something involving ADS. unless 343 ditch the auto re-scope system from the beta. please.
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Halo |OT 24| In Before the Locke
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something involving ADS. unless 343 ditch the auto re-scope system from the beta. please.
aHebrewMenagerie
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ExWife would wear that out within 20 minutes.
Gnome Scat
Member
Replace Thorne with Buck and do it
jailbird20022
Banned
They were ramping Thorne up a lot- I wonder if he'll be in Halo 5 in some capacity, even though Buck took the spot.
Also, was looking at the art book on amazon and saw this:
That's gotta be a decent sign for the reception of the Elite Controller. Any of you guys getting it? I definitely am.
I'll be stalking amazon and the stores for a good deal come this holiday massacre, er I mean black friday
Slightly Live
Dirty tag dodger
My early points validated!
Really disliked the travelling. Also hated how the characters were in one location but within walking distances of others. This is supposed to be the fucking Ark.
It dwarfs the Earth, yet the book didn't convey the scale at all. In fact, it made it seem very, very small.
Also, the meatborg stuff was downright insultingly stupid. Showhorning that crap into the book was not needed.
Really disliked the travelling. Also hated how the characters were in one location but within walking distances of others. This is supposed to be the fucking Ark.
It dwarfs the Earth, yet the book didn't convey the scale at all. In fact, it made it seem very, very small.
Also, the meatborg stuff was downright insultingly stupid. Showhorning that crap into the book was not needed.
Ricky Ricardo
Member
i made it more marketable
So good. Why is this not official?
SaganIsGOAT
Junior Member
What the hell is a meatborg? Spoil me I don't care
Getting ready for halo 5 I've been playing and loving halo 4.
Am I right or wrong? http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=1075478
Am I right or wrong? http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=1075478
K
kittens
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SaganIsGOAT
Junior Member
Yo 343 when are we ever going to get that song that plays starting at 2:15 in the "A Hero Awakens" Halo 4 vidoc? I need it
http://youtu.be/swo9l8OcWCQ
http://youtu.be/swo9l8OcWCQ
Slightly Live
Dirty tag dodger
In the latest Halo book, set a few years before Halo 5, the
monitor of Installation 00, Tragic Solitude, kills a team sent to Ark after the events of Halo 3. He spares one of the team and uses him to reactivate the Halo firing sequence. This is a plot to force the Ark's portal to Earth to be re-opened, as the monitor wishes to seek revenge against Humanity for damaging the Ark. He plans to sent thousands of Retrievers - Forerunner bots, to harvest Earth for resources, along with the rest of the Sol system, before re-firing the entire Halo array for shits and giggles.
Instead of just keeping the sole survivor alive, TS turns him into a shitty version of Robocop, with knives and blades in his hands. He needed a human to activate the firing sequence, as that's how the system works.
Instead of just keeping the sole survivor alive, TS turns him into a shitty version of Robocop, with knives and blades in his hands. He needed a human to activate the firing sequence, as that's how the system works.
He also happens to be the brother of the
second team member they send to Ark to stop the array firing. Funny how he always talks about his brother in case you forget that they are brothers. They are related. Brothers. Bros. Family. Brothers. He is brainwashed to kill on command! He defeats Tragic Solitude via his love and humanity. Ugh.
SaganIsGOAT
Junior Member
Wut lol
Demoncarnotaur
Member
Ohh, ok I am certainly more interested now.
Seems pretty cool.
I wonder if power weapon and vehicle spots still exist outside of the stations.
ftfy
Oh, whoa.
This actually looks great.
Gravemind IV
Member
So, took me a few days to complete H1-H4 legendary solo and I am almost done with H3:ODST. Some thoughts on H1-3(ODST) compared to Halo 4 and some of my remarks.
It's been so much fun to play through all the campaigns again. It's actually funny how all the other campaigns (bar perhaps CE) feel like heroic mode after completing H2 on legendary.
- Really glad that the Covenant (and Prometheans this time around) will be speaking English once more in Halo 5. I sorely missed the personality of the Covenant in Halo 4, with Prometheans it was sort of even worse. None of the Promethean enemy variants had any personality whatsoever, and it didn't do any good on my tolerance for the Promethean knights (more on that later). I also preferred the attitude of the Marines in earlier iterations, nothing more amusing than seeing one get all cocky and then suddenly get vaporized by the enemy, Halo 4's seemed more silent..
- Promethean knights are not a fun enemy to fight. I came upon this revelation when I was at the last console in Midnight. Weapons seem to despawn a lot faster in Halo 4, having to make do with a light rifle and a boltshot versus a plethora of knights is not really fun inducing. They just sponge and sponge and teleport around, their melee can either one hit kill you or bounce you away and that will probably also lead to death. Not to mention that if you don't have the means to kill the watchers, it's gonna be rough.
In general I hope that the Knights get somewhat of a rework and become the Hunters of the Promethean faction. This would open up Soldiers to be more like Brute and Elites in their behavior and number. - Minor nitpick, but I hope that Halo 4 had a lack of blood due to the original 360 version's limitations. I loved how in H1-H3 blood would actually stain the ground, seeing a bunch of grunts getting torn to bits and the ground stained with fluorescent blue blood is a nice touch, a battlefield isn't emaculately clean. On that note, in '343 Guilty Spark' it was actually used to good effect that something was coming, entire hallways were covered, shit had went down there!
- Sound mix. Playing these games back to back it actually became very noticeable. The older games would pump you up with the proper music thrown in, Halo 4's was most of the time not really that memorable (bar 117) or way too silent. Nothing beats the OG Halo theme in getting you ready to finish those damn fights.
Also, thank the lord that we're going back to a more classic style of Halo music in Halo 5, I don't mind some experimental tracks by Kazuma (he did good in 4) but god.. unlike Unforgotten or any version of it, I actually am glad that Halo 4's menu music isn't continuously being played.
- Finally, while on the topic of sounds. The weapons. Mind you, by now it probably seems like I am ripping good into Halo 4, but I am highlighting my negatives when I am comparing them back to back. I LOVED the sounds in Halo 2 anniversary, sadly it seems that they aren't being retained for Halo 5. The wimpy storm rifle doesn't hold a candle to the classic sound of the plasma rifle. The plasma pistol suffers from the same issue, the old sounds are just superior. Now, the carbine.. damn that thing sounds like it packs a punch in H2A, but it sounds so dinky in Halo 5.. hell, from the footage that I saw the Halo 4 iteration even sounded like it packed more of a punch.
The BR, sniper and shotgun also sound very much superior in H2A than they do in H4/H5.
It's been so much fun to play through all the campaigns again. It's actually funny how all the other campaigns (bar perhaps CE) feel like heroic mode after completing H2 on legendary.
JumPeRJumPzZ
Banned
Anyone else having issues with MCC? My group that im playing with has constant issues right now. Disconnects in a match, freezes, crashing...
Wasnt like that yesterday.
Wasnt like that yesterday.
TheOhrenberger.
Banned
Why would you ever do that?
ViewtifulJC
Banned
do you hate yourself or something?
Well... That sure sounds like something that'd happen in 343's version of the Halo universe.
That is to say, it's completely fucking stupid.
By the way, does
the recovery of that 343 clone or whatever
Lookin to make a special connection probably.
In the latest Halo book, set a few years before Halo 5, themonitor of Installation 00, Tragic Solitude, kills a team sent to Ark after the events of Halo 3. He spares one of the team and uses him to reactivate the Halo firing sequence. This is a plot to force the Ark's portal to Earth to be re-opened, as the monitor wishes to seek revenge against Humanity for damaging the Ark. He plans to sent thousands of Retrievers - Forerunner bots, to harvest Earth for resources, along with the rest of the Sol system, before re-firing the entire Halo array for shits and giggles.
Instead of just keeping the sole survivor alive, TS turns him into a shitty version of Robocop, with knives and blades in his hands. He needed a human to activate the firing sequence, as that's how the system works.
He also happens to be the brother of thesecond team member they send to Ark to stop the array firing. Funny how he always talks about his brother in case you forget that they are brothers. They are related. Brothers. Bros. Family. Brothers. He is brainwashed to kill on command! He defeats Tragic Solitude via his love and humanity. Ugh.
Well I just finished Halo 4. I've beaten all of the MCC single player campaigns now including ODST.
At first I was cool with Halo 4, but after completing it I can now totally understand why fans are upset with 343, I'm not even sure I want to get Halo 5 now. I mean it checked a lot of the boxes for Halo but none of the new stuff was interesting or fun, maybe the animations for the new guns. And the ending was just awful. The other games had cheesy endings but this really took it to a new level. I guess if I was more into the multiplayer I'd have a different opinion? I don't know. I went in with an open mind though but overall I'm kind of disappointed with it. I'm looking forward to playing Reach whenever it comes out on BC or as DLC for MCC.
In any case as far as enjoyment of SP campaigns go my ranking would be;
Halo 3 > ODST > Halo > Halo 2 > Halo 4.
Also is Spartan Assault worth playing? Reviews seem somewhat mixed.
At first I was cool with Halo 4, but after completing it I can now totally understand why fans are upset with 343, I'm not even sure I want to get Halo 5 now. I mean it checked a lot of the boxes for Halo but none of the new stuff was interesting or fun, maybe the animations for the new guns. And the ending was just awful. The other games had cheesy endings but this really took it to a new level. I guess if I was more into the multiplayer I'd have a different opinion? I don't know. I went in with an open mind though but overall I'm kind of disappointed with it. I'm looking forward to playing Reach whenever it comes out on BC or as DLC for MCC.
In any case as far as enjoyment of SP campaigns go my ranking would be;
Halo 3 > ODST > Halo > Halo 2 > Halo 4.
Also is Spartan Assault worth playing? Reviews seem somewhat mixed.
Gnome Scat
Member
Don't bother with Spartan Assault and if you're interested in th story of Halo 5, you should definitely give it a shot; it looks very promising. I am concerned about the level design for the campaign, though. The E3 presentation was really weak.
Forerunner
Member
I'd recommend Spartan Strike over Assault, for the most part it improves on it in everyway. Fun game.
In the latest Halo book, set a few years before Halo 5, themonitor of Installation 00, Tragic Solitude, kills a team sent to Ark after the events of Halo 3. He spares one of the team and uses him to reactivate the Halo firing sequence. This is a plot to force the Ark's portal to Earth to be re-opened, as the monitor wishes to seek revenge against Humanity for damaging the Ark. He plans to sent thousands of Retrievers - Forerunner bots, to harvest Earth for resources, along with the rest of the Sol system, before re-firing the entire Halo array for shits and giggles.
Instead of just keeping the sole survivor alive, TS turns him into a shitty version of Robocop, with knives and blades in his hands. He needed a human to activate the firing sequence, as that's how the system works.
He also happens to be the brother of thesecond team member they send to Ark to stop the array firing. Funny how he always talks about his brother in case you forget that they are brothers. They are related. Brothers. Bros. Family. Brothers. He is brainwashed to kill on command! He defeats Tragic Solitude via his love and humanity. Ugh.
god I miss Nylund
wesleyshark
Banned
My early points validated!
Really disliked the travelling. Also hated how the characters were in one location but within walking distances of others. This is supposed to be the fucking Ark.
It dwarfs the Earth, yet the book didn't convey the scale at all. In fact, it made it seem very, very small.
Also, the meatborg stuff was downright insultingly stupid. Showhorning that crap into the book was not needed.
Agreed.
It made the Ark seem very small. They crash-landed somewhere on the Ark and within 100 pages or less they were already where they needed to be. Granted, they probably crashed close to their intended destination, but none of that is really explained in great detail. Any references to locations or distance are glossed over any time they are mentioned, as if they were moving at high velocity. In Primordium, you feel the distance as you read along. The traveling/journey is almost a character in of itself... But I'd surrender that to the writing skills of Greg Bear- the dude knows how to write in scale.
Yeah and the meatborg stuff was just unnecessary imo, unless it's a subtle hint of what "surprises" may be in store for enemies that will be faced other than Covenant and Promethean... But why go through all of that instead of just using the Flood instead.
Well, it's not necessarily the meatborg that was unnecessary, but it being Kodiak's brother was what made me roll my eyes. It was shoehorned in there pretty lazily and had no emotional threat or payoff. The mental struggle with the Elites was much better character development and I wanted to read more about it than what was written.
Yeah and the meatborg stuff was just unnecessary imo, unless it's a subtle hint of what "surprises" may be in store for enemies that will be faced other than Covenant and Promethean... But why go through all of that instead of just using the Flood instead.
Well, it's not necessarily the meatborg that was unnecessary, but it being Kodiak's brother was what made me roll my eyes. It was shoehorned in there pretty lazily and had no emotional threat or payoff. The mental struggle with the Elites was much better character development and I wanted to read more about it than what was written.
343gs is still MIA and in control of the UNSC Rubicon. Not even 000 Tragic Solitude knew where he went.
Reading Hunters In the Dark made me love Fall of Reach, Ghosts of Onyx, and the Forerunner trilogy even more than I already do. Nylund... Bear... We need more of that pls.
That all being said- I'm still very hopeful for Last Light this fall. And we have Frank's new novella really soon.
Blue Ninja
Member
In the latest Halo book, set a few years before Halo 5, themonitor of Installation 00, Tragic Solitude, kills a team sent to Ark after the events of Halo 3. He spares one of the team and uses him to reactivate the Halo firing sequence. This is a plot to force the Ark's portal to Earth to be re-opened, as the monitor wishes to seek revenge against Humanity for damaging the Ark. He plans to sent thousands of Retrievers - Forerunner bots, to harvest Earth for resources, along with the rest of the Sol system, before re-firing the entire Halo array for shits and giggles.
Instead of just keeping the sole survivor alive, TS turns him into a shitty version of Robocop, with knives and blades in his hands. He needed a human to activate the firing sequence, as that's how the system works.
He also happens to be the brother of thesecond team member they send to Ark to stop the array firing. Funny how he always talks about his brother in case you forget that they are brothers. They are related. Brothers. Bros. Family. Brothers. He is brainwashed to kill on command! He defeats Tragic Solitude via his love and humanity. Ugh.
I uh, wat.
343 needs to get some better quality control for the expanded universe.
wesleyshark
Banned
I'll keep an eye on it for sure, but it will not be a day one get for me. The idea of Warzone actually has me interested in multiplayer but knowing me I'll get frustrated with/bored of it rather quickly. I skipped the E3 presentation because I was still mid way through 4, maybe I'll go back and watch it now.
I can't get Spartan Strike on my XBO, only assault. I'll keep an eye out for it if it releases though.
In the latest Halo book, set a few years before Halo 5, themonitor of Installation 00, Tragic Solitude, kills a team sent to Ark after the events of Halo 3. He spares one of the team and uses him to reactivate the Halo firing sequence. This is a plot to force the Ark's portal to Earth to be re-opened, as the monitor wishes to seek revenge against Humanity for damaging the Ark. He plans to sent thousands of Retrievers - Forerunner bots, to harvest Earth for resources, along with the rest of the Sol system, before re-firing the entire Halo array for shits and giggles.
Instead of just keeping the sole survivor alive, TS turns him into a shitty version of Robocop, with knives and blades in his hands. He needed a human to activate the firing sequence, as that's how the system works.
He also happens to be the brother of thesecond team member they send to Ark to stop the array firing. Funny how he always talks about his brother in case you forget that they are brothers. They are related. Brothers. Bros. Family. Brothers. He is brainwashed to kill on command! He defeats Tragic Solitude via his love and humanity. Ugh.
Yeah...
wesleyshark
Banned
True. And they had "Spartan Tanaka" listed well over a year ago on imdb and it was taken down later. I hope he returns. He's a solid character.
Gnome Scat
Member
What I love about Warzone is that it is a great way for Campaign players to transition into multiplayer. Since there is a mix of AI and players, you can be occupied and contribute by taking down the AI and occasionally duel players for practice before you jump into the Arena. Plus, all the DLC will be free, so you'd be missing out on a complete multiplayer experience.
gamerguy2002
Member
In the latest Halo book, set a few years before Halo 5, themonitor of Installation 00, Tragic Solitude, kills a team sent to Ark after the events of Halo 3. He spares one of the team and uses him to reactivate the Halo firing sequence. This is a plot to force the Ark's portal to Earth to be re-opened, as the monitor wishes to seek revenge against Humanity for damaging the Ark. He plans to sent thousands of Retrievers - Forerunner bots, to harvest Earth for resources, along with the rest of the Sol system, before re-firing the entire Halo array for shits and giggles.
Instead of just keeping the sole survivor alive, TS turns him into a shitty version of Robocop, with knives and blades in his hands. He needed a human to activate the firing sequence, as that's how the system works.
He also happens to be the brother of thesecond team member they send to Ark to stop the array firing. Funny how he always talks about his brother in case you forget that they are brothers. They are related. Brothers. Bros. Family. Brothers. He is brainwashed to kill on command! He defeats Tragic Solitude via his love and humanity. Ugh.
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And 343 allowed this to go to print?!
It sounds like bad fanfiction!!
What the fuck?!
Forerunner
Member
wesleyshark
Banned
Yeah, I'll probably skip it. lol
Omg that gif hahaha
Yeah just skip it. Read a summary online somewhere.
Fata1moose
Banned
http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/Fata1moose/screenshot/593112#
I guess I should have hit 50 if I wanted to win.
I guess I should have hit 50 if I wanted to win.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
Member
What medal is this?
Forerunner
Member
What medal is this?
Steaktacular!
Probably an evolution of steaktacular.What medal is this?
What medal is this?
Steaktacular. Beat the enemy team by over 20 kills. Get 99 more of those and you'll unlock an achievement.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
Member
But the game finished 47 v 43. LOL.
Maybe the quitters reset the host score diff count? Maybe I went +20 KDR?
Maybe the quitters reset the host score diff count? Maybe I went +20 KDR?
jailbird20022
Banned
Bungie/343 still owe us loads of steak dinners.
I'm not expensive frankles, I just need you, the steak and a copy of halo 5~
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
Seems like you caught a case of HaloBut the game finished 47 v 43. LOL.
Maybe the quitters reset the host score diff count? Maybe I went +20 KDR?
Blame Josh.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
Member
Coming up with a swallow personal attack tweet... /s
ViewtifulJC
Banned
whats up with the bullseye icons you all got there Ozzy
Didn't Bungie actually send out real steaks to a buttload of people around the time they were leaving Halo?
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