ElzarTheBam
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Okay Xand, you win, that new spider man game is much better than I thought it would be.
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Halo |OT5| Believe, Again
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Speaking of Spiderman, that reboot was good. Really. REALLY.
Weird things are happening with my Xbox 360. I just got an update and my sound is turned off after a minute. Somebody have the same problems?
Edit: Actually, my Astro A40 is getting sound via optical in, but my TV isn't via component (using component, because of my capture card). Weird.
Edit: Actually, my Astro A40 is getting sound via optical in, but my TV isn't via component (using component, because of my capture card). Weird.
Are you serious? There's no way. That means one side gets a huge advantage. I think there's one on each ridge.
Blue team gets a Sniper, Red teams gets a Rocket Launcher and the arch.
Well, technically one team already gets access directly to the rockets, while one has to walk up the rock arch to get it.
MMaRsu
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The game is still 40 new here.. I'm not biting at that price.
DoctorBanjo
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Ooooh really? Better than Spiderman 2?
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Worth a rent?
Awesome to hear, the action looks much better just from the previews.
ElzarTheBam
Member
Seems to be 'as good' as spiderman 2, certainly.
Swinging feels good, and the web shot has great promise.
Top notch production value, it's basically the spiderman version of arkham.
Definitely worth a rent. The game is set after the events of the movie.
MMaRsu
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Gah so cheap.. I dont have a CC and I dont really order online all that much.
I can buy 2x800 MS points for 10 euro's though, so I'll just do that I think.
lol - Kyle's right, he's being slandered. I got nicely carried. (On the plus side, i got carried by a Tournament teammate, which bodes well.)
Don't know how you guys play MLG all the time - that's WAY too fast for anything but a short break. I ran around a corner on Countdown, and right into 3 opposing teammembers. I was dead (from full shields) before I could even bring my gun up from sprint position.
nah you did fine.
I'm taking today off to work on the car but it's raining so if anybody wants to play Halo this afternoon give me a ring.
PayPal?
Zoso Achilles
Member
Yeah so we're first, we play Sunday at 8 pacific.
DoctorBanjo
Neo Member
Im sold.
ElzarTheBam
Member
Now go finish game of thrones, fool!
Only showing one matchup. I think the way this is being done is pretty retarded. It seems so much easier to just let captains pick a time, but hey common sense and efficiency isn't the way of the world anymore.
Zoso Achilles
Member
So if there were three of them, you would have died just as fast no matter the bloom setting. If they all shot you at the same time, it would only have taken 2 trigger pulls.
£8.99? Are you fucking kidding me? Bought!
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Should set up at 4th of July Reach Gaf extraordinaire. I'm off work but everyone else seems to have plans to leave town, thus video games!
Could do some achievements in 3/Reach/Wars and dominate big team or something.
(4th of July is a holiday in the US for all you outside of the States).
Could do some achievements in 3/Reach/Wars and dominate big team or something.
(4th of July is a holiday in the US for all you outside of the States).
needs moar Avengers.
is there something after the credits like the other marvel movies?
Zeouterlimits
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I disagree. It's really not. Poor mans Arkham, none of the atmosphere, really empty city and a poorer version of the Arkham combat system with more quick time events.
It does get the swinging right, but that's not enough.
Ooooh.
It's because not everyone on GAF can be online at one time. The scheduling is happening as each team turns in their schedules of when they can be online. My team was first to turn in their schedules so, we got 1st slot.
Yep, but I have no idea what they are alluding to.
Anchor 9 isn't that bad.
It is.
ElzarTheBam
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How far are you into it? I'm only on chapter 2.
I'm not sure about atmosphere in a spiderman game tbh, it's never been gritty or even had a particular theme to it. The only spiderman game to have atmosphere was the noir section of shattered dimensions IMO.
Although, I do hate its emphasis on collectibles, I hate collectibles!
Compared to the rest of Reach's Maps it's tolerable. But does Reach even have a good map? Even the H2 remakes are butchered.
I can deal with Asylum, apart from when the other team spawn your snipe court.
Anchor 9 is what you get when you take The Pit, add a terrible low-grav area, make the bases extremely easy to camp in and remove 2 ways to get from one side of the map to the other. It's terrible all around.
I like Unanchored. Space still sucks, and always will, but at least the shield doors are gone.
That MLG variant that they were working on back in late 2010 was pretty good, too.
Zeouterlimits
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Simply put, Beebox only had 12-18 months, barely anything compared to Rocksteady, so they did good for the time they had, but it's not in the same league as Arkham.
ElzarTheBam
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Yeah, I can agree with this, in terms of looking at the package as a whole.
But like I said, I was expecting nothing from it apart from the usual movie tie in quality. So it surprised me in that regard and I think it's worth a rent.
I always find that in Slayer Variants Anchor 9 becomes a rush to top med' pack grenade fest.
I don't usually play OBJ on Anchor 9 so I don't really know about the bases. I have to agree they do seem really enclosed.
Stockpile on A9 is worse than Stockpile on any other map. Flag isn't too bad, but it's nothing great. Swat potato is the worst(especially if it's unanchored).
Default Pit had its own issues: attic spawns, sword room aka grende hole, and really empty bases. MLG really revamped the map by adding the crates which helped smooth out the flow of the map.
Anchor 9 isn't too bad. I think CTF and Assault play better on it than Slayer. It's up there with Arena Zealot as one of the better maps in regular Reach.
^^ Karl, Hot Potato is always bad.
I get what you are saying, and I agree with your points, but I don't think it's right to say that anythig that's not just perfect is terrible.
Real question: What do you like about Reach?
I actually
hate stockpile full stop. It's like noob friendly CTF
I like the idea of it, but in practice the ability to kick flags out of the spawn zone makes it grief-happy. Also, at least in my experience, it's far easier for a better team to simple curb-stomp the other team.
MLG
Mah man!
The Henery
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They're not the greatest maps in Halo history but hey I'm just looking for variety that doesn't involve ugly grey edifices.
Faith in the Halo community restored.
ElzarTheBam
Member
Yeah this, and more importantly playing on the maps we payed for consistently in other playlists.
I'll say it here, I was personally a fan of the Halo 3 DLC implementation.
lol - Kyle's right, he's being slandered. I got nicely carried. (On the plus side, i got carried by a Tournament teammate, which bodes well.
Don't know how you guys play MLG all the time - that's WAY too fast for anything but a short break. I ran around a corner on Countdown, and right into 3 opposing teammembers. I was dead (from full shields) before I could even bring my gun up from sprint position.
You giggled the entire time and you know it. It's ok... you can admit you had fun those two games. You died less than Nutter and in your only two MLG games you are 2-0 against HaloGAF-ers. Eternal bragging rights granted.
We can play MLG so much because it comes closer to letting us play as fast as we think. Bleed through, no bloom, faster movement speed... playing default Reach is like playing in chains, or an engine with a governor on it.
That was less me carrying and more me playing with Cichlid, whom I've played with for a decade, and who is a freak at video games. Putting me and Cichlid on the same team in that group of 8 was MM handing out auto-wins.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
I guess I need to play MLG with some of you guys. Played with some friends and we did decent, but it wasn't a ton of fun. Not a huge number of map options.
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