TheOhrenberger
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so has this place pretty much turned into the destinyGAF?
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Halo |OT14| They call it Halo
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gAg CruSh3r
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StalkerUKCG
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This is true. ADS is cool. It wont work in Halo but it could work in Destiny.
One thing I hope is destiny has some kind of player health/shield system so its not Instant death like COD.
lybertyboy
Thinks the Evil Empire is just misunderstood.
I appreciate your enthusiasm about a variety of topics, but...
If you want to keep posting here, stay off the drugs.
Poker Face
Member
No, just guessing.
ElzarTheBam
Member
Douche.
StalkerUKCG
Banned
That's fine.
With Saber Interactive working on Halo 2:A for release on NextBox. It gives 343i Room to expand spartan ops in season 2 and remain active tweaking Halo 4.
InB4 Franklez O'Ellis gets a 10 kill hammer spree on this post
StalkerUKCG
Banned
GF had a mid-high end HTC Mozart a year or two ago and I love the interface. Granted its going to be a step away from the iPhones and Droid phones you are used to but it does some really nice things.
It all depends on what your key points are with a phone.
Loving my 8S, only issue is how little memory it has.
MrGreencastle
Member
Very true. I had somewhat hoped that that was what Spartan Ops was going to be. Especially when the purpose of the Infinity was spelled out during the campaign, "Infinity's mission is to track down the remaining Halo rings and establish permanent research bases to prepare them for decommissioning." Or something along those lines. I instantly thought we'd be going all over the galaxy to explore all the Forerunner stuff. Then again, the reveal of the Janus Key points to something like this happening in the future, still...
Well, that's what I want to try, use something different from what iPhone and Android phone can bring me. Also, I'm thinking about buying a Surface Pro, could be useful to be on a windows environment only.
The only thing that bother me is the lack of applications on the Windows Store, and seeing cool apps are only for iPhone. ='(
First, I wanted the 8S, then the memory was something important for me, so 8X for sure. ^^
Glad to see you didn't have bad feedback about the UI, I'm really curious about the start screen and all the informations it can display.
Thanks, both of you !
StalkerUKCG
Banned
What do you have now?
If your going for a Surface then I'd recommend either an iPhone 4S or iPhone 5. A surface will give you everything you can get from you're phone but your wont suffer the limitations because you can use the App Store on iOS for everything else.
As a smartphone/media device I still think its hard to top the iPhone. I semi-recently upgraded to a HTC One X but iv kept my iPhone on a small contract because I love the ease of use for ... everything.
Note however that my iPhone 4 is jailbroken and so its walled garden limitations are gone. If you are fine doing this I can't recommend iPhone's enough if not then I feel from a freedom standpoint android will be more suited to you.
Like I said its all going to come down to what features you think are "Key". Memory is usually of little concern unless you plan on loading the thing with unthinkable amount of music or app's and the Music issue can be avoided with things like spotify (paid service unfortunately)
I can't wait for Spartan Ops next week. My feelings about Spartan Ops have pretty much done a 180 since it came out. It's not perfect, but it's clear that a lot of it was rushed out there and given low priority. The second half is so much more exhilarating and gives you a ton of moments where you feel like your playing an actual campaign.
I prefer having the ability to strafe jump and shoot while zooming.
I highly doubt that it will look like Halo. Bungie didn't split away from Microsoft and Halo just to make another Halo clone.
The problem with this, and I think the numbers back this up, is that not many Halo players actually wanted a second campaign. They wanted better matchmaking.
It also shows that the mode can be used to experiment with more out of the box ideas. They could create a season where it follows a squad behind enemy lines, with minimal contact with the outside, isolated and a self-contained storyline.
I liked what they did with the Infinity section, cut up sections of the level in chapters. They should do that again with other sections (i.e. alien world).
I used an iPhone for years, then I'm actually on a Samsung Galaxy with Android.
About the Surface and iPhone combo, that's why I was thinking during months when I was waiting the Surface Pro. I can have everything I want with an iPhone in term of application, then use my Surface for the windows store, but I was wondering if it was better to be only on windows, or make a dual OS environment.
I was decided to take a WP8, but you make me doubt now...
I'm not a phone addict, as I said, I just want to try something new and cool, but it's difficult to like something else when you used an iPhone and you are accustomed try 3 new applications per weeks.
FUNKNOWN iXi
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You have Halo for this
I'd like a game to try... both?
Could be cool to have a gun with ADS in Halo instead of it scoping in, while maybe keeping your mobility. IDK, something to try.. Worked out for Gears:
Halo could also use the spotting feature from Gears IMO.
OverHeat
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I'd like a game to try... both?
Could be cool to have a gun with ADS in Halo instead of it scoping in, while maybe keeping your mobility. IDK, something to try.. Worked out for Gears:
Halo could also use the spotting feature from Gears IMO.
I agree 100%
StalkerUKCG
Banned
I think iPhone + Surface if the way to go. If I had to choose now from a tablet and a phone to last me that's what I'd go with,
This is understandable, and should've been a priority, but different people work on different teams.
Yeah, I feel like a lot of the stuff people complain about that is missing was just left on the cutting room floor like more customization. And I do agree, it is a great platform for experimentation.
StalkerUKCG
Banned
So i was watching the Gears:J trailer earlier (Guts to Gears the one that came out a few weeks back)
And they have implemented a "Smart Spawn System, S3 for short" System (I'm aware of the tautology)
Basically this does what HaloGAF talked about before. In campaign enemy spawns are not static. It will spawn new enemies based on a variety of factors much like the director in L4D does but its got more "rules" associated with it.
I really think something like this could work well and help evolve Halo Campaigns. Id love to see enemies in halo change up each time I played it. It would also be fantastic for SpOps.
3 Chapters instead of 5 sounds great. The same story could still be told. Location Fatigue would be cut down, Its a smaller chunk of time devoted to it and those missions could have much more meaningful objectives thrown in.
And they have implemented a "Smart Spawn System, S3 for short" System (I'm aware of the tautology)
Basically this does what HaloGAF talked about before. In campaign enemy spawns are not static. It will spawn new enemies based on a variety of factors much like the director in L4D does but its got more "rules" associated with it.
I really think something like this could work well and help evolve Halo Campaigns. Id love to see enemies in halo change up each time I played it. It would also be fantastic for SpOps.
3 Chapters instead of 5 sounds great. The same story could still be told. Location Fatigue would be cut down, Its a smaller chunk of time devoted to it and those missions could have much more meaningful objectives thrown in.
One mission/15 Minutes a day is fatiguing for you?
Yep, great way to solve the enemy scaling too and add replayability.
I usually play them back-to-back on release day and usually you notice that there is tons of repetition that is really not needed. I feel that this negatively effects the narrative they put in the mode, it feels so scattered for the sake of filling time. I’m just advocating a more streamlined approach, it’s better to have small amount of content that is absolutely stellar that people remember and is easy to follow then tons of chapters just to fill a quota.
MaximumFlipFlop
Banned
I would honestly be happy with just ONE extremely solid mission each week. All the resources could be put into one great mission... that would be excellent.
Well, that's certainly a possibility in the future. The Halo universe has never lacked for potential, and it's unfortunate the developers haven't quite delivered--not Bungie, nor 343i, nor Ensemble--and not for lack of trying. I'm always going to be excited to see where they go next.
Likewise, I'm really excited for Destiny because while Bungie has often fumbled with their stories, they are perhaps my personal pick for the best universe creators. They know how to build worlds, and apparently they're going to be building a whole lot of them.
For matchmaking and technical reasons, I'd be fine with the current chapters set up, with the episode itself taking on the feel of a big campaign mode, with the chapters fluidly moving you through locations a bit more. Think Halo CE dropship pickups rather than Halo 4
MaximumFlipFlop
Banned
For matchmaking and technical reasons, I'd be fine with the current chapters set up, with the episode itself taking on the feel of a big campaign mode, with the chapters fluidly moving you through locations a bit more. Think Halo CE dropship pickups rather than Halo 4
Halo 4 had some serious issues with this. For example, watch from 37:00
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=KeIHqyjFJPA#t=2218s
Instead of letting us traverse a cool new environment, 343 just throws up and random portal that conveniently puts us into the next firefight. Shit like that needs to never happen again.
STOP USING THESE 343!
Halo 4 had some serious issues with this. For example, watch from 37:00
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=KeIHqyjFJPA#t=2218s
Instead of letting us traverse a cool new environment, 343 just throws up and random portal that conveniently puts us into the next firefight. Shit like that needs to never happen again.
STOP USING THESE 343!
The portals really weren't my issue, actually--or at least the portals weren't what made Halo 4 feel discontinuous for me.
I'm working on a big graphic project analyzing all this stuff, but it requires me to play through all the Halo campaigns repeatedly, so it's gonna' take a while before I finish.
User 73706
Banned
I'm hesitant to say "FUCK EVERYTHING I THOUGHT I HAD HIM COMMANDER YOU FOOL A THOUSAND HELLS AWAIT YOU" because I'm waiting for Halsey to transcend into digital angel form and you to have some post about you being high as fuck.
In the event that that doesn't happen, you guys know where I'll be.
Here.
Bitching about it in caps and italics.
Bees?
Stuff like this is why we need next gen ASAP. The limitations of these ancient platforms is holding back so many interesting content delivery methods.
MrGreencastle
Member
Well, that's certainly a possibility in the future. The Halo universe has never lacked for potential, and it's unfortunate the developers haven't quite delivered--not Bungie, nor 343i, nor Ensemble--and not for lack of trying. I'm always going to be excited to see where they go next.
Likewise, I'm really excited for Destiny because while Bungie has often fumbled with their stories, they are perhaps my personal pick for the best universe creators. They know how to build worlds, and apparently they're going to be building a whole lot of them.
For matchmaking and technical reasons, I'd be fine with the current chapters set up, with the episode itself taking on the feel of a big campaign mode, with the chapters fluidly moving you through locations a bit more. Think Halo CE dropship pickups rather than Halo 4
I'm right there with you on the Destiny hype train. Super excited to see what Bungie have come up with. I just love exploring their worlds...
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I feel like the matchmaking model is part of what holds back some of the game-modes, to be honest. They have had this philosophy of anything longer than 15 minutes is too long. And that's probably very true for matchmaking. People will just want to quit out, and with the current model, that ruins the game for a lot of people - especially when a game mode like Spartan Ops doesn't scale to the number of players playing the match.
In ODST, Firefight was most intriguing to me due to the fact that it was essentially endless. The whole point was to try and get as far as possible, with steadily and predictably increasing difficulty. In Reach, they said, well, you can't really expect that in Matchmaking... so we'll have to redesign the mode to make more sense in 15 minute bursts. The problem with that is it made Firefight either too difficult, or too easy, the depth just wasn't there for me, and I see this in Spartan Ops, too. Episode 7 was great because of the way it essentially broke up one Campaign mission into 4 parts, even though it probably could have been done in 2 or 3, since there was a lot of backtracking for the sake of stretching out the gameplay and narrative to get our 5 episode fill. I wonder how Campaign Matchmaking fared in Reach because of this limitation, and perhaps that's why it was cut in Halo 4, and perhaps also leading to the more episodic model they strived for with Spartan Ops.
Now, ridiculous ambition aside, I would hope that for these types of co-op modes, the ones that require more than 15 minute investments unlike competitive arena multiplayer, that matchmaking is ditched altogether in favor of something more persistent. ODST hub-world mechanics work beautifully for this. Imagine hopping on to Halo (for coop modes) and instead of being thrown into a menu/lobby, you're thrown into a city. Now there's things that you can do in the city/installation/whatever. Firefight missions could be dynamically created via a similar director system, complete with objectives like "defend", "capture", "repair", "escort" or whatever game mechanic you want to thrown in there. If someone wants to quit, they can just leave the area and continue exploring. Spartan Ops could be missions delivered to you by a SuperIntendant type figure, or similar, where you perhaps have to leave the Hubworld for more story-based content.
I'm gonna stop now...
It would be interesting to see where SpOps takes us. Season 2 with Crimson and Majestic in the summer (because S1 is bound to have a cliffhanger) then Halo 4: ODST (or similar) delivered episodically at the tail end of the year.
If they can hook people in with more SpOps content, they don't need a new game every year.
NobleGundam
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There's like a total of 20 or more portals used in the campaign if im not mistakend. Cutscenes and actual gameplay. They over compensated the scale of campaign levels making them broken, thus resulting to invisible (kill) barriers and numerous portals. BlehHalo 4 had some serious issues with this. For example, watch from 37:00
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=KeIHqyjFJPA#t=2218s
Instead of letting us traverse a cool new environment, 343 just throws up and random portal that conveniently puts us into the next firefight. Shit like that needs to never happen again.
STOP USING THESE 343!
StalkerUKCG
Banned
I'm Going to call them DeeBlowers. Because it offends sensygaf
MrGreencastle
Member
Portals are almost definitely loading zones. Notice how most times you go through two in a row, the first leading to a hallway toward the second.
"Teleporting" enemies to a location is just not cool, in my opinion. Remember the first Halo mission in CE? Where you have to defend that Valhalla base-like structure from waves of Covenant? Each time a dropship came around, they generally said "They're trying to flank us", but really what was happening was that they were dropping enemies farther away from you, sometimes on the opposite side of the structure. Or, if they were dropping the enemies on top of you, you'd at least have fair warning with the dropships flying in from far away. The dropships served to help you figure out where exactly the next battle was going to take place, and adjust accordingly. Now they teleport, and sometimes even the Covenant have their "drop pods". Not the small ones (like the Elite ODST pods, which I think are really cool and should be used more), but the large multi-levelled ones that come out of nowhere and then go back to that nowhere. Bzzt.
Teleporting bullet sponges on top of you is just... frustrating. It's really difficult to make sense of anything when they do that. The introduction to the Prometheans in the campaign was way better: you could see packs of Crawlers running down the side of structures and cliffs in the distance coming toward you. You had time to breathe, time to plan. The Knights stayed in the back with their Watchers. I think that's a lot better than just warping guys left right and centre.
I've suggested that you could have the Prometheans (digital in their makeup) "download" to a location, employing and emphasizing the glowing lines all across Forerunner structures. It's visually and mechanically different than the dropships, but it serves the same purpose: to allow breathing room and recalculation of your tactics.