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[User 73706]

HaloGAF smh

"Halo 4 soundtrack sucks"
Halo 4 OST 2 announced "fuck yea"

We want more music to complain about, duh. :lol

Also, I just had a really obvious epiphany. What if the ODST SMG came back as a loadout weapon and the Assault Rifle got removed from loadouts, instead getting a buff and replacing the SAW? Now you've got a precision automatic weapon for the more skillful ODST wannabes and Chief's trademark weapon is actually strong enough to justify carrying around all the time.

 

[The Henery]

Just released my first Beyond Top 5. So much work went into this one.

Nice clips. Will Ninja be commentating all of these? He should do his Puckett impression for one of them. It's a bloody good impersonation.

 

[Mabef]

I seem to remember H4's soundtrack being based a lot more on textures rather than melodies, a la Marty. The few solos that I remember hearing during the game were rejiggers of classic Halo themes.

It's been a while so I may be misremembering, but that kind of says something about the music too.

Just released my first Beyond Top 5. So much work went into this one.

Dunno if anyone's said this already, but you need some cheesy sfx for when the numbers fly by.

 

[Tashi]

Jazzy that top 5 was dope. Real slick. Nice job

 

[thezerofire]

Are we doing this montage thing we talked about in FFAs a couple days ago? Could be cool

 

[heckfu]

It's almost like HaloGAF isn't one big hivemind.

I've never understood the hive mind complaints from this place.

 

[IHaveIce]

Are we doing this montage thing we talked about in FFAs a couple days ago? Could be cool

I'm also for another HaloGAF montage or our own clips series lol.

 

[Woorloog]

I've never understood the hive mind complaints from this place.

GAF or HaloGAF?
Never seen hivemind accusations for HaloGAF.

 

[Toa TAK]

Hive Minds are really scary.

 

[Woorloog]

Hive Minds are really scary.

HaloGAF shouldn't be called a hivemind... we're a Gravemind.

 

[MaximumFlipFlop]

HaloGAF shouldn't be called a hivemind... we're a Gravemind.

Yeah if that Gravemind was schizophrenic.

 

[Toa TAK]

HaloGAF shouldn't be called a hivemind... we're a Gravemind.

That's right. We're unique.

Yeah if that Gravemind was schizophrenic.

lol.

 

[Woorloog]

Yeah if that Gravemind was schizophrenic.

Who says it is not? Come on, the thing has absorbed trilliong of inviduals... and speaks in poetic way. And calls itself Gravemind. I doubt everything's right with it.
Also, since it is a hivemind of sorts, it would be apt, hmm, name for HaloGAF, better than mere "hivemind".

 

[BlueScrote]

Just released my first Beyond Top 5. So much work went into this one.

Thanks for sharing this, a bunch of nice clips/

 

[darthbob]

I've never understood the hive mind complaints from this place.

It's not even a hivemind, that's just the designation that kids like to use because of 4chan.

If anything, this NeoGAF clique suffers from groupthink.

 

[MaximumFlipFlop]

You know what the issue is? Passion. We too damn passionate.

 

[Toa TAK]

Who says it is not? Come on, the thing has absorbed trilliong of inviduals... and speaks in poetic way. And calls itself Gravemind. I doubt everything's right with it.
Also, since it is a hivemind of sorts, it would be apt, hmm, name for HaloGAF, better than mere "hivemind".

I don't think it will catch on.

The HaloGAF Gravemind?

 

[User 73706]

Let's just call our groupthink the Frank Tank and be done with it.

 

[Tashi]

GGs Ram and Booties. #YOLO #WINNING

lol damn that kid's annoying sometimes

 

[darthbob]

Let's just call our groupthink the Frank Tank and be done with it.

I can get behind this.

 

[Redford]

It's not even a hivemind, that's just the designation that kids like to use because of 4chan.

If anything, this NeoGAF clique suffers from groupthink.

Bingo.

 

[Ramirez]

GGs Ram and Booties. #YOLO #WINNING

lol damn that kid's annoying sometimes

Alright guys focus, it's Elumnite!!!!!!!!!1111111111!!!!!!!11!1!!

 

[ElRenoRaven]

That's right. We're unique.


lol.

You know I think Gravemind as a character design got a lot of shit. That scene alone was awesome I think. Just seeing how this huge mass having MC and Arby in his grasps really was cool. God I really would kill just to see what halo 2 would look like given the Anniversary treatment. Other then some graphical glitches, texture pop in, and npcs looking fatter in it, the game looked amazing. Dear I say I liked the look of it more then 343's recent game.

 

[User 73706]

You know I think Gravemind as a character design got a lot of shit. That scene alone was awesome I think. Just seeing how this huge mass having MC and Arby in his grasps really was cool. God I really would kill just to see what halo 2 would look like given the Anniversary treatment. Other then some graphical glitches, texture pop in, and npcs looking fatter in it, the game looked amazing. Dear I say I liked the look of it more then 343's recent game.

CEA Johnson alone looked fucking amazing. It was a beautiful art style and I'd be completely on board if they tried to maintain consistency with it in another Anniversary edition.

 

[Barrow Roll]

Are we doing this montage thing we talked about in FFAs a couple days ago? Could be cool

The Reach montage didn't happen until pretty late in it's lifecycle, seems a bit early to me.

 

[ElRenoRaven]

CEA Johnson alone looked fucking amazing. It was a beautiful art style and I'd be completely on board if they tried to maintain consistency with it in another Anniversary edition.

I do agree. I'd love to see it maintain consistency if they really are doing it.

 

[Rev3rb]

Streaming some more Majestic FFA:
www.twitch.tv/Reev3rb

I'd like to do some customs if anyone wants to set something up

 

[Omni]

CEA Johnson alone looked fucking amazing. It was a beautiful art style and I'd be completely on board if they tried to maintain consistency with it in another Anniversary edition.

Hmmm.

I prefer him in Halo 2 and 3 and ODST as is. They look like two different people...

 

[ElRenoRaven]

Hmmm.



I prefer him in Halo 2 and 3 and ODST as is. They look like two different people...

I do agree with you on Johnson. I think the halo 3 model was the best Johnson. Course I do think the Halo Anniversary model does still look like Johnson but just was a bit weird but all the models in Anniversary looked weird. I think that was due to the way the new graphics worked.

 

[Tashi]

Alright guys focus, it's Elumnite!!!!!!!!!1111111111!!!!!!!11!1!!

Babby's first win against a Pro

The Reach montage didn't happen until pretty late in it's lifecycle, seems a bit early to me.

Yup. I'm going to do a writeup for the HaloGAF Top 10 of the month this week. I'll post it when it's ready with all the rules and shit.

 

[Karl2177]

Is the entire 46k population on Fisher Price modems tonight?

 

[Tunavi]

If CEA didn't nail anything, it was facial animations. Rest of the game looked damn good though.

 

[Woorloog]

If CEA didn't nail anything, it was facial animations. Rest of the game looked damn good though.

But 343i/Sabre didn't touch those. Didn't Halo CE NPCs have only two bones in head? One for the head, one for the jaw... Can't do much with those.

I do agree with you on Johnson. I think the halo 3 model was the best Johnson. Course I do think the Halo Anniversary model does still look like Johnson but just was a bit weird but all the models in Anniversary looked weird. I think that was due to the way the new graphics worked.

Halo 3 Johnson was too light-skinned compared to Halo 2 version (at least in the manual, in some cutscenes due to lighting), otherwise the model was good. Very minor thing really but something that always bothered me. Keeping the skin shade same couldn't have been that hard, right?

 

[ElRenoRaven]

But 343i/Sabre didn't touch those. Didn't Halo CE NPCs have only two bones in head? One for the head, one for the jaw... Can't do much with those.



Halo 3 Johnson was too light-skinned compared to Halo 2 version (at least in the manual, in some cutscenes due to lighting), otherwise the model was good. Very minor thing really but something that always bothered me. Keeping the skin shade same couldn't have been that hard, right?

He seemed fine too me. I didn't think he was that light skinned. I'm currently replaying the series again so I will pay closer attention when I get to 3.

 

[Fotos]

Why does Johnson's skin get whiter every game?

 

[FyreWulff]

But 343i/Sabre didn't touch those. Didn't Halo CE NPCs have only two bones in head? One for the head, one for the jaw... Can't do much with those

The CEA versions of the cutscenes are fully animated with bipeds ported from 3/ODST/Reach. Not very well, though. Constantly out of sync and a bit janky

 

[Woorloog]

He seemed fine too me. I didn't think he was that light skinned. I'm currently replaying the series again so I will pay closer attention when I get to 3.

It wasn't a big difference, but noticeable to my eyes anyway. I'm picky about consistency... well, at least i pretend i'm. There's a ton of stuff i don't ever bother noticing or caring about...

The CEA versions of the cutscenes are fully animated with bipeds ported from 3/ODST/Reach. Not very well, though. Constantly out of sync and a bit janky

Huh. You learn something new every day.
All that bothered me was how the game took a few seconds to load cutscenes, cutting music for a moment, and how the Chief's arms were very awkward always.


EDIT Holy shit, epiphany moment: Reach didn't have Johnson in campaign.

 

[ElRenoRaven]

The CEA versions of the cutscenes are fully animated with bipeds ported from 3/ODST/Reach. Not very well, though. Constantly out of sync and a bit janky

Speaking of using Halo 3/ODST/Reach models that was one thing that somewhat annoyed me in a few places. Tank for example. Instead of closing up the spot where they added the turret in those games they just removed it and left a black hole there. Looked really awful.

 

[darthbob]

Why does Johnson's skin get whiter every game?

Re-re-vitiligo?

 

[FyreWulff]

Speaking of using Halo 3/ODST/Reach models that was one thing that somewhat annoyed me in a few places. Tank for example. Instead of closing up the spot where they added the turret in those games they just removed it and left a black hole there. Looked really awful.

I wonder if a Halo 2 remake would use Halo 3 Cortana or double retcon her to the Halo 4 model

 

[Ghazi]

I wonder if a Halo 2 remake would use Halo 3 Cortana or double retcon her to the Halo 4 model

Halo 5 Cortana ftw...

 

[Tunavi]

EDIT Holy shit, epiphany moment: Reach didn't have Johnson in campaign.

He was up in orbit trying to destroy the map to Earth with Master Chief. The game should have followed the book.

 

[DeadNames]

So can we talk about the game without spoiler tags now?

 

[ElRenoRaven]

I wonder if a Halo 2 remake would use Halo 3 Cortana or double retcon her to the Halo 4 model

I would hope for consistency sake they would indeed keep it the Halo 3 model like they used with Halo Anniversary.

 

[YourExWife]

'Sup ladies. 12-months of live for $35

 

[Fotos]

So can we talk about the game without spoiler tags now?

Spoiler

yes

 

[FyreWulff]

I would hope for consistency sake they would indeed keep it the Halo 3 model like they used with Halo Anniversary.

I hope so too, but I prefer the H3 Cortana in the first place artistically.

 

[Fotos]

I think most people would agree that Halo 2 Cortana was the best. IMO Halo 2 > Halo 3 > Halo 4 > Halo: CE

 

[Ghazi]

I think most people would agree that Halo 2 Cortana was the best.

Halo 3 is still my favorite, I'd probably like Halo 4's more if it weren't for the buck teeth.

 

[User 73706]

I think most people would agree that Halo 2 Cortana was the best.

Halo 3's is best. It's a shame it didn't get that much screentime.

I have the oddest suspicion that a H2A would use a completely new Cortana model.