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Halo |OT16| Oh Bungie, Where Art Thou?
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Send inv to my sexy GT please
You started without me ya jerk!
Expert camera placement.
User 73706
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"You're going to want to protect Lara's choice ass"
The Henery
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I wholeheartedly agree. Even if they have crashingly low populations they need to be there as a guarantee that if you buy DLC there will be a dedicated area in which you can play what you purchased. This rip and run strategy of turning over DLC playlists in 4-8 week intervals then moving on to the next pack or scrapping DLC dedicated areas altogether (ala Reach's Premium Battle) is frankly unacceptable from a consumer value standpoint. To Bungie's credit they more or less always made sure that their DLC had a reliable, protected space in which you could play them, whether that was DLC required playlists (Halo 3) or maintaining DLC exclusive lists (their tenure with Reach).
I usually agree with Havok on these matters but I've got to say I actually had a lot of fun on Reach's version of Headlong. I hate Ragnarok because it's swathes of open marshes in which the DMR stifles movement but Breakneck had a lot of channeled, shorter sightlines. AA's almost always suck but I felt the geometric changes to the map actually improved it (I also thought CA improved Hang Em High, Prisoner and Damnation; Battle Canyon's added tunnels at the back were to the maps detriment though). Despite Reach's BS I still felt Headlong was such a strong map that it stood tall as the games best BTB map, which admittedly wasn't that difficult considering the competition.
HiredN00bs
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Oh man this makes me feel like doing some Halo mad libs.
I can't even summon the right words to address this.
Thug Waffle
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Because those maps are lame. Avalanche > Valhalla by a wide margin imo. I can tell you are a fan of both, however.
Syphon Filter
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Valhalla is great.
xxjuicesxx
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Avalanche gave me depression.
What horse should I put my money on?
What horse should I put my money on?
Thug Waffle
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Avalanche is probably my favorite Halo 3 big team map, but that's not saying much at all, and I don't think it's on the same level as:
Sidewinder
Blood Gulch
Hang 'em High
Death Island (PC)
Infinity (PC)
Danger Canyon (PC)
Timberland (PC)
Ice Fields (PC)
Coagulation
Burial Mounds
Waterworks
Zanzibar
Terminal
Exile
I know I'm in the minority for hating Valhalla, but Jesus, f that map. So bland. So much dead, worthless space that offers little tactical advantage. And as fun as it is to snipe people out of mancannons, I can't stand them on Valhalla.
Sidewinder
Blood Gulch
Hang 'em High
Death Island (PC)
Infinity (PC)
Danger Canyon (PC)
Timberland (PC)
Ice Fields (PC)
Coagulation
Burial Mounds
Waterworks
Zanzibar
Terminal
Exile
I know I'm in the minority for hating Valhalla, but Jesus, f that map. So bland. So much dead, worthless space that offers little tactical advantage. And as fun as it is to snipe people out of mancannons, I can't stand them on Valhalla.
Rickenslacker
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some sense in this reach shithole, as mediocre as h3 turned out it's still so damn good compared to the other options. better movement, better maps, better nades, no aas, proper ass bumpa jumpa, the pit.
343 tu that shit to get a fov suited for normal people and i'll less than 343 u
FUBAR McDangles
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People are playing Halo 3 right now?
Any room for one more?
Any room for one more?
User 73706
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I feel like Halo's Big Team has the potential to be fun again but it needs a big revision. I don't know what that would exactly entail, but I've personally had the most fun in Halo PC, Halo 2, and to some extent Invasion. Maybe if they upped the player count and stripped it down to its core components it wouldn't feel as ridiculous. Making vehicles accessible throughout the map would do wonders to help, too - neutral spawn placements for bigger things like tanks would be interesting. That, and making sure infantry has the potential to get around when vehicles aren't available, but still keeping the role of a footsoldier fun - compare Gephyrophobia or Waterworks' infantry combat to that of Vortex or Meltdown, for example.
Sorry I had to run, I realized I was running late to work. I had more fun sucking ass in those two games than I have had in any video game in months
Halo 3 does not have better movement.
Twilight Gap
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Pit sucks. Only worth playing in MLG.
Guardian sucks. Again, only worth playing in MLG and Oddball. Hello - 1 BR, 1 Carbine, an OS that one team is handed and a bunch of dumb peek-shoot gameplay.
Blood Gulch sucks. Only worked because of the pistol.
Why praise overrated/mediocre maps? They haven't been good in years. Halo as a whole maybe has under a dozen good maps - most of which are found in CE and Halo 2.
Guardian sucks. Again, only worth playing in MLG and Oddball. Hello - 1 BR, 1 Carbine, an OS that one team is handed and a bunch of dumb peek-shoot gameplay.
Blood Gulch sucks. Only worked because of the pistol.
Why praise overrated/mediocre maps? They haven't been good in years. Halo as a whole maybe has under a dozen good maps - most of which are found in CE and Halo 2.
bobs...onGaf
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I'll be on halo 3 soon if people are still on.
Iron man 3 really did suck
Iron man 3 really did suck
Karl, you have room in the bad opinion club for this guy? Pit was such a freaking fun map.
Guardian too!
What
Twilight Gap
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Sure, ignore people for expressing opinions. What happened to "change HaloGAF it's too negative guise!"
Even joking about it makes you a hypocrite.
ahahhahahahah your opinions are dumb and so is your vocabulary
edit: did u literally edit in a slur to your post? idek
edit: 2 late i got u in my quote trap buddy!
Rickenslacker
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blood gulch is fun with in ce's mechanics. slippy sloppy warthogs, pistol without babby levels of assist, ungimped ctf allowing for solo plays.
edit: oh goat, why you gotta start with the hate words.
edit: oh goat, why you gotta start with the hate words.
Syphon Filter
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It does.
User 73706
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"TELEMETRY RECEIVED. ON STANDBY..."
I really wish they had let you use the Target Locator in customs. Hearing those audio cues marked by a huge red ring would have been terrifying.
Especially if you had a full party in a Warthog and it had the moving target...so good.
Thug Waffle
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As far as big team is concerned, I 100% agree. PC Halo: CE had some of the best big team maps in the entire franchise. I never understood why Bungie didn't make an effort to simply expand their map library instead of pick and choose with each new title. I think it'd be worth their time and money to give us all those maps. If they have to hire a few extra people or push the release a couple of months, then so be it. They'll make their money back... it's Halo.
ElzarTheBam
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Get shit on Xand.
Halo 3 is soooooo damn good. I even <3 Snowbound.
I thought for awhile it'd be in multiplayer. Would be interesting in BTB. Then again, it'd ruin gametypes like KoTH.
I thought for awhile it'd be in multiplayer. Would be interesting in BTB. Then again, it'd ruin gametypes like KoTH.
The version with the shield doors?
Twilight Gap
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[MLG] Pit was an amazing CTF map but I was never a fan in Slayer. I also didn't understand the Guardian love either. No matter how I look at it, it's just a dumbed down Lockout.
I used to like both of them relatively until a bunch of tryhards exposed me to their flaws. There ended up being very few maps in H3 I could play against tryhards without condemning the level design.
fixed
Why are you asking me about the bad opinion club? You're practically the CEO of it.
But for cereals, Pit was great. Guardian had some issues(mainly the lopsided initial spawns and how campy Snipe was), but could be fun.
Mr. Manager
That's just Manager.
This. Boundless is superior
User 73706
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Snowbound was a guilty pleasure of mine just because of the Brute Shot. I loved blowing up the Power Core/Comm Stand right outside Brute Shot spawn and getting occasional splatters, nabbing the Brute Shot and just flinging Covenant Crates at people. Dem physics. Everything got too heavy in Halo 4.
The Henery
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Default Halo 3's movement is better than default Reach's movement. Not saying Halo 3's was optimal but Reach had the infamous strafe inertia that practically meant not much of a strafe at all.
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