Much better than the CEA remasters. Tom Salta's heavy percussion works so well with H2 [especially with Leonidas Suite]. Librarian's Gift is pretty much everything I could ever want from a Flood track. That being said, I can't help but feel that Broken Gates pt. 1's choir is a bit too pronounced.

The one complaint I have is that Heavy Price Paid sounds like the song is literally crying in pain at how bad it is compared to the original, but other than that I love the album overall.

The hype train for DAI made one of the biggest Bioware fans I know [like one who passionately defended the ME3 ending] lose hope in the company as a whole.

I think I'll stay away from the series for a bit.

Finally, someone else who understands.

CE > ODST > 2 > 4 > Reach >= 3

Granted, I'm always looking at things from a lore perspective, so this looks more, and more like how I envisioned the universe.

Moa is still totally right though [I think he was the one making the argument]. This would all make 72 times more sense if it was VR. Right now there are some pretty intense disconnects between gameplay and the real explanation.

PS we totally need a map built for Cobra. Call it "Doctor" and have the special Prophet's Bane power weapon be a pistol that only disintegrates arms.

It's not the Halo I know anymore. It's a cool looking shooter, but it'll require me to play it before I accept it as a Halo game. I accepted Halo 4, day one, for still retaining classic Halo gunplay underneath all of the classes/specialization garbage. Here? Gameplay just doesn't seem to flow the same way as it did before, and it feels like something completely different. Perhaps I might enjoy it, but I'm skeptical.

That being said some complaints I've been hearing [as always with the complaints leveled at 343] are ridiculously off base. Specifically the ones about smart scope and "it's basically CoD!"

"Smart scope = broken game." I thought this too [you should have seen me raging at the Archive] until I saw the videos. Smart scope is there for a reason, and that was apparent to me the moment I watched the game in action: Quinn wants to remove auto aim/aim assist from Halo. Instead of having the traditional lock on auto aim we now have ADS for better precision.

"They're copying AW!" So... you're telling me their design philosophy for a game which 343 formally announced May of this year was influenced by... a game which was formally announced May of this year? And perhaps more importantly, the implementation of movement here is conceptually very different. AW is still a twitch shooter, just with more ways to get to the "twitching." Same goes for Titanfall, actually.

Like, if you look at the Vidoc and specifically at the part near the end where Quinn brags about killing a pro player, you see a player chaining his parkour abilities to form some next level strafe [which is quickly brought down by someone with sharp aim- and someone who's hip firing at that]. Movement and kill times seem to be built specifically to add into the golden triangle and help in actual gun engagements, and not to just affect map flow.

"But Goji, fast kill times => Call of Duty!" Fast kill times are fantastic for Halo PROVIDED they are difficult to pull off [as evidenced by CE]. "0.6 second TSK? Yeah that's fine, perfectly Halo. ~1.0 second FSK? Oh yeah CoD confirmed... ?"

Basically:

-I think the game looks weird. Certainly not mai Halo at a first glance
-Smart scope is intriguing
-Game seems to play nothing like CoD, or twitch based shooters as a whole
-Well, I just wasted like 5 minutes of my life typing this up

Pirpir's avatar makes me laugh whenever I see it

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Awww

Gonna watch it soon! My taste in modern blockbusters is usually off from like literally every person on the entire planet so...

it disappointed me about as much as gravity did (a lot). the plot didn't make much sense, the physics were COMPLETELY FUCKING WRONG, and the "professionals" that run the space program were incompetent and irrational idiots. also, it was 3 hours long.

2/10, would not recommend.

Damn, surprised the physics were wrong considering the film advanced the science behind black holes.

I'm no physicist, so I'm just gonna sit there watching a cool effects show with a hard sci fi tone. What interests me most is the philosophical talk about the third act of the movie though. Apparently it's 2001-y [And HOLD IT: nobody's talking quality, just in tone/scope].

the last 20 minutes of it felt like a desperate attempt to compete with 2001 (it failed miserably, imo).

Well Mr. Silent Era did say that 2001 would be a massive influence

Also what parts of the physics were off in particular? Just curious, good to know before CinemaSins brings NDT back on to wreck it XD

Quote from: Septy on November 06, 2014, 10:06:32 PM

So they discovered Earth in 2551 and yet they wait until 2552 to invade Earth?

The fuck?

It took them a while to access the Luminary's information.

Betting on even more complications than that actually. We've still got like, what, 11 terminals to go? Highly doubt they'd just drop the storyline right there.

Awww

Gonna watch it soon! My taste in modern blockbusters is usually off from like literally every person on the entire planet so...

Satireposts are the beeest

Quote from: GodspeedGojira! on November 05, 2014, 10:33:00 AM

Spoiler

mfw I'm never on plug because I dislike almost all the music that gets played there

but it becomes a constant struggle because I love you people

How can you dislike almost all of the music played there when every genre gets played?

I have the weirdest taste in music ever.