Halo Remake + other cool stuff

[Malacite]

Halo: Combat Evolved remake coming this holiday | Joystiq

Joystiq has learned that the previously rumored remake of Halo: Combat Evolved will indeed launch this holiday season for Xbox 360 with a full visual overhaul. Sources explain that the re-release is not Bungie's 2001 Xbox game simply running at a higher resolution -- it's being remade with new art assets. While Halo's audio will likely remain unaltered, the controls will allow for more recent Halo configurations.

The Halo: Combat Evolved remake is allegedly being developed by New Jersey-based Saber Interactive, the company behind TimeShift and Namco's upcoming Inversion, but we've been unable to confirm the nature of the engine powering it. We understand that it's something other than the Reach engine.

The Halo: Combat Evolved update, one of two Halo games currently in development under the watchful eye of 343 Industries, is expected to support 1080p resolution and 3D televisions. Details on multiplayer are supposedly still being worked out, but we understand the remake will likely feature online co-op (the original game supported two-player split-screen co-op).

The game is expected to re-evolve on November 15, 2011, ten years after Halo: Combat Evolved launched alongside the Xbox. Our sources didn't know of any plans to similarly upgrade the recently disconnected Halo 2, but it's hard to imagine Microsoft playing favorites with its biggest franchise.

Hells yeah! Reach was such a disappointment (Campaign) maybe this will help make up for it. I wonder though, if they'll keep everything the same or nerf the pistol since 3-shotting people across the map was kinda OP.


I also found this and thought it was cute.


Dog destroys Dead Space 2 disc, Visceral replaces with signed copy | Joystiq

There are lots of ways to get your favorite video game signed by the developers. You could win a contest, corner the developers at a conference and, of course, stalk them. Now, thanks to a Dead Space fan named Ashley, there's another method -- have your dog destroy the disc.

Whilst playing her brand new copy of Dead Space 2, it seems Ashley's dog knocked over her Xbox 360, irreparably damaging the disc. Naturally, Ashley did what anyone would do in that situation: She shared her woes on Twitter. Visceral art director Ian Milham spotted her tweets, asked for her address and sent her the goodies seen above. Yes, that is a hand-drawn picture of Isaac Clarke scolding Ashley's dog next to a (very) signed copy of Dead Space 2.

Truly, it's a heart-warming story about one of the most disgusting video games around -- and more tolerable as marketing than the "Your Mom Hates This" campaign. Now, if you'll excuse us, we have to go coat this Halo: Reach disc with peanut butter.

Lucky bitch

[Kailea]

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I was wondering how MS was going to milk Halo more -.- good lord

[Armando]

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Well this is just sad.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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Its Halo's 10th anniversary, so its actually appropriate that a remake is happening.

I'm all for a remake of Halo with upgrades, but really, when is MS going to start making MechAssault, Crimson Skies and other first party games again. Rare seems to be going to waste over there, too, but then they were kinda falling apart before MS thought they were getting something awesome out of them.

Right now, Rare has been making Nintendo knock-offs like Kinectimals (really fucking clever, Nintendogs, Kinectimals) and some Wii sports clone for Kinect.

They lost Bungie by running them into the ground on Halo, they lost Ensemble Studios. Day 1 studios doens't seem to be working with them anymore.

And I've heard it said (and couldn't stop laughing when I did) that MS cut back on doing first-party stuff so that "third party developers could shine." The point of a first party is to show third parties the way to use the hardware, to make games that serve as guidelines.

Well, MS did a bang-up job on that, because there's nothing I can suggest to kids for this thing but first person shooters, which moms just love, let me tell ya. If they don't have Kinect or and every Lego game ever, I'm at a total loss for what I can suggest to them aside from the indie stuff - which no kid is going to want or care about.

[jenova_9]

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Well everyone can still play Castlevania Harmony of Despair, mew! It's the best 360 game ever and people still play it and enjoy the DLC (even though it looks like Ch.11 is the last DLC)!

[Kailea]

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Well, MS did a bang-up job on that, because there's nothing I can suggest to kids for this thing but first person shooters, which moms just love, let me tell ya. If they don't have Kinect or and every Lego game ever, I'm at a total loss for what I can suggest to them aside from the indie stuff - which no kid is going to want or care about.

yeah I have that problem too -.- when I see a parent even hint that they want to get their kid a 360, if the kid is 13 or under, I always tell them getting a 360 is a bad idea, as there are hardly any "kid games" on it. I always recommend the Wii instead.

Had a parent come in one time and tell me "I bought my kid a 360 and there are no games for him to really play" (kid was 6 -.-)

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Well everyone can still play Castlevania Harmony of Despair, mew! It's the best 360 game ever and people still play it and enjoy the DLC (even though it looks like Ch.11 is the last DLC)!

over priced nickel/dime SOTN clone want to be..... no not best game ever ;p

[jenova_9]

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mew! it isn't a SOTN clone! >< It changed how Castlevanias are played without being too different, mew! And it isn't overpriced, it gives you more value than a dozen happy meals, mew! It also saved the industry from the lack of new 6 player co-op games and a great reunion of playable favorites in one Castlevania!

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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Sorry, what the fuck does Castlevania HD have to do with this topic? Do you feel like you're just talking to yourself in your thread for that and need to talk about it over here? Go find a forum for that game where people actually care, OK? No one here really seems to care about it and those that did seemed to have moved on.

A Halo remake for 360, that's something I can care about. I played the original into the ground, would be nice to have that and a Halo 2 remake so I can replay the original with the rest to get back up-to-speed (though I doubt it ever gets better than Blood Gulch and Sidewinder for multiplayer at any rate).

[Icemage]

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Am I the only one who thought the level design in Halo 1 wasn't really all that clever? It was a capable but largely unremarkable shooter; it's claim to fame was being the first serious console FPS with marketing behind it.

I'm sure there's a lot of people that will buy it just for nostalgia or whatever, but that Flood-filled Library mission can go die in a fire as far as I'm concerned.


Icemage

[Kailea]

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Yeah it depends on how much they want to charge for it..... not paying 60 for it, 40 maybe.

I might just ditch Halo all together though, I bought Reach because I knew my friend was going to play it....but after we beat the story mode together, I have not picked the game up again since.......

[Malacite]

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They lost Bungie by running them into the ground on Halo

That, and Bungie can make a lot more money by going multi-platform which MS wouldn't allow. Reach is still pretty good for MP, my only major beefs being Armor Lock users & the DMR/Pistol Headshot detection. I'm getting sick of dropping people's shields then shooting at their head and clearly seeing the bullet impact them, even on the replay yet they live. The fuck is that Bungie?


The good news is Battlefield 3 was just announced, and if you buy the LE you get the 1st DLC pack a month early (and probably cheaper too)

Had a parent come in one time and tell me "I bought my kid a 360 and there are no games for him to really play" (kid was 6 -.-)

Personally I wouldn't even let my kids (if I had any) touch video games until they're at least 10~12, and even then I'd buy 'em a DS or something kid friendly that they won't get too absorbed into. Save the hardcore stuff until they're at least in 9th or 10th grade seriously (same thing goes for cell phones & social media)

I was about 8 or 10 when I started, but I also got started on the NES - largely harmless, fun games. I cringe when I see parents buying shit like GTA for their 12 year olds...

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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It was a capable but largely unremarkable shooter; it's claim to fame was being the first serious console FPS with marketing behind it.

And I could argue the same was true for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Final Fantasy VII.

Just because something doesn't do something new or innovative doesn't mean it can't be a great game. If we only ever banked on new and innovative concepts to be popular and memorable, we'd wouldn't have a gaming industry to speak of.

MindJack has a new and innovative concept for online multiplayer in shooters and single-player campaigns. Its a great idea, but the execution of the idea was terrible. Online griefing in a single-player game, players jumping into your game to use your ally NPCs against you indefinitely, using all the ammo in the NPCs you could jump into. Gee, sign me up.

[jenova_9]

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Am I the only one who thought the level design in Halo 1 wasn't really all that clever? It was a capable but largely unremarkable shooter; it's claim to fame was being the first serious console FPS with marketing behind it.

I'm sure there's a lot of people that will buy it just for nostalgia or whatever, but that Flood-filled Library mission can go die in a fire as far as I'm concerned.


Icemage

oh ya Halo 1 is very plain and boring. Anniversary or no, a remake of a shooter is still shameless milking and further proof there is no real creativity behind the franchise at the present time anymore (what little creativity and little fun there was to begin with. Reach was a complete anticlimactic mess. Bungie really is overrated just like how election campaigns overrate a person that isn't all that they are claimed to be. )
Of course Microsoft doesn't care because the name alone and marketing will sell it easily.

[Malacite]

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^ because we all know that J9 is the all-knowing expert on everything.

Halo, just wish they'd make a game about either the Covenant or the Forerunners for a change. Halo's lore/story is actually really, really good if you bother to read the novels and ignore Reach (the game I mean, the novel was *fantastic*) since it basically just took a huge shit all over the canon, and most of fan base hates Bungie for it.

[jenova_9]

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^ because we all know that J9 is the all-knowing expert on everything.

Halo, just wish they'd make a game about either the Covenant or the Forerunners for a change. Halo's lore/story is actually really, really good if you bother to read the novels and ignore Reach (the game I mean, the novel was *fantastic*) since it basically just took a huge shit all over the canon, and most of fan base hates Bungie for it.

Who plays Halo for the lore anyways? All of the characters lack the charisma of the legendary people in StarCraft. There's only so much nonsense made up sci-fi stories one can take, mew.

Sigh...I miss Timesplitters

Now that is a series that should continue, mew, and great gameplay too!