What Does Halo 4 mean to you?

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Halo is something we all know and love (if not then why are you on this forum?)so with H4, a game that could be the start of something amazing or it could be gaming’s Star Wars prequels and annoy a lot of long term fans (“Frankie raped my childhood!” could be one of those things heard I the coming weeks).

So the real question is what does Halo 4, a game that shouldn’t really exist but yet will add insight into the series and put us back with familiar friends in new locations, exactly mean to the people of the Waypoint community?

I’m not talking about “oh it means new maps” or “more achievements” I want something meaty, god knows this forum could do with less “Limited Edition is crap” threads.

For me, Halo 4 is all about the future of gaming. I played Halo 3 till Reach came out, but when that landed, the cracks in the Halo formula were showing and stopped playing it properly a year after it came out. I just felt that Reach did a lot of things wrong and got stale too quickly unlike 2/3 which I was happily playing till the next one came out. With Halo 4 however, everything is riding on it for me. Whether or not I buy the next xbox depends on this game. I can’t wait to go back and play with MC and Cortana, can’t wait to run around on alien worlds, I can’t wait to jump online, but at the same time if this game isn’t amazing, if this game doesn’t make me go “Well fudge…that was, wow” then I can safely say I won’t be buying the next Xbox. For me Halo is about campaign, it’s about a classic sci-fi story unfolding in front of me. The campaign has to be brilliant for me to want to continue.

Halo for me is the campaign is the main course, Multiplayer is the longing after taste.

So there is my view, how are you feeling about Halo 4 as a whole?

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I have one word for Halo 4. Hope. Hope that it can pull the franchise back up onto its feet after Reach. Hope that unlike Reach, Halo 4’s new features are properly implemented and allow for fun gameplay, that nothing can particularly classified as a game breaker or the most frustrating thing ever like Armor Lock.

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> Halo is something we all know and love (if not then why are you on this forum?)so with H4, a game that could be the start of something amazing or it could be gaming’s Star Wars prequels and annoy a lot of long term fans ("<mark>Frankie rapped my childhood!</mark>" could be one of those things heard I the coming weeks).
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> So the real question is what does Halo 4, a game that shouldn’t really exist but yet will add insight into the series and put us back with failure friends in new locations, exactly mean to the people of the Waypoint community?
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> I’m not talking about “oh it means new maps” or “more achievements” I want something meaty, god knows this forum could do with less “Limited Edition is crap” threads.
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> For me, Halo 4 is all about the future of gaming. I played Halo 3 till Reach came out, but when that landed, the cracks in the Halo formula were showing and stopped playing it properly a year after it came out. I just felt that Reach did a lot of things wrong and got stale too quickly unlike 2/3 which I was happily playing till the next one came out. With Halo 4 however, everything is riding on it for me. Whether or not I buy the next xbox depends on this game. I can’t wait to go back and play with MC and Cortana, can’t wait to run around on alien worlds, I can’t wait to jump online, but at the same time if this game isn’t amazing, if this game doesn’t make me go “Well fudge…that was, wow” then I can safely say I won’t be buying the next Xbox. For me Halo is about campaign, it’s about a classic sci-fi story unfolding in front of me. The campaign has to be brilliant for me to want to continue.
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> Halo for me is the campaign is the main course, Multiplayer is the longing after taste.
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> So there is my view, how are you feeling about Halo 4 as a whole?

Frankie can rap as well??? Whoa…

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I think it is going to bring halo to the next step. I can see halo being even more popular than before because of 343 trying to bring in more casual players. I believe its going to change MLG a lot too, I am eager to watch the event on Nov 2nd-4th.

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The Halo Franchise = The total self destruction of my social life

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> failure friends

What are these?

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Grateful that we get to play 3 more, possibly 6 more games of Halo. The bonds built with friends made from a community that spans the globe.

Un-judgemental outlook to little things that may have been sacrificed to better the overall experience. Hope for a bright future with 343i, rather than a preconceived notion that they are the adopted parents doing it just for the money.

Exploring every facet of the game, not limiting myself to just one particular playlist or gametype. As we get closer to launch, i feel more and more excited to see what the future has in store for us as a gamer and a community.

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> > failure friends
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> What are these?

That my friend could be a Freudian slip :-/

I meant familiar!

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For me, halo means happiness one of the few places where i feel comfortable besides my home with my family :slight_smile:

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Halo 4, in large part, means the rebirth of my inner gamer.

I had played video games and been an avid Nintendo fan ever since I was four (I’m 19 now). So up until, well, 12 days from now, all I’ve ever owned was Nintendo consoles. The Wii’s quality games started slumping off around 2010, so I was left having to invest my hobbies elsewhere, which lead me down the path of learning music.

Skyrim was the first game that ever really, really made me want an Xbox, but that alone wasn’t enough to justify the cost for me.

Skip forward a year after Skyrim comes out. After graduating high school, I had met a new group of people who introduced me to Halo. The only prior experience I had with an FPS was The Conduit, and even then I only made it 44% through the campaign and didn’t have the means to play online. So the world of FPS’s was pretty brand new to me, and its complexity drove me away. It wasn’t until last March that the whole thing began gaining traction with me.

One of my new-found friends got the Halo Encyclopedia, and I really didn’t understand why he was so excited about it, and he said we should go through Reach’s campaign. As it went along he explained the massive overarching story and the Halo universe. It entranced me; I wanted to know everything.

Music is a good hobby and all, but I started getting too comfortable with it, and I started becoming unable to challange myself as much. But with my return to video games, I felt challanged and mentally stimulated again.

I’ve now got a gaming TV, the Halo console preordered, and plans to get some XP500s and possibly some gaming glasses in the near future.

So, yeah. November 6th will be a bit of a milestone for me.

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Hopefully the beginning of a fantastic new story, new characters and new legacy of games still set in the same universe. Hopefully something that will bring in new halo fans but also keep the long time fans happy.

The introduction of a mostly ai enemy along with a new look covenant had me initially worried about the future of halo but over the past while I’m starting to feel hopeful 343 will pull this off well. In Reach I wasn’t a fan of the more serious style compared to previous games but accept that it had to be done to emphasise the importance the fall of reach was in the halo universe. I know halo 4 will go in this direction but hopefully it’ll retain a certain amount of the cinematic style of the original trilogy.

All in all it means hope to me. Hope it will deliver in terms of story,atmosphere, gameplay and legacy.

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> The Halo Franchise = The total self destruction of my social life

who needs a social life when we have Halo muahahhaha!!! lol

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For me Halo 4 is it. This is the game that will either get Halo back as the top of the video game food chain, or it will turn Halo into a game everyone is sick of and could careless about. For me, Halo 4 is judgement day for the Halo franchise. A lot riding on it.

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Really? I didn’t really care for Halo until ODST and Reach rolled around.

Halo 4, as you said, can go either way, so I’m not trying to hype it too much for myself. Every time I see a new FuD or trailer, I always think “This looks awesome!”, but whenever I see actual gameplay footage I just think “Oh… ok”.