Psychoward
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I'd rather re-visit Buck than any of the Reach characters any day of the week.
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Halo |OT4| Trust's a Tough Thing to Come by These Days
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HiredN00bs
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Such humor, style, and grace.
ODST's characters were great, IMHO. If Buck was any better, he'd be a spartan.
The Super Intendent AI was awesome. The audio clips were really cool, I enjoyed that meta-story.
Dare looked like an alien, but I didn't really mind the love story in the game. Out of all the Halos, the characters in ODST were believable and vulnerable. The Chieftan fight cut-scene was incredible.
Yeah that was fun. Just don't tell anyone how your last game was.
I don't think I'd still be playing Halo if that had happened lol
Rand0m TAG
Member
not to mention but how the reach characters died was pretty lame, other than jorges.
I felt the same as H3 and ODST's stuff; none of the later Halo games had anything that stood out in terms of story or characters. Jorge was the closest type of character they could have had to flesh out and be interesting, but they killed him off half way through. Arby in 2 was the last truly great Halo character they've produced and wrote a half-way decent storyline for.
StalkerUKCG
Banned
I hope we haven't seen the last of Noble team or Bucks ODST squad in games
I wouldn't be surprised to see them in Halo 4 or 5. Or maybe even ODST 2.
NullPointer
Member
Don't agree with the lackluster pacing complaint at all, but yeah, ODST should have been $40.
Really wish the Halo games had anything close to competent writing. Halo could be a great space opera, but its characters and scenes are always so sloppy and boring. There are never properly defined arcs; things come and go without any emotional weight attached. People die, places get destroyed, ho hum move on to the next scripted encounter. Who was that? What happened? Why did it happen? Who knows.
Would love to see a professional writer come in and handle the story one day.
Would love to see a professional writer come in and handle the story one day.
I never left and don't call us that
Hey, that's just the tagline they use.
StalkerUKCG
Banned
Fuck me, a good post for once.
While i dont complete hate on halo and im pretty deeply interested into the lore, Alot of what you said is very true. Virtually none of the deaths have ever had a impact on me and their is a distinct feeling of looseness to the story telling.
343i seem heavily invested in Halo's future as a SP game and the Lore and universe hopefully H4 is a tighter more emotional story and all the stuff we have heard so far is true and not just PR BS
At least there was some level of memorable dialogue in those two games. Reach had maybe two good lines and a lot of "It looks like some kind of... big pylon!"
you didn't like the plot of the latest installment of the franchise, Halo: Push Button?
Yeah it was nice playin' with ya again man
Hey it was pretty respectable, I could have ended on that Hot Potato Prisoner match, THAT would have been embarrassing.
Demoncarnotaur
Member
So anyways, these were uploaded today, and while Im sure we have all seen em, its nice to finally have official versions:
Im surprised Assassinations use knives as we dont see them on the Spartan models.. Also, thats the best look we have got yet at the new covie weapon, I guess its the Carbine.
Any better and he would be a Spartan.
Im surprised Assassinations use knives as we dont see them on the Spartan models.. Also, thats the best look we have got yet at the new covie weapon, I guess its the Carbine.
Any better and he would be a Spartan.
Just finished talking to a friend who might be able to hook me up with a flight to PAX for 100$ or less. If it only costs me that much, I have no problem dropped the premium to buy a 3 day pass on Ebay or whatever. That would be so amazing!!!
HaloGAF Radio coming to a PAX near you. We'll all just get in 1 hotel room, get some booze, some microphones and bam, awesome sauce.
HaloGAF Radio coming to a PAX near you. We'll all just get in 1 hotel room, get some booze, some microphones and bam, awesome sauce.
Thanks buddy. Coming from you that means a lot to me.
The Librarian
Banned
Halo has scripted encounters now?
xxjuicesxx
Member
StalkerUKCG
Banned
I read every post your write as sarcasm now, you have succeeded in breaking me. well done
Demoncarnotaur
Member
Halo has always had these, just in a less traditional sense. They are now taking a slightly more cinematic approach (MC climbing elevator shaft) while still allowing you more control than a typical QTE. Im not opposed as long as they are reserved for more 'low action' moments to propel story, and less pull you out of action and and force something upon you.. Ultimately what they describes so far sounds really cool.
I heard he's a cool guy
Yes? If you want to come at it from the "oh man nothing plays the same way twice!" angle that's fine. Most Halo counters involve fighting the same 3 or 4 enemies with the same 3 or 4 weapons. They're in the exact same place, with the exact same amount of grunts and hammer monkeys, and the exact same set-pieces every time you play the game. Something like Left 4 Dead's director system would be a significant upgrade to the campaign.
VivaciousJazzy
Member
I made another slowed down footage video of the new gameplay. Helps me notice new details that I overlook.
NullPointer
Member
Why oh why hasn't anybody taken that ball and run with it? The director + decent AI would be god tier.
StalkerUKCG
Banned
Your on a role with smart posts now. (i like this kyle, can we keep him)
L4D style director would be great for Halo if it could build random groups to encounter at different set locations.
Obviously keep it within some sense of Hierarchy, "random leader unit + 1-3 random lieutenant tier + 3-7 random private tier" for example but varying encounters could add a tonne to halo
Tashi, any chance that Pax show could be recorded while livestreaming it?? That would be amazing.
:lol
The Librarian
Banned
Ah. Didn't realize the battle in front of the Cartographer on The Ark has been repeated several times throughout all five games. Could've fooled me!
StalkerUKCG
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Biggest-Geek-Ever
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ncsuDuncan
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The Librarian
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No. Not really. He may have a point when it comes repeating elements across all Halo games like the "storm the beach" scenario that shows up in 1 (The Silent Cartographer), 2 (Delta Halo), 3 (The Covenant), and Reach (The Long Night of Solace) but overall? He's way off the mark.
The real question is, why do Spartans need a knife when they can punch through a tank?
First, I don't even know what you're talking about, I'm pretty sure you completely missed the point. Second, trying to use a single example as a counterpoint to a critique of repeated events across the entirety of the Halo franchise is farcical and pointless.
It's the number one rule of shooters:
Players think having an old/ancient weapon in a modern setting is badass.
Examples:Black Op's tomahawk and crossbow, Crysis 3's crossbow, Halo 3's katana armor
Biggest-Geek-Ever
Member
The realer question is, would you rather punch or CUT through a tank? Think about that one.
StalkerUKCG
Banned
His complaint was that the majority of halo encounters are always the same, your given a limited set of weapons and a limited consistent count of bad guys and given the illusion of freedom and varied encounters.
While the AI does some good job of changing up certain situations most of Halo is essentially, move to room x defeat group, more to room y defeat similar group.
The proposed Director varying up encounters both in enemy count and actually placement is a great idea.
This guy gets it.
I agree with kyle and over, this must be what Anakin felt like in RotS
The Librarian
Banned
I didn't miss the point. Your post was so generalized and vague that I didn't even know where to begin, so I responded in a similar manner. Probably better if left alone.
You can use this sentence to describe any game, really, and if you're going to go about this angle then there's no point in continuing this discussion.
StalkerUKCG
Banned
Thanks! That wasn't much but it looked great. I really like the colors and contrast. It looked really smooth too. Now that I was able to see it in motion, I like the red screen when shot. All looks great to me. Moar!
NullPointer
Member
And there goes me spitting out my beer. You bastard
Also, I definitely see Kyle's point. Each Halo encounter is still X enemies of this type, starting HERE, + x enemies of this type staring over HERE, with X more enemies of this type dropping in HERE after player reaches this trigger volume. It always starts the same, and provided the player gives the same inputs it will always play out the same. The larger the space and the more overlapping the enemy placements the more the battles can show their dynamism, but its a fair point most of the time. But its also a point that has more weight when leveled against every shooter out there not named Halo.
Give me a Halo director placing units and reinforcements, various AI leadership personalities that motivate their troops, and full control of loadouts/perks on mission replays and I'd think I've died and gone to shooter heaven.