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Halo 4 |OT| Spartans Never Die
- Thread starter GhaleonEB
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Just woke up. Played an hour+ on Heroic last night before bunking.
Initial impressions:
The visual assets in this game is absolutely outstanding. The various optical flares etc when inside high tech areas. The highly detailed mountain ranges in the open levels. The forerunner design... really, really beautiful. Gunplay feels really good. Just the most precise controls. The Covenant plays like before with no real surprises (meaning: a lot of personality and a lot of fun). Actually seen a couple of AI glitches which I haven't in previous games (chars keep running against a wall). The Warthog has a way too high sound fx. Overall this feels more Halo than Halo 2/3 so far.
edit: Water animates beautifully but I can't remember if Halo 3 beautifully.
Initial impressions:
The visual assets in this game is absolutely outstanding. The various optical flares etc when inside high tech areas. The highly detailed mountain ranges in the open levels. The forerunner design... really, really beautiful. Gunplay feels really good. Just the most precise controls. The Covenant plays like before with no real surprises (meaning: a lot of personality and a lot of fun). Actually seen a couple of AI glitches which I haven't in previous games (chars keep running against a wall). The Warthog has a way too high sound fx. Overall this feels more Halo than Halo 2/3 so far.
edit: Water animates beautifully but I can't remember if Halo 3 beautifully.
AllIsOneIsNone
Banned
Are you in the US? Did you opt for release date shipping?
The actual content from a review is usually worthwhile if the writer is good, but rating scales need to either be overhauled, or gone completely. I've gotten much more from RPS all text reviews than any other site.
I am still debating on it as well. But the more I think about it, the more I realize that I don't really feel like waiting in a parking lot until midnight, so I may just get it tomorrow morning.
LowParry
Member
It's not a bad idea. Get some TTT2 in first, go wait, play some MP. Zombified by morning. I like that idea.
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
Why did 343 rename Firefight to Spartan Ops?
XtremeXpider
Member
WTF? a 2??? A TWO????
Zeouterlimits
Member
Yes. Lots of data back up how much that metacritic score if not affects, correlates to sales.
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
It's a totally different thing. Firefight is gone. Spartan Ops is a side-campaign consisting of 50 mini-missions, with an episodic release schedule of five missions each week for ten weeks.
Edit : I replaced 'episodes' with 'missions' to be more clear.
thetrin
Hail, peons, for I have come as ambassador from the great and bountiful Blueberry Butt Explosion
I was under the impression that SpOps involved traveling from one side of the level to the other via objectives, rather than just standing in an arena fighting off waves.
Because it's not Firefight?
Major Williams
Member
I'll add my 2 cents - I'm really looking forward to Halo 4. While it doesn't have the ONE THING I really wanted (in-game kill menu still doesn't show deaths, only amount of kills), I am super pumped.
Also, list of my favorite campaigns stories (ALL opinion):
1. Halo 1 (CEA specifically; dat terminal)
2. Halo Wars (Awesome narrative and CGI storytelling)
3. Halo 2 (Arbiter TWIST, Prophet of Truth was EVIL)
4. Halo 3 (Wasn't bad, just didn't leave me feeling the way the marketing led me to believe)
5. Reach (Music was awful in parts [not all of it], characters felt forced)
6. ODST (Just not a fan of the narrative style, didn't really feel like an invasion for 80% of the game)
Also, list of my favorite campaigns stories (ALL opinion):
1. Halo 1 (CEA specifically; dat terminal)
2. Halo Wars (Awesome narrative and CGI storytelling)
3. Halo 2 (Arbiter TWIST, Prophet of Truth was EVIL)
4. Halo 3 (Wasn't bad, just didn't leave me feeling the way the marketing led me to believe)
5. Reach (Music was awful in parts [not all of it], characters felt forced)
6. ODST (Just not a fan of the narrative style, didn't really feel like an invasion for 80% of the game)
That's not an accurate description. SpOps and FF aren't really related at all. SpOps is a full campaign split up into mini-missions.
Chick's score is ludicrous, there is no way in hell this game is anywhere below a 6. I kind of get where he's coming from with what he writes about the campaign though.
I have to second what was said above about the precise controls. With other Halo titles I've always alternated between 3-4 sensitivity, never quite happy at all times. Halo 4 controls feel perfect as default.
The new increased focus on points over just kills in the MP is really cool. I played a couple hours of Regicide before taking this break, and I had more fun with it than any other free-for-all gametype in a long time.
Hypertrooper
Member
Co.Create - How to reinvent an icon: Behind Microsoft's rebuild of team Halo and the making of Halo 4
Seems like a nice read but I will save it after I finished the campaign.
Seems like a nice read but I will save it after I finished the campaign.
nelsonroyale
Member
Just bought this game. The first Halo I have bought. Looks about the best game this fall, barring Far Cry 3 actually living up to its promise.
Giving the lowest score by far certainly gets a poor review much more attention.
I always do lists in terms of gameplay and story for halo because the quality of both is highly erratic across the series:
Story:
Halo 2 > Halo: CE > Halo 4 > Halo 3: ODST > Halo 3 > Halo: Reach
Gameplay:
Halo 3 > Halo: CE > Halo 4 > Halo 3: ODST > Halo: Reach > Halo 2
So it's a very solid entry in the series imo. I'm hard on halo 4 because I feel like the potential was there for it to be something really special if 343 had just been a little braver. Maybe Halo 5...
soulassssns
Banned
Awesome!!!! My Amazon LE changed to "Shipping soon".
Took me until episode 3 to get into it. I think it'll all work better when I see it as a full movie.
Primethius
Banned
I have watched it was was thoroughly disappointed by it. The action scenes were horrible and MC looked cheap.
Fudgepuppy
Banned
Good game, boring at times, seems somewhat unpolished and unsure of its focus during a lot of scenes and the music is incredibly non-descript, might just be because of the god awful mix.
And in the cutscenes, all SFX's are so low-quality it's jarring when the much clearer dialogue and music starts.
I personally don't think it feels like a Halo game, for better or worse.
What made Halo for me, was that it was just a sandbox where everything was sort of structured around the same elements you always had at play, which made it feel very game'y. This time around it tries to hide that, which just makes it kind of jarring when you realize that gameplay-wise, it's still very earnest and simplistic with how all the elements shape the game's structure.
Will probably like the game more and more the more times I play it, but when I was done I just thought "Did they try too much or too little?"
This game is fucking up my mind, can't wrap my head around it. :/
And also sidenote, I've read all Halo books, comics etc, so I would consider myself a Halo-fanboy.
And in the cutscenes, all SFX's are so low-quality it's jarring when the much clearer dialogue and music starts.
I personally don't think it feels like a Halo game, for better or worse.
What made Halo for me, was that it was just a sandbox where everything was sort of structured around the same elements you always had at play, which made it feel very game'y. This time around it tries to hide that, which just makes it kind of jarring when you realize that gameplay-wise, it's still very earnest and simplistic with how all the elements shape the game's structure.
Will probably like the game more and more the more times I play it, but when I was done I just thought "Did they try too much or too little?"
This game is fucking up my mind, can't wrap my head around it. :/
And also sidenote, I've read all Halo books, comics etc, so I would consider myself a Halo-fanboy.
XtremeXpider
Member
There are not sandbox Halos, all have levels "like" sandbox, but all, even CE, are lineal.
Bam Bam Baklava
Member
Going to the MS store tonight. Should have some good stuff going on and 30 dollar gift cards is good too.
Wifiplayer13
Member
Just called Gamestop. Said that 7 people have been waiting there since 3PM. Well, I'm outta here. Cya on the other side.
Paper for Wednesday pushed to Friday evening, fuck yes.
Wonder which map ill be playing on in my first game. Last time it was Spire, which I didn't expect.
I'm on the west coast so I won't be joining you all for another 8 hours, hope you'll still be playing as I'd love to join a party!
Wonder which map ill be playing on in my first game. Last time it was Spire, which I didn't expect.
I'm on the west coast so I won't be joining you all for another 8 hours, hope you'll still be playing as I'd love to join a party!
XtremeXpider
Member
No, just the gun, the chief acting like the chief xD
Wow. $40.
bitoriginal
Member
Been playing since Saturday, and this has reinvigorated my interest in Halo. I didn't really like 3, ODST, or Reach all that much. I played for a while but other shooters took my interest. Well, Halo is back in my life. Best Halo since 2 without a doubt in my mind.
cleveridea
Member
so anyone know how much the bag of chips is at target to get the $10 credit with halo 4
What are you talking about. Every Halo game since Halo 1 has had idle animations.
Outtrigger888
Member
Decided to go to the midnight launch I have to get up at 5 am but all my friends are going and haven't missed a halo launch yet.
ClivePwned
Member
installing now. Turned up at 9am to Big W in Australia just as the guy was pitting stickers on the Halo 4 stock. probably won't get to play for a bit
XtremeXpider
Member
Master chief looking him gun? proof?
I have a bad feeling that anyone that waits till tomorrow to pick up their LE versions might have a very bad day. A couple of my friends were worried about their Best Buy pre orders which have not told them they will be ready in store called and got told.
"just because you pre order does not mean you get it right away, you might have to wait till we get more copies"
Why on earth do companies continue to oversell rare versions of games. I will go nuts tonight if I show up and do not get my copy.
"just because you pre order does not mean you get it right away, you might have to wait till we get more copies"
Why on earth do companies continue to oversell rare versions of games. I will go nuts tonight if I show up and do not get my copy.
Genesis Knight
Member
Mine did. I'm Prime, though. Shipped at 11:30 AM and is in Tulsa, OK. Woo! Arrives tomorrow.
Don't be concerned.
The minute you stop checking for it is the minute they will send you the E-mail, and see that it was shipped hours ago.
soulassssns
Banned
Mine says "shipping soon" if that counts.
Fudgepuppy
Banned
With sandbox they mean how you tackle the levels, and not how the levels are geographically designed.
You can restart the same checkpoint over and over again, and every time get a different result by just doing one thing different; that's the 'sandbox'.
That sucks, hope she turns out okay..
Normally they aren't rare. Limited editions normally sit on a shelf collecting dust at a inflated cost.