about the BR returning especially caught my eye - people either loved it or hated it back in Halo 2 or 3, but it seemed to be quite missed when it was taken out of Reach. I wonder how the community will react with its return. Even more so I'm wondering how that will affect multiplayer (since I assume the DMR won't be present as it was the replacement for the BR in Reach).

Some other thoughts are that the multiplayer looks SICK - it really feels like it was crafted in the style of Halo 2 and 3 rather than the Reach version. Clearly it's still in its early stages, but already it looks exciting. I'm also interested to see what this "new" threat is that they mention is the heart of the new trilogy - since it has been shown that it isn't the Covenant or the Flood, I'm interested to see how they'll continue the events that concluded at the end of Halo 3.


Thoughts?

[Zon Fire]

All I got to say is WOW.

[lumphoboextreme]

Well reach was my retirement from the halo series I might pick this up if it's not terrible.

[hi19hi19]

Hype.

Sometimes teasers have that "inc trainwreck" feel, but I'm getting a good vibe from this video. Hope I'm right!

[adlp]

yay no obvious bloom and yay my BR is back

[samurai7694]

might get this one as a gift like I did with Reach

[Sephiroth28]

totally getting it. the BR is my baby.

[Xx{Midnight}xX]

It looks like they are actually putting effort into this one.

I might actually play this one.

[Bynary Fission]

Originally Posted by Xx{Midnight}xX

It looks like they are actually putting effort into this one.

I might actually play this one.

Well, now that Bungie is no longer at the helm and some fresh blood has taken the reins I'm really intrigued at how this will turn out. I'm really excited that Frank O' Connor is at the helm - he was the brains behind Halo 1 and 2, and that the guy responsible for some of the most brilliant games ever made is leading this project gets me real excited for the prospect of the next Halo installments.

That, and I was also happy to hear that they weren't recycling campaign maps - of all companies I thought Bungie wouldn't be lazy enough to do that. -_-

[Jerry DB]

I am totally gonna pre order this game...and I have never pre ordered a game

[MagicCarpetRide]

Thanks a lot... now I have to change my boxers...

[Magic_V2]

I just want halo 2 back :'(
I dislike the way reach looks, and the way 3 feels. 2 was just perfect for me in every way imaginable, even pre-patch.
Well, hopefully 343 knows what they're doing.. We'll just have to see where it goes until the end of the year.
Thanks for the info Bynary.

[ddr_f4n]

Looking at Reach and how they did with the multiplayer on that, I'm really looking forward to this one. As long as it wasn't as unexpectedly boring like Halo 3. That one just wasn't as great as the other games (ODST doesn't count).

[welsh_girl]

Meh meh.

[yo man im awesome]

No clothing was in sight after just reading the thread title.

[Bynary Fission]

Damn, a lot of people are excited for this (aside from me that is). When this game comes out I'm gonna have to add a few of you on Live and we'll have to play together sometime.

Originally Posted by Magic_V2

I just want halo 2 back :'(
I dislike the way reach looks, and the way 3 feels. 2 was just perfect for me in every way imaginable, even pre-patch.
Well, hopefully 343 knows what they're doing.. We'll just have to see where it goes until the end of the year.
Thanks for the info Bynary.

Yup. I tend to meet a lot of people who were convinced Halo 2 (or Halo 3) was the pinnacle of the series...I wouldn't know since I didn't even own an Xbox until Reach came out (incidentally, that's what we bought it for). I've played some Halo 3 multiplayer, though I guess not what you'd call in its glory days. I won't say Reach was bad, but I can certainly understand some of the complaints about stupid stuff like bloom and armor lock.

Here's to hoping Halo 4 will be the greatest game in the series yet.

[Zakvvv666]

Considering what 343 did to Reach after taking over, I don't have a lot of faith in Halo 4. I can only hope they don't kill that as well. (I still play Reach but it isn't as fun anymore.)

[Reincarnate]

Gotta admit, this looks pretty sweet... and I'm not even super-crazy about Halo in general.

[adlp]

Originally Posted by Zakvvv666

Considering what 343 did to Reach after taking over, I don't have a lot of faith in Halo 4. I can only hope they don't kill that as well. (I still play Reach but it isn't as fun anymore.)

are you retarded? Bungie was ruining their own Halo series like George Lucas is ruining his own SW universe

Bungie cracked under pressure to turn Halo Reach into a casual fest. no real ranking systems? wow. the Arena is a huge failure anyway. bloom introduced? the idea is fine with me, but they RUINED their own system by still rewarding spammers over pacers. want a console game with bloom done correctly? Shadowrun does the job.

other things that bungie did to make the last two halo games worse than they could be is they slowed down the gameplay speed. in halo 1, three shot kill is possible with the pistol if you were accurate enough. three shot kills are VERY hard to land. halo 2 comes out, and they replace the purpose of the halo 1 pistol with the BR, and changed it to four shot kill. you could still kill relatively fast, plus if you could pull off button combos, that made a difference as well. halo 3 made the BR shot slower, less accurate, and fixed button combos. still a four shot kill, but nonetheless longer killtimes than halo 2. halo reach... five shot kills with the DMR. with the introduction of horrible bloom as well, they made the gameplay significantly slower/easier.

Now that Bungie realized that they ruined Halo, 343 spawned from the former Bungie employees that knew what they were doing. theyre building a better game than bungie's Halo reach. they started fixing things in Reach that bungie wouldnt even address. 50% of the community wanted Zero Bloom. 343 made that happen. i feel bad for 343, that they have to monitor that piece of shit that bungie left them. Halo 4 will be better than Reach. There will be faster kill times, better/unrecycled maps, and a competitive community again.

but you're just a casual so whatever

[Izzy]

Originally Posted by Xx{Midnight}xX

It looks like they are actually putting effort into this one.

I might actually play this one.

Right, the years of development they put into all the previous games wasn't actually effort.