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Halo |OT 25| Did you think me defeated?!"
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aHebrewMenagerie
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Good thing 2 of those three things aren't a thing anymore
Samurai G0SU
Member
Community update today?
Ozzy Onya A2Z
Member
That's it, you all jump in feet first to the new OT...
Nice to have a community thread again, HaloGAF customs still going?
I promise no more hotdog butts.
Nice to have a community thread again, HaloGAF customs still going?
Samurai G0SU
Member
Hype. Next announce partnership with mlg
I think it's a matter of team chemistry and how well they gel in-game more than anything. Devon has proven to be a great player but I guess it just wasn't working out.
This is a huge risk btw. EG could very well not qualify for the Halo World Championship Finals - but then again they were on the bubble with Devon as well.
Prinz Eugn
Member
Whoo hopefully will be on 5 this weekend
Play halo
Play halo
Cool!
YourExWife
Member
I'm off from now-Sunday night. HOW ABOUT YOU GET ON, JERK!?
Ozzy Onya A2Z
Member
Apparently getting simpler Halo stories from here on out as well.
Navidson REC
Member
Headshot commendation done!
8 to go, people!
8 to go, people!
I don't feel like story complexity has ever been a problem.
H4s story relies on outside info.
H5s story is nonsensical.
I hope 'simple' is slang self-contained and believable.
Samurai G0SU
Member
Perhaps they mean the pacing of halo wars 2 will resemble their structure for how halo 6 will be.
Yeah its definitely a risk. I hope they scrim tonight so we can see how they do haha
Ooooh definitely want to see how scrims go. My opinion on scrims has changed recently though. We had 3/4s of the Liquid team on the podcast (releases next week) but they seem to think scrim scores don't matter, and that a lot of teams just focus on winning the scrim instead of practicing and learning. It makes a lot of sense if you factor in that scrims are streamed and fans put a lot of stock in scrim scores. Scrims are high stakes, high pressure.
By contrast, I follow the DotA scene heavily and scrims are basically never streamed. As a fan of some teams, I never think, "I wonder how they're doing in scrims." where that's common place in Halo. Pretty interesting cultural difference.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
Member
Agreed, I've never had issue following the story. I guess I want more "accomplished" with the story in a singular game arc. For the most part the content of the stories across all media has been really enjoyable and progressive for the universe but the games standing on their own feel a little lacklustre or jumbled.
For example take the end of H4 then start H5 leading directly off that with a sort of H2 intro mission. The connectivity and flow between games would add a fair amount to keeping the games self contained from the EU while being a sort of refresher like when you watch a quick summary from EP1 to EP2 intro of a TV series.
Fata1moose
Banned
Hopefully this will promote more discussion on games other than 5. I'd like to play MCC every now and then, warts (Halo 3) and all.
ATOMICJORGE
Member
Since now this is a general Halo thread what do you guys think about the first emote of my Twitch.tv channel? I present to you atomicKappa
I hope the goat has a prosperous return
I feel the same way. Scrims should be about experimenting new strategies and feeling out the opposing teams.
Poodlestrike
Banned
I can definitely dig it. Maybe yellow up the visor a little, it's a bit more gold-ish, but other than that it's a quality spammable.
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
Yeah, TMCC is still fun to play despite its blemishes (Halo 3). It's too bad more people don't feel the same, and it's a shame TMCC will never receive a Custom Games Browser as it'd be just as important to have as future Halo titles, TMCC issues aside.
Papasmurf531
Member
Happy to post in a HaloGaf thread now that I am a member on here. Did (and still do) a lot of lurking around!
That's it, you all jump in feet first to the new OT...
I promise no more hotdog butts.
Nice to have a community thread again, HaloGAF customs still going?
One of these days I know I've got a Saturday all free I'm definitely gonna' try and host some, been far too long.
Yeah in retrospect I'm not sure why they really gave us the H2A Forge. It was cool as it was basically "this is what H4's Forge shoulda' been, and here's some hints for H5", but without a customs browser it was always going to be pretty DoA, even if MCC hadn't had all the issues at launch.
Played with HBO peeps on Halo's anniversary and the game was more stable than I could recall, keeping our 16-man group together for at least a half-dozen games without breaking a sweat.
The news keeps getting better and better. I watched him scrim a lot. He definitely understands the meta of H5 better than last year. Let's hope it works out for EG. Can't believe how they are struggling from X-Games time of last year.
I mentioned it in our HW2 review, but while I had my issues with the game the Logs feature definitely should be in future Halo games. Hell, bring back the "scan" feature from CEA and have the Artemis system from H5 glow when there's something you can add to the codex. Having an in-game library of canon would do wonders for offering an alternative to having to stuff the game proper full of universe details and leaving it for the EU to understand.
Samurai G0SU
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In halo 6 they need to reevaluate how they introduce "towns" with npcs that you can talk to.
Those missions were a waste of time for me. I just ran to the check point on screen.
Those missions were a waste of time for me. I just ran to the check point on screen.
Poodlestrike
Banned
See, I quite enjoyed them. Lots of cool conversations to eavesdrop, little easter eggs to find. Good stuff.
I do think that this was the one-and-only time we'll see them, though. Between their commitment to simpler stories and the very serious possibility of switch to a central hub (the Infinity, in this case) we launch missions from, I doubt we'll see story type "missions" like that again.
Samurai G0SU
Member
Yeah i mean, i didnt feel a need to go search arouns for cool things like the grunt and elite talking to eachother by the cliff. I felt like they could have made it more 'narrow' so that we would pass by those cool things instead we just are put in a big open space with a waypoint on the screen.
I think a lot of ppl missed out on the character of what halo is. That lovely charm. Like The two grunts talking you can easedrop on in that cave. Lol
I think the issue with those guns-down missions was that they were standalone. It would have been better (especially for the Sanghelios ones) if they had stuff around the talking instead of just running around from waypoint to waypoint.
The concept of non-combat spaces with talking and interactive NPCs, along with the addition of mission intel, were additions I really loved in Halo 5 and I'd like to see return in future games.
GringoSuave89
Banned
Yes.
The 5 OT had become a catch all when it should really only be about 5. Once we get back into the habit, the division will be justified.
Holee shit.
Updating at team beyond for the day, slowly, predev dropped for... ogre2!? Ayyyyelmao. As cool as it is to have the goat back, this won't end well.
Community update: https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/wars-worlds-weaponry
*Halo Wars 2 bug fixes and stats API
*Toys and loot crate stuff
*Halo 5: Covie Slayer replacing Assault
*Maintenance update targeted for March
*Halo WC recaps
*Some new 343-bestowed weapon skins
*Studio interview
*Halo Wars 2 bug fixes and stats API
*Toys and loot crate stuff
*Halo 5: Covie Slayer replacing Assault
*Maintenance update targeted for March
*Halo WC recaps
*Some new 343-bestowed weapon skins
*Studio interview
SmartWaffles
Member
Missed first page T.T
Halo
Halo
Prinz Eugn
Member
Fahzgoolin
Banned
Returning to a simpler story doesn't mean it can't have depth. For as simple as Halo CE's story was, it had enough nuance and mystery that makes it compelling to this day. It was a really good space drama.
It didn't have a ton of cutscenes with dramatic character exposition. It was primarily through gameplay. The cutscenes present were quick and efficient. The longest cut scene was when you played back the video footage of the flood encounter and that was just a tool to build suspension.
This may be an unpopular opinion, but I think Halo was at its best when it was less character driven/focused. To be fair, I think Bungie was pushing it in that direction with Halo ODST and Reach. I don't think it worked particularly well. It still worked better than current Halo because they were simpler, tighter, stories.
It didn't have a ton of cutscenes with dramatic character exposition. It was primarily through gameplay. The cutscenes present were quick and efficient. The longest cut scene was when you played back the video footage of the flood encounter and that was just a tool to build suspension.
This may be an unpopular opinion, but I think Halo was at its best when it was less character driven/focused. To be fair, I think Bungie was pushing it in that direction with Halo ODST and Reach. I don't think it worked particularly well. It still worked better than current Halo because they were simpler, tighter, stories.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
Member
All good additions there. I'd also throw in the cutscene playlist post finishing the campaign, seems you can't just watch cutscenes in H5...
Go full Mass Effect with dialogue options or Skyrim NPCs etc or just don't put those sort of missions in. They added very little but had potential for so much.
Sikamikanico
#1 Dad
Wooooooo, #weback.
Gonna get to work on the montage this weekend boys, so you've got like 12 hours to sneak some more clips in.
Gonna get to work on the montage this weekend boys, so you've got like 12 hours to sneak some more clips in.
Forerunner
Member
Wooooooo, #weback.
Gonna get to work on the montage this weekend boys, so you've got like 12 hours to sneak some more clips in.
I'm going to send you some Halo Wars 2 clips.
Nollemaster
Member
YEAH HALOGAF!!
A custom game browser for MCC would resurrect the game for sure. The matchmaking playlists are way too divisive and too many people quit when their least favorite game is chosen during voting.
Before that they should first fix the fact that you can't join a custom game in progress. I cannot believe they never addressed that, it's so weird.
A custom game browser for MCC would resurrect the game for sure. The matchmaking playlists are way too divisive and too many people quit when their least favorite game is chosen during voting.
Before that they should first fix the fact that you can't join a custom game in progress. I cannot believe they never addressed that, it's so weird.
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