User 73706
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I hope the digital tracks are lossless (as in WAV or FLAC) and not just 320kbps.
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Halo |OT9| One Final Effort Is All That Remains
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I hope the digital tracks are lossless (as in WAV or FLAC) and not just 320kbps.
Reminded me of the QTE in Assassins Creed II.
If you know what I mean
Oh man, that was the most unexpected thing I had ever seen in a video game. The noises were... bad. The parents thought I was watching porn.
Hydranockz
Member
Oh my god I'm in tears! This is seriously the best QTE ever!
RebornYeti
Member
I wonder what QTEs are going to be like in co-op. Will everyone have to experience them or just the person hosting?
That's why I'd invest in a pair of headphones. My roommates hate it when I don't wear mine.
Der Flatulator
Member
Off topic... But I just finished AC:Revelations and Embers. While the game wasn't exactly the strongest in the series, I have to give credit where it's due. The way Ezio's story was told is quite frankly, amazing. When they showed him pass away in Embers I actually felt sad... and that doesn't happen all that often with video games (if at all).
Hopefully Halo 4 is more than a CoD-esque-quick time event-Michael Bay fest and has some sentimental elements within the story.
Hopefully Halo 4 is more than a CoD-esque-quick time event-Michael Bay fest and has some sentimental elements within the story.
Slightly Live
Dirty tag dodger
Nope.
Don't worry, they're not quick time events, they're interactive cinematic actions.
Shake Appeal
Member
I also heard there weren't any perks or killcams in this game. Just tactical packages and sitrec replays.
You win for best link dealing with QTE for the day.
squidhands
Member
Now I'm wondering if the QTE referenced in the article is the ONLY event that we will encounter. I really hope so, but it would be extremely odd to only have one in a game that as a franchise has never had them. hmm...
Oh well, plenty of other things to be excited about.
Oh well, plenty of other things to be excited about.
User 73706
Banned
I wouldn't have as much of a problem with them if they were "dynamic" so to speak. Like, make it so that any offensive button press could help punch away the Elites/Prometheans. Right trigger pulls them around behind you and you shoot them off the edge of the shaft; melee gives you the punch and then shove to kill them. Reload lets you hit them with the butt of your gun to knock them off; jump would be a kick; etc.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
They aren't QTEs...
You have control over direction and jumping from what we've seen. More, set piece moment.
You have control over direction and jumping from what we've seen. More, set piece moment.
squidhands
Member
Interesting, I never caught that bit from Frankie. Thanks for the quick find.
Mantis Wars sound really awesome.
Kibbles
Member
Plenty of videos of this on Monday please please please
Der Flatulator
Member
Super excited to see Valhalla return. Love that map so much. Direct feed footage pls.
Well today has turned into a cruel day.
Josh tweeting about Big Team with Mantises (Manti?) on Ragnarok, meanwhile PG_JP tweeting about seeing some jawdropping Bayonetta 2 gameplay.
Hatred abounds.
Can Waypoint talk about it now?
They can talk about it all they want - unfortunately you won't be able to read any of it due to endless errors. (ha, and as I speak going to Waypoint in my browser automatically redirects to the Xbox.com main page - which also times out).
It would be really cool if the larger maps had "sections" that you could enable for certain gametypes. Battlefield 3 does this very well. When you're playing some gametypes the entire map is opened up and ready for combat. When you're in a less vehicle intensive gametype the same map is playable, but the boundaries and spawns are moved in.
Pop
Member
We still haven't seen 3 maps, so maybe their small symmetrical maps. Besides for MLG to host H4 at Dallas this year before the game releases, shows they are confident.
lybertyboy
Thinks the Evil Empire is just misunderstood.
Some very welcome changes are coming for the Waypoint website. I've been told they should alleviate most, if not all of your frustrations over performance.
nillapuddin
Member
The Best QTE's ever happen in MGS4 at the end when
and
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at the end of the game
SPOILER
SPOILER
SPOILERING
Vire
Member
Rickenslacker
Banned
I think the sentiment in the concern is the same. Halo is about the design of improvisatory player action through the sandbox, it sets it far apart from most shooters on the market. Introducing scripted sequences can be seen as hurtful towards that formula, and it's certainly why I don't replay games of that type.
Take Uncharted for a highly acclaimed and relevant example to such setpieces. I just don't care about most of what I'm doing in that game because it feels so mindlessly automated, I'll hold in the general direction it wants me to go and press jump and it'll just work because it's so ludicrously guided. I'd personally take emergent happenings over tight scripting anytime.
Guess they dont want the blue glyph on the 2nd disc to be revealed just yet.
Der Flatulator
Member
The Librarian
Banned
Deadly, the concerns – ripping the player out of regular gameplay and how they hold up during replays of the game – remain regardless if they're more "set piece moments" than QTEs.
Bregmann Roche
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Happy Birthday to fu!
Belated Happy Birthday to He Who Walks With The Hoodie.
Excellent news. Thanks for the heads up. Don't you have a hangover?
Barrow Roll
Member
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
I know, it's just one of those things that bugs the crap out of me. QTE is a very specific thing. I hate QTEs generally, but I like these kind of set piece moments.
lybertyboy
Thinks the Evil Empire is just misunderstood.
The gym was a bit of a struggle this morning. Happy birthday oh bearded one!
Ripping is probably an unfair way to describe it. They probably take place where short cutscenes would take place anyway, so if anything it's the opposite and get the player more involved and immersed.
I'm excited for the QTE stuff. I think it'll give them a chance to spice things up and show some things in ways previously not possible. I don't think they'll be used unnecessarily and be done in ways like other games that are over the top and annoying with them.
Some of you are so uptight as armchair designers. Lighten up.
Can't come soon enough. And I assume a stat tracking API?
In other news - any announcements on the tablet/mobile integration? I thought we heard something about that ages ago and since that tease we haven't heard a single thing. (Maybe shelved until Halo 5 on the new hardware?)
Rickenslacker
Banned
The best part about those things as cutscenes is that you can skip 'em. :3
Poker Face
Member
Will there be a useful store where I can buy some 343/Halo4 stuff?
Shake Appeal
Member
I hate QTEs mainly because they are deployed as the easiest, laziest, ad hoc, cardboard stand-ins for complex player agency in a given scenario, and because they destroy immersion by making you acutely conscious of your interactions with the hunk of plastic in your hands... but I wouldn't really mind their being in Halo if Halo wasn't a game you replay a lot. Having to perform the same rote button presses to 'solve' the same canned animations could get pretty stale by the fourth or fifth go-around. We'll see.
Microsoft has been eerily quiet on the tablet apps and Surface in general.
Oh, hi top of page. Hedgemony has made more comic cover art, this time with Grim's favorite helmet:
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
I don't think these interactive cutscene moments will be near that bad. I also didn't see any button prompt come up on screen (could be wrong).
Frank even noted that they don't happen often.
AllIsOneIsNone
Banned
Yea, they are all those things plus they probably cost a decent amount of development time/money that could've gone to better use elsewhere. Personally I even feel this with cutscenes; think of the money that goes into making facial animations alone. I'd rather have every bit of that go into gameplay additions. But I realize that people love their game's stories, so I'm not really one to complain there.
Pop
Member
I C what you did thar