xxjuicesxx
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Halo |OT12| Last One Out, Get the Lights
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MaximumFlipFlop
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This is the most conflicted I have ever been regarding a game. Halo IS my favorite video games series. The time I have poured into it and it's extended universe is unreal. No other game has received even close to the amount of time and care I have put into Halo. If any other game brought so much negativity towards my view of it, I'd have no problem getting rid of it and forgetting it. I keep trying to tell myself that I will like Halo 4, because I like Halo. It's a horrible feeling, and I wish it would pass. I have a pretty damn good idea of what Halo 4 did so wrong that made me not want to play, but that deep down Halo fan inside of me doesn't want to quit the series. At the same time, I really don't want to be stuck in the past, playing old Halo's forever, I can't do that anymore. I can't repeatedly play the old games just to get my fix. It's 1 part nostalgia, and 1 part love for what Halo used to be that would make me throw the old games back into my console. I don't like the feeling of having to say goodbye to the franchise, but I keep feeling like I am moving that way, and it makes sad.
No he's not.
Nothing, just chilling.
Aggrotek
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Is the Locus helmet preorder only? Or is there a way to unlock it?
Enter The 36 Chambers
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neoism
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pretty much this... it sucks balls... I love this series.. but H4 is just not a well made game, let alone a halo game. MM feels shitty and fantic and is just not fun at all... got to say though thanks 343 for saving me 400+ next gen unless you guys stop sucking at making games no halo 5 for me
Destiny save us!
xxjuicesxx
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Was just gunna say everyone comment with the link to that picture.
Enter The 36 Chambers
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Didnt read their review. But best since Halo 2 is a shocking call...
to krow and nokz: oh god that song is coming out for Rock Band next week
I discovered only recently that.. yeah never mind
I discovered only recently that.. yeah never mind
That's not horribly unreasonable. I mean, between Halo 2 and 4 we had 3 and Reach, so...
MaximumFlipFlop
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I tried...
Aggrotek
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I lol'd at your avatar.
I agree though. I have several complaints about this game but none of them are so large that I would stop playing. I think overall the game is great.
Poker Face
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safe to assume no bulletin today since tomorrow is thanksgiving?
Steelyuhas
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My biggest issue with the game is that I suck at it lol.
I'm only not having fun cause I get fucking slapped, not sure why. I'm no pro, but typically I'm pretty good compared to the average scrub in not just Halo, but any shooter out there.
Reagan's BR
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So is this the part where people come in and defend Forge and say that a far cry editor would be a waste of resources?
FUNKNOWN iXi
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Halo and Smash Bros. for me. Don't even get me started on Nintendo dropping the ball on Brawl's execution.. When netplay on an emulator is way more efficient than an "official" online network you know you have a problem :/
Aggrotek
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Melee all day everyday.
That's because they went with lockstep (they slowed down the simulation when someone started falling behind)
Namco is developing the next Smash though so they're probably going to be using their SC/etc netcode for Smash now.
Your emulator netplay was better because you had input delay instead / just better connections to the people playing.
edit: it should be noted that Iwata said in an interview that they were originally just going to take Melee and put it online if Sakurai refused to work on Brawl :lol
Reagan's BR
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YOUR TEAM HAS DROPPED THE BALL
WonkyPanda
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So, first time popping in this thread and I must say that I am sort of shocked.
I've been playing since day one and I am absolutely enamored with H4's MP. The guns feel great, the maps are solid, and the action just feels...right.
What is it exactly people are clamoring about, specifically? I mean, we've seen quite a large variety and changes in Halo's MP, even when it was just being made by one studio. Leaping from Halo 2 MP to 3 was a huge change. Hell, Reach to 3 was a bit of a culture shock as well.
Personally, I think that 4 has borrowed the right elements from Reach and 3 to create an outstanding MP experience. But, just my opinion.
I've been playing since day one and I am absolutely enamored with H4's MP. The guns feel great, the maps are solid, and the action just feels...right.
What is it exactly people are clamoring about, specifically? I mean, we've seen quite a large variety and changes in Halo's MP, even when it was just being made by one studio. Leaping from Halo 2 MP to 3 was a huge change. Hell, Reach to 3 was a bit of a culture shock as well.
Personally, I think that 4 has borrowed the right elements from Reach and 3 to create an outstanding MP experience. But, just my opinion.
It did before too, it was just spotty like in Halo 3. Probably nothing has changed.
VivaciousJazzy
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I'm so effin happy right now.
We know it's been spotty, but it's been 100% which it has never done. Probably some weird incredible fluke or Gandalf got hired at 343.
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bobs...onGaf
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I personally enjoy Halo 4 more than Black Ops 2. I dont think that means anything in the long run because I am still finding the choice of some of the mechanics frustrating but meh.
I am actually shocked at how bad Blops2 turned out. With 343 they are a new studio and I expected a degree of change. With Blops 2 its like they forgot how to make good maps. How did we go from maps like Firing Range and Jungle to the maps in the new game lol. Did they hire and fire a lot of people in the last year or something? That applies across the board and not just to maps.
Lets be honest, its only such a huge hit because its only only decently sized map in the entire game that has a layout that allows for that Arena gameplay. If they have 5 more maps designed in the same way as Haven the game would be better for it.
MaximumFlipFlop
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Feel free to read the thread a little. Many of us have posted our dislikings.
squidhands
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As much animosity as I have for an essential rehash of the same old thing, I can't blame CA for anything other than the glitches that 4ge currently has, and they have expressed that they want to fix any glaring issues. It's an easy assumption that the word came from up on high to keep the status as quo as possible, since most of the official talk about it has centered around bringing in new people to the fold (which seems to be a running theme with Halo 4 overall).
WonkyPanda
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I guess I should have clarified.
From the glancing, most discussion seems to be on balancing issues (ala boltshot). These aren't fundamentally flawed aspects of the game and can most assuredly be fixed over time.
But, if there really are much more substantive issues, i'll need to read deeper, I suppose.
Re: the comment from 343 on the reasons for sword stopping power's removal.
I don't get how the sword would be useless with stopping power, if you accept that its a close range weapon and not the way it's used in reach and 4. It has a lunge, it's a melee weapon. Just because reach didn't have a solution to the sprint-sword problem doesn't mean that should be the standard for its function now although I'm probably wasting my breath with that sentiment since unfortunately reach is the base template for the testers at 343. So yeah it probably would be useless if you used it like the average dumbshit in a game of slayer on Countdown.
Apologies for the immature rant.
I don't get how the sword would be useless with stopping power, if you accept that its a close range weapon and not the way it's used in reach and 4. It has a lunge, it's a melee weapon. Just because reach didn't have a solution to the sprint-sword problem doesn't mean that should be the standard for its function now although I'm probably wasting my breath with that sentiment since unfortunately reach is the base template for the testers at 343. So yeah it probably would be useless if you used it like the average dumbshit in a game of slayer on Countdown.
Apologies for the immature rant.
At work and can't hear the audio - how exactly is this trick done?
Some text on screen would be helpful for future videos.
Makes me laugh the amount of sheer money, technology, and time that went into creating the relationship between Cortana and Chief, and then you compare it to an episodic game, and it all falls apart.
That's not a dig at Halo 4 specifically, but just at narrative based gaming in general. When people talk about this being an industry finding its feet, this is what they mean. We haven't realised how to make engaging, emotional, interactive narratives. Halo 4 certainly wasn't, The Walking Dead moves in the right direction in that regard.
-Global Ordnance
-Lack of quality strafing
-Flinching when shot while scoped in
-Worst spawn system in the series
Main issues in the "core game" that I can think of at the moment.
WonkyPanda
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Thank you, gents.
Change your loadout.
Just matched against an SR42 who had a bunch of shit I don't think he should have had. He already had the Pathfinder helmet, the Stand Off stance (possible, but it's such a tough one to get I doubt he has it already), and he had a Rhino emblem too. He definitely shouldn't have had Pathfinder shit until after SR50. I don't even know when/how you get that emblem. He was a rubbish player too lol.
Reagan's BR
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ElzarTheBam
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Andy?
xxjuicesxx
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Try a few pages back. There was like lists of problems, some of them not even regarding actual gameplay that would be an opinion. A lot of just straight up technical problems.
Game is a house of cards.
Game is a house of cards.
bobs...onGaf
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Feels like weapon damage is different too, the sticky detonator feels weaker? Is that just me? Could they even change that without a patch lol?
Barrow Roll
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You know it's okay to not like 1 entry in a franchise, but still like the franchise.
Metroid Other M is a steaming pile, but Metroid as a franchise is still top tier.
Brawl's online mode is the least of that game's problems. The entire fighting engine is so dumbed down, the characters are more unbalanced than ever and there are so many exploits and mind numbingly easy chaingrabs and infinites.
Brawl's saving grace is how hackable it is and that's hardly something you can give Sakurai credit for.
You know someone mentioned that the other day and it definitely made me think about the sticky det kills I didn't get that day. As far as changing things without a patch, it certainly seems like properties are downloaded from matchmaking servers. If that's the case and how they're tweaking things, I would be really impressed.
Yep :/ I don't know who made the suggestion but 343 should put up a blog where all patchnotes are showed and maybe all playlist updates and everything.
They should give us some insight in the changes.
Deputy Moonman
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I was going to say start using the AR more
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