Ah, awesome news. I'd like to see a lot more use of the terrain. It would be cool to see a pacific theatre of war and using the dense jungle to conceal units as well as using flamethrowers to clear that same jungle. But anyway eastern front with snow will be cool.
And just as a side note: as much as I love CoH I would be 10x more excited if they announced Homeworld 3.
@Fernin-Ker: First thing's first: your response was 100% moronic. 1) Tell me where I said reading is "CLEARLY bad". You can't, because I didn't. 2) You can't claim that the Chief both has a personality/character and that "the player is the Chief". If you think you are the Chief then it only goes to show how underwhelming his personality is. That's contradiction. So there is nothing wrong with my statement that he has no character (in the games). Moreover, there have been isolated moments where the Chief displays minor characterisation, but they are too far and few to gleam what type of person he may be, what he is thinking, his motives, etc from the video games. As far as the games go Chief has a very poor character beyond the "space marine fighting aliens to save humanity" archetype. Fun fact: I own and have played al the Halo games except Reach and AE (including Halo and Halo 2 on PC), I also own all the books (even there he has little personality beyond "I have a duty and Spartans are my brothers and sisters"). However, in Evolutions, in two of the short stories, the Chief has conversations with Cortana - something which is only barely touched upon vocally in the video games, and only at a shallow level as a theme or sub-plot. Also, just to conclude how mornic your comment to me was: I said I wanted the kind of character he had FROM THE BOOKS so why would you then suggest that I thought or said reading was bad?
I hope the Chief has more life in him and actually talks to Cortana and other characters a lot more like in the novels. As much as I like the Halo series the "haters" are right when they say he is nothing more than a faceless space marine, at least on the character level. It's pretty sad to have to get character from a seperate piece of media like books. It does seem to be shaping up well though so I am excited to see some more.
When you've been charging $100AUD for a game for the last 15 years it's easy to expect those consumers to expect that and for them to do nothing about it. Goldeneye, Mario Kart, Perfect Dark, Bad Fur Day - those N64 games from ~2000 and earlier were all roughly $100 when they were released. 10-15 years later MW3 is still $100. Why? Because that's what people expect to pay. Prices often reflect what the market is doing, and if MW3 is making record sales here then they will continue charging that price. This is the exact same reason retail sales went down 1.2 billion and other retail sectors are showing losses and an inability to keep up with online sales - they are reflecting the market going to cheaper, online sources. When people decide they will no longer pay $100 for a new release you can be sure the prices will go down - this is something retail stores are failing to do. The other day I bought 4 books from the UK for a total of $50 - if I went to Dymocks just ONE of those books would have been $45. My point is either stop paying $100 for games to illicit change, and if the industry doesn't want to listen to you they will eventually pay for it.
@Gruug: the problem is that people DO buy it. Why? Because they feel they MUST have it. Why? Because they feel like they're missing out on part of the game they bought. @Vari3ty: Excellent point. So many games these days come out with DLC that costs $5-20US, and yet the game is stil priced at $60. Tell me you greedy, selfish ****ing developers: if your game is shipped with only half the content why are we still paying full price? And if you CAN'T ship the game with all the content why did you RELEASE an unfinished product? Why do you expect us to pay for an unfinished product and then complain about piracy afterwards as if you've been robbed blind? Take a look at Valve. Team Fortress 2. The Orange Box. CSS, DoD:S, Portal - they were released 3 years ago. They are still regularly updated (where as the other developers have released 5 versions of their games rather than patch and fix their old products). Team Fortress 2 is still in the process of evolving game mechanics which are updated regularly, content patches, bug fixes. All of this is FREE. And you (developers) want to know the biggest difference between TF2 and your games? Between you and Valve? Quality. Respect. Customer loyalty. Though I guess none of that matters while there are still people out there stupid enough to buy DLC and support these crappy developers anyway. I feel like uprising, but a one man uprise just makes me seem crazy. :(
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