Halo CE Remake coming this November

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/02/04/halo-combat-evolved-hd/

this could be cool


it could also suck

I hope they don't change it too much, as personally some of the astetic choices from the later games I did not like as much as in the original

online multiplayer, also mucho milking of halo, but id like to play online with it...ORIGINAL ASSULT RIFLE BITCHES!!!

I really liked how Halo CE looked, plain and simple. However, if they keep the plot almost entirely the same with the only changes to the art direction and perhaps game mechanics, I dont think it'll be bad.

Rasq, am I authorized to throw up my intestines in my lap now? This is good though, because Microsoft will destroy Halo, and then Bungie will be destroyed by Activision, so the series can be ended sooner, which is much better then later. Master Chief WILL have armor lock, and they WILL have Rhino's in game, as something you can use to blow up shield bubble spires like in Halo Wars/Reach.


Krazy, how come your never on xfire anymore? Are you really busy or something?

I propose a complete copy/paste of the plot/dialogue/weapon mechanics/enemy placement/Johnson's Awesomesauce, and change only the game engine and update the graphics.

But aside from that everything must be the same.

^Too bad there going to do the exact opposite of that.

It's OK though, because these newer kids that got birthed out after we did, the ones that were playing with blocks and Lincoln logs when the first Halo came out will love this remake, because it's gonna have SPRINT™, DMRs™ and ARMOR LOCK™.

For crying out loud, it's not even the Reach engine, I bet it's going to look worse. When we play this game, our generation will collectively exhale in contempt, like if they went back and remade Raiders of the Lost Ark to sell it to kids. Pie, I seriously would give my left arm if they did that, but let's be realistic, Microsoft is going to screw it up, there's no possible way they can't screw it up. When it does come out (even if these guys cancel it, like the Halo movies(s), someone else is going to do it eventually), were going to scratch our heads and wish we did something to stop Microsoft and their bitch company from ruining art.

We have a chance now to say "No Microsoft, Fuck you, fuck everything you've done, stop doing things and retire, distribute your billions of dollars evenly and move to Costa Rica where you can die in peace."

I am never on xfire because I spend maybe 4 hours a day at my dorm



and those are sleeping

Sigh... you know, I would have brought this up when I first heard about it, but I figured everyone's reactions would be like Ringleaders.

That said, I call tricky buggers on this one.
-It not being handled in-house by 343i already makes it suspicious to me. As far as I know, 343i is set up to become a developer, so they don't need to contract it out, na?
-Not using Reach's engine is nonsense. Bungie was bragging about how the engine was built from ground up to be used for future games. Going to the trouble and expense of building a new game engine? Ridiculous! Are you going to equip a warship's AI with an encyclopedic knowledge of troop deployments, weapons research, and Human history next?

Even though I don't think this is going to happen, and I think it's a bad idea overall, I have faith in the ability of people besides Bungie to faithfully reproduce Halo: CE. I did, after all, grow up on Halo PC.

With any luck, any such overhaul will be released for PC as well, and give the Halo modding community new tools to work with.

Finally, I wish I had KrAzY's metabolism, if he's still functioning after a month of 4-hour sleep per day. Your E-mail is still Maluck at dgcomic, right?

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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.

Sigh... you know, I would have brought this up when I first heard about it, but I figured everyone's reactions would be like Ringleaders.

Because no one else here wants Halo ruined, which it undoubtedly what 343i, Saber Interactive, or whoever Microsoft contracted to sell this game to a new generation with lower expectations will do.

Watch, WATCH it be rated Teen...

Even though I don't think this is going to happen, and I think it's a bad idea overall, I have faith in the ability of people besides Bungie to faithfully reproduce Halo: CE. I did,

Your faith is misplaced. Halo was unique and Bungie itself barely managed to retain it's core elements throughout the series, the temptation to optimize these game's profits over keeping stuff the same was too great for M$ to resist, for he who pays the piper, calls the tune, and Microsoft is generally not good at calling tunes.

after all, grow up on Halo PC.

Then you should know exactly why what you said prior to this statement cannot be.

I grew up with halo PC too, I love that game, and I still play it on occasion when I'm not busy with work or school. The point I'm trying to make is that it's basically a work of art, a masterpiece that really can't get much better then how it is now. Disenfranchising the series for a quick buck is really really low, and If I worked for Bungie, and I knew this would happen, I would make sure to completely kill off the series before someone else like 343i got a hold of it.

It's shameful to see someone else destroy/discredit your life's work in a matter of months.

By "new art assets", they better not mean "we're re-making the game the way WE thought it should have looked"


Why do they need a new engine? Why? Seriously? Why make a new engine for EVERY game? Valve makes billions of games on a single engine and their games are GREAT. WHY!? Halo: Reach's engine is perfectly fine if all they're interested in doing is a visual overhaul.

New engine would mean no button glitches, making CQB shallow.

Someone here has to worry about the competetive merit. Most competetive players would rather have CE than the Holy Grail, so i'm kinda siked to try this out.

CivBase wrote:By "new art assets", they better not mean "we're re-making the game the way WE thought it should have looked"

http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s06e09-free-hat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFxuuByoyZE

well, its official, we are all screwed

well we all knew the series that brought us all together was gonna get fucked up anyways yes?

Ringleader wrote:

CivBase wrote:By "new art assets", they better not mean "we're re-making the game the way WE thought it should have looked"

http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s06e09-free-hat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFxuuByoyZE

Commentary gives me an idea, we need South Park on the Old School Halo players side