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Halo |OT12| Last One Out, Get the Lights
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Heartbreaking reset just happened. He's going again though
Next time give us a making-of DVD, soundtrack, art book etc. Nothing wrong with traditional LE content.
Hell, I'd even take a patch like the one that came with Halo Wars LE over the crap that came with the Halo 4 LE. The thing is damn cool and makes a nice iPod coaster.
Most additions/updates to anything on Xbox Live happen at 2am Pacific.
Oh yea Halo Wars had a nice CE man. Would have loved to some making of content for sure.
I obviously have no regrets about buying the Halo 4 LE though
That wouldn't work. You can't have people casually playing a few different playlists and have a major mechanic change on them. They would literally just stop playing right there and buy something else. Flinch should have been an option in a beta had they done one. Hell, you could have just had some sort of beta playlist available at launch to test these type of mechanics instead of changing the entire game and saying this is what it is now. deal with it.
And who cares about forge, I want to play match making not customs. Sorry.
>The SpOps weeklies are all Promethean kills
Oh, well, that's probably not good. Well, are there any new environments this time around? I didn't have time to do anything SpOps related this morning.
I think it's safe to say that you shouldn't keep that in your fileshare, but, y'know, if you could pass that around through customs on the DL...
They are easy as buck. Do mission 2 and 3 of SpOps, finish them and get them creds.
I don't think you understood that last part, you can disable the global ordnance and put in weapons on the map....
ncsuDuncan
Member
Maybe the modders can fix that too!
yep, with radar, with AAs (I can live with that), but no personal ordnance bullcrap
I've noticed if you become your teams king early on there's a high chance you'll stay king for the rest of the game.
kings bounty maxes out at 25 so not as bad as ffa regicide.
don't really care for all this king business but like I said for now it's the closest thing to what could be called team slayer
So let me get this straight.
A modder manipulating the already released game was able to disable sprint.
smh 343. I gave them the benefit of the doubt regarding the custom options, by assuming they were just so swamped with other shit the custom options were below other priorities.
But now it seems leaving them out was intentional. Halo has always held its customization options as a point of pride.
A modder manipulating the already released game was able to disable sprint.
smh 343. I gave them the benefit of the doubt regarding the custom options, by assuming they were just so swamped with other shit the custom options were below other priorities.
But now it seems leaving them out was intentional. Halo has always held its customization options as a point of pride.
Spending 7.5 days playing the past month is essentially 25% of that entire time; if the guy has work and sleeps 8 hours, that's a whopping 75% of his waking and leisure time dedicated to playing Halo 4.
I do think that is one thing 343 should have concentrated on. One of the core reasons I play Halo as much as I do is because it gives you a lot of options and freedom....not so much in Halo 4.
Agree. I guess I was implicitly saying, I didn't see any reason other than marketing. I suspect they were looking for ways to add value to the LE, and given the emphasis on digital content, it sounds like something that would have emerged from marketing discussions. As you said, if it were a balance thing, 343 would have not granted early access to so many and created a schism in the player base purely for marketing purposes.
I wish I had more confidence in that last sentence than I do.
It seems to me that if 343 wanted to meter or throttle player progression so a relative handful of players didn't blast through and get the specializations early, the way to do that is by limiting XP accumulation. And there we again have mixed messages: Double XP Dew! Also, daily XP cap.
Sort of like, only two specializations unlocked at launch! Unless you buy the game early (in the US) or the LE.
It's a needlessly convoluted and self-conflicting setup. The game and community has not been well served by it.
Spartan Ops is self-aware (line from chapter 2 of this week's episode). Roland:
And having just completed that mission: accurate.
I'm really enjoying Roland's lines in general. He's almost like satire poking fun at the rest of the writing.
"This whole Spartan Ops thing is pretty darn exciting! Although this mission here, maybe not so much."
I'm really enjoying Roland's lines in general. He's almost like satire poking fun at the rest of the writing.
The Lamonster
Member
Sprint as a normal ability is one of my favorite additions to Halo 4. Part of what turned me off to Reach was that I couldn't have Sprint and Jetpack at the same time.
I tried playing a few Reach games a few days ago and I felt like a disabled person because I either couldn't move fast enough or I didn't have that verticality that I'm so used to.
I tried playing a few Reach games a few days ago and I felt like a disabled person because I either couldn't move fast enough or I didn't have that verticality that I'm so used to.
Rickenslacker
Banned
Despite feeling like ODST is the better Firefight experience of the two, I do wish they went a little farther with the arcadey survival aspect. Make it a single life, with no additional lives added. Make the initial ramp smaller so that I feel like I'm always concerned with my well being, instead of having it gradually happen forty minutes in or so. I'd have played it obsessively like that, shorter games but longer time spent playing it overall.
Rickenslacker
Banned
I think it's a better game to look at than play. Just gets monotonous sailing everywhere pretty quickly, even wind waker whirlpooling doesn't really alleviate it. Right now I'm starting the third dungeon in TP as the final game of my "play every Zelda game I own" new year's resolution and I just want it to be done already and never touch a 3D Zelda again for as long as I live. Can't stand these games.
It depends on how it's implemented, and how the modders got rid of it. Much like how there were built in gametype parameters that determined if you were an Elite or Spartan in customs but Bungie didn't expose it because it was apparently delicate to set up. If I were to guess, they did it by giving everyone sprint as an "AA" in the engine then hard set it to a dedicated button to activate that AA, so technically you now have the ability to trigger two AAs separately at any time, which could cause issues.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
I think a lot of people miss out not experiencing OoT when it was brand new, and a lot of people experiencing Wind Waker as one of their first "Zeldas"
OOT was amazing for its time and it's still my GOAT. I know that's with a heavy dose of nostalgia though.
Wind Waker was a travesty to what it did to Zelda. Fuck fishing for the triforce and fuck what it did to my enjoyment of the franchise.
OOT was the pinnacle of Zelda. It had two worlds, zombies, "mature art" 3d world, I could go on. It's by far my favorite in the series right next to LTTP.
OOT was amazing for its time and it's still my GOAT. I know that's with a heavy dose of nostalgia though.
Wind Waker was a travesty to what it did to Zelda. Fuck fishing for the triforce and fuck what it did to my enjoyment of the franchise.
OOT was the pinnacle of Zelda. It had two worlds, zombies, "mature art" 3d world, I could go on. It's by far my favorite in the series right next to LTTP.
Tha Robbertster
Member
So I just completed episode 5, but I didn't get the achievement for doing so. What's up with that?
Also, I think I also heard the most stupid line in SpOps yet:
No fucking shit, Sherlock...
Also, I think I also heard the most stupid line in SpOps yet:
I guess the Covenant doesn't want its spaceship blown up
No fucking shit, Sherlock...
Oh right! I'm going to have to get on and try it at some point.
Still want to play some more of those Competitive settings. Cyren if you're on playing those and see me on, give me an invite.
squidhands
Member
I don't know, I don't speak Bjork.
Glad Team Regicide is up, I thought it wasn't going to be until next week for some reason. I r dum
bobs...onGaf
Member
Just a warning - halo reach still sucks and halo anniversary is just halo reach multiplayer.
Rickenslacker
Banned
It's definitely a game of its time. I only got to around the start of being adult Link when I was playing it as a kid, and even getting to Hyrule Field I just had my imagination fill in all sorts of gaps and it felt like a huge open magical adventure.
Playing through it entirely for the first time in earnest this year however, it was just full of annoyance. Especially as a third person game where you can't fully control the camera. There were also just some aspects of it that got grating after a while like the slow movement speed, the slow menu speed, the constant ocarina use. Majora's Mask fixed a lot of that and while it has its own annoyances, easily ends up being my favourite 3D Zelda of the bunch.
two kings
Finish any mission in the 5th episode on solo, doesn't matter on which difficulty. I got mine this way.
agree with everything OoT and LttP are the best and fantastic while I hate windwaker and almost all of the "chibi" Link games.
SS and TP have my favourite Link design though
And you totally ignored the part of my post where I said your idea was no good. Does that mean 343 can take global ordinances out of match making?
Hey man, cut them some slack, they're a new indie studio with lots of time restraints and limited capital.
Seriously though, I like sprint, but this just proves how distracted 343 was by other crap like regicide and jip to fix simple things like "options".
Poster in the gaming side OT that hit 70 confirmed that it seems to just dump the XP and you just lose it until 343 opens them up.
I would rather a brand new 3DS Zelda. Either 2D or 3D.
Have you played the Oracle games for GBC? They're godly.
Aggrotek
Member
Fuck yes they are. So good. The music is perfect too.
I never played any zelda past oot really. Am I missing out? WW looked strange and I was already over nintendo consoles by that time.
Link to the Past is still the best one ever. I wish Nintendo would just make a mildly isometric version of that, with the same mechanics, or go full Skyrim (although really I'm thinking Red Dead Redemption).
No, I will day 1 them when they come out for 3ds VC.
I did beat Link's awakening recently though. good game.
Link to the past in the ocarina engine. Mother of god.
The Lamonster
Member
Weekly campaign challenge protip:
Reclaimer has one of the most tedious encounters in solo Legendary. During your time with the mammoth, you will be directed to an abandoned gauss hog. This encounter throws dozens of ghosts and several wraiths at you and if you're low on ammo by that point, it can be one frustrating situation. Without a driver to dodge attacks, the gauss hog isn't much help because you can only get a few shots off before being blown to bits.
My advice is to drive the hog into the mammoth's hull and shoot the Covie vehicles as they come into view through the mammonth's doorway. You'll be shielded from wraith blasts and most ghost plasma and you can easily pick off whatever the game throws at you until it's over
Reclaimer has one of the most tedious encounters in solo Legendary. During your time with the mammoth, you will be directed to an abandoned gauss hog. This encounter throws dozens of ghosts and several wraiths at you and if you're low on ammo by that point, it can be one frustrating situation. Without a driver to dodge attacks, the gauss hog isn't much help because you can only get a few shots off before being blown to bits.
My advice is to drive the hog into the mammoth's hull and shoot the Covie vehicles as they come into view through the mammonth's doorway. You'll be shielded from wraith blasts and most ghost plasma and you can easily pick off whatever the game throws at you until it's over
I expected a 3DS ALTTP release by now. Missed opportunity IMO. I was also hoping for a 3D Classics release of the original LOZ, with optional isometric view. Oh well.
Rickenslacker
Banned
Majora's Mask is worth checking out, but otherwise you're not missing a damn thing.
As a 3D Zelda? nothx. I think LttP excels in large part due to its 2D snappiness, no constant weird camera angles and readjusting, no taking away player control to show you something, I mean if you wanted it to still be the same top down perspective with the same 2D playstyle with a 3D cosmetic makeover, that would be coo'. Playing like a 3D Zelda would ruin LttP though, imo.
Steelyuhas
Member
Much faster? The length of the progression systems in Reach and Halo 4 are in different universes. After 2 years of Reach, I got through roughly a third of the progression system based on credits. After a week of Halo 4, I calculated that I would finish the progression system in 3 months. I'm probably off that pace a bit now, but the progression system is still very short in this game. I assume they plan to add more down the road because I can't think of a major MP game in recent history with a progression system nearly this short.
Yes. Initial Ordinance and Random Ordinance can both be disabled.
Why don't you get into the driver seat and let the Marine who is standing right next to the thing when you enter the area operate the turret? The AI won't get in immediately for whatever reason, but as soon as Phantoms start dropping in he'll hop on, and until then there's a rock right there to shield you if you drive forward a little bit. That's what I've done for each of my runs, it hasn't failed me yet.Weekly campaign challenge protip:
Reclaimer has one of the most tedious encounters in solo Legendary. During your time with the mammoth, you will be directed to an abandoned gauss hog. This encounter throws dozens of ghosts and several wraiths at you and if you're low on ammo by that point, it can be one frustrating situation. Without a driver to dodge attacks, the gauss hog isn't much help because you can only get a few shots off before being blown to bits.
My advice is to drive the hog into the mammoth's hull and shoot the Covie vehicles as they come into view through the mammonth's doorway. You'll be shielded from wraith blasts and most ghost plasma and you can easily pick off whatever the game throws at you until it's over
Link to the past rehaul but keeping the gamestyle... count me in day one
ncsuDuncan
Member
Did anyone here play Graal? My friends were obsessed with that game back in the day. It was basically LttP online (MMO style).
I just enjoyed building levels and scripting weapons offline, but maybe that's because I only had dialup.
I just enjoyed building levels and scripting weapons offline, but maybe that's because I only had dialup.
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