BLackHawkodst
BLackHawkodst
Since 6135 Days
Nice Gameplay of Spartan Ops offscreen, but gives you a nice idea of how it plays (even if the kid playing is crap! :) ), 50 missions over 10weeks i'm so in!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WxMPyFOjjE
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Frozpot
Frozpot
Since 7007 Days
Posted by Phaethon360
Alright, let me post this up without getting hit by Halojizz
DUCK and WEAVE!!!!

Lol, I quoted you, then when I watched the above video, and I saw that pump bottle and wasn't thinking hand sanitizer ... lmao....


Seriously- it's cool to hear that you WILL be reuniting with Blue team at some point (not in H4, unfortunately, but likely in one of the subsequent games)! Yay!!
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Oooh, Profound, isn't it?

Phaethon360 - Mr Pant<s>s</s>ies
Phaethon360
Since 7094 Days
Posted by fabreezwait
ok Raptor has now been dethroned :)
Posted by Optimusv2
He didn't even stand a chance :)
He really didn't! But I don't envy anyone in his vicinity when a picture of Bayonetta is in the room.
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Optimusv2
Optimusv2
Since 7140 Days
My goodness, kid sucks, but it does look awesome :)

50 free missions of that, in addition to campaign!? Oh baby :D

I also get such a huge mass effect vibe from this game. It looks as satisfying to kill things in this game as it does in Mass Effect. It always feels so good to kill things in Mass Effect games, especially in 2 and 3, and I get a very similar feel watching that gameplay video.

Also, at 11 minutes, did the promethean crawler seriously just jump that high?
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Halo Reach using 360 tesselation unit extensively.

Hironobu Sakaguchi is coming back to reclaim the throne :)

Seeing it in motion on your HDTV, will blow your mind!!

Don't ask any questions just shut up and buy Halo : Ghosts of the Onyx one of th

Optimusv2
Optimusv2
Since 7140 Days
Enemies really do react so much better to being shot.
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Halo Reach using 360 tesselation unit extensively.

Hironobu Sakaguchi is coming back to reclaim the throne :)

Seeing it in motion on your HDTV, will blow your mind!!

Don't ask any questions just shut up and buy Halo : Ghosts of the Onyx one of th

Redneck
Redneck
Since 6936 Days
Posted by BLackHawkodst
Nice Gameplay of Spartan Ops offscreen, but gives you a nice idea of how it plays (even if the kid playing is crap! :) ), 50 missions over 10weeks i'm so in!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WxMPyFOjjE
LOL, whats the Vaseline for, if you know what I mean...
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They tookor jeabs

BLackHawkodst
BLackHawkodst
Since 6135 Days
Yeah well on the first day Halo Fiction panel, if you watch it again, one the guys there was an Excutive Producer on Mass Effect 1 / 2 before he switched to 343i, but yeah i get a def Mass Effect vibe in the cinematics especially.
Posted by Redneck
LOL, whats the Vaseline for, if you know what I mean...
It's anti-germ gel, got to 'Keeep it Clean' remember :)
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BLackHawkodst
BLackHawkodst
Since 6135 Days
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Jin187
Jin187
Since 6993 Days
My word!! Just seen all this new footage and i have to say, this is shaping up to be the most visually impressive console game ever made (By some distance too!)! I dont know if it will be a masterpiece and i doubt it will be the best Halo game in the series (cant see this topping Halo 3), but it really is looking extremely impressive.
Posted by Phaethon360
Alright, let me post this up without getting hit by Halojizz

This just looks stunning!!
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Optimusv2
Optimusv2
Since 7140 Days
The truly amazing part is that I get the sense that their ability to tell a really good story will be just as good as all this other stuff they are showing.
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Halo Reach using 360 tesselation unit extensively.

Hironobu Sakaguchi is coming back to reclaim the throne :)

Seeing it in motion on your HDTV, will blow your mind!!

Don't ask any questions just shut up and buy Halo : Ghosts of the Onyx one of th

Optimusv2
Optimusv2
Since 7140 Days
New Spartan Ops off screen footage, and some very cool stuff shown at the beginning :) The UNSC Infinity from space looks so incredible :D

It's crazy that Spartan Ops looks so damn good. You can just imagine what Campaign is like.
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Halo Reach using 360 tesselation unit extensively.

Hironobu Sakaguchi is coming back to reclaim the throne :)

Seeing it in motion on your HDTV, will blow your mind!!

Don't ask any questions just shut up and buy Halo : Ghosts of the Onyx one of th

Optimusv2
Optimusv2
Since 7140 Days
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2jyTf1A7rc&hd=1

Hmm, thought I posted the link the first time. Well, here it is. Guy plays on legendary.
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Halo Reach using 360 tesselation unit extensively.

Hironobu Sakaguchi is coming back to reclaim the throne :)

Seeing it in motion on your HDTV, will blow your mind!!

Don't ask any questions just shut up and buy Halo : Ghosts of the Onyx one of th

Phaethon360 - Mr Pant<s>s</s>ies
Phaethon360
Since 7094 Days
Posted by Jin187
My word!! Just seen all this new footage and i have to say, this is shaping up to be the most visually impressive console game ever made (By some distance too!)! I dont know if it will be a masterpiece and i doubt it will be the best Halo game in the series (cant see this topping Halo 3), but it really is looking extremely impressive.



This just looks stunning!!
I'd like to see some direct feed footage before I make any kinda claim like that... Call me crazy.
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BLackHawkodst
BLackHawkodst
Since 6135 Days
The E3 Demo is direct feed, even though thats now an old build.
Posted by Optimusv2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2jyTf1A7rc&hd=1

Hmm, thought I posted the link the first time. Well, here it is. Guy plays on legendary.
Yeah i'm getting so excited for Spartan Ops, almost as much as MP.
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GriftGFX - He can also<br>ban your ass!
GriftGFX
Since 7248 Days
Posted by Phaethon360
I'd like to see some direct feed footage before I make any kinda claim like that... Call me crazy.
Wait.. off-screen animated gifs aren't quality now?! ;)
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Frozpot
Frozpot
Since 7007 Days
OP might be over-the-top excited (I'm damn excited as well, to be honest) but you guys are being overly cynical, IMO. Everything they've shown has been quite impressive, and the hands-on feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. The Universe (for those of us that care) looks to finally be getting the attention many have been clamoring for. Unless you guys are just pulling some kind of balancing function...
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Oooh, Profound, isn't it?

fabreezwait
Since 5428 Days
I'm also excited for this game, and after watching both the comicon panels, my excitement has shot up, the care and effort they seem to be putting into this game is off the chart, the direct feed E3 demo and other footage in trailers also leads me to believe this will be the best looking 360 game by far and put it in the top 3 console lookers to date out there.
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Phaethon360 - Mr Pant<s>s</s>ies
Phaethon360
Since 7094 Days
Posted by Frozpot
OP might be over-the-top excited (I'm damn excited as well, to be honest) but you guys are being overly cynical, IMO. Everything they've shown has been quite impressive, and the hands-on feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. The Universe (for those of us that care) looks to finally be getting the attention many have been clamoring for. Unless you guys are just pulling some kind of balancing function...
We'd need a lot of help to balance out the hype in this thread. Grift is probably more excited about Halo 4 than I am.

I just find it shocking that some of the people in this thread are praising this game for things that have been done in many others which they've consequently damned. And don't try to deny it. We moderate you. We know you better than you know yourselves.

That said, the offscreen shots show color and some neat lighting. But nothing vastly out of the realm of Halo 3. Some of the games I'm right off the bat considering comparing this too once they show real footage of are the following:

Gears of War 3
Uncharted series
Killzone 3
Crysis 2

They haven't shown anything that blows these games "out of the water."

And seriously, I hate to be "that guy", but you guys just bring it out of me.

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Frozpot
Frozpot
Since 7007 Days
Posted by Phaethon360
We'd need a lot of help to balance out the hype in this thread. Grift is probably more excited about Halo 4 than I am.

I just find it shocking that some of the people in this thread are praising this game for things that have been done in many others which they've consequently damned. And don't try to deny it. We moderate you. We know you better than you know yourselves.

That said, the offscreen shots show color and some neat lighting. But nothing vastly out of the realm of Halo 3. Some of the games I'm right off the bat considering comparing this too once they show real footage of are the following:

Gears of War 3
Uncharted series
Killzone 3
Crysis 2
It doesn't have even be "teh first evar!" to do something, or even have the "best" graphics to be a great game, though. Sure there is a lot of hyperbole but the game, from everything show it looks pretty phenomenal, IMO. Nothing is going to vastly out-pace other games graphically on this hardware, but it DOES look like what many people have been clamouring for graphically for a long time (ie Halo falling short of what people expect for such a huge franchise, visually). The fact that it does stand up there with those frachises is pretty big for the Series...
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Optimusv2
Optimusv2
Since 7140 Days
With all the direct feed stuff I've seen already, I don't really need direct feed of that new, made for theatre trailer to know that this is going to easily be one of the best looking games to ever release on the Xbox 360, if not the best looking game the console has ever seen, period. We have direct feed of SP. We have direct feed of Spartan Ops. With regards to some saying the best looking on consoles, it doesn't really matter, because as far as I'm concerned, it's all opinion anyway.

It's pretty obvious how incredible this game looks from all the footage we have. They are doing everything on a technical and artistic level about as well as you could hope for, coming from a completely new, unproven developer with some big shoes to fill. We can't judge how good the game Halo 4 will be in the end, but we can already clearly see that the thing looks absolutely amazing. We have better than a few small gifs, we have higher resolution video that looks even better than the gifs in this thread, if for no other reason than it's bigger and still looks just as amazing as the gifs. Heck, that gif doesn't even properly showcase the part with the ground falling out from under the Chief, which was one of the best parts.

There is some truth that being overly excited can have its downsides, but it can be said that being overly cynical is even worse, because it includes having the unenviable task of trying to downplay what so far looks like an all around incredible package. Sound design, graphics and art, motion capture, animation, gameplay, cutscenes, completely new or enhanced storytelling mechanisms (scripted gameplay segment from E3 demo and cinematic terminals). 343i are clearly doing a far better job than a lot of people ever thought they would, and as a result, it's clear that they have a proper technical showpiece for the 360 on their hands.

Let's just address the big, fat elephant in the thread/room. 343 is looking like a much more overall skilled developer than Bungie showcased themselves to be after 3 tries on the Xbox 360, and some are just shocked, and this is their way of coping :P That's mostly me just playing devil's advocate, but it's seriously looking more and more like Bungie moving on from Halo was the best possible thing that could have happened to the franchise. I still love the previous Halo games, and they will forever be treasured in my games collection, but if 343i was looking like anything other than a fantastic shepherd for the Halo franchise moving award, you can bet your bottom dollar that everybody would be chomping at the bit to criticize the hell out of 343 for their perceived failures, but 343 is making that pretty damn difficult to do with that they've shown of spartan ops/ and SP.
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Halo Reach using 360 tesselation unit extensively.

Hironobu Sakaguchi is coming back to reclaim the throne :)

Seeing it in motion on your HDTV, will blow your mind!!

Don't ask any questions just shut up and buy Halo : Ghosts of the Onyx one of th

Jin187
Jin187
Since 6993 Days
Posted by Phaethon360
I'd like to see some direct feed footage before I make any kinda claim like that... Call me crazy.
There's loads of direct feed footage out there, so yes, i'll call you crazy! :)

Besides, I didn't say it is the most visually impressive console game, I said it was shaping up to be. If they can keep the frame rate steady and the visual quality around the same level as the E3 demo then I have no doubt that it will be.
Posted by GriftGFX
Wait.. off-screen animated gifs aren't quality now?! ;)
Right on cue, for a moment there, I thought you'd given up!? :o
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Frozpot
Frozpot
Since 7007 Days
I'm just glad that they made the CE remake, and helped out on Reach. That means they had plenty of opportunity to absorb just how Bungie created that amazing FPS feel on console that so many other devs have so much trouble matching...
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GriftGFX - He can also<br>ban your ass!
GriftGFX
Since 7248 Days
Posted by Jin187
Right on cue, for a moment there, I thought you'd given up!? :o
Well the point still stands. Calling it the most visually impressive anything based on a GIF is silliness. The sort of silliness that fits right into this thread ;)
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dcdelgado
dcdelgado
Since 7108 Days
So just caught up with thread, first things first...

@ Ops:





So i'm loving all the info coming out of the comicon panels MP and SP, and Spartan Ops has really surprised me, and could turn out to be gold for 343.

And this footage was AWESOME!, finally Halo is up there with the best looking games consoles have to offer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AfFAlxtSSk

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Phaethon360 - Mr Pant<s>s</s>ies
Phaethon360
Since 7094 Days
Posted by Jin187
There's loads of direct feed footage out there, so yes, i'll call you crazy! :)

Besides, I didn't say it is the most visually impressive console game, I said it was shaping up to be. If they can keep the frame rate steady and the visual quality around the same level as the E3 demo then I have no doubt that it will be.
Well pardon moi, but aside from the first E3 footage all I've seen posted in this thread were offscreen shots. And only thing I was impressed by at E3 was the cutscenes, and Halo has always had cutscenes that were more impressive than gameplay footage. I was not impressed by the jungle section, it looked no different than 3/Reach to me.

But I will say this: Halo 4 is the best looking game on the Xbox 360 that will release this year of the Halo franchise :P.

Lighten up chaps. If we weren't playing devil's advocate and bringing up rational criticism the forum would drown in Halojizz, which is worse than any enemies the Flood could throw at you. Ask Optimus, he read the books and knows how bad a Halojizz Flood can be!
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