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Subject: Voice commands in Campaign.
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I'd love to have voice commands in Halo 3's campaign. It would add a huge amount of replay-ability. It's also would be very revolutionary. There's been games that you can command units in before, yes, but they've always forced you to go through annoying menus that take away from gameplay. The game would truely make you feel like a spartan talking over a radio and commanding troops.

Right now you're probably thinking, "It would be cool, but how the hell could someone program something so complex?"

How? By making it not complex at all. Think of a cell phone. You can program the name of someone into your phone so when you say it, it calls someone. Use the same type of program in the game but instead of linking it to a phone number, link it to an AI script.

Have an option in the settings menu where you go and record your voice for commands like "Hold this postion", "Cover Me", "Retreat", etc. It then just records your voice to the harddrive. Language wouldn't be a problem since it's recording what you say. Heck you could make it so when you say "I eat barf" your marines retreat.

Heck it wouldn't take up much space on the game disc either. Cells phones have what, 256MB of memory? Most of that space would be needed for ring tones, the recordings themselves, pictures you download, etc. That means that the program itself can't take up much space. Let's say it'll take up 5mb (that's a high guess). An average DVD is 4.7mb. 5mb is nothing.

I hope someone from bungie reads this... lol Comments?

  • 05.11.2006 6:38 PM PDT
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someone is gonna tell you to go to the halo 3 ideas thread

  • 05.11.2006 6:41 PM PDT
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They Will and They will say.

Use the Ideas for Halo3 thread.

  • 05.11.2006 6:41 PM PDT
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when i first started reading i thought it was a stupid idea, but then that whole putting your own voice into categories thing made it sound pretty cool. but im sure this will never happen 1. because halo isnt really a squad based series
2. it just wouldnt make sense to put it in now

but good thinking though, you may want to suggest theat voice activation idea for another game which would be more likely to use it. :)

  • 05.11.2006 6:42 PM PDT
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Sorry, I'll Copy & Paste it there. When I clicked the Make new thread button, it must have fallen to the second page. (This forum is moving really fast.)

  • 05.11.2006 6:45 PM PDT
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i wouldnt like it, simply cuz then u would get TOO dependent of the A.I. of ur team, and belive me i hate Ghost Reacon games, i wouldnt like Halo to turn into one of them

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Posted by: Sir_thatguy
i wouldnt like it, simply cuz then u would get TOO dependent of the A.I. of ur team, and belive me i hate Ghost Reacon games, i wouldnt like Halo to turn into one of them


Not really, as you could simply tell them to hold the position at the start of the level/when you meet up with them. It would add varity to gameplay since you could instruct your marines to help you a lot, play defensively, or you could play a map without them and not have to kill them.

Posted by: byrum
If the voice commands turned out to be as bad as the ones in Rainbow Six Lockdown, I wouldn't want them at all.

With Halo's nonstop frenzied battles, adding voice commands would be too much to think about. I think that just having really good AI for the friendly soldiers would be best.


I'm just suggesting it as an option. You could play without them if you wanted to.

[Edited on 5/11/2006]

  • 05.11.2006 6:52 PM PDT