Haha, strangest preview ever. Looking forward to a QuickLook or Review. I am on the fence about buying this one. Convince me Jeff!

" Should have gotten 'My Notepad: Carbon' "

Maybe you should try using a dictaphone. I admit that using one could turn out to be hours of "Woooooooooooo (BANG) You teabagging Mother Humper! Thats it. How do you like being teabagged with this TANK bitch!".  This could be just my own halo experience.

" Another Giant Bomb article based on wild speculation, rumor, and half-remembered "things." Remember when Giant Bomb used to post only the meaningful and important articles? Now they're just like everyone else, posting "news" stories that have barely any news at all.
 
When is the GB crew going to get its act together and drop punk stringers like Jeff that are ruining the site?! "

 
I feel your still being a little stand offish about the Halo gameplay.  You just never wrote the words I expected to read.  "Its another Halo game."  
 
While I think Reach will most likely have a great and fun single player campaign.  I seriously doubt it will be memorable the way a game with that much attention, should be.  Bungi, IMO, is failing at raising the bar or even at meeting the standards yet again and I feel it in your post.  Your seemingly underwhelmed.   Like myself.
 
I see everything about Reach and I think ODST, I think Halo 3.  Just another Halo game.  No where near as groundbreaking as they think they are.  I wish it would be half way as good as 2.  But I also hope to eat my words, just because 2 was so great.  A small and loud part of me still wants that great Halo adventure.  Thoe, I know it will most likely never happen again.
 
Why so serious?  Your basically saying its to early and you've had too little time with this major title.  To draw any real conclusions about what you experienced and that anyone deriving some sort of hidden meaning with-in you simple tweets.  Is a god damned troll.  
 
Dats kewl bra!  As a long time follower of the Jeff mann.  My opinion on Reach will not begin to be formed, until I hear Jeff play the game in a QL.   That why I come here. 
 
Separate ourselves and move forward.

i very much enjoyed this non-preview preview of halo: reach. all i really needed were a few bullet-point statements anyway. adding some insight into how jeff goes through his own review process was a fun side-note.

This is why I love Giantbomb.com! Best Halo Reach preview ever!

Cynical comments about that tweet went rampant. Those people should take note from Conan's Tonight Show farewell speech. 

I just love Jeff's professionalism.  Kind of warms the cockles of the heart.    lol

lol nice. 

To be honest I saw what you were saying. Unless you were stuck on a level, why the hell would you remember it's name over "that bit with the ship and the KBFOOOFF and the... yeah... nice." to describe a part in a game?
No one can accurately tell you what happened in harry potter 4 chapter 14 unless they shouldn't be allowed in the conversation (read: shouldn't be allowed of of the house) or just looked it up.
 
Wait for the review, Jeff, We don't need a preview, we know it's going to be halo and cool, possibly simultaneously.

I'm pretty sure there is a deeper meaning to what Jeff is saying in this preview.  Is he saying Halo Reach is bullshit and forgettable?!

I admit, I was one of the assholes you twitted you, but I was purposefully being an asshole (as I explained in a second twit) so I fill justified in my asshole-ry.  Or something. 

I posted this on Jeff's wall, but I'd like to share my thoughts with the community: 
  
Hmm... Jeff. I'm not sure what went wrong with that Halo Reach preview, but I do have one feeling I'd like to share with you. Bungie as a developer has spent over three years creating a piece of art/entertainment and the least you could do is show the same amount of respect to your own craft and the hard work people labored over. Not only that, there are many people on this site who are interested in this material, and your utter disregard or ambivalence to something you are not directly interested in seems disrespectful to your viewers. Your article comes off highly unprofessional and very crass as a result. I am a huge fan of GiantBomb and I visit the site nearly five times a day, but this post was rather disappointing. Maybe it was a fluke who knows. Hopefully, you can read this and see where I’m coming from rather than dismissing as some crazy Halo fan.    

This is why I love this site!  This is a great preview of a game.  Screw conforming to what every other gaming website does, just speak from your experience, and be sincere.  This is why GB and its community is what it is.  I really want this game, so bad the finances are causing me to thinking about waiting for a month til my b-day.  I really need to find a money tree.

Actually I have a general question. Has Noble 6 (in the two missions you can talk about) talked? 

EDITORIAL GET!  Ahh, it's like a warm misting of tropical rain. So refreshing.
I give previews about as much time as I give officially released screenshots. Which is to say they remind me that the game exists, and give me no sense of quality whatsoever. They are my advertisements. 

I don't need to read any preview about Reach to know that I want to buy it fairly close to its release date.  So I don't give a shit what Jeff's opinion is on the game. But I respect that he's duder enough to admit that his journalistic methods occasionally fail him.
For a guy that is constantly documenting casual conversations and commutes, I'd think he could just voice memo his play sessions, either during if the NDA allows audio notes, or just having a quick out-loud recap in the car afterward.  Also they make these pens with a microphone now. You can buy them at any university bookstore.

" @MattBodega said:

" Another Giant Bomb article based on wild speculation, rumor, and half-remembered "things." Remember when Giant Bomb used to post only the meaningful and important articles? Now they're just like everyone else, posting "news" stories that have barely any news at all.
 
When is the GB crew going to get its act together and drop punk stringers like Jeff that are ruining the site?! "

Watch it Kessler, I'm pretty sure they are not legally required to make you an intern again next Summer. "

" I should really go play those two levels again and take notes instead of being a total jackass."     
 
Yeah, Jeff, we love you but this is pretty fuckin' lazy of you.  In all fairness though, I wouldn't take a notepad to a preview of Halo Reach, I'd just go and enjoy the game.

If you're that mad about Jeff's supposed "lack of professionalism", then go get your news on another website. Not trying to be a douche, but going somewhere else will be a much louder complaint than bitching to Jeff's twitter account or in the comments section of this story.
 
Me personally, I could care less. This is Giant Bomb style to a tee. There are plenty of IGNs and Gamespots on the internet and only one Giant Bomb. I love it.

lol

" @Jeff: YA know sometimes a cigar is just a cigar "

I think its interesting when Jeff or other staff from Giant Bomb share this kind of information with us, "show us how the sausage gets made." I think that is what makes the site different than some others. By the way, I think Joystiq doe sthis ate times too. 
 
But in this case it is too bad that we don't have much of a preview. Does this mean after all these years Jeff has learned his lesson and will at the very least carry a notebook with him? 

People are getting pissed over nothing
Is it really that big a deal that he can't remember two levels of a game?
If you're that interested, you can pick the game up when it comes out
Also, you can get a generally feel of Jeff's opinion from this, he likes it and wants to play more of it
Yes, maybe he should've taken the notes down, but people calm down

Somebody buy this man My Notebook damnit!
Excellent preview. I larfed.
Can't wait for Reach.

This preview has swayed me. I am definitely buying the game now.

 
I don't have a problem with that way of previewing. It always helps me to have something to remember notes, like a notepad or IPad, just to remeber things if I can't immediatley afterwards write/type it down on a computer.
 
If he needs it, he needs it. 
If he dosen't, he dosen't. 

I'm with you wholeheartedly about not remembering names much.  In my mind, names are arbitrary bull that I'm likely to forget almost instantly, while all the other stuff is relevant details.  I don't remember names until things become very familiar.

" I posted this on Jeff's wall, but I'd like to share my thoughts with the community:   Hmm... Jeff. I'm not sure what went wrong with that Halo Reach preview, but I do have one feeling I'd like to share with you. Bungie as a developer has spent over three years creating a piece of art/entertainment and the least you could do is show the same amount of respect to your own craft and the hard work people labored over. Not only that, there are many people on this site who are interested in this material, and your utter disregard or ambivalence to something you are not directly interested in seems disrespectful to your viewers. Your article comes off highly unprofessional and very crass as a result. I am a huge fan of GiantBomb and I visit the site nearly five times a day, but this post was rather disappointing. Maybe it was a fluke who knows. Hopefully, you can read this and see where I’m coming from rather than dismissing as some crazy Halo fan.     "

I thought the game was open-world and thus had no levels.

This is exactly what I wanted in a Reach preview anyways. Good job Jeff. 
 
Halo is kind of "meh" to me now. If Reach blows people away I might look at it, but since Halo 3, I haven't personally bought a Halo game (I get it, that's only Halo Wars and ODST, but I got them from a friend and went "Yeah, I get it" to both.), and I don't plan to this year either.

I'm one of the few that read your "if I could remember them" as a sign "there isn't anything to see here... heck I already forgot it." - double meaning? no, simply nothing interesting enough to press on a gamers mind. Sounds boring.

As much as Halo Reach does not interest me, I'm glad to get a question I've had for a while answered! I always wondered whether or not reviewers take notes while playing games for review... I'm guessing your style is the minority, but I'll give it a try.

Halo

" @sagesebas said:

" @Jeff: YA know sometimes a cigar is just a cigar "

Well sometimes it's a BIG BROWN DICK! "

cant wait to play some reach multiplayer

" @Nyro said:

" Halo "

Thank you for your insightful contribution. "

Sounds more like he forgot the names of the two levels he can cover, rather than what happened in them, so he just said some general things he likes about the game.

" I live on taking notes because my memory isn't that great. Jeff, just pull the trigger on myNotebook: Carbon. It comes with 128 pages! "  

"  
 
@Jeff said:

" @Nyro said:

" Halo "

Thank you for your insightful contribution. "

It's even more ironic how after reading your article, Nyro basically foreshadowed 95% of the upcoming replies. "

Haha, Jeff that was a great preview.

The obvious conclusion to this entire thing is that Halo is still generic and boring. This is a huge slap in the face to "HALO FANZ" and it's awesome.

Jeff acts like level names like "Outskirts", "The Storm" and "The Maw" aren't incredibly unique to Halo and descriptively in-depth on the contents of the level.  How could he possibly be confused on which levels go with which names?  /sarcasm
 
Still, can't wait for Reach!

This is fantastic.