Omnimaga
General Discussion => Technology and Development => Gaming Discussion => Topic started by: Eeems on December 17, 2011, 12:52:37 am
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http://steamcommunity.com/groups/omnimaga
Just created a steam group for Omnimaga members :) Feel free to join and hopefully this will make it easier for people to game together :)
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Good idea! I'm joining.
Also we could have events.
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Yeah we could, if enough of us join we could have tf2 tourneys etc :)
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cool!
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http://steamcommunity.com/groups/omnimaga
Just created a steam group for Omnimaga members :) Feel free to join and hopefully this will make it easier for people to game together :)
I hope this doesn't cause problems again from Half Life players that have Netham45 on their friend list though O.O (back in the days, they kept coming in #omnimaga to complain at him about hacks and stuff, because he had omnimaga linked in his Steam profile)
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What is Steam?
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Some online gaming messenger service that is required to play certain games like Half Life, Portal, etc (sadly). I wish when playing these games Steam didn't have to start automatically (Although I guess it helps to know when your friends are playing some games.)
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I'm pretty sure you can play them without steam. Just go the <steam install dir>\steamapps\common\ find half life and try launching it from there.
Steam is more then just a messenger service. It's a means of getting the games and updates as well.
http://store.steampowered.com/about/
It's the equivalent of xbox live for the computer.
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Hmm I see. I always thought those games were made dependent on Stream. Also I hate how it automatically downloads 800 GB large files of Supreme Commander 2 everytime I start steam anyway.
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Steam games are just games packaged to be used with steam, they aren't always dependent on it. There are a few that require it for multiplayer but other than that you don't actually need to have steam running for most of them.
You can disable automatic synchronizations so it doesn't sync your game data to the cloud. I'm not sure if you can disable updates though, but you can always pause the downloads if you don't want them running.
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0.8 terabytes for a game?! O.O
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0.8 terabytes for a game?! O.O
he's exaggerating.
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Yay! I joined :)
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0.8 terabytes for a game?! O.O
he's exaggerating.
Actually, The Game is this large.
Seriously though I will probably join the group soon.
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according to wikipedia it's only 5GB
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Commander_2
It's probably got a lot of extra content that make it a ton bigger though.
The biggest game I have is 20GB I think. One of the total war games.
We need to find a good game that all of us have so we can all play :)
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If you are replying to my last post I was talking about another game (hence "The Game") :P
I personally don't really play any Steam game except Audiosurf, though. I think I had a free copy of Half Life 2 though.
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can I haz the half life 2?
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I can't give it because it was downloaded via my steam account, I do not have the CD or something.
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D:
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We need to find a good game that all of us have so we can all play :)
I would suggest Team Fortress 2. If I check the group stats, it comes first by far.
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Team Fortress would be optimial, its free and team based ^^
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True :P
Well when are you guys free to game? I'll set an event and we can all try to play a game together :D
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I could possibly later tonight... Other than that, not until next weekend, most likely :/
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Team Fortress would be optimial, its free and team based ^^
Free...FREE?!!
Anything that's free is awesome!/me searches
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I am only open on wednesdays from 6:30-8:00. :(
Now to re-download Steam...
Team Fortress: http://thebest404pageever.com/swf/nope.swf (http://thebest404pageever.com/swf/nope.swf)
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Might be free tonight as well.
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Well I'll leave the group chat open so drop in and let me know if you guys want to play :)
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I actually got TF1 too I think. However from experience it crashed quite often on my XP computer. not sure if it runs on Seven, considering it dates back in 1997.
Btw another game messenging service/social network type thing is Xfire. However it tends to mess with some 2D games.
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I'm in it :D But no one is in chat :(
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Oh, I thought it was tf1 that was free. Tf2 free, thats even better! :D/me downloads steam
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why does it take up so much memory!!!
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DJ_O tells of a Game that takes up 0.8 terabytes.
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lol...wow
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I was kidding about the 800 gigabytes game. Supreme Commander was about 800 MB I think. It was still insane that it got redownloaded completely every update instead of patches like Starcraft II. If Starcraft II did the same thing, I would have quit playing multiplayer.
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Any guys who own Rome:Total War/RTW:Barbarian Invasion/RTW: Alexander?
I'm joining :D
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I own almost all the total war series.
I've currently only got Napoleon Total war installed though. I'm planning on installing Shogun 2 soon though.
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Total war is epics! :D I recently also bought medieval II complete pack but it won't run on my crappy pc D:
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What is it? Is it like Starcraft or something?
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It's a RTS but on a larger scale then starcraft. It's only similar to starcraft in the fact that it's an RTS.
It's basically a battle sim between massive armies.
Here is an example of overmap gameplay and the actual battles
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Joined the group and made Steam account!
Downloading TF2. 1 gigabyte down, 9 to go!
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Geez well if anyone wants to play let me know but I hate playing with people who have lag...... I have a six core computer.
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:o
Where'd you get that? I want one!
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Well I built it. I could post a tutorial on how to build a computer or you can just look it up on youtube
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Never mind :P
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LOL
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Geez well if anyone wants to play let me know but I hate playing with people who have lag...... I have a six core computer.
lag doesn't always depend on how good your computer is. You also have to understand that sometimes people can't help but lag due to distance etc. LOL
I understand that you laughing at his response due to its humor, but I'd like yo request that outside of the spam section that you would refrain from posts that only contain things like "lol" etc.
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Yeah true often when I lag in Starcraft Brood War it's because the opponent is too far away from me or the server.
Also why does everytime I see this topic I always think of steaming lobsters? :P
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Wut are ur usernames? Mne is iMo Inx.
We could also play Spiral Knights.
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Mine is epic7! :P
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Wow! Holy Nethams!
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Yeah Netham has more then one account lol.
I'm Eeems of course.
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I'm DJ_Omnimaga there I think. When we have time, let's "steam" some Nethams! :P
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juju2143 for me. :P
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My user name is JosJuice, as usual.
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My name is dijkvanrichard iirc
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Bell4Cow for me
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All of us vs. Netham.
Netham's gonna get STTTEEEEAAMMMMEEEDDD!
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All of us vs. Netham.
Netham45 is gonna get STTTEEEEAAMMMMEEEDDD!
like a BLUE LOBSTER!!
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And you on steam are a dude with his hands over his face.
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That dude it me...And that was taken by a friend....I don't EVER get my pic taken....Thats a rare pic!
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No, this guy is you:
(http://www.clker.com/cliparts/R/a/J/d/f/W/saint-runner-hi.png)
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Why? is that me?
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Yes. He's running and has an S for saint.
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.....Where is that from? lol
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The first result when google imaging "saintrunner".
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Wow...I like it! (avatared)
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So methinks that since all the holiday sales are going on, now would be a good time to get games we can all play ;D I might be getting Borderlands GOTY, which is only $15.
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Methinks we all need to play some TF2 together.
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Just for the sake of saying it, I own Borderlands, Crysis, DoD: Source, GMod, Insurgency, Mass Effect 2, Portals 1 and 2, and TF2.
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I have none of the paid games. I'll get any of the good free ones
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Is TF2 any good? If I get it, it will take up 6952 MB of my space...Thats a lot....not sure if it's worth it
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Is TF2 any good? If I get it, it will take up 6952 MB of my space...Thats a lot....not sure if it's worth it
its not bad there are some better games but it is very good for a multiplayer game
that sounds a little high for space usage...
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TF2 is really good, especially since it's free now. But ruler, check out some of the sales going on now. I just bought ME2, Borderlands GOTY, and Crysis for $35.
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thats what it said
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Um... Not sure if you'd want to download it then... You'd only have 718MB left.
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yeah......
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TF2 is really good, especially since it's free now. But ruler, check out some of the sales going on now. I just bought ME2, Borderlands GOTY, and Crysis for $35.
my parents wont let me get most games so...
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I just have space issues :P
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Is TF2 any good? If I get it, it will take up 6952 MB of my space...Thats a lot....not sure if it's worth it
It took up 10,000 for me :P
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my computer has WAY TOO MUCH STUFF ON IT!!! *saintrunner goes to clean
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I have several hundred gigabytes left on mine :P
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Me too :P
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mine has three other users....to be fair the have what the want, and I have what I want....but it's all cool cuz I'm getting my own (well nicer then my current own) and I'll get TF2 then :)
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TF2 uses 10616MB for me.
Still got just over 300GB free on my laptop :D
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TF2 uses 10616MB for me.
Same.
But 6000 or 10000 it's still a huge file O.O
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There is a lot to the game :)
Builderboy, a friend of his and I played some Left for Dead 2 today :) I was the only one not to make it D:
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Damnit a few days ago someone told me L4D2 was $3 or so on Steam, but when I arrived on the site during night, the deal expired and game was back to $10 :(
I might still get it anyway, though, but I'm unsure yet because since I'm not much into that type of game, I don,t know if I want to spend money on something I'll play once or twice then get bored of. X.x
Also Eeems I noticed you were missing lately O.o (on IRC, that is).
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Yeah I've been busy playing games with my brother, sleeping, working recently. I'll still pop in irc sometime soon, but I'm not going to be on every day. I don't have the energy all the time to want to be on.
I have two more shifts on nights and then I'm moving to days again. Who knows, maybe I'll be on more again after that :)
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Aaah ok. Also chances I see you on IRC are usually small to begin with because I work almost every weekend (although this could change for a bit) and I tend to not check Omni right when I return.
Also was the Christmas rush bad where you are? Because the same named store near my supermarket had like 15-20 cars at once in the parking during rush times, sometimes less (even on Dec 23rd) O.O
Our store's rush was absolute chaos, though... but we got free pizza for dinner last thursday :P
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Since I work nights I have no idea how the Christmas rush was. The store is closed during the night.
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I remember last year during Black Friday sales, like 5 people were trampled, and 15 people were sent to the hospital O.O
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@Eeems: Ah ok I thought you would still have an idea based on how empty shelves were when you arrived and how much stock got out of the backstore or something :P Here the Rona store was unusually quiet during the Christmas rush, while every other store were extremely busy.
@saintrunner: Yeah I remember that. Over Canada we have Boxing Day (the day after Christmas) instead of Black Friday and it's pretty insane too, so I usually be careful when I go shopping then. Usually, however, electronic stores limits the amount of people that can get in the store at once so you have to wait outside in line for about 15-30 minutes, and there are security guards in case the crowd needs to be controlled. Stuff can still happen sometimes, like in Winnipeg for example there was a pepper spray attack.
@Back-on-topic: THe other week I bought Duke Nukem forever for like $6 on Steam, but I didn't like it much for some reasons. It seemed like the old one was better. However if anyone play that game online I guess we can play eventually.
I should really install Portal 2 at one point. I just waited before downloading it to not exceed my bandwidth cap too much.
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Builderboy, a friend of his and I played some Left for Dead 2 today :) I was the only one not to make it D:
That was lots of fun! We should do it again soon :D Later after you left, my friend left me and the two other computers to die D: But then I did the same to him!
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My bro got Portal 2 for PS3 and it comes with a key for the PC version on Steam so we can play multiplayer together :P
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That's great, so two copies for the price of one? Also it's great it's possible to play accross systems. I was sure if you had the Xbox version you couldn't play with PC users, for example.
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@Eeems: Ah ok I thought you would still have an idea based on how empty shelves were when you arrived and how much stock got out of the backstore or something :P Here the Rona store was unusually quiet during the Christmas rush, while every other store were extremely busy.
I can never tell because for all we know, the shelves could have already been empty because we didn't have anything to stock it with for a couple weeks.
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Ah ok X.x
(In any case I hope you keep a good enough amount of work hours, though)
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When I go to days I'll be either 32 or 40 hours a week. It depends on the week.
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Ah ok. Well at least it's better than 0 :P
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A lot better lol. I'm still full time :P
Btw, one more shift to go :O
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Does anyone have Borderlands?
EDIT: If my friend got it for the PS3, we could play it together right?
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I'm pretty sure you can't play borderlands on two different types consoles together ( ie: ps3-xbox 360 or ps3-pc or pc-xbox 360 ).
You would both have to have it for the same type of console for it's multiplayer to work. I'm no expert though so I would advice googling it to see if people have made it work or not.
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Ahh, okay. So the Steam <-> PS3 thing is only for Valve games? Or just non-existent?
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I'm pretty sure it's non-existant.
EDIT: Actually Portal2 has cross platform multiplayer I think. http://www.joystiq.com/2011/01/18/portal-2-on-ps3-features-cross-platform-chat-multiplayer-and-a/
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I confirm. Portal 2 have cross-platform multiplayer. I played with my bro who was on his PS3 the other day.
I guess Valve will explore this feature further in their future releases.
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I joined but my name is hellninjas2 lol
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I used to have Borderlands, but I sold it one month later because I got bored out of its repetitiveness.
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So far I'm loving Borderlands. I like these type of games (Fallout and RAGE<3), and the fact that I can play Borderlands with friends makes it even better.
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Yeah actually liked the beginning and it was quite funny sometimes. I just got bored after 5 or 6 missions because every mission was pretty much the same thing or close. All you were doing was talking to a NPC to get a quest, bringing him back the item he wanted, repeat, and so on. I prefer games where you always progress in the world and have to do a large variety of stuff like in Final Fantasy games or other FPSes. :/
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Ahh, okay. Free-roam FPS games with RPG elements are my favorite kinds of games, although strict FPS's are a close second ;)
I'd have to say so far my top anticipated games for 2012 are Borderlands 2, Prototype 2, Halo 4, and Mass Effect 3.
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I heard Borderlands 2 actually solves a bit of the over-repetitiveness issue that is typical in MMORPGs and some newer RPGs. I wonder if that's true?
Also Halo 4?? O.O
I'll pass on Mass Effect, though, because I found it way too complicated. :(
My most awaited game is Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm Expansion Set.
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Yeah, Halo 4's being made by 343 Studios or something like that. The trailer shows him firing his new overpowered magnum with explosive bullets.
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AH ok. I am surprised, though, because I thought Halo 3 ODST was like Halo 3-II and Halo Reach the 4th.
And no I won't go on Youtube to seek for Halo 4 trailers, because I'm sure I'll get rickroll'd. :P
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Mhm, and 343i (i is for Industries) is also planning to make Halo 4 part of the Reclaimer Trilogy, so they're also planning on Halo 5 and 6.
EDIT: Lol, DJ, no rickrolls :P there's a legitimate Halo 4 trailer.
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Oh I was saying this because in 2008 and 2009, after Halo 3 had come out people started flooding Youtube with fake Halo 4 trailers, most of which were rickroll pranks. I'm sure most of those vids are still there. :P I even had one on my old account which got 300 hate comments XD.
Example:
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Well, my good sir, here you are (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9iQiHNXgMU). I've never rickroll'd anyone, and I plan to keep it that way :)
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I actually found it a few seconds ago. I was surprised that most rickroll vids didn't come first. :P
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Well, my good sir, here you are (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9iQiHNXgMU). I've never rickroll'd anyone, and I plan to keep it that way :)
OMG, looks epic.
(Then we learn later that the guy is actually Rick Astley. >.>)
And yeah it's from IGN, so it's legit.