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Subject: An interesting idea for an ODST silver skull

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Posted by: kalle90
I'd like a HUDless view, but still having the gun visible. Good old WW2 fight.

It could replace Fog. It fogs your HUD.

Yes, I hate that when you use blind it takes the gun off your screen.

  • 06.21.2009 2:12 PM PDT

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Good idea. I think they already said we'd only have the current Halo 3 skulls, but hey, I might be wrong (I hope I am =P).

  • 06.21.2009 2:19 PM PDT

Posted by: xXMisterChiefXx
im going to put it at a very basic thing. halo was meant to be played as an fps so a third person camera would pretty much ruin the point

It was originally meant to be an RTS. OP, that sounds like a great idea.

  • 06.21.2009 2:21 PM PDT
Subject: An interesting and original idea for an ODST silver skull

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Posted by: Dropship dude
Good idea. I think they already said we'd only have the current Halo 3 skulls, but hey, I might be wrong (I hope I am =P).
Can we hope for any sort of DLC?

And wow, Sputnik looks great fun. Id love to see that!

But for that other idea of 1st person Hogging, I think Halo 3 was going to have it, but then they must have decided to change it. Ill try and find the video of it.

EDIT: Found the video. Its at 5:50 and it just has a 2 second clip of the driver in 1st person going to run some guy over. It would have been cool to have it, but then again, 3rd person driving is very cool in a warthog.

[Edited on 06.22.2009 2:23 AM PDT]

  • 06.22.2009 1:58 AM PDT

How about a silver skull that makes your Frag Grenades sticky, but your Plasmas bounce like a Frag would?

  • 06.22.2009 2:07 AM PDT
Subject: An interesting idea for an ODST silver skull

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I still prefer 1st person games but I don't think this would be a bad addition, a little interesting thing to add in.

  • 06.22.2009 4:22 AM PDT

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Posted by: GeneralMykus
Posted by: xXMisterChiefXx
im going to put it at a very basic thing. halo was meant to be played as an fps so a third person camera would pretty much ruin the point
It was also meant to be played with a HUD, and without grunt heads exploding into confetti.

Skulls are there to change the way the game is played, without materially altering it. Zooming out from 1st to 3rd person is not a material change. We're not talking GoW2 style, where you can use 3rd person to interact with the environment, roll, etc. It's a simple matter of putting the character model in the middle of the screen and altering the viewpoint slightly.
Wow.
I didn't know Halo was an FPS.
It would be interesting to experience.
In Fallout 3 I enjoyed popping in and out of 3rd person every few minutes. Even though Fallout 3's 3rd person mode is terrible it was still fun.

  • 06.22.2009 4:28 AM PDT

I think an interesting skull could be one that you could activate in game and a mini screen popped up on the corner of your screen that would show the nearest group of enemies but from a first person perspective of a brute. This would be helpful to see what guns they are carrying and what troops are with them like jackals or grunts.

  • 06.22.2009 9:55 PM PDT
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I HATE THIS IDEA. Halo is successful mostly because its a FPS

  • 06.22.2009 9:58 PM PDT
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Posted by: Mikeled NZ
I HATE THIS IDEA. Halo is successful mostly because its a FPS
Having this skull won't make it not be a FPS (Meaning it still will be FPS)

  • 06.22.2009 10:21 PM PDT

woot

to all the people that keep saying what halo would be like 3rd person

have you never used a turret?

and it does work nicely you could get a nice Mod for the Pc Version that made it 3rd person and it worked nicely.

  • 06.22.2009 10:21 PM PDT

That's a pretty good idea, but since you have no radar, an over the shoulder view could allow you to see/notice some things you wouldn't be able to notice in first person. So, it'd actually help you out in a sense. You wouldn't need to look for where a stray grenade went or where exactly that snipe shot came from, ya know?

  • 06.22.2009 10:45 PM PDT

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if we can play third player with a turret, why not with any other gun, make sure theres a reticle though, because in the theater, there isnt one. id like that, id have that skull on all the time, make sure you put this in the halo reach forum...before its to late

[Edited on 06.22.2009 11:32 PM PDT]

  • 06.22.2009 11:30 PM PDT

It makes sense with a turret because it weighs you down and generally slows you down all together. With regular weapons and regular speed, it goes back to giving you those unfair advantages.

  • 06.23.2009 3:46 AM PDT

I would like it, switching between first and third person made for a good change of pace in Rainbow six vegas 2. I imagine it would be a good change of pace in this game as well.

  • 06.23.2009 4:28 AM PDT

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Posted by: GreenDevilJF
I would like it, switching between first and third person made for a good change of pace in Rainbow six vegas 2. I imagine it would be a good change of pace in this game as well.
Thats what i was thinking. On Vegas 1 and 2 it has a code that you can enter into start menu that puts you into 3rd person mode. I was thinking that it would be cool to implement something like that into Halo, and Halos way of having "cheat codes" is to have the silver skulls.

And to that guy who hates this idea, you wouldnt have to use it at all. The fact that its a skull means that you would have to activate it before it would come into effect. So you could have it all along and never use it.

  • 06.23.2009 6:34 AM PDT

As much as I love this idea, it won't be implemented into ODST. Maybe Reach? Anyway, for all the haters: It's a skull people, if you don't like Grunts exploding into confetti, don't turn GBP on. Same with this little add on my friend. Peace.
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  • 06.23.2009 6:54 AM PDT
Subject: An interesting idea for an ODST silver skull

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I'd like this, I always watch theatre in 3rd Person so, nice idea.

  • 06.23.2009 7:23 AM PDT
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Posted by: Upsilon 08
As much as I love this idea, it won't be implemented into ODST. Maybe Reach? Anyway, for all the haters: It's a skull people, if you don't like Grunts exploding into confetti, don't turn GBP on. Same with this little add on my friend. Peace.
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Is there any chance that they could, in theory add something like skulls and stuff through DLC or auto updates? Or would they have to be hard coded into the game?

Because if they could add skulls to firefight it would be able to give it a huge amount of variety.

  • 06.23.2009 3:30 PM PDT
Subject: An interesting idea for an ODST silver skull

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Posted by: GeneralMykus
Posted by: xXMisterChiefXx
im going to put it at a very basic thing. halo was meant to be played as an fps so a third person camera would pretty much ruin the point
It was also meant to be played with a HUD, and without grunt heads exploding into confetti.

Skulls are there to change the way the game is played, without materially altering it. Zooming out from 1st to 3rd person is not a material change. We're not talking GoW2 style, where you can use 3rd person to interact with the environment, roll, etc. It's a simple matter of putting the character model in the middle of the screen and altering the viewpoint slightly.
Wow.
I didn't know Halo was an FPS.
It would be interesting to experience.

Go get Halo Wars.....>.<

  • 06.23.2009 3:34 PM PDT

Thermal Vision would be interesting to have

  • 06.23.2009 4:03 PM PDT

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Iv played Halo 2 in third person and third person over the shoulder and i have to say HALO is just not ment to be played like that the aiming player model dosnt sync with the the crosshair properly and its feels really odd if you really want to play halo as a TPS grab a support weapon and go crazy

  • 06.23.2009 4:09 PM PDT

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  • 06.23.2009 4:11 PM PDT

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Posted by: StalkerUKCG
Iv played Halo 2 in third person and third person over the shoulder and i have to say HALO is just not ment to be played like that the aiming player model dosnt sync with the the crosshair properly and its feels really odd if you really want to play halo as a TPS grab a support weapon and go crazy
But was that something to do with them not being specifically designed to give a reasonable player performance? If the skull was made by the official team then they would more than likely be able to sort out any sync problems with aiming.

And you say grab a support weapon, do their 3rd person features not work fine? Yes, because they were designed as such. Bungie would make it work with any weapon im sure.

  • 06.25.2009 3:06 AM PDT
Subject: An interesting and original idea for an ODST silver skull

I like the idea. It would be different to play a Halo game in 3rd person.

  • 06.25.2009 4:26 AM PDT

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