Bungie Promises "Big News" Next Week

Via 1up news, Bungie's statement that they'll have some big news to share next week about the Halo series. From their post: "A bunch of stuff is going down to celebrate the 5th anniversary of a little game we like to call Halo. In November 2001, Halo launched alongside the Xbox console, and the rest is history. Next year, Halo 3 will conclude the story arc begun all those years ago and next week, we'll take a long lingering look at the series to date. There will also be some pretty BIG surprises and maybe announcements. Who can say?" 1up has posted up a blow-by-blow account of their time with Halo 3's multiplayer, which is well worth checking out for anyone shunning Gears for Halo 2 this week.

Comments

Uh.

[RandomPrecision]

A future announcement? This is totally unexpected. Shouldn't they have previously announced that they would make an announcement of impending announcement?

Re:Uh.

[Anonymous Coward]

1) Master Chief is a girl

OR

2) Master Chief is gay

Re:Uh.

[drinkypoo]

But not XOR, because that could just as easily be an AND. The next step will be to find Cortana a body... Still, if only the second one were true, I can't wait for "Brokeback Ringworld"!

GUYS!

[StocDred]

QUAD-WIELDING!

And you can drive two vehicles at once!

MEGATON!

Re:GUYS!

[Meagermanx]

What I'm hoping for:

1. No electric guitar in the soundtrack. It makes me laugh.
2. No Plasma Pistols. They're worthless. They're just under the original Halo's assault rifle.
3. No cliffhanger endings, please.
4. Make big weapons spawn more. If you're going to have a small map with a Rocket Launcher and Sword, at least make more than one, so that one player/team doesn't get both and dominate.
5. Actually, how about balancing all the weapons? Besides the Plasma Pistol (cough) Halo had a pretty balanced selection of weapons. The starting pistol actually ruled. In Halo 2, it's mostly just sniper rifles, rocket launchers, and swords.
6. More maps! If people can't make their own, then the burden is upon you to make a bunch of really cool ones. It's gonna be played more than almost any FPS out there, isn't it? So come up with a bunch of good ones!
7. Bungie: Hire Writers this time!

Your Answer Here ...

[EGSonikku]

They will announce the original Halo as a download for Xbox Live, with HD resolution and Live multiplayer (co/op and d/m). Remember you heard it here first.

Halo

[MBCook]

I always thought the odd thing was that MS TOTALLY MISSED Halo. I heard basically nothing about it until it became popular after release. I think they were prepping Oddworld: Munch's Odyssey (a good game) to be "the" game for the XBox.

Kind of like CBS. They bought CSI, stuck it in a time slot, and practically forgot about it. They promoted their remake of The Fugitive to no end. The Fugitive flopped, CSI became HUGE and spawned clones and spin-offs.

Ah... marketing.

Re:Halo

[Anonymous Coward]

Bungie was a Mac-focused company (Marathon, etc.) until Microsoft bought them, which may be why you hadn't heard about Halo years before release. It used to be prominently featured at MacWorld every year. That said, I'm still surprised you hadn't heard about it at its release -- Microsoft pushed it pretty hard, and I know it was covered here.

Now, if only...

[Anonymous Coward]

Marathon 4. Exclusive for the Mac.

My list of possible announcements

[steveo777]

In order of likelyhood...
1. Guest appearance of BFG 9000 from Doom
2. Guest appearance by James Bond
3. Guest appearance of Gordon Freeman
4. Changing the name of the project to "Duke Nukem' Forever"
5. Cortana is realy a man.
6. The Protoss, er Covanent forces are joining forces with Martha Stuart.
7. The Zerg... er Flood can now be cooked to gain 2784 HP and 4900 MP over 30 seconds. Must remain seated while eating.

FINALLY!!!

[j00r0m4nc3r]

A matching mug and oven mitt set!

Pre-emptive Transcript.

[HeavenlyBankAcct]

:: clears throat, drums index cards on podium ::

Ladies and gentlemen, as you may have heard, today marks the fifth anniversary of a little game franchise that we like to call Halo.

Wild applause.

And as you undoubtedly already know, we've called a press conference today to announce some big and exciting news concerning the future of the game. Now, I know some of you may be wondering exactly what could be done to perfect this formula -- that is to say, exactly WHAT can be done to improve upon perfection? And to those of you with such doubts, I can point to the development of Halo 3 and say nothing but the following five words:

YOU CAN SEE YOUR FEET.

That's right, after years of grueling research and development, the Halo team has now given players the ability to see their own feet while they move, simply by looking down. This adds a whole new element of realism to the game, and allows us to create a whole new type of gaming challenge within the Halo world -- using the fluid dynamics of our physics engine, inattentive players will now be able to trip over loose gravel, stub their toes into door frames, and, of course, navigate jumping puzzles with ease. The revolutionary "textile fastening engine" will determine how far the player has traveled and convert that data into an actual REAL-TIME loosening of laces -- Leading to inevitable pratfalls for the inattentive player. And, most exciting of all, the players' footwear will be upgradable with custom designs created specifically for the Halo world by Nike, Reebok, and Ecko!

Here at Bungie, we believe that innovation is the key to creating exciting and fresh games that resonate with our audience. As such, it is technologies like this Revolutionary Foot Engine (revFeX) that keep us poised on the cutting edge of game development. Our highly savvy customer base grows more demanding with each release and it's important that we keep the nature of our products in step with what it is that hardcore gamers desire: The ability to add more and more meaningless bells and whistles to the same game that they've all been playing since Wolfenstein 3-d.

Thank you very much, and good night.