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[Borys]

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[thisismyusername]

Guess that CBOAT post in the Halo thread was on the money. 

That said I've been out of the series since Reach. Just never did anything for me but the series has kinda been on a decline since Bungie left. And I'm not just talking the games 343 put out. I'm talking the comics, anime and stuff 343 is doing.

[thisismyusername]

I hate expanded universes in games anyway. Whether it's Halo or Mass Effect or whatever. Besides, Bungie made Halo 2 and that game sucked.

Single-player? Yes. Multiplayer? Well that's a matter of debate ( @ you )

60 fps as well.

http://i1.wp.com/pixelenemy.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/15.png

Shahid continues to hype things that he really doesn't know about.  :'(

[Purple Filth]

60 fps as well.

(Image removed from quote.)

you mean the indie games guy? of course he wants 1080p/60 from those games.


As for this news, another Halo i need to catch up on even though i heard 4 was not great 

[AdmiralViscen]

Looking forward to the 180 when they flip the cover art to put chief on top after fans flip out

[magus]

e3 hasn't even started and i already hate it

[Brehvolution]

[a slime appears]

What's with the hate, Halo is good stuff.

Curious that Microsoft is announcing this waaaaay ahead of schedule though. That makes me optimistic for their E3 announcements.

[Tasty]

Finally adding subtitles now, eh? Official sign of milkage.

[Trent Dole]

Panic MS is best MS?

[Rahxephon91]

Panic MS is best MS?

More Halo is panic MS? This is just regular MS.

Lost Odyssey 2. Now that's panic.

[recursivelyenumerable]

I will probably not be working on this

[brob]

me neither. hi5

[recursivelyenumerable]

I should make a Not Working on Halo 5 |OT| for people to get hyped about not working on Halo 5.

[Himu]

Still waiting for Blue Dragon 2.

[Purple Filth]

Apparently the new person is a dude

[Great Rumbler]

Apparently the new person is a dude

 

[Purple Filth]

https://twitter.com/JoshingtonState/statuses/467343003385098240

For everyone speculating about the mysterious Spartan in Halo 5: Guardians, he’s not Palmer (or Cortana!). He’s a NEW character. #Halo

Apparently the new person is a dude

 

Another chance of a possibly good female main character is lost again

[thisismyusername]

Still waiting for Blue Dragon 2.

Never gonna happen. Stop trying to make it happen.

(Or play the DS games since that's basically what you want)

[a slime appears]

me neither. hi5

[bork]

What's with the hate, Halo is good stuff.

Bungie Halo, sure.  343 Halo 

[Himu]

Panic MS is best MS?

More Halo is panic MS? This is just regular MS.

Lost Odyssey 2. Now that's panic.

While I loved Lost Odyssey, making a good sequel wouldn't be cause they're panicking, it wouldn't sell that well to help anyway.

A lot of the Japanese games early in 360 life is why I bought one in the first place. I dint think that 360 would nearly have been as successful early on without the diversity it had in its first few hears if life, despite some individual titles (Blue Dragon) not selling well. This lack of variety is already hurting the xbone, including the price. It is westaboo after westaboo title.

[Trent Dole]

Oh yeah, Katamari and EDF are a big part of what pushed me towards a 360. There ain't much for the Juan to look forward to from the weeb perspective.

[Himu]

It all falls in line with what we talked about in the sales thread. B games and non mainstream titles used to sustain the early years of consoles before the big guns came out. Even if they only sold 1 million units or so, as is the case with Lost Odyssey, that's still one million users for your platform. Which, early on, counts. And Xbone in particular is lacking any kind of software diversity.

[Phoenix Dark]

So why was Halo 4 considered bad? Never played it but I notice it got really negative reactions from friends, whereas they liked Reach.

[Raban]

because 343 isn't Bungie, they aren't nearly as talented as Bungie, and Halo 4 gets rid of nearly all the things that made Halo a remarkable shooter in pursuit of making it more generic for some unknown reason.

[thisismyusername]

So why was Halo 4 considered bad? Never played it but I notice it got really negative reactions from friends, whereas they liked Reach.

Perks and Killstreaks, mostly. Killstreaks here are "ordinances" and slightly tweaked. Halo, for the fanbase (and logical reasons) is not Call of Duty. Shoe-horning in CoD-like functions doesn't make the series better. It's like making Quake 3 Arena-style/arena shooters into a third person cover shooter. It's not what I go to that series for.

[bork]

I also hated the multiplayer map designs in 4.  Was so incredibly turned off by that game that it killed Halo for me, although to be fair I lost a lot of interest with Reach, too.

[Beezy]

I hated the low number of multiplayer match types in Halo 4. They didn't have multi team matches at all either. Just red vs. blue every time.

[Diunx]

[Rahxephon91]

At the end of the day the reason I did'nt play Halo 4 online is because of the distinguished mentally-challenged and archaic matchmaking. Maybe it made since pack during Halo 2(though I don't remember having problems with it past day 1), but now I hate it. I could'nt simply play what I wanted. I just wanted to play objective(more so just CTF) big team battle and the game wouldn't allow me.

I could play a random assortment of small objective maps which would then mean I was just playing on the same two maps over and over. Oh and maybe I would'nt even be playing CTF.

I could try BTB, but let me tell you it was mostly Slayer that would be voted on.

Till this day I never played CTF on a few of the maps the game shipped with. The big maps that I wanted to play CTF on.

It was horrible and I dropped Halo 4 out of frustration.

[a slime appears]

343's Frank O'Connor is out there whining about leaks and I'm assuming it's directed towards CBOAT and possibly the Master Chief collection leak as well.

"Breaking embargoes is not prophesy. Nor does it require any particular skill or insight. Ultimately [leakers are] taking or being given information and leaking it, illegally and often erroneously," O'Connor said. "People, including nice people with kids and families and stuff, work super hard on this stuff and wake up in the morning to find some of their effort blown up."

I get where he's coming from but he should take a step back and try to understand that handling video games as top-secret information and then sharing it with "embargo" caveats is frankly connter-intuitive. Although the leaks may not be journalist-related (CBOAT seems like an insider) but people outside the company shouldn't be treated as extensions of your marketing department so don't share that shit until you're ready to go public. If you're not sharing it and the leak comes from an insider then clearly you fucked up and hired the wrong people so don't go about airing your dirty laundry.

[Diunx]

yeah why wont anyone think of the people with kids and families and stuff that work super hard?

[Trent Dole]

The hell is there to leak about Halo anyway? Ima prophesize on dis shit maself. ...I forsee you playing as a green fuck who pilots a few different vehicles and maybe even flies a jet pack or some shit and you shoot lots of what a 12 year olds idea of menacing aliens would be cause that's what every fucking Halo ever is basically.

[Huff]

the cboat picture of the defenders movie was pretty funny and didn't leak or spoil anything. not sure what hes mad about

[Cheddahz]

multiplayer leak

http://i.gyazo.com/c8266004805e6f1e75f9eb065ca796de.mp4

[iconoclast]

  Whelp, guess I'm back to not giving a single fuck about Halo 5. At least we'll be able to play 1, 2, and 3 online for the rest of the gen. 343 just doesn't learn.

[toku]

Don't think this is a bad thing at all. Stay living in 2003 brehs. Even CoD adopted alternate movement methods. Even Bungie adopted ADS.

[Purple Filth]

 

apparently ADS is also on the assault rifle also which could indicate everything else is getting it.

[Positive Touch]

don't give a shit what the old-school fans say, halol 4 was a solid game. would like to play this but dunno if I'll ever have a Xbox one.

[bork]

Whelp, guess I'm back to not giving a single fuck about Halo 5. At least we'll be able to play 1, 2, and 3 online for the rest of the gen. 343 just doesn't learn.

Halo 1 has also the PC version bugs plus no dedicated playlist at launch.  They fucked that up, too. 

343 

don't give a shit what the old-school fans say, halol 4 was a solid game. would like to play this but dunno if I'll ever have a Xbox one.

It sucked.  First time I ever wanted to stop playing a Halo game and go play CoD instead.

[MCD]

can I play coop campaign with my buddies? yes?

all that matters to me. lol multi.

[dmj]

HaLOL continues to morph into a poor man's CoD without the CoD formula.  Good. No need to pick up an XBOX ONE for this now. 

[iconoclast]

Crisis semi-averted? If ADS is simply a cosmetic replacement for the standard zoom, it's fine. But it's probably too late for them to drop sprint, since they have to design the maps around it. The spartan abilities killed Reach for me.

Halo 1 has also the PC version bugs plus no dedicated playlist at launch.  They fucked that up, too. 

343 

The 2v2 playlist is coming at least. I don't mind them holding out on that until they've got the netcode (?) ironed out, which probably won't take too long. I hope they'll fix the bugs though.

[Stoney Mason]

don't give a shit what the old-school fans say, halol 4 was a solid game. would like to play this but dunno if I'll ever have a Xbox one.

I'm the same. The hardcore fans want nothing to change and for them to simply keep remaking Halo 2 over and over again and call it halo 6,7,8,9, etc. They have that perfect right to want that but things change.

That being said, I'm not a hardcore guy in the sense that halo is the only shooter I play.

[AdmiralViscen]

Halo 2 was supposed to have sprint and Halo Reach did have sprint so I don't know why 343 is blamed for that.

[Cheddahz]

Halo 2 was supposed to have sprint and Halo Reach did have sprint so I don't know why 343 is blamed for that.

BECAUSE HALO 2 IS A GODDAMN MASTERPIECE AND EVEN THOUGH I'LL BE ABLE TO PLAY HALO 2 ON MY XBOX ONE, I CAN'T BELIEVE 343 IS SHOOTING THEMSELVES IN THE FOOT WITH THIS

[Cheddahz]

[Stoney Mason]

Full match at 1 hour 2 minutes

[Sho Nuff]

That is a very glowy sword

[toku]

Looks hot!

[Cheddahz]

halo 5 looks dope and i can't wait to not live in 2003 forever

[Stoney Mason]

[iconoclast]

The vidoc, full matches, and impressions from top players (Gandhi) all looked and sounded pretty good to me. It's quite a bit different from classic Halo, but it sounds like they're trying to be careful about balancing all of the new abilities to keep the game competitive. As long as map control is still important - which it sounds like it should be, as power weapons are on a set timer ala Halo 1 - then I think it will be fine. One thing that I only saw Gandhi mention is that the aim magnetism seems closer to Halo 1's than any of the sequels, which is great.

[Cheddahz]

i watched some of the halo 5 multiplayer footage and yeah, it looks dope

[Beezy]

As long as matchmaking is good and you're able to choose any stage in multiplayer at anytime unlike in Halo 4, I'm there.

[toku]

Gotta love the YT comments filled with ppl bitching about automatic call outs.

[Take My Breh Away]

Mobility reminds me more of the move from UT to UT 2K4 than COD. Especially since there's penalties to the enhanced movement like no shield regen and startup/recovery frames. UT 2K4 did the same as if you got hit while in a double tap dodge. You'd take additional damage and a rocket/Flak cannon blast/Shock Rifle combo could be an instant kill instead of a buttload of a damage/pushback.

I'm not really seeing the COD comparisons outside of ADS

[Stoney Mason]

The dashing stuff and the ground pound seem very similar to cod. The initial promotional video for this and COD AW seem fairly similar.



That being said, the time to kill is very different than COD. Power weapons being on the map is very different than COD. And how the games actually feel when you ads and shoot are still very different even when people use Halo 4 as the example of the codification of Halo.

I think this was just the next step of evolution that multiple big shooters happened to arrive at, at the same time.

[AdmiralViscen]

As long as matchmaking is good and you're able to choose any stage in multiplayer at anytime unlike in Halo 4, I'm there.

You've never been able to choose maps in matchmaking so don't count on that. I can't remember the last console game with a server browser. Killzone 2? Gears 1?