The gaming side thread made me curious...
Does anyone besides Frankie like the Halo 4 UI? Like literally any single person here?
Nope - I haven't seen any of the white knights even defend it.
The gaming side thread made me curious...
Does anyone besides Frankie like the Halo 4 UI? Like literally any single person here?
Holy shit, you win the internet for today. Thanks for that
From a far, it looked decent but actually working with it showed how backward it is.The gaming side thread made me curious...
Does anyone besides Frankie like the Halo 4 UI? Like literally any single person here?
Live says you're sitting at the Dashboard. Hard to play like that.You wanna play some Halo there, pal?
The gaming side thread made me curious...
Does anyone besides Frankie like the Halo 4 UI? Like literally any single person here?
I was just looking at my game history, and I couldn't go back to my game history page because the back button was being covered up by the sidebar whenever I scrolled over to it.Waypoint for stats is a joke. Can't even copy + paste game stats? What the fuck is this shit? Just wanted to point out how broken the "close skill based matchmaking" really is by my past three games stats... but no. To do that would require screen capture + cropping + hosting image files somewhere else + then posting images here.
Why is it so hard to love this game?
Honestly I get so aggravated that I am tempted to this this. Oh wait, no Friendly Fire...Betray a teammate! Instant ammo.
Seriously.good to know someone can make a better UI in a day with Microsoft Paint than 343 could pull off with 3 years and millions in funding
This new cover is horrible.This cover is so much better! Look at that. Is that the Ark? Halos floating around?
The gaming side thread made me curious...
Does anyone besides Frankie like the Halo 4 UI? Like literally any single person here?
Hey. Team Regicide is really fun.
The gaming side thread made me curious...
Does anyone besides Frankie like the Halo 4 UI? Like literally any single person here?
Hey. Team Regicide is really fun.
It's obvious why they changed the UI. They did it as to not look as if they are copy/pasting from bungie.
They seemed to have adopted that ethos throughout a lot of their decisions to be honest, and have come off worse for it.
Hey, do we get a Bulletin today or not?
I must be crazy because I remember them being postponed or going up later than 9 EST.They usually show up at 9 EST.
It's obvious why they changed the UI. They did it as to not look as if they are copy/pasting from bungie.
They seemed to have adopted that ethos throughout a lot of their decisions to be honest, and have come off worse for it.
I wonder if they'll care to acknowledge File Browser this time around or if they've actually forgotten it exists.They usually show up at 9 EST.
Quote to a few days ago when being added when someone was screaming, "WHO THE FUCK ASKED FOR THIS!?"
I wonder if they'll care to acknowledge File Browser this time around or if they've actually forgotten it exists.
But they want you to care about it. They want you to unlock new armor pieces, skins, emblems and stances. They wanted you to care enough about these intangibles to choose one retailer over another, or to buy a season pass or LE instead of just the vanilla game. They want you to care because they want you to want XP, and for that desire for XP to manifest itself in Mountain Dew and Doritos purchases, and in focusing on the playlists that offer up the biggest daily bonuses.Not butcher it and put useless player-cards that take too much room and no one cares about. Seriously.
But the experience they gain as a Halo studio is probably worth the change. Nothing ventured nothing gain sort of thing.
I've thought for a while with Halo 4 they could have kept everything Reach and just tweaked settings, AA's, sandbox and push in more content across the board. Imagine what could have been had they kept the following from Reach, literally a"as is":
1. netcode
2. melee
3. existing weapons
4. existing enemies
5. vehicles
6. firefight
7. theatre
8. lobby
9. matchmaking filters
10. fileshare
You get the idea but it would hardly be Halo 4 now would it? It would be more like a Reach 2.0. I'm very happy with what 343i produced for the money I paid but I would have also been happy for Reach 2.0 with a classic mode as well. Spending their resources this way would have made me happy indeed but I don't think it would have prepared the studio for next generation or Halo 5 very well.
I think of Reach TU as 343i getting familiar then Halo 4 is them giving things a red hot go and changing so much to bring all the assets up to their standard for the next 5 years of operation. All the models, textures, sounds, animations (mocap & facial) etc etc bring the studio up to full working speed ready for a next generation and their own Halo engine. If they didn't do this with Halo 4 they would be far worse off in the long run.
Halo 4 does not deserve any game of the year awards. 343 innovated nothing. They even try. Bungie innovated so much. Even when they didn't, at least they were trying. Revolutionary gameplay, Matchmaking, intricate online stats, Theater and File sharing on a console.Does anyone here actually have Halo 4 as their game of the year?
Mine's Borderlands 2.
But they want you to care about it. They want you to unlock new armor pieces, skins, emblems and stances. They wanted you to care enough about these intangibles to choose one retailer over another, or to buy a season pass or LE instead of just the vanilla game. They want you to care because they want you to want XP, and for that desire for XP to manifest itself in Mountain Dew and Doritos purchases, and in focusing on the playlists that offer up the biggest daily bonuses.
Good point. Guess they figured stances were enough of a new thing, and would work with the baseball card analogy. I don't mind that much either way, but I do mind that the menus aren't often smooth.People care about that stuff in COD too and yet they dont need to fill the whole screen with player cards and shit.
I kind of want to play Halo 4 right now, let me jump into a CTF game...
turns off xbox
Halo 4 does not deserve any game of the year awards. 343 innovated nothing. They even try. Bungie innovated so much. Even when they didn't, at least they were trying. Revolutionary Halo 1 gameplay, Matchmaking, intricate online stats, Theater and File sharing on a console.
What does 343 give us after taking away file share functionality, Halo 1 gameplay, and campaign theater?
Inflated Firefight.
It's obvious why they changed the UI. They did it as to not look as if they are copy/pasting from bungie.
They seemed to have adopted that ethos throughout a lot of their decisions to be honest, and have come off worse for it.
So changing it not because its bad but because it has to be different? Wow. They could have taken that formula and improved it, just like they did the rest of the fucking game. Not butcher it and put useless player-cards that take too much room and no one cares about. Seriously.
Crimson go to this objective!Inflated Firefight.
I kind of want to play Halo 4 right now, let me jump into a CTF game...
turns off xbox
"Should we think about the people coming in who will carry our burden for leaving? "
Frikkin smegheads and your science nonsense..
wut.
Yeah I would too if I got Complex.
this was the beginning of the game"Should we think about the people coming in who will carry our burden for leaving? "
Na.
Any of these would have been nice:Ok I hear you that Bungie innovated XBL with Halo 2, Console theatre/fileshare/website with Halo 3, maybe Firefight with ODST but what innovations would you suggest?
Me, I would have liked:
1. Country matching based on gamertag/console region (seems quite straight forward).
2. Rendering to YouTube (ala Black Ops II).
3. An RTS style game on PC that real times plays with Halo FPS on console.
I cant watch that video because it annoyed the shit out of me.
I think they just need a better understanding of what needs fixed and what needs a new coat of paint.
UI = new coat of paint, it worked fine, it wasnt the actual game, leave it alone.
Gameplay = Reach was balls, fix that.
Unfortunately...Halo 4 is Reach with more garbage thrown in.