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NH Apache said:
New FrankNews at Bungie.net!


Master Chief sucks at Halo (with friend ):lol

http://www.bungie.net/default.aspx
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And an interview on NPR with Joe Staten, as well.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17938562

Sounds like it's selling pretty well. They seemed incredulous that games actually *have* stories. Shocker!

"Do gamers read?"

What the FUCK?! :lol

Edit: "Staten even appears in the game, as a crustacean alien bluish little grunt characters". :lol
 
GhaleonEB said:
That looks great. For some reason the file share is showing empty for now. I'll check again when I get home. Proabably Live running slow again.
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Should be in there now.

Try it out. If you find problems, let me know. I wouldn't want something in there that's broke.
 
This is totally random, but it just occured to me.
Given Bungie's split from MS...

What if the Peter Jackson project is actually the next sequel in the main halo series?!
The timing was about right for work to begin on a major franchise like this one.
 
I thought it was confirmed to be episodic content though? Halo universe with new characters and all that.
 
Dirtbag 504 said:
I didn't think anything was known about the PJ project at this point.
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Halo Universe. Halo 3 engine. Work underway. Episodic.

I think that's pretty much all we know so far.
 
I'm kind of curious as to how the PJ project is going to turn out. It's the studios first game, and I haven't heard any big gaming names that are working for the studio.

Plus, I believe when the announcement was made, PJ said he wanted to use the game to try new methods to tell a story (interactive story telling, is the phrase he used I believe). Projects that focus on that normally end up failing to deliver in terms of gameplay, and the characters created in the Halo 3 engine don't stand up to well compared to other games.
 
I was here thinking about what kind of game Halo chronicles game will be based on what Peter Jackson talked about, and all it comes to mind is something like Fahrenheit or something like those games that were rumored, that were a namco/Sony thing.

Something highly cinematic, highly.....like interactive cinema. Hopefully something fresh and amazing looking, with amazing animation (The work WETA did on heavenly sword was amazing, taking into account they will be working even more directly in this game, it should be awesome....should....)

High hopes. VERY high hopes.

tak said:
I'm kind of curious as to how the PJ project is going to turn out. It's the studios first game, and I haven't heard any big gaming names that are working for the studio.

Plus, I believe when the announcement was made, PJ said he wanted to use the game to try new methods to tell a story (interactive story telling, is the phrase he used I believe). Projects that focus on that normally end up failing to deliver in terms of gameplay, and the characters created in the Halo 3 engine don't stand up to well compared to other games.
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Bungie is helping Wingnut, not to mention it has full Microsoft backing, and who said anything about the characters in halo 3? This is going to be very different, and again i say, look at the work Weta did 1st time around in HS, hopefully something special will be delivered here.
 
urk said:
Halo Universe. Halo 3 engine. Work underway. Episodic.

I think that's pretty much all we know so far.
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It's codenamed "Halo Chronicles", and Joe Staten is a (the?) lead Bungie contact for the project (IIRC, he said he was in charge of it on the podcast).

It's been over a year since it was announced and we really haven't seen/heard anything about it. I wonder if they don't want this project to hang over Halo Wars.
 
How glued are Weta Digital and Wingnut Interactive? And Jackson calls what they are woking on "filmic games."
 
Has anyone done this?

Looking at the pictures, you could make a flipbook thing by screenshotting every successive frame, or make it artistic by skipping frames and watching the hilarity ensue.. sounds like it could be pretty neat.. an alternative for those who don't have video capture.
 
It's episodic because it's going to be a trilogy, like Half life episodes.

It will be episode 1 2 3, and it will be like LOTR, as if it was one game divided in 3.

urk said:
How glued are Weta Digital and Wingnut Interactive? And Jackson calls what they are woking on "filmic games."
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Well

Wingnut films
WETA (Wingnut something) Digital
Wingnut Interactive

All in Wellington, New Zealand. And WETA has been working on tech for games, HS was the 1st game they worked on, but if you see entourage there's a cameo from Peter Jackson where he's working on a new game and he's testing the mo cap tech.
 
WrikaWrek said:
It's episodic because it's going to be a trilogy, like Half life episodes.

It will be episode 1 2 3, and it will be like LOTR, as if it was one game divided in 3.
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Hmm. Could me. I was hoping for something a little more serial. I've always loved the little snippets Bungie has introduced through various mediums and I think having some short, high quality, story-driven experiences would be really great, especially if we're talking games that are downloadable and affordable.

Don't know if that would be commercially viable, but there's definitely room for more Halo storytelling in my noodle.
 
urk said:
Hmm. Could me. I was hoping for something a little more serial. I've always loved the little snippets Bungie has introduced through various mediums and I think having some short, high quality, story-driven experiences would be really great, especially if we're talking games that are downloadable and affordable.

Don't know if that would be commercially viable, but there's definitely room for more Halo storytelling in my noodle.
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Well what Peter Jackson has told is that he has these ideas and how gaming allows new ways of storytelling that aren't possible in films, and he wants to explore that 1st in the halo universe.

Now i don't know what's coming out of this, but my imagination runs wild :lol

But games that are downloadable? I just don't see the point in making this a non event. It's Halo, and hopefully they are making something big and cinematic, with awesome production values.

And i don't see how you could have great production values, and something really cinematic and good looking and then reduce it to something that is downloadable and affordable, i just can't connect the dots, i don't see a world in where those 2 things fit.

:/

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/738/738172p1.html

Roundtable with Bioware Doctor, Peter Molineux and Peter Jackson

Maybe there's some hints there. It's funny, because since then we got Mass Effect's take on storytelling, and now we will see Fable 2 and Halo Chronicles.
 
I have had an epiphany. I turned the sensitivity down to 1 during a game of Team Snipers then forgot to turn it back to 3 the next game.

the 3 games after that Team Snipers game I went something like +18, +16, +10

it's like the fog has finally lifted
 
kylej said:
I have had an epiphany. I turned the sensitivity down to 1 during a game of Team Snipers then forgot to turn it back to 3 the next game.

the 3 games after that Team Snipers game I went something like +18, +16, +10

it's like the fog has finally lifted
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Good luck when someone runs next to you and it takes you a week to turn around.
 
NJ x Falkor said:
Not when you're facing 12o'clock and they're at your 3'oclock. They've got 2BR bursts in your rump before your crosshair even makes it over to them.
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Theres a fine line between to slow to turn and too fast to aim well in a one on one fight
 
urk said:
Halo Universe. Halo 3 engine. Work underway. Episodic.

I think that's pretty much all we know so far.
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waitwaitwait

Where exactly is this officially confirmed? Because that would be awesome.

Bungie makes these badass engines (most badassiest so far being the Halo 3 engine) and usually moves on to a new engine for their next game, leaving the previous engine IMO underused.

So if true, this would be awesome.
 
Any news on the patch/update? I will finally be returning home, either tomorrow night or friday, and I'm looking forward to getting back into the swing of Halo3. I'm assuming BTB is still unranked? And I am also dying for more new maps. The sooner they get a bunch of fresh new maps in the rotation (in addition to Standoff, Foundry, and Rat's Nest), the better. Over at Bungie.net, I'm seeing a lot of disgruntled people.

Part of my excitement is because I'm returning to my home away from home (Where I'm going to school). It's also because I ran into a bunch of old friends from my hometown that I use to LAN with all the time. It turns out that they are all still around playing WoW, Halo3, and Call of Duty4. Should be some fun playing with them again.

Something completely unrelated, but cool: I found out that another old friend of mine (when I lived in Lemon Grove, CA) was responsible for all of the artwork on the blue cars in Forza2, and now he is the lead artist for Forza3. That's awesome and it could not have happened to a nicer person.:D
 
I have a dream. A dream of Halo 1 online co-op. XBLA? Maybe. Remade with HD graphics for the 360? Maybe.

I need it.
 
The Lamonster said:
waitwaitwait

Where exactly is this officially confirmed? Because that would be awesome.
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You know, I don't know where exactly I think I heard that. I could be making it up. I went looking for the exact quote and couldn't turn it up. I was pretty certain it was in that monumental anniversary podcast with Staten, but it's too lengthy for me to weed through at work. I seem to recall something along the lines of, "we passes the engine to them a while ago. I'd say they are about half way through the development process." Paraphrasing of course.

Even just on a speculative basis though, seeing as how it's Wingnut's first title, and seeing as how they're working so closely with Bungie and Microsoft on a Halo franchise title, I can't imagine they'd use any other engine. Makes sense that they would reduce the technical development time by handing them the completed engine and letting them concentrate on the content side of things, right?

Back to the idea of epic content versus episodic, I don't find them mutually exclusive. In fact, I think it would be much easier for them to do something really creative and inventive with a series of short titles then it would be for them to work that into a ten hour title.
 
I have a dream. Take fucking swords out of lone wolves.

Btw, it's hard to enjoy the Heroic DLC when that playlist is full of idiots 99% of the time. I should have waited until the Spring so that the ranking system could help me out.
 
WrikaWrek said:
...All in Wellington, New Zealand. And WETA has been working on tech for games, HS was the 1st game they worked on, but if you see entourage there's a cameo from Peter Jackson where he's working on a new game and he's testing the mo cap tech.
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And he's making a Pirate game, maybe Pimps of the Sea!

lol
 
Dirtbag 504 said:
This is totally random, but it just occured to me.
Given Bungie's split from MS...

What if the Peter Jackson project is actually the next sequel in the main halo series?!
The timing was about right for work to begin on a major franchise like this one.
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Yeah, that's what I've been telling some of my friends for a couple months now. I think it'll be episodic content picking up where Halo 3 left off. Sorta like a "Halo 3: Episode 1" (See, that way they can continue the story line without actually making Halo 4 :P) Shane Kim is the one who said it would be episodic, and we all know that when Shane leaks stuff, it's true. ;D

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Cocopjojo said:
I have a dream. A dream of Halo 1 online co-op. XBLA? Maybe. Remade with HD graphics for the 360? Maybe.

I need it.
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After all these years no one has released anything on halo ce? I remember long back rumours of co-op being worked on and all that when the halo ce pack came out. I guess it was too tricky to do.

*edit* I hope peter jackson is doing some halo stuff before MC was the last remaining spartan, I want to fight on planet reach and all the jazz.
 
urk said:
You know, I don't know where exactly I think I heard that. I could be making it up. I went looking for the exact quote and couldn't turn it up. I was pretty certain it was in that monumental anniversary podcast with Staten, but it's too lengthy for me to weed through at work. I seem to recall something along the lines of, "we passes the engine to them a while ago. I'd say they are about half way through the development process." Paraphrasing of course.

Even just on a speculative basis though, seeing as how it's Wingnut's first title, and seeing as how they're working so closely with Bungie and Microsoft on a Halo franchise title, I can't imagine they'd use any other engine. Makes sense that they would reduce the technical development time by handing them the completed engine and letting them concentrate on the content side of things, right?

Back to the idea of epic content versus episodic, I don't find them mutually exclusive. In fact, I think it would be much easier for them to do something really creative and inventive with a series of short titles then it would be for them to work that into a ten hour title.
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I guess i just don't like the idea of playing something good for 1 or 2 hours and having to wait a month or months for the next episode.

And i have a hard time believing they would be able to cram any kind of decent production values into episodic content of that nature but ok.
 
WrikaWrek said:
I guess i just don't like the idea of playing something good for 1 or 2 hours and having to wait a month or months for the next episode.

And i have a hard time believing they would be able to cram any kind of decent production values into episodic content of that nature but ok.
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Oh, I could be totally wrong. I'm just guessing. ;)
 
Domino Theory said:
Yeah, that's what I've been telling some of my friends for a couple months now. I think it'll be episodic content picking up where Halo 3 left off. Sorta like a "Halo 3: Episode 1" (See, that way they can continue the story line without actually making Halo 4 :P) Shane Kim is the one who said it would be episodic, and we all know that when Shane leaks stuff, it's true. ;D

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Halo 3 was the last Halo game in the trilogy, though. I think it'd really be stretching things if the PJ project was "Halo 3: Episode 1." It would be another game. Picking up on the storyline that they said they're done with.

It has to be something completely separate from the Chief/Arbiter/Cortana/SaveEarth/DefeatCovenant storyline.
 
urk said:
Oh, I could be totally wrong. I'm just guessing. ;)
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Hopefully you're wrong. To me at least. :lol

I want halo stuff to continue to be like MGS stuff for example, save for the acid games on the PSP, MGS games always bring top of the line production values.

And i want Halo Chronicles to continue that "big budget" feel. As long as they can do that...i'm cool.

Cocopjojo said:
Halo 3 was the last Halo game in the trilogy, though. I think it'd really be stretching things if the PJ project was "Halo 3: Episode 1." It would be another game. Picking up on the storyline that they said they're done with.

It has to be something completely separate from the Chief/Arbiter/Cortana/SaveEarth/DefeatCovenant storyline.
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Would be cool if it was a prequel, and we got to know more about the spartan program etc

It would be cool if it was like Alien, distress signal here, we go there to check what's up, 1st contact with the elites or something, blah whatever already sounds like a bad idea.

I'm waiting to be surprised.
 
snack said:
I bet you that the first Chapter of Episode one of Halo Chronicles will be bundled with Halo Wars.
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There is absolutely no way that would happen.

They haven't been working on this for months/a year to end up bundling it with some other game.

Besides, it's Halo; it would idiotic to bundle a Halo game with another Halo game, when you can be positive that people are going to buy them both regardless.
 
Diablohead said:
Picking up the story from the end of halo 3 would be a bad idea, that should stay as the ending, done and dusted.
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I agree, I think Halo 3's ending should stay as the end, done and dusted.

Too bad Bungie didn't agree.

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Halo 4: Dark Planetoid Rising

BELIEVE.

AGAIN.
 
BakedPigeon said:
I know im beating a dead horse but im just praying the peter jackson project is code name for halo ce online multiplayer ha ha
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No chance. Why would Jackson be involved with something as trivial as adding MP to the original Halo?
 
Are we even sure its a game? for all we know it could be a graphic novel? or a movie short?

I am hoping its a game/short movie explaining the book events. (Kelly/Dr) (The other few Spartans as well)
 
Cocopjojo said:
I agree, I think Halo 3's ending should stay as the end, done and dusted.

Too bad Bungie didn't agree.

Halo 4: Dark Planetoid Rising

BELIEVE.

AGAIN.
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That ending can bring up a lot of things, marathon, a sequel, knowing the mc crash lands on a planet and opens a donut shop... Does not mean they are going too.

If they do ever end up making a 4th that plays on that planet without any marines around and only the flood, it's a bad move.
 
Cocopjojo said:
I agree, I think Halo 3's ending should stay as the end, done and dusted.

Too bad Bungie didn't agree.

Halo 4: Dark Planetoid Rising

BELIEVE.

AGAIN.
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There better be no flood on that planet.
 
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