Speedy Blue Dude
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Sports? Pffft.... I play Halo for a reason bro.
I can't watch other people play sports, it's a constant reminder that I'll never be any good at them. : (
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Sports? Pffft.... I play Halo for a reason bro.
I can't watch other people play sports, it's a constant reminder that I'll never be any good at them. : (
Here's hoping it's advertised a bit better than HaloGAF word of mouth and a small popup during Halo 4.
This is the premiere IP Microsoft has, and was formerly the king of shooters and it's almost ran status at this point.
When I couldn't catch the stream, I had to come here to get some info or from twitter, and it's full of people talking about the partying as opposed to the actual masses.
On a related note, who knew Ninja could pull ass like that.
Voltron64
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I carry a messenger bag to work. People can call it a man purse or whatever, i don't care. Don't want to walk around carrying an ipad and stuff in my hands.
Thinking about getting a purse of your own Tashi??
You've got the right mentality.
Lol, how else do you need to hear about it other than Halo pros tweeting it, 343 tweeting it, AGL tweeting it, and a fucking pop up IN GAME?
Someone at 343 needs to make a phone tree obviously!
edit: actually, nevermind. you're just looking to get some hate out there for what was a well-publicized and well-run event.
Nah I have a messenger bag too
Orochinagis
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Here is mostly used by University students and rural people.
My grandmother used to store some sweet potatos and some seeds to plant later, oh how the times have changed.
StalkerUKCG
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PurseGAF please leave
Garrett 2U
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the feels man. i miss this so much.
Rickenslacker
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It's not a purse it's a European carryall.
Not everyone has ulterior motives all the time you know. I'm just saying, sure the call of duty championship was much larger with a larger prize, but it was advertised on every major gaming site from YouTube to the main home screen of Xbox 360 itself.
Did you even read what I wrote? I said it'd be better if it was advertised better. Word of mouth from Halo fans or retweets from twitter accounts of 343 devs isn't advertising. I liked the popup during the game, but how many press A to get by without paying much attention? Once you've seen it, it doesn't popup again.
I'm not trying to get any 'hate' out there nor am I trying to bring Halo 4 down. I want more than just Halo fans to know about a tournament that just went down.
AGL advertising was fine, CoD Championship & AGL Nashville are 2 totally different beast.
Yes you're right. I'm probably just wishing it was held like the Halo 2/3 tournaments.
Another issue is, I don't even use twitter and so I didn't even see any info the tournament had started aside from here.
But hey, if others are happy who am I to complain.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
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Personally I think you're seriously off base here mate! Just look below at how much support 343i have given AGL and the competitive scene...I guess you can't make all of HaloGAF happy
1. In game pop up graphic & details.
2. Waypoint > Front page banner news:
3. Waypoint > News > Headlines
4. 343i staff Twitters: Official Halo Waypoint, bs Angel, Bravo, D. Ellis, DelHoyo.
5. Waypoint > Halo 4 forum > sticky thread
6. Waypoint > Halo 4 > member started thread
Seriously what more do you want? A ticker tape parade, fresh cut sandwiches or maybe a superbowl advert for AGL
If it helps the event was also advertised on Facebook, HaloWaypoint, r/Halo, TheHaloCouncil, TheHaloForum, and various other mediums for Halo news.
Twilight Gap
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YOU FORGOT THE BEST ONE!Personally I think you're seriously off base here mate! Just look below at how much support 343i have given AGL and the competitive scene...I guess you can't make all of HaloGAF happy
DAMMIT 343, WHY U BLOW IT ALL UP IN MY FACE. THANKS MS FOR THE ADS, SMH.
bobs...onGaf
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Ozzy Onya A2Z
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Yep, that's top of the list now, I couldn't find an image for it quickly. As Cyren pointed out there is also all the Halo communities/sites/twitter/facebook getting behind AGL as well.
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I also kept the finals up to date game by game in that sticky thread. Too bad the official AGL site doesn't have a live score system or even an "at the event poster" to keep things up to date. I suppose that's what the streams are for but when you look at a pro-real-life-sport like tennis or baseball etc you can get live score from radio, websites, feeds, live-blogging etc. Perhaps those are some more avenues to increase visitors/viewers/listeners etc.
Wasn't there 64 teams at the event?
Pulse did it again huh. Really good tourney, but I have the feeling we need more teams and new formation of teams, so some team can surprise us all and take the crown.
Or some old guys have to make a comeback, I'm even sad Lunchbox did stop playing, is Kampy still playing?
Also big respect to the suddoths, who definitely showed they can be dangerous, but against the top teams they still need different tactics
Or some old guys have to make a comeback, I'm even sad Lunchbox did stop playing, is Kampy still playing?
Also big respect to the suddoths, who definitely showed they can be dangerous, but against the top teams they still need different tactics
Holy crap, right? Kids shocked me with how well they played this weekend.
MrGreencastle
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Lol get shit on Madness
Welcome back Ozzy
Fun tourney. Now can some of the pros that showed up for this start streaming, too? Seems like these days Ninja's one of only a handful that do it. He always get's tons of viewers as well.
Welcome back Ozzy
Fun tourney. Now can some of the pros that showed up for this start streaming, too? Seems like these days Ninja's one of only a handful that do it. He always get's tons of viewers as well.
Lol get shit on Madness
Welcome back Ozzy
Fun tourney. Now can some of the pros that showed up for this start streaming, too? Seems like these days Ninja's one of only a handful that do it. He always get's tons of viewers as well.
Snipedown and Formal are streaming pretty often, Legit also sometimes.
Gandhi is almost streaming every night with Maven and co.
IMO Ola should stream more, are the sudds still streaming? Or did they stop because of the chat trolling lol
Lol, maybe I'm just an idiot and I missed all of it. I don't know, it's like I said, if you don't use twitter, visit waypoint, would anyone outside of a good Halo community know about it?
You're right Ozzy, I don't know what more I'd want, and Cyren was right, I was wrong to think an AGL Nashville event would be advertised the way an MLG/Activision World Championship would be.
Get shit on Madness is right. Good night folks lol.
You're right Ozzy, I don't know what more I'd want, and Cyren was right, I was wrong to think an AGL Nashville event would be advertised the way an MLG/Activision World Championship would be.
Get shit on Madness is right. Good night folks lol.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
Member
Lol get shit on Madness
Welcome back Ozzy
Fun tourney. Now can some of the pros that showed up for this start streaming, too? Seems like these days Ninja's one of only a handful that do it. He always get's tons of viewers as well.
I have to say, given the widespread forum posts I put into the various Halo communities about streaming, I am surprised there was a real lack of enthusiasm or response regarding streaming. Perhaps it is a sign of the game or maps or loss of king fps status or the community itself or casual mass appeal... who knows?
I agree more quality content more often would help. AGL are progressing very nicely though, personally I haven't really watched live MLG or hyper-competitive play since early Halo 3 or maybe late Halo 2. As unpopular as it may be for me the movement, gunplay (hitscan) and grenades return me to want to watch top play, online and LAN based.
I would also like to see XBL/next box really step up clans, tournies, ranks and make the whole enchilada inherent with XBL and Halo. Why not pull a blizzard and do online and LAN while also promoting other global tournies. Clearly capabilities exist within 343/MS to further Halofest, Virgin, AGL, theatre, file sharing, ranks etc. in fact they already have personalities, budget, communities, experience and just need to package everything up with a bow on it. Keep the Virgin aspect of default setting but split and providing for the hardcore as top billing.
Invest resources, content generation and sustain this way 343 and reap the benefits for viral marketing and player retention. Most importantly do it all in game, after all you don't move Waypoint to facsimile due to hackers.
StalkerUKCG
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I watched literally no AGL but I can tell that their was some buzz going on around the whole thing which is great for Halo. I do wish 343i could update custom game options to allow the removal of things like sprint and let us make a real classic gametype.
Twilight Gap
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Somebody needs to make Indiana Jones in Halo 4.
VivaciousJazzy
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Is it possible? I figured they haven't popped up because the killball despawns or something.
Twilight Gap
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weow that's lame.
Twilight Gap
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I don't understand your picture. Are you showing the low visibility?
lol vvv
lol vvv
The low visibility (and that's with the canvas's Juicy and Next Gen filters removed to increase it) + add that too the low amount of "I can see my target" screen estate in each quadrant
Twilight Gap
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Well ya, even in Reach the underwater maps weren't MM worthy. Maybe for some silly custom games or something (which I don't see people do anymore), but definitely not an online thing.
StalkerUKCG
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Throw another shrimp on the barbie scrub
Not really common.
Maybe for college stuff like the post above but other than that it's quite rare.
:lol
Fun fact: We don't even call it "shrimp".
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Just played a game of CTF on Complex and the other team had capped four flags and were just fishing for kills (twas a full party). Interestingly enough, they were the same people that I saw doing it over a month ago... Don't people ever get bored or just killing randoms all day? When I used to go in with a full party during Reach we'd grow bored with it pretty quickly. It's just not fun after a while.
Barrow Roll
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Twilight Gap
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Man the armor in Reach is so good.
Rickenslacker
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Stuff in 3 looked waaaay better IMO. Everything was just too fat in Reach, and not having a good set of default shoulders drove me nuts, everything looked detached because it was.
Poor Stalker
I use this:
I'm confortable with my sexuality.
I have that in khaki.
Nothing wrong with a satchel. Fedora's on the other hand...
So I did a test and yeah, hopefully nobody actually attempts to submit and underwater map for matchmaking
Also I just noticed they didn't change the reticule size at all for 4 split?
I highly doubt they will allow any underwater maps into matchmaking. Just like with Reach.
Wondering how you managed to get under the water though.
LAUGHTREY
Modesty becomes a woman
Arenas and Rated Battlegrounds.
It's actually highly strategic, if somewhat easy to play. Much better to watch than Halo 4.
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