Graeme Devine (lead designer, halo wars) recently let it be know that Halo Wars did not begin as a Halo game. Instead they began making it with the idea that they would license out their RTS technology. How do you feel about this?  Is it good, bad, surprising or does it not even matter? Sorry if this has been talked about before.. I ...

Lt. d&c:Guys? its a game. its whats more intersting and fun not whats realistic. if you still don't like for gameplay reasons, i respect that but still.... Often times, realism equates to what is "interesting and fun".  I find that the more realistic something is, the more I can immerse myself in the game and ...

Hammerboy217:unless you want a grunt to put on a mustache and call himself Hugh Mann, i don't think so...or maybe thats something else... I have to admit, I'm quite confused by your response. I'm merely suggesting that ambient life could be harnessed to be spies... this would need to be an ability that lasts for only a limited ...

The question should be posed in this current rush of ambient life questions, should we be able to use ambient life as spies?  If you remember, in StarCraft you could infect other units for a temporary amount of time, I believe that this would be a useful ability in Halo Wars as well.  If we take it a step further we can use ambient life ...

All you need to do is save the large version of this photo, then put it on a USB memory stick. Pop it into your Xbox 360, and sign in with your profile. Once you sign in, go to the Media Blade, then to Pictures. Go to Portable Device (this is your USB memory stick) scroll to find the photo (you'll see a thumbnail) and when you have the photo ...

I vote the same way here... a combo... the more realistic representations of the true nature of animals the better the ambience will be.  Having a creature stalk you as prey can be realistic.... and having a territorial mother attack you only after you fire a weapon is also realistic.

A combo... anything that can be done to make the worlds we are on as "world-like" as possible the better.  If we can have an entire eco-system on a planet I will vote for that.  It increases the ambience of said world and makes the experience that much more realistic.  I also vote for reactive animals... birds that fly ...

jwjranger:well if these things do attack i have a suggestion, i have 2 blue tounge lizards and the main cause of death for them is whipper snippers cause they just sit there opening their mouths (signaling their going to attack) and then... well you get the idea so what if lets just say... a tank was going across a river and a swarm of eel things ...

It is impossible to satisfy everyone.  When you try you satisfy no one.  To make a successful console RTS game you have to jump in with both feet, you can't build it for both console and PC... you must focus on one.  The PC has been done, we must now conquer to console.  Someone had to do it and it had to be done at some ...

El Cid:Although it would be pretty cool to have interaction between the player and ambient life, it would be really really cool if you occasionally saw them hunting each other and interacting in a 'natural' way. ie Herd walking about, predators following at a distance then a chase and a kill. Agreed.  It would be pretty nice to see ...