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Subject: What can be improved in Halo: Reach?
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You don't even know if Halo: Reach will include all these features in the first place.

But, these suggestions are valid and can be implemented.

  • 06.02.2009 2:03 PM PDT

Posted by: mike8807

Lets go less cartoony, more realistic. Make accuracy change as you move. Give us an iron sights style aiming, no more firing from the hip. Give us the ability to sprint. Remove dual wielding. Don't make melee attacks so powerful, put the focus back on shooting.


You play too much CoD. This is Halo. If you ever shot a gun, you'd know "hipfire" is easier than games make it look.

  • 06.02.2009 2:05 PM PDT
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They need to refine forge and add new options maybe even a map creator and theator refinement.

Fine tune multiplayer match making with a new ranking system (no true skill plz)
and update the graphics to at least look like ODST

  • 06.02.2009 2:08 PM PDT

"Simplify, Simplify."

-Henry David Thoreau

Posted by: A Psycho Martyr
Hmmm....what else? How bout maybe in Matchmaking there would be abilities specific to Armor Classification. An different ability for Spartans, Elites, and maybe throwin ODSTs in Matchmaking as well.

just rough ideas but:
Spartans: move a lil faster
Elites: jump a lil higher
ODSTs: carry extra nades



No. Just.... no.

  • 06.02.2009 2:08 PM PDT

Posted by: mike8807
I'm sure everyone will disagree with me, but abandon the traditional Halo game play. Its gone on almost unchanged for 3 games and 2 systems, its time for something new. Hell, if you want to do a squad based shooter (which I hate) I'd be excited, as long as its different.

Lets go less cartoony, more realistic. Make accuracy change as you move. Give us an iron sights style aiming, no more firing from the hip. Give us the ability to sprint. Remove dual wielding. Don't make melee attacks so powerful, put the focus back on shooting.

Make the atmosphere darker, more dramatic, whatever (take notes from Bioshock). Go back to your roots and tell a compelling story. Look at MGS4 and make a storyline thats long, in depth, and engaging. We might know what happens, assuming it takes the story from Fall of Reach, but that doesn't mean you can't make the story interesting. Give us a LOT more cutscenes, hell even make them pre-rendered to make them look extra sexy. Make some cutscenes based on first-person view to make them more engaging. Introduce new characters we actually care about. Put emotion (but not too much) back into the story. Give us a sense of scale, let us know that this battle is planet wide, and make it feel appropriately large.

Give us a wider variety of environments that are actually fun to look at and play in. Since this is the Halo universe, and not, say, Call of Duty or Rainbow Six or something equally realistic, creative license can be taken. Push the envelope of creativity. I thought the level Cortana on Halo 3 was one of the best levels I've ever seen in a game. Very creative, atmospheric and moody.

I wouldn't necessarily want Bungie to do all these things had I the power to make it happen, these are things I notice when I play other games and go back and try to play Halo.

After taking a break from Halo 3 for a few months and playing other games like Bioshock, Call of Duty, Metal Gear Solid, Killzone 2, ect, I start to see all the things I wish Bungie would've done with Halo 3.

If there's one thing I could ask for, it would be a long, quality campaign. I hate how they've shifted focus from being a single player game with multiplayer tacked on to a multiplayer game with single player tacked on.

I also hate how you took absolutely no chances with the story. It was so simple and derivative it makes me sick...the story of the first game sucked me into the series.

Anyways...

Man this guy's right. While I wouldn't mind the same type of gameplay, maybe make it more realistic. First person still, but with smarter enemies. I want to see jackals using a phalanx formation to defend themselves, or watch Elites ordering around Grunts, even sending them to their deaths.

I'm still craving a campaign that I feel has been missing since the first Halo. I'm relieved that the flood won't be showing up, since I don't have much fun fighting them in Halo 2 or 3. I hope the single player is more like Halo CE; there's something about that game that made it way more fun than 2 or 3 for me. I can't really put my finger on it though... Anyone else feel the same way? I feel like the guns were more powerful, louder, and sounded cooler than Halo 2 or 3. Everything felt solid, and I felt a sense of scale.

And I'll second the long pre-rendered cut scenes. I would crap my pants if they went to Blur Studios again like they did with Halo Wars; those were gorgeous IMO. We need more of those to bring out the story and the epicness, ie. Space Battle cinematics, or watching from the ground as Covenant carriers and battlecruisers enter low orbit above Reach as hundreds or thousands of dropships, Banshees, and Seraphs fly from the ships' bays.

Also, bigger battles including a battalion of Marines fighting battalions of Covenant troops trying to swarm a MAC generator on Reach's surface.

I hope Bungie can put some emotion back into the Halo games. Like how important it was to defend Reach, and to see how desperately everyone in the UNSC tried to prevent it's inevitable fall.

  • 06.02.2009 2:34 PM PDT

4 player co-op (split screen)

  • 06.02.2009 2:35 PM PDT
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Man kinds last battlefield.

Some one said this on another thread about making the spartans a bit more life like
for example not being able to beat up a brute as they are stronger (See first Strike)
have Prone and stuff like that.
A bit more like GOW2 but with the halo kick ass of it

  • 06.02.2009 2:54 PM PDT
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Campaign:
-Longer
-Better AI
-More action packed
-More interesting cutscenes

DLC:
-More DLC besides just maps. I'd like to see some more armour permutations once I get bored of the old ones, or maybe some new weapons and vehicles.

Weapons/Vehicles:
-All weapons/vehicles from halo games... Of course not in matchmaking due to balance issues but for custom games
-New weapons/vehicles including ones from the novels, again the overpowered ones could at least go in custom games

Maps:
-Reach based Turf
-Other Reach based levels
-Boarding Action remake
-Pillar of Autumn based map
-An actual map editor

Matchmaking:
-More variety in playlists
-System similar to Gears 2 when it comes to vetoing, like a choice sort of thing (Gears 2 players will know what I'm talking about)

Customization:
-More Elite and Spartan permutations including existing ones
-A unique HUD for each helmet.
-More parts to customize including legs, feet, visor, arms, etc
-More races such as any new Covenant races Bungie may introduce or Jackals, which could have armour which is as big as a Spartans so it's balanced.

Other:
-Bots
-More options for custom games

Sorry I just copied and pasted this from another suggestion thread I took part in. Only thing new is the campaign part, lol. Edit: Sorry forgot the better AI in campaign. I'd really love to see some better AI. Maybe ones that can drive this time? =P

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  • 06.02.2009 2:58 PM PDT
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from what i read in one of the books i reckon being able to use and dual weild the jackal shield would be an excellent additon to th gameplay
that and yeah def longer single player n more elites

  • 06.02.2009 3:13 PM PDT
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-The one thing I want most is bots, for the people who don't or can't afford Live and who are stuck to the same Campaign over and over and over and over again or maybe someone's internet is down and they have the urge. Also maybe pick the race of the bots i.e. Brute, Elite, Marine, ODST etc. As well as the difficulty like Rookie, Veteran, SPARTAN!

-Another thing is the ability to go prone. Who wouldn't love to snipe while laying down.

-One more thing would be instead of Red Team vs Blue Team why not make it Elites vs Spartans?

  • 06.02.2009 3:20 PM PDT

I really dont knw how hard this would be but I think it would be cool if there was options in forge/custom games more machima friendly like in forge you could have like a rain effect an you can choose to spawn with no weapon but for spartans with no weapon not looking like they are holding invisable footballs and Elites not looking left and right when they have no weapon.

  • 06.02.2009 3:29 PM PDT

Posted by: Honourable Elite
DLC:
-More DLC besides just maps. I'd like to see some more armour permutations once I get bored of the old ones, or maybe some new weapons and vehicles.

This!

Posted by: Honourable Elite
Maps:
-Reach based Turf
-Other Reach based levels
-Boarding Action remake
-Pillar of Autumn based map

And this!

Posted by: Honourable Elite
Customization:
-More Elite and Spartan permutations including existing ones
-A unique HUD for each helmet.
-More parts to customize including legs, feet, visor, arms, etc

And especially this!

Amazing ideas people.

  • 06.02.2009 3:39 PM PDT
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Single Player - Epic Battle between Spartans and Elites near the end there is a Max of 100 Elites on screen at once while there is only 7 Spartans (At Most)

Multiplayer - There is nothing better than large battles 20 would be good but if we could have 32 that would be great!

And Custom Games list, seriously shut up about the Custom games list Custom Games are for people to play with Friends not randomers you have social for that.

[Edited on 06.02.2009 3:51 PM PDT]

  • 06.02.2009 3:49 PM PDT

k you might not agree with me make it like halo: ce you can be Elites, brutes, hunters, jackals etc. grunts, marines (odst) , (add new unit) flame thrower (first person flame thrower) etc.

new vehicles or ones you always wanted to drive like the pelican

weapons (odst )pistol and new ones like a new covenant machine gun ( not a spiker or plasma rifle) and a human granade launcher attachment to a gun

(optional) play lists that can have like 60 people like resistance which is why i said many units u can play as

I want this game to also have alot of focus on campaign because the multiplayer is already awesome so they need to focus on A.I and UPGRADE GRAPHICS TO HALO WARS CUTSCENES

Not all of my Ideas would be that great but you have to admit that some of these things would be a great change for halo

  • 06.02.2009 3:52 PM PDT
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Farcry 2's mapmaker improved?

OHHH YEAHHH

Naw, that will probably never happen for Halo, though I'd love to completely make my own map like in Farcry.

  • 06.02.2009 4:05 PM PDT

Better looking zombies for infection-type games (ratty armor half fallen off, cracked visor with missing chips showing parts of a deteriorated face, bloody wounds on character model).

More customizable features in forge like optional changes in weapon clip size, range, and damage to bring back your own variation of older Halo weapons.

A new style of a sandbox map with more color and gigantic objects with which to create massive BTB maps.

[Edited on 06.02.2009 4:13 PM PDT]

  • 06.02.2009 4:07 PM PDT

I really hope they don't take some of these suggestions on board. I would HATE if Halo became 'Realistic'. I love it because it is not to be taken too seriously.

  • 06.02.2009 4:13 PM PDT

The funniest thing about this particular signature is that by the time you realise it doesn't say anything it's to late to stop reading it.

I would add to the suggestions but I'm not convinced that it will be the same type of FPS Halo 3 was.It could be completely different.

I'll get back to you after the Beta.

[Edited on 06.02.2009 4:16 PM PDT]

  • 06.02.2009 4:16 PM PDT
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Fix melee.

  • 06.02.2009 4:28 PM PDT

The fact that there making a new game or series instead of just making a Halo 4 could mean there making a new game from scratch meaning different gameplay so things may not be the same.

Idea 1: I'd really like the ability to have abilites depending on your selected armor. Maybe a armor that gives you enhanced radar, oversheilds or invisiblity, but at the cost of the radar's range, jumping and speed limit. In addition, the special abilities could only be turned on for a limited time.

Idea 2: To be able to attach special gadgets to our default guns. I'd put a longer barrel on my BR to increase range or put a bigger clip.

Idea 3: To add new races to choose from (besides spartans and elites maybe odsts or brutes) and each has a advantage of there own. Maybe brutes have a melee bonus because there stronger than everyone else or odsts have nightvision if we are playing on dark areas.

  • 06.02.2009 4:35 PM PDT

Flares the nubbies up.

I'll laugh if there'd be a new multiplayer, and Bungie made Recon rare for that game.

"Can I haz reconz??????!!" "No, go play Halo 3 you stupid scrub." XD

  • 06.02.2009 4:57 PM PDT
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Not much, the game is near flawless.

[Edited on 06.02.2009 4:58 PM PDT]

  • 06.02.2009 4:58 PM PDT

Flares the nubbies up.

If there's a new multiplayer, I think there shouldn't be any Elites in matchmaking. All it does is add more confusion to the gameplay, I panic when I shoot the back of an Elite in swat 5 times and it won't die..

Before anyone flames, consider my point of view: How much more simple would it be not to have any Elites at all?


Posted by: killtrocity20
Not much, the game is near flawless.


[Edited on 06.02.2009 5:11 PM PDT]

  • 06.02.2009 5:10 PM PDT

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We tip our hats, to the King of Pop.

Spartan Customization, SPI Armour (Spartan III's armour)

  • 06.02.2009 5:31 PM PDT
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yeah i think should have bots and they should make forge items unlimited
i also think they need more elements in the maps
deeper water
fires
lighting stroms
etc.
i think they should put 3rd person as an option
they should broaden there imaginations to have an lunar map like out in space no walls
or have an completely aquatic map
they should add boats too

  • 06.08.2009 11:14 PM PDT

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