it's 343s marketing. classic bait and switch.
think about it, its happened with almost all of the things that have to do with halo 4.
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it's 343s marketing. classic bait and switch.
think about it, its happened with almost all of the things that have to do with halo 4.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
You wonder how much of this was set in stone long ago. I'm also slightly fearful for Halo 5 based on these new perks. (If anyone can believe that).
Poker Face
Member
Yea I'm guessing Bravo and Quinn aren't doing anything with the next Halo, and the people who made the bad decisions for Halo 4 are making the new bad decisions for the next Halo.
We haven't seen anything yet, so maybe it will be good. But I'm not holding my breath.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Indeed. I assume I'll still enjoy Halo 5 even if it's like 4 (but a bit dialed back), but it will be "enjoyment" in a different context from Halo 1-3. Almost like it's a new series of game.
Instead of attacking the Plasma Pistol Plasma Grenade combo head on, they added a perk to further lengthen kill times, make people rage more, and the vehicle still dies.
This is going to be practically useless for anyone who just wants to use a damn Hog from time to time and actually manage more than a kill in it.
This is going to be practically useless for anyone who just wants to use a damn Hog from time to time and actually manage more than a kill in it.
squidhands
Member
Halo 4 has turned me away from the franchise. Poor campaign, Spartan Ops with zero replay value aside from the initial grind to unlock loadouts, questionable design choices in every aspect of the game (to put it nicely). Infinity settings destroyed the player base to a point where the better post-launch gametypes have little to offer in terms of quality matches for someone at my decidedly not-pro skill level. A remake of a good old map, an absurdly gimmicky new map, and new Spartan Flair isn't enough to pull me back into the worst multiplayer I've ever experienced in Halo.
Halo 5 might as well be a new IP, because 343 now has to prove more to me to return to the game than if it were something I've never heard of before.
I say all this not out of spite or hatred, but of genuine remorse for a franchise that pulled me back into console gaming and to GAF in the first place. :-(
Halo 5 might as well be a new IP, because 343 now has to prove more to me to return to the game than if it were something I've never heard of before.
I say all this not out of spite or hatred, but of genuine remorse for a franchise that pulled me back into console gaming and to GAF in the first place. :-(
What new perks? Did I miss something?
There's one that ejects you from your vehicle when it blows up.
New perks being added, one is behind a paywall for a limited time. Welcome to the future.
Designed around Infinity more than that. And I'd say the "BTB" maps people say are more mid-sized for the 5v5 playlists which seem to be a general favorite for 343. Bigger ones like Longbow and Vortex are different, though.
Crummy DLC implementation, bad perks (include flinch since its tied to it), AA's, lots of over-powered weapons and vehicles, sprint, bad gametypes that haven't really gotten better since launch... At least they did eventually add back in death markers, which was totally strange for them to omit anyway.
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kittens
Unconfirmed Member
This sounds like a joke, but unbelievably, it's not. (As far as we know.)
What? I honestly thought that was a joke when I read about it earlier.
Imagine this. CTF on Ragnarok, an entire team with that perk. They all get on all the vehicles existing in their base. They rush towards the enemy base and whatever happens, they all get there.
StalkerUKCG
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I want a stargate FPS.
Halo talk
Halo talk
User 73706
Banned
Better yet: EMP reduction perk and ejector seat. Use your Mongooses to storm the enemy base and steal their vehicles with no negative repercussions.
Ship it
bobs...onGaf
Member
So Eric Nylund is leaving Microsoft and I assume by proxy Halo.
- http://ericnylund.net/?p=1174
Halo from a fiction point of view will never be the same.
- http://ericnylund.net/?p=1174
Halo from a fiction point of view will never be the same.
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kittens
Unconfirmed Member
I was wondering when you were finally going to start posting in these threads!
Fuck, shitty authors like Traviss confirmed for the future.
Also new company "entertainment for the 21st century"... probably means handy games lol
I do occasionally. Just not much.
Don't worry about it. I'm hard to offend.
Also, Eric Nylund leaving is such sour news. The Fall of Reach is one of my favorite books ever.
Well, excuse me!
I was going to put a smiley at the end so it wouldn't sound mean, but then I decided against it. That was typed with a smile.
HigherLevel
Member
What has Nylund even been doing at MS the last few years?
"Locked in a conference room with key creatives all day, having to re-write the story on a AAA game after cutting one-third of the levels (not the first, or last, time this would happen)."
Given that various Bungie heads have said the third act of Halo 2 was chopped off the end to get it out the door, I'm going to assume this refers to Halo 2
Given that various Bungie heads have said the third act of Halo 2 was chopped off the end to get it out the door, I'm going to assume this refers to Halo 2
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kittens
Unconfirmed Member
I think I'm going to have to integrate this word into my daily vocabulary.
MrGreencastle
Member
Don't worry about it. I'm hard to offend.
Also, Eric Nylund leaving is such sour news. The Fall of Reach is one of my favorite books ever.
Mine as well... First Strike and Ghosts of Onyx were also some damn quality reading.
Was Nylund involved in any of the recent Halo games?
That's what I gathered. Still hurts to this day. I wonder if he's gonna go to Bungie.
Edit:
Did you read that Jason Jones said in the interview nowadays he would like to talk again about the original ending?
Edit Yeah good call what did he do all the years?
Nope. That sounds interesting though. I'm careful to not hype it up too much in my mind, because you can almost assume some of the dialogue is going to be lines reused for Halo 3. We already know of one, the "prophet not a plague" Arbiter line.
mobas?
but the MP features don't have a stories or events. you just knock down towers and blow up their base.
they just add some lore to characters and bam, universe
Purplemage
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So wait, which of the perks is gonna be locked behind the paywall? Do we even know if they're just gonna be given to all players or have to be unlocked in some form?
Well damn :/
Syphon Filter
Member
what exactly did Eric do for Halo?
Established a lot of fiction for Halo. Bungie built the universe but he brought it to life and extended the fiction/universe.
He wrote some Halo novels or something canon related or something.
User 73706
Banned
yo halo waypoint i know you accepting fanart right now
when you gonna accept fan fiction
i got some hot sticky creative juices pent up i could use on a didact/master builder fic for u
when you gonna accept fan fiction
i got some hot sticky creative juices pent up i could use on a didact/master builder fic for u
Wrote the good Halo books.
I hate Karen Traviss stuff, I wish Nylund had written Halo 4's story.
I'm slightly relieved that last sentence didn't go where I thought it was going.
Bregmann Roche
Member
I would guess that the demands of Nylund's 9-5 prevented him from signing on to do three books in rapid succession.
Oh, just give him time. He'll go there sooner or later.
Oh, just give him time. He'll go there sooner or later.
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