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Well, to be fair to everyone doing to the convention circuit, having meaningful interactions with every fan who stopped by would kill you. Not saying lots of people aren't jerks, but they can also just be tired of signing five thousand pieces of whatever. Or maybe they just really have to pee when you meet them.
A convention or expo floor is not the location for reasonable social interaction.
Dongs Macabre
aka Daedalos42
Bulletstorm or Mass Effect
squidhands
Member
Bulletstorm.
Very true. The final straw for me was Todd literally screaming at the guy who was responsible for bringing the Spawn funny car to the convention. The guy was late because Houston traffic is a fucking nightmare, but Todd did his best to humiliate the guy in front of a bunch of young adults.
Mass Effect will keep you busy for hours upon hours if you get into the exploration and side stuff.
Diablohead
Member
Oh man shooting and aiming in reach feels so weird even though I played this a lot, need ot pace my shots a bit better after being taught not to in halo 4.
StalkerUKCG
Banned
Bulletstorm
Yeah I can go back and forth in all the Halo games and only two things really throw me; Reach's movement and pacing and the arc of grenades in ODST. Can never chuck those things accurately.
I think the way I'd put it is that Halo 4 has more feedback but not better feedback, especially not compared to Reach which was a master class in elegant player feedback. It takes cues that were previously audiovisual and instead makes noisy HUD elements out of them. Shield feedback isn't nearly as obvious and informative like Reach's variable brightness bubbling (which I think is due in large part to a problem in visual contrast with Halo 4 that arises from its kind of washed-out look), but there are hit markers to replace it. Grenades aren't as audible when they bounce up near you, and (personally) I have a harder time determining direction and point of impact when I do hear it, but there are grenade indicators now that do that work for you.
I actually think it's making me a worse player for it, too. When a player was hit with a grenade in Reach, you'd get a distinctive grunt so you know you got a hit. With hit markers, why would I pay that close attention? I can just count hit markers instead of determining the player's health by shield feedback. I don't know, I kind of feel like it's just a more shallow experience in a lot of ways because of the in-your-face nature of a lot of the feedback changes.
(I should mention one of the things they did right, though - the Battle Rifle's burst SFX increasing in pitch (tone? whatever) as you empty more of the magazine is a really smart thing to pull from modern military shooters that have had it for a while, since it gives really useful information and lets the player use their HUD less)
Diablohead
Member
Reach has an awesome team play feeling to it compared to halo 4, it's important in every halo but reach just has something unique when it comes to working as a team, it could be that you benefit greatly shooting as a pair due to the shot spread.
Orochinagis
Member
Dragon age is actually good but never choose a mage. damn you firendly fire.
GoW J is still expensive.
StalkerUKCG
Banned
Why no bulletstorm?
Played a little bit... Going to get some hate from this but I found the game severely annoying in terms of dialogue and characters. Now I know what they were going for, but there's a way to do that and not be annoying.
No fun allowed, I know
Also, what's the opinion on Dragon Age?
StalkerUKCG
Banned
I can understand that, I personally found it fun in the same way I find something like Duke Nukem or Gears fun. Its over the top stupidness
Barrow Roll
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Orochinagis
Member
Is a pure building your character RPG
If you liked Baldurs gate you will love this game, it shares the same slow and clunky gameplay and it takes note about your decisions and really impacts the world and future skills for your character, it can also affects your companions feelings about you.
you can be a real asshole in the game and people will love you anyway.
Diablohead
Member
it feels that way, random mantis missile, sniped, railgun shot, halo 4 just has too many easy ways to die/kill
I play a lot of big team, would say about 50% in 4v4
Panel will certainly be interesting.
gAg CruSh3r
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link1201
Member
I hope interesting in a good/great way...not in an awkward train wreck sort of way.
Hypertrooper
Member
Okay, let's change that: McFarlane Statues are still pretty cool, but their action figures suck.
xxjuicesxx
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it feels that way, random mantis missile, sniped, railgun shot, halo 4 just has too many easy ways to die/kill
I play a lot of big team, would say about 50% in 4v4
No you're right there is a ton more one hitters in Halo 4 than the previous Halos. Mainly they wanted to defocus the great shields/health aspect of Halo and get more quick CoD death/respawn loop going especially with the Infinity Slayer Instant Respawn default stuff they had off day 1.
Basically after the first 90 seconds of any match now, you just have to assume everyone has a upclose weapon (boltshot, shotgun, that other stupid thing) and a sniper or incinerator cannon in their back-pocket. Really cant wait til they go back to no ordnance, weapons on map, and power weapons in respawn locations timed. Like the days when Halo was good.
NobleGundam
Banned
Legendary Slayer & Anniversary Map Pack for Halo 4 confirmed
Garrett 2U
Member
1 sleep
StalkerUKCG
Banned
Boltshot is terrible, I don't know how the figured "hey remember how overpowered maulers were? now you can spawn with a chargeable one plus camo!" was ever going to be a good idea.
I mean sure at some point you start getting a little thin on unique firing gimmicks but opting to completely remove the boltshot or hell even just having it behave like a machine pistol or something would have been better. The entire Forerunner/Promethean sandbox feels redundant for the most part. Hell the brute sandbox was better.
I mean sure at some point you start getting a little thin on unique firing gimmicks but opting to completely remove the boltshot or hell even just having it behave like a machine pistol or something would have been better. The entire Forerunner/Promethean sandbox feels redundant for the most part. Hell the brute sandbox was better.
Dongs Macabre
aka Daedalos42
Disregarding the shit netcode, Halo 3 customs is still really fun.
It had to be, otherwise customization wouldn't work.
If you allow people to choose a universal loadout, then to service the customization, you have to have redundant or role-similar weapons everywhere.
I don't think I told you, but I was the guy in the destiny shirt who asked if you were happy to be back in Austin. lol
Why the disappointment
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
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Rather than make you explore, THE SKULLS YOU'VE HAD IN THE PAST 5 GAMES CAN BE YOURS AGAIN FOR ONLY $15
Dongs Macabre
aka Daedalos42
Steelyuhas
Member
Where is this from?
I read it's from the Windows Store, but not only do listings in the Windows Store not look like that, but when I search for it myself nothing of the sort exists.
It'll come to XBLA, just wish the suits would make it happen faster.
Also, agree on the one hit kill weapons. I saw a thread on gaming side, where someone asked if there were still any shooters where it's not who sees who first anymore, but you have the ability to take a shot, outwork/out strafe enemies and opponents.
Agree on feeling like you die by 1 hit weapons, especially infinity Slayer.
Edit: Ah, didn't see the microtransactions. Pay to get credits quicker to unlock stuff in game.
Halo 5 - 20 Spartan points for $3.99, Juices no longer do you need to grind, you could just pay to get stability perk.
Also, agree on the one hit kill weapons. I saw a thread on gaming side, where someone asked if there were still any shooters where it's not who sees who first anymore, but you have the ability to take a shot, outwork/out strafe enemies and opponents.
Agree on feeling like you die by 1 hit weapons, especially infinity Slayer.
Edit: Ah, didn't see the microtransactions. Pay to get credits quicker to unlock stuff in game.
Halo 5 - 20 Spartan points for $3.99, Juices no longer do you need to grind, you could just pay to get stability perk.
That's the Xbox app on Win 8. Or smartglass.
micro transactions
Don't see the point of that shit when I am already paying $7 for the game. If it was free? Fine.
Steelyuhas
Member
Searched for the game through the Xbox app as well, nothing.
Hm ok then.
343 labeled the micro-transactions as one of the top features for the game when they announced it a few weeks back ;s
User 73706
Banned
bububu my freedoms!
technically the skulls are new, but i could only see one at e3 named 'hollow' that gave you shields but no health
mobile gaming is full of that stuff, so it's really the userbase they're catering to with that game
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Doesn't look like it affects the game much...
Still don't see the point though. I mean if it was Free by all means do it and while I will still buy the game I am hoping to god these credits do not mean I will have to grind missions over and over thats why I am worried about it.
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