Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
DOH! Back to reading school for me.
You can't teach an old dog....
Also, shouldn't you be packing up your sleigh old man?
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You can't teach an old dog....
Also, shouldn't you be packing up your sleigh old man?
Yeah, I think I saw where they THOUGHT they were going with the concept... I was actually in favor of the idea of moving the ordnance around a bit. (Nothing like a good team setting up in such a way that they can be back at snipe spawn every 3 minutes, and CEMENT that 20-point lead...) The way it ended up working, though, has caused more bad feelings than good, at least in my experience; for the most part, I totally ignore global ordnance, because what falls near me is always a needler or a sticky det (which I suck with), and what falls near the guy who has me in his sights is a binary rifle.
::shrug::
This might still be tweaked at some point in the future - hope springs eternal.
ARE YOU CALLING ME FAT?
Do this, equipment suits Halo much more.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
I just wish we could discuss them without sinking to 'game sucks, developer sucks, moving on'.
Yes, yes. It's why lately I've been trying to add a point at the end of all of my posts to a "how could this be remedied?". Then propositions are being made and a potential fix can be made.
Bobs humbug
The Lamonster
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This is my biggest problem with it, actually - the amount of love it needs.
I enjoy playing it. I play plenty of it. But some of the decisions 343 made are... hard for me to understand. I'm not even talking about the huge gamechangers, like no one-sided objective games - I'm still wrapping my head around those, and haven't fully decided one way or the other whether I think this is a long-term mistake. I'm talking about tiny things - lots and lots and lots of tiny things. Things like how many buttons I have to press to save the latest film, or to send someone a message. (It's actually easier to go through the guide button to interact with other players, for the most part, than to use the Halo 4 UI.)
And maybe some of the not-so-tiny stuff, like enemy AI in Campaign and Spartan Ops. I was playing the final chapter of Episode 5 a couple of days ago, and I was actually SURPRISED when an elite, a few hundred yards away, jumped out of the way of a rocket I fired at him. (He won't move if I ding him with DMR fire - in fact, he'll remain in place until he falls down dead - but he will actually walk out of the range of splash damage if I fire a rocket at him.)
My reaction to his reaction hit home - and yesterday, it hit home even harder. I played through The Pillar of Autumn on Reach... and was ASTOUNDED by how much harder it is to fight the Covenant in that game. (This was actually a good thing.) It got me thinking about how Halo 4's way of ramping up the difficulty is to simply add more baddies - this, coupled with a scary-bad spawn system on Spartan Ops, says that as long as you don't die, you're fine - but die once, and you'll die a dozen times. In Reach, it's far easier to die that first time... but when you respawn, you're generally given a chance to breathe, and find a new way to approach the problem - it's more about ME and MY ABILITIES than about the system simply overwhelming me.
I actually enjoy Halo 4's campaign - and I have high hopes that the second half of the Spartan Ops season will make me want to jump in again. And for the most part, I can live with the UI, and the problems that pop up are transient annoyances. But when I make a direct comparison to what came before, I have trouble understanding WHY some of the changes have been made, beyond 'to put our own stamp on this game'.
See? It's not all butterflies and roses here.
This excellent post is a great example of why you shouldn't leave us!
OverHeat
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The game as flaw no doubt about it. But Im enjoying more then Reach at the moment. I loved the campaign ( but wish the AI was better to many time I have seen banshee stuck in a wall :s) MP IS good IMO except for some weapon that are allowed in loadout and for the love of god remove cloaking from the AA ( I have the admit I use it some time, adapt or die but it do not mean its a good idea.) smaller maps would be nice and why dont they put some forge map into MM is a mystery for me.
Been a little while... but it's been done.
right click
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also lmao at the file title hahaha
Been a little while... but it's been done.
A new challenger approaches
HiredN00bs
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I still enjoy it, but I get excited to play Reach when I play this game. Primarily the quality of online performance is amazingly better. You can only get instantly killed through walls and around corners with silent boltshots so many times before you want to stop playing Halo 4. Secondly, the structure of Reach is incredibly comfortable, especially for franchise fans. I know when and where every weapon will spawn. I know which enemies will have which weapons at what times and places on the map, as well as which directions they will generally travel. Halo 4 is anything and everything, anytime. This makes maps feel like empty boxes--they have significantly diminished character within gameplay.
I still give Halo 4 a chance every time I play Halo, and I hope they can iron out some of its inconsistencies soon, but my hope and excitement is almost wholly invested now in Destiny.
I still give Halo 4 a chance every time I play Halo, and I hope they can iron out some of its inconsistencies soon, but my hope and excitement is almost wholly invested now in Destiny.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
Been a little while... but it's been done.
Circa 1969
(Actually looks like the 80s)
Dose glasses, dat beard, dat haircut, dat denim shirt, dem drapes.
You're 2 for 2. Keep up the good work.
1996, actually. (I only know that because the picture has a date stamp.)
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
StalkerUKCG
Banned
Isn't it time you got the reindeer prepped for all the gift delivering wu?
I was a little six year old
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
Probably before a lot of posters in HaloGAF/NeoGAF were born. I was 15-16 in 1996. And apparently Wu was in his 60s, so OLD.
MaximumFlipFlop
Banned
Merry Christmas Eve HaloGAF! Hope y'all have a great day.
I was fortunate, the snow truck driver left me a 5 ft berm as an early present! Wish my snowblower worked... RIP low back
I was fortunate, the snow truck driver left me a 5 ft berm as an early present! Wish my snowblower worked... RIP low back
Holy shit, I has five in '96.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
HiredN00bs
Member
January and February have yet to rear their ugly heads...
I was five once, too.
HiredN00bs
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Being a kid and getting out of school = snow is awesome!
Being an adult and having to drive to work in it = fuck snow!
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
StalkerUKCG
Banned
HiredN00bs
Member
B.C. means "Before Christ".
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
HiredN00bs
Member
Now we're getting into prehistory, aka Greg Bear Halo lore.
SCREW YOU ALL MARTY'S GOT TEN YEARS ON ME GO AHEAD MAKE FUN OF HIM
lol - wtf, who would want an autographed monocle?
StalkerUKCG
Banned
Louis Wu's Childhood Memoirs Written by Greg Bear.
Wu you old.
Wu you old.
Yeah, but Marty is the worst person. We like you.
Naaaahh
I got called into work once during a snowstorm. Was late, was stuck there.
Would do it again cause snow is the tits
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
The Lamonster
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ha, same.
But Marthy looks flawless, he uses that good lotion.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
It's called Soylent Green.
THAT'S what I'm doing wrong... I just puts mine in the basket.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
OverHeat
« generous god »
Marty make great music he get a pass for his age
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