Oh my God, that demo is so much more awesome than I was expecting, Halo 4 officially has me excited!What did everyone think?

Looked like more Halo. Which, cool, I guess? I didn't play ODST but I liked the rest. I'm sure it'll be an excellect game, but I just don't know that I want to play another FPS right now. Well, besides Borderlands 2.

another solid entry. kinda bummed it just kinda looked like more of the same but thats not a bad thing!

I was kinda disappointed, actually, but it's much too early to tell based on one trailer.

I didn't get to see it. I jumped in at about the time that EA Sports started advertising and they haven't stopped banging on about sports and fucking Kinect.

Well, I guess the Forza and Gears trailers were better, but that's like two very dim points of light in a sea of the darkest black shit you've ever seen.

Halo was fantastic, I wish I could say the same of the new Splinter Cell. They lost even more of the stealth mechanics and now you can call in air strikes, what the hell is this?

Looked a lot like Crysis, to me atleast. The enemies look interesting thats for sure and the graphics look nice. The rest of this conference so far has been pretty dull.

It looked like they were taking pretty heavy cues from Metroid Prime. For a second I thought the game was being developed by Retro Studios.

@believer258: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcSBOrG5RW8&feature=youtu.be

I enjoyed it. One of the only things I enjoyed from this whole Microsoft thing. Why in the hell do they keep pushing this Kinect thing? Even people who have Kinect don't give a shit about this stuff anymore. Notice how not a single person clapped after that Fable trailer? And they need to stop with the dull presenters with completely fake enthusiasm.

Halo 4 looked great but those fights looked a little too scripted, which goes against everything Halo has always been about.

Hopefully it was just for demo purposes, which I'm sure was probably the case.

Looked awful to me, the concept of Forerunners could have led to a brilliant, Bioshock style game as Chief learns of how they fell, but the covenant are still enemies. And the Elites are friends with grunts etc. again. Moving backwards, not forwards.

@big_jon said:

@believer258: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcSBOrG5RW8&feature=youtu.be

All right, that and Tomb Raider and RE6 looked pretty cool but a little too scripted. Halo 4 looked the best, though, and it reminded me of what would happen if Crysis and Metroid had a baby. Which is a fucking beautiful thing.

When I read in Game Informer that they were trying a new enemy with new tactics, I kind of rolled my eyes, thinking that it wasn't going to be much different. Then we saw robots that could teleport and others that could catch your grenades and chuck them back, which looks awesome. It's just... scripted. Why the fuck are these thing always so scripted?

I really liked the Metroid Prime influence.

I'm really liking what they showed, I'm interested where they'll go with the new enemies and weapons, so I'm definitely in.

As for the rest of the conference, the majority was completely uninteresting (though the woman doing the Kinect demo-thingy looks like we can get some good gifs out of that), I must say that I liked what I saw of Splinter Cell: Blacklist, Tomb Raider, Black Ops 2.

EDIT: Also fucking LocoCycle! WTF?

maybe it'll get better as the trilogy goes on.

After I saw this, I just realized a new Metroid Prime would be awesome.

Non Halo fan here, could someone explain why it was awesome again? It reminds me of when they first showed Halo 3. It's just M.C running through a forest. My first thought was these new enemies are some sort of fabled, thought-to-be-extinct race that are now back and pissed off. But, in terms of what actually happened, it was just M.C fighting a bunch of dudes and shooting a new gun.
 
I don't know. I guess I have to be into it to be excited, right? It IS the first game with Master Chief since 3, and that was a while ago. I did get excited just seeing videos of Old Snake rubbing his aching back, so I don't know/

It's Halo, I guess.

I can't understand how that could excite anyone. It was just more Halo.

Started with a showstopper!

I am so fucking down for Halo 4. Goddamn I actually got giddy at the sizzle reel at the end of the demo.

The demo got me less excited, looks like all the enemies have to have gimmicks now instead of just good AI in a sandbox.

Yo dawg it looked like more Halo. Whis is... good I guess? I'll still play it.

I thought it looked pretty dope.
 
I like Cortana going crazy.

as much as i love halo i cant help but feel meh about it.

@Nilazz said:

Started with a showstopper!

Agreed. Nothing else in that conference could even touch that Halo 4 demo. Blown away.

@Ramone said:

I can't understand how that could excite anyone. It was just more Halo.

Maybe because you like Halo?

Halo 4 is the biggest change to the franchise yet, believe it or not. Have you played the 3 Bungie Halo games this gen?

@Ramone said:

I can't understand how that could excite anyone. It was just more Halo.

Sometimes "just more" of something is enough. I didn't really care for the trailer, but if you were to show me more Bayonetta right now, I'd fuckin' loose my shit.

It looked like Halo alright peronsally I was more impresed by Reach when they showed the amor abilities and the space flight this just looked like regular Halo pre-Reach kinda stuff not bad but I wasn't all that impressed

@big_jon: I am right with ya man. I was very impressed by gameplay. Seriously can't wait to play it.

I couldn't have cared less about this game before seeing that, but it looked great. And to the people worrying about the AI, I wouldn't. They needed a precise demo for a set amount of time. Actually allowing the AI to perform as normal would have made it potentially too drawn out. They needed to show things, and they scripted the enemies to allow them to quickly show off some new weapons and enemy types.

@Zacagawea said:

@Ramone said:

I can't understand how that could excite anyone. It was just more Halo.

Maybe because you like Halo?

Halo 4 is the biggest change to the franchise yet, believe it or not. Have you played the 3 Bungie Halo games this gen?

Yes, and I liked them, but Reach felt like the natural conclusion. This just looks like a less-talented studio doing more Halo because Microsoft said 'We need more Halo'

As I wrote in the other thread: Don't take this the wrong way but this sure looks like more Halo.

I didn't see the trailer, but saw everyone blow their load on twitter. I'm holding out till I see it. I've been sick of the Halo format since 3, but bought Reach anyway and was kinda meh on it. It has it's moments. Was there gameplay in the trailer?

@Packie said:

I really liked the Metroid Prime influence.

Yes , this was the one thing that impressed me .

I like the new sound of the assault rifle.

I honestly can't wait to see the multiplayer.

@WinterSnowblind said:

Halo 4 looked great but those fights looked a little too scripted, which goes against everything Halo has always been about.

Hopefully it was just for demo purposes, which I'm sure was probably the case.

This is how I felt too.

@Ramone said:

@Zacagawea said:

@Ramone said:

I can't understand how that could excite anyone. It was just more Halo.

Maybe because you like Halo?

Halo 4 is the biggest change to the franchise yet, believe it or not. Have you played the 3 Bungie Halo games this gen?

Yes, and I liked them, but Reach felt like the natural conclusion. This just looks like a less-talented studio doing more Halo because Microsoft said 'We need more Halo'

I wouldn't say that at all. For one, Halo 4 looks bloody amazing. I mean visually amazing. How the hell they're pushing a 360 to do that is beyond me. Second of all, the enemies not being hyper-intelligent has more to do with it being an E3 stage demo. They can't have 20 minute drawn out gun battles where the AI is testing your wits in front of, well, the world. I imagine Heroic/Legendary for Halo 4 will be just as trying and face-melting in both fun and difficulty as Reach was.

And finally, it looks like 343 is actually following through with the fiction promises of Halo. There was a lot of detail and a lot of story to pick out of that brief demo, and I'm not talking about the sizzle reel at the end (which looked awesome). A lot of great clues for Halo fans in there.

of course its more Halo...... its fucking Halo 4 emphasis on the Halo and the 4.

I thought it looked great, I thought reach was great, but fighting elites was getting old. So new enemies, better graphics and Cortana going crazy sounds awesome to me.

I do hope that there is a good explanation for fighting elites again, even in the trailer they said there was peace.

lol i know its the cool thing to hate on the major franchises, but I am thoroughly excited for this.

@EXTomar said:

As I wrote in the other thread: Don't take this the wrong way but this sure looks like more Halo.

This kinda irritates me because you can say that about all franchises, but people say this specificity on anything usually to do with Halo.

The game play trailer was not that long, but the graphics look really good, can't judge the AI too harshly because there was only a few enemy and only 2 very small fire fights, and it seems that the difficulty was set on the easier side, the guns sound allot better especially the Assault Rifle. However they didn't really show anything, it was very short, so I am looking forward to some more information and game play.

@theveej said:

of course its more Halo...... its fucking Halo 4 emphasis on the Halo and the 4.

I thought it looked great, I thought reach was great, but fighting elites was getting old. So new enemies, better graphics and Cortana going crazy sounds awesome to me.

I do hope that there is a good explanation for fighting elites again, even in the trailer they said there was peace.

lol i know its the cool thing to hate on the major franchises, but I am thoroughly excited for this.

They are a crazy religious sect of the Elites, not on the side of he Arbiter.

As serious as Halo wants to be they still employ the same goofy looking enemies. I don't know how anyone can get remotely invested in the story with little munchkins walking around as your enemies and the new baddies are little doods that have, wow, glowing orange skulls. Despite all the care in the graphics and the mysticism of Master Chief, it all ends up looking so cartoony.

@Oldirtybearon said:

@Ramone said:

@Zacagawea said:

@Ramone said:

I can't understand how that could excite anyone. It was just more Halo.

Maybe because you like Halo?

Halo 4 is the biggest change to the franchise yet, believe it or not. Have you played the 3 Bungie Halo games this gen?

Yes, and I liked them, but Reach felt like the natural conclusion. This just looks like a less-talented studio doing more Halo because Microsoft said 'We need more Halo'

I wouldn't say that at all. For one, Halo 4 looks bloody amazing. I mean visually amazing. How the hell they're pushing a 360 to do that is beyond me. Second of all, the enemies not being hyper-intelligent has more to do with it being an E3 stage demo. They can't have 20 minute drawn out gun battles where the AI is testing your wits in front of, well, the world. I imagine Heroic/Legendary for Halo 4 will be just as trying and face-melting in both fun and difficulty as Reach was.

And finally, it looks like 343 is actually following through with the fiction promises of Halo. There was a lot of detail and a lot of story to pick out of that brief demo, and I'm not talking about the sizzle reel at the end (which looked awesome). A lot of great clues for Halo fans in there.

I never said anything about enemy difficulty and yes it did look good visually but it's more Halo, just like Black Ops 2 is more Call of Duty. Halo could be spun out into all manner of crazy shit but instead they said 'Let's do 3 more Halo games because we need that Halo money'. I've no doubt that Halo 4 will be to the same standard as the previous entries in terms of the gameplay but that doesn't excite me at all.

I'm just confused.  I have no idea what was going on in that gameplay demo.  Maybe I zoned out or something.  Did they explain who the new enemies are?

I think they whole game is bullshit there was absolutely no Kinect Support.

@yinstarrunner said:

I'm just confused. I have no idea what was going on in that gameplay demo. Maybe I zoned out or something. Did they explain who the new enemies are?

Forerunner defence AI's.

I'm just confused.  I have no idea what was going on in that gameplay demo.  Maybe I zoned out or something.  Did they explain who the new enemies are?

After I saw this, I just realized a new Metroid Prime would be awesome.