kylej said:
AR still looks horrendous. Too much spray and pray in that video. Looks like clever video editing to make that floppy pistol look decent.
Is the "Invasion" thing for Firefight? Assassinations look horrendously bloated. Make it BTB only or something. I don't need an elaborate stabbing animation while I'm trying to grab the damn flag.
Need to see more mid-range weapons. I mean it just looks like Halo 3 with more bloat. I'll wait for the beta...
Perfectly summed up all of my gameplay concerns... Intended or not, it comes across as awfully suspicious that the way the video is edited they're not letting us watch any extended firefights, just the final kill shots (over and over again... pistol, DMR, needle rifle - good for those of us who were concerned how the game would play in the SWAT hopper
). A Spartan takes the lift and is lining up the DMR and then... cut away. Sooo frustrating.
Did anybody else get an Engrish vibe from the trailer too, with all of the nonsensical words and super-dramatic music? Seriously, "Active Roster" and "The Arena" mean little to me in the context of the footage... Active Roster just shows a red team and a blue team, and The Arena seems to be a final showcase for maps, but simpler would have been better there I think, especially with all of the new stuff already going on.
I am also scratching my head trying to figure out what is going on in the early clip where the Spartans are facing each other and apparently "boxing" with their weapons holstered (minus any indication that either knows how to defend himself from the other's punch - guess hand-to-hand hit the chopping block in the streamlining of the S3 program). Along those lines, I didn't think any of the assassinations looked all that great. There's just something lacking there - remember the H3 vidoc where they talked about "punching through the fucking floor?" I think that sort of brutality is the missing something. These look too dainty.
1:16 is almost definitely a beam rifle, but it no longer seems to be a sniper with a different skin. It appears that you have to hold the beam on the target for an extended period of time, a tweak I am all the way on board with. No more brute plasma rifles.
The blurred out text may indeed coincide with a trip mine kill (the explosion sure looks like it), but all it says is "______ struck first" "_______ killed ______" so make of that what you will.
It sounds like I'm griping a lot. Don't get me wrong, some of the stuff in that trailer looks fucking awesome. Mostly Invasion:
With each game in the series, I've found that bigger and bigger battles have become where the fun lies, and this game looks to be continuing the trend. I didn't get any real sense that the gunplay is going to bring back the magic of Halo 1 2 v 2's, but I did get the sense that CTF on Valhalla is going to pale in comparison to some of the Invasion action. I can live with that.
