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Halo 5 Review Thread
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DR2K
Banned
Seems way too big of a deterrent than just not meeting expectations.
Scalebound some other stuff etc.......
its short. it honestly feels incomplete. like they wanted to save something for later titles which is a shame since the gunplay is amazing now
So sounds like MP and gameplay is great/good depending on reviewer but SP is great/average with most reviewers leaning to average?
About what I figured as a good result. May still get it. I think the EU and the core narrative is simply too unwieldy by this point and without a radical reboot of approach my days of enjoying and feeling immersed in a fun SF world are gone.
But if the online and general mechanics are good I'm still,minter edited just less so and happy to wait a bit for impressions to settle.
About what I figured as a good result. May still get it. I think the EU and the core narrative is simply too unwieldy by this point and without a radical reboot of approach my days of enjoying and feeling immersed in a fun SF world are gone.
But if the online and general mechanics are good I'm still,minter edited just less so and happy to wait a bit for impressions to settle.
RIP linear games, you had a good run.
Our review is also up, as usual full text in french only but our verdict has been translated. We also have many high quality videos to go along with it 
http://www.gamersyde.com/news_gsy_review_halo_5_guardians-17246_en.html
http://www.gamersyde.com/news_gsy_review_halo_5_guardians-17246_en.html
CassidyIzABeast
Member
Its like having prime Shaq on the bench and starting Shawn Bradley
The story is bad, make no mistake, but some people are going to be mad, because the marketing does it no favors.
Without spoiling anything, the game's ad campaign paints a picture that isn't even remotely accurate to the game's actual plot.
So... go in with an open mind, and forget the commercials. If you've read the books (I haven't), you might get something from the story that I didn't.
Without spoiling anything, the game's ad campaign paints a picture that isn't even remotely accurate to the game's actual plot.
So... go in with an open mind, and forget the commercials. If you've read the books (I haven't), you might get something from the story that I didn't.
DOWN
Banned
Our review is also up, as usual full text in french only but our verdict has been translated. We also have many high quality videos to go along with it
http://www.gamersyde.com/news_gsy_review_halo_5_guardians-17246_en.html
Always looking out for your vids, thanks
if you account for franchise fatigue and the general negative trend in metascores recently it doesn't seem too bad when compared to the rest of the franchise.
though, the fact mcc has a 85 metacritic and this, what sounds much, much better than that mess, has a 86, just shows how irrelevant metacritic really is.
I think there are other factors such as a wider trend for /5 scores.
Whereas a reviewer may have scored a game 90 in 2007, 4/5 in 2015 translates to an 80 in Metacritic.
But as you say,,perhaps another sign of how flawed Metacritic is to actually use for scores as it's also very easy to temporarily manipulate those scores as a large publisher.
Well, thanks for letting people like me know as I'll definitely be skipping out on Halo 5. I'm one of those people that cares fuck all about multi-player and instead is concerned mostly about a great single player campaign that includes a good story. I had some raised expectations for Halo 5 after the excellent first season of Hunt the Truth, but reading that the campaign is the same incomprehensible and boring mess the likes of which we got in Halo 4 means that I'll wait until the game is in the bargain bin before I pick it up. At least Fallout 4 is around the corner.
Arby 'n' the Chief
Member
He wrote another halo book!
pls MS put him in 343 to help with the writing T_T
glassgannon
Banned
Yikes!
i dont agree at all with what you quoted the story actually makes sense. what doesnt is that its cut short.
BigTnaples
Todd Howard's Secret GAF Account
Interesting, thanks for the feedback.
My main complaint with Halo 4 was the physics/explosions/enemy hit reactions/simulation all seemed to be very poor when compared to say Halo Reach or 3. In those games, the way vehicles exploded, the way grunts dropped from head shots, and the way grenades sent covies and objects flying, always felt very solid. In halo 4, everything felt as if it was hollow and weighed nothing at all. Explosions also seemed "weak" comparatively.
Has this been amended in halo 5?
Baroquemantic
Member
Looks like a very solid game. Congrats to 343.
In that context, "perhaps" is just a rhetorical tool to simulate a kind of interior dialogue/argument. The reviewer does not want Halo to be Destiny-lite.
Our review is also up, as usual full text in french only but our verdict has been translated. We also have many high quality videos to go along with it
http://www.gamersyde.com/news_gsy_review_halo_5_guardians-17246_en.html
I guess the claims of the campaign being twice the length of Halo 4 were a bunch of bullshit. I'm not surprised, however. Devs love hyping up the length of their campaign and they always completely overestimate the actual length but I was pretty hopeful that they weren't lying.
All around, seems like the story is getting a lot of criticism.
Leyasu
Banned
I'm shocked to see you latching on to the worst review. Truely I am
Bits N Pieces
Member
So reviews seem on the whole pretty positive then. Work today is going to be oh so tough /long/hard/unbearable/etc/etc
lol, was thinking exactly the same.
But OT: Game is reviewing well enough. Hype's not derailed...
I didn't make a note of it physics one way or the other.
I do think, in general, some of the "Halo sandbox" feel is gone. I never felt like anything hilarious or unexpected happened in the campaign thanks to the developers trusting the sandbox to "do its thing," which I think I felt with every other Halo game at least once. So in that sense, maybe the physics have been tamed. EDIT: Although this might be because (it feels to me? maybe someone else can run the numbers) that you're on foot more often in 5.
In previous games, you'd get plopped in front of a Covenant tank, with the game basically saying "...Figure it out, dude." Then it was up to you to find a hidden power weapon, plot a hijack, sneak by, or whatever.
5 has a few brilliant open-ended sandbox sections, including one right at the end of the game that's so good it almost makes up for the rest of the campaign. But unfortunately, most of the campaign is lacking what I would consider AAA sandbox design.
Maybe I'm just remembering the previous games romantically, and they're more linear than I thought.
TL;DR: Guns >> Sandbox >>>>> Story.
MrCookiepants
Member
Seems skipable to me.
Good reviews of course. But i think it won't go above 90.
Was never a massive Halo campaign player, so I'm not too fussed about the mixed impressions on that front. However the positive MP impressions have me really hoping that this time around MP will last a lot longer than Halo 4.
I just hope it works out of the box....2 and half hours till I find out!
I just hope it works out of the box....2 and half hours till I find out!
Backfoggen
Banned
Doesn't seem like a noticeable improvement over Halo 4. I'll pass at full price.
Karak
Member
Jump into warzone and watch that thing escalate lol. It can get amazingly chaotic but always so damn "ON"
You should really see who you're quoting to know that it never had a chance to get that high.
1-If it's a room that's fun to go through repeatedly, that's not necessarily a problem. Consider how people often play racing games, doing the same lap in the same car under the same conditions repeatedly, fine tuning their technique and sometimes playing differently.
2-They're made out of the same modular geometry pieces, but they're not the same room. The different layouts have their own large-scale aesthetic vibe, and more importantly, the encounters are totally different. I thought it was samey the first time I played the game, twelve years ago; but with familiarity you actually feel the differences more. By the fiftieth replay or so, AotCR is a massively diverse level.
3-Speaking of the same modular geometry pieces, they have the benefit that even though the spaces play differently, you can very quickly learn to move/jump/whatever through them very smoothly, even if you don't know a particular room perfectly. It gives it its own language, sort of.
Alternately: What's up with the love for some Mario games which use the same exact objects palletized the same way across a bunch of levels?
Alternately: It's cheap and it's sketchy as all hell, but it works.
barneystuta83
Member
Sounds on the whole pretty good.
As many have said, the proof will be in the longevity of the multiplayer. It has a week or so until Black Ops 3 and a few weeks until Battlefront, so Halo needs to show it is worth keeping the community playing.
Based on what I've seen so far, I fully expect MS to have some interesting Multiplayer play lists and additional content like BTB to help keep/bring back the players.
As many have said, the proof will be in the longevity of the multiplayer. It has a week or so until Black Ops 3 and a few weeks until Battlefront, so Halo needs to show it is worth keeping the community playing.
Based on what I've seen so far, I fully expect MS to have some interesting Multiplayer play lists and additional content like BTB to help keep/bring back the players.
AHA-Lambda
Member
thekiddfran
Member
So if you only like Halo for the story this will suck?
CassidyIzABeast
Member
I'm still hyped and charged for tomorrow. I'm like 1 of 3 people that didn't get the game over the weekend.
If you only like Halo for the story you should stick to the books. The games have never told good stories, they've just been even worse lately.
'Suck' seems to be a strong word.
Maybe disappointed by the story, but the gameplay is top-notch across the board it seems.
TheAusHulk
Member
Good to see 343 smashed it out of the park. I hope it has no online issues like master chief collection did.
Depends. The hardcore lore fans are mixed. Blue team was handled extremely well, there just wasn't enough of them. Osiris were nothing amazing, and some of the cutscenes/story decisions could have been way more powerful. The opening cutscene is the best cutscene in the game by far.
The only book that I consider important to the actual plot (not background, every Halo has background reading) is
Saints Testimony.
Huntthetruth is largely irrelevant, as is
the whole Locke vs MC thing.
WordsintheWater
Member
343 you know what has to be done
Yup
Read the following paragraph.
Reviews how do they work. Im not sure if your kidding or not but i hope your are.