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Subject: Halo Reach will "Probably be our biggest game ever"

http://360.kombo.com/article.php?artid=17264

http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/699090/TheFeed.html?utm_sou rce=g4tv&utm_medium=twitterblog&utm_campaign=so-0907-t witterthefeed-699090&cmpid=so-0907-twitterthefeed-699090

http://g4tv.com/games/xbox-360/61907/halo-3-odst/articles/683 62/Halo-3-ODST-PAX-2009-Brian-Jarrard-Interview/


***According to the article(s)***

*New game engine

*Major step forward in technology

*Changes akin from Halo 2 to Halo 3


By the way, screw you guys who said this was Halo 3.5 etc.

*nerdgasm*



[Edited on 09.12.2009 5:55 PM PDT]

  • 09.12.2009 5:46 PM PDT
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Posted by: AI carsaib

*New game engine

*Major step forward in technology

*Changes akin from Halo 2 to Halo 3



Posted by: AI carsaib

*nerdgasm*

  • 09.12.2009 5:54 PM PDT
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I'll wait till I see any screenshot...
H3 was average and yet it was supposed to be their best game. biggest team working on it for 3 years, no deadline imposed by MS... and the game turned out to be not so good.

:| I'll believe it when I at least see stuff...

  • 09.12.2009 5:55 PM PDT

Posted by: z0rgy
I'll wait till I see any screenshot...
H3 was average and yet it was supposed to be their best game. biggest team working on it for 3 years, no deadline imposed by MS... and the game turned out to be not so good.

:| I'll believe it when I at least see stuff...


I respect your caution.

Also, I added some more fresh interviews with Bungie.

  • 09.12.2009 5:59 PM PDT

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So here's some advice. Hookers. You give them your money. they give you a few moments of happiness. Then you go home. The way it was meant to be. Posted by: Blackbird42
Actually I listened to the audio and he said something about the body rewarding social interaction because is was necessary to survive... well so was the appendix, and now all the appendix does is explode and kill you.

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  • 09.12.2009 6:26 PM PDT

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Thank you, sir.

  • 09.12.2009 6:29 PM PDT

imagine odst.......but ten times better gameplay and graphics!!!

  • 09.12.2009 6:47 PM PDT

Posted by: Green Rey
imagine odst.......but ten times better gameplay and graphics!!!


What really got me was that this was a "step-up" in technology.

Obviously, most of us are hoping for "The Game". The community is really craving something that will make sit you back in your seat and say wow. Halo Reach will be what Halo 3 was supposed to be. Halo Reach is hopefully going to be "Halo 3's Redemption". Not that Halo 3 was bad or anything. =)

[Edited on 09.12.2009 6:59 PM PDT]

  • 09.12.2009 6:58 PM PDT

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Changes akin from Halo 2 to Halo 3? Excuse my cautious approach to Halo: Reach, but I found Halo 3 a bit underwhelming for a game of its status (Millions of dollars poured into it's development, no time restraints, and the conclusion title to what's arguably gaming's most well-known franchise), and as someone mentioned earlier, found the whole experience (being completely honest) hardly a score above average. Not to stray too far off topic here, but this helps my argument- Halo 1 utterly blew my mind, and was a videogame masterpiece for its time. Halo 2 did the same, albeit this time my mind was left blown by the life-suckingly addicting multiplayer that held my attention for 2+ years (I say '+' because I was well enjoying it around the release of Halo 3) . Halo 3 on the other hand, held my attention for a month at best, and the last week or two of even that month was me playing in desperation to attain that addictive and can't put the controller down feel of Halo 2. (I came close with a couple of exciting, out of the ordinary matches, but never overall felt even half the passion I had for Halo 2's multiplayer.) I could bring up numerous other minor and major flaws in Halo 3 (unfortunately), but I think you get my point. What I'm trying to say is both that "Changes akin to Halo 2 to Halo 3" doesn't particularly excite me, and that I've also lost my quality expectations for Bungie as a developer as a whole (also, unfortunately.) I refuse to hold my expectations high for either ODST or Reach due to the admitted dissapointment that was Halo 3, and I refuse to get caught up in the hype-talk. I do, however, truly hope that Bungie will provide the quality of work for all their future titles that I believe Halo 1 and 2 held, and therefore earn back my honoring of them as my favorite developer.

  • 09.12.2009 7:10 PM PDT
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Yeah Halo 3 was a flop IMO.

  • 09.12.2009 7:11 PM PDT

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I can't wait for the release. All my friends that got PS3's will want to go and return it just for Reach. It will be the -blam!-

  • 09.12.2009 7:13 PM PDT

-blam!- Was that actually blammed out? Or did I just type it? You'll never know.

Good. I've been very excited about Reach since it was announced. Now I'm even more so. It looks like Bungie is putting everything they've got into this.

  • 09.12.2009 7:52 PM PDT

get out of here stalker

C-c-c-COMBO BREAKER.
Of short campaigns.

  • 09.12.2009 7:54 PM PDT

How anyone could think of Halo 3 as a flop is beyond me. It met my expectations, and then some.

I'm quite excited to see what comes out of Bungie for Halo Reach.

  • 09.12.2009 8:15 PM PDT

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Sad but true... Halo 1 > Halo 2>>>Halo 3

Posted by: sandmandan117
How anyone could think of Halo 3 as a flop is beyond me. It met my expectations, and then some.

I'm quite excited to see what comes out of Bungie for Halo Reach.

Did you have really low expectations? Halo 3 is one of the most overrated games of all time. In terms of features, it's the best Halo game, but in terms of gameplay, it's easily the worst. For everything that was improved over Halo 2, they made an unnecessary change that made the game worse. The game simply isn't fun - I was extremely disappointed with it.

I wish Bungie would give us information about Reach - personally, I don't give two -blam!-s about ODST. The beta probably isn't more than 7 or 8 months away, but we don't know a thing about it.

[Edited on 09.12.2009 8:46 PM PDT]

  • 09.12.2009 8:46 PM PDT

Posted by: D3vilz Ang3l
Changes akin from Halo 2 to Halo 3? Excuse my cautious approach to Halo: Reach, but I found Halo 3 a bit underwhelming for a game of its status (Millions of dollars poured into it's development, no time restraints, and the conclusion title to what's arguably gaming's most well-known franchise), and as someone mentioned earlier, found the whole experience (being completely honest) hardly a score above average. Not to stray too far off topic here, but this helps my argument- Halo 1 utterly blew my mind, and was a videogame masterpiece for its time. Halo 2 did the same, albeit this time my mind was left blown by the life-suckingly addicting multiplayer that held my attention for 2+ years (I say '+' because I was well enjoying it around the release of Halo 3) . Halo 3 on the other hand, held my attention for a month at best, and the last week or two of even that month was me playing in desperation to attain that addictive and can't put the controller down feel of Halo 2. (I came close with a couple of exciting, out of the ordinary matches, but never overall felt even half the passion I had for Halo 2's multiplayer.) I could bring up numerous other minor and major flaws in Halo 3 (unfortunately), but I think you get my point. What I'm trying to say is both that "Changes akin to Halo 2 to Halo 3" doesn't particularly excite me, and that I've also lost my quality expectations for Bungie as a developer as a whole (also, unfortunately.) I refuse to hold my expectations high for either ODST or Reach due to the admitted dissapointment that was Halo 3, and I refuse to get caught up in the hype-talk. I do, however, truly hope that Bungie will provide the quality of work for all their future titles that I believe Halo 1 and 2 held, and therefore earn back my honoring of them as my favorite developer.


I understand what you are talking about. Halo 3's story was great, IMO, but not necessarily what it was hyped up to be. I disagree on the multiplayer part of your rant though. I can see where you are coming from about everything else, but I don't agree.

  • 09.12.2009 8:48 PM PDT

I'm excited for it - from Halo 2 to Halo 3 were some big improvements. You guys don't give Bungie enough credit. H1 revolutionized the FPS genre, H2 revolutionized the way we played games (with Live,) and H3 didn't really have a revolutionizing factor. It did, though add things like Forge and Theater (which I'd never seen before in a Console game - which to me was amazing and revolutionary in itself.) But people were hoping for something nobody had seen anywhere before - and we may have gotten that in theater (correct me if you've seen anything like it in other games,) but it just wasn't enough. It focused on adding many new small features rather than one or two crazy new things. I'd like to see Reach evolve like H3 did - stepping up the graphics (which H3 definitely did no matter what anyone tries to say.) Going from H3 to Reach as H2 went to H3 is exciting to me. I can't wait to see it :)

  • 09.12.2009 8:51 PM PDT

Posted by: defghik
Posted by: sandmandan117
How anyone could think of Halo 3 as a flop is beyond me. It met my expectations, and then some.

I'm quite excited to see what comes out of Bungie for Halo Reach.

Did you have really low expectations? Halo 3 is one of the most overrated games of all time. In terms of features, it's the best Halo game, but in terms of gameplay, it's easily the worst. For everything that was improved over Halo 2, they made an unnecessary change that made the game worse. The game simply isn't fun - I was extremely disappointed with it.

I wish Bungie would give us information about Reach - personally, I don't give two -blam!-s about ODST. The beta probably isn't more than 7 or 8 months away, but we don't know a thing about it.


Halo 3 was in no way a flop. It's gameplay had this feel to it that caught me. I'm hoping that Halo Reach will be everything Halo 3 was supposed to be.

Of course, everything is an opinion...In my opinion Halo 3 was a beastly game that still pwns brand new games... Here's to hoping that Halo: Reach will be better, beastlier (yeah, that's a word), and more awesome than any game we have every seen.

  • 09.12.2009 8:55 PM PDT

Posted by: Bliznade
I'm excited for it - from Halo 2 to Halo 3 were some big improvements. You guys don't give Bungie enough credit. H1 revolutionized the FPS genre, H2 revolutionized the way we played games (with Live,) and H3 didn't really have a revolutionizing factor. It did, though add things like Forge and Theater (which I'd never seen before in a Console game - which to me was amazing and revolutionary in itself.) But people were hoping for something nobody had seen anywhere before - and we may have gotten that in theater (correct me if you've seen anything like it in other games,) but it just wasn't enough. It focused on adding many new small features rather than one or two crazy new things. I'd like to see Reach evolve like H3 did - stepping up the graphics (which H3 definitely did no matter what anyone tries to say.) Going from H3 to Reach as H2 went to H3 is exciting to me. I can't wait to see it :)


Yes, I agree! When you look at the improvement of textures, lighting, sky boxes, and any other polishyness between Halo 2 and 3, the differences are amazing! I just can't wait to see what Reach has in store for us.

  • 09.12.2009 8:59 PM PDT
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Reach should include PHOTO REALISTIC GRAPHICS LIKE C.O.D, or KILLZONE 2, or CRYSIS. H3 fell short of my expectations in the graphics and physics department....

  • 09.12.2009 9:03 PM PDT
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Reach should include PHOTO REALISTIC GRAPHICS LIKE C.O.D, or KILLZONE 2, or CRYSIS. H3 fell short of my expectations in the graphics and physics department....

Well, from what H:ODST looks like, i'm having high hopes for it's graphics, but the real question will be how they can make gameplay fun. I don't think that they'll have a problem with the graphics department, but I think Bungie should listen in on what we think, and then give us what we want under gameplay. Overall, I think they have fallen short on game-play other than the first Halo's Campaign. They need to step up their games, or they'll lose their fans to COD or Gears.

  • 09.12.2009 9:11 PM PDT

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Posted by: AI carsaib
*Changes akin from Halo 2 to Halo 3

By the way, screw you guys who said this was Halo 3.5 etc.
Ummmm. Well, considering Halo 3 was essentially Halo 2.5, Halo REACH will be Halo 3.5 if it has changes akin to Halo 2 to Halo 3.

  • 09.12.2009 9:11 PM PDT

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Posted by: AI carsaib
*Changes akin from Halo 2 to Halo 3

By the way, screw you guys who said this was Halo 3.5 etc.
Ummmm. Well, considering Halo 3 was essentially Halo 2.5, Halo REACH will be Halo 3.5 if it has changes akin to Halo 2 to Halo 3.


How does Halo 3 = Halo 2.5? Unless you're on something then I don't see how you equate to that...

Go back and play Halo 2, the graphics suck compared to 3's. My memories of Halo 2 are fresh, I've been playing a lot of it recently.

Edit: I can see how Halo 3 plays in a similar way to Halo 2, but I still can't see your logic.

[Edited on 09.12.2009 9:22 PM PDT]

  • 09.12.2009 9:20 PM PDT

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Sad but true... Halo 1 > Halo 2>>>Halo 3

Posted by: AI carsaib
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Posted by: AI carsaib
*Changes akin from Halo 2 to Halo 3

By the way, screw you guys who said this was Halo 3.5 etc.
Ummmm. Well, considering Halo 3 was essentially Halo 2.5, Halo REACH will be Halo 3.5 if it has changes akin to Halo 2 to Halo 3.


How does Halo 3 = Halo 2.5? Unless you're on something then I don't see how you equate to that...

Go back and play Halo 2, the graphics suck compared to 3's. My memories of Halo 2 are fresh, I've been playing a lot of it recently.

Oh yeah, I forgot, the only thing that matters in a game is the graphics.

Really? Are you that shallow that you don't care about the gameplay, which besides the bug fixes wasn't all that different from H2?

  • 09.12.2009 9:23 PM PDT

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Posted by: AI carsaib
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Posted by: AI carsaib
*Changes akin from Halo 2 to Halo 3

By the way, screw you guys who said this was Halo 3.5 etc.
Ummmm. Well, considering Halo 3 was essentially Halo 2.5, Halo REACH will be Halo 3.5 if it has changes akin to Halo 2 to Halo 3.


How does Halo 3 = Halo 2.5? Unless you're on something then I don't see how you equate to that...

Go back and play Halo 2, the graphics suck compared to 3's. My memories of Halo 2 are fresh, I've been playing a lot of it recently.

Oh yeah, I forgot, the only thing that matters in a game is the graphics.

Really? Are you that shallow that you don't care about the gameplay, which besides the bug fixes wasn't all that different from H2?


This doesn't need to turn into a flame war. Chill. Also, I've already, albeit briefly, addressed gameplay in the above post.

This whole thread is just about Brian Jarrard's statements that Halo Reach is going to be a big game and a step up in technology. I'm just being hopeful about Reach and stating my opinion that Halo 3 was a big step-up compared to Halo 2 (which, IMO, felt rushed and unfinished without enough story elements).

  • 09.12.2009 9:31 PM PDT

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