Intesresting. ODST was my favorite Campaign as well. The soundtrack, atmosphere, and mission variety were all great. Hopefully Halo 5 delivers for me.
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Halo 5 Review Thread
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Intesresting. ODST was my favorite Campaign as well. The soundtrack, atmosphere, and mission variety were all great. Hopefully Halo 5 delivers for me.
doniewhalberg
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I understand his thoughts on the story, I think Halo is very much entrenched in doing its own thing now and people will love it or hate it. To include the mission design is baffling to me though, unless he means he doesn't like that you spend a lot of time playing as locke. Actual level design and the mission design with those big open sandboxes is incredible to me, I think it's almost masterclass level in how to construct a sandbox shooter, that isn't actually open world. Areas are massive, support countless play styles, you can change up how you want to tackle your objectives on a whim. Maybe he was overwhelmed with the choices, I don't know, but I think the level & mission design together are fantastic.
Context for opinion: ODST and Reach are by far my favourite Halo campaigns.
jfoul
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DontBeThatGuy
Member
You should play it for yourself.
Goldfishking
Member
Sure, every review seperates campaign and multiplayer. But surely having two seperate scores just defeats the purpose of an overall score. A score is meant to be an overall evaluation you can quickly glance at to get a recommendation about a game. Separating it into campaign and multiplayer just confuses people as it makes it very unclear what the reviewer actually thinks about the overall product (again this is a review not a critique).
The only way around this is to do the old gamespot thing of taking lots of little scores and making a score based off that, which honestly i think is worse.
Except, it isn't.
eastx
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| Praxis |
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It's definitely not a turd. Disappointing and more of the same, certainly. Not a turd though.
''But the campaign is the worst in the series.''
FUCK. Now i'm not sure if i will buy Halo 5.
I don't think I would be able to enjoy the campaign either if I had to constantly adjust my distance from the television to truly appreciate the variable resolution.
glassgannon
Banned
where does he imply he did?
'sounds' means just that, thats what he got from the various reviews.
Blue Ninja
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Took me eight hours to beat it on Heroic. About eleven to finish it on Legendary. I didn't die all that much on my Heroic run, so I think 7/8 hours on Normal seems right, depending on your skill level.
It's very much a traditional Halo campaign. Some people will be disappointed by that, others will not be.
CassidyIzABeast
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I'm gonna go out on a limb as guess that Ryan just really hates that
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Out of everything I've seen of this game worst campaign sounds like hyperbole but if those 2 things really get your blood boiling this I could see why you hate the campaign.
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Cortana is the big bad in this and he really liked the send off they gave to her in Halo 4. Only 3 missions where you play as Blue Team probably gave him an aneurysm as well.
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Out of everything I've seen of this game worst campaign sounds like hyperbole but if those 2 things really get your blood boiling this I could see why you hate the campaign.
You might enjoy the ban if you keep trolling like this tho, just saying
glassgannon
Banned
<img>human eye cannot perceive difference b/w 1080 and 720.gif</img>
You're trying too hard
Blue Ninja
Member
It's pretty easy to find this time around. It makes a few certain fights hilarious.
"Can you go? I have friends coming over."
The other skulls are a lot harder, though. Still haven't found any on missions 3, 5, 6, 10, 12, 13 & 15.
Just too long of a joke to be effective.
Im not a MP person so I've always played the halo games for the campaign only, i was very disappointed with halo 4 campaign and it seems after reading some reviews the story on this one is worse, shame, i was gonna buy an xbone on Black Friday just to play this but it seems I'll pass
Sodding_Gamer
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dead
Well, 8 was the *lowest* number we were given for Normal, that was supposedly reached by several playtesters.
Doesn't sound right now. I figured they were breaking the pre-release trend of overstating game length, but I suppose not.
Shpeshal Nick
aka Collingwood
It's Halo so you expect the outliers to give a low score without properly justifying it. Looking really good overall.
Only 3 hours and 11 minutes till unlock.
Only 3 hours and 11 minutes till unlock.
Windom Earle
Member
lmao
Which outlier didn't justify it?
The lower score reviews don't exactly seem "unjustified" to me, at least not what I've read.
AHH, MOONSPEAK!!!
I couldn't think how to shorten it. "It would be a pain to have to switch to a 50" display everytime the game hits 1080p".
But no, you're right, I shouldn't have bothered. I'll get it next time.
It's Rudi Carrellish.
lol
I believe in you.
Thanks dude!
Always-honest
Banned
Insidegamer (Dutch)
8½
+ Fast and precise gameplay
+ constant high framerate
+ Warzone and Arena are two perfect oposites.
+ Xciting story full of fanservice
- No splitscreen coöp
- variable resolution can get really low sometimes
- larger campaign areas can seem really void/ empty
http://www.insidegamer.nl/recensies/119667/halo-5-review-343-drukt-zijn-eigen-stempel
8½
+ Fast and precise gameplay
+ constant high framerate
+ Warzone and Arena are two perfect oposites.
+ Xciting story full of fanservice
- No splitscreen coöp
- variable resolution can get really low sometimes
- larger campaign areas can seem really void/ empty
http://www.insidegamer.nl/recensies/119667/halo-5-review-343-drukt-zijn-eigen-stempel
JetSetRadio
Banned
Decent scores.
Zeouterlimits
Member
Hmm, the Eurogamer review was a nice enough read.
Real shame the characters and story don't seem to be up to snuff.
Real shame the characters and story don't seem to be up to snuff.
Always-honest
Banned
You know what i mean. Don't get all autistic on me now (in a jokingly way...).
Edit: never mind. You'll be saying: no, it 's one product and that is that. Fine.
But imo it would be good to give two different scores for two very different parts of that product.
Oof.
Hmmm. I was definitely on the hype train. I might be getting off at the next stop.
If they offered the game with MP or SP only for a discount then sure.
If they offered the game with MP or SP only for a discount then sure.
Blue Ninja
Member
It's up, but it's in Dutch. I've got a review ready for the Halo lore thread, but it mostly focuses on the story and only briefly touches upon the gameplay.
Simply put, I think it tells a great story. Completely different in tone than what the marketing suggested. First half of the game gave me a legit ODST-vibe, as you're uncovering the mystery. Then everything kicks into overdrive. As I was watching the ending events unfurl, the feeling it gave me reminded me of the feeling I got at the end of The Empire Strikes Back.
Gameplay-wise the campaign it feels really close to what we got in Halo 3 and, more particularly, Halo 2. Some of the areas you encounter really look and feel like they were inspired by that game. Obviously you now have the ability to thrust, clamber and sprint, but this is the first time I've felt additions like this don't detract from the experience. These are not armor abilities you switch out, these are abilities you always have at your disposal and they feel great. Really add another new layer to the combat and the exploration. I've spent hours just climbing on top of structures, looking for audio logs and skulls.
Always-honest
Banned
Hey, i'm the same way. People hate that in me sometimes. Way to exact ;p.
Dash_Riprock
Member
So consensus seems to be the MP is great, but the SP is either so-so to downright bad?