http://thesaurus.com/browse/it+was+a+joke

Yea, this 'rumour' is 99% likely to be fake. It was posted by an anonymous source on the neogaf forums, and believe this has happened every halo game release, where there is a source claiming halo to have taken a new open world twist. Though if you want a little something, in a Q&A session, one guy asked 343/ ex bungie staff member frank O'connor what his favourite halo moment was. He answered 'you haven't seen it yet, but I have.'

Just being suspicious, but how hard to you think it is for any one of us to throw some crappy 'WIP' halo 4 assets+hud in a map, take a crappy picture of the screen with a camera, and call it leaked footage?

Pretty easy. I know one leak for halo 4 had a reach assault rifle and skyrim XD




another leaked screen:




Edited by MEGASEAN2812 on Jan 2, 2014 at 06:33 PM
Edited by MEGASEAN2812 on Jan 2, 2014 at 06:36 PM

343 has reused crap before, wouldn't be surprised to see more useless junk by them

Hi. OP and Halo 5 are both terrible. Just making sure people know.

For future reference: since most of the community here is composed of haters, stop making a whole thread just for a rumor and for anything 343i related. Don't feed the haters.
Peace and love

lol that is so CE.

Its been confirmed that chief will die in the next story and the story will follow a character by the name of yolo swaggins.

It was also mentioned that the diaduct had 3 children and gandalf will be a payable character in the new firefight.

Sources:

My fathers friends uncle grand father

what about the guy called sugartits McGee who had three arms, his best friend was a potato, and he always ate rainbows?

why dont you put ratings on this game that hasnt been revealed yet?
OhOHHHH i give this unrevealed game.... -50000/10!



Nope :)






Edited by MEGASEAN2812 on Jan 3, 2014 at 03:17 PM

This is being made by 343. 343 has been given three chances to make good Halo games and did terrible every time; each game a little worse than the last. This is a new 343 title that's going to be on the Xbox One, the least popular console of this generation. This 'game' is only Micro$oft trying to squeeze every last penny they can from the people who still blindly buy any game with the word halo in the title.


Also if you think any of those screenshots are real you probably deserve to play Halo 5.
Edited by Banshee64 on Jan 3, 2014 at 05:07 PM

And you expect there to be a higher purpose? Profit is what your parents expect from their 401K's and or pension funds most likely invested at least partially in Microsoft and other tech stock.

But Microsoft's only cares about the money, They don't care about making quality games or making the end user happy. As long as they can fool you into making the initial transaction and promising DLC that fixes the terrible game but is just another trick to get more of your money before you finally just get rid of the game.

The Halo series reached it's peak somewhere in-between Halo 3 and Reach. Halo 3 was a perfect place to end the story and Reach was a perfect game to wrap up the series. Halo 4 is like a bad fanfiction written by a fourteen-year-old where the story finds conflict where there is none by changing lots and lots of established story points from the previous games.

I like Halo 4 more than H2, H3, and Reach. Although H3's mp is about on par IMO.

Why is this?

im getting halo 5 anyway. If you cant except change, go play cod, atleast that never changes.
If you really think you can do better, get a job at 343.
Edited by MEGASEAN2812 on Jan 3, 2014 at 06:45 PM
Edited by MEGASEAN2812 on Jan 3, 2014 at 08:41 PM

Halo 2 while a beautiful and atmospheric game just isn't fun to play. On low difficulties it is a pushover, and on higher difficulties it doesn't have the complexity of combat the other games in the series have.

Halo 3 while having great gameplay, suffers from the first 4 levels going no where plot wise, the fifth level being short and while a nice introduction to the flood, doesn't take advantage of 3 way battles which IMO is what made the flood shine in H1. You then have 2 incredibly awesome levels (Ark and Covenant), but that is basically the end of the game. You have Cortana and Halo which are more of an epilogue with the Covenant being the big finale, but one of those is terrible, and the other is one big uninteresting fight, a boring boss battle, and a Warthog run (which wall cool, isn't something that has much replay value).

Reach suffers from a terrible plot, uninteresting missions, multiple letdowns and teases, and mostly is a rehash of things we've seen before. The only new an interesting addition to the enemies is the Skirmishers, and the weapons for the most part are uninteresting and are rehashes of prior games, or are new weapons that are mostly useless for the majority of the game. Add in recycled MP maps and FF maps and you get a very stale and boring campaign, with pretty much one firefight encounter per mission.

ODST is probably my favorite Bungie game since H1, since it refined a lot of H3's combat and offered some new interesting ideas and enemies (open world, engineers, flashbacks), but suffers from simply being a spinoff expansion and not it's own game. I also think there are lots of lost opportunities in it (we on CMT like to say if we could ever mod it, we'd change the story so that you fight Elites at the start, see Elites and Brutes fight in the middle, and team up with the Elites by the end) but for the most part, it is a solid campaign with lots of experiences and a good diversity of combat.

Halo 4, despite what you may think of the story, did present it pretty awesomely. It's well paced, brings you to lots of places, and is full of new interesting ideas that change the way you play the game. It fleshed out the characters of Chief and Cortana, which I enjoyed instead of having him be an empty shell which I always felt was a cop out on bungie part, especially with how well developed he was in the books. For the first time since H1, we got to explore an alien world, which introduced new ideas and concepts to combat (even if the Promethians aren't perfect, I still found them fun and interesting), and like H1, it does a nice job of introducing new weapons as the story progresses (you start scavenging from your ship, and later get the latest cool new gear when you find the Infinity). To top it off, the combat is fully enjoyable, and I think it's the best portrayal of the Covenant since the first game (even though I wish there were more races). In short, H4 gets my approval because not only is it fun to play, but it feels new, different, and takes more risks than any game prior. While Shutdown is a meh mission, it certainly isn't unfun or a chore to play, and while Composer could have been better, it also has a certain mood and atmosphere I enjoy. (when was the last time you had the feeling you had something personal at stake in a mission or that you were desperate to succeed?)

Imagine I take a fps game that someone else made, I changed it into a racing game where you race with guitar hero controllers and ddr dance pads. Does it make any sense at all to call the people who hate it people who don't accept change?

or

I take a Nancy Drew book and change all the characters names to Halo characters and call it Halo 6? If you don't like it you just don't accept change.

Halo doesn't need change anyway. Halo doesn't need any more games. Halo needs to die but Microsoft won't accept that as long as there's a profit to be made.



Where's your multiplayer argument?
Edited by Banshee64 on Jan 3, 2014 at 07:04 PM

I guess I can understand those points. The big reasons I wasn't a big fan of Halo 4 are that, while it is full of new ideas and changes how you play the game, i feels like too much change for me. It doesn't feel much like a Halo game, and it doesn't really look like one. There are new Forerunner weapons, but they feel pretty much like directed energy equivalents of their Human counterparts. Human counterparts that already have Covenant counterparts. The aesthetic of the game bothers me because a lot of it seems to have too much going on. Stuff looks more complicated than it needs to be, especially the multiplayer armors. But I can't say that Halo 4 is objectively terrible, just that it doesn't really hit the right buttons with me.
Edited by Echo77 on Jan 3, 2014 at 07:30 PM

Well, I wouldn't disagree with you. The Forerunner weapons are boring clones and the art style on a lot of stuff I am not a fan of. In the end, it doesn't hurt the enjoyability of the game for me at least.

@Banshee: H2's MP has nice maps but it the gameplay is terrible. I could go on about it but you can google it and see how terrible it was. Bungie hates it, I hate, it, and it's severly flawed. It's only saving grace is that it was online. I hated it so much I played H1 MP until H3 came out. H3's MP was great, Reach's was poor. H4 I enjoy because it plays a lot like H3 before the patch but with more features and weapons. Most important to me, they redid a lot of the gametypes which were a lot of fun. I never wanted to play much slayer as I disliked a lot of the things they did with the weapon drops and infinity.

Everyone whines and hates on H4 MP but (at least on waypoint) the general opinion is that 343 did realy good on the campaign. I totally agree; Halo 4 is definitely my favorite Halo campaign ever, with CE being a veeerrrryyyy close 2nd

in regards to MP: In my opinion, Halo 4 is Halo 4. I'm not all "OH WAH WAH WAH THEY CHANGED STUFF" because I actually like it and to me it stands out as its own game with it's own voice (quoting someone from 343). I really look forward to H5.

I bet people wouldn't be hatting so much on Halo 4 and 5 if Bungi was the one who made them and made them exactly the same as 343 Industry.

People hate on Halo: Reach. There might be less hate but there'd still be hate. Reach was when things started to fall apart

Please stop saying these things as if they are facts, they are very much opinions.

I for one believe H2 was a great game overall - fantastic story, environment, level design, and even great gameplay too, including the multiplayer side. It was easily some of the most fun I ever had on the entire xbox franchise for multiplayer.

Halo 3 + ODST were great games too in my eyes, and Halo 3 rapped up the original trilogy so well in the story arc... Some of the level design was pretty remarkable too in my book, especially levels like the Covenant and the Ark. Multiplayer was also pretty much rock solid too, and the addition of Forge into the game was pretty damn well fun with "custom" maps. ODST was okay, but the encounters were a bit lacking here and there, and the story didn't seem very "special" to me. Sure it was intresting, but personally I found it to be a "typical" Halo story.

Reach was okay, worse than ODST I think. Coming from the book, I had alot of expectations I wanted to see, and very, very few were met. I also believe they simply messed up some of the canon in favor of gameplay elements.

Halo 4 was an abomination in my eyes - so many options, the Halo universe is so god damn big - and they still come back to Master Chief. So many things to explore, see, we don't need his eyes to see them... The ending to Halo 3 in my book was perfect - Apart from the extra ending (which was still good), it wrapped things up so well - it ended were it started, all in a small Cryo bay. The Covenant was finished, the Halo array destroyed, for the most part - things that had to be done were complete. The universe was at peace. MC was done, we completed our mission over almost a decade of great games. There was so many options to explore after this, so many things they could tell, wether it be in the future or past at that point, yet they extend Master Chiefs story to pretty much start telling anoher story - pretty much similar to the last one... I can't really say the gameplay was to great either- unremembered multiplayer maps, a campaign that didn't have much "iconic" levels or encounters, lots of stupid scripted scenes, etc, etc. To me, personally, it was just a really unsatisfying game. It might be different, and I'm not opposed to new ideas being brought in - but Halo 4 in my book just didn't do it in the right ways I find and could have been told in many different ways, and they took the easy way out in terms of plot.



Personally I'm going to have to disagree on that one - Bungie themselves are great developers - their games prove it to be so. But by the time ODST was rolling around, and then Reach... you could tell the Halo franchise was obviously taking a toll on them. Imagine working on something you love so much for over a decade, almost every single day of your life, always trying to breath some kind of new life into it. The same old universe, characters, the plot only changing so much, gameplay only expendable so far. It's going to get old after a while - they claim Destiny will be alot like Halo 1. I don't see myself personally liking Destiny for what it aclaims it is so far, but I'm not one to judge that as a fact. It might as well be a damn good game, same with "Halo 5" as an RPG like OP claims. I'm fine with it - but it needs to live up to those kinds of things, and many AAA games simply don't nowadays.
Edited by Higuy on Jan 3, 2014 at 10:29 PM

Well, i didn't say there wasn't going to be hate; i just said there wouldn't be as much.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GRs40QvnCc lolman :)

stopped reading after banshee's statement of 343 having 3 chances and failing miserably(totally stole my line banshee lol :) ) but anyways, I gave halo anniversary a barely pass in my book because I could play in classic mode on coop with classic music. lol keepin my elements in check

Pretty sure that's the Halo 4 magnum model.

Y'all need to read this:
http://imgur.com/Gs8B5uE

Also, don't Judge Halo 5 if it hasn't even been revealed, and you haven't played it.
Buuuuuuuuuuuut you're still gonna do that, aren't you?
Edited by Hammad on Jan 4, 2014 at 06:02 PM

The bit Hammad posted (the image that is) pretty much sums up my entire thoughts. Halo 5 could be interesting, could suck. Halos 1-4 were interesting, each had it's upsides and downsides. They aren't exactly going to change.

As I do not play Call of Duty, I would not know.

I can officially confirm i have trolled someone with my fake leaks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YW7RuNDz4CM

I don't think you had anyone intelligent fooled.
Edited by Masters1337 on Jan 5, 2014 at 06:28 AM