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xxXX_Insanities_Birth_XXxx
11/18/09

In reply to Halo: Reach To Premiere At Spike VGA Awards
That's another thing to look forward to in December I guess. Halo reach will hopefully be a return to Halo's best moment (Halo 1 in my opinion but I liked them all really) just with all the new guns, improved hud and ofcourse the tools (which I love).
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ClingingMars
11/18/09

@xxXX_Insanities_Birth_XXxx: amen, ODST was horrendous and felt like an expansion pack. I have high hopes for Reach.
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CustomFirmware
11/18/09

@ClingingMars:

That's because IT IS. It's an expansion pack priced at full price because of the multiplayer inclusion.
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ClingingMars
11/21/09

@CustomFirmware:

Agreed 100%. When I put in the multiplayer disk and looked at the map list I was like "3 new maps? I spent $60 for a new campaign, firefight, and ONLY 3 NEW MAPS?!?!"
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BryanH
11/18/09

In reply to Halo: Reach To Premiere At Spike VGA Awards
I think its going to be a slapstick point-and-click adventure game, and will bet anyone who thinks otherwise.
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Hengst2404
11/18/09

In reply to Halo: Reach To Premiere At Spike VGA Awards
Well given the fact that the awards are on Spike and likely horrible, I will just wait like most for the video to make its way online.

Seriously, Demon's Souls as an RPG of the year candidate?
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heretrix
11/18/09

@Hengst2404: Seriously, FUCK YES. If it wasn't for Dragon Age, it would have been a shoe-in for the award.
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Trey
11/18/09

In reply to Halo: Reach To Premiere At Spike VGA Awards
It'll probably be a slideshow of the already leaked screens with a five second delay between them.

I still want.
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grantanamo
11/18/09

In reply to Halo: Reach To Premiere At Spike VGA Awards
I wonder what dated rapper they will use to explain the difference between CGI cutscenes and in game footage to us uninformed viewers.
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Duuuuuuude
11/18/09

@grantanamo: More like, overrated rapper that everyone is sick of hearing their cookie cutter songs.

I have never been a big fan of these awards, they seem silly.
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(Starman) Starman
11/18/09

@Duuuuuuude: These awards are just as ridiculous as the Webby Awards.
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Rachel Fogg
11/18/09

In reply to Halo: Reach To Premiere At Spike VGA Awards
What? I didn't know there was another Halo game? Is it another game like Halo Wars or something? Or like ODST?

I is so confused....*-*;
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Th12eat
11/18/09

@Rachel Fogg: It's called Halo: Reach and is a prequal to Halo 1. In the book series, Eric Nylund wrote Halo: Reach as the first book in the series. The first book takes place pre-Halo 1. Thus the birth of Halo: Reach.

It is sort of an "origins" type of story. To be honest, Halo: Reach was my favorite book in the series and really opened my eyes to the story line. It makes Master Chiefs ability to kick ass believable. I'm excited for sure.
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fearing
11/18/09

@Th12eat: The book was actually Halo: The Fall of Reach. Though I'm expecting this game to take place at SOME point during that book (since the book took place over the course of almost 20 years or somewhere thereabouts) I doubt it'll be a straight adaptation, but will more than likely be about something during that peroid that the book didn't cover.
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Communist Pope
11/18/09

@Rachel Fogg: It will presumably detail the "Fall of Reach," which was covered in the Halo novel that I never read. The biggest selling point, to me at least, is that it will feature several Spartans. Not sure if Master Chief was old enough to be one of them or not at that point.

Don't know that they've released any gameplay details, but I'm assuming/hoping that it will be more FPS than RTS.
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PhilipVanLuke
11/18/09

@Rachel Fogg: This is the prequel to the Halo Trilogy. before the spartans were all eliminated. it will probably be very similar to ODST flow wise, but instead of multiple ODSTs you will play as multiple spartans.
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Th12eat
11/18/09

@fearing: If you watched the little short-trailer that came out over the summer it showed Reach getting hit hard. I assume that this will take place smack dab in the middle of "The Fall of Reach" plot. I'm imagining cutscenes of the training and medical procedures endured by John Spartan 117 and his crew intermittently shown throughout a few space levels (where they lose Kirk), some covenant ships (as he infiltrated some during his first few missions), and lastly Reach. All of these levels will include slightly less spartans as you progress (as that is the end result of "The Fall of Reach", all but John Spartan 117 is left [or so were left to think!]).
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fearing
11/18/09

@Th12eat: Listening to Buck's dialogue in ODST makes me think he will probably be there in some form. The way he yells about how the Covenent are going to glass Earth just like they did Reach and how Dare responds that they made it out of there etc, makes me think we'll be seeing what that's about, also at the begining she and Buck talk about how his squad is replacements, so we might see who they are replacing(the people who's silhouette's are in the teaser maybe? Maybe not, I dunno). Wether you play as a Spartan, an ODST, or something else, I think is still up for debate of course, but it'll be interesting to see.
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(Starman) Starman
11/18/09

@Rachel Fogg: Halo Wars = spinoff RTS

ODST = addendum to Halo 3 ala Half Life 2 Episodes

Halo: Reach = New shooter game. Probably last one made by Bungie out of their 2 game deal.

that help you :Þ
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maxwellzierath
11/18/09

@Communist Pope: No Master Chief will not be in Halo: Reach, unless the game details the fighting in space. All Spartans that were in the initial group are the same age as the Master Chief. There were hints in the books to new Spartan training groups, but there was no word if those groups ever came to fruition.

Also, the battle of Reach is happening at the same time as Halo 1 takes place. Reach is attacked hours before the Pillar of Autumn slipspace jumps to the first Halo. That's the reason why there were Covenant when the Pillar came out of slipspace at the beginning of Halo 1. I believe the Halo CE manual describes what is going on, and that the Pillar has indeed just left the battle of Reach.
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Weezle41
11/18/09

@Communist Pope: Master Chief was around in fact but I don't think he is going to be one of the playable characters. I haven't read the novel either but I have done quite a bit of research on the story. From what I understand Master Chief wasn't actually on Reach but involved in the battle in some other way. I think this is going to be about a group of Spartans from Master Chiefs squad trying to defend Reach.

Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong for I am certainly no expert in the history or lore of Halo.
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Sgt_UberGrunt
11/18/09

@Communist Pope: Its being done by bungie so its definately FPS, and all the spartans were the same age at the time of conscription (ud know that if you read Fall of Reach =s) it was really a good book and you should maybe read it some time
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Zgilly
11/18/09

@Communist Pope: All the Spartans are around the same age.

*spoilers if you wanna read the book*

MC and a handful of others were never able to get onto Reach to help out though, they were in orbit fighting on a station. He was on the Pillar of Autumn when they jumped out using a random vector. That's when Halo:CE picks up.

*end spoilers*

I'm interested as to who you'll play as. Hopefully Bungie will incorporate a similar (aka better, more dynamic) story like in ODST while keeping the same feeling of being a Spartan.
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Communist Pope
11/18/09

@Sgt_UberGrunt: Yeah, I've been meaning to get around to it. Think I'll wait till after the game comes out though, just so I don't risk having anything (or at least too much) spoiled for me.

#speakup
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Pessimippopotamus
11/18/09

@Communist Pope: Master Chief is present during the Battle of Reach. It's set right before the first Halo game. But the game might not feature him at all.
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Sgt_UberGrunt
11/18/09

@Communist Pope:
However i do believe that more of the spoilers of what happens will come from First Strike, where most of the spartan combat that happens of reach occurs, Fall of Reach describes why the chief wasn't on the surface of reach and instead went to halo. Fall of Reach the novel explains the Spartans training and the space battle above reach.
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fearing
11/18/09

@maxwellzierath: I think the Covenent were there because the location was found on a Forerunner artifact that the Chief had first found in an earlier mission. The jump the Pillar did from Reach was also not technically random as Cortana had actually decifered the Forerunner artifact herself and discovered it was star patterns which gave her navigation data to the Halo. She didn't know what it would lead to at the time, but since she needed a "random" jump away from Reach to not jeapordize the location of Earth, the coordinates from the artifact were as good as any. Not tryin' to be nitpicky, but maybe it'll come into play in the game somehow or at least get a nod in the game's story.
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Trey
11/18/09

@fearing: You know too much about the Haloverse for me to not follow you.

#speakup
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maxwellzierath
11/18/09

@fearing: I never said that the jump was random. You are correct in that the jump was pulled from a star chart deciphered from an artifact found on a mission from the Master Chief earlier on. The covenant were only there first because of their superior slip space generators. I was just explaining that John was indeed there at the beginning of the battle of Reach and that Halo 1 took place around the same exact time.

#speakup
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fearing
11/18/09

@maxwellzierath: Sorry, my bad, I must have read that in a post just prior too or after yours.
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Rachel Fogg
11/18/09

@everyone:

Thanks everyone! I honestly was surprised by this announcement so I wanted to know.

I thought it was based after the books when I asked my friends. Turns out from this...they were right! LOL!

I'm not much for Halo, but it has to be pretty exciting for you guys!
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-MasterDex-
05/01/09

In reply to 27th Annual Golden Joystick Awards Voting Opens
It was difficult making the choices, the catagories were pretty slim and generic. I voted Street Fighter IV as Ultimate game of the year though and L4D as Multiplayer game of the year.
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ThePurpleWall
05/01/09

In reply to 27th Annual Golden Joystick Awards Voting Opens
That awards system is screwed up. I was looking at nominations for Soundtrack of the year, and some of the choices were GTA: Chinatown Wars, Fallout 3, and Bioshock.

WHAT YEAR IS THIS FOR???
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-MasterDex-
05/01/09

@ThePurpleWall: 2008. It'd make no sense having awards for 2009 now, would it?
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Glasseater
01/02/09

In reply to Vote For Mod DB's Mod Of The Year Awards
The best mod no one has ever heard of

[www.moddb.com]

:)
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-MasterDex-
01/02/09

@Glasseater: That looks like a great mod, I'll have to check it out. It's so true though, some of the best mods around are the ones that only a select few know about.
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-MasterDex-
01/02/09

In reply to Vote For Mod DB's Mod Of The Year Awards
Played so many mods this year.

Stainless Steel is the best mod for Medieval II, love it so much.

Portal:Prelude was great too.

But if I could vote for the best combo of mods I would go for SMART Hardcores modded COD4 server. They've got 85 ranks, an Ion cannon, Meteor Showers and the best maps around, not to mention they have a custom music playlist in place of the useless quick commands.
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Super Violent St. Cannon- GOTY Edition
01/02/09

In reply to Vote For Mod DB's Mod Of The Year Awards
Black Mesa gets my vote. I'm a whore for Half-Life :)
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Unstop
01/02/09

@Violent St. Cannon:

I don't get why they allow to vote for unreleased mods, should be a seperate category.
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RyuuzakiBjorn
01/02/09

@Unstop: Yeah, i don't think they thought it through...
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Unstop
01/02/09

In reply to Vote For Mod DB's Mod Of The Year Awards
Zombie Panic, Insurgency are among my favorites. Never heard of MechWarrior Living Legends but will check it out..

Fortress Forever is good but not that many people play it as TF 2 is so much more popular.
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RyuuzakiBjorn
01/02/09

@Unstop: Zombie Panic! Source Was awesome :)
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Nutlink
01/02/09

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MechWarrior Living Legends FTW!
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-MasterDex-
01/02/09

@Nutlink: I have yet to check that out but it looks great. That's the ne using the Cryengine2 right?
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Hopanoe
01/02/09

In reply to Vote For Mod DB's Mod Of The Year Awards
I vote Witzbold
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okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under)
01/02/09

@Hopanoe: LOL... wha?
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-MasterDex-
01/02/09

@Hopanoe: Harsh! I vote SpoonyBard.

Here's hoping for an "avoid the banhammer" card. :P
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Aemony
01/02/09

In reply to Vote For Mod DB's Mod Of The Year Awards
Black Mesa, here I come!
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RabidZombie
01/02/09

@Aemony: Agreed.

Even if I haven't gotten to play it yet. :(
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Aemony
01/02/09

@RabidZombie: Don't worry, it's schedueled for a 2009 release! ^^
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-MasterDex-
01/02/09

@Aemony: scheduled for 2009 but it was scheduled for 2008 back in '07. I'd love to see it released and I really hope they keep their dedication alive. It looks like all kinds of awesome.
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