What are you guys giving up for lent?

>>557975598
Halo 3

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>>557975626
a fine choice

psyop

This general dies for real in 6 fucking threads!

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>>557975772
you're coming with me, Miguel

the halo video game series

What is the Halo of Halo games?

Halo
the original motion picture

>>557975856
AAAAAIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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rhe thread dies tonight

the half baked campaign...

>>557979531
Master Ching

evil dies tonight!

Does it?

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I literally only care about Halo PvE stuff, like the campaigns (been replaying the Bungie games) and mostly mods on MCC that have huge NPC battles like in Forge or Firefight
You guys got any good mods for that?

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Do you like cyborg covies?

>>557986235
SPV3

The Halo redpill

>Eric Nylund and Joe Staten came up with most of Halo lore that was actually interesting
>Bungie was mad at Eric Nylund for changing Chief’s origins in the book. They originally wanted him to be a Mjolnir Cyborg like the player character in Marathon
>Halo was always intended to be a self-contained passion project
>Halo 2 was the most ambitious Halo game and most of the concepts and ideas from Halo 2 made their way to later games
>Max Hoberman was responsible for everything you like about H2/H3 multiplayer. Xbox Live, matchmaking, playlists, custom games, gametypes, Lockout and Zanzibar
>Halo 3 was mostly just finishing what Bungie started with Halo 2
>Halo 3 ODST was always intended to be a short and sweet expansion pack to Halo 3 that added ODST campaign and Firefight. Don Mattrick wanted it to be a standalone, and Bungie fought to include the Halo 3 multiplayer disc with all maps on disc for LAN parties
>Jaime Griesemer leaving Reach's gameplay to Sage Merrill is what gave us armor abilities, sprint in Halo, reticle bloom
>Halo Reach was the true Alpha to Destiny's gameplay mechanics
>Reach is the most balanced Halo game since CE and had the most content that was ready day-1

>Frank O'Connor inserted Forerunner retcons into Halo 3's terminals behind Bungie's back
>Frank O’Conner was too chuffed to work with Greg Bear. All that nonsense wasn’t even originally written for Halo. It was leftovers from some other project that he used for the Forerunner Saga and establishing the Didact and Librarian
>Bonnie Ross wanted Halo to be Microsoft's Star Wars transmedia franchise and for Halo 4/5 to rely on the Glasslands books as a foundation
>Halo 4 was chasing COD instead of improving on what Jaime Griesemer and Max Hoberman designed in H2/H3
>Brian Reed is responsible for crashing Halo's lore into a ditch. Spartan Ops, Janus Key, Spartan Locke, Halo 5
>Halo 5 had the most balanced and polished gameplay since Halo CE thanks to Tom French

Im not reading all that bs

Bloom is just visible spread. It has been Halo since day 1.

Bloom was actually a good addition, but there needed to be bloom on movement as well to nerf precision weapons.

>>557991949
It functioned differently.

fact: bloom was always in halo and whe

Yes but you see other SERIOUS MILITARY games had exaggerated bullet spread and the reticle reflecting that, so Reach had to have it too.

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Why isn't Halo being played?

>>557975484
I told you to stay on the command ship

>>557991309
read 4 lines so far and it's all normie shit
how has the term red pill of all things been twisted against its meaning?

>>557995495
i went to bed early

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I hate how eric made the idea of a prequel halo game impossible in his canon by stating that only grunts and kiggers had been deployed as ground forces until the battle of reach. They changed the book to imply elites were known about in 2010 lol. Fucking retard can't even do corporate mandated slop correctly.

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It makes remarkably little sense to use elites here considering it was BRVTEs that attacked earth on a large scale. 343 are so fucking retarded. And it's a pre-rendered cutscene. It's not like they didn't have BRVTE models available from promotional material. They did a bad job on purpose.

>>557995495
We are playing Helldivers 2 in da cord.

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ENOUGH

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WHO SAID THAT

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que?

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>>557997704
Not that anon but post the cord, i want to play some fucking vidya

>>557998103
I don't have permissions because I am a 'rascal'

>>557998103
check previous thread for inv

>>557998935
Invite's expired

>>557999348
ah well just keep begging

>>557999348
message the one big red on xbox

>>557997554
>It makes remarkably little sense to use elites here considering it was BRVTEs that attacked earth on a large scale.
Except at the start of Halo 2 where it was exclusively Elites and not a single Brute in sight. Surely you didn't mind wipe Cairo Station, Outskirts and Metropolis from you mind?

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>>557975484
I got chills.

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Is this the halo thread?

What's left of it.

You killed another one, how could you?!

add me to the #2000 collage

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Might Host tomorrow Night.
MCC.

https://discord.gg/UyWNrCQZ

Because people were asking. That link will expire soon.
Post in the thread

>>558004309
You're not gonna groom me if I join, right?

>>558004309
Oh good, I can leave this dying general.

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OG XBOX? SOUL

Ed Fries (Xbox)
>Ed was in college in 1984 when the game industry famously melted down. All these game companies went out of business, including the one I worked for. I had to get a real job, so I went to work at Microsoft. They put me on the first version of Excel for Windows. I was the youngest of seven programmers. We had a really difficult task to fight Lotus. Lotus 1-2-3 was the biggest PC software product in the world, and Lotus was the biggest PC software company
>The head of the games group was leaving. They were looking for someone to run it. To me that was perfect. I was super excited about taking that job. I talked to my bosses and they said–multiple VPs called me into their offices. One said I was committing career suicide. Another told me, “Why would you leave Office, one of the most important parts of this company, to go work on something no one cares about?” That’s what they said about the games business in the mid-’90s
>Seamus Blackley, Kevin Bachus, Otto Berkes, and Ted Hase. [The original Xbox instigators] were from the DirectX group, and so of course they wanted to make this thing called the DirectX Box, or Xbox for short. It was very different from what we shipped. It was a Windows PC that was in a box that made it look more like a console, and then pretended to be a console. You would stick a PC game in it and it would quietly install it in the background then it would run. It would behave like putting in a disc to play a game. That was the original proposal
>They proposed something very much like–completely custom hardware, custom software, effectively a PlayStation. We proposed something that was very much like a Windows PC

>>558005383
Nobody talks there if that's what you are expecting.

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>>558005448
>The reality was that we were PC developers, PC game developers for the most part, trying to understand the console business. And the console business, you have to remember, was ruled by the Japanese at that time. They’d controlled the console business since the mid-’80s. All the biggest companies were Japanese. The biggest franchises were Japanese. And yet in the PC world, where we came from, there were incredibly exciting things happening with multiplayer games, first-person shooters, that kind of thing
>When we talked to the press, especially the console press, they would say, “Who’s your Mario? Your games look dark and gritty, not bright and colorful like console games.” And what that meant was they didn’t look Japanese.
>For one thing, we had a hard drive. Hard drives don’t get cheaper. They just get bigger. They still cost, at that time, 50 bucks. It’s just how much space you get for that. Worse, we had an Intel part and an Nvidia part. We didn’t own the IP for the CPU or the GPU. There was no way we could integrate those parts together to shrink the machine. So definitely on the hardware side, we were losing money
>Ed Fries is probably one of a handful of people still alive who can program the Atari 2600
>Bungie’s going broke—not an unusual call at the time, since developers and publishers were often going out of business—and they needed to be acquired. Ed Fries suggests buying Bungie and Halo in 2000 because he liked Myth. Bungie considered it a leap of faith because they liked Ed Fries.
>Steve Jobs was mad that Ed Fries bought Bungie, and he had to call him to calm him down, and suggested a Mac port
>Bungie built Halo in 9 months, copy pasted hallways were due to having to make it to the Xbox launch
>Ed Fries insisted on making networked multiplayer—LAN work on Xbox

>>557991309
>Mjolnir Cyborg
Is there any reason that wouldn't have worked with what was written in FoR? I'm assuming it wouldn't mean both IP were in the same setting.

>>558002465
go back to your deader general.

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>>558005702
>Halo—it was going to show what the platform could do, what no other platform could do. You can't name anything else that used similar lighting effects (such as the flashlight) with specular highlights and bumpmapping before Halo in 2002
>Microsoft wanted to force Bungie to ship Halo 2 a year before it's ready, and Ed Fries threatened to walk out unless they gave Bungie an extra year
>Max Hoberman helps design Xbox Live and matchmaking lobbies
>Marty "Halo 2 was so successful that we hit our profit cap for the initial deal we had worked out with Microsoft on day one"
>Todd Howard loved Xbox, but didn't know how to translate the controls to controller. tricks to combat 64mb memory on the original Xbox was to reboot the entire console without us noticing
>Doom 3 had co-op campaign, they even went as far as make alternate levels specifically to accommodate a second player
>The Xbox API was similar to DirectX version 8.1, developed jointly between Microsoft and Nvidia
>Nvidia owned the chipset which meant Microsoft couldn't shrink it to reduce the price of the console. They also got a royalty fee when the 360 emulated it
>On the hardware side, everything is coming together. The factory in Mexico is all ramped up, and the one in Hungary is coming up to speed now
>Ed Fries: If they really wanted me to make my business profitable, I’d put out a PlayStation version of Halo and be profitable tomorrow. That would be my response. But they didn’t like to hear that.
>Peter Moore: "The hard drive in every Xbox killed us; we we're still selling it at $199 and the hard drive was like $70," Moore told UK newspaper The Guardian. "That's why we prematurely left the original Xbox, because the more we were selling – there was still great demand – it was killing us, and there was no way to bring the price down... To this day, people still believe we left the Xbox too early, but it was purely for financial purposes."

You killed PC gaming in America.

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>>558006086
Peter Moore (Xbox 360)

>When asked about Xbox 2, Moore stated "It is, simply put, an awesome machine."
>"Microsoft was afraid Sony was going to own the living room."
>Peter Moore used Dreamcast as a career stepping stone to go to Microsoft
>ATI made the GPU for the much cheaper GameCube which was just as graphically impressive as the Xbox. So MS went with them and owned the chip design allowing the 360 to cost reduce
>Xbox 360 actually BEAT both AMD and Intel to the punch with creating a heterogenous CPU/GPU combination. "APU". CPU+GPU on a single die. 360, PS3 and Wii didn't use x86 either, they all use some variation of IBM's Power architecture
>Xbox 360 API uses an API similar to DX9, with only few extensions from DX10/11, like texture arrays or hardware tessellation
>Microsoft doubled the Xbox 360's RAM, after Tim Sweeney showcased the difference between Gears of War builds on 256MB and 512MB. Costing Microsoft approximately $1bn
>Xbox 360 gives developers a full 512MB to do with as they will. PlayStation 3 on the other hand divides its internal RAM into two 256MB portions, with one section dedicated entirely to the NVIDIA-derived graphics technology
>Xbox 360 launch - Project Gotham Racing 3, Geometry Wars, Perfect Dark Zero, Condemned
>It's hard to understate the power of Halo during that period, and then of course Gears of War, which became the tip of the spear for the Unreal Engine 3. So you had Halo, you had Gears of War
>Peter Moore wanted Japanese devs to work on Xbox 360. NAMCO, CAPCOM, SEGA, SQUARE-ENIX, FROMSOFTWARE. PS3 being harder to develop for was a major factor

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>>558006195
>Kameo had some rough times during development. Originally starting as a GameCube title, it moved to Xbox, then Xbox 360
>Sakaguchi chose to make Blue Dragon and Lost Oddysey because he trusted Xbox 360 Japanese chief Yoshihiro Maruyama
>Halo 3 was aiming to showcase the technical prowess of the Xbox 360. The lighting, shadows and depth of field are immaculate.
>The first CoD game on Xbox was 2004's Call of Duty: Finest Hour, which was a stripped-down side-story version of the power-hungrier series debut on PC in 2003. CoD2, on the other hand, simultaneously launched on PC and Xbox 360
>Quake II included on the bonus disc with Quake 4 was the first 360 game to inherently support 1080p resolution before support for 1080p output was even added to the 360
>Gabe Newell said getting The Orange Box and Left 4 Dead up on the 360 was like a day's worth of work
>Moore credits Ballmer with green-lighting the huge amount of money $1.15bn required to repair the damage the RRoD furore had caused
>E3 2009: Microsoft Announces Games on Demand. Full retail games will be downloadable when the service goes live this August. A feature that SEGA planned with Dreamcast.
>XInput - Xbox 360 Controller API introduced in 2006 that allows you to use Xbox controllers on Windows PC
>Peter Moore says if Xbox hadn't shelled out $1.15 billion to fix its infamous red ring of death, "I'm not sure the Xbox brand would be around today"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMe9EoZAeyo

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>>558006328
Don Mattrick (Xbox 360)

>Microsoft felt pressure from the Wii
>Israeli company PrimeSense develop the "next big thing" for video games, incorporating cameras that were capable of mapping a human body in front of them and sensing hand motion
>Microsoft's Alex Kipman, the general manager of hardware incubation, saw the potential in PrimeSense's technology for the Xbox system
>The project was greenlit by late 2008 with work started in 2009
>Marty: In July of 2007 Bungie had finally negotiated our way out of Microsoft. It was supposed to have been simple. We give them Halo 3, and they give us Bungie. It turned out they wanted us to make more Halo so we agreed to make Halo 4 (which became Reach) and we would help with the Peter Jackson Halo game (which became ODST). Don Mattrick came in (replacing Shane Kim) and started playing hardball with Bungie. Then it turned out the top management at MGS decided that the holiday 2009 season had no major titles for Xbox and delayed the release of ODST and also upped the price to $60
>Ensemble Studios started to work on Halo (having been acquired by Microsoft in 2001), first with a Halo MMO, and then Halo Wars. Bungie says Halo Wars was 'whoring out the franchise,'
>Don Mattrick killed Ensemble Studios and its Halo MMO to protect his personal stock bonus
>"Halo: Reach is NOT a Natal title and is being developed expressly with the traditional Xbox 360 controller in mind," Bungie said
>At some point during Reach, Microsoft started building 343 to be the people to take over Halo. Frank O’Connor and Bonnie Ross are hired to create 343 Industries
>Bonnie Ross who wanted Halo to have a Star Wars EU and even stated that "Halo is OUR Star Wars"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgJqliVWSSg

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>>558006432
Don Mattrick (Xbox One)

>"It was exciting to think about what a single purpose, dedicated entertainment console could be. So we picked that as a path with Xbox One. We wanted a broad device that touched all parts of gaming and entertainment."
>The XBone runs a 1750mhz AMD Octo-core APU specifically designed for it, which is x86_64
>The Xbox One API is similar to DirectX 11.2
>AMD Jaguar (8 cores at 1.75GHz)
>Xbox One was underpowered due to a DDR3/ESRAM memory system with less bandwidth overal than the GDDR5-equipped PS4
>MATTRICK: "Some of the advantages that you get, of having, a box that is designed to use an online state, so, that, uh, to me is the future-proof choice, and I think people, could've arguably gone the other way if we didn't do it and fortunately we have a product for people who aren't able to get some form of connectivity, it's called Xbox 360."
>MATTRICK: "Well, if you have zero access to the internet, that is an offline device, I mean, seriously, when I read the blogs, and thought about who's really the most impacted, there was a person who said 'hey, I'm on a nuclear sub,' and I don't even know what it means to be on a nuclear sub but I've gotta imagine it's not easy to get an internet connection."
>This also revealed Adam Sessler to be the only "journalists" who was fully on board with everything Microsoft was offering
>Xbox One Price $499 in America. PS4 Price $399 in America
>After the horrible launch of the Xbox One in 2013 Don Mattrick left Microsoft to work as a CEO for Zynga
>Studios working with the next-gen Xbox are currently being forced to work with only approved development libraries, while Sony is encouraging coders to get closer to the metal of its box
>Ryse, Dead Rising 3, Quantum Break, State of Decay, and Sunset Overdrive are just part of where Microsoft was MOSTLY pushing third-party
>Halo MCC was broken in so many ways... it was quite literally unplayable, and the worst launch for the franchise by far

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>>558006518
Don Mattrick (Xbox One)

>"We had people who we hired who hated Halo because of 'X,'" says O'Connor. "But what that really meant was, 'I feel like this game could be awesome because of 'Y input' that I'm going to bring into it. I want to prove it, and I'm passionate about proving it.' So we ended up with a bunch of people who were genuinely passionate about the product. That is a huge advantage, and that helped in hiring and forming our team."
>"It's during that time you're questioning yourself: 'How is this going to work, will it be as I envision it in my head?" says Holmes. For Halo 4, he says there were a few epiphany moments that helped boost the morale of the team. One of the earlier ones that Holmes recalls was when the team completed a small piece of the Halo experience that he described as a "very traditional" Halo. User research showed that people thought it was a lot of fun, and it showed that the team was capable of making a Halo game that was true to what the series was about
>343 scrapped it, Holmes says, as it was too traditional. But that first build showed the new team that this amalgamation of different studio cultures could work together and achieve a common goal.
>Frankie promised a full, detail explanation on what happened with MCC that he gave FOUR YEARS later and only after being conrtantly reminded of it. He told us that the story for Spartan Ops was planned long, long in advance but then it was revealed that the big conclusion of Requiem being hurled into the sun was something he thought of on the spot then and there. He told us during the backlash from Black Team's deaths in Halo:Escalation that this wasn't something done on a whim or lightly but had been planned as part of the story for a long time. The Halo Escalation Volume 1 commentary from Brian Reed and others says completely otherwise
>Halo 5 tends to hover around 800p-900p, and rarely hits 1080p

Xbox One Reveal 2013 Highlights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbWgUO-Rqcw

>>558006432
Xbox 360 Top Games of 2012

>Xbox 360 Top LIVE Titles (based on average UU's per day)

Call of Duty: Black Ops II
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
Halo 4
Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition
Call of Duty: Black Ops
FIFA Soccer 13
FIFA Soccer 12
Battlefield 3
Halo: Reach
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Borderlands 2
Assassin's Creed III
Skyrim
Madden NFL 13
Gears of War 3
NBA 2K13
NBA 2K12
Far Cry 3
Grand Theft Auto IV
Forza Motorsport 4

>Top Arcade Titles (Full Versions purchased)

Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition
Trials Evolution
The Walking Dead
Pinball FX2
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Castle Crashers
Gotham City Impostors
I Am Alive
Fruit Ninja Kinect
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD
Trials HD
Magic 2013
Fez
Dungeon Defenders
Alan Wake's American Nightmare
Peggle
The Simpsons Arcade Game
REAL STEEL
Toy Soldiers: Cold War
Full House Poker

>Top Indie Games (Full Versions purchased)

CastleMiner Z
CastleMiner
Total Miner: Forge
Avatar Deathmatch
FortressCraft Chapter 1
Murder Miners
The Impossible Game
Avatar Laser Wars 2
The $1 Zombie Game
Avatar Paintball
Avatar Legends
Fortress Wars
Miner Of Duty
Miner4Ever
Avatar Laser Wars
End Of Days: Infected vs Mercs
Toy Stunt Bike 2
Flight Adventure 2
Don't Die Dateless, Dummy!
Block World

>Games for Windows Top LIVE Titles (based on average UU's per day)

GTA IV
Dark Souls Prepare to Die Edition
Age of Empires Online
Batman Arkham City
Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition
Microsoft Flight
DiRT 3
F1 2011
Resident Evil 5
Fallout 3
Batman: Arkham Asylum
Fable III
Bioshock 2
Gotham City Impostors
Colin McRae : Dirt 2
Bulletstorm
Street Fighter X Tekken
Resident Evil Raccoon City
F1 2010
Street Fighter IV

>>558007032
spoourts spoourts spoourts

yawn

>>557975484
Reach a good shit

>>558015173
Reminder that Halo 3 and Reach launched feature complete on day 1

>>557975484
rape
double rape
triple rape
overrape
rapetacular
rapetrocity
rapeamanjaro

>>558002465
No, this is Helltaker general.

>>558005448
Fuck consoles.

>>558016891
>consoles

Xbox was off-the-shelf PC components, specifically pairing an Intel Pentium III CPU with an NVIDIA GPU. Xbox has always been a PC lol

>>558017447
If you define consoles as locked down PCs.

>>558017447
>i am very smart lol!!!!
Shut your dork ass up.

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>>558017447
>>558017591
>>558017670
>Dreamcast had the ability to perform what was called Order Independent Transparency. Dreamcast can output VGA natively
>PS2 is full of beautiful particle effects that wouldn't even come close to being surpassed until GPU particles went mainstream two generations later, and even then tanked with transparency effects the PS2 powered through at 60fps
>GameCube supports texture compression, has hardware support for a lot of different texture effects (via TEV shaders), has a decently large dedicated texture cache and actually has proper support for mipmaps / trilinear filtering
>Xbox had a high end PC-level GPU coupled with a low-tier Pentium III 733 CPU with a crippled cache. The system has Direct X 8.1, shader model 1.1, vertex shader 1.1 and two Vertex Shader units, while the Geforce 3's only had one

Soul

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>>558017447
>>558017670
Halo Infinite should have been built for 3090s

Xbox One is equivalent to a GTX 750 (not Ti...that's the base PS4) and Infinite barely ran on it lol

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Find the Halo
Win the War

>>558017958
Gaming should be for the rich only

I miss the 360 era, bros...

I don't.

>>558020265
Paramount Halo is so silly.

>>558025197
I'm so sorry PS3 bro. I don't know how you guys survived that era but at least you made it through. That was a rough time for Sonybros.

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>>557986235
>Ultimate Firefight Series
>SPV3
>Halo Reach Mythic Overhaul Firefight
>Halo Reach Mythic Overhaul Campaign
>Halo 2 Uncut
>Halo 4 Genesong Cut
>Better With Friends - A Halo CE Campaign Mod
>Halo: REBALANCE
>Desert Floodwar
>aimp ambush ctf v2.1
>No Way Out - Mutually Assured Destruction
>High Ground Endless AI Battle
There was another CE campaign mod that added more NPCs and vehicle encounters, I forget what it was called, but it's a popular one so it shouldn't be hard to find. Some anon posted a webm of the intro to The Silent Cartographer mission, and it starts out with the pelicans getting chased and shot down by a covenant dropship which also gets shot down and then when you land on the beach there's a bunch of NPCs, turrets, Covenant vehicles, and even scorpion tanks rolling through. It looked kino. I gotta try it.

What was that Halo Reach firefight mod with the sort of Spartan Ops-esque intro cutscene of Covies just hanging out on 'Unearthed' and then you drop in an ODST drop pod?

Also, I remember a Brute voice line in that intro sounding like he mentioned "Jiralhanae", which made me really wonder what are they talking about, since it might imply they aren't just speaking gibberish. I couldn't find anything on the Covenant voicelines in Reach

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>Halo 3 graphically and visually looks better than Halo 4, Halo 5, Infinite and Campaign Evolved

Wild

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>>558029804
Halo 4 aged like milk

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>>558006086
>Microsoft wanted to force Bungie to ship Halo 2 a year before it's ready, and Ed Fries threatened to walk out unless they gave Bungie an extra year

According to Joe Staten, Bungie kept working on Halo 2 until Microsoft locked them out of the office. A pure passion project

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>>558030167
>Microsoft wanted to force Bungie to ship Halo 2 a year before it's ready
Imagine if we got Bungie's original vision for Halo 2, instead of the rushed version that was released. Would have been insane, considering the version we got was already revolutionary in terms of multiplayer. If only the campaign and graphics matched up to it. The campaign itself is no slouch either, but imagine if we got the full thing that was originally planned from the start. Just pure, untampered/unfiltered Bungie vision.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSjbIM0iegY

>>558029952
it looks great on my machine

>>558033697
Flookie

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>>558033593

>>558033697
AAAAAAIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>558033697
Do they have more health than a typical infection form?

>>558000050
You quoted the line that obliterates your bad faith take you chalk licking retard.

>>558006026
crazy how no one cares about that fag but when the halo demo poster left it was like a death in the family

>>558036707
I can't remember. I just remember being so fascinated by them that I tried to keep them alive. I'm pretty sure I ended up killing them with a fuel rod or rocket launcher, so not sure how much extra health they would have had. Only tried the mod once. Been trying to look for it on the workshop so I can post it here but I can't seem to find it.

It's on a small canyon/cliff map with a dry/desert theme, really high up so if you fall off the narrow ledges you'll die. There's caves and multiple levels to the map too, and some of the interior sections have Covenant themed designs with some mancannon elevators. There's different weapons and AI enemies/allies scattered around the map, think they just kept respawning. There are turrets/vehicles you can use too.

>>558027565
no good mods listed here

>>558030167
>>558032503
can't wait for you to get permabanned

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>>558039408
Not so fast.
>Coldsnap
>Extinction
>Hugeass
>Blood Gulch at Night

>>558040248
they were fine for 2003 when your pc couldn't run anything else

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>>558039519
QRD? Only posted the one with the Halo 2 Brute. I love the dynamic lighting mod so if I have an excuse to post it, even if it's a weak or silly reason, I'll do it. I'd make a new webm but I don't have Halo 2 or the mod installed atm.

>>558042360
We've had this conversation before. You are a narcissist. Doctors will pay you money to study your brain.

>>558042679
Different anon I think.

>>558043196
Your thoughts are not valuable to me. Now if you'll excuse me I have to go replace the air filter in my chainsaw.

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>>558043903
>Now if you'll excuse me I have to go replace the air filter in my chainsaw.
Don't forget to check the oil pump. That thing is surprisingly prone to failure, not sure why. Out of everything else you'd think that part of it wouldn't be a problem.
>Your thoughts are not valuable to me.
Ah, I'm just thinking out loud. Don't mind me.

I'm back.

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I think Halo 4 SUCKS

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i love the dervish

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Halo tonight.

10pm Eastern Time.

/hg/ MUST accomplish the following:
- at least 3 slayer victories overall
- at least 3 objective victories overall
- at least one victory from each of CE, 2, 3, and Reach

>>558049636
The Objective games are significantly more fun.
Slayer Matches always have some smurf account that dominates

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/hg/ has been done

>>558051121
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>558051121
It's always on Reach too

>>558051121
RubberDukky come back.

>>558051121
>rank 1

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What compels this kind of mental retardation? Is it being British?

>>558049636
Red, I do not care about winning. I will sabotage you at every turn because it amuses me.

>>558053117
British people are naturally resistant to that condition through cultural norms. There is a certain modesty that is demanded of them. It's why their food is so simple.

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The third chair has been found!

In case you were wondering we will in fact be playing the new bungie game.

WAKE UP STEAM WAKE UP
I CANT PLAY HALO WAKE UP STEAM

Stay down. Make him suffer.

>>558055140
:(

just ate aNOTHA lemon

Why do you keep eating lemons?

you ask a lotta questions

Nigga behave ITT

aight fine
you really wanna know?

>>558054614
What kind of puzzle is this?

I don't care anymore. Eat a whole bag of lemons for all I care.

I ate the WHOLE plate...the WHOLE plate

>>558055140
Your Steam is like that horse in the Neverending story

STANDING HERE

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>he asks you to play Halo

gay ass halo niggas

I REALIZE

Awww yeah, we playing Halo 2nite

THAT REVENGEANCE IS NOT HALO

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Hi

That's a nice argument Anonymous
Why don't you back it up with a source?

My source is that I made it the fuck up.

>>558024789
They'll eventually force everyone onto cloud based computing that you pay a monthly subscription for. The future is bleak.

well if it isn't sussy jack

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It's over

>>558063182
>jeetnig again
yes, it's over

>>558063182
IM NOOOOTICING

>>558063182
Absolutely fucking dunzo

>>558063182
LMAO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9UWaltU-7Q

>>558063969
>Halo: AI Revolution

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>>558063182
>>558063969
It's never been more over.

I think she cute. Would definitely have half-jeet children with her.

yeah, we lost
gamenight is cancelled

How long before Pierre gets replaced with a hindu?

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How fast-paced do you want Halo to be?

>>558063182
Why did you omit the booty?

This was foreshadowing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4DHllroiqM

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>>558063182
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>558063182
First thing she's gonna do is hire in a bunch of her friends and family from fucking india to increase her izzat. Halo, Xbox, maybe even gamepass, it's all fucking done.

We should rename /hg/ to /hhg/ - Halo Humiliation General, or /88g/.

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>Xbox, Bungie and Halo dies at the same time

DO NOT REDEEM THE ACTIVATION INDEX SAAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SAAAAAAAAAAAR

I want to have sex with miss Xbox.

>>>/v/733474038
>>>/v/733474038
>>>/v/733474038

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Lobby opens up in 2 hours.
1st game starts shortly after that.

https://discord.gg/UyWNrCQZ

>>558082995
2 hours and change*
9:45 ET is when the party will open

>>558082995
>that Arbiter stance
Remaster Arbiter is a beta bitch in comparison.
Also, I'll be there tonight

I miss Phil already
>but he didn't do anything
He spent 100% of his time trying to stop things from being worse. Imagine how low the fucking bar just got. The next Halo will be unplayable

>>558085268
>He spent 100% of his time trying to stop things from being worse.
????????????????
Dude, he literally destroyed all of Xbox's franchises and Xbox itself. Even COD is dead.

Vodoo Vince is a bop thoughbeit.

>>558086702
>thinking that was all Phil and not Microsoft
Yeah I'm sure it was Phil canceling every 1st party game that wasn't going to be the best selling game of all time, or replacing programmers with jeets, and not the parent company that even recently gave xbox a 30% profit margin goal
>and xbox itself
That was Don. Phil tried and failed to rebuild it over 15 years, sure, but Don brutally executed the xbox brand live on stage

>>558088121
>Yeah I'm sure it was Phil canceling every 1st party game
It was, because he was the Xbox boss.
>>558088121
>Phil tried and failed to rebuild it over 15 years
That's even more pathetic, especially with all the resources he had.

On everyone's soul, Halo will be played tonight.

>>558085268
>He spent 100% of his time trying to stop things from being worse.
He was terrible at it
Just because he had good intentions doesn't excuse poor execution

5/16

We raped those Halo 3 kiddies.

>we

>people blaming phil for everything and acting as if ms is a benevolent company
Oh well, I hope they have fun redeeming the copilot saar with the next xbox since there is no god damn hope for "gamers".

I raped those Halo Ce kiddies.

>>558096338
JJAB...

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At long last.

JJAB raped those Halo Reach kiddies.

I thought JJAB was supposed to keep a distance of 1,000 feet

Gobiin raped his fellow countrymen in Halo 2 Anniversary.

>>558098930
I don't think Miku is latinx.

Halo 3 spiker is the best.

>H3 rockets so ass they lost to a spiker kid
grim

decent halo tonight

>>558063182
>>558063969
Mommy.
But throw the AI stuff away first.

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>>558063969
>>558063182
>2nd degree Black Belt in Taekwondo.
Forget Nicole. Put Sharma in DOA7.

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>>558063182
/hg/ getting btfo over the fact that merit is often a myth

>>558110982
I remember thinking one day about the immense failure that is the 343-era and how all the impressive resumes and technical talent really amounted to nothing without a Halo-focused vision.
Still, not the first series to have a great run and then a lengthy bad streak before starting to get a good installment here and there. Or maybe Halo will just get shelved. We'll see.

>>558112149
>before starting to get a good installment here and there
Halo has not had a good installment since Reach, and I use the term good very loosely.

>>558112328
I agree. I've just seen it happen with far older series and don't think it's impossible for Halo's future, but sometimes the IP practically or officially being shelved has to happen first. If a good Halo launch ever happens again I might be a grizzled ancient already.

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Halo... died... well...

Not really.

>>558112328
>Halo has not had a good installment since Reach
Oh we're pretending Reach is good today are we?

>>558114616
Read the rest of the post

>>558114650
xe's been doing that all week
doesn't respond to retorts

>>558112149
They never had a chance. Remember they showed MS bigwigs a build and they seemed to "too traditional, it's just another Halo"?
It is like being born in India, they were just immediately screwed.

>>558114901
True enough. It's part of why I refer to 343-era rather than 343 itself, because the higher-ups above them also proved their resumes and technical talent didn't mean much without the right priorities.

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It's finished.

>>558116001
the timing is off
something og bungie would've understood
say what you want about halo 3's cutscenes but they are proportionally sound
>to war
doesn't feel like it's going on for too long

>>558116460
H2's cinematography being lost in H2A Blur cutscenes will forever annoy me.

>>558116851
>H2's cinematography being lost in H2A Blur cutscenes will forever annoy me.

QRD? What's wrong with the H2A cinematography?

>>558115227
Execs and other senior positions in almost all companies are occupied pretty much entirely by a managerial class. They have no technical expertise in the fields their companies are responsible for, their only marketable skill is management. You don't get programmers in charge of IT companies for example, or engineers running the show in aerospace manufacturing anymore, just fags with business degrees at every single decision making level. It's half the reason the economy is eating shit at the moment.

>>558118131
>brutes go to drag the arbiter away in h2
>he flexes at them and they back off
>brutes go to drag the arbiter away in h2a
>the brutes bully him and he makes generic elite whines
There's tons of little changes like that, the shots are framed differently and transitions such as the ring on Truth's crown fading into the moon didn't make it.
Also it's very "high budget 2010's" where it's all sleek, lens flares out the ass and everything makes techno noises.

>>558119059
It's just so weird for part of your job to be selling Halo and despite all the people looking at it the end result is selling a product stripped of Halo's elements. For a side-game? Alright, maybe. For your next mainline Chief-centric game? So weird.

>>558121006
That's because they typically read the market as a whole, they see a trend and they think "we need to do that, that's what people want." The idea is to capitalize squarely on the middle of the bell curve. Will it work? Probably not, but that doesn't cross their mind because again, they have no expertise in this field. Doesn't matter to them, they have six figure salaries and just fail sideways in a game of corporate musical chairs, if they lose out? They pop their golden parachute.

On a side note, I expect Phil will soon find himself in a position of equal or higher status either in microsoft or another corp. Maybe a cushy consultancy.

>>558121545
It's going to be one interesting future. Good thing news is just the price of internet these days. More or less.

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This is the way Halo ends

>>558121545
I think Phil is going to actually retire and try to avoid the spotlight while xbox takes a running jump off the cliff

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WE will be playing Marathon on the 26th. After Hillary's brutal lampooning of course.

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Lmao

>>558130982
Joseph Staten is irrelevant jn 2026

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>>558139478
they both are lol
the only two bungie guys still relevant are marty and jason
to regain relevance, one needs to ingratiate himself with one of those two

>>558139824
nah, they're not relevant either

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>>558140886

They both lost, shartly.

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>>558140886
Sadly true. Marty especially has been more or less completely ostracized from the game development community and his other endeavors have been pretty unsuccessful as well.

>>558141190
AAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>558140886
yeah they are
jason is destroying sony from the inside and marty is ending anti-semitism worldwide
your days are numbered

Marty SMOKED that brazilian in the world open this year
Fucking 5:1 lead

>>558141190
AAIIIEEEEEEE

>>558141190
The funny thing about Marty is that if you comb through his history, there are a number of times where he kind of was getting fucked over and then "won", only to undue everything he had fought for by being overly schizo and overreaching.
If the guy had a modest or humble bone in his body he'd probably still be making video games today. He has only himself to blame.

Erm ok?

Awkwaaaaaaard...

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Stop discussing has been Halo devs

I want it on record NOW, will you be paying for, not paying for but playing, or jot playing campaign evolved?

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>>558146627
I get the steelbook for every Halo game
No questions asked

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>>558141190
>2024
To behave as if nothing has changed since that run is wildly dishonest in the most likely case and tremendous cope in case of cognitive dissonance. Winston Churchill lost his first election and then won 16 of his 21 runs in a career that lasted over 50 years. Ronald Reagan lost his first bid then won every single one. Same with George W. Bush and George Washington. Bill The Raped Clinton lost his first bid then won the 2nd and 3rd then lost his 4th. What this says about your mindset is that you give up after the first hurdle. Which is of course pathetic.
>tldr
you two whimper like grunts fresh off the teat

>>558146627
I won't be paying for it directly, but I am about to re-up for another year of Gale Pass Ultimate so...

>>558146795
saved for when he doesn't make it out of the primary again

>>558146795
>To behave as if nothing has changed since that run is wildly dishonest in the most likely case and tremendous cope in case of cognitive dissonance.
Yeah, now woke is back. He's gonna lose even harder.

>>558146627
sorry not sorry gay pedo but this isn't going away no matter how much you beg
you will continue to be haunted by marty and his former coworkers until the day you are judo thrown into a woodchipper

>>558146795
Ah yes, when I think of political juggernauts like George Washington and Winston Churchill, I imagine Marty standing right next to them...
retard

>>558146946
>>558146961
>>558147045
AAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Marty and his fanboy are getting DONE

>>558146627
Resisting the urge because Combat Evolved is my favorite Halo and i will always want more of if. If i manage to catch some free gamepass codes i will play it.

>>558147045
So you're just being dishonest then. Got it. Be sure to continue giving up after every hurdle. Makes it easier for the rest of us.

>>558147318
Make sure to donate an other $117 to Marty, lmao

>>558146946
do it
it'll remind us of how disingenuous you are

>>558146795
AAAIIIEEE

>>558147596
What would be wrong with that?

>>558147318
>So you're just being dishonest then.
Marty isn't Joe Heck and it isn't 2010.
He's running in a lean-blue district as a republican in a time where just that alone would make you a vulnerable candidate, but then you add in that he's tying himself closely to both Trump and Israel, when both of those things are losing popularity at historic rates, and he's going to flop hard again.
This isn't rocket science, and yes you're dumb for invoking George Washington as a reference. George was revered and respected in his earlier career before becoming a politician. Marty was run out of gaming in disgrace.
You have no idea what you're talking about, but then again neither does Marty these days, so I guess it's par for the course.

>>558147851
AAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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>>558147851

>>558147851
TRVKE

>>558147851
Again you're being dishonest. You've cherrypicked my post to ignore the point I made. And you're STILL exercising that same pathetic mindset lmao.

>>558147851
WAAAAAAHHH

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>>558147851

Marty sisters aren't having a good day.

>>558147994
holy AAAAAIIIIIIIIEEEEE

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>>558147851

Suspicious amount of posts about something he wants us to move on from lmao

>>558148149
The GOYS have our scent!
SHUT IT DOWN.
POST HASTE

somehow ticonderoga's jammer returned

>>558148149
It was more or less over then some retard actually tried to compare Marty's political career trajectory to George Washinton and Winston Churchill.
So now we're just clowning on that retard.
The actual discussion part of it has been over for a while now

>>558148098
You think they should give up after one failure. You are a demoralized pleb.

>>558147851
This anon knows ball.
Marty is the living embodiment of a mid life crisis and he needs therapy.

>>558148339
yeah that was >>558147851 and >>558147045
who conveniently ignored the last 2 sentences of the post they were referring to.

Imagine being Martin O'Donnell, and instead of spending time with your grandkids, you're obsessively trying to force a narrative on a basket weaving formerly anime-based board that overwhelming is just shitting on you.

>>558148550
I like Marty for his music.
The guy himself seems super schizo.

>>558148550
You wanna run that through grammarly, nigger?

>>558148602
this

Sadly the Nevada Republican Primaries are in June, and this general will be long dead.
So this is all pointless.

>>558148602
If you think he's a schizo then you are an oddball to say the least. Guy has the most normal opinions you'll ever come across unless you live in portland or some shit.

>>558146627
>I want it on record NOW, will you be paying for, not paying for but playing, or jot playing campaign evolved?
I will buy it at a high price

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>You are an oddball to say the least. Guy has the most normal opinions you'll ever come across

>>558148901
kek

>>558147851
My knees....

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>>558148480
both of you are wong, the only way Marty wins political stardom is to go through what Obama went through ie being handpicked as if its the CCP.

Hello fuckbois
I have a serious case of blue balls
who wants to get FUCKED first?

>>558149027
AAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>558148986
Another fag who gives up at the first hurdle. And he invents nonsense conspiracy theories to cope with his failures too.

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>>558149027
>sSicks
no...

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MOM GET THE CAMERA!!!

>>558149132
You didn't say he is wrong, though.

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>>558149187

>>558149234
About what?

Who are the four horsemen of the /hg/ apocalypse?
sSicks, Morganski, Fhaget,

>>558149234
his point is the same as anon saying the anon they're arguing with is samefagging on multiple proxies/mobile devices

>>558149234
pleb tier reply

>>558149234
WAAAAAAHHH

>>558149413
Eeehh Morganski was cheating imo.

>>558149413
Individually none of them present a real threat to /hg/ but I've noticed them conferring with each other on their discord app with increasing frequency. /hg/ can't risk them forming a united front.

>>558149916
the guy last week was also cheating

I was playing and had an issue....
How do I know or test if my GPU is dying again????
I experienced a crash on a game as well as it's for some reason getting to like mid 80s temp wise. Then I was on something as simple as browser and there were some visual glitches like letters swapped in places they shouldnt be. I tested with furmark for like 5 minutes, no artifacts.

>>558150202
Fhaget? I think he was legitimate. What makes you think he was cheating?

>>557991309
Actual redpill is that H5's script is really good, certainly better than 4 and Infinite's.

>>558150835
Nigga...

>>558151668
Hey that's actually me

>>558150682
Use Furmark and test for 5 minutes. Check if artifacts or errors appear during the test
https://geeks3d.com/furmark/
What GPU is it, and when did you buy it?

we playin tonight? last night was uneventful i feel because i wasn't there

>>558150682
why don’t you post this on /g/? what are you trying here?

>>558150796
no the other week

>>558150682
have you been updating windows? if so, you should stop
have you been playing halo infinite? if so, your pc is fine, but you are not
have you reapplied thermal paste to your gpu in the last 2 years?