"...On-line and Campaign maps"
Excerpts are fun.

SPOILERS: It was weird, they were mentioning saving cortana so much i figured, oh they're definatly gonna do it, so it never occured to me that they might fail. Did make me feel that i failed somehow. Not that it dissapointed me at all.

Have you never played Shadow of the Colossus?

Sometimes the games that are the most powerful are the ones that give you hope and then take it away. You remember them more and the best ones are the games that allow you to play through it AND suffer through the ending WITHOUT leaving you hollow inside. That is why SotC stands as a beacon in storytelling.

Halo 4 also leaves a lot of (not -very- subtle) hints about the future of the series. See below and my response to him for more details and speculation.

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I have a theory for future games. Ok, so Cortana distracted the Didact so Chief could nuke his chest, then Cortana "died". Or did she?

Let's assume Halsey gives chief a new copy of Cortana in the beginning of Halo 5, (Rampant Cortana said something like this in the game), I'm thinking that part of her rampant copies are sill floating in space, maybe she's the villain in Halo 5 and the end of 5 has old Rampant Cortana vs Chief's "New" Cortana ending up Merging them together crating the "Brain" of old Cortana in the stable state of the new Cortana. Then there's a cliffhanger at the end of Halo 5 after all of that occurred leading to the discovery that the Didact isn't dead. I don't think he's dead. you really don't see him die, just fall with a nuke on his chest.

Then Halo 6.

I might be over thinking it, but I don't care. I really like the theory I've come up with. I'm no writer, so any plotholes are there because I suck. But that's what I think. What about you?

(VERY MINOR SPOILERS!)

(SERIOUSLY, THEY'RE MINOR BUT STILL DON'T LOOK.)

I find it amazing how few people put these three pieces of information together.

1:) Constructor: A machine made to digitise living material but, in tests, was unable to recreate the living tissue when un-digitising an entity.

2:) Cortana talks about a fake sun and how she'll never be able to feel or see what it really looks like.

3:) Cortana says she isn't going back with Chief. At no point is it stated that she dies.

Whilst your theory of her rampant personalities is a shockingly good one, I think it takes on a far more dangerous vibe when confronted with the above information 'and' the fact that there is a good chance that Cortana's rampant personalities have the blueprints to the demolished Constructor.

(SPOILERS ABOVE! MINOR BUT STILL, DON'T LOOK!)

Yeah I know what you mean, at the end where Chief was just by himself I realised, everyone he loves is dead... He is almost 50 and there is a new generation of Spartans to replace him...

Aye. Cortana really was his last hope. I'm glad this will mean he'll have to forge new relationships and trust with other characters as he works his way through without Cortana in his head.

(Though see above for my thoughts on that... you may find some hope there.)

Also the Forge... Wheres prcision editing fucked off to?

Its Impossible to make a big map 'cos you cant have many objects...

SWAT is released next week. They release new playlists every week.

I dont know about 4, but reach was a fking disgrace, i dont even follow the halo series but even i know that it was downright pathetic compared to 3

reach was awesome, it was more like halo 1 than 3, which makes sense because it happens directly before 1

Halo: REACH had the best Multiplayer and the best Capaign to date, The Spartans Actually felt HUMAN for once.

I bet you guys probably loved Halo: ODST...

You say the spartans actually felt human for once in reach (and i agree with you) but The humanity of a spartan, our FAVORITE spartan, is explored even more so in Halo 4 by far. As for multiplayer, the only reason tat reach was cooler than the other games multiplayers was because of armor abilities.

My favourite Spartan was and still is Noble 6. Simply because of the investment I have in her. Chief on his own... not so much. He is only my favourite when paired with Cortana and that's not a fair judgement.

Halo 4 has gone a way to fixing this but I think it will take more than Halo 4 to make me feel for the MC more than I felt for the much weaker but still as deadly Noble 6. Plus, what a sacrifice at the end. With the Chief, you always get the feeling that he's going to be alright, but Noble 6's death really hurt, especially playing out her last fight. (Though I would have preferred if her final moments were 1st person and still perhaps somehow playable.)

I just dont like bad games, i dint like odst, i didnt like wars, i dint like reach and i didnt like 2s singleplayer because of the ending. Its not about what the game has, if i dont like it then i wont play it, and while i felt like 3 was a lot of fun back on its release, i just got bored on reachs singleplayer and hated the multiplayer.

Interesting viewpoint. I disagree with you about those games being bad. The things you pointed out (in my opinion) were simply not up to scratch and the scratch in Halo is very hard to reach. I think we must have very interestingly differing viewpoints as I tend to see the good in things rather than allowing the bad to take precedence.

E.g: Halo 2's ending DID suck. A cheesy one-liner and a cliffhanger. However on the bright side, look at Halo 3 and how much of an improvement the single-player was in that game and how much of that would have been lost if it was still a part of Halo 2. Equipment, lower-res graphics, less vehicles, easier A.I. etc.

By no means is it a defence of these things because you're right, they're mistakes that don't live up to the series' stellar reputation; but I do think that all of the mistakes led to improving the next game in the series. It's rare to see a complaint in the Halo series that persists through two games and even rarer that the complaint persists beyond that.

I dont even know, im just giving my opinion here but some people seem to not like opinions at all. Im not even into halo im just pointing out my experience with that series.

Aye, I know, right? Give a dick no accountability and suddenly out comes the worst bile and hatred they have inside them.

Still, the Net builds character I guess. If you can be nice here then you can do it most places.

Damn right, take care man.

Heh heh heh. 'course!

And it had firefight!

Halo Reach's multiplayer was downright terrible compared to halo 4's and i love how you hate on halo 4 for giving swat as DLC yet you say halo 2 is your favorite for doing the same thing.

Halo 4 is the best halo as to date and 343 surpassed bungie in every department.

Most of 343 were a part of Bungie's Halo team, herp durp...

No they weren't, some of them where but not the majority. Hell there where employees from turn 10, pandemic studios, EA, Retro studios, Santa Monica, Naughty Dog, SOE and vastly more. Hell there are more employees from pandemic alone compared to employees from bungie. Do your research before making yourself look like an ass.

Most of the Leads were

Dan Ayoub - Executive producer ex EA/Ubisoft employee
Kiki Wolfkill - Producer ex Turn 10 employee
Bonnie Ross - Studio manager ex MS publishing employee
Chris Lee - Senior Producer ex MS publishing
Gavin Carter - Senior producer ex bethesda
Matt Brown -Senior A.I developer ex 2K Marin
Kenneth Scott - Senior art Director ex ID software
Scott Warner - Lead designer ex pandemic games
Chris Haluke - Lead Mission designer ex Guerilla games


The only person who really had a massive role that where ex bungie is Frank O'Connor

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I know everyone has a right to have their own opinion, but yours is just wrong...

And i began SWAT in Halo:REACH so i didnt play it in Halo 2. Halo 2 was my second Fav for Campaign.

And 343 have fucked the series up. The best bit about Halo 4 was the graphics and they get better with time anyway.

You can say that the graphics just got better over time through the games because they had been using the same graphics engine from halo 2 for quite some time

Opinions can be wrong now? You're not only a fucking retards but also close minded and bigotted.

The story is vastly superior over anything bungie has tried, 343 actually put effort in the multiplayer unlike halo reach where every map was just cheaply rehashed from the campaign, spartan ops is vastly superior to firefight, you got 3 forge maps compared to 1, you got new enemies bringing completely new twists where as reach only added a cheap jackal like skirmisher and it has overal a far bigger scope and value than anything the previous halo's pulled off.

You must be joking...

The story sucks!! Its basicly Cortana is going rampant, now kill this guy...

And i'm very sorry but if you google it, i'm not the only one who thinks Halo 4 is shit.

Infact its a bigger let down that Mass effect 3's ending, With ME3 atleast it was only the ending that sucked...

I love how you ignore every single point i said except one. Yes cortana went on rampancy, if you where a halo fan you should've expected that. the halo games have never put this much heavy emphasis on character development. All characters feel immersive and humanized. Master Chief in particular feels like it has grown to be more than just a cyborg but a human super soldier who despite remaining a strong and silent type clearly has more depth to him. And you truly care and feel bad for the struggles Cortana has to go through.

Reach on the other hand is just a group of generic spartan that die one by one in extremely cheesy ways.

And i'm sorry but if you google it you see many many people saying it's the greatest halo as to date.

I bet your an american, American's are easily impressed...

And there is no immersion whatsoever!
Every now and then you get hints that cortana is upset, then it's "shoot 25 enemies or press 3 buttons" It's repetative and tedious.

I agree with all but one point. Not all of Noble Team die in cheesy ways. Whist I think Kat's death was pretty cheesy (I dislike the deaths from nowhere that come from nameless characters for the sake of added drama) I think that Emile had a pretty badass death (even if his character was just trying -way- too hard...) and Carter's death was also pretty badass.

I think that Jorge's death was just stupid though... I managed to keep 3 marines alive through to the end of the mission once (at least I'm sure I did) and he STILL dies. It would have been a MUCH better game if you could somehow prevent each of their deaths by performing well (and perhaps doing so on Legendary difficulty) in the levels.

It would have made the game MUCH more interesting to have these character's fates actually in your own hands and completing the missions under certain conditions gives you a different ending. It was a shameful miss from Bungie.

You do realize that Halo 2 didn't have SWAT as a playlist until the second map pack came out, correct? Also, Halo: Reach wasn't very remarkable. If you explained it detail why you dislike the game so much, maybe then we would understand.

8 Short missions as Campaign? Seriously

Spartan ops is pointless and even shorter

Multiplayer is terrible, Campers everywhere and the DMR is overpowered.
And a prestige system? Really?

Forge is worse. 'Nuff said.

Its more like CoD set in 2237

-Yeah the Campaign was short, but it was good!
-Forge was actually pretty well done, however the budget is too low in my opinion
-Waaaay less campers than there ever used to be, due to promethian vision and faster pace maps
-Prestige system I don't like either
-They can always nerf guns, there hasn't even been a first patch yet

It's not actually a prestige system. Prestige in CoD is when you just start levelling all over again, in Halo 4 it simply splits the levelling off into 8 individual paths that take the same time to complete and each level awards you new cosmetic items as well as a gameplay bonus based upon which path you chose. When you're done with it you just swap to the next one and keep on going from there.

I am sceptical about the bonuses to gameplay but given how the gameplay changes have thus-far all made the game smoother I am going to wait and see if this just makes the game more fun.

Campaign was a bit short, I agree, Spartan ops however will be added to overtime, which in my opinion is the best thing they could have done. Also, the online will be more enjoyable when all of the Call of Duty players trade Halo in for Black Ops 2. About forge, I completely agree, they gave us 3 maps to actually forge on and they all suck. One last thing, the prestige system is actually kind of awesome. Think about it, if you reached max rank in a game and were stuck, like Battlefield, there is bound to be quite a few people who want to restart and have something to do.

fine but each prestige rank gives you a bonus ie: explosion resistance

What is more, likening it to the prestige system is just silly.

Prestige strips you of everything you've earned and has you play the whole levelling system again. This is just a further levelling system on top of your original system.

Online to me feels more like an RPG than an FPS, and I'm totally fine with it.

And no, I'm not going to red thumb you just for your opinion, Halo 2 was my first halo game and Halo Reach was my first xbox360 game so I have a super bias view when it comes to it...

What specifically apart from that didn't you like?

waaait wut, they are making us pay for Play-Lists!?

No, SWAT will be released next week. New playlists every week.

¬_¬ No, they're not. He's trolling... probably.

They're going to be adding more gametypes as time passes.

I'm not trolling they are bringing it out in DLC

No, they are not. You are incorrect and are misleading people.

343 are planning weekly updates to the Wargames section and next week Swat will appear in the list. It will be an update and not something that is classified as DLC.

And you are retarded, If its not true then how come lots of sites out there on the Interweb
are informing people of 343's bullshit??

If it's not true then the reason that they are all calling it DLC is either because they're unprofessional and are making silly mistakes or the site is not credible.

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www.examiner.com/article/first-halo-4-multiplayer-playlist-update-coming-next-week-with-swat

www.343industries.org/forum/topic/17138-halo-4-team-swat-update/

www.gametrailers.com/side-mission/38346/swat-makes-a-comeback-in-halo-4-multiplayer-next-week

(I found all of this on the first page of a google search for Halo 4 Swat. It would appear that you have been direly misinformed of 343 industries and their practices. They intend to add new updates to Halo 4 Wargames weekly as opposed to Monthly like in Reach.)

the other spartan ops episodes are going to be dlc also, but theyre going to be free, or so ive heard. so whats to stop the other game types from being that way?

Yep, hence the lack of ALOT of game types.

You have no fucking clue what you're talking about. The halo 4 campaign was meant to show the relationship between John and Cortana. It's all about character development and overcoming their inevitable separation. Plus, 343 is making a new trilogy, as in three new games. This was only the beginning you fucking moron. Secondly, they aren't going to make you pay for play lists. The game only came out 3 days ago so obviously every playlist won't be there. lastly, reach is the biggest shit stain of all time. It's not halo, It's a pathetic attempt at integrating fluff to bring in casuals. Armor abilities were so unbalanced it's laughable, at least 343 knows how to balance not only the weapons, but the armor abilities as well. the only part of the reach campaign that was good was the ending, other than that it was just "let's see who can die the most tragically" anyone who thinks reach is the best halo is a dumb fucking noob and needs to be punched in the throat.

Dude how many halo's HAVE YOU.. ACTUALLY PLAYED??

If you knew anything, you'd know that Halo:REACH was based around SPARTAN-III's
Enhanched Human's with every corner cut so ONI could create more of them, hence the deaths.

Second of all Playlists are coming out on DLC!! GET YOUR FUCKING FACTS RIGHT!

Third REACH was the first game WITH armor abilities so it probably would be unbalanced...

And i'm sooo upset that 343 is adding 2 More games to a series i grew up with.

Watching 343 do this is like watching Jucas drive STAR WARS into the ground...

I've played all of them. It doesn't matter that they were spartan III's. It doesn't change the fact that the entire campaign was based around their death. It was stupid. Reach followed some no name spartans instead of following the book, like it should have. Even putting aside the games inaccuracies it was still shit.

Second: www.gamezone.com/products/halo-4/news/next-week-s-halo-4-matchmaking-playlist-update-includes-swat

I do have my facts straight you cock stain.

And Bungie ran halo into the ground with reach, now 343 is picking up the pieces. and doing a damn good job. they've released a ton of extra content that die hard halo fans deeply appreciate. I.E. forward unto dawn.

Yeah, that's all you can reply with now that swat is actually out and you were completely wrong. Anyone that thinks reach is the best halo should just go kill themselves. You're terrible and you don't deserve to hold a controller.