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« on: March 12, 2015, 05:31:07 PM »
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« on: March 12, 2015, 02:01:50 PM »
Why did I know the thread content would be some Asylum type stuff
More importantly, the movie released in January... think they might've placed this mockbuster in the wrong time [ayy]
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« on: March 12, 2015, 01:50:11 PM »
Absolutely terrible
I'll have a snapshot up soon
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« on: March 12, 2015, 01:25:40 PM »
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« on: March 11, 2015, 11:23:11 PM »
But the New 52 has been discontinued
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« on: March 11, 2015, 10:48:53 PM »
I would hang out with pretty much all of you [never deal in absolutes]
I'd hang out with different people for different reasons though.
And yes Mr. Door I would totally hang out with you
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« on: March 11, 2015, 07:57:05 PM »
You can't fight fire with a nuclear bomb, only more nukes.
Wha
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« on: March 11, 2015, 06:31:01 PM »
Woah, so this is philosophy discussion on the Flood 
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« on: March 11, 2015, 06:03:39 PM »
Tip: Name your variables after chess pieces while coding
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« on: March 11, 2015, 06:02:22 PM »
More importantly they still package milk in cartons lmao
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« on: March 11, 2015, 05:32:49 PM »
Literally the one single exotic I could ever want from the game is The Last Word
Just please someday give me that gun and I'll be happy
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« on: March 08, 2015, 10:15:39 PM »
yo check these digits
Not dubs, better reroll.
so close though
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« on: March 08, 2015, 10:09:39 PM »
yo check these digits
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« on: March 06, 2015, 01:29:48 PM »
Frankie got rekt
Except you forget to realize that H3 beta wasn't pure arena and had longer matches. Halo 5 had 20 million total matches played, which surpasses Reach's recorded beta stats [13 million matches] by 7 million matches, even though Reach's beta had 2.4 million unique players. Remember that Reach was also at the end of the console's lifespan while H5 is on the beginning of a trailing console's too.
People still played Halo 3 and Reach longer, I fail to see how match length is relevant.
Also looking at the Reach beta wiki, it says it allowed silver accounts to run the beta and customize their armor, I'm not sure if that counts into the 2.4 million.
You complete matches faster, so it takes less time to gain a complete experience. 20 matches per player is not a bad statistic at all, given Reach's comparative 5 matches per player [actual stat is apparently 2.7 million players].
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« on: March 06, 2015, 11:34:51 AM »
I mean, 343's got a plan for their story for 30 years
They seriously think they'll stay relevant that long?
I would say the same for Marvel and DC right now
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« on: March 06, 2015, 11:31:34 AM »
Frankie got rekt
Except you forget to realize that H3 beta wasn't pure arena and had longer matches. Halo 5 had 20 million total matches played, which surpasses Reach's recorded beta stats [13 million matches] by 7 million matches, even though Reach's beta had 2.4 million unique players. Remember that Reach was also at the end of the console's lifespan while H5 is on the beginning of a trailing console's too. [Not to get caught in the drama of multiplayer Halo debates again though. Saving my energy for the inevitable lore torment]
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« on: March 04, 2015, 09:12:54 PM »
Quintaglio Ascension Trilogy Halo: New Blood
Spoiler LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL I read the preview, and heard the major spoiler...how many pages is it? Don't feel like buying an e-book though, as much as I love Halo.
200. I doubt most of the people complaining about it have read it outside of the big spoiler.
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« on: March 03, 2015, 07:11:06 PM »
Is it too late to mention that Mickey's parents were Innies or nah
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« on: March 03, 2015, 05:16:25 PM »
Book was great IMO. Rookie decision served its purpose in the story but nullifies something great about ODST. That being said, pretty much everything else about it was great. Dialogue + character interactions/motivations in particular seem like something Staten himself would've written for ODST.
[Though this is from a quick skim]
What does the Rookie's death take away from ODST?
Player control. The Rookie was meant to be a self insert character, and unlike post Marathon Bungie's other efforts with Chief, Six, and Mr./Ms. Guardian, he was done properly. Instead of being a character himself he was a means of exercising player control within the narrative, a "focal point" if you will. Especially complements ODST's Inferno allegory [something I believe Staten paid attention to given "prepare to drop" and Destiny's main themes]. When you give him a future outside of pure reactionaries you take away the agency of the player and wrap the Rookie up in a sort of narrative determinism.
If I were to give you a simpler analogy: Shepard in the control ending to ME3. Ending's are odd, but that's not the point. In the original ending, we just get an instant cutaway. We don't know what happened outside of Shepard gaining control. The path that Shepard takes isn't detailed, so there's no "determined" action that he takes, i.e. anything is possible. Post EC? Shepard is disconnected from player input and goes on some paragon/renegade based galactic tidy up + policing job. Same thing with Rookie over there.
I'm not saying it ruins ODST or anything [or even makes it worse in a big way], but that it takes away an interesting part of the narrative from a metaphysical POV. The death serves its purpose in the story and I'm not mad [especially given 343's approach of attempting to contextualize everything, I should've expected this the second Chief's personality was realized].
343 was the first to characterize the Rookie in Evolutions back in 2009 with the short story Dirt.
Of course, Bungie was the one who made him born on Luna.
I know, I mentioned it in a previous post somewhere. Some slight background details aren't quite so powerful as actively constricting him within a narrative that players aren't experiencing, and obviously killing him off. [Hell, the first part of that sentence is probably the entire theme of Destiny's meta narrative.]
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« on: March 03, 2015, 05:12:22 PM »
1.45
1.73
Some questions are really really silly.
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« on: March 03, 2015, 05:07:32 PM »
Book was great IMO. Rookie decision served its purpose in the story but nullifies something great about ODST. That being said, pretty much everything else about it was great. Dialogue + character interactions/motivations in particular seem like something Staten himself would've written for ODST.
[Though this is from a quick skim]
What does the Rookie's death take away from ODST?
Player control. The Rookie was meant to be a self insert character, and unlike post Marathon Bungie's other efforts with Chief, Six, and Mr./Ms. Guardian, he was done properly. Instead of being a character himself he was a means of exercising player control within the narrative, a "focal point" if you will. Especially complements ODST's Inferno allegory [something I believe Staten paid attention to given "prepare to drop" and Destiny's main themes]. When you give him a future outside of pure reactionaries you take away the agency of the player and wrap the Rookie up in a sort of narrative determinism. If I were to give you a simpler analogy: Shepard in the control ending to ME3. Ending's are odd, but that's not the point. In the original ending, we just get an instant cutaway. We don't know what happened outside of Shepard gaining control. The path that Shepard takes isn't detailed, so there's no "determined" action that he takes, i.e. anything is possible. Post EC? Shepard is disconnected from player input and goes on some paragon/renegade based galactic tidy up + policing job. Same thing with Rookie over there. I'm not saying it ruins ODST or anything [or even makes it worse in a big way], but that it takes away an interesting part of the narrative from a metaphysical POV. The death serves its purpose in the story and I'm not mad [especially given 343's approach of attempting to contextualize everything, I should've expected this the second Chief's personality was realized].
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« on: March 03, 2015, 04:54:08 PM »
He doesn't say "you're a," he says "you..."
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« on: March 03, 2015, 04:51:44 PM »
Book was great IMO. Rookie decision served its purpose in the story but nullifies something great about ODST. That being said, pretty much everything else about it was great. Dialogue + character interactions/motivations in particular seem like something Staten himself would've written for ODST.
[Though this is from a quick skim]
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« on: March 03, 2015, 04:46:24 PM »
People bitch about 343i not explaining the Covenant in Halo 4 but Bungie did the exact same thing in Halo: CE and didn't explain their motivations until 2-3 years after.
Well, Covie motivations didn't have anything to seemingly overwrite back then. They performed their role in the story as a stagnant group of antagonists, allowing the real plot to unfold. Spoiler Anton would kill me, but I'd have preferred it to stay that way and instead focus on the Forerunner/Flood elements of the story. Covenant focus was a misdirection for the Halo series IMO [it's why the truly well written parts of the OT were relegated to H3 terminals]. As I'm sure you can tell, it's also the main reason why I'm attached to the new series.
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« on: March 03, 2015, 04:20:53 PM »
He's the only truly well designed self insert character in the entire Halo series [and Bungie games after MI]. Then again, we're probably not going to get anything quite like ODST in the future. I'd still rather have had the Rookie never mentioned again than have him killed, messes up player agency w/Rookie in ODST. Kind of the same reason why the Control ending in ME3 took a turn for the worse in the EC.
New Blood as a whole was great though.
Yeah, I would have been more than okay with never seeing the cast of ODST again. Their story just feels better that way.
I always wanted to see Buck and the rest of the squad though. They were actual characters- we were just playing through their memories [both in game and in real life- Bungie's cool with meta narrative]- so I don't mind an extension of their stories. I think the second you translate The Rookie into something like a book [or comic, Evolutions' at fault too], where his actions aren't player controlled [or purely reactive] you lose an important part of him as a storytelling device. Like, I guess I'd describe it as sort of narrative determinism restricting agency.
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« on: March 03, 2015, 04:04:59 PM »
He's the only truly well designed self insert character in the entire Halo series [and Bungie games after MI]. Then again, we're probably not going to get anything quite like ODST in the future. I'd still rather have had the Rookie never mentioned again than have him killed, messes up player agency w/Rookie in ODST. Kind of the same reason why the Control ending in ME3 took a turn for the worse in the EC.
New Blood as a whole was great though.
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« on: March 02, 2015, 08:09:55 PM »
That movie was a dream come true.
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« on: March 02, 2015, 07:48:35 PM »
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« on: March 02, 2015, 07:14:14 PM »
Cortana is purple, weapon sandbox is perfect, aim/melee mechanics were perfect, level design is consistently great and open, AI enemies rock and marines don't suck, audiovisuals give off a consistent emotional tone, plot is solid... Original Marathon and Halo CE are the two best games Bungie has ever made [though I haven't played Myth and MI has better multiplayer than M1A1]. @Mordo 
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« on: March 01, 2015, 10:06:54 PM »
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