Der Flatulator
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Pretty much.
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Halo |OT12| Last One Out, Get the Lights
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Pretty much.
Zeouterlimits
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For me, fish tastes horrible, but I'm happy to see people enjoying fish. I generally avoid eating it, but I won't roll my eyes or recoil in horror hearing that people enjoy eating fish.
Tha Robbertster
Member
If you removed AA's, bloom and increased the movement speed, Reach was one hell of a fun game to play. I've played many great custom games in these settings.
The same will probably go for Halo 4, though I haven't tried it out yet.
The same will probably go for Halo 4, though I haven't tried it out yet.
Just jump into slayer pro and find out.
it has it's flaws, plenty of them. that said, it's simply more of a halo game then halo 4 will ever be. halo 4 might be a better game, whatever you say, but reach is a better halo.
Well, as I've outlined, it's not so much as Reach being better than Halo 4 (from a base gameplay perspective), but feeling more like Halo as a whole. In that respect it's understandable why a small minority would prefer to go back and play Reach, especially when you consider how much Reach came on with subsequent TUs (MLG Reach is really, really good).
Elements like the lack of any visual rank progression are a nuisance, but it's not a problem 4 is going to remedy any time soon.
Please explain this to me, because I'm pretty sure Halo 4 plays exactly like a Halo game except they added CoD drops in one gametype.
You obviously don't lift bra
Then you aren't thinking enough.
You're right I'm too busy playing a fun game.
Zeouterlimits
Member
Good for you! Some of us don't feel the same.
I'm not disputing that you can find the game fun, what I'm categorically denying is your false statement that this is simply 'Halo with COD drops', because that's a dense assessment of the game, and not one that deserves much attention, to be honest.
Tha Robbertster
Member
Slayer Pro still has bullshit global ordnance and sprint. Plus I'm apparently bad at Halo 4 because I can't ever do well when I go into Slayer Pro (or any slayer playlist for that matter). In 3 and Reach, I could do pretty well but that just doesn't seem to happen in 4. I don't know if true skill is doing its thing but I'm not having fun when I'm being out played constantly.
It's really good. Best of the OST, for me. Quite like the Gui Boratto Awakening remix, too.
Poker Face
Member
i really hope 343 removes global ordnance drops
if this is the future direction of Halo then I will not continue to play Halo. it's pretty simple. I don't want COD-lite with BRs.
I think there's a point, and a lot of people seem to be hitting it after Reach, where you can't spend another 2 or 3 years hoping a team with fundamentally different ideas than yours about what makes Halo great will suddenly turn everything around with patches and revamp the next game. shit ain't happening. whether people chill here to hang with the community and discuss bullshit is one thing, but I think people need to let go of traditional Halo at this point. that game is gone.
I think there's a point, and a lot of people seem to be hitting it after Reach, where you can't spend another 2 or 3 years hoping a team with fundamentally different ideas than yours about what makes Halo great will suddenly turn everything around with patches and revamp the next game. shit ain't happening. whether people chill here to hang with the community and discuss bullshit is one thing, but I think people need to let go of traditional Halo at this point. that game is gone.
Ditto, wish it was in game.
Der Flatulator
Member
Try, 5 years ago...
ElzarTheBam
Member
I definitely see where you are coming from and agree with you 100 percent, but I still manage to have a blast somehow.
lol. Strip both down to its core in custom games. Halo 4 is the better Halo
FUBAR McDangles
Member
Are people seriously whining that sprint should not be in the game?
lol
Some people seem to just find reasons to complain.
lol
Some people seem to just find reasons to complain.
Zeouterlimits
Member
It wasn't. Kazuma Jinnouchi I believe.
Do people seriously make posts like this?
lol
Some people just can't accept that people feel differently to they do.
Why does it need to be in the game? It didn't in past Halo's, they managed fine without it, if they really wanted the spartans to be faster because of the bigger maps, just increase base movement speed.
Or hell, don't make 80% of the maps the size of the sahara desert.
neoism
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FUBAR McDangles
Member
I make a post like that because this thread is the Halo Community thread. Where people play and appreciate the game. As far as I know, this is not the thread where people should come in and linger around complaining about a game they apparently no longer play.
Half the people I see bitching all the time are also saying they do not play the game any more. Why would they stick around? Just to complain, because they apparently have nothing better to do.
If someone does not enjoy the game and does not want to play it, I simply do not understand why they do not give this thread up and go somewhere else. Play a different game. Don't just sit here and whine about it.
I understand that people feel differently than I do. I love the game. I loved Reach. I loved Halo 3, and Halo 2, and Halo Combat Evolved. I have loved every Halo game released. Some more than others, but I still continue to play them to this day. From what I've seen in this thread, people are dropping both the game and the series itself left and right, but somehow, someway, for some reason, continue to pop in just to let everyone know how much they hate it.
The people who like the game get it. Those people do not like it and do not play it. Stop posting complaints. It seemed like people had legitimate gripes toward the beginning, but now it seems like they are going for the smallest things possible, to complain just for the sake of complaining. It's ridiculous.
To add in more variety and allow people to play differently? I do not care how fast base movement speed was in the past Halo games, playing on maps like Blood Gulch/Sidewinder/other big maps sucked ass because terrible people would take vehicles out and get destroyed, then you are stuck with walking around a half mile from any battlefield and you have to walk for 30-40 seconds before you even see a guy. When a game lasts 8-10 minutes and you are looking to find people for 1-2 minutes of that, the amount of fun one can have goes down drastically.
Sprint helps a lot on big maps, and I welcome it.
My friend got to SR60, enlisted in a new specialisation and then it put him back to SR51 and locked up all his Pathfinder specialisation stuff. He reset and came back on and now he's back to SR59 and it's as if the exp from the game he ranked up on didn't count. Weird. He's got his Pathfinder shit back though 
ElzarTheBam
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My friend got to SR60, enlisted in a new specialisation and then it put him back to SR51 and locked up all his Pathfinder specialisation stuff. He reset and came back on and now he's back to SR59 and it's as if the exp from the game he ranked up on didn't count. Weird. He's got his Pathfinder shit back though
This is where your story falls apart.
Zeouterlimits
Member
Can you name some names?
It's the Halo Community thread, not just the Halo 3 thread and it's where people who've been a part of the series for years have hung out. HaloGAF has become its own beast, so I don't think you can say it should just be for those who are positive about the latest game.
Never mind the fact the people here want to love the game. We'd be over the moon to be over the moon with Halo 4, but some of us aren't enjoying it.
Frankly, if you've got a problem with certain people and their posting style, you're better off putting them on ignore than telling them what/how to post.
Your words, my feels, ow.
ElRenoRaven
Member
Now that I'm awake again.
Yup. 3rd parties are getting some nice breaks when it comes to supporting their games.That and hell it's Nintendo. They'll have some great games and already do. Also I'm enjoying it so far. I really like some of the stuff they've done with this console. I'm loving the DK mini game in Nintendoland. Hard but fun. Also the screen really kind of adds to a few of the games. Not to mention I can play several of them off screen on the pad without a TV even needing to be on.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
knowing GAF that will be a disappointment too.
I'm sure as shit still loving it.
No, you need to understand them for what they are, purists.
Blue Ninja
Member
Wait, you're kidding me. It's not?
Zeouterlimits
Member
Of course, thought my "we" was clear in context, will edit.
I don't believe so, no, but he surely "oversaw" it.
I bet he's talking about Hoooooooooooooooooooch 07
Deputy Moonman
Member
I actually enjoy sprint on big maps. Using mobility in combination with ammo is great. However, sprint on smaller maps is just a recipe for sword sprinters, sprint melees
and an overabundance of being assassinated. And the fact that you can't shoot while sprinting, disrupts combat and makes a lot of encounters awkward. EDIT: And I definitely still play the game lol
StalkerUKCG
Banned
Getting beat in oddball because the other team jumped into that glitched area on complex.
Its literally a 2 second fix. You put a forge box in front of the hole.
Why is this taking so long to fix.
Its literally a 2 second fix. You put a forge box in front of the hole.
Why is this taking so long to fix.
yep gaf just says their dislikes to be cool or without reasons or to be purists not becauae they may have concerns, I'm happy for you that you like Halo 4 the way it is and also love infinity slayer
neoism
Member
probably...
but Bungie>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>343 so I can't wait...
You would be correct!
Aaaand it just happened again. We played another game, he got the last remaining exp again, enlisted again, and it reset him to SR51..again :/ Anyone heard of this happening before?
He's after resetting his xbox again, and it might have worked. He's staying as 61 now (after having to select a specialisation againnn) but his armour got reset to Recruit. I think it's good now, but dayum.
Best Metroid.
I actually enjoy sprint on big maps. Using mobility in combination with ammo is great. However, sprint on smaller maps is just a recipe for sword sprinters, sprint melees
EDIT: And I definitely still play the game lol
I very rarely experience those things. It's not very hard to kill a sword sprinter as he is running at you.
It's getting fixed monday.
Poker Face
Member
Was it mentioned in the bulletin?
On a side note, I think Bungie's next IP will be good. They had a misstep with Reach, but I think as a whole the studio will produce something incredible. Something hopefully better than Halo.
MaximumFlipFlop
Banned
Let's analyze what Sprint did to Halo 4.
Ruined control schemes - seriously, it fucked them up
Made maps too big
Made vehicle turrets get buffed
Gave sword guy even more power
Made Campaign missions with long ass hallways
That's off the top of my head. Sprint wasn't a simple addiction.
DOWN WITH SPRINT!
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BlueScrote
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The sticky detonator is so much fun in the campaign sandbox.
Whilst I'm not saying sprint's definitively bad (I don't like it, personally), I will say that I don't see the same level of analysis from people who're defending it, to what you've just done here. To say whether it's good or bad for the game, you really do need to look at what it's changed, as you've just done.
My personal feelings are that the sheer difference in base map size and shape isn't worth what sprint brings. Everything in Halo 4 is much bigger, and expansive, because of sprint, and that just adds to the overriding sense of loneliness, for me.
I'm some guy playing on my own, earning experience for myself, not bothered about the team, not knowing where the team are or aren't dying, sprinting around an expansive playing field earning my personal ordnance.
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