Halo: Reach Interview: Brian Jarrard & Niles Sankey Talk All Things Reach
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Monday, August 02, 2010 @ 06:11 AM
Halo Reach news is always welcome, looking forward to this, next big game for me.Monday, August 02, 2010 @ 06:12 AM
NiceMonday, August 02, 2010 @ 06:18 AM
can't believe it's coming out in 6 weeks. the summer flew by....can't wait for this though!Monday, August 02, 2010 @ 06:24 AM
the countdown starts....Monday, August 02, 2010 @ 06:25 AM
Dieing for this game.Monday, August 02, 2010 @ 06:25 AM
Its need to be released now :P I want this so badMonday, August 02, 2010 @ 06:28 AM
I've enjoyed the Halo games, but never really looked that forward to them... Until Reach.Monday, August 02, 2010 @ 06:43 AM
Loved that rocket kill at the end.Monday, August 02, 2010 @ 06:46 AM
am i the only one that doesnt give a crapMonday, August 02, 2010 @ 06:52 AM
@9 Seems that way. Sucks to be you. OT: Yay for reach.Monday, August 02, 2010 @ 07:07 AM
Loving the British accent. Finally, one of our islanders are getting into the gaming/interveiw scene. I'm friggin' tired of just hearing amercian accents.Monday, August 02, 2010 @ 07:08 AM
@9, I don't care either.Monday, August 02, 2010 @ 07:22 AM
Can't wait...and for the people that "Don't care" remember that you care enough to post that you don't care. You just wasted time caring about something you say you don't care about. Good going!Monday, August 02, 2010 @ 07:22 AM
@9: Nice gamerscore, & if you don't care why comment?Monday, August 02, 2010 @ 07:27 AM
@9 and @12, that's because nobody cares about you either. Especially you, 9. 0GS and 3 stars? You haven't played/tried halo at all. At least, didn't try it solo. Which you should have.Monday, August 02, 2010 @ 07:33 AM
Just wanted to say Halo is cool. That is all.Monday, August 02, 2010 @ 07:36 AM
@14 he is just giving his opinion. and rofl... did u really just insult his gamerscore? that has to be one of the most nerdy insults i have ever heard. @4 that countdown started along time ago for me hahaMonday, August 02, 2010 @ 07:48 AM
Can't wait for this game... and if you don't give a crap, don't comment. Simple.Monday, August 02, 2010 @ 07:55 AM
@17 oh wow, he insulted his gamerscore on website where the entire community is based around improving their gamerscore. What a mad man! What next, we point out he was just trolling in the first place? You sir are clearly far superior to us all!Monday, August 02, 2010 @ 08:03 AM
@17 Please read the name of the website your on and then re-read your previous comment and your stupidity shall become clear.Monday, August 02, 2010 @ 08:04 AM
Glad to hear they took the community's input from the beta and made tweaks. That's how a beta is supposed to be used! Way to go Bungie.Monday, August 02, 2010 @ 08:16 AM
Looking forward to seeing what the 'unique' features are in each campaign mission! Space combats been revealed so what next... driveable scarabs?Monday, August 02, 2010 @ 08:16 AM
hows that better, I dont care because i find halo boring and i was watching the video to see if there was something in the make me care and the answer was no so i posted that i dont care simple as thatMonday, August 02, 2010 @ 08:19 AM
GOTY 2010/11/12/13/14/15/16/17...Monday, August 02, 2010 @ 08:30 AM
Wow!!! Lots of anger going on this comment board. Especially for such an awesome article. Come on guys... Do not let the standard run of Halo trolls get your fur all riled up. Reach is going to be so amazing. Little bummed about their justification for the gernades and their fix for it... You will be able to run faster, jump higher???? I am glad to hear about their change in the armor lock ability.Monday, August 02, 2010 @ 08:41 AM
im not that bothered about this game, but this will be one of the best games , this year. im just waiting for gears of war 3. But when i heard bloodgulch was going to be in this game , then this game is must buy. does anyone know if theyre going to release some of halo ce maps , such as side winder, hang em high, rat race, timberland , etc. halo ce and halo wars was the best in my opinion. ive got halo 3 and odst. but i play it , but not that really into it. odst would have been fun , but no match making , and health dont regenerate. Reach will have matchmaking for firefight. i played the beta , and it was an amazing experiences. still no halo will ever beat halo ce. all them memories , playin sniper matches on sniper dream mod servers. good times , good times.Monday, August 02, 2010 @ 08:43 AM
Keep the slanging matches and trolling out the comments. The rule "If you've got nothing constructive to add, then shut the hell up" applies here. Anymore and I'll wade in with the banhammer.Monday, August 02, 2010 @ 08:46 AM
Call of duty black ops , and Halo reach , and fables 3 . top tiles releasing this year. so far best year in my opinion where lots of top game are releasing. wont buy fable 3 , mainly because i cant be bothered finishhing fable 2. im not really bothered about achievements that much , unless theyre ridiulously hard, for example , get 3 overkill in 1 match (with a stupid weapon) i finially got overkill on halo 3 on swords gametype on the snow map. i know the achievements list are out , but everyone knows more will come as dlc are going to be released.Monday, August 02, 2010 @ 08:52 AM
Im getting the console i just can't wait!!!Monday, August 02, 2010 @ 09:41 AM
cant afford to get this on release so will have to by used quick question were players allowed to drive banshees in halo 3 cos i didnt get to and to be honest halo 3 was the first the ending of the last level seemed the same as the combat evolvedMonday, August 02, 2010 @ 09:52 AM
I'd hate to sound hateful, but @9, if you don't care about Halo games (I don't care why you don't like them) Then why go on an article about Halo? It makes no sense.Monday, August 02, 2010 @ 09:57 AM
Oh look! Bungie actually cares about their fans and how enjoyable their game is! Unlike a certian company...*cough*Infinity Ward*cough*Monday, August 02, 2010 @ 09:59 AM
@30, course you can, you have been able to fly banshees since Halo 2.Monday, August 02, 2010 @ 10:19 AM
@33 if youre talking about the singleplayer i guess i never came across them lol thing is that i really like banshees and flying around was awesome but i must haved missed them making me thinks its the worst halo game made on the other hand 1 and 2 were the bestMonday, August 02, 2010 @ 10:32 AM
@33 you could also fly them in the first Halo..Anyway can't wait for this game. Already pre-ordered the Legendary Edition a while ago and I will be getting the Slim bundle too.Monday, August 02, 2010 @ 10:38 AM
you could fly banshees in halo 1 too. you just had to work for it, i mean really work for it.Monday, August 02, 2010 @ 10:57 AM
I hate that Dead Rising 2 was pushed back. That was supposed to hold me over until Reach. And now that my bank won't let my debit card work I can't buy Dragon Age Awakenings. I have nothing new until Reach...Monday, August 02, 2010 @ 11:19 AM
I cant wait until this comes out. I wish the months before this game another decent game was released. I have nothin to play until Reach. ANyways I pre-ordered the Legendary edition and im going to the midnight release at Gamestop. Might as well get the Legendary since its the last Halo game. At least for the next 10 years.Monday, August 02, 2010 @ 11:46 AM
6 more weeks till the last day of the rest of your life. Can't wait.Monday, August 02, 2010 @ 12:23 PM
There are so many incredible looking games coming out this year... and I cannot get excited about any of them except for Reach.Monday, August 02, 2010 @ 12:27 PM
The thing that i'm most exicted about is the macth making system, with all the option, i hope i can get into a mcth with people who want to work together.Monday, August 02, 2010 @ 12:35 PM
Is there going to be any dlc?Monday, August 02, 2010 @ 12:56 PM
Is that brum accented voice yours webb? :)Monday, August 02, 2010 @ 12:59 PM
@42 thats like saying is Thunder going to follow Lightning? Eventually, if not pretty soon, however it's in evitable.Monday, August 02, 2010 @ 02:14 PM
the guy on the left sounds like kolyat or thane from ME2.Monday, August 02, 2010 @ 02:45 PM
I hope Bungie's next game is shit, fuck Activision.Monday, August 02, 2010 @ 03:25 PM
@#43 - It is indeed =OMonday, August 02, 2010 @ 03:38 PM
Each year gets better and better for games. Star Wars: TFU2, Dead Rising 2, Halo: Reach (there are tons more, but these are what I'm looking forward to). Bummer Brink got pushed back.Monday, August 02, 2010 @ 03:48 PM
Great interview, x360a! This game is gonna kill!Monday, August 02, 2010 @ 08:52 PM
ahhh! so stoked for this game!Monday, August 02, 2010 @ 08:52 PM
Wait what? Change is hard? What change? One of my biggest complaints about the beta was it felt like I had just popped in Halo 3. It didn't play any different for me at all. (And some of the people on my friends list feel similarly so I know I'm not the only one) Anyway, some interesting stuff nonetheless. Still won't be getting this on launch. Either I'll have it if I decide to get the Reach Xbox 360 next year, or a couple of years later when it comes down in price.Monday, August 02, 2010 @ 09:09 PM
@#51 - The armour abilities totally change the complex of the game if you ask me. It's no longer run and gun. You now have a tactical element, with people armour locking, jetpacking away (or dropping down on you), using holograms to dupe you, going invisible and screwing with your radar, and so on.Monday, August 02, 2010 @ 09:14 PM
Armor Abilities are just a replacement for equipment. Different systems for the same thing. (With the new abilities that come with a sequel)Monday, August 02, 2010 @ 10:12 PM
@#53 - Well, I personally never bothered with the equipment in 3. It was too much of a hassle and they were too sporadically placed. Bubble shields and portable grav-lifts are light years away from holograms, jetpacks, invisibility cloaks, armour locks, etc anyway. It is however no different from how MW2 was an upgrade of COD4 or BC2 was an evolution of BC1. It is, after all, a sequel and not a new IP. Change it too much and people moan. Don't change it enough and people moan. They're damned if they do and they're damned if they don't.Monday, August 02, 2010 @ 10:24 PM
Halo Reach will be eppicTuesday, August 03, 2010 @ 04:47 AM
Im absolutely stoked for ReachTuesday, August 03, 2010 @ 05:06 AM
Webb ftw, awesome interview there! Can't wait for Reach, I haven't been this hyped for a game since Halo 3, and I only got the Collector's edition. Now I've pre-ordered the sweeeeet Legendary edition of Reach. Maybe I'll take a week off... Also, I swear Dan Webb is the voice actor for Zaeed from Mass Effect 2. It's almost uncanny.Tuesday, August 03, 2010 @ 07:00 AM
Halo:Reach will be a welcome last Halo game for Bungie. Bungie we will miss your Halo games and we hope the new company we be as amazing as Bungie.Tuesday, August 03, 2010 @ 08:55 AM
I like how they changed to make the armour lock fairer. But I found it annoying in the beta how when you activated it when you would pan the camera around and look at your surroundings wherever you were looking, when it deactivated you would look exactly where your camera was looking so if someone was spamming it in front of me and I was behind them they could just lunge and kill me even though they were facing the other way when they activated it. It was pretty minor but it was annoyingTuesday, August 03, 2010 @ 09:01 AM
@#54 "It is however no different from how MW2 was an upgrade of COD4 or BC2 was an evolution of BC1. It is, after all, a sequel and not a new IP." Exactly. They just took their equipment idea, and evolved it. Now it works a lot better than equipment, but, to me anyway, it feels so similar to the equipment system that it doesn't feel like it drastically changed gameplay. "Change it too much and people moan. Don't change it enough and people moan." Indeed, but between the two I'm glad it turned out this way. I'd rather it feel like a game I've already played and know I somewhat enjoy instead of feeling so totally different that I don't even think it feels like Halo anymore. But because it feels like Halo 3 to me, I know there's no rush to go get it, but at the same time I know I'll enjoy it so I will eventually get it.Tuesday, August 03, 2010 @ 09:07 AM
Cont: Like how I did not like Call of Duty 4 at all. It was way too different from COD1 & COD2. It became much more casual friendly for my taste, so I've lost all interest in any IW game that comes out(I haven't even played MW2. Watching all the gameplay videos it looked like pretty much everything I hated from COD4 x100). (And depending on how Black Ops turns out, I most likely will lose interest in the entire COD series) So I'd rather it play like a game I know I like than turn out like what happened to COD.Wednesday, August 04, 2010 @ 08:50 AM
Can't wait.Wednesday, August 04, 2010 @ 03:45 PM
it's official bungie beat treyarch and infinity award again................Thursday, August 05, 2010 @ 09:54 PM
@#51 What are you talking about? Opinionated much? OK, if you think this, you are exaggerating. A lot of people didn't like it because it wasn't like Halo 3, and I them CHANGE IS GOOD, but they don't think so... idiots.Friday, August 06, 2010 @ 06:26 AM
HALO REACH IS THE BEST GAME EVER =)Friday, August 06, 2010 @ 08:38 AM
This is going to be a great game but banning people for quiting mid-game? If I get a team of people who aren't very good and we're against some really good players, the chances are that my teammates will quit. So am I forced to take a beating alone, lose my good kdr and have a really bad time playing as I don't want to get banned?? Not good if that's the case...Friday, August 06, 2010 @ 01:53 PM
@32 You are a fucking dumbass, the things that fucked up MW2 was shit the community cried about. The community whined and qq:ed like cunts and they got what they wanted to be added that wasnt in cod4. If they knew they would had gotten a bunch of cheating/haxing/modding/ worthless piece of shit community in return after catering to them like a fucking soccer mum. I guess they would had just gone SSLP style instead with 2 fingers up OTSunday, August 08, 2010 @ 02:22 AM
This game looks awsome looking to pick up Tin or Legendary Edition by Christmas I love Halo that much Yesterday i bought Halo 3: ODST And i have Halo 3.Sunday, August 08, 2010 @ 10:04 AM
this game is gonna be awesome! already pre-ordered it and i still have my halo 1 on PC.Sunday, August 08, 2010 @ 10:35 AM
@67 Your comment isn't directed at me but I see where you're coming from even if I don't agree with you. Your comment is overly aggressive IMO though.Tuesday, August 10, 2010 @ 01:12 PM
Nice... i Want to play the game now -.-^^Thursday, August 12, 2010 @ 06:19 AM
check out the halo reach pannel at comic con and the forge world vidoc on halo waypoint AMAZING!!!!!!! the halo series is my favourite ive played them all and this looks even better is it possible ?Thursday, August 12, 2010 @ 07:28 AM
Just HAD to get your little rocket kill in there, didn't you, Dan? :pSunday, August 15, 2010 @ 12:10 PM
Halo is for losers. Real men play Gears.Wednesday, August 18, 2010 @ 05:14 AM
I've preordered mine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Wednesday, August 18, 2010 @ 09:03 PM
50 dollar pre-order price @ newegg.com @74 I play both, so what does that make me a Real Manly loser? lolThursday, August 19, 2010 @ 03:16 AM
Made a final decision getting this for my christmas but just the normal edition which is £40-50.Thursday, August 19, 2010 @ 09:02 AM
F**k that! getting banned for quitting out of a game, what if someone needs to shoot off, or your playing with a bunch of assholes, getting banned for that seems mad!Thursday, August 19, 2010 @ 01:04 PM
Um, you don't get banned for a single quit, people who can't listen. You get banned for HABITUALLY QUITTING. Now, go get a dictionary and look up the word "habitual". Seriously, you guys need to. My solution for the jackhole quitters has always been, "they should not be able to play another game, not even a custom game, until the match they just quit gets over. If they had to leave to do something important, this won't affect them. And if they're quitting to be jerks, they just got what they deserved."Friday, August 20, 2010 @ 06:12 PM
Actually looking more forward to Forge World, FAR too few games have full-scale level editors anymore, and from what I've seen I'm going to put a few hundred hours in just making stages, lol.Friday, August 20, 2010 @ 06:16 PM
Also hope Bungie do throwbacks to Halo 1 and 2 with either uber secret powerful weapons (Scarab Gun) or hijack-able vehicles that are A) insanely awesome and B) nowhere to be found anywhere else in the game. Assault on the Control Room. Banshee Hijacking. Now those were the good ol' days. NO MORE SKULLS, that's way more lame than secret weapons or vehicles.Friday, August 20, 2010 @ 08:35 PM
if theres one thing i hate more than stupid comment post is a stupid argument on a comment post. people, think before you post a comment that upsets other people. now back on subject, cant wait for reach its gonna be awesome. really like the armor abilities.Saturday, August 21, 2010 @ 04:09 AM
this game is gonna be amazing, and on my opinion(and mine only) i think this game is gonna be game of the year hands down... and forge world will be awesome Halo reach ftw!!!!Saturday, August 21, 2010 @ 10:19 AM
simply cant wait for this game it will most likely ruin my life and lower my grades significantlySaturday, August 21, 2010 @ 10:13 PM
@18 agreeSunday, August 22, 2010 @ 02:04 AM
Hahaha I litterally cant wait. . . . the controllers are already in the stores and I'm flipping out on its release. I have the Legendary Edition reserved and I just need to get my hands on the counsole then I toss my MW2 one to the curb and love Halo all over again. Its invigorating to see Bungie so. . . included in the communitty, it brought shivers down my spines knowing all the effort they'll be placing in this games "cheat detecting" software. For Halo fans this is a must buy and all the people who aren't excited about it let them be. . . as stated prior to my post they are simply stating their opinion. I'm sure there are games out there that they enjoy that we dont that doesn't mean we have to gnaw eachother's heads off theres plenty of time to do that in Reach. As for their tweaking on the quitting feature at first I was against it. Now after being reintroduced to Halo once again (2 years out of the game still a SGNT in the new ranking system lol) I feel like this move is a good one. My brother and I were playing matches a few nights back and the entire enemy team was able to quit with the exception of one person? How is this fair? How can you put that against a player's record? I think Bungie has their heads on the right way and I hope to see more titles related to their name in the future. Love Bunjie.Sunday, August 22, 2010 @ 02:06 AM
ACK!!! WTF?!?!?!?!? I changed the j to a g but it changed it back?!?!?! grrr now I look like a complete idiot. . . *sigh* cut me some slack guys its 3 in the morning.Sunday, August 22, 2010 @ 02:18 AM
Ohh and one more thing lol I know "Triple post zomg" but I find this funny to point out the person chewing us all out for playing Halo and says real men play Gears (I play both) his user name is Twilight. . . . huh. . . . thats mildlly entertaining remind me to back out of a lobby if I face you in GoW3 "Ohhhhh nooooo its the mighty TWILIGHT!!!"Sunday, August 22, 2010 @ 05:29 PM
Simply amazing! Also LOL @88 O_oMonday, August 23, 2010 @ 06:57 AM
I can't wait until Halo Reach comes out man and hopefully it will be A HELL OF A LOT BETTER THAN ODST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Wednesday, August 25, 2010 @ 08:42 AM
The beta was awesome, can't wait to see what new thing they have put in.Wednesday, August 25, 2010 @ 09:36 AM
Halo reach looks like it is going to be proper awesome :DThursday, August 26, 2010 @ 09:13 PM
i wish i could play Reach right now!
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Monday, August 02, 2010
While in London last week checking out Halo: Reach, we caught up with Bungie's Community Director, Brian Jarrard, and Campaign Designer, Niles Sankey, to talk all things Halo: Reach.
We delve deeper into the subtle changes that Bungie have made to the final game since the beta - did you know they've changed the movement and jump speed between the two versions? - as well as why Bungie decided to send the Spartans into space. There's all that and more. More, more, more, more, more.... And more!
Halo: Reach is out September 14th. Make sure you've read our hands-on preview before then though, it'd be rude not to.