" @august said:

" @Belonpopo said:

" Wow, Brad does a good job of bashing Halo incognito. "

What? "

I think HE thinks Brad is silently bashing Halo. "

I hope the assassinations dont turn into the crap fest that was Aliens vs predator.

New direction taking form here, and me likey. Maybe the new matchmaking settings offer a way to not play with 12 year old pissants who just discovered the word fuck.
 
God I hate children on Live.

HALO

Funny, the idea for spartans vs elites multiplayer game I thought of a long time ago.

" New direction taking form here, and me likey. Maybe the new matchmaking settings offer a way to not play with 12 year old pissants who just discovered the word fuck.  God I hate children on Live. "

" @geirdaniel said:

" New direction taking form here, and me likey. Maybe the new matchmaking settings offer a way to not play with 12 year old pissants who just discovered the word fuck.  God I hate children on Live. "

I hate children. Period. "

Looks like I won't be the only person playing as an Elite anymore. 

I can't wait. It seems like Bungie has made a ton of gameplay improvements based on community feedback, and then added their own cool new features to the mix. I hope that they finally reverse the trend of each subsequent Halo game being worse than its predecessor; thankfully, it certainly looks like Reach will be better than Halo 3.

As somebody who still likes to blow the heads off complete strangers in Halo 3, i can honestly say that im excited.  But to be honest, Halo has always been about the campaign for me, so multiplayer comes second in my mind.

Damn that looks like a really new halo experience..Cant wait to play it!!!

I look forward to Reach, sounds like a good improvement from halo 3... so yeah, Ill probably check it out! :D

The return of the King. 

I can't wait for the multiplayer! :D

Hated Halo 3, didn't care for halo 1 but im loving where reach is going, im actually really excited for the beta.

" I hope the assassinations dont turn into the crap fest that was Aliens vs predator. "

I bought ODST just for this!!!

Brad's giant article layouts are always great to read.

Sounds like fun and I can't wait to try it.

Sounds like a pretty big multiplayer overhaul. I'm vaguely interested.

Well I think enough of the collective gaming consciousness has realized MW2 is a shitbag.  Why has BFBC2 done so well?  That's why.  Reach has the same opportunity.

early beta keys? YES PLEASE!

It's got me more interested then ODST did.

Awesome. Can't wait.

I think im the only person that hasn't jumped on the mw2 band wagon i thought bad company 2 was more entertaining. now that they  are putting a Spartans vs elites similar to rush i am way more interested.

I thought I was over Halo.  I guess not.  I have Bad Company 2 to hold me over until then.

...Hesitantly interested

Just a quick thing to mention: Spartans also have access to active camo, maybe not in the loadouts you saw, but it definitely is in there for them.
 
That said, I canNOT wait.

One thing about Halo multiplayer maps is that they aren't all just brown and ugly like some other games out there.  It's got some colour and lighting that makes it nice to look at.

Looks fun but there are only so many changes they can make to Halo, at a point you just realize, "Hey, i just bought the same game 3 times."

For some reason, Halo online has never really clicked with me, other than the Warthog Race mode in Halo:CE for PC (anyone else play that?  First time I ever really played any game online, on any system).  I love the campaigns, and co-op and Firefight are both awesome... online multiplayer never really clicked though.

thought i was over halo, but all this beta talk, i can say i'm feeling the itch

Whoa, whoa, whoa, WHOA. Halo had one of the most wildly popular/successfull online multiplayers ever, what the hell are they doing changing the formula so drastically? Special shield powers don't change much, but making it Spartans vs. Elites and giving them different stats? And adding some kinds of special assasinations? I guess they aren't huge changes, but from someone who played halo 3 online to death, and so spent ridiculous amounts of time with die hard Halo fans, this is going to piss a lot of people off. Halo and Modern Warfare were in my eyes two seperate franchises with completely different play styles, both of which I enjoyed. Giving them knives, running, all this crap. It makes sense, but at the same time it absolutely kills what made halo online, halo online. I'll buy the game cause it's halo but....damn.

Crazy excited for this.

The modern warfare games have definitely stunted my Halo gaming.  I'd always jump from MW to Halo once it comes out, but the additions of the new game types might actually get me to not jump back to MW2 (especially if the cR system is as addictive as the prestige system).  Also, if they put any type of Firefight in matchmaking, I'd be hooked for months!!!!

I also can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm pretty excited for Reach. I've never been excited for a Halo game.

A new Halo over CoD were people have that shit down to a science HELL FUCKING YEAH I WANA PLAY HALO

I'm really quite excited. Thing is, even if MW2 is the top dog, it has by no means dwarved Halo 3, even now Halo 3 is doing just fine. The fact is there is a significant divide between Halo's audience and MW's audience. Sure, there is a big overlap, but the games are way to different to have to compete to the extent most people seem to wish they would. There are a LOT of people who love Halo but would never play MW, and vis versa. I am not sure if this game will take down MW2, but even if it doesn't top it, I doubt it'll be too far.

Meh.
 
Of course, the Halo sheep will always buy the same game over and over again. They have for almost a decade now.
 
Does anyone honestly care when superior multiplayer games such as Battlefield, Killzone 2, and MAG have come out
?

I was gonna get Reach, but wasn't really excited or anything. After reading this though, I'm pretty excited. Halo needed a good sort of reboot to gameplay. It's nice to know they're throwing in some fresh elements here. The differences between the elites and spartans sound really awesome. Art seems really cool as well, as with most Halo games.

I have a bunch of free live and a reach beta from ODST.  I think I know when I'm going to be using it...

The Elite stuff sounds...kind of unbalanced.

Looks awesome. It doesn't sound like the regular melee stuff changed in regards to shields and stuff but the assassination stuff sounds really cool.
Those new particle effects look great.

I went to sleep reading this. This is the same shit from when they released Halo back in the early 2000's. Of course, the 12 year old children who play this need something new to do so they add jetpacks.