The list exaggerates the issue because it confounds developers with publishers. Bungie and Respawn won't be there, but Activision and EA, their publishers, will be. The industry is dominated by publishers and platform vendors, not developers. That's not just the case for E3. Valve and Blizzard would rather pretend that consoles don't exist, and E3 has become more console-centric, again in line with the development of the overall industry, so their absence is also understandable.
Summary: Superman always wins because he has every possible power to the nth degree. He can punch time so hard that it breaks the fabric of the universe and makes it so Batman was never born. That's also why Superman's not a very interesting character, outside of continuity altering cleanup events, and why Batman kicks Supes' heiny when it comes to the most important match: box office gross.
@inaka_rob, that's probably one of the reasons I don't play much COD. All I'm saying is that Halo 2 was a massive leap forward from the original in terms of the variety and depth of the single player campaign. It introduced a ton of new enemies. I'm hoping for a similarly large leap here because since Halo 2, the single player campaigns have largely stagnated. The gameplay has always been magnificent, but the campaigns since Halo 2 have also been too short as they've shifted focus to the multiplayer and none of them saw the leap in gameplay and storytelling that we saw in Halo 2. They don't need to throw out the formula, but it's time to push the envelope. Show the kind of courage behind an RE4 or an Assassin's Creed 3. Promise us something that we've never experienced in a Halo game before. I love Halo. I've played every single one. It's set high standards and expectations, which is why more of the same will not be enough.
Elites and grunts again? I was kind of hoping Halo 4 would bring something new. Something different. We've been shooting Covenant and Flood for, what, 5 games now? How many new enemies have we faced since Halo 2? Even Capcom decided in RE4 that maybe they should give the zombies a break. Isn't it time for Halo combat to evolve again?
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