GDC: Bungie far from done with Halo 3 News

Hmm I fear all these new projects and recruitment will dilute the quality of their games :S

What games? They release one every year at best.

If they are of the same quality of the original trilogy and Halo Wars then I'm game for more.

halo 3 is the first one i didnt really care about. eventually got a second hand copy months after it was released and burned through the singleplayer on easy just to see what its about. I think Gears of War is the better Xbox franchise these days!

Halo 3 was the weakest and most disappointing game in the series IMO so I cannot say that I'm too excited about ODST at all, although I can understand why others might.

I'd like to see Bungie move on from Halo personally and do something completely new, just to show how versatile and imaginative they can be outside of making sequels. I always thought that breaking away from Microsoft was the point of that as having to churn out sequels ad nauseum must be very frustrating and limiting for developers. I wondered if that was the reason Bizarre Creations broke away from Microsoft too so they didn't have to keep making one PGR game after another.

May as well milk it as sells.

Rearrange these words into a sentence:

"Horse A Flogging Dead"

Edited to add: Actually, thats probably a bit hard to work out for most xbox owners.

Halo 3 was the best out of the 3, and can't wait for ODST, love Bungie.

There hasnt been an FPS that even comes close to the sheer playability of Halo, it is catagorically the best FPS available on any format. The more content we get for it the better.

Would love a sequel using an engine that was actually written for this gen of consoles though, not a modified Halo 2 engine.

It's amazing how an ageing game on a modified previous gen engine still consistently blows boring soulless shit like Killzone 2 out the water. That was 4 years of wasted development by GG.

"halo 3 is the first one i didnt really care about. eventually got a second hand copy months after it was released and burned through the singleplayer on easy just to see what its about. I think Gears of War is the better Xbox franchise these days!"

Which makes you what? An idiot? It is well known that the AI is what makes the games fun and that only comes into play at the 2 higher difficulty levels. Playing it on easy is fucking boring, just like every other game becomes boring on easy. Comparing 2 different genres is also a bit stupid.

Halo 3’s multiplayer is the best available on the current consoles, anyone who doesn’t agree is some toasted pineapple, stabbed on a skewer and then lightly dusted with cinnamon, tasty but inherently wrong. Hurrah for more Halo 3.

@ carrotcake

on easy? To paraphrase Bungie, the game practically plays itself on easy.
pussy.

3 was waaaay better than 2 for me. My main niggle with H3, though, was the implementation of Legendary. Just like in 2, it replaced 1's sublime difficulty curve with one hit sniper kills, grrr. This makes Legendary playthroughs a chore rather than a pleasure.

Halo > GoW

Of course they arent done with it. The 360 needs every exclusive game it can get for the next 2 years.

oh and lol at the "killzone is shit, someone please pay attention to me" crusade

enjoyed the single player but the online's shite these days

tried to play team deathmatch (or team slayer or whatever they insist on calling it) last weekend and ended up playing 4v4 rattling about a massive map. my team started winning and 3 of the other team quit. not fun. can't see how they'll resurrect the online as long as COD/Modern Warfare 2 are kicking about

Rubbish, the COD4 mapset was dire and couldn't even hold a candle to the Halo 2 mapset.

how is halo a dead horses. its in the top 3 franchises on the planted.

Halo 3 is a better game than Halo 2 but far short of the peerless (still) Halo. Move on from Halo 3 already.

@Coin-Op

"And farticus save up for a PS3 for fucks sake , your constant bitter tears about everything on PS3 is really sad to watch week in week out. "

It's a shit games console, there's absolutely no reason to own one if you have a 360.

@ Coin-Op

Wrong. COD4 is a great game but the mp maps are dull as f**k.

No reason to own either console if you have one of them really. Feel free to embark on list war/opinion as fact here.

Just ignore him, I'm sure even in a news item about fish being over farmed he'd bring the PS3 into it. Anyone who feels the need to mention how crap something is so often clearly needs something new to talk about.

My preferences:
1. Halo CE
2. Halo 3
3. Halo Wars (Well, no Bungie but aestheticaly *it is* Halo)
3. Halo 2

Its simple really if you dont like halo dont play it but if you do like me this is great news,new map maybe more levels for ODST who knows but great new,coin op you really are a dick.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who is happy that actualy fellow gamers like coin-op/Jigonesaw do not like Halo. I'm sure I will not find this gentleman on Live, that's another +1 for the franchise.

"burned through the singleplayer on easy just to see what its about"

If i did that i would have hated the game. I started on Heroic and thought the campaign was fantastic and the best in the series.

Well, I don't know what I was expecting when I opened [i]this[/i] comments thread...

how is halo a dead horses. its in the top 3 franchises on the planted.

Post. Of. The. Day.

Halo 3 was a great game and would happily buy any new expansions. As for comparisons to Killzone 2 I am half way through it and it's OK but not in the same league as Halo 3, there is just no excitement, just area after area of identical spawning drones, Halo 3 feels grand and cinematic Killzone 2 does not, IMO.

And btw, I think Eurogamer could put an article on about that guy (and girl) who latest OXM wrote about... I like Halo quite a lot, but that guy/gal went a bit too far.

Aw come on guys. For saying I played Halo 3 on easy, one person called me an idiot and another called me a pussy. I thought the Eurogamer community was better.

Person #1: I'm not like you. I know I won't have more fun if I make the AI harder - I will have less fun (I did try it actually). I played through on easy because I just wanted to see the game quickly, see all the levels and the story. I'm not interested in the game enough to fight my way through and repeat sections over and over. Also what's wrong with me saying I think Gears is the better brand on Xbox these days. I think Halo is less important than it used to be and Gears is a better poster boy for the console, that's all.

Person #2: I'm a pussy? Would it make me a big man then if I beat this videogame on the hardest setting? I think it's a bit silly to look down on people for wanting to play games casually. Sidenote: I have 1050 points from Ninja Gaiden II, which means I beat that game on hard, because it's my favourite game and I wanted a challenge from it.

I have to agree with carrot, the rethoric was inapropriate , lol, but we're all guilty of that (/speaks for himself, at least). But..., it is really a diferent game when one plays it by himself on Heroic, as Bungie recommends.

If all you’re interested in is seeing the levels and story as quickly as possible, and you’re not really bothered about the gaming aspect of it, then why bother playing it at all? Just watch a video of it or read about it.

Halo 3 on legendary on co-op is immense fun and a challenge, not as much as on your own granted, but still a test. I’m not sure where I am going with this but I don’t really care, I might scratch myself in a minute, that’ll be exciting. I wonder what I’m going to have for lunch later, I’m a bit bored of all the eateries around here, perhaps I’ll go down to Oxford Street and scowl at people when they don’t walk quickly enough…yes that’ll do, oh look, a belly dancer on TV.

The "problem" with Legenday in coop is that if you don't put Iron skull on it's much easier than Heroic alone - those generous checkpoints...

"I'm not interested in the game enough to fight my way through and repeat sections over and over."

That's sort of the point, though. The real strength of Halo is its variability. You can replay it endlessly and each experience is subtly different. Even after six or seven run-throughs I'm still encountering new things or seeing new permutations as to how the battles play out.

Which is why I understand how people can prefer CoD/GoW, for instance. If you played them all once on a low difficulty setting, CoD and GoW would definitely deliver more adrenaline hits and 'cool' setpieces. But in terms of the actual mechanics -- in terms of nuance, and intricacy, and intelligence -- Halo's gameplay is almost infinitely superior.

Oh, jesus wept when reading this thread.

@carrotcake

1050 on NG2 - not bad.

You can replay it endlessly and each experience is subtly different.

I can't. I'm like a robot. I take exactly the same route every time, so the game plays exactly the same all the time. It's some kind of gaming OCD I think.

Fuck off with the Halo milking already and work on something new!

"If all you’re interested in is seeing the levels and story as quickly as possible, and you’re not really bothered about the gaming aspect of it, then why bother playing it at all? Just watch a video of it or read about it"

I couldnt have said it better myself. Ive had this dicussion with a friend of mine that always plays on the easiest difficulty even though he is good at games. He says he played RE5 on amateur just for the story. I dont get it. I rather go to the cinema or read a book for a good story.

I've just had a battered sausage, chips and gravy and can feel the onset of a ferocious poo for this afternoon.

"how is halo a dead horses. its in the top 3 franchises on the planted."

Kind of proves my point.

"But in terms of the actual mechanics -- in terms of nuance, and intricacy, and intelligence -- Halo's gameplay is almost infinitely superior."

This!!! Well done.

This is what people don't understand about Halo - because they play it for 5 minutes and decide it's shit. Halo can be played in so many ways its replayability is tremendous.

I likes me some COD as well, but it doesn't have even 1/3 the number of features Halo 3 does.

"Edited to add: Actually, thats probably a bit hard to work out for most xbox owners."

Well to make a statement like that about a 12 million seller.. you shouldn't be questioning other peoples intelligence.

@trebell

I'm questioning yours right about now fuckwit.

Halo 3 is brilliant. Maximus is a very mean troll.

The more support for H3, the better. I doubt that means Bungie are incapable of developing new titles at the same time. Give them some credit.

@maximus

"how is halo a dead horses. its in the top 3 franchises on the planted."

"Kind of proves my point."

do you know what the term flogging a dead horse means, the keyword is DEAD. theirs no point flogging it because it DEAD. so the horses (halo) would have to be DEAD for you point to be proved. and do you honestly think the horses (halo) is DEAD. no its not is it.

think with your brain not your arse

@jim1975

Do you know what the word "punctuation" means?