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Okay, you angry person, you, let me address these ONE BY ONE with what I know. I'll make sure you know when I'm speculating.
Posted by: Chicago663
They didn't even release any Halo games yet, and they're already releasing information that is making almost every Halo player upset.
First of all, they confirm that Reach and Halo CEA will run entirely independent of each other.
And yet Halo CEA's multiplayer has been confirmed to run in Reach's engine.
Okay, first off, that I know of, we have no confirmation that the original CE multiplayer will be in it. Second, 'making almost every Halo player upset' is a rather brave assumption with no base, and third, the Matchmaking side of the set, assuming there is another side to it MP wise, runs in Reach's matchmaking. Same server, same gameplay, new maps. There's even gonna be a new Firefight map pulled from a campaign level.
Also, Halo CEA has been pretty much confirmed to NOT feature blood gulch! You know why? OH BECAUSE REACH ALREADY HAS BLOOD GULCH IN IT. THAT'S SO SMART. I MEAN THAT WOULD BE SO SMART IF HALO CEA AND REACH DIDN'T RUN INDEPENDENT OF EACH OTHER.
Yes, we have Hemorrhage. Yes, it was made in Forge World, but it's about the same as the original, if not better. I really don't get what the whole Blood Gulch thing was all about, but.. I'm not gonna bring map opinions into this.
Again, ONLINE MULTIPLAYER runs in Reach. No news good or bad so far for the CE multiplayer being revamped with new graphics and packed in there as well for Xbox LIVE.
Oh, did I mention 343 confirmed that Halo CEA's campaign will be absolutely exactly the SAME as the original? Now, hold on a second. That's a good thing. If it ain't broke, don't fix it, right? Especially the graphics. You have the option to play the game with the same exact graphics from Halo CE!
Not in every way, but more or less, yes. Because it's a tribute, not a total remake. Also, why is the option to play with the old graphics a BAD thing? Options are good. I like options.
And I'm assuming that people will be able to do this quite often since judging by the trailer, the new Reach-ish graphics will have terrible frame rate issues. Oh you know why? YEAH BECAUSE 343 ISN'T EVEN GOING TO BOTHER OPTIMIZE THE 10 YEAR OLD ORIGINAL XBOX GAME ENGINE TO SUPPORT HD GRAPHICS HOW SMART OF THEM.
They're running TWO ENGINES if you actually paid attention. The game engine and the graphics engine are TOTALLY SEPARATE. Yes, there seems to be optimization issues right now, but that's a big 'seems to be' as there are four months left to release and we don't know what build those clips were from or how old they were.
And hey, this is all conformed stuff. Listen to the interviews and watch the trailer suffer from horrible framerates.
Now, I could be wrong. But bookmark this thread or something, because I garuntee that when Halo CEA comes out, Halo fans are going to complain about all the crap 343 is putting out with Halo CEA.
I think you're taking a lot of what's 'confirmed' very.. the wrong way.
As for Halo 4, I'm worried for that too. Judging SOLELY from the trailer, I'm going to speculate that you have the option to attach things to your guns, like grenade launchers. OH YOU ARE SO ORIGINAL 343 ATTACH GRENADE LAUNCHERS TO THE GUNS YOU ARE SO CREATIVE AND SMART 343.
Yes, bash a company for a gameplay decision you're guessing from a CGI trailer. Just because Call of Duty lets you strap grenade launchers to weapons, you assumed that was the case here. YOU ARE SO CREATIVE AND SMART.
See what I did there? With the assumption on your thinking that I don't have any place making? Doesn't feel good when I do it to you, huh?
Really, the snark is unnecessary and does nothing to endear people to your cause. Get your facts sorted out, calm down a bit and think. 343's headed by a guy from Bungie, too, so he knows what he's doing. At least I hope so.