Tha Robbertster
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I'm in tier 3 and I think I played about 20 games in all of the Infinity playlists :lol
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Halo |OT14| They call it Halo
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I'm in tier 3 and I think I played about 20 games in all of the Infinity playlists :lol
Tier 3 also, played under the same amount.
MrGreencastle
Member
Tier 2 for Spartan Ops. Tier 2 for Infinity Challenge.
Somehow. I do wish I had time to grind Spartan Ops, sadly, I'm in school full time.
Somehow. I do wish I had time to grind Spartan Ops, sadly, I'm in school full time.
And here I am thinking you were tier 2.
User 73706
Banned
Would you guys play a Flood variant with additional forms? Not necessarily identical to ones we've seen in the past (you could play as a Carrier Form but your Infection Forms would rely on pathfinding or you would just explode rather than emit infectors, for example) but adding a few more "classes" to the game?
And I feel like it goes without saying that you guys would play a revised Safe Havens where you could get the structural elements of Dominion, right?
And I feel like it goes without saying that you guys would play a revised Safe Havens where you could get the structural elements of Dominion, right?
Garrett 2U
Member
I'd play a flood mode where there are interactable objects you can use to barricade rooms!
its ok to be jelly
Garrett 2U
Member
RIPHalo 2.
Foundation.
i miss you
Who cares it's ugly, brown and pretty boring to play
OverHeat
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BlueScrote
Member
I can't say I 100% agree with his view, but his points have validity. The uncharted series does a very good job with animations and banter making the experience a nice ride. The platforming is completely devoid of challenge or excitement.
ooo neat can you describe it?
xxjuicesxx
Member
shoutouts to Holly Michaels.
I remember it had a mole
User 73706
Banned
What, like in it or just playing around the edges?
I got more chills on Halo 4's "Halo" level than in all of Reach.
Oh man, I would never leave that playlist. Maybe have a max. # of survivors per room/structure. Prevent people from all bunching together.
childbirth was a traumatising moment in your life so its undestandable why the details are a bit fuzzy.
Yeah the more I play the CEA soundtrack, the more I appreciate it. They did foul up some classic tracks (rewriting the guitar riff, wtf mate?) but on the whole it's an excellent update and some of the ambient/electronic stuff gives me shivers. It's *that* kind of music that would have been perfect for the Halo 4 I was expected, full of levels trekking across open terrain and ambient wonders. Oh well.
(Also it was great to have versions of the lost Halo music. "How to Get Ahead In War" is awesome.)
I dunno. Safety in numbers, sure, but if you're broken into it's also game over.
I think decoupling the mode from the energy sword/claw would make the biggest change. If you made the Flood more resilient and less dependent on the lunge I think you'd increase the danger for humans appropriately.
the natron
Neo Member
Hey guys I'm Natron, been lurking since OT6
Halo 3 is my favorite overall Halo and Spartan Ops online is the worst thing ever
Halo 3 is my favorite overall Halo and Spartan Ops online is the worst thing ever
You will fit right in here.
Stop lying to him.
I hate you already!!!
xxjuicesxx
Member
HIGH FIVE!
NullPointer
Member
343 definitely oversold Spartan Ops. They should have just said it was a co-op elimination mode and we would have been impressed at the attempt to add context via CGI cutscenes. Instead they just had to go crazy with the TV show analogies and water cooler moments.
Didnt I read somewhere that the earlier versions of Spartan Ops had randomized objectives? Would like to have seen that mode in action.
Didnt I read somewhere that the earlier versions of Spartan Ops had randomized objectives? Would like to have seen that mode in action.
Agreed. Didn't have a single "wow moment" or any part where I thought "this is good". Nothing on the par of The Wire, Walking Dead, or Breaking Bad, to name a few.
Still kinda miffed about what Firefight could have been with the addition of custom loadouts and classes.
ewww. Going back to Reach? I knew there was something wrong with all of you.
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
someone play Reach with franklinator, monsterfracas, and most importantly me.
That's really what I mean, though. It creates a false sense of danger and urgency that is too easily alleviated by simple button presses. And pretty much all the strategy involved in defeating enemies is so obviously guided. There's a lack of subtlety in the level design. Remember that scene in Uncharted 2 where the bus blows up and Drake is thrown backward? And then the player has to climb a broken down hovel to traverse the area? There's too much of that kind of stuff where the player can do only one thing.
Unfortunately, when I played Uncharted 2, it didn't just leave a bad taste in my mouth for that particular game, but for almost all games. Now, whenever I play Dead Space or Halo or Half Life, I can too easily see the designer's intentions in the game. I've become extremely cynical of video games because I too easily notice the skeleton of the game.
I wouldn't attack Uncharted 2 solely except that Uncharted 2 has become a model for what other developers shoot for. It's kind of like criticizing Apple for using Foxconn even though dozens of companies do it, too. Apple is the major company that other companies aspire to be and so they're the figurehead. Naughty Dog is the Apple of video game developers. They advertise themselves as pioneers with untraditional management and development methods. They do a ton of work, exert a lot of artistic effort, and at the end of the day their perfectionism prevents their games from being the kind of games I want to play because they simply can't let the player create his own experiences. Again, like Apple, very controlling.
Yup, I really didn't take the ambiguity that came with SpOps into consideration. That said, I didn't care much for it because I never looked at it as a replacement for Firefight, but I was still disappointed with what we got.
The difficulty scaling or lack thereof in Halo 4 is one of it's worst sins, and it shines most in Spartan Ops in conjunction with disappearing weaponry.
But I promised myself I would never go back there...
343 kept saying that stupid watrcooler analogy when it is nothing like that. I don't know or care about any of the characters in SpOps. Except Sarah Palmer... Egg Heads!
xxjuicesxx
Member
I often loiter around the watercooler waiting for SpOps discussion but all I hear is people whispering about this crazy guy who's always hanging out around the watercooler.
All I hear about is this Funke guy.
MaximumFlipFlop
Banned
Still haven't got my 360 to boot up properly since I dropped it. Would the towel trick maybe help?
the natron
Neo Member
wow i feel welcome already haha
And about Spartan Ops, its no firefight but its ok even if it is meh and totally forgettable aside from a couple missions. The real problem though lies in that god awful netcode. Every time I try to play it online I feel like I'm playing an interactive slideshow and sometimes I go phasing through objects or enemies pop out of nowhere. Its netcode seriously reaches Crysis 2 levels of bad.
And about Spartan Ops, its no firefight but its ok even if it is meh and totally forgettable aside from a couple missions. The real problem though lies in that god awful netcode. Every time I try to play it online I feel like I'm playing an interactive slideshow and sometimes I go phasing through objects or enemies pop out of nowhere. Its netcode seriously reaches Crysis 2 levels of bad.
NullPointer
Member
The guy with the "Hire Me!" t-shirt? yeah. he's kind of a trip.
Another random Halo 4 aside: There are a bunch of computer terminals in campaign you can use. The ones in Dawn that go into the Chief's history and break down the Forward Unto Dawn's systems - those are all well and good.
But beyond these there are some in the Pelican Bay on the Infinity that go into War Games leaderboards and highlights, but they're offline. They are even more "sorry, we're temporarily offline due to X" terminals to be found on Composer.
Whats the deal with these? Was this by design? Or did 343 have other ideas for these that they never fleshed out?
Put it in a box of rice.
Garrett 2U
Member
So sick and tired of hearing how brilliant that Funke is!
They call it Halo.
I used to joke around saying that I'd break my
Xbox if I ever went back to play Reach after Halo 4 launched.
Who is laughing now?
Some said this day would come.
The day where Reach would be good compared to Halo 4
the natron
Neo Member
If you look around in that beginning area of Requiem you can actually find a lot of stuff like that. A notepad where Halsey talks about Cortana, a terminal that talks about the "Storm Covenant", etc. I'm pretty sure they are few later in the level too. I think they're just bunch of easter eggs meant to either give backstory or make the world of Halo feel more real