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1531
« on: December 11, 2016, 04:51:03 AM »
So me and my friend managed to make halo 5 fun last night by making a gametype with H2 BR, no spartan abilities (inc. Sprint) and some classic maps to play on.
Probably because it's not H5.
Cause that's what Halo is supposed to be
Yeah. Playing team slayer on Sandtrap and The Pit really revived a lot of why I liked Halo in the first place.
1532
« on: December 11, 2016, 03:21:20 AM »
So me and my friend managed to make halo 5 fun last night by making a gametype with H2 BR, no spartan abilities (inc. Sprint) and some classic maps to play on.
Probably because it's not H5.
1533
« on: December 10, 2016, 06:58:33 AM »
With all the circlejerking around it, I've been avoiding picking it up. The obnoxious fanbase has put me off wanting to play it.
I guess I understand now why verb hated and refused to play Halo for the longest time.
1534
« on: December 10, 2016, 06:54:42 AM »
It's six man teams
Wouldn't that be the whole population of the game, or did this game end up being more successful than the first?
The game's population has been growing since release.
1535
« on: December 09, 2016, 01:36:53 AM »
Retard, I've been highly enthusiastic about games as it's own thing since before I was posting as BiggestToddHowardFan69. I enjoy the subject for it's own sake and because I'm fucking great at it. In the post I made detailing some history, I talked about the major contributions of old skool games developers. I like how you deliberately ignored that. In other posts here I've talked favorably about designers as well, and not even obscure ones either, my favourite of all designers that aren't Sean Murray or Peter Molyneux, is Todd Howard. Todd Howard literally created the very foundations of all games development by himself just for the hell of it.
So yeah, misinterpret my every word in order to feel smug about something you don't understand, it's cool, you're just like challenger then.
1536
« on: December 08, 2016, 11:30:34 AM »
4 is literally irrelevant
1) Killed off Cortana - just to revive her in the next game.
2) Introduce a new leader of the covenant who opposes the Arbiter (with three novels revolving around him + Spartan Ops) - kills him in the next game, in a fkn cutscene.
3) Get MC to 'face his humanity' and think about stuff - do not talk about it in the next game, don't even show how MC and Blue team re-united. I really think it would have been an amazing cutscene to see John's old friends welcome him back. (I know it was done in escalations, but c'mon. If Osiris got a cool intro, why not blue team?)
4) Fight Didact and make him go away - kill him off in a comic
5) Prometheans are controlled by Didact, Didact is dead, why are Prometheans still hostile towards humans?
Its like Halo 4 did not even happen.
What was the reason for Halo 4 and the books becoming irrelevant? Did 343 decide to change the direction of the story with Halo 5(Just like Bungie changing the Forerunner's from being human in CE, to them being their own thing) or were they running out off time with Halo 5 which resulted in the OG story being scraped for the half assed thing we have now?
If the "leaks" are true, a bunch of factors:
-Microsoft wanting Cortana dead in H4 so they could release Cortana siri thing and not have it associated with a game character. This backfired massively so Microsoft decided they should bring Cortana back in H5 to keep sales up.
-Similar to the backfiring thing from Cortana, Spartan Ops was being used to experiment with introducing new Spartans to replace MC, as Steve Downes wants to retire from voice acting. Everyone hated Majestic and Co. Along with SpOps in general so that forced the creation of anew group (Osiris) and a series of comics created to cut all ties to SpOps out of the canon (Escalation). Also why Jul was killed in Mission 1 and Halsey's "revenge" forgotten.
-Halo 5 was originally pitched as a spin off game focusing on Locke and co hunting MC in an open world style game very similar to ODST, only with multiple hubs and a larger role for Artemis. Closer to what was advertised (and concept art of infinity hub and stuff supports this). MS changed it so it would be a main game and this, combined with the points above, pretty much caused the atrocity we got.
TLDR: Backlash from a bunch of stuff in Halo 4 meant MS wanted all ties to that stuff gone.
I can link the video I got this from if you want. It seems pretty believable and in line with what we do know.
i am so sick of this shit happening to games man
publishers FUCK off
That's just campaign. According to the same leak: -MS wanted an esports scene for Halo because that's the thing the cool kids are doing. This backlashed for casual players who now had the majority of fan favourite gametypes like Infection, Assault, Grifball and even Forge missing from the game for up to 7 months to be patched in as "free dlc". Even now, there are no Big Team Battle maps (Just community-made forge ones), and a significant majority of gametypes are missing. This also backfired considering that the Halo Championship Series has done pitifully in viewercount when compared to pretty much every other major Esports title out there (Averaging from a few hundred to a few thousand viewers with finals sometimes reaching 10k or more). -Changing the now-infamous MCC from what was originally just a Halo 2 remaster to a full collection with only 11 months to do it. And the best part is, there's (again, according to the leak) a full port for PC at 343 that works but won't be released because of how badly MCC tanked. -Enforcing a 1080/60 thing on a console that is laughably underpowered and can barely support it, meaning animations at a distance render funny and the game generally looks weird. And also caused the removal of splitscreen/ local play. -This is my own speculation here, but I suspect MS put microtransactions in the game, considering all their other major titles (Forza, Gears and now Halo Wars 2 having micros AND a season pass/ paid DLC) also have very similar card pack things. That's my speculation though. There's probably other stuff too. MS seems to have generally been too hands-on with the development of the game and as a result the project was terribly mismanaged and handled. Though of course it's all leaks from anonymoose developers who supposedly quit 343 after the game came out so take it with the usual grain of salt.
1537
« on: December 08, 2016, 10:19:32 AM »
I liked it. I agree Kysilius (or however you say it) was in the same vein of forgettable villain as Darren Cross, Obadiah Stane, Justin Hammer, That one Dark Elf dude and that guy who could breathe fire in Iron Man 3, but I really liked it elsewise. Perhaps because it was definitely abreath of fresh air when compared to the prior entries of the MCU.
1538
« on: December 08, 2016, 10:14:00 AM »
9/10, probably the best film I've seen this year - maybe even since Fury Road last year.
Go watch it.
1539
« on: December 08, 2016, 05:26:36 AM »
God save the bloody queen ;-;
1540
« on: December 08, 2016, 05:25:14 AM »
The structure is pretty shit. All the groups (Saviours, Alexandria, Kingdom, Hilltop, lolTara) have been getting one episode each so it means we had to wait three weeks to find out what happened to Maggie after the Neganing, instead of splitting all the episodes up so everyone gets a couple scenes (Like the latest ep).
And Tara getting an entire episode for herself is stupid.
1541
« on: December 08, 2016, 05:20:35 AM »
4 is literally irrelevant
1) Killed off Cortana - just to revive her in the next game.
2) Introduce a new leader of the covenant who opposes the Arbiter (with three novels revolving around him + Spartan Ops) - kills him in the next game, in a fkn cutscene.
3) Get MC to 'face his humanity' and think about stuff - do not talk about it in the next game, don't even show how MC and Blue team re-united. I really think it would have been an amazing cutscene to see John's old friends welcome him back. (I know it was done in escalations, but c'mon. If Osiris got a cool intro, why not blue team?)
4) Fight Didact and make him go away - kill him off in a comic
5) Prometheans are controlled by Didact, Didact is dead, why are Prometheans still hostile towards humans?
Its like Halo 4 did not even happen.
What was the reason for Halo 4 and the books becoming irrelevant? Did 343 decide to change the direction of the story with Halo 5(Just like Bungie changing the Forerunner's from being human in CE, to them being their own thing) or were they running out off time with Halo 5 which resulted in the OG story being scraped for the half assed thing we have now?
If the "leaks" are true, a bunch of factors: -Microsoft wanting Cortana dead in H4 so they could release Cortana siri thing and not have it associated with a game character. This backfired massively so Microsoft decided they should bring Cortana back in H5 to keep sales up. -Similar to the backfiring thing from Cortana, Spartan Ops was being used to experiment with introducing new Spartans to replace MC, as Steve Downes wants to retire from voice acting. Everyone hated Majestic and Co. Along with SpOps in general so that forced the creation of anew group (Osiris) and a series of comics created to cut all ties to SpOps out of the canon (Escalation). Also why Jul was killed in Mission 1 and Halsey's "revenge" forgotten. -Halo 5 was originally pitched as a spin off game focusing on Locke and co hunting MC in an open world style game very similar to ODST, only with multiple hubs and a larger role for Artemis. Closer to what was advertised (and concept art of infinity hub and stuff supports this). MS changed it so it would be a main game and this, combined with the points above, pretty much caused the atrocity we got. TLDR: Backlash from a bunch of stuff in Halo 4 meant MS wanted all ties to that stuff gone. I can link the video I got this from if you want. It seems pretty believable and in line with what we do know.
1542
« on: December 08, 2016, 01:41:08 AM »
This update blows.
you blow
Thank god we have new stances and a big forge crab.
No need for 1 flag or fixed assault gametypes!
They're adding a scripting mode which allows players to make gametypes by themselves.
1543
« on: December 07, 2016, 04:50:30 AM »
Halo 5 could easily be Halo 4. Locke hunting for MC still MIA and Cortana just going rampant.
Halo 5 pretty much made H4 irrelevant.
1544
« on: December 06, 2016, 10:53:52 AM »
I liked GOTG, but I fucking hate the LOL I AM GROOT XDDDDDDD crowd it garnered.
1545
« on: December 04, 2016, 09:08:10 AM »
Yeah, I went to see it the other week and was thoroughly disappointed after hearing naught but praise for it. I can't understand the comments daying it was better than the original films. Still, I wasn't the one paying so no loss to me.
How was Arrival, anyway? Meant to go see it but never actually did. It looked fantastic.
Really great. I don't want to spoil anything, but it's a refreshingly cerebral sci-fi movie.
Gooood. Hoping to go see it with my friend this week.
1546
« on: December 04, 2016, 09:03:03 AM »
Yeah, I went to see it the other week and was thoroughly disappointed after hearing naught but praise for it. I can't understand the comments daying it was better than the original films. Still, I wasn't the one paying so no loss to me.
How was Arrival, anyway? Meant to go see it but never actually did. It looked fantastic.
Edit: also wasn't a fan of how the villain (the edgy kid one) was basically just a big cloud. Felt kind of lazy in its design.
1547
« on: December 03, 2016, 08:10:55 AM »
I really need to catch up on these new sep7 episodes
The newest season has been pretty consistently dull.
1548
« on: December 02, 2016, 02:54:15 PM »
It's bullshit that a fucking expansion gets RPG of the year.
I mean, I don't care about any of the nominees of that category but expansions should not be given game awards.
1549
« on: December 02, 2016, 08:12:16 AM »
You should join discord so we can play BF1.
1550
« on: December 02, 2016, 02:44:21 AM »
Aside from the special classes on the field, and spawning in vehicles, how does it feel like Battlefront? The sprint animation? It doesn't feel like Battlefront at all to me in terms of the movement and gunplay.
Same engine means many of the lighting/ explosion effects look very similar. That's about all I can get.
1551
« on: December 02, 2016, 02:06:56 AM »
1552
« on: December 01, 2016, 04:29:20 AM »
Can we all agree that so far Halo CEA is 343's strongest game release? Halo 4 was not received well, The MCC has problems and Halo 5 is shit and it launched with a lot of content not included in it.
I think you're forgetting; 
1553
« on: November 30, 2016, 11:59:18 AM »
The way they word it makes it sound like pretty much everything had been tried.
1554
« on: November 30, 2016, 11:36:16 AM »
Why do you still play that game?
Why would you waste a notification with this shitpost?
Would you spend minutes of your life on this website?
Why would someone shoot a man before throwing him out of a plane?
1555
« on: November 30, 2016, 03:39:02 AM »
>Custom loadouts
Problems there were the DMR, Plasma Pistol, stickies, and Promethian Vision Get rid of those an maybe a couple of perks and all the problems disappear
There still remains the problem of there being custom loadouts and perks in the first place.
It's fine with the Bullshit ones taken out
No it's not, custom loadouts and perks don't belong in a shooter like Halo.
Custom loadouts would make so much sense in Warzone though.
Warzone is shit and shouldn't be a thing though
Elaborate please. Otherwise its halowaypoint level of posting. Its not perfect and every Warzone game I played lately, I got farmed but I think its a cool mode.
>shit maps >Microtransactions and a rich-get-richer system of power weapons and vehicles >kill stealing bosses instead of point distribution >bullet sponge ai that isn't actually challenging, just has a lot of health >ai that just sit in one place instead of going around the map and capturing objectives or what-have you. But instead sitting in one place and cross-map sniping with a mortar weapon >win by spawn trapping and causing Operation Metro 2258 edition Remove all the shit and you get a 24 player BTB. That's good. Everything else is bad.
1556
« on: November 29, 2016, 06:26:53 AM »
How come? Poor outcomes relative to multi-payer systems a la the Dutch or Germans.
Huh. What would you do to improve the system? [spoilers]Sorry for all the questions, I'm interested.[/spoiler]
1557
« on: November 29, 2016, 06:23:37 AM »
What are your thoughts on the NHS?
Not a fan.
How come? Basic concept or because of how it's run/ managed now? My parents both work in the NHS and they both have a lot to say about how shittily it's managed.
1558
« on: November 29, 2016, 04:43:52 AM »
I've given up talking about the American healthcare system.
You lot have amazingly managed to convince me that it's more of a political black hole than the NHS in this country.
What are your thoughts on the NHS? I'm sure you've probably talked about it before but I can't remember.
1559
« on: November 28, 2016, 01:54:30 PM »
I think there was a second battle of arcadia where the covenant came back and fucced up the humans
Three million were on the planet.
After the first evacuation, less than a million resided on the planet before the Covenant returned.
I just know that there was another battle
1560
« on: November 28, 2016, 01:50:17 PM »
Fellowship of the Ring
I think I got halfway through before quitting.
Not to mention that even with all the detail it was hard to get a clear picture of what was going on.
Honestly I just got bored of tom bombadil and the endless walk through the shire. Like, it takes most of the book before we even meet aragorn, let alone go to rivendell or moria. If I pick it up again and just skip straight to those bits.
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