Spoiler Halo Mega Thread

Psy loves Linda

To tell you the truth fuck Halo 5. Why play that game when you can watch Food Fight instead. Now that's a great movie with the best animation around.

To tell you the truth fuck Halo 5. Why play that game when you can watch Food Fight instead. Now that's a great movie with the best animation around.

hahaha

YES

It's arrived

I'm going to ply campaign then install the multiplayer update later on

I'll play with you, xbox gotta finish updating

YES

It's arrived

I'm going to ply campaign then install the multiplayer update later on

I'll play with you, xbox gotta finish updating

I'm playing offline

I'm not waiting over twelve hours to install an update that doesn't affect the campaign. I'll do it when I go to bed tonight.

YES

It's arrived

I'm going to ply campaign then install the multiplayer update later on

I'll play with you, xbox gotta finish updating

I'm playing offline

I'm not waiting over twelve hours to install an update that doesn't affect the campaign. I'll do it when I go to bed tonight.

Ah right, you got plebian internet.

YES

It's arrived

I'm going to ply campaign then install the multiplayer update later on

I'll play with you, xbox gotta finish updating

I'm playing offline

I'm not waiting over twelve hours to install an update that doesn't affect the campaign. I'll do it when I go to bed tonight.

Ah right, you got plebian internet.

My dl is in the kilobytes

Yes.

I just bought it. It's in my bag but I don't get home for another 5 hours

I'm not on, and neither is anybody else it seems. So for spartan companies,  will you see every member in the game roster like if they were your friends?

Just asked my brother to start the update while I'm at school, hopefully it'll be done when I get home, but I still wont be able to play it even then .

Holy shit.... what's that on top of the assault rifle?

Holy shit.... what's that on top of the assault rifle?

That, my friend, is my sniper scope

Holy shit.... what's that on top of the assault rifle?

That, my friend, is my sniper scope

On an Assault Rifle? FUCK

We got Halo 5 today. Did all the updates and such. I wasn't going to play it. But now I might. I'm a big fan of the assault rifle.

Oh hey I get a statue with my limited ed-

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oh

Just saying, those Metal Earth kits are too damn hard to build. Break a piece and you're fucked.

I preloaded the game when I got it digitally. Last night it wouldn't work at all, woke up this morning and it's completely reinstalling the game again.

greeeeeeeeeeeeat

just finished installing

Digital preload worked fine for me.
Waiting for my friend to get the game, so I'm sticking to multiplayer. They did a damn great job.

I just bought it. It's in my bag but I don't get home for another 5 hours

just finished installing

Keep the updates coming fam.

just done the first mission
chief is literally best girl

Starting SP now. Played 2 Matches of Arena. SWAT. It was so smooth. And so fun. Only problem was the faggots quitting, so it became 4v2, but we still won lol.

first mp game of warzone and im top of the leader board
*boypussy intensifies*

The Rig is frustrating as fuck.

Having finished the campaign, here are my thoughts. From a perspective of a guy who knows the lore well. Major spoilers below.

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Overall, pretty satisfying. I can see a lot of stuff that will confuse your average fan, but that wasn't a problem for me. Nonetheless, they ought to cover topics like the Mantle more in-depth in the game - a Mass Effect style codex for the major topixs would be welcome.

As for the story itself, certainly a mixed bag. Overall, the plot is a cohesive nareative that makes sense, and there are certainly no characters I dislike bar one (I'll explain in a minute). In particular,Exuberant (The new monitor) and the Warden are very much characters I enjoyed interacting with, their dialogue and voice acting is top notch.

The only major complaint I really have is the reincarnation of cortana. Whilst I certainly enjoyed having her as the antagonist rather than the protagonist (Which was certainly refreshing and unexpected), I dislike the conxept of her return. I was wholeheartedly wanting and expecting her to be the domain using her image to get to John, but nope. Either way, I'm impressed with the route they took regarding her and while it's not how I would have done it, I'm certainly not majorly opposed to it. With a lot of recent media focusing on AI (Such as Saint's Testimony), it's a logical direction to take. And it ties well into the central themes of the Reclaimer Saga.

However, there are some things I'm not too thrilled about, though only the first is anything major.

-Jul being killed off as he was is honestly a waste of a pretty good character. Having seen his character through Glasslands,Thursday War, Spartan Ops and Escalation, it annoys me how he's just sort of killed at the start of the game and that's it.
-Cortana's appearance. Ew.
-Thel deserved more screen time
-The abrupt ending cliffhanger. This is worse than Halo 2's ending, quite frankly. While I'm not doubting it's effect on the plot, it's just a dick move to make us wait until 2018, presuming a three year dev cycle
-the ending is really anticlimactic. It's not like,say Halo 4 where you have a clear 'final battle' kind of feel. You just sort of kill some stuff as normal in the last mission before the final cutscene begins. Very underwhelming.

There are a lot of things I enjoyed about the campaign, but I'm too lazy to write them here. So despite only talking about the negatives, tbis easily goes into my top 3 stories of the series. Right next to Halos 4 and ODST

Funny shit right here

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One of the Elites fell in love with Sarah Palmer

Psy loves Linda

NANI

But srsly snipers = <3

We almost finished it but LC is a gook and he left us at the altar.

First impressions are as follows

Some minor story spoilers but nothing major, you can probably read this and not have anything ruined

Prometheans are less tiresome to fight, but still the most irritating enemies in anything ever.
Covie weapons are still on the whole - completely shite
Music is weird, like a remix of previous halp games
UNSC weapons stronk, me likey
Story is alright, not as bad as some people might think but still a bit 'oh alright then'
Descope can get hit by a bus, jesus christ that shit is annoying.
The warden can also get run over by every truck and car that exists
The warden's 50000000 friends can also join them
I like that the levels are less eye-rape than Halp 4 I've managed aboot 10 hours solid without dying today.
Squad banter is good
Locke is more tolerable than I thought he'd be
Palmer is notably less grating
Halsey is still hitler hurrhurr
and uh
Legendary is a pain, but doable provided you aren't fatigued to all hell.

Fun game though, I think I might forgib the atrocity of halp 4 with this game.

So like

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I just saw Cortana

Fucking ew

We almost finished it but LC is a gook and he left us at the altar.

First impressions are as follows

Some minor story spoilers but nothing major, you can probably read this and not have anything ruined

Prometheans are less tiresome to fight, but still the most irritating enemies in anything ever.
Covie weapons are still on the whole - completely shite
Music is weird, like a remix of previous halp games
UNSC weapons stronk, me likey
Story is alright, not as bad as some people might think but still a bit 'oh alright then'
Descope can get hit by a bus, jesus christ that shit is annoying.
The warden can also get run over by every truck and car that exists
The warden's 50000000 friends can also join them
I like that the levels are less eye-rape than Halp 4 I've managed aboot 10 hours solid without dying today.
Squad banter is good
Locke is more tolerable than I thought he'd be
Palmer is notably less grating
Halsey is still hitler hurrhurr
and uh
Legendary is a pain, but doable provided you aren't fatigued to all hell.

Fun game though, I think I might forgib the atrocity of halp 4 with this game.

LC was bad

BAD

you were good though

I've been watching you three since 4pm >.>

How long did it take you? I'm on mission seven at the moment.