Halo Reach: on Spike, NOW!

Watch it now, please.

VGAs aren't on for me for another hour and a half.

oh

well, you can watch it online at vga.spike.com

Aw, man, it is coming up after this next break, I can hardly wait.

Ringleader wrote:Aw, man, it is coming up after this next break, I can hardly wait.

It started at eight for me, so I think I missed some of it.

its on NOW!

and now its done...


It looked good, but the Spartans seemed too human, with their customized armor stuff.

and what was with those Osprey like things?

Ringleader wrote:its on NOW!

Nother more than a teaser trailer, but it was cool.

EDIT: Despite Halo Being Called the "Best "FPS" It didn't even get a nomination for "Game of the Year". Maybe I missed best "FPS" or a different award it might have gotten.

Will wait for it to come to teh internetz.

It was a rendered vid.

Felix wrote:

Ringleader wrote:its on NOW!

Nother more than a teaser trailer, but it was cool.

EDIT: Despite Halo Being Called the "Best "FPS" It didn't even get a nomination for "Game of the Year". Maybe I missed best "FPS" or a different award it might have gotten.

I think they were only doing 09 games. ODST was nominated for just about everything it fit into EXCEPT for Game of the Year, but this isn't surprising. It's an expansion after all.

CivBase wrote:

Felix wrote:

Ringleader wrote:its on NOW!

Nother more than a teaser trailer, but it was cool.

EDIT: Despite Halo Being Called the "Best "FPS" It didn't even get a nomination for "Game of the Year". Maybe I missed best "FPS" or a different award it might have gotten.

I think they were only doing 09 games. ODST was nominated for just about everything it fit into EXCEPT for Game of the Year, but this isn't surprising. It's an expansion after all.

ODST was on 09 game, unless my dates are completely out of wack. Well I missed half the show, so I guess I missed half the awards.

It just started for me at 8:00 pm. So I only missed like 25 mins of it so far.

Can't wait to see Reach.

EDIT: OMG is it just me or was that Force Unleashed II trailer just badass?

Ok, this is what I was able to get from the trailer.

I assume they're Spartans, as they seem to be wearing augmented MJONLIR (I saw a ODSTish Helmet, An EVA helmet, a Recon helmet and a MARK IV type helmet.)

The main guy is carring some new rifle that looks a lot like coventional rifles today.

As for the osepreys, not sure.

The Woman had an artifical arm. (if you look closely she has 320 as her number)

The big one was 052 (apparantly he's called Jorge)

And then there is the commander Carter-259

FINALLY ELITES ARE ENEMIES AGAIN!!!!

From what I could tell, it sounded like one of them was a Lieutenant that the others were unfamiliar with, but that they had read his file. I don't know, it all happened so quickly, and my dad was baking a cake in the background, which was very loud.

I don't know how I feel about the customized armor. It doesn't fit with anything we've been told thus far. EVA armor gets a minor mention in GoO, but from what I can tell, Spartans where traditional MJOLNIR armor on planets, and EVA armor in EVA situations. Why some choose to where EVA armor while planetside or vice versa doesn't make much sense to me.

However, the graphics look absolutely amazing. I guess that's one thing to look forward to.

But I am worried about these high-number Spartans. GoO makes it pretty clear that the other Spartans never have contact with any Spartans from another class, and that the SPARTAN-II project as a whole was canceled in favor of the SPARTAN-III project.

youtube link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZHtjvjUaus&feature=related

Looks Cool. ^_^

this trailer has finally convinced me that I am no longer a fan of Halo or of Bungie any more.

Rotaretilbo wrote:From what I could tell, it sounded like one of them was a Lieutenant that the others were unfamiliar with, but that they had read his file. I don't know, it all happened so quickly, and my dad was baking a cake in the background, which was very loud.

I don't know how I feel about the customized armor. It doesn't fit with anything we've been told thus far. EVA armor gets a minor mention in GoO, but from what I can tell, Spartans where traditional MJOLNIR armor on planets, and EVA armor in EVA situations. Why some choose to where EVA armor while planetside or vice versa doesn't make much sense to me.

However, the graphics look absolutely amazing. I guess that's one thing to look forward to.

But I am worried about these high-number Spartans. GoO makes it pretty clear that the other Spartans never have contact with any Spartans from another class, and that the SPARTAN-II project as a whole was canceled in favor of the SPARTAN-III project.

I think the Lieutenant will be the protagonist. Carter said 'no of that lone-wolf attitude' to him.

Again, it's been done before. In First Strike they augmented their MARK V armour with MARK VI compenants. I wouldn't be surprised if they mixed and matched armour pieces to better suit their specialities and mission.

I may have an answer for that. We know that 300 children were orignally listed for the Spartan II program. Out of these 150 were conscripted and trained. I seriously doubt they went 1-150, so they probably took them from Dr Halsey's personal choices, so I doubt they were all in numerical order.

Oh and

this trailer has finally convinced me that I am no longer a fan of Halo or of Bungie any more.

That's a litte extreme don't you think? I mean Reach will probably be my last Halo game, but seriosuly, after the shit we've seen this year... this didn't look THAT bad.

except Bungie made this... and they are obviously not trying to please anyone who don't give two flying fucks about the multiplayer


their new target audience is 10 - 12... they can have their fun... but bungie isn't going to get my money for giving me the finger like this.

Vigil wrote:I may have an answer for that. We know that 300 children were orignally listed for the Spartan II program. Out of these 150 were conscripted and trained. I seriously doubt they went 1-150, so they probably took them from Dr Halsey's personal choices, so I doubt they were all in numerical order.

But that's the thing. They originally had 150 children listed, and only chose 75. And even if there had been 300 originally, one of the Spartans is #320!

Rotaretilbo wrote:

Vigil wrote:I may have an answer for that. We know that 300 children were orignally listed for the Spartan II program. Out of these 150 were conscripted and trained. I seriously doubt they went 1-150, so they probably took them from Dr Halsey's personal choices, so I doubt they were all in numerical order.

But that's the thing. They originally had 150 children listed, and only chose 75. And even if there had been 300 originally, one of the Spartans is #320!

Indeed, I didn't say it was a fool proof answer, but it's something.

The only other thing It could be was the Class II Spartans, but that is even more unlikely as that never got of the ground.

except Bungie made this... and they are obviously not trying to please anyone who don't give two flying fucks about the multiplayer


their new target audience is 10 - 12... they can have their fun... but bungie isn't going to get my money for giving me the finger like this..

And you're getting this from what?

We knew it was team-based.

We knew it was going to have Spartans.

We knew it was going to be on Reach.

Seriously what are you so surprised at? It's aimed at exactly the same people as the last two were, the lines were similar to the ones in ODST and Halo 3.

As for Canon, it looks a little shaky on first impressions, but it's damn closer than the shit-fest that was Halo Wars.

I'll at least buy the fucking game, as it's their final Halo game, and mine as well.

well I want to hear their explanation for this "leuteniut" and how the fuck nobody knows him


they wanted to give the "rookie" feel again.. and made us a nonsenseical rank (as only kurt became an officer)

if we were a lieutenant... then that character would have been leading the mission on reach... no the Master Chief



number 320 is fucking BLUE

one spartan has massacred his helmet by scratching in a skull... obscuring 80% of his vision

NONE of the spartans are identical in their armor as described in the books


they all have different accents... not just slightly different like they would be having lived separately for 6 years.... but having been RAISED and TRAINED with the same group for 20 years would have erased that heavy russian and british accents



bungie is dead... its corpse has been filled with piles of people who don't give a shit about the source material and logic... and are more concerned with things like shiney objects and money.


Fuck You New Bungie

Aside from the fact that they're retconning pretty much the first half of First Strike I think it looks good.

They're referencing GoO, which shows at least some attention to canon.

I don't have high hopes for canonality anymore (except for ODST, which was head and shoulders canon-wise above anything else that will come after Halo 3) but hopefully Bungie can still make one hell of a video game.

Who knows. Maybe Bungie wants to ruin the franchise before it goes, make sure Microsoft can't cash in anymore on its brainchild after having raped it so viciously.

Well if they wanted to do that, they would have created the Duel and Halo Wars themselves.