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Halo |OT16| Oh Bungie, Where Art Thou?

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DeadNames

Banned
Action Sack needs more minigames and not variants of Slayer/CTF. That Grill thing looks like a ton of fun.

RIP Dodgeball.

Okay, this just hit me:

An idea on how to fix jetpack. Instead of giving people limited flight, why not make the height that you get from the jetpack similar to that of a normal jump? Imo, it wouldn't break maps nearly as much and would balance it out a LOT more.
 

Omni

Member
Action Sack needs more minigames and not variants of Slayer/CTF. That Grill thing looks like a ton of fun.

RIP Dodgeball.

Dodgeball? Is that the one where the two teams throw sticky grenades at each other from two different platforms? It probably wouldn't work as well with all the magnetism stickies seem to have these days anyway...
 

DeadNames

Banned
Dodgeball? Is that the one where the two teams throw sticky grenades at each other from two different platforms? It probably wouldn't work as well with all the magnetism stickies seem to have these days anyway...

You could make the arena much, much larger. In Halo 3, it was tiny. Maybe give people TP to add another layer. And about the magnetism- I think the ones in Reach were a lot worse. I'll chuck a nade at a dude and watch it whiz by, but that's just me :p.
 

Omni

Member
San Andreas has more stream viewers than Halo 4.
Because San Andreas is awesome. Best GTA game to date, IMO.
You could make the arena much, much larger. In Halo 3, it was tiny. Maybe give people TP to add another layer. And about the magnetism- I think the ones in Reach were a lot worse. I'll chuck a nade at a dude and watch it whiz by, but that's just me :p.
Oh right. Yeah that could work.

haha and I dunno. It seems like I'm constantly getting stickies in Halo 4, where as in Halo Reach and 3 I'd get very few. In Halo 2 I'd be lucky to get one every few games.
 

orznge

Banned
I'm taking a break from Halogaf I have so many memories but the negativity's just too strong I'm sooo depressed all the time reading this thtread Master Chief is my best friend and it's like my other friends are beating him up and calling him names :(
 

Omni

Member
I'm taking a break from Halogaf I have so many memories but the negativity's just too strong I'm sooo depressed all the time reading this thtread Master Chief is my best friend and it's like my other friends are beating him up and calling him names :(

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:lol
 
Doesn't help that the OP is basically a middle finger to 343.

I'll slow down the criticism. There will be less posts as a bonus too.

Your posts are pretty good though :p

You bring up valid points. But yeah, seeing all the people leave HaloGAF makes me :(, even though I'm probably on most of your ignore lists.

Thanks but I think I'd rather post fun stuff like what I used to read in HaloGAF (way back in OT9). I signed up for that after all...

Seeing that picture, I'm gonna come out and say Halo 4 is my favorite Halo art wise.

The Covenant look alien and hostile. The UNSC stuff looks militaristic and minimalist. The Forerunner things look elegant and smooth.

I'm also glad the UNSC weapons actually looks like weapons from the future. The Halo 4 BR is my favorite one artistically, it just sounds like utter crap.


I love the BR, the Warthog, and Cortana. Everything else, not so much :/
 

willow ve

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The biggest problem with this thread right now is that people think being a sarcastic jerk is cool.

A couple of posters started this and almost everyone followed.

I remember Over used to be super nice before he joined GAF while watching Halo streams and now he's a sarcasm robot.
Nothing against him but it's true.

Being sarcastic, rude and "mean" on the internet doesn't mean you're cool, kids. Drop that kind of stuff and this place becomes more pleasant and a nice to hang around.

The reason this happens is simple. You can spend a few hours carefully constructing a long and well thought out post filled with insight and constructive criticism and it will almost instantly be tossed aside and forgotten on a previous page. Sarcasm and meme/gif/insults seem to actually garner discussion (even in a limited sophomoric way).
 

DeadNames

Banned
Doesn't help that the OP is basically a middle finger to 343.

I'll slow down the criticism. There will be less posts as a bonus too.

Your posts are pretty good though :p

You bring up valid points. But yeah, seeing all the people leave HaloGAF makes me :(, even though I'm probably on most of your ignore lists.
 
My problem with Brutes was that they were big goofballs. They weren't really intimidating and kinda made the game feel a bit too cartoony. The Halo 2 Brutes actually made me jump a few times because of their berserking.

I still think H2 Elites > all enemies since.


When you saw this, you knew shit was about to hit the fan.

Sword = you are already dead.

With the exception of the big toe nails I love how this looks

Sangheili_Warrior_Final.png

The bad thing they were a common enemy in Halo 4 replacing of the blue ones, something simmilar happened in Gears of wars 3 when the Palace Guard Theron were a common enemy instead of being special units like they were in Gears 2.
 

DeadNames

Banned
Seeing that picture, I'm gonna come out and say Halo 4 is my favorite Halo art wise.

The Covenant look alien and hostile. The UNSC stuff looks militaristic and minimalist. The Forerunner things look elegant and smooth.

I'm also glad the UNSC weapons actually looks like weapons from the future. The Halo 4 BR is my favorite one artistically, it just sounds like utter crap.
 

Gui_PT

Member
The reason this happens is simple. You can spend a few hours carefully constructing a long and well thought out post filled with insight and constructive criticism and it will almost instantly be tossed aside and forgotten on a previous page. Sarcasm and meme/gif/insults seem to actually garner discussion (even in a limited sophomoric way).

You just convinced me everyone in this thread should be a sarcasm bot!
 

willow ve

Member
You just convinced me everyone in this thread should be a sarcasm bot!

It's just the way it is. People join HaloGAF and try to start discussion or have a real, honest, conversation about the game/universe/etc. When that attempt is met with sacaram GIFs and the general flow of "this game sucks, stop trying to save it" they either leave the thread completely (or take a break) or they join in.

It's not a good thing, but from the beginning you know the end.
 
OT but holy shit at the message conveyed in spec ops the line.

If only more military games were brave enough to centre around the moral choices made in war.

If you can look past the average gameplay, I would recommend it based on the narrative alone, HaloGaf.

The setting is also quite spectacular.
Spartan Ops: The Line

"Do you feel like an egghead yet?"

The Sarah Palmer spin-off we deserve.
 

Omni

Member
Seeing that picture, I'm gonna come out and say Halo 4 is my favorite Halo art wise.

The Covenant look alien and hostile. The UNSC stuff looks militaristic and minimalist. The Forerunner things look elegant and smooth.

I'm also glad the UNSC weapons actually looks like weapons from the future. The Halo 4 BR is my favorite one artistically, it just sounds like utter crap.
Seriously? Game is the blandest in the entire series, IMO.

Almost every UNSC redesign in the game I have a problem with. If there's one thing that I love however, it's the design of the Spartan Laser (which didn't really change from Reach). The whole thing screams 'futuristic' to me. Hell, if I had my way, I'd design the entire UNSC sandbox to match up aesthetically with the Splaser. And the BR looks outdated and dull to me (isn't it based on a real weapon?).

I don't like the changes to the Covenant either. That one Elite design looks cool, but the rest look like wild animals. And Forerunner things are too complicated for my liking. There's far too much going on with some of them.
 
Seeing that picture, I'm gonna come out and say Halo 4 is my favorite Halo art wise.

The Covenant look alien and hostile.
The UNSC stuff looks militaristic and minimalist. The Forerunner things look elegant and smooth.

I'm also glad the UNSC weapons actually looks like weapons from the future. The Halo 4 BR is my favorite one artistically, it just sounds like utter crap.

For the Elites I like more the Halo Reach style, they lookg big, menacing and easily recognizable to know which strategy you will use against them.

Elites.png


If only the game told you how they lost most of their tech.
 
It's just the way it is. People join HaloGAF and try to start discussion or have a real, honest, conversation about the game/universe/etc. When that attempt is met with sacaram GIFs and the general flow of "this game sucks, stop trying to save it" they either leave the thread completely (or take a break) or they join in.

It's not a good thing, but from the beginning you know the end.

How about everyone stops acting like giant douchers?* I know for a fact I've been one on here. I look back at those older posts and want to slap myself. I've called 343 a bunch of monkeys working on this game on multiple occasions. Pretty fucking douchey on my behalf. Shit, the vast majority of my posts have been fucking terrible. It's hard not to be a filterless asshole on the Internet but you have to try. Scrap that, just do it.

Maybe let Dax make the next OT? That would set the tone of the entire thread. IDK though, just a thought.

*not everyone acts like one
 

Fracas

#fuckonami
Off topic, but whatever: going to see Bob Dylan tonight. So excited!


How about everyone stops acting like giant douchers?* I know for a fact I've been one on here. I look back at those older posts and want to slap myself. I've called 343 a bunch of monkeys working on this game on multiple occasions. Pretty fucking douchey on my behalf. Shit, the vast majority of my posts have been fucking terrible. It's hard not to be a filterless asshole on the Internet but you have to try. Scrap that, just do it.

Maybe let Dax make the next OT? That would set the tone of the entire thread. IDK though, just a thought.

*not everyone acts like one
Dax should definitely get the next OT.
 

TheOddOne

Member
The reason this happens is simple. You can spend a few hours carefully constructing a long and well thought out post filled with insight and constructive criticism and it will almost instantly be tossed aside and forgotten on a previous page. Sarcasm and meme/gif/insults seem to actually garner discussion (even in a limited sophomoric way).
The problem with most of the new people that try to engage in or incite an discussion usually fall victim to the mentality of “HaloGAF vs me”. That already sets a precedence, it sounds like the person will never respect or even acknowledge the other voices in the thread. I think that rubs regulars the wrong way and that is why new people sometimes are ridiculed to some extent. The person kind of forfeits that people will take him or her seriously.

HaloGAF has it’s rhythm. We bitch, moan, discuss, argue like clockwork about everything and anything. If you want to have your opinion heard, stop blaming and attacking the community and actually engage. People will know when it’s a quality post. If nothing happens, well at least you tried something.
 
How about everyone stops acting like giant douchers?* I know for a fact I've been one on here. I look back at those older posts and want to slap myself. I've called 343 a bunch of monkeys working on this game on multiple occasions. Pretty fucking douchey on my behalf. Shit, the vast majority of my posts have been fucking terrible. It's hard not to be a filterless asshole on the Internet but you have to try. Scrap that, just do it.

Maybe let Dax make the next OT? That would set the tone of the entire thread. IDK though, just a thought.

*not everyone acts like one

No OP has ever done that really.
 

Fracas

#fuckonami
The problem with most of the new people that try to engage in or incite an discussion usually fall victim to the mentality of “HaloGAF vs me”. That already sets a precedence, it sounds like the person will never respect or even acknowledge the other voices in the thread. I think that rubs regulars the wrong way and that is why new people sometimes are ridiculed to some extent. The person kind of forfeits that people will take him or her seriously.

HaloGAF has it’s rhythm. We bitch, moan, discuss, argue like clockwork about everything and anything. If you want to have your opinion heard, stop blaming and attacking the community and actually engage. People will know when it’s a quality post. If nothing happens, well at least you tried something.

The problem is that for the most part, it's the regulars that cause and perpetuate this.
 

TheOddOne

Member
The problem is that for the most part, it's the regulars that cause and perpetuate this.
Yeah, you could say that about some regulars too. I just feel that entry to barrier would much more easier for everybody if we stopped attacking the community as a hivemind. Everybody still has their opinions, some strong of course, but it’s much better than people doing the whole “I’m taking a break from HaloGAF” thing.

Bleh, I’m getting all philosophical and shit. Hey, at least we can all agree on Porn.
 

orznge

Banned
The biggest problem with this thread right now is that people think being a sarcastic jerk is cool.

A couple of posters started this and almost everyone followed.

I remember Over used to be super nice before he joined GAF while watching Halo streams and now he's a sarcasm robot.
Nothing against him but it's true.

Being sarcastic, rude and "mean" on the internet doesn't mean you're cool, kids. Drop that kind of stuff and this place becomes more pleasant and a nice to hang around.

I bet it would become a more pleasant and nice place to hang around if the owners of the Halo franchise produced and released a passable Halo videogame
 

Fuchsdh

Member
Can I counterbalance all this complaining and meta-complaining with free stuff? No? Well, might as well try.

I have no idea what this stuff is, beyond being Halo-related (possibly avatar items). Thanks to Bsangel and Rev from HBO's awesome LAN.

9VMCK-W9W93-QJ2MH-KM4V4-QCMVZ

PFX7K-R96JF-2339K-4TJFC-4XMWZ

M3XQ6-KY47D-DCVMG-RJJCR-6PY4Z

Try not to use them all, if you would.
 

Dongs Macabre

aka Daedalos42
Can I counterbalance all this complaining and meta-complaining with free stuff? No? Well, might as well try.

I have no idea what this stuff is, beyond being Halo-related (possibly avatar items). Thanks to Bsangel and Rev from HBO's awesome LAN.

9VMCK-W9W93-QJ2MH-KM4V4-QCMVZ

PFX7K-R96JF-2339K-4TJFC-4XMWZ

M3XQ6-KY47D-DCVMG-RJJCR-6PY4Z

Try not to use them all, if you would.

Thanks. I got the first one. It was a Halo 4 gamerpic pack.
 
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