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Haste262 on 16 November 2009

Halo 3 wasnt good enough



 

 

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FaRmLaNd on 16 November 2009

The Halo artstyle is one of its biggest streanghts. Realism is overrated.



Chairman-Mao on 16 November 2009
wholikeswood said:
Oh dear God, this is going to end badly.

Great addition to the thread.

 

I agree though I think too many spinoffs really hurt the Halo name. A full fledged Halo 4 would still sell amazingly but I definitely think Halo 3 will have been the peak of the Halo franchise.



koyotecat on 16 November 2009

I don't quite think we can call it until Reach is out.



SONYSNO1Fanboy on 17 November 2009

I was a huge fan of halo 2 and played it for years, the thing that made me mad was when Bungie decided to take so many features away when they released halo 3, no more clans, crappy friends list, bad maps for competitive play... Then they just started to pump the games out like nothing now, i mean Halo wars came and went now ODST is going to be overshadowed by MW2... I really hope they put in a solid team to make Reach worth picking up



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scottie on 17 November 2009

I agree OP, it sucks that Halo is oversaturated. Thank god we can rely on Activisions artistic integrity rather than desire for money with CoD :P

Anyway, I assume you're going to site as evidence the fact that the last two Halo games sold considerably less than Halo 3?? Lets just wait and see what reach does before we jump to conclusions



Cueil on 17 November 2009

A brand new engine... possible Natal support more money and double the development time... I don't see how Halo: Reach wont be leaps and bounds better looking than a heavily updated Halo 2 engine.



 
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DirtyP2002 on 17 November 2009

Yeah Halo is dooooooomed!

The latest full game of the franchise (Halo 3 - not a add-on or a spinoff) is the best selling HD game so far. The add-on sold 2 million FIRST WEEK. That is more than most of the games do lifetime.

Halo Reach might do 3-4 million first week. The installbase will be bigger, there is no MW2 or L4D2 as a competition for the shooter fans and MS will advertise this like crazy. Halo Reach has a shot to sell 10m lifetime. This does not look like going downhill.



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huaxiong90 on 17 November 2009
DirtyP2002 said:

Yeah Halo is dooooooomed!

The latest full game of the franchise (Halo 3 - not a add-on or a spinoff) is the best selling exclusive HD game so far. The add-on sold 2 million FIRST WEEK. That is more than most of the games do lifetime.

Halo Reach might do 3-4 million first week. The installbase will be bigger, there is no MW2 or L4D2 as a competition for the shooter fans and MS will advertise this like crazy. Halo Reach has a shot to sell 10m lifetime. This does not look like going downhill.

Corrected before anyone decides to nitpick and make a scene out of it.



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Jereel Hunter on 17 November 2009
Garnett said:
Strategyking92 said:
@ hyams


Was that leaked screenshot of 'Reach' real?
If so it looks like it's going to be the same exact look of ODST.

You would think they could have improved the look a bit since it's been in developement for a while.

Yeah more milking IMO, ODST was garbage IMO and Reach will be the same.

Fuck the prequels and make sequels .

Are you even a Halo fan? why would sequels be better than prequels? To those who know the Halo storyline,  the idea of a Reach based game is THRILLING. A Sequel would need to introduce all new enemies, it would be so different... Reach is potentially the last game in the Halo franchise to involve the Covenant as an enemy... Wait for it, enjoy it, and then we'll get our sequel.