I think the flaws in halo make it much more enjoyable. It wouldn't be as fun if it was realistic.
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Halo |OT19| 793 Posts, And None Worth Reading
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Seriously. part of the games main appeal is its making you feel like the Ultimate Badass.
And you guys never answered me. How old is Stormtrooper for example?
User 73706
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I don't think she's specified.
FUNKNOWN iXi
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Murder Miners works great with a 3sk Pistol and a BR in loadouts (more people use BR too even though it's a 4sk). It can happen. It will happen.
She's..... right there guys.
lmfao
She's..... right there guys.
lmfao
You guys are so dumb and don't make any sense.
Put Oculus support and EAX 5.0 support and I will play it.
aslo it msut suppot opengl 2.5 or i not play it. and have suppot for ps3 racnig weeel ori not play it. also be agood game or inot play it.
Might be pointless but I found a MUCH cooler way to launch my PC games, only slightly Halo related.
Now all it needs is Oculus support.....
Put Oculus support and EAX 5.0 support and I will play it.
aslo it msut suppot opengl 2.5 or i not play it. and have suppot for ps3 racnig weeel ori not play it. also be agood game or inot play it.
I can't tell if you're joking... That's Laura Dern, obviously someone had a terrible childhood not watching a pretty famous movie.
She's..... right there guys.
lmfao
Funknown....
My post was a response to her, so of course I know she's right there. The question was directed at her if she wanted to answer.
I literally went blank and couldn't remember anybody's name so I just did the one I was responding to.
I'm dumb I know. This was probably established long ago.
My post was a response to her, so of course I know she's right there. The question was directed at her if she wanted to answer.
I literally went blank and couldn't remember anybody's name so I just did the one I was responding to.
I'm dumb I know. This was probably established long ago.
Might be pointless but I found a MUCH cooler way to launch my PC games, only slightly Halo related.
Now all it needs is Oculus support.....
Home?
Its this thing call Smarcade Anarchy Edition. Its free, requires steam and basically XBMC for your PC games, emulators and all.
It appears to have online too but I don't see anyone online yet.
Ragnarok Flames
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So to see why people think Karen Traviss is a good author should i read the Gears novels?
Ozzy Onya A2Z
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Prinz Eugn
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Tashi you're going to love this Bnet thread...
bro bro bro obviously the basemaps are sooooo good that it was dumb to dilute them with all these forge maps that aren't even gray
Sucks that he feels that way. I wish he would elaborate on what he doesn't like. That would actually be helpful.
edit: Tyson Green and Lars Bakken in this Bungie podcast episode?! BRB plugging in my headphones.
FUNKNOWN iXi
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lol.
I agree with #1 to an extent. The community up until Halo 4's release were all over the place with what they wanted out of Halo and how to describe it. I've mentioned this before but the fact that so many people were demanding a BR nerf in Halo 3 is proof enough that many people don't understand how to 1) describe what they really want and/or 2) know what's best for Halo that could benefit all players while essentially hurting no single group of players ("casual" vs "hardcore").
Halo 4's launch pretty much united many players in wanting "classic" Halo and thanks to an overwhelming number of detailed posts/videos/
perks
I have a question for some people. Not that anyone can really give me a definite answer on this but whatever.
I feel as though Jet Pack returned in Halo 4 because of how much use it saw on Halo Reach. 343 probably saw the stats and noticed it saw massive use, but they also saw the feedback on how OP it was and made it 'less effective' than it's Reach counterpart.
Was this to avoid some sort of community backlash or did 343 genuinely believe that they could make a Jet Pack work? By community backlash, I mean over the Jet Pack not even making it into Halo 4, so they felt they had to have it because of how much use it saw in Reach.
I feel as though Jet Pack returned in Halo 4 because of how much use it saw on Halo Reach. 343 probably saw the stats and noticed it saw massive use, but they also saw the feedback on how OP it was and made it 'less effective' than it's Reach counterpart.
Was this to avoid some sort of community backlash or did 343 genuinely believe that they could make a Jet Pack work? By community backlash, I mean over the Jet Pack not even making it into Halo 4, so they felt they had to have it because of how much use it saw in Reach.
Deputy Moonman
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Oh look, maybe some more confirmed information on this. Oh wait nevermind.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-5...alo-voice-actress-for-siri-rival-report-says/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-5...alo-voice-actress-for-siri-rival-report-says/
Well, I don't really blame "the community" in that regard. Trying to please the Halo fanbase is akin to putting your faith in Ryan's Great Chain of Industry that everyone fighting for their style of Halo somehow produces the superior game. I do think you have a point that fundamentally what interested a lot of people about Halo has been articulated in response to changes they didn't like in Halo 4 though.
Ragnarok Flames
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did all of the changes 343 made attract enough people that stayed with the series to offset the amount of people that left because Halo 4 added garbage to the multiplayer?
Slightly Live
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The anti-Traviss idiots are out in force already.
Ragnarok Flames
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so they're idiots because they dont believe the sun shines outta her ass like her fans do?
Slightly Live
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No, they are idiots because they think 343 are paying a writer that is deliberately "ruining" Halo and everyone is turning a blind eye to the author's multipltude of "crimes" against Halo canon.
I'm not the author's biggest fan either, but jesus, she's a paid writer - she writes the story she's told to write.
Ragnarok Flames
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Traviss DOES happen to have a habit of putting her personal feelings about a subject into her paid work.
in Star Wars, she made it a point to say that all force users were wrong, amoral, thought only of themselves and were evil.
In Gears 3, well look at the damn writing for that game.
Travis writes well, her text is flowing but her characters are just voicing her own opinions. She writes way too one-sidedly about things. Her Jedi agree with their opponents anti-Jedi sentiment... just like Halsey agrees with anti-Halsey people in K5 trilogy.
_/¯FUBAR McDangles
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I do have a bit of an issue with forge maps in Halo 4. More and more forge maps are being played in matchmaking, and while a good chunk of them play better than some of the base and even DLC Halo 4 maps, they are so boring to play on because they are all color toned to look the same.
I can only take so many light gray passageways before I get sick of it.
I can only take so many light gray passageways before I get sick of it.
Slightly Live
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That's your opinion. I'm well read of her work on Star Wars and Halo and more than happy to disagree.
You're attached to hating on this author and you can't seem to separate her work from her as a person and think anywhere where her own opinions and that her character's fall in line reinforces this delusional theory she's interfering with her characters and twisting them to suit her own message.
It's stupid. Besides, half of the folks criticising her wouldn't be half as critical if she was man. Half of her haters are petty dumb shit sexists idiots. It's really hard to side with such folks.
Everybody is, duh.
It's so obvio----oh but you're dumb so you wouldn't know that.
rats.
What the hell?
Uh-oh
FUNKNOWN iXi
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I don't blame them either because that would be assuming that Bungie ever listened to their fanbase and understood the better gameplay decisions for Halo. Actions have proved otherwise, just like 343 continued with Halo 4.
Active Camo being an AA is proof that we aren't being listened to. It's not some conspiracy theory or some lame anger, fact is that not one single person on this wonderful Earth wanted Camo back as an AA, especially over a Powerup. We all know 343 consists of some great people, but truth is those PR spins are pretty crazy sometimes..
Damnit Chatter..
*Non canon Cragmire
It's difficult to convey emotions over the internet, and like you said it's still a pretty distasteful insult/joke anyway. No biggy, just try to avoid language/jokes like that in your post.
Live and learn!
User 73706
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What.
You calling out all criticisms of Traviss as being misguided or completely unsupportable as a stance is no better than the "anti-Traviss idiots" you're calling out.
You do realize that Halsey has agreed with the "anti-Halsey" people since she was written by Eric Nylund and decided to go rogue back in First Strike, right?
Angels and ministers of grace, defend us...
Slightly Live
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Not at all. I'm not saying she's untouchable. She should be criticised like any other author, but she isn't being criticised fairly.
FUBAR McDangles
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I have only read her Republic Commando novels but I really enjoyed all of them. She gave a more military-esque focus to the Clone Wars, which was sorely needed in comparison to most other Clone Wars era books.
The only "Jedi Bashing" that she participated in was pointing out the hypocracy that should have been front and center. The Jedi try to be 100% morally awesome, yet are abducting children at a young age to be indoctrinated into their religion? The Jedi claim to be peace-seekers yet are constantly waging war and fighting battles?
I say this as a huge Star Wars fan that the only truly wrong thing she did with her Republic Commando books was trying to nail down the Three million clones number presented in AOTC. It was such a headache reading through those parts of the stories.
Her Gears of War books are okay. Nothing great, but certainly not bad. She tends to personalize the characters(namely Marcus, Dom, Baird, and Cole) in ways that do not seem consistent with the games, but overall I have no qualms with her there.
Even with her Halo books I really cannot argue much. I dislike how she pushed Fred and co to the back burner in Glasslands, but I understand. I wish she would include older Spartans and more established characters in her books but her new characters are okay. She isn't Nylund, but she catches a lot more flak than she should.
Yeah, I should have.
Yeah, I wish people would think for a moment, but emotions are definitely hard to read.
I have to agree. Any page that begins with milkshake scopes is bound to be.
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