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Halo 4 leaked?

It looks damned good for a console game, both in raw graphical power and art direction. The recent Halo games have always felt hit and miss visually. Halo 4 seems to amend this issue.
 
What is so funny about it?

Because I find it hilariously dumb that a computer AI needs to be all sexed up with side and underboob. Makes me think of all that scary "Chief and Cortana" fanfic that I know exists. Might as well have just gone the extra mile and given her fox ears and a tail.
 
Aren't they using the theater mode for the cutscenes in halo 4. I thought that's how they've injected all that motion blur, depth of field, and iq gains compared to the realtime stuff. It's still rendered in realtime, but with the same kind of gains you get from a gt or forza replay, since those are also rendered in realtime.

extremely impressive. But really, valve is by the worst when it comes to using "realtime" footage to represent a game. Filmmaker is incredible, but no where near what the final game looks like. I mean look at this "in engine" trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edYCtaNueQY
 
Yeah, robots and computer AIs should all be hideous, ugly, or a series of stacked boxes.

Strawman.jpeg
 

Does this surprise anyone? Of course microsoft is snooping what you're doing whether you are online or not... I do like how they can take all of your paid for DD games away from you with something like this... Just another reason to fear DD?

Really, seems to me that they should be focused on real pirates, and not just a few people who were too anxious to wait to play a new game... then again, it's probably the only REAL way they have of detecting hacked consoles that are certainly being used to pirate games on the side.

(edit) conspiracy theory time... maybe the leak WAS intentional just to have a sure fire way to find modded consoles?
 
Because I find it hilariously dumb that a computer AI needs to be all sexed up with side and underboob. Makes me think of all that scary "Chief and Cortana" fanfic that I know exists. Might as well have just gone the extra mile and given her fox ears and a tail.

Meh, her design isn't radically different than it was in Halo 3, same exact body type as in the last game, just under different art direction...
 
Does this surprise anyone? Of course microsoft is snooping what you're doing whether you are online or not... I do like how they can take all of your paid for DD games away from you with something like this... Just another reason to fear DD?

Really, seems to me that they should be focused on real pirates, and not just a few people who were too anxious to wait to play a new game... then again, it's probably the only REAL way they have of detecting hacked consoles that are certainly being used to pirate games on the side.

(edit) conspiracy theory time... maybe the leak WAS intentional just to have a sure fire way to find modded consoles?

Tin Foil Hat. (lol) I highly doubt 343i wanted the entire campaign and ending to be spoiled online. The leak was from a asshat.
 
Yoshi's Island is still the best-looking game I've ever seen

Super_Mario_World_2_Yoshis_Island.jpg
One of the best yeah. Best Mario game by far.

Shares one thing in common with Halo 4 anyways, it's largely the art that blows the competition out of the water, not the technical aspects which are also very strong.
 
Tin Foil Hat. (lol) I highly doubt 343i wanted the entire campaign and ending to be spoiled online. The leak was from a asshat.

Head of 343 in that article more or less just shrugged it off. While the single player portion... exists... I think it's clear that multiplayer is the main draw, just as it is in CoD and BF, and any/every other FPS.
 
Does this surprise anyone? Of course microsoft is snooping what you're doing whether you are online or not... I do like how they can take all of your paid for DD games away from you with something like this... Just another reason to fear DD?

Really, seems to me that they should be focused on real pirates, and not just a few people who were too anxious to wait to play a new game... then again, it's probably the only REAL way they have of detecting hacked consoles that are certainly being used to pirate games on the side.

(edit) conspiracy theory time... maybe the leak WAS intentional just to have a sure fire way to find modded consoles?

Pretty sure they're focused on both. Focusing on one doesnt mean you can't focus on the other as well. They're both "real" pirates.
 
Does this surprise anyone? Of course microsoft is snooping what you're doing whether you are online or not... I do like how they can take all of your paid for DD games away from you with something like this... Just another reason to fear DD?

Really, seems to me that they should be focused on real pirates, and not just a few people who were too anxious to wait to play a new game... then again, it's probably the only REAL way they have of detecting hacked consoles that are certainly being used to pirate games on the side.

(edit) conspiracy theory time... maybe the leak WAS intentional just to have a sure fire way to find modded consoles?
There will eventually be the annual console ban like they do every year.
 
Pretty sure they're focused on both. Focusing on one doesnt mean you can't focus on the other as well. They're both "real" pirates.

Too true, late night rants of mine tend to be less well put together than I like... but the alternative is sleep, and sleep is just... well... sleep.
 
To those who have seen the campaign, are there any encounters that come close to the scale of the double Scarab battle in Halo 3?
 
Best Mario game by far.
Someday I'm going to make a disgruntled thread about how Yoshi's Island is a Yoshi game, not a Mario game. Maybe I'll do that soon to make the time till Halo 4 go by faster. :lol
 
Yeah, so we got spoilers and videos, but I haven't read impressions on the game.
Granted it looks like all those who got the game "early" dont Even know how to play the game properly.
 
Because I find it hilariously dumb that a computer AI needs to be all sexed up with side and underboob. Makes me think of all that scary "Chief and Cortana" fanfic that I know exists. Might as well have just gone the extra mile and given her fox ears and a tail.

What does bother me is the fact a computer AI has to have a computer interface to actually interact with a computer. How does that make any sense? Looks good I suppose and can be used as a story telling device.

The biggest issue I have is the Covenant. By now, and if this series wants to go down the 'hard sci-fi' route in the future they have to be left in the past. I mean looking at a few videos of H4 the setting and architecture look awesome, but having a gathering of characters from an Ewoks meets Muppets jamboree just breaks the immersion. Elites+Hunters maybe, the rest seem to cheapen the game/s aesthetics. The new enemies are a step in the right direction, more of that please 343.
 
Can I ask if there's anyone banned here because of this? I write for a website and we want to talk to someone who's banned because of this. You can PM me or whatever. Thanks!
 
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