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Tha Robbertster
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And now, we have this in Halo 4!
Hell yeah. Reach's custom game options were a pale imitation of 3's, but Reach made up for it with more advanced Forge options.
A long time ago, I was in Walmart. My friends and I were working for the local store. They were trying to buy the loyalty of consumers by bribing them with precious XP. But their shipments were being raided on a highway north of K-Mart by a bandit. So, we went looking for the XP. But in six months, we never met anybody who bought from him. One day, I saw a child playing with a bag of doritos the size of a tangerine. The bandit had been throwing them away.
Some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch two countries get fat.
A long time ago, I was in Walmart. My friends and I were working for the local store. They were trying to buy the loyalty of consumers by bribing them with precious XP. But their shipments were being raided on a highway north of K-Mart by a bandit. So, we went looking for the XP. But in six months, we never met anybody who bought from him. One day, I saw a child playing with a bag of doritos the size of a tangerine. The bandit had been throwing them away.
Some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch two countries get fat.
Beautiful.
CreateNowSleepLater
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I have to agree, their ad reaches right out to the casuals. Its screams this is a huge game everyone will play.
The Halo ad is complicated and only reaches the people who know the canon which is fine except they copied everything they could to make it like the other game. To reach the casuals. Which they failed.
A long time ago, I was in Walmart. My friends and I were working for the local store. They were trying to buy the loyalty of consumers by bribing them with precious XP. But their shipments were being raided on a highway north of K-Mart by a bandit. So, we went looking for the XP. But in six months, we never met anybody who bought from him. One day, I saw a child playing with a bag of doritos the size of a tangerine. The bandit had been throwing them away.
Some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch two countries get fat.
Except that even at its worst, there's no way it's going to be like that. (Which doesn't negate anyone's opinion it shouldn't be even close to that way anyhow, but just sayin'.)
Latvian Hitman
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I wasn't really looking to go there, but I guess I did leave that door open...
bobs...onGaf
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I dont see how it's too different from the CoD implementation - except perhaps it's less readable when it impacts the gameplay. Really that makes it worse than the CoD implementation.
Good luck people in America - I know the NY branch of my workplace is closed - stay safe guys.
Reagan's BR
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Nice! I'm hoping to win one of the American prizes.Yeah, I actually posted in here about it the other day. Never thought I'd win though.
Still waiting on this!
Tha Robbertster
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I can think of some annoying encounters: Say you're having a BR battle, both of you are one shot and have to relead. But because he has dexterity, he is faster and can kill you. Or you're one shot, in cover and out of range of ordinary grenades. But because this one guy has the explosives mod, he can kill you. Maybe those encounters won't be too frequent but I can imagine those will be annoying when they happen to you.
A Halo ad focusing on multiplayer would have definitely reached casuals better than what they have now...
Steelyuhas
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Glad someone broke it to him.
It is known.Robert Downey Jr's best role?
Key to playing Halo: When in doubt, randomly melee the air during combat in hopes that it will somehow propel you to victory.
CreateNowSleepLater
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True. A Halo 4 MP built on its own strength with skill based ranking would have reached Halo fans better than copying CoD. So I am not exactly sure who they were targeting in dev and with these ads. They seemed to have wiffed on both.
FUNKNOWN iXi
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Wow good shit Nak3d Eli at 4:04. I feel like that's something a lot of people fail to acknowledge about radar and how it actually slows down gameplay, not speeds it up. Not to mention that with radar, Camo as an AA + Sprint + veteran player = terror for newer/lesser-skilled players.
Reagan's BR
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I don't remember if I've posted it this before, but this is for Xand.
He should post it and then someone should copy and paste it as the first reply to the new OT.
bobs...onGaf
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A halo 4 advert which literally acted as a military recruitment ad for the infinity and spartan 4 program in general would be amazing - they have so much that they could pimp out. Would be a pretty good chance to show off how much has changed across the multiplayer to entice people.
The problem is you have players who donged on some noobs once using radar, so they want to believe it's some super-skillful feature that adds depth. Once you have two competent parties playing against each other, it becomes painfully obvious that radar is detremental to gameplay rather than an enhancement.
They actually tried something close to that, in Sweden - the general reaction was 'cheesy', even though the questions were kick-ass.
Orochinagis
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So Pizza Hut is giving the S-IV red armor, only in the US.
Reagan's BR
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Bob's idea made me think...
If halo marketing were up to GAF as a collective there would be Halo 4 brand broccoli.
If it were up to Team Downer there would be sarcastic Call of Duty comparisons and grey billboards that would have the word "Forge" written crudely on them.
If it were up to Team Slurp there would be really sappy Halo 4 ads that would try in vain to make Halo sound like the solution to all of humanity's problems.
If it were up to me, on the other hand, we would have ads with Master Chief and Romney battling the the national debt and Obamacare.
If halo marketing were up to GAF as a collective there would be Halo 4 brand broccoli.
If it were up to Team Downer there would be sarcastic Call of Duty comparisons and grey billboards that would have the word "Forge" written crudely on them.
If it were up to Team Slurp there would be really sappy Halo 4 ads that would try in vain to make Halo sound like the solution to all of humanity's problems.
If it were up to me, on the other hand, we would have ads with Master Chief and Romney battling the the national debt and Obamacare.
For your avatar?
I like this.
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Transhuman
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So? I don't find Halo fun to watch any way, but I definitely don't find it any more exciting without motion trackers. I don't mind "slow" gameplay, part of the reason I play Halo is the motion tracker (now can people stop calling it radar?)
The Library Achivements can go to hell. I'll miss some gamerscore and 2 achivements but trying the map again and again is too frustrating. I'll content myself with 42 achivements and 965GS.
Watched the terminals again. Damn good. Halo 4's continue the similar type of terminals, no? Can't wait.
EDIT and Gold again now.
Watched the terminals again. Damn good. Halo 4's continue the similar type of terminals, no? Can't wait.
EDIT and Gold again now.
Bregmann Roche
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Then you obviously haven't tuned-in to HaloGAF twitch streams with WooferZ, DogfaceZ, and the boys.
Zeouterlimits
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That's certainly going to an effective piece of marketing, but not my cup of tea.
What a shame. Pizza Hut is literally the worst pizza available on the planet.
It looks like it's UK only (I think that's what he meant), and yeah it's for your avatar, not in-game.
That seems to be a future catastrophe that is just slipping merrily under the radar until the end of November. This is a CoD-type issue and it's sad to have to worry about this sort of thing now.
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kittens
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I looooove the sound effect you hear when someone sweeps over you with Promethean Vision. Sounds creepy and menacing. Reminds me of Elzar.
GodlyPerfection
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Agreed... giving Camo players the ability to sprint is going to be ridiculous. I miss about 5 assassinations a game because I move at the same speed as my opponent. With sprint, if I have the jump on someone, they are getting assassinated.
Love it. My APG (assassinations per game) is going to be off the charts thanks to sprint. So pumped.I only say radar because motion tracker takes 9 more characters to type out. Radar is just quicker and everyone gets what you are referring too anyways.
For me half the fun of Halo is predicting enemy movement and outmaneuvering your opponent. With radar the game is a lot less interesting.
Steelyuhas
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I've got a cold from hell right now, guess I'm glad it hit me this week instead of next.
Got the same thing going right now. Been battling it for about 10 days, when I think it's getting better, I wake up and feel like hell again.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Back from a long (Halloween-themed) weekend complete with a party and a trip to haunted houses at Worlds of Fun.
Ready for some Halo 4 one week from tonight!
Ready for some Halo 4 one week from tonight!
That Sandy is a bitch isn't she. She was such a nice and cute young girl until she met that Danny who was singing about that "Grease Lighing". Now she smokes cigarettes and blows everything out of her way just to get what she wants.
Gabotron ES
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Nemesis wub wub remix is pretty great.
Ssssshhh. If you say his name he might hear you.
Can't wait for the world to end!
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