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Halo |OT16| Oh Bungie, Where Art Thou?
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Count me in.
Haha, you should see my inbox.
XBL messages are pretty amazing sometimes.
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StalkerUKCG
Banned
I joined you the other day but we just sat in a lobby. I figure you were AFK. I want to talk and play Halo sometime.
Major Williams
Member
I have. I've posted my two cents about how I feel, the good, the great and the bad, and still read this thread. I only post when I have something I think is fun and relevant to the community. I am done with Halo 4 for the most part, but still love so much about the franchise and am always interested in the community and what is going on.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Bloom? Ew. Although you'll say the same to loadouts and ordinance. It's a stalemate.
When's your TV in?
God. Going through your inbox would be fantastic entertainment I'm sure.
You should post a random message from there on a daily basis.
xxjuicesxx
Member
Do you even Oddball Swordbase?
Also I start at like 12ish, stay up drink a coke or something n play an hour or two.
YourExWife
Member
Maybe we can be on the same team this time. All you needed was some of dem quality callouts. Now, about your chin...
I've got some Sauza Blue Reposado waiting at home. Pretty sure Stinkles and I could finish it tonight. The Win/Loss would be terrible, but we'd be shitfaced for sure.
Onikaan
Member
I always seem to get one or two after a good game. If you go into double figures with a few deaths, certain kids seem to automatically assume you've been camping with the rocket launcher for the entire game.
Didn't even teabag.
Agreed, for cartharsis.
@Frankie'sXBLInbox
Also is that Guardian remake on Forge Island done yet? The one on Inpact is pretty great but I want me some trees.
I go to the gym at 6am I can't stay up til 2 :/
Speedy Blue Dude
Banned
I don't mean it's pointless in that way. I mean it's pointless "We've said what's wrong with the game so many times, that everyone (343, HaloGAF users, Lurkers) know what's wrong, and knows what needs to be fixed. There's no point in repeating ourselves when everyone understands it.
I'm also not promoting people making single line posts saying "Halo 4 is bad." I don't even do it myself, when I post anything like "Halo 4 is bad" I always add in a sentence or so explaining why I'm posting this again/why I'm feeling that way. and it always is a discussion, although, most times, the discussion is extremely one sided here with everyone agreeing, but still, we're discussing Halo 4, Halo:Reach, and Halo in general here all the time.
Haha, you should post some screens sometimes. I'm curious to see how badly some users will message you without any rules or restrictions holding them back. Hope you don't let it get to you Frankie, seems like you don't though, which is good.
Then quit posting about it period. ****.
You actually said, "I don't see a problem with it, it's just people expressing how they feel about the game." and then said, "Saying "Halo is dead/Halo 4 is bad" is repeating yourself as well, but it takes less effort that fully explaining yourself"
Those quotes are real. I didn't make those up. You can actually find those in this thread. In this very page actually.
But I'm not arguing about this ish anymore. There's been an insane amount of meta discussion in this thread this afternoon
I'm actually not the teabagging type.
As a member of the reigning Halo GAF Reach Tournament champions, I've already defeated that game and moved on.
Onikaan
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HiredN00bs
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You're always welcome to stay up until sunrise with us!
Orochinagis
Member
you guys are playing Reach with all the DLC maps?
I deleted all of them to make space.
I deleted all of them to make space.
xxjuicesxx
Member
Nope dont have the maps downloaded, less crap, more oddball swordbase, powerhouse, zealot, boardwalk, and countdown.
If you can't play Halo while lifting its not accessible enough.
User 73706
Banned
If you want I can break your legs.
HiredN00bs
Member
We get DLC in Reach MM now and again.
Right now I have a Reach LE console and a Halo 4 LE console with all 6 Xbox 360 Halo games + all DLC + all bonus content (Halo: CEA is the only non-GOnD copy and it sits in the tray, installed).
Still on the 20GB drive, original console?
thezerofire
Banned
if people are playing tonight in varying degrees of inebriation I might need to get in on it. What time?
The Henery
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Firstly, I meant to type "Halogaf doesn't play Halo 4" which is an important distinction. Secondly, re-read the second sentence of my post. 'Multiple posters in the thread playing the latest Halo on a frequent basis' is an allusion to a time when the vast bulk of the community thread actively played the current Halo game ala the Halo 3 thread (which, upon recent reinspection, had a lot of back and forth on the minutiae of said Halo game). Of course people who post on gaf play Halo 4 but if you look at that Halo 3 thread, I don't think there's a single poster there who wasn't actually playing Halo 3 on a regular basis. I'm aware that many of the people who occasionally post in this thread play Halo 4 - yourself, Cyclone, Jazzy, Nockz, three legged goat, Havok and more - but there are an equal amount if not more who do not play Halo 4 or play so infrequently that they don't have much to say about it beyond the obvious stuff that was called out when it was first revealed in GI. To think that I was belittling yours and newer members contributions as irrelevant missed the point of the post. Whatever you think about the old guard of this thread you cannot deny it misses posters such as Ghaleon, Dax and the insights of remaining posters when they're actually playing the game on the regular.
As Bigshow said, it ultimately comes down to the pull of the latest Halo game to bind the community and galvinise discussion. The worst thing about post-release Halo 4 criticism (and I'm as guilty of this as anyone) is that it is centered on elements of the game that were singled out as bad ideas here before anyone had even played the game. Instant respawn, ordnance, random weapon drops, flinch etc. That's why I think the Halo community as a whole (not just gaf) will go in circles until a new one is announced.
Garrett 2U
Member
Frankie, I played against a whole team of Scottish kids yesterday in COD.
You're losing your core base!
You're losing your core base!
Well, not everybody.
But in all seriousness, if you got all riled up because of my dumb joke then you need tougher skin. Plus, there's always the ignore feature.
YourExWife
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I understand your point, with possibly one small correction re: the bolded. One could argue that many of those listed (and more) are the ones that are most often still posting here. As you noted, there are those that post literally only to complain, or sparingly, or about previous games or whatever. On the other hand, there are those of us who post to find people to play with, joke around in the thread, and interact in general. Maybe I've gotten to the point where I subconsciously ignore some stuff, but I'd say for once in the last 4 OT's or so, the top posters are actually the people playing, even if they're like Juices and they're playing Reach. People be playing Halo, yo.
Twilight Gap
Member
I think it's safe to say that there will always be complaints - whether the game is being compared to past iterations or judged on its own merit.
Hydranockz
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How many hours from now is that group getting on?
Surely you don't mean to apply this to every newer member, fracas. I feel as though I don't shit the thread up. If I do then please tell me how. I Wish only to bring good things to HaloGAF.
Your opinions on Halo 2 are still wrong, but this post is great.
YourExWife
Member
***WHOOOOSH!!!***
I'm going to get dinner in about an hour, so maybe an hour and half or 2 hours from now?
Or whenever everyone else gets on, whatever comes first.
Nah, I was pointing out the irony of older members claiming that the new guys shit up the thread while it's actually them a lot of the time.
Either way, it's super meta and should probably be dropped. Wasn't insulting you or any of the other new guys.
I seriously miss enjoying this place. It's so back and forth now that I just try to place banter in to lighten up the space. I post because I wanted to for so long; because I genuinely enjoyed all of you people and the discussions you had. I want, no, I NEED the next OT to be more positive than this one.
hey man we're not here to make your ot enjoyable.
as someone said earlier, if halo were in better shape, we wouldn't be as salty and negative.
The Henery
Member
All perception then. I just get the impression that many of the most prolific posters (and the longest serving) don't play Halo 4 an awful lot. And I know other Halo's continue to be played here which is great (even if it is Reach which I think is crazy but more power to them!).
You could start by not posting melodramatic posts.
xxjuicesxx
Member
Why are we the only two HGS applicants that still have their HGS application avatar up? Are we not getting in? Have you heard back from anyone?
Great freudian slip. Haven is the only decent Halo 4 map. We need more smaller Halo 4 maps!
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