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Up until I played the actual game, I thought that they would load the entire ring as one map, and you traveled all over it like that, and that was why they claimed no load times.

elpato84 wrote:

Up until I played the actual game, I thought that they would load the entire ring as one map, and you traveled all over it like that, and that was why they claimed no load times.

It was never supposed to all load at once, but dynamically load/unload assets as needed to make for a seamless experience. That went by the wayside, at the latest, when it went console. 64MB is pretty limited for one map; I think they did a pretty good job with the limited assets of the 'Box. 'Course, I still wish it'd never gone that way, and MS's made some dumb decisions with the franchise on the PC, a poor stepchild afterthought mostly (even if for the likes of me, better than on the Box). One can still hope for better in future, and do OK+ with what there is.

sturner wrote:

An awful lot of grunts got wasted.

High friendly body-count.

I'm reminded of another and earlier story line, never made into a FPS like Halo, where the grim report is:

"There were lots of marauder suits laying around. I didn't know if they were empty or not..."

I don't recall the line, but it's been a long time since I last read Troopers.

There are grunts & Grunts ("Don't worry. Me already resigned to early death.").. the story will start to balance as you get further along, but Halo's always had a high bodycount. Then again, the friendly bodycount's no higher than if the Ring had fired, triggering the Galactic Reset Switch. (You're in for some deep backstory, so get a move on... are you not ready to shoulder the Mantle? ) (No one who knows tell him, please).

LLEVIATHANN wrote:

Halo: Ten Years - 07/19/09 [56.4 MB]

Awwwe...*sniff*...

Yup.

I wouldn't worry. The ODST team is wrapping soon, many of them will likely be freed up for other work, and Bungie still seems to be hiring. I'm sure other things're already cooking.

The first is still my overall fave, partly for that reason. There is a lot to like, and much to find off the beaten track, in 3. I know & can show a lot of it. (Have you posted your Gamertag? I should have a new headset shortly. Co-op would be fun, and I could send some saved films with things you wouldn't believe).

I've nearly all the old footage (including oddballs like an nVidia promo of all things), so little of the old there was new to me, just well packaged. Don't know about the MA CDs- BC mentioned he'd not seen the original and one or two others I linked at the resolutions I found, so I'd guess not, in that form anyway; but most of those can be found at HBO, unless a particular vid was hosted by a site now gone. (A few have dried up in recent years).

Many still here.

Last edited by Bat (2009-07-25 1:21 am)

^bump^

You've not heard of ODST and Reach?.. anyhoo

The game is crap - and it uses stupid colors.
Hindsight can be amazing. Gamasutra sat down with Ed Fries, who was the Microsoft VP of Game Publishing when the Xbox hit the market back in 2001, and he had some interesting things to say about Halo. (Well, about a lot of things, but we're a Halo fansite, after all.) Microsoft had no intention of making Halo the flagship for the console; in fact, they'd gotten feedback that Halo was going to be terrible. Someone had done a color analysis, and come to the conclusion that Halo had used all the wrong colors for a console game. As it turned out, the experts were totally off-target... but Fries gets props for sticking with his marketing plans in the face of analyst scorn. The interview is a fun read; take a stroll down memory lane! (Louis Wu 19:17:30 UTC)

All the wrong colors!   http://halo.bungie.org/news.html?item=27094

Sigh.

That deserves a much longer reply than I can possibly write out, so I'll save it for, hopefully, many in-game convos to come. For now, I'll just say I've gotten, had, still get a great deal from that ruin these last five+ years.

Anyway, they're separate again, so you have no excuse not to catch up. It's the only way to enjoy the independent Bungie going forward.