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HaloGAF |OT: Anniversary| So fades the great harvest of our betrayal.
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All the second hand shade and praise the Halo games are getting in that Destiny review thread has me amused.
Halo honor is eternal.
Halo honor is eternal.
I was playing Salvage earlier with a party. We'd just pop bubble shields over the objectives and camp with shotguns
It felt oh so wrong
Finally finished Destiny last night.
The worlds are gorgeous, the gameplay is a hell of a blast (PvP included), and the music is incredible! I've played Hunter and Warlock
and look forward to trying out the Titan. I want to master both sub classes for Hunter though to see if it will unlock the mysterious 3rd slot.
The story has a lot of potential. Though I felt the campaign was a bit lackluster it still set up some nice groundwork the series can and needs to expand on. The worlds are beautiful and great to explore but if there's no incentive to explore them aside from the looks it will lose appeal. Stuff like audio logs, secret caches that need to be unlocked and other things that build the world would really benefit the game.
The multiplayer is icing on the cake.
I didn't expect it to be so good either and it is really it's own thing which I think is great. There are some issues with feedback but it's a lot of fun to play (YMMV it seems pretty love it or hate it) I think it truly shines with 3v3 matches. Bigger maps are fun but when you have a coordinated team it's just a blast. Hopefully 6v6 will get a game type that it works better with.
The game has a lot of potential (mostly on the story and co op side) and I can't wait to see what Bungie has in store for us.
By the way if anyone wants to play today I'm on the 360 so just send me a message. Multiplayer or co op is fine.
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On a Halo note, I just watched the Halo Returns video that was posted a while ago again and holy shit it still gives me chills. I can't wait for this November!
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The worlds are gorgeous, the gameplay is a hell of a blast (PvP included), and the music is incredible! I've played Hunter and Warlock
Blade Dancer = Space Ninja = Ruination to all and their shit
The story has a lot of potential. Though I felt the campaign was a bit lackluster it still set up some nice groundwork the series can and needs to expand on. The worlds are beautiful and great to explore but if there's no incentive to explore them aside from the looks it will lose appeal. Stuff like audio logs, secret caches that need to be unlocked and other things that build the world would really benefit the game.
The multiplayer is icing on the cake.
I didn't expect it to be so good either and it is really it's own thing which I think is great. There are some issues with feedback but it's a lot of fun to play (YMMV it seems pretty love it or hate it) I think it truly shines with 3v3 matches. Bigger maps are fun but when you have a coordinated team it's just a blast. Hopefully 6v6 will get a game type that it works better with.
The game has a lot of potential (mostly on the story and co op side) and I can't wait to see what Bungie has in store for us.
It better be a racing mode
From what I've played, getting stomped on your own sucks (but when doesn't it?) however if you go in with a team and are losing, it can still be really cool. Most of the matches I've played even with an actual team have been really close though and we've made some badass comebacks.
By the way if anyone wants to play today I'm on the 360 so just send me a message. Multiplayer or co op is fine.
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On a Halo note, I just watched the Halo Returns video that was posted a while ago again and holy shit it still gives me chills. I can't wait for this November!
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Here it is
This. All of this.
Destiny was a fantastic game. Do I think it had it's issues? Of course I do, every game does. With the way Bungie was teasing it, I was expecting multiple continents on each planet to explore. The Flood Zones of Old Chicago, Europa, and the list goes on. I feel like the campaign could have been so much more, but other than that I love it. I am in it for the long run, I just hope not too much of it's future is behind a paywall.
8/10
The Real Napsta
Member
Destiny PvP is an unbalanced mess. The story is laughably bad in presentation.
It's still fun and I enjoy playing it.
It's still fun and I enjoy playing it.
the loot aspect is cool
rewards after a mp match are unfair though. being good usually doesnt get rewarded
I've been in the top 1 or 2 in the 5-6 matches I've played. No exaggeration: EVERY TIME, the last 2-3 place people get 1-2 pieces of loot and I've got NOTHING.
Ragnarok Flames
Banned
ViewtifulJC
Banned
I loved Gears 3, man. Friends and I played KotH pretty much every Friday and Saturday night for about a year.
Then Judgment came out and killed it
Then Judgment came out and killed it
Ragnarok Flames
Banned
Judgement is the Halo 4 of Gears.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
I like to think of it as the Reach, the prequel they released after the trilogy was over and decided "ok guys time to experiment!" and just fuck with a lot of things that worked and proved to be quite unpopular.
Now Black Tusk in the 343 mode of "we learned from the last game, we gonna do it right by the fans, we had Tashi came by and he approved of the game said it felt like the old ones, pre-order now". And then the game comes out and its like "why are so many design choices...the way that they are...why" and the population dies off quickly
Now Black Tusk in the 343 mode of "we learned from the last game, we gonna do it right by the fans, we had Tashi came by and he approved of the game said it felt like the old ones, pre-order now". And then the game comes out and its like "why are so many design choices...the way that they are...why" and the population dies off quickly
MonkeyNuts
Neo Member
I've been playing through Destiny and I quite enjoy it so far but I've come to the realization that the entire campaign is basically like a slightly better version of Spartan Ops.
If someone had told me a year ago that Destiny's campaign was basically like spartan Ops I would have laughed in their face.
If someone had told me a year ago that Destiny's campaign was basically like spartan Ops I would have laughed in their face.
Steelyuhas
Member
Rod works for MSFT, what's he going to say he didn't think Halo 4 was good?
Computer
Member
I am having a blast playing Destiny campaign. Anyone here want Halo 5 campaign to take a bit from destiny? Open world with a bit of RPG. Also have missions similar to strike missions. In my opinion strike missions is what Spartan Ops should have been. With drops and all. As long as nothing carries over to MP other then armor style.
NobleGundam
Banned
I hope 343 has some epic ost themes to MC, Arbiter, Didact, and Locke in H5.
Man, I really wish Destiny had vehicles throughout the story outside of just the sparrow. The best Spartan Ops sequences were the ones in which vehicles were included to some extent, especially that last one. Pretty epic finale.
Just think, you and two buddies riding in Destiny's worlds in a warthog-type 3-person vehicle.
It wouldn't really make sense to give Halo campaign RPG elements considering there is no role to play outside being the Chief (or the Locke.. don't know yet). You aren't making your own narrative. At least in Halo you can use enemy weapons (except for the Hunter's which I really wish we could). I would like, however, more sandbox campaign missions akin to Silent Cartographer in which you are given a mission and it is your job to determine how to complete it. No hand holding or waypoints. Explore a bit.
Hell no. As people have mentioned before, the mission are pretty much better versions of spartan ops missions, without Palmer yelling in your ear.
I want a well put together, focused single player campaign with good narrative. Missions akin to Halo 3. Destiny missions for me are very, very repetitive. Multiple missions start from the same spot as other missions, with reused areas over and over again. Halo is more level based and should stay that way.
Ragnarok Flames
Banned
No, FFS No. let halo be halo. not the Halo 4 shit, not Destiny Ops. fucking HALO
The Librarian
Banned
Calm down.
There's nothing wrong with experimenting in a series. It's how you grow the franchise. I, and I know many others, have long thought that it would be cool to take ODST's concept to the next level with a centralized hubworld and have missions branch out from there.
TheOhrenberger.
Banned
Not at all
Something that has better designed Spartan ops style missions with a thought out and engaging plot wouldn't hurt. Tie it to a hub world that rewards exploration and is enjoying to traverse, would be good for an ODST style side game.
Something that's similar and a bit different that can stand on its own would be a good way to experiment.
Campaign side i'm fine with seeing them try and experiment.
I'm open to new ideas, but to be fair right experimental Halo is 0 for 1.
0 for 2. Halo Reach and 4.
aHebrewMenagerie
Member
1 for 3 if you want to count ODST.
The Librarian
Banned
2 for 2. ODST and Halo Wars.
Ragnarok Flames
Banned
that would be 2 for 4... your math is bad.
TheOdd1+1 = No.
Ragnarok Flames
Banned
yeah, it sucks that i have to download an app or go to their website, but hey. the information is pretty interesting.
Poodlestrike
Banned
The fact that they've got actual dialogue squirreled away in there (like, NPCs in the tower speaking to your character) infuriates me.
Ragnarok Flames
Banned
seriously? wow, ive just been using it as a bestiarium
Poodlestrike
Banned
Yeah. Check out the Story cards; there's quotes from Tower NPCs that are pretty clearly supposed to be addressed to your Guardian about the events of that mission. How they managed to hire all that top tier talent, write lines for them, and then totally fail to include them in the game is beyond me.
gAg CruSh3r
Member
11-11-14 MCC date
11(1+1+1+4)
117
That just happen.
11(1+1+1+4)
117
Master Chief
That just happen.
Gnome Scat
Member
RowdyReverb
Member
Wow, it works for MMDDYY and DDMMYY. Can't argue with that.
Orochinagis
Member
Destiny's skirmish mode is so broken, the winner is nearly decided after the first team fight and lets camp in safer areas and get points via reviving your teammates
Poodlestrike
Banned
The whole PvP is pretty broken; figured that out the first time I got a triple kill from popping my bubble shield and beating the other team to death.
Not on tonight but will be tomorrow. 24 (almost) Titan. Homeboyd903.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Can't speak for anyone else, but on my end it just strikes me as wildly unbalanced. Success depends far too much on largely unpredictable elements like supers and weapon selection. Everybody spawns with what in Halo be viewed as a power weapon (shotty, sniper, fusion), and gun balance isn't that hot either.
I wrote a little while back about real vs. theoretical skill gap, and how it relates to off-map play (loadout selection, for instance). In Destiny, the theoretical skill gap is larger than the real skill gap by a more significant margin than any other FPS I've ever heard of.
GringoSuave89
Banned
I'll be on tomorrow for sure.
my gamertag is GringoSuave89
I was excited for Iron Banner during the beta (enjoyed it then), but now I shutter to imagine the clusterfuck it'll become...
Orochinagis
Member
Normal PvP matches is about getting the first teamfight right so one of your team earn a "super" that can destroy the entire enemy team the second teamfight, let the other members earns supers and get total map control after that, unless your team have a player that let them earn a super and tries to kill everyone, repeat.
So yeah "let the rich get richer" philosophy is pretty strong because some classes can destroy the entire enemy team pretty fast, go back and going into a spree to earn a super again, store it,let your teammates get their super and wel.. the rest if frustration to the other team. Also the winner get pvp tokens to get pvp armor to becomer even better and hard to kill.