ElzarTheBam
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Halo |OT 23| Thruster is Love, Thruster is Life
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jailbird20022
Banned
yuck, rather play standard Solace than ever set foot in Abandon.
Forerunner
Member
Definitely worth reading! I also recommend starting with The Fall of Reach.
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
Poor Wahrer and co get banned for RIPclaimer Radio, but this Destiny nonsense constantly floods this thread when there's Halo things to discuss.
Coincidence that Halo 3 fans sold/complain about TMCC and still rave about Destiny? Coincidence that jem is now on the Destiny train, influenced by other Halo 3 fans of his kind? I think not. Halo 3 fans are the worst and should be banned from everything.
Coincidence that Halo 3 fans sold/complain about TMCC and still rave about Destiny? Coincidence that jem is now on the Destiny train, influenced by other Halo 3 fans of his kind? I think not. Halo 3 fans are the worst and should be banned from everything.
Fahzgoolin
Banned
I inherited the first 3 books from a friend, so I guess I'm good to go! Thanks dudes.
It's fine solo, I've been playing it solo since launch, and I'm still enjoying it. I've never even attempted any of the raids, most I did was solo the lamps (you don't know what this means). Maybe I'm just weird. These are my stats from soloing:
For £20 it's definitely worth looking into. The gunplay is great and raids are top notch if you're into that kind of thing. The crucible is fun if you don't take it super seriously. Also just head over to the Destiny OT, you can easily find people to play with.
Holy hell dude, just seeing this...
You gotta jump in with my
scrub
Everything in Destiny is basically better with more people.
I can't imagine how you've been solo playing as long as you have.
EDIT:
Hey hey simmer down there...
I'm actually a GoldenEye/Perfect Dark kid myself 
still salty about this weekend too... FUCK KONAMI
User 73706
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Poker Face
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MrGreencastle
Member
So Destiny missions/strikes are meant to done in about the same time as your average PvP match ~ 8-15 minutes or so. In Halo, though, campaign missions are designed to be completed in around an hour or so, aside from speed-running. Whereas missions in Destiny are much more "bite" sized by design. PvP replayability is about the same as Halo PvP replayability - games are on the same maps with the same gametypes and they play out slightly differently each time. The replayability in the co-op sandbox (aside from Raid content) comes from completing the missions at higher difficulties, different difficult modifiers and with different classes and gear making your playstyle different very much like choosing a weight class in Mario Kart or what have you - except with a much greater depth to how you build out your character.
Just like in Halo, where tackling a leg of a particular mission using, say, an M6D and Rocket Launcher is quite a bit different than going through the same area with an AR and Snipe. Except that in Destiny, each weapon belongs to a subset of weapon class-types - each with their own balancing, upgrades, and elemental types.
Compare the BR in Halo 2 to Halo 4 for example. They do feel different from each other in a multitude of ways, their rate of fire, their spread, hitscan or not, etc. There are constantly arguments over which one is better (
Halo 2
For example, Red Death is an Exotic "BR", exotic meaning it is the highest level of weapon in its particular weapon class:
It fires in 3 round bursts like you would expect out of a BR. The balancing stats differ from other Pulse Rifles in subtle ways, and its unique factor is that each kill initiates a full health recharge and that it's "flinch" mechanic is greatly nullified when you are being shot compared to most weapons. While the health always recharges in Destiny just like Halo, there can be mechanics in play that make a full recharge incredibly useful: like the Crota battle in one of the Raids, where everyone is "de-buffed" where their health will NOT regenerate unless they are holding an item that can be passed from person to person to regenerate (which doesn't exist on the harder difficulties) so you need to have a weapon or piece of gear like Red Death making that particular weapon extremely useful in that circumstance.
Compare Red Death to another "BR", "Oversoul Edict":
You can see how the stats differ from Red Death and it is quite noticeable when in actual play. It fires its 3-round bursts MUCH faster than Red Death, but each individual bullet doesn't hit nearly as hard and reloads much slower compared to Red Death above. One of the things that makes this Legendary-class BR unique besides that is that it does Elemental "Arc" Damage - something relatively rare for a Primary slot weapon. The advantage to that is certain higher level enemies have a particular weakness to this type of Arc damage - making the gun's bullets "super effective" against their shields. You can still damage with other types or no type weapons, but the Arc is particularly useful in that case. And that's not even getting into the differences in the "perks" that are available within this particular gun's upgrade path.
This is all just a very, very small example of the ways you can customize your play. It's not as simple as saying there's no content, imo. That's a lazy criticism.
lol you know what I mean you big jerk
MrGreencastle
Member
Just comparing the two games. Not really fighting I don't think. I'm not allowed to talk about Halo story in here, I get called out for it every time because people in this thread don't want to hear lore. Then again, discussion is discussion. There's also a thread for Halo 5 #huntthetruth, too.
Since when was I a Halo 3 fan?
(Not saying I'm not a fan, just it's by no means the best. Also fuck H3 SWAT)
Edit: Do we have any idea who the guy completely covered up is on the Chief's team? I'm assuming it's someone from Blue team, although I know nothing about Blue team...
secretly hoping it's Caboose
Edit2: Actually, I take that back. H3 is both the best and worst (still better than Reach) of the Halos.
Ohhh, it's creepy eye dude.
FUNKNOWN iXi
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Orochinagis
Member
Too bad Tashi was killed in Halo 4
Where's the fun in that, Akai?
You should totally talk about lore in here, there are plenty of us that do.
Who gives a shit if someone calls you out for it.
Poodlestrike
Banned
This. Better than chasing down the endless loops of "sprint, MCC still broken, lolADS, Jem is dumb" on repeat.
Totally, I'm surprised that this thread has issues with people discussing lore.
Halo 3 is my favorite game in the series, with CE in a very close second. Though, from what I've played of 5, it may become the king.
Fight me.
I know it's hard for me to play AR starts constantly.
wesleyshark
Banned
Its the most gross, I hate leading shots, and I hate the aim acceleration.
Campaign is pretty great tho, been going through it on legendary of late between sessions of Metroid and Derpstiny.
Wait, when has that happened?
Just people that don't care about lore bitching cuz reasons.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Sometimes it works; when the ranges and sightlines are juuuuust right, it's hugely enjoyable. The rest of the maps and gametypes are a clusterfuck.
Magnum SWAT on the Pit, for fucks sake.
Orochinagis
Member
Sorry sir, it's just that I've got more friends in here.
Wait, when has that happened?
It happened once when greencastle (the dude with the gorrilla avatar) joined, it was a good discussion anyway
343 knew how much we loved the challenge of combatting useless weapons and tragic netcode, so they added broken aim-acceleration on top of it. Brilliant.
kidding. I <3 h3. but someone needs to fix the fucking aiming
jailbird20022
Banned
to this day it's said you can stil hear bungie's maniacal laughter
MrGreencastle
Member
Wait, when has that happened?
I'm just bitter. Typical drive by thread shitting. Now I just like to come in here and tell people Halo mp sucks and will never be good again while I talk about Destiny with people who've already made up their minds about it. Maybe I should do some blow and make .gif ridden wallpost-rants about the subtleties of the latest in yoga pants development. Certainly more interesting than a damn wallpaper split up into puzzle pieces for no reason other than getting people to talk about Halo 5 on social media instead of the broken mess that is MCC. ilovebees and IRIS were way better than #huntthetruth. Soundclouds are badass though. That's tasty.
Yeah sorry 'bout, would it be better if it was quoted?
MrGreencastle
Member
Most of the yoga pants crew doesn't even post anymore, or has been banned. Besides, fuck'em; post whatever you want. There are people in here that enjoy lore posts.
Don't get me wrong though, I really enjoy the lore thread. Its nice to go in there and just read that stuff instead of every other post complaining about sprint/thrust/etc/etc/destiny/etc
I just feel I can fight from behind in h3 the best. Better man wins the fight.
Ce is close but the sniper is piss easy to use and pistol still melts people even if you don't get headshots.
Rest of the games getting 4 shots is easy. You can strafe well in Halo 2 at least.
And swat is dumb so no love lost on people crying about swat magnums
Did someone mention yoga pants?
Ce is close but the sniper is piss easy to use and pistol still melts people even if you don't get headshots.
Rest of the games getting 4 shots is easy. You can strafe well in Halo 2 at least.
And swat is dumb so no love lost on people crying about swat magnums
Did someone mention yoga pants?
The guy putting it together over in the gaming side thread is a part of that team I believe.
Orochinagis
Member
Gotta Love Destinygaf , they accepted the game as it is and embrace Bungie's effort to fix it.
Its subreal for me because the game is blank as hell if not for the raids, pretty relaxed people.
Because Kotaku could steal it from them
Steelyuhas
Member
#yogapants
Slightly Live
Dirty tag dodger
Because they own it.
Speaking of, I finished the picture. Guess the blanks. Looks legit.
Orochinagis
Member
You forgot Doritos and mountain Dew
Just a heads up, Josh said he agrees that DLC is bad for splitting communities in a conversation we had on TB.
Could be just his own personal opinion regardless of what MS decides to do with DLC monetization, OR, is proof they won't be splitting the DLC community anymore in Halo 5.
The context made it seem like he agrees it's best Halo 5 doesn't have paid DLC maps.
Could be just his own personal opinion regardless of what MS decides to do with DLC monetization, OR, is proof they won't be splitting the DLC community anymore in Halo 5.
The context made it seem like he agrees it's best Halo 5 doesn't have paid DLC maps.
Orochinagis
Member
Well it doesnt like you could actually play the DLC maps outside the DLC playlist in Halo 4 anyway.
NobleGundam
Banned
Make it free and available throughout almost all playlists that doesn't effect objective and pro playlists. Traffic = Profit. Yes free. No mo 14 day, buy and play.
I think we will start seeing this model more and more as time goes on. We got a pretty nice taste of what it does back with Halo 2 and PvZ:GW did a good job of showing that model works and you don't have to charge people to play your game (unless they want to buy packs of cards you can earn after 3 rounds of play)