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Subject: Halo Reach Needs More Special Moments!!

Ok, so if anyone has played Call of Duty Modern Warfare 1/2, you will know what I mean. By special moments I mean when there is a gameplay segment that is completly different from normal gameplay.

Now I'm not trying to say that Halo should take ideas from CoD, but there just needs to be some more epic moments where you just go "Wow, I've got to do that again!". Take the Snowmobile section in MW2, or the AC130 mission in MW1. These are completly different from normal gameplay, and they're just a good change from normal gameplay.

Now, I and alot of other people have always wanted to see more space battles, so I think if it would be good that on one mission for example, you get to be in the gunner position of a ship, or fly a Longsword (escorting some Pelicans on the way down to the surface or something along those lines). It would be a good change from normal gameplay.

Another thing that I enjoyed the first person cutscenes in Halo 3: ODST, these were also a refreshing change from normal gameplay. Fighting/battle scenes in cutscenes are also great to see in cutscenes. Take the "Monsters" cutscene from Halo Wars for example, that IMO is one of the best Halo cutscenes out of all of the Halo Games. We just need awesome moments that make us want to watch or play it over and over and over again.

Now I'm not saying that Bungie should listen to my ideas or even consider them (They can obviously think of something better than me =D)but if Reach is thier last Halo game, we need some epic stuff to remember them by.

Who agrees?

EDIT!

Here's another thing I remembered, the Drop Pod sequence in ODST. It was just epic, we need to have more things like this in Reach.

[Edited on 11.22.2009 1:05 PM PST]

  • 11.22.2009 12:30 PM PDT

like the cutscene idea, dont like the other one. for some reason i dont like it when the gameplay changes much, it seems to inconsistant

  • 11.22.2009 12:33 PM PDT
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After playing through the first three levels of Halo 2 again, I know exactly what you mean. From watching in horror as two huge ships blow up and then realising there is a bomb on the ship you are on, to seeing the scarab blow its way through your position as you try in vain to fight it off. The music in Halo 2 was also mega epic, the charnting makes me feal tingely, lol. But I agree, the monsters cutscene was the best and every one loves it, but thinking about it, it could have been longer and actualy had more fighting in it, Reach could potentialy have a greater cutscene. But for now, we can only hope...

  • 11.22.2009 12:36 PM PDT
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Posted by: DecepticonCobra

We are all going to get banned aren't we?

I think that everyone can agree with you Ultramarine 360, i too belive "monsters" was an awesome cut-scene. The reason being it bought the action from the game unto video format rather than player acted, seeing how this is halo reach im sure we can expect a epic scene with spartans para dropping from low orbit also.

The good thing about reach is that there was alot of action and battles taking place that should hopefully be noticed by the developers and put into the main story.

  • 11.22.2009 12:37 PM PDT

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I agree 100%
There needs to be those moments, would make campaign awesome. As of now I really can't think of any "moments" in Halo 3 campaign. However, in Modern Warfare 2 there is for example: jumping the cliff, snowmobiles, ambushed in those Humvee thingies, Predator ownage, all of the endgame sequence, etc...

For Reach you could have a team of Spartans infiltrate and either hijack or destroy a Covie ship. It isn't copying MW series, it is just making the campaign all the more epic.

  • 11.22.2009 12:38 PM PDT

More bacon strips!

Off topic: Smurfs (Ultramarines) are overrated, just saying.

On topic: Imo, Halo doesn't need the drastically changed gameplay segment that CoD has (i.e.: A ''press X to not die''* duel against an elite), the Halo sandbox itself is enough to create epic moments, the problem being it's difficult and time consuming to script a lot of event. Oh and I'm all for first person cutscenes.

*For those who never watch Zero Punctuation, ''press X to not die'' means quick time event.

[Edited on 11.22.2009 12:43 PM PST]

  • 11.22.2009 12:41 PM PDT

I agree. Me and my friends have been talking about this actually. Reach better be -blam-ing EPIC. I wanna see new stuff, and like you said stuff that makes you want to play over and over again. Not just campaign multiplayer too. Like real game changers. in campaign plasma bombs going off all around you marines blow to bits just 5 feet from you. We need Reach to be the best Halo game out of the series period.

  • 11.22.2009 12:48 PM PDT

No holds bar killing!

I completly agree, it would really add more "wow" moments to the game.

  • 11.22.2009 12:51 PM PDT

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Check this thread here as it has some great ideas.

  • 11.22.2009 12:51 PM PDT

I also like the cutscence in ODST were they kill the chieftan.

  • 11.22.2009 12:59 PM PDT

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Off topic: Smurfs (Ultramarines) are overrated, just saying.


Dw about it lol, I made this account ages ago.

On topic: Imo, Halo doesn't need the drastically changed gameplay segment that CoD has (i.e.: A ''press X to not die''* duel against an elite), the Halo sandbox itself is enough to create epic moments, the problem being it's difficult and time consuming to script a lot of event. Oh and I'm all for first person cutscenes.

*For those who never watch Zero Punctuation, ''press X to not die'' means quick time event.


I'm not saying that we need things totally different from gameplay. Something like being in the gunner seat of a Warthog (You have to stay in it) as you drive into a huge battle would be awesome, or being in a drop pod like in ODST would be great too.

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I agree give us s couple of special missions and you right this is the game make us remember it go out wityh a bang bungie

[Edited on 11.22.2009 1:17 PM PST]

  • 11.22.2009 1:17 PM PDT

If you read this, you've wasted a few seconds of your life.

Perhaps in the beginning of the game, there could be a similair drop as in ODST but then in a pelican like in the book first strike. First you will be flying from to the surface but then your pelican gets shot and you and the other spartans have to jump out of the pelican. While you're falling, you you still have control over the camera and when you touch the ground, you become unconsious.

  • 11.22.2009 1:23 PM PDT
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Maybe there should be a part that has you actually LOOK for a weapon instead of somehow starting with a normal one, then finding some random 5 others in the next level.

  • 11.22.2009 1:29 PM PDT

Ive had this special moment idea in my head for a while; (for reach of course)

You are on a pelican's turret in the rear, shooting banshees and whatever, stopping them from getting near you, at some point you start seeing other pelicans crash around you, and suddenly yours starts going down as well.(from that point I imagined two possibilities)

Either you go to the cockpit and find out the pilots dead and you take control

or the pelican goes down and (since your a spartan in the game obviously) you brace yourself and start defending the crash site and so on.

But yes we do need lots of more special moments. Reach cannot be allowed to be forgotten, ever.

  • 11.22.2009 1:30 PM PDT