Enter The 36 Chambers
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Legitimately shocked at people still playing halo 4
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Halo |OT19| 793 Posts, And None Worth Reading
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Caayn
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7 feet
that's like 7 subway sandwiches.But seriously that's one impressive lego build.
Enemy: Haha, you can't kill me. *Splat*
Ozzy Onya A2Z
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Alley-oop! Nice.
Despite what many say there are still very good quality games to be had. Would you like some full games to watch? In the last 3 nights alone in near full parties I could upload 5 very high quality matches with great close matches in BTB/BTB CTF. I've been stockpiling like 20 games for the HaloGAF montage, I know I'll be one of the few to submit Halo 4 clips. Is it great every game? Hell no. Was any previous Halo game great every game 1 year after launch? Hell no. Is it the only Halo game I play? Hell no.
The bowl gametype delivered some great fun with really nice gun/movement/teamwork gameplay. Ricochet was really another great gametype and on Pitfall/Haven is quite good. Longbow CTF in BTB is solid. Is not being able to play the DLC maps often shit? Hell yes.
Yes yes it missed the arena feel at launch and the maps aren't to Halo 2 levels but the game still has some great experiences to offer. Every Halo game has hits and misses. I still play Reach/Halo 3 on Thursday nights and those games just don't live up to 4's current setup. The maps, bombs and 1-sided games I want in Halo 4's sandbox/netcode. Next gen Halo can't get here soon enough.
I can't find games on Halo 3 BTB anymore. Literally can't. No way I'm staying up from 12-1am onwards just to get some.
xxjuicesxx
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Its mostly just the bad kids still playing Halo 4. Ignorance is bliss and all that.
Halo 4 is getting shit on more, because it is the latest release. People, for most part, have moved on from Reach, so you see less frequent complaint because the playerbase is non-existent. So of course you are going to see more complaints, but if you were around during the Reach-era, Halo 4 pretty much continued the complaint train. Its like it never stopped.
The point isnt which game is better. Metacritic says very little about the game after release, so that is moot point. Both had a sharp decline in player base, both introduced elements that broke the sandbox, both were scolded for the changes by the community and both were shit on consistently. Trust me, I and other people complained in multiple OTs and wrote long posts about the broken elements. To somehow proclaim that Reach was less complained about and thus being the better game is weird stance to take, because it was scolded during beta and during its lifetimeif it wasnt than all these OTs were filled with people just tuning in for Juices to write about all the chicks he was scoring with.
I played the other day after a hiatus, wow i felt like a pro. Me and this dude (random) in doubles almost shut 2 kids out. I think i died twice.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
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Halo 2 was the most broken piece of shit for the first 6 months, honestly and I fucking loved that multiplayer and maps. It was complained about more in its first 6 months than any other Halo IMO. Paradoxically it was also the golden age of Halo/XBL online.
xxjuicesxx
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Yea the last time I played I went +22 then +42 I mean talk about rust.
Syphon Filter
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Halo 2 was actually a good game despite all that.
Same. Though Halo 2 had that magic that kept me coming back, even with all the problems I had with it. Halo 3 continued it, during Reach my patience kept waning and just outright gave up on Halo 4.
I had a 5 month absence from Reach. Played CoD instead.
Prinz Eugn
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I can't believe people try play by themselves... 4 gets much better when you can decide the vote and avoid Infinity Slayer on Abandon, et al.
Caayn
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Played a couple of matches in december to just give it another shot and look at the changes since the last I played before that. After 4 matches I gave up and quit, don't plan on ever putting the disc in again.
As someone who mostly plays as a lone wolf. Getting matched with a (larger sized/full) party is the worst thing that can happen.
Solo btb is ridiculously easy, randoms seem to just charge head on without thinking. Full parties are a death sentence though.
Gizmodo source, heaps more pics of this 7-foot monster in the link
Edit - I like the font changes, less kiddy font and more futuristic styling. It's been a long time coming Halo should have grown up, just look at Star Wars going after the young audience all the time.
I wish Microsoft would license Halo to lego instead of Mega bloks.
Mostly just because I'm madly curious as to how something like this would turn out:
(Not that I like the cover. It's pretty ugly)
Enter The 36 Chambers
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September was the last time I played 4.
Is it still possible to get games on reach? I.wouldn't mind firing that up
Is it still possible to get games on reach? I.wouldn't mind firing that up
Syphon Filter
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Yea Reach has about the same amount of players as H4. Not even lying.
xxjuicesxx
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Enter The 36 Chambers
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Holy shit.
Been playing gears 3 lately and I always find matches on there.
Good games keep players I guess
nillapuddin
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So do we have to play every single prebuilt variant?
or can I just create a custom variant for each main type with a very easy winning condition?
or can I just create a custom variant for each main type with a very easy winning condition?
squidhands
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Pretty much. I think the out and out hatred was toned down a bit during Reach, but there were pleeeeeeeeeenty of hardcore complaints. All started with the beta and just went downhill from there (I'm sure someone has Ghaleon EB's writeup on the beta handy). For me at least, there was Firefight and online campaign co-op to alleviate my anger towards the jetpack/armor lock dogshit that happened so frequently in matchmaking.
Caayn
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Such a shame that 343i wasn't able to license the Marathon symbol, we'll never see the complete Halo logo again or the original Guilty SparkI wish Microsoft would license Halo to lego instead of Mega bloks.
Mostly just because I'm madly curious as to how something like this would turn out:
(Not that I like the cover. It's pretty ugly)
It's a bit of everything that turned me off after playing it again. Such as things as sprint and flynch being in the legendary mode. Which was supposed to resemble classic Halo.
Such a shame that 343i wasn't able to license the Marathon symbol, we'll never see the complete Halo logo again or the original Guilty Spark
At least
he's still alive
The Marathon logo was created by Bungie before Halo, so the rights didn't transfer. I'd expect neither party wanted to come to some licensing terms.
Makes you wonder about the Superintendant logo. That's owned by Bungie, but yet it showed up in the Anniversary Maps. I wonder if it has to do with Reach technically being a Bungie title or if it was licensed for 343I to use.
Sprint doesn't bother me THAT bad, but yeah flinch sucks. Bad. Seems like they could have just turned those off but idk.
You can't act like Reach and Halo 4 experienced identical player loss. Halo 4 lost 75% of its playerbase in three weeks, and since then it's been on a steady decline, now sitting at something like 20000. Reach easily got three times that on a regular basis a year after launch. It's not even close. I was around on B.net well before Reach came out, so believe me I know what you're talking about. People bitched about Reach, I know that. All I think is that if you want to know how people feel about a game, look at who's playing it. In the case of Halo 4, just about no one.
FUNKNOWN iXi
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Caayn
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Not going online today. But I won't mind helping you guys out tomorrow or another day.
I have no idea if this is parody or not so I can only assume you're being serious. I'll gladly stand corrected if it turns out you're actually some kind of genius-level master of trolling as subtle as it is pointless.
Literally what the fuck are you talking about. What makes this:
In any way whatsoever "more futuristic" than this:
It's a 26th century shielded space helmet with a giant screen on the inside of it, why are you writing in tiny, blocky, all-uppercase text? It's just harder to read in every way. Don't even get me started on the phrase "less kiddy font." What does that even mean, in the context of a font. It's not fucking comic sans, it's a pretty standard font. And it's fairly readable, which is really the most important thing it needs to be. But you're right, Halo does need to grow up, just like some kind of reverse-Star Wars, and what better place to start than by changing the font used in the HUD.
squidhands
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Oh, for fuck's sake.
Syphon Filter
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You're on right now? I'm down for some!
Barrow Roll
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You should try getting it added to the PCGamingWiki article for Halo 2.Nope you should be all good, but reposting the guide for others would be nice
http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Halo_2
I hope they finally figure out the betrayal system in 5. It's still awful on Halo 4. Got betrayed 3 times on purpose by a guy sitting in a Gauss Hog turret and I accidentally rocket him once and it's an instaboot.
This is something they need to spend some time thinking about how to implement a system that can't be abused like this.
This is something they need to spend some time thinking about how to implement a system that can't be abused like this.
I got the option to kick you like twice. I hate people standing in front the vehicle deliberately it screwed me over a couple of times, no doubt of that. The system could do with a revamp.
Syphon Filter
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yea 4 of us. tell unknown or beluch to let you join.
Lol, yesterday, I accidentally betrayed 2 guys with a random wraith shot, I was just aiming it over the hill in Valhalla from a distance and it hit their rocket hog, well like 3 minutes later, near the end of the match, I guess they remembered that and one of the guys purposely Splasered me out of the air in my Banshee, I immediately got the option to boot and I did and like 4 people got dropped from the game and we were so close to winning. I got a pretty nasty voice message after from one of them.
Yeaaap. Will be on in a second. GT: randomrosso93
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