dragonelite
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tsss, Halo 5 real review will come in 5 months if the playerbase is still strong.
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Halo 5 Review Thread
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ViewtifulJC
Banned
Just cancelled my pre-order tbh. Can't be seen with a sub-90 Metacritic game when people see me on their friends list
Damn. As someone who is buying strictly for the campaign, that hurts. That's CoD levels of short.
BruceLeeRoy
Banned
Calling a 95+ Metacritic average. Definitely gonna be the highest reviewed Xbox One/PS4 game to date. (Excluding GTA V, not sure if that counts. Since it's a late port of an incredible Xbox 360/PS3 game)
343 did the fanbase good. Incredible scores so far.
EDIT: I believed too hard.
I know I have posted this before but every time I enter the thread this post makes me laugh so much.
Uno Venova
Banned
You might be right, reviewers have been less lenient since the generation started, a good thing in my opinion.
This is a massive disappointment. Hope MP is as stellar as they say, although the Beta left me kinda cold.
CassidyIzABeast
Member
Never use developer play time to guess what your playtime will be. I always knock off like 2-3 hours.
Maintenance
Member
Calling a 95+ Metacritic average. Definitely gonna be the highest reviewed Xbox One/PS4 game to date. (Excluding GTA V, not sure if that counts. Since it's a late port of an incredible Xbox 360/PS3 game)
343 did the fanbase good. Incredible scores so far.
EDIT: I believed too hard.
Vire
Member
I would have gladly taken the framerate dropping to 30 FPS in splitscreen mode as a compromise.
But I don't really know the logistics of how that would work or if that would be easy to accomplish, so it's not really for me to say. The bottom line is that it kinda sucks.
RiccochetJ
Gold Member
Haha! Indeed. I watched the Giant Bomb video of Jeff playing on Normal he would just go barreling into encounters with absolutely no worries and pretty much zero punishment for doing so.
I think I'll play on normal to try and recreate the opening CGI scene.
The Jackdog
Member
every review ive read said you can basically sleepwalk through normal, heroic or bust.
Berlin_Wall
Member
Glorious! :-D
BruceLeeRoy
Banned
W.......T................F?
Wasn't Stinkles hyping the fact that the campaign was in the 12-18 hour range? I could have swore I heard something like it was twice as long as a normal Halo campaign.
Jeronimo Jones
Member
Honestly, I just popped in here out of curiosity--only because it's a review thread for a big game--I have no interest otherwise. Reviews aren't going to affect my purchase decision since I don't own the console.
I'm expecting the Fallout 4 review thread will be even worse.
So do I, or even more. Even cutting it in half is typically a good idea.
But we are very rarely told (I can't remember any time it happened, actually) that the range and/or mean given is actually based on real players, and we were this time.
especially if you play a lot of shooters, for instance i'm expecting normal mode to take me 5 hours after playing destiny hard modes and raiding and stuff over the last year for 300 hours and that isn't 343's fault that's mine for playing too many games
Kinda glad the campaign is short. I trudged through 4 (didn't care for it) this past weekend in preparation. Im not a big SP guy, so maybe thats part of it. I just want to see how the story plays out. I think AI is awful and the enemies are boring in Halo so I just want to see what happens and if they can tell me in 4 hours, great. Lots of games these days are 100+ hours so this is a nice change of pace.
spootime
Member
mysteriousmage09
Member
That's pretty damn short....
Probably not real life results. You played with the intention of finishing it quickly to review, right ?
dragonelite
Member
That is a good rule, i also use it.
dragonflys545
Member
What is real life results lol...?
The Baron Count
Member
I agree. Though there have been cases like MGSV where I think some valid issues were ignored across the board.
Consumers need to catch up though I think.
Taking your time, searching for the skulls and intel, not rushing through battle because you have to.
CassidyIzABeast
Member
I'm gonna guess those times involve looking for skulls, taking time during the down time chapters, and looking for audio logs. I watched a video on youtube earlier and you can no exaggeration go through one of those downtime chapters in under 2 minutes in you go straight for the objective.
I'm more than half way through the campaign after 3 hours on heroic. Been more or less taking it easy too.
//shrug.
ChaosZeroX
Banned
Thats incredibly short. Wow. I thought it would be at least 10 hours.
The Order 1886 is longer then that lol
Who the hell plays on normal anyway...
Anyone who has ever played a Halo knows that Heroic is the way to go.
Heroic- "Fight against formidable foes that will truly test your skill and wits; this is the way Halo is meant to be played"
Playing at a difficulty level that can be run through without any challenge whatsoever, and then using that as a basis for explaining what potential customers will be getting into is just wrong...
and add not playing on Normal to that. Not to be a jerk but let's be honest anyone who buys Halo on this forum probably starts on heroic.
I don't think the guy got close to a black hole to play the game. Of course they are real life results.
Again, the purpose of giving a range is to cover, well, a range of play styles. A range is utterly meaningless if it doesn't cover the whole sample, or if we are not told at the very least the percentage of outliers that were dropped.
Irrelevant.
Maintenance
Member
Let's not get crazy here.
bananafactory
Banned
How does one play quickly in a linear story driven shooter?
Perfect
for Twitch.
Dreams-Visions
Member
Yea, Halo was never meant to be played on Normal, tbqh. Hard, minimum.
taking in scenery, not skipping cutscenes, dying a bunch. You know, first play through stuff.
Hey dude, it took me over 60 hours to finish blood borne, because i was dead-set at finishing the game with a blood level of 57. I have over 30 hours in Mgs5 and i'm at mission 20.
I'm not saying that this the norm by any means, but between salivating over every normal-mapped alleyway ( me ) and running through a game to review it ( review guy ) there's a whole spectrum of real life ways to play a game that pads the average playtime somewhat. I was just trying to figure out where review guy falls on that spectrum.
Newtype-001
Member
"real life results"
Im dead.
Im dead.
ScatheZombie
Member
That would be fine if there was any sort of consistency between games. But games are harshly criticized for what they aren't all the time. Especially when it's a game play mode or feature that has been available in every previous iteration of the game. You'd be surprised how many casual fans just assume that couch co-op is in the game because it's always been in the game. And its omission is definitely a negative, even if 343 said they weren't doing it.
Searching for skulls is probably something < 5% of people would do on their first playthrough
SomedayTheFire
Member
Still crazy and dumb.
To be fair, only 3 big critic reviews are what's brought the average down (Toronto Sun and Destructoid with 70 and Digital Spy with 60). And even then, digital spy gave it 3 stars out of 5 which translates to 60 out of 100 on the metacritic point scale. Besides, it's an average aggregate, which is why it's hilarious seeing the freakouts, when the overwhelming amount of reviews are positive and the story of the campaign seems to be the polarizing issue.
From the people I trust, anecdotally, this campaign seems to improve on Halo 4's by a large margin and yet the campaign gets less "points" for some reason than Halo 4's did.
Vire
Member
New memes are born.
"taking in scenery" is a completely optional part of any game. We can always argue that a playtime could be longer if people stop to analyze textures of explore areas more. This is why ranges exist, to capture the low and high end of the distribution.
The focus of the review thread should be to share and discuss the reviews, not the scores. The scores explain nothing.