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HaloGAF |OT: Anniversary| So fades the great harvest of our betrayal.
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Deputy Moonman
Member
Like big show, I don't care what you guys discuss. Im neither mad nor upset. I was just pointing out that there is a halo lore thread. To each their own.
People are uptight today.
Well I mean it's hard to tell sometimes if it's a joke when people have legitimately complained about it before. This IS the internet where inflections are nonexistent.
MrGreencastle
Member
Seinfeld "I'm out" gifs are hilarious, and a perfectly acceptable and reasonable response to story discussion. I'm not pretending it isn't dense, kinda always has been. I don't blame people for that whatsoever lol
I'm more talking about the posters (I'm not going to single people out here, you know who you are) who complain about it and police every time story discussion occurs in the thread. When people talk or ask questions about the story in this OT, I feel compelled to talk about it, just as I'm compelled to talk about many aspects of Halo in the Halo OT, or otherwise. Same with anyone who decides to post: because they feel compelled to discuss something.
Lately it's story, because it's becoming very interesting right now leading up to a remastered collection of the main games and a freaking Sergio Mimica-Gezzan/Ridley Scott Halo movie thinger, and a novel by a kickass author tying in with Halo 2, one of the best eras of the franchise even from story perspective, etc. All not even including the excitement for the actual games themselves, all in a few months, so
no
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
Fair enough, Greencastle. Like someone else said, if I don't like it I can just scroll past it. What's the point of the Halo Lore Thread then, though?
Enter The 36 Chambers
Member
Playing CE on legendary is the most halo fun I've had in months.
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
Wait till you play the multiplayer online, then you'll change your opinion on [shitty] Halo 3.
This is not a joke.
EDIT:
ODST Gold Legendary Hunters are fun to fight against.
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
Legendary CE is the perfect difficulty. It's challenging, but easy enough to manage without having to result to cheap measures (noob combo over and over and over). Halo 3 and ODST feel great on Legendary, too.
Nirvana
Member
I guess you could say you're breaking the lore in here amirite?
Enter The 36 Chambers
Member
It really is. It's challenging but not cheap. Elite Ai is fucking amazing. Bungie nailed enemy ai in this game.
Its a different thread with a different audience.
No reason his posts can't be here and there.
In this thread, we discuss bananas AND Halo fiction.
MrGreencastle
Member
Strictly to discuss Halo fiction.
So is there any other Halo multiplayer you like?
I mean I loved playing through CE's campaign as it is easily one of the best. The gameplay is really solid and as Chambers said, the AI is brilliant and well balanced.
As far as the multiplayer is concerned, I used to have LAN matches with a few friends and my bros. Many good times have been had so I can't wait to try out everything it has to offer with MCC. I think that there's been a lot of cool additions to the multiplayer though in the sequels.
Do you not like them at all or is it just that they aren't as good?
Jellycrackers
Member
Did I miss something? Was a new novel announced? I want it.
Also, Green, I scroll past most of the technical multiplayer talk but read all of your posts. I'm a lore junkie myself. I also read any posts with the words "Music" or "soundtrack" or "Kazuma"...
MrGreencastle
Member
https://blogs.halowaypoint.com/en-us/blogs/headlines/posts/halo-broken-circle-coming-in-november
And thanks
hopefully I have something fun to add anyway.I feel like they tried to do something similar AI wise with reach. But didn't quite manage to recapture the same balance between challenge and cheap.
NobleGundam
Banned
LOL knew you'd say something
Also, there should be an achievement if you beat Cairo Station on Solo Legendary without using the plasma pistol at all.
I'm pretty sure that's impossible.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Nirvana
Member
If you can get through the first section, you can maybe grab a plasma rifle, kill the Zealot in the second part and use his sword. The bomb room would be a real bitch though, as well as the Jetpack elites in the section beforehand.
I'd say it's doable, but would be incredibly, incredibly frustrating. But hey, as a Vidmaster maybe to unlock Bungie flames in Halo 3
But if you've been here long enough and know me and BigShow then you know it's just jokes. Nothing to get serious about.
I am LIVID
MrGreencastle
Member
How so? I felt like Reach's Elite AI was worse than Halo 3's Brutes, and the encounters/setpieces were way crazier in Halo 3's campaign, even though Reach had more realistic "global" battles going on. I absolutely loved the dodging and movement of the Elites in Reach being more similar to CE's, though, and the shield pop animation is best in Reach I think.
Granted, I'm no AI expert, so it could just be down to the encounter design and set up.
I bet you aren't the only one!
I know you are, baby. I know you are.
HigherLevel
Member
When is 343 gonna drop some more gameplay footage of MP? I haven't really kept up with anything since E3.
MrGreencastle
Member
This weekend I bet at RTX.
Ragnarok Flames
Banned
If you can get through the first section, you can maybe grab a plasma rifle, kill the Zealot in the second part and use his sword. The bomb room would be a real bitch though, as well as the Jetpack elites in the section beforehand.
I'd say it's doable, but would be incredibly, incredibly frustrating. But hey, as a Vidmaster maybe to unlock Bungie flames in Halo 3
Speedrun the First level. All that Sword flying, + Bandana Skull to spam grenades
What else has this guy written? im too lazy to google.https://blogs.halowaypoint.com/en-us/blogs/headlines/posts/halo-broken-circle-coming-in-november
And thanks
Ragnarok Flames
Banned
Kat, was a decent driver.
Poodlestrike
Banned
I seem to recall Reach having decent driving AI.
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
They had other Halo multiplayers? All I played after CE was Backyard Quake and CoD in space.
If you can get through the first section, you can maybe grab a plasma rifle, kill the Zealot in the second part and use his sword. The bomb room would be a real bitch though, as well as the Jetpack elites in the section beforehand.
I'd say it's doable, but would be incredibly, incredibly frustrating. But hey, as a Vidmaster maybe to unlock Bungie flames in Halo 3
How the hell did you guys get past the hangar with like 7 Elites? Did you just spam plasmas every time they came through the air lock? I tried for an hour before just whipping out the PP and bombarding them with plasma.
The GIF wasn't really hard to see as a joke for me. Even if I didn't know you guys I would of assumed it was just ribbing.
However I may have jumped the gun since the other comments didn't have much room to misconstrue them. So I guess my explanation wasn't applicable.
Whoops.
Nirvana
Member
Sword flying was patched out wasn't it? They use prepatch for speedruns don't they? Maybe I'm high. Also Bandana skull will never make its way near my Legendary runs, it's bitch mode.
Ragnarok Flames
Banned
I suffered through Legendary enough, im going to make it easier on myself lol. and i forgot that they patched it out... shit.
Poodlestrike
Banned
It's been... like, forever, but I seem to recall just playing that section over and over and over until I could just nail my grenade placement. That, plus a little luck (one of the Elites hit another one with a plasma) carried the day.
NobleGundam
Banned
Fixed that for ya
https://blogs.halowaypoint.com/en-us/blogs/headlines/posts/halo-broken-circle-coming-in-november
And thanks
I'm not particularly interested in the details of the formative stages of the Covenant - Contact Harvest was quite enough motivation background for me. But I guess I can't stop reading Halo books now. Especially after surviving KFT.
MrGreencastle
Member
http://www.darkecho.com/JohnShirley/jsbiblio.html
I've only read one of his books, City Come A Walkin. A bit dark and violent, but the story is really, really unique. It's from the 80s, so it'll be a bit cheesy at some points because of its technobabble, but it's good scifi - kinda cyberpunk-ish which I guess he is really known for from what I've read. Features a sentient/self-aware San Francisco named City as a main character. I'd say it's a good read if you can handle it. Cyberpunk-style in Halo would be a really fun read. Though thinking about it now, if they're going existential, Broken Circle bringing around Mendicant Bias (or any AI really, or even the Flood) into the forefront again could be really interestingly done... Hmm...
Ragnarok Flames
Banned
Awesome, he wrote a Hellblazer tie-in.
Yeah, that escalated rather quickly. Like the inverse of Halo 4s multiplayer population.
You let the WOMAN drive?
I honestly never had any problem but I didn't let them drive much either
I guess that answers that
...
Sometimes I wonder if we all secretly just hate ourselves. It's like we are encouraging them to put this stuff in.
Hyperbole makes the world go 'round
Havoc2049
Member
But, but you edited my post and just left Halo 3 in there. ;-p
Ya, that was a cool one time deal, but not really a good way to manage DLC and it would require Halo 5: ODST 2, after Halo 5. Maybe that would be cool. ;-)
Ragnarok Flames
Banned
Its not that i think we NEED these things, i mean i love Halo 2's Legendary and i honestly enjoy going through it. but sometimes i just want to coast through it.
Options are not bad. Halo 4 is bad.
Oh yeah I completely agree.
I think having more options can only improve a game. I just think it's funny that we impose these weird challenges on ourselves. I do it all the time. In my recent Legendary run I didn't let a single marine die in some missions which was incredibly stupid because they are made of paper and paste.
Asking for an achievement for it only makes it funnier though.
eazyb is that you
Updated logo from earlier today:
That sounds familiar.
I'd legit green light Live Chamber. That's some nice design going on there.
We should try and compile a Encyclopedia HaloGAFica or something that explains all the common jokes, references, and historical events from HaloGAF so new members can get up to speed and feel more included.
This is, after all, "The Best Community on the Internet" (tm)
Ragnarok Flames
Banned
Just create a Wiki