And that one guy really really really loved Oddjob and paintball.
edit: Weren't we talking about QTE and Halo and how those don't typically go together?
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Halo |OT9| One Final Effort Is All That Remains
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And that one guy really really really loved Oddjob and paintball.
edit: Weren't we talking about QTE and Halo and how those don't typically go together?
ArchedThunder
Banned
Why don't I believe you...
neoism
Member
So was it the thing in Hamburg?
Isn't that just a cutscene that you can skip?
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Agreed. It most definitely was not 'press X to make Chief do a flying drop kick and throw a grunt off a mountain' it was 'hit left to jump left.'
Or that it was somewhat out of context and you weren't the one controlling it?
Domino Theory
Crystal Dynamics
Can't wait to hear all of this through my headphones at home. So good.
Vire
Member
Just like the world exclusive that was on X-play the last time right?
It's the £8.87 paperback one that says ships in 1-3 weeks. I'm guessing they only had enough in their first delivery for the pre orders.
Hypertrooper
Member
It is. The climbing/throwing the elite down the shift were one sequence. I am not sure if you had complete freedom in that section but the Chief looks to the right or to the left and subconsciously you move the stick to that direction.
For the curious people:
Dawn ~30min on Heroic pretty easy.
Forerunner ~1-2hour on Heroic. Oh Promethean are arses. Focusing on the Knight? Thousand of crawlers are attacking you. Attacking the Watcher? Knight and thousand of crawlers are attacking you. Etc.
Yup. The levels were also built using flight simulator software, and Rare went to the movie set and built all the campaign levels based off the sets before they even thought about how they'd work for missions.
Goldeneye also has a fully functioning Spectrum emulator in the game. Amusingly, even though Rare had Spectrum emulation fully functioning on the N64 inside Goldeneye, the Jetpac game in Donkey Kong 64 is an actual port to N64 machine code.
To bring it back to Halo related stuff, to be set fire in Reach (Power Slayer, etc), Bungie/343 attaches an object named "invisible_cube_of_derek" to you, named after the Bungie employee responsible for a lot of the scripting of gametypes, including Invasion.
But what if I want to throw grunts off mountains?
ArchedThunder
Banned
Now I know you are just dancing around the subject.
Vire
Member
Huh, strange that mission levels vary so much in length.
With only 8 missions it's rather difficult to tell how long the game is...
But the first mission being only a half hour is a little worrying.
No the actual paperback.. not the smaller sized ones.. I haven't seen it yet.. and there's a october 30th date..
no idea how you got it..
squidhands
Member
I guess it's worth a listen, I can always turn it to something else if I don't like it. I have a tendency to get quickly bored with some sci-fi books.
It all depends on how well the vehicles perform. Never got to try any vehicle maps at RTX.
Domino Theory
Crystal Dynamics
It's an introductory mission, it's not supposed to overwhelm you in length and dump the entire sandbox on you.
Hypertrooper
Member
Warthog drives pretty cool. Wraith too. Ghost too. Banshee is kinda lame. I had fun. Unfortunately the AI didn't want to be my gunner. He always jumped into the passenger seats. Arse. I only noticed the last section because Frankie greeted me during the first part and we talked a bit.
Vire
Member
Sure sure, but it also sets the tone for the game. You want to make a strong first impression with an opening that let's the player know that this campaign will be grandiose in scale. I thought Halo 2's opening fit the bill with the whole outside space/bomb sequence. Bioshock's opening also comes to mind.
Winter Contingency is artificially long due to the two Falcon trips & the damn door.
Hyper, confirm that first level is not an extended tutorial?
I dunno man, This guy did just say his cell phone was dying yet he's still posting comments and such, rather than giving any actual answers.
Domino Theory
Crystal Dynamics
Chief waking up after 4 years to see his drifting ship crashing on an unknown Forerunner planet isn't grandiose in scale?
It sets the tone just like you said for the entire campaign and implies new enemies, new weapons, new environments, and new scenarios to the player even if they haven't kept up with all of Halo 4's media.
Hypertrooper
Member
Monsieur? Est-ce que tu es intempestif?
Kinda. It sets you back to the universe. It was fun. But the only open sandbox area is shown in the screen.
I am at home?
Vire
Member
I didn't say it wasn't. (I haven't played the mission).
I just said I was concerned with the length.
It very well could be the best intro mission yet.
English please.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
I've played the game as well, cell phone dying can't give details, master chief is AWESOME lulz
For how long?
Bullshit. Show me
*Almost* all NA games will work on JP boxes. A substantial number of JP games will *not* work on NA boxes. So while I can tell you that NA Halo 3 works on my JP box, the reverse may not be true. Still, unlikely that MS would have gone to the trouble to region lock JP H3.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
RIP Kylej
Perma?
Don't know for how long. And can I link the actual post or is tha ban-worthy?
Looking through his post history I'mma guess it was this one
That's what I'd think. I'll shoot Frankie a PM
Wow really? That doesn't really deserve a ban...
Disappointing. I actually liked that one.
Hypertrooper
Member
German people will see me in a popular video game show donging their moderators in War Games.
Franklinator
Member
Kyle said it was this one
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=42472704&postcount=60
EDIT: Beaten
There's no way that's perma
EDIT2: Yup, 2 weeks. Team SLRP needs to capitalize on this opportunity.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=42472704&postcount=60
EDIT: Beaten
There's no way that's perma
EDIT2: Yup, 2 weeks. Team SLRP needs to capitalize on this opportunity.
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
Read the guy he quoted and then read his post. Not saying it's ban worthy or not, but that's some disrespectful shit lol
squidhands
Member
That's not good at all. It happens to me in past Halos from time to time, but it's usually because the AI has a power weapon of some sort. If I swap it out for a shitty AR he hops right in the gun.
Just to be clear, were you playing Campaign or SpOps? I haven't really read much beyond multiplayer, so I don't know any level names with either of those modes.
edit: that was actually one of kylej's better posts, shame it cost him. It'll be 'fun' to see who tries to fill the void.
Yeah, what about it? There was truth in what kyle posted.
AllIsOneIsNone
Banned
To Kyle; he was a man who wasn't afraid to show us that hating a game and loving it are just two sides of the same coin.
Thanks for the answers. I'm totally gonna stream playing through JP Halo 3 even though everyone has played the game a bajillion times, because I'm a dork
Hypertrooper
Member
Played the same stuff as the US Press did a few weeks ago. Plus in addition the new map called Complex and if I'd wanted, I could have played Flood. But unfortunately it was pretty hard to get a full match of people. Everyone was interested in campaign or Spartan Ops.