Now don't get me wrong, Halo has always been one step away from COD, halo forge aside. However, the great, excellent semi silent Master Chief with his mysterious luck has always had me coming back. It's story on a smaller note, but since there is no mystery to be had about that anymore not so much.

In Halo 4 if I'm not mistaken they changed the voice actor. He also talks alot, saying things like "hostile sighted". Makes my skin crawl. There's nothing wrong with his personality becoming more fleshed out, but if he's going to talk there had better be a damned good reason.

Also the whole "AIs degrade after a small number of years" is a stupid plot element, and seems to be a driving one in this next game. It's just stupid and random, I don't know what possessed the people at 343 to come up with it. Cortana was already in peril at the hands of the gravemind, and was tortured. We already got to see Cortana's demonish side, and managed to rescue her on somewhat of a cliffhangar of whether she would be yet another casualty like Captain Keys. This is just a cheap rehash of an idea that worked well enough in the previous game.
Also, AIs degrade? After such a short amount of time? This far into the future? I mean it's 500 years into the future. By then we haven't found more reliable data storage methods that don't deteriorate like todays HDDs and SSDs? Okay, if you'll really have us believe that storage and processors are really so fragile in the future still, then how do you explain Cortana's otherwise pristine condition after being manipulated at the hands of a forced interface with a bio supercomputer (gravemind)? It makes no sense. She can be manipulatted by the slime and tentacles of a omni-interfacing biomass yet somehow the electronics that define her are suddenly so fragile. Whatever.

But more importantly lets talk about the chief again. As said, he likes to say unnecessary things like "hostile sighted", which is both too formal for someone of his badass stature, and also retarded in that it's just him and Cortana and he doesn't need to feed Cortana information she is already getting in real time. Whats more is that the inbreds that populate their forums are actually taking this well. One fool even said she always thought he was a "hollow character" and it's time for him to stop being an "empty vessel".
He's not. He's just not a fucking idiot. He knows when to talk and when to shutup. Leave the talkative whiny bitches from Uncharted, Devil May Cry, ArmA (even though it's a great game it's true), and Assassins creed in their respective games.
This is the Master Chief. This is SPARTAAAAAN WAHN WAHN SEVEEEEEHN!!

I think Halo was a really great game. For a game of it's time it was great, but sequels have failed to really innovate. Dual wielding and vehicle jacking are all well and good, but in hindsight their just gimmicks. Ultimately what makes the game so great is the mysterious spartan 117, and now that his personality has seen such a massive overhaul from his "Clint Eastwood" likeness I've lost all interest in the series.

Guess noone here cares about Halo...

To be honest, Halo died on the PC when Microsoft decided to use it to try and force gamers onto Vista by making Halo 2 Vista-exclusive, and unnecessarily so. It flopped massively in terms of sales, and that was the end of that.

I did pick up a copy for cheap recently, and as I thought, online was entirely dead.

As for the Xbox/360 games, well, this is a predominantly PC site. I'm sure the odd 360 gamer will pop up (I think Orcish plays a fair bit of 360). Be patient.

to be honest i am more excited for halo 4 then gears judgement

oh and to answer your question most of the guys here are pc gamer who don't have xboxs i think


either way I am looking foward to see how the revamped multiplayer is like and see if the story is good

Didn't Orcish already made a thread about the story of Halo 4 or something? Search (as usual) proves unhelpful, but I think it was in the last 7 days or so.

My slight dissipointment with Halo is Reach's Campaign

I really, really love Noble Team all of them no matter how sterotypical they are the thing is I wish I played as the leader of noble (not Carter) as in my own spartan and I also wish that it had squad based gamplay similar to Star Wars: Republic Commando and Mass Effect 1

But no Halo is still using the same gameplay for its campaigns since Halo 2

I'm rather skeptical about it. I fear them reaching too much into expanded universe materials. Like Cortana going crazy, apparently that's a thing that's been in the books for some time, but never once came up in the games. And it seems a bit late to bring it up now.

Anyway, they're trying to do a lot different with this game and I can appreciate that. New weapons, new enemies, hopefully no flood. However, Halo did what it had to do and these new things are just an extension of the fact that they're struggling to make Halo fresh. They're dragging it out when they probably should have made something new with the same spirit.

Skeptical, definitely, but I think it'll probably still be good. Just don't know if it'll be good enough.

I was thinking about making sure my opinion is voiced.

Where is 343 most likely to look at suggestions?

Stupid element or not, but that's been a general bit of trivia in the series since the very first game and expanded materials were released. After 7 years AIs die, or they go rampant. I believe it was originally a reference to Marathon, specifically Durandal.

So good or bad, what I'm saying is the writers at 343 didn't come up with it, and it's not random. It's been seeded into the series by Bungie long before 343 even existed.

I've been skeptical about every Halo release since Halo 3. Especially after ODST kinda...well, didn't really deliver on the promises it made. And dear god was that game short.

Firefight was worth it for me

Firefight felt more free then Gears horde mode in gears you to hold your ground which is not bad in itself they all play differently imo

Gears also gives you cover, more powerful-feeling weapons, more of a visceral experience, and in Gears 3 they added some elements of tower defense to Horde, which were pretty cool.

In Halo, you run around and shoot stuff. No real strategy or method to it other than "blow the crap out of everything".

ODST was worth it simply for lack of a flood level.