Spoiler Halo Mega Thread

and well executed.

and people call me the shill

Compare the production value and flow of the story to Halo 4's.

The campaign is a really smooth well oiled machine.

and well executed.

and people call me the shill

Compare the production value and flow of the story to Halo 4's.

The campaign is a really smooth well oiled machine.

fucken what

the campaign tried to do too much at once and achieved almost nothing

>make the franchise just books

lmao

no

Well, they're gonna run out of ideas eventually. They can't keep rehashing the same old multiplayer. So they're gonna try and find new ways to sell it. That's gonna get a little ridiculous over time. And they keep dropping the ball on the campaigns.

You think this is dropping the ball?

Take a gander over at Reach and Halo 3...

Halo 5 may not be the best story in the franchise, but it's competent and well executed.

Oh yeah, I love how the scorpion is literally a rolling piece of shit now. So slow that you can outwalk it. And poor map design leaving bottlenecks so that the damn thing gets cluster fucked or highjacked. At this point it's basically a giant sniper rifle on treads.

Hilarious actually.

Something might be wrong with your controller actually. Scorpions outrun a Spartan sprinting at full speed in Halo 5.

This is on flat terrain. Scorpions are piss poor climbers now. If there's a pebble in the road it's gonna slow down. I've tested it with friends. They barely outrun a Spartan. So any incline whatsoever, and the vehicle is fucked.

If by pebble, you mean large rock, then yes.

Or a hill. A slight incline. Anything that goes up really.

and well executed.

and people call me the shill

Compare the production value and flow of the story to Halo 4's.

okay

now what?

You cheeky cunt. Haha.

Now tell me which one has better narrative flow and a better produced campaign.

Or a hill. A slight incline. Anything that goes up really.

The Scorpion handles as shittily as it has done for years

and well executed.

and people call me the shill

Compare the production value and flow of the story to Halo 4's.

okay

now what?

You cheeky cunt. Haha.

Now tell me which one has better narrative flow and a better produced campaign.

Stop editing your posts then.


Halo 4.
Halo 5 was all over the place for the majority

the campaign tried to do too much at once and achieved almost nothing

and well executed.

and people call me the shill

Compare the production value and flow of the story to Halo 4's.

okay

now what?

You cheeky cunt. Haha.

Now tell me which one has better narrative flow and a better produced campaign.

Stop editing your posts then.


Halo 4.
Halo 5 was all over the place for the majority

the campaign tried to do too much at once and achieved almost nothing

Doesn't really have to do with narrative flow or production value.

Too much at once though? Never got that feeling.

Doing too much at once does affect narrative flow, though.

A lot.

Doing too much at once does affect narrative flow, though.

A lot.

Like I said though I'm not getting this "too much stuff".

I'd actually argue Halo 4 tried to do too much. More so than any other Halo really.

Hunting Blue Team
Cortana
The civil war
The Guardians
AI revolt

It's all a jumbled clusterfuck and jumps around between them.
Fucking Brian Reed a shit.

Then there's the actual important stuff that the game needed but fails to actually go into. Like The Domain, Blue Team development, and the entire 'Next 72 Hours' Escalation arc.

Or a hill. A slight incline. Anything that goes up really.

The Scorpion handles as shittily as it has done for years

Aha. Halo 3 scorpion was best. That thing could fucking climb I tell you what. I remember camping on a rock wall on Vallhalla at the back of the base, being able to see across the entire map because I was parked so high, almost at a 90% vertical angle.

They can't keep rehashing the same old multiplayer.

Tell that to the Halo 2 & 3 community

And they keep dropping the ball on the campaigns.

Keep implies multiple.
Halo 4's was great.

From a gameplay perspective Halo 4's campaign rehashed a bunch of missions from Reach, and the levels were incredibly linear and snaking. Then there's the Prometheans and Covie AI getting downgraded. There were good moments, but I wouldn't call it great.

I got bored so in big team I have been writing profanities on all the walls and ramps with bullets lol

Hunting Blue Team
Cortana
The civil war
The Guardians
AI revolt

It's all a jumbled clusterfuck and jumps around between them.
Fucking Brian Reed a shit.

Then there's the actual important stuff that the game needed but fails to actually go into. Like The Domain, Blue Team development, and the entire 'Next 72 Hours' Escalation arc.

Right, except they're all directly tied together.

Hunting Blue Team reveals the nature of Cortana
The nature of Cortana makes them realize they need the Guardian on Sanghelios (hence Civil War)
The Guardian on Sanghelios leads to the truth behind the Guardians
The truth behind the Guardians reveals why Cortana is calling them (Created Mantle)

The goal of the game through every stage is always related to Blue Team or Cortana. The game doesn't suddenly just switch to Osiris focusing on ending the Blooding Years, they're still after Blue Team. It's a back drop to the true point of the story (Hunting Chief and what it means for him to be a hero), just like how all the various events in Halo 4 serve as a background to the true purpose of Halo 4 (Chief and Cortana's relationship).

I agree, it would have been nice if they delved into the Domain a bit more, but for what the game needed to do, it explained it adequately, and the audio logs provide intrigue for fans of the lore. TN72H is completely irrelevant to Halo 5's plot and would have served literally no purpose being explained in the game. Lack of Blue Team development I can agree with, but at the same time, from a lore perspective, there's not much to develop. They've all been on the same page for ~30 years.

Blaming Brian Reed for Halo 5's story issues are silly and immature. He's not the sole person dictating the direction or dialogue of the story. You've got Vociferous, Frank O'Connor, Symantha Reagor, Jeff Easterling, and Morgan Lockhart to name the writers at 343i I'm familiar with. Any perceived slack or lack of quality that Reed has is going to be scrutinized and talked about extensively by the rest of the writing and story team (for Halo 5). Same goes for everyone else involved.

Reed being the main person responsible for 343i's story shortcomings is a fucking autistic-tier meme in the same skein as blame the Jews.

 

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On a lighter note...

I got bored so in big team I have been writing profanities on all the walls and ramps with bullets lol

Does big team have only one map?

Because I've played on that god awful fucking ugly ass snowy map for the billionth time already and I want to gouge my fucking eyes out whenever it comes up.

Like fuck me that's an ugly map. Plays like shit too.

well I for one really enjoy Halo 5 multiplayer purely just because I can finally match with only other Australians and not be stuck in teleport slayer

I got bored so in big team I have been writing profanities on all the walls and ramps with bullets lol

Does big team have only one map?

Because I've played on that god awful fucking ugly ass snowy map for the billionth time already and I want to gouge my fucking eyes out whenever it comes up.

Like fuck me that's an ugly map. Plays like shit too.

there's 3-4

well I for one really enjoy Halo 5 multiplayer purely just because I can finally match with only other Australians and not be stuck in teleport slayer

What, you don't like playing as a promethian?

I got bored so in big team I have been writing profanities on all the walls and ramps with bullets lol

Does big team have only one map?

Because I've played on that god awful fucking ugly ass snowy map for the billionth time already and I want to gouge my fucking eyes out whenever it comes up.

Like fuck me that's an ugly map. Plays like shit too.

4 maps

one from Halo 2

one from Halo 3

some shit that's supposed to be longbow from Halo 4 but is literaly nothing even close to it

and some kind of valhalla reimagining

all have shit spawns

I got bored so in big team I have been writing profanities on all the walls and ramps with bullets lol

Does big team have only one map?

Because I've played on that god awful fucking ugly ass snowy map for the billionth time already and I want to gouge my fucking eyes out whenever it comes up.

Like fuck me that's an ugly map. Plays like shit too.

4 maps

one from Halo 2

one from Halo 3

some shit that's supposed to be longbow from Halo 4 but is literaly nothing even close to it

and some kind of valhalla reimagining

all have shit spawns

All they all forge maps like the snowy one?

Is Halo 5 good?

I got bored so in big team I have been writing profanities on all the walls and ramps with bullets lol

Does big team have only one map?

Because I've played on that god awful fucking ugly ass snowy map for the billionth time already and I want to gouge my fucking eyes out whenever it comes up.

Like fuck me that's an ugly map. Plays like shit too.

4 maps

one from Halo 2

one from Halo 3

some shit that's supposed to be longbow from Halo 4 but is literaly nothing even close to it

and some kind of valhalla reimagining

all have shit spawns

All they all forge maps like the snowy one?

They are forge maps although you'd swear the Halo 2 one wasn't

I got bored so in big team I have been writing profanities on all the walls and ramps with bullets lol

Does big team have only one map?

Because I've played on that god awful fucking ugly ass snowy map for the billionth time already and I want to gouge my fucking eyes out whenever it comes up.

Like fuck me that's an ugly map. Plays like shit too.

4 maps

one from Halo 2

one from Halo 3

some shit that's supposed to be longbow from Halo 4 but is literaly nothing even close to it

and some kind of valhalla reimagining

all have shit spawns

All they all forge maps like the snowy one?

They are forge maps although you'd swear the Halo 2 one wasn't

FUCKING DROPPED

well I for one really enjoy Halo 5 multiplayer purely just because I can finally match with only other Australians and not be stuck in teleport slayer

And then you play the PC halos and warp horrendously at 30 ping and above

My favorite thing is how they just threw the Genesong into the trash and didn't even acknowledge it.
Between Escalations godawful ending and this it almost feels like we've gone nowhere...even backwards in some places.

I wonder if Staten is going to implement another erotic section into his upcoming piece of work.

I wonder if Staten is going to implement another erotic section into his upcoming piece of work.

Contact Harvest was damn near perfect up until that scene.

JOE STATEN IS THE HERO WE NEED

Is Halo 5 good?

The campaign is fun enough to play, but the story isn't all that great and I wouldn't say there's much replay value in it past the intel/ skulls (There's 117 audio logs to pick up and skulls are hidden again). The co-op mode is fun, too, and it's nowhere near as laggy as the original games' co-op. I've rarely encountered any lag in H5 co op.

The gameplay itself is alright. The movement stuff is fun to use, but the multiplayer maps are near universally bad. Half of the arena maps are either forge maps or slightly changed versions of other maps, and there's only three warzone maps and only one of them is anywhere near decent. There's warzone assault, which is kind of like invasion but with just capture zones and I'd recommend that over regular warzone. All future content is free, though.

The REQ system is overblown. It isn't pay to win. Regardless of how many scorpion tanks you have, you won't be calling in any if you/ your team are doing bad. But it rapidly becomes a rich-get-richer system in the games as once your team starts doing good, you call in the big guns and that's pretty much game over for everyone else. If you plan on playing arena almost exclusively, you can pretty much sell all your weapon/ vehicle cards and then just get more packs quicker.

There's no forge yet, and custom games are restricted to arena gametypes on arena maps (no infection or anything like that),so there isn't much replay value if forge/ customs is your thing. Even though the forge maps play terrible, I'm impressed with the changes they've made to forge, and it does look like it will be incredible when it releases in december.

In it's current state, I wouldn't recommend it. It's like destiny at launch, fun enough gameplay but gets stale very quickly. There's not enough content to satisfy a full-priced purchase yet.