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The best Halo , my opinion...
Halo 4. I imagine next week shall be the great Halo 3 fest, but I dunno what Tashi's plans are.
Cuz Halo 3 will be on next AGL event.
User 73706
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I hate when people whine about buying shit as much as the next guy, but I'd rather pay $15-20 out of pocket to get the DLC freed and a playlist consolidation than be given a completely unaltered turd for free that points me to buying other, slightly more polished turds.
Yes, that was the plan.
Any customs tonight?
Or matchmaking
Customs in an hour. Look up a few posts
In about a month or so, the next gen begins. Millions will move on, including a lot of Halo fans, some who aren't even going to buy the next Microsoft console.
It's not about free or $2 or less than coffee at lunch, it's about their "best" and "most loved" Halo game (on Xbox 360) going free and to give fans one last send off.
Microsoft isn't hurting for money, especially on a 6 year old game that is found for less than $5 in a lot of bargain bins. The DLC should have been free for the sole reason that people could play the complete Halo 3 multiplayer experience one final time, remind people of it before the transition to next gen.
I own all the DLC, and I have my ODST mythic disc, but what good is it, if the hundred thousand or more who will probably DL it, won't bother to get the DLC?
Edit: This is their FRANCHISE, this is really the ONLY reason many people buy Xbox consoles. The day they said it would be a free game, I'd have asked around the studio to those willing to be part of a revival team who will update/consolidate playlists, make sure the DLC was free etc. Halo is Xbox and it's just sad how it's being mismanaged.
It's not about free or $2 or less than coffee at lunch, it's about their "best" and "most loved" Halo game (on Xbox 360) going free and to give fans one last send off.
Microsoft isn't hurting for money, especially on a 6 year old game that is found for less than $5 in a lot of bargain bins. The DLC should have been free for the sole reason that people could play the complete Halo 3 multiplayer experience one final time, remind people of it before the transition to next gen.
I own all the DLC, and I have my ODST mythic disc, but what good is it, if the hundred thousand or more who will probably DL it, won't bother to get the DLC?
Edit: This is their FRANCHISE, this is really the ONLY reason many people buy Xbox consoles. The day they said it would be a free game, I'd have asked around the studio to those willing to be part of a revival team who will update/consolidate playlists, make sure the DLC was free etc. Halo is Xbox and it's just sad how it's being mismanaged.
aHebrewMenagerie
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So much this. People like to say that Halo is "Microsoft's Baby" but they've turned out to be pretty bad parents.
I feel like they have good intentions, but they are potentially too corporate for their own good. I would love for Microsoft to just give whatever resources they want, and keep their hands out of the studio process, sustain, creative process, everything. But, that'll sadly will never happen.
ElzarTheBam
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August 2011.
If we lose our way with Halo, we lose our way with Xbox-MS.
Kind of prophetic, the title anyway.
If we lose our way with Halo, we lose our way with Xbox-MS.
Kind of prophetic, the title anyway.
Thats deep.
"The good thing about 343 is that they've had the time, through the dev of Reach, working on getting the map packs out, and getting to know the infrastructure and the build systems and everything about Halo. They've also brought in their own talent and their own view so that they can put their own stamp on the franchise. "All in all, 343 are in a position to take over the franchise without missing a beat."
It makes sense. Halo was all that was tying me to my 360, as I'm guessing it did/does for a lot of people here. There are no exclusives that Microsoft has that compared to CE-Reach imo.
Playlist update now.
Project Spark is literally the only thing keeping me with Microsoft right now. Thankfully it's on 360 so I won't need to upgrade in any way to enjoy it.
Poker Face
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Halo 4 will be 9.99 next week at best buy. Maybe if you broke or sold your old copy and need a new one, this is a great opportunity to get one.
CreateNowSleepLater
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Anyone doing customs?
Halo 4 will be 9.99 next week at best buy. Maybe if you broke or sold your old copy and need a new one, this is a great opportunity to get one.
Has a Halo game ever dropped that fast in price?
Yeah message Pixelfox.
It was like $29-$34 a month after release... It's just the way the industry is now, prices drop sharply after the first few weeks. I remember even Cliffy B tweeting about it, wondering if it was smart to get more sales in before Christmas.
I even remember Future Shop up here in Canada, selling it for $19.99 barely like 4 months after release.
I think the used games trade is another factor in this. As for whether a Halo game dropped that fast, no, I don't remember Reach dropping as quick.
Sorry, didn't remember Fuchsdh was PixelFox. I've played with PixelFox before. Are you guys doing H3 or H4?
YourExWife
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Stream is up now: http://twitch.tv/yourexwife
Computer
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Our complaints shall fall upon deaf ears.
terrible
StalkerUKCG
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+1, Get that trash out of here.
CreateNowSleepLater
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Didn't quit, lost power. Now my main internet is down.
Bravo.
I will take pride in this, same as never hitting Inheritor in Reach, neither game warranted the time needed to do it.
I'm on 129 in Halo 4.
Will I ever hit 130? Unless I play customs all the time, that's a nope.
StalkerUKCG
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Reach is looking more and more appealing as time goes on. Stil I'm the same no even close to either.
I can't even imagine getting to Inheritor. I put an absurd amount of time into Reach and didn't get close.
At least v5 customs were always fun. MLG Reach is pretty damn good. We had some really great custom matches.
edit: vvv I can't bring myself to finish Spartan Ops. I've done 7 or so chapters, and I have no desire to complete the season.
Orochinagis
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Spartan Ops? Some missions are pretty quick and gives tons of exp.
User 73706
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Real talk: I'd honestly say finishing it (on Easy or Normal at least) is worth it because some interesting encounters start showing up near the end, culminating in some downright Halo 3-inspired shenanigans in the final chapter. That being said, do not expect anything fancy beyond the episodic format you're used to. Literally every chapter still ends with the multiplayer victory music and a pelican flying off into the sunset.
aHebrewMenagerie
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The 2nd half was definitely an improvement for creative direction, not nessicarily in writing. Some of the encounters are fun at the end, but the entire premise of Spartan Ops doesn't provide a lot of payoff in terms of moving forward with the Universe.
Halsey loses an arm, and the Storm and UNSC both have half a map for Forerunner tech.
YourExWife
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Good games guys.
SHIFTYkiwi
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Fun games everyone, sorry about the shit host. Don't understand how a single guy from NZ can pull host over a lobby full of Americans but that's halo.
I still don't get why we have yet to have an option to make the party leader also the connection host. Something they should have copied from CoD.
Next gen is supposedly dedis anyway.
I brought this up before, and it's puzzling. MS created an entire division solely for Halo. All it does it Halo. Yet in the run up to Halo 4, they gladly outsourced everything. And pretty much everything since Halo 4 (including it's DLC) has been outsourced. And they still don't have the manpower to handle more than 1 game at once?
Why not have Certain Affinity take over sustain if they don't have the people? It seemed like they wanted complete vertical integration but didn't want to pay for it.
I has a question.
How much did Bungie outsource? I know a few MP maps were outsourced but that's all.
aHebrewMenagerie
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They outsourced a few Halo 2 map packs to Certain Affinity, but i think they did everything else in house.
They were still separate. They were created in 2006, and developed the Blastacular Map Pack for Halo 2 in 2007, if memory permits.
Speedy Blue Dude
Banned
Well, at this point wasn't Certain Affinity still basically Bungie?
Halo 1 - outsourced the dialogue writing (the writers never even saw the game)
Halo 2 - Blastacular Map Pack was done by CA.
Halo 3 - I dunno.
Halo ODST - The entirety of Sadie's Story was outsourced. Joe Staten recorded the voice of the Superintendent.
Reach - Everything past Noble was outsourced and done by CA.
Of course, they used contractors for the base game themselves. That's industry standard for the most part.
edit: technically Halo Wars sustain was outsourced to Robot Entertainment, but Robot was essentially the part of Ensemble that still wanted to do RTSes. 343 eventually took over Halo Wars after Robot moved on. 343's lone update for that game was fixing a bug with movie playback.
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