Matchmaking search times are still too long.
Game crashes are still in abundance.
Games don't start.
Customs are still broken.
And it just goes on...

Yeah, not anywhere near "fixed."

Are we playing the same game?

Quote from: 84c0n5h31f on March 06, 2015, 06:47:25 PM

I was getting BTB matches pretty quickly earlier.

the recent update made match-finding super easy, i can find one in a matter of seconds

I was taking a few minutes but there was a few of us on a party. I only got major lag on one game out of about ten where I got kicked out of HCE.

Mr P, Sandtrap and Lord of Admirals.

The first two because they hel pwith my writing n' shit. Admirals because Halo. Though that last can apply to any of the Archive guys; Shdooby and Mendicant included.

will you play mafia wars with me on facebook

0/10

no nameplate

>friend works at used game store
>ask if he can get me Halo Reach LE and MEtro Redux
>Should cost £28
>costs £12


I have contacts man. And every single Halo limited edition aside from Wars (Which is currently being shipped to me now)

Quote from: ShelfBacon on March 06, 2015, 03:33:47 AM

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Quote from: ShelfBacon on March 06, 2015, 01:39:05 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

Some small hand-puppet game company who's released two heavily criticized games so far isn't the same as two comic book giants who have been around for a century.

Eh. I was referring to their films, of which Marvel has got plans til 2028.

Besides, even if the games go under there's nothing stopping them making books (Halo, not comics. I doubt comics'll stop nay time soon)

I used to say General "Gree-vee-us" instead of "Greevus" , as in the character from star wars.

Also "Miss-eye-ul" instead of "Missul" for Missile/

Quote from: ShelfBacon on March 06, 2015, 01:39:05 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

Should I fuel the fore bu telling how Mickey betrays Buck and Romeo to the URF and nearly get them both killed?

I find myself more immersed when my character is a character. Not a hollow suit of armour.

I mean, I get immersed playing Fallout or TES, but those are actual fucking role playing games. Having a solid character for that would break the whole point of role playing, but in a linear shooter it's very hard to be immersed when everyone is talking for you.

"Crimson found the Artifact!"
"Crimson destroyed the gun!"
"Crimson is a cool guy!"

Is a lot less immersive than

"Commander, AA guns are down."
"Spartan Jacob here, objective completed!"

People criticise games like battlefield an cod for being silent protagonists but I don't understand why if a game then tries to not do that, everyone gets up in arms about it. If you want the player to be the character then give full customisation, otherwise, I want a voice and personality. I find it hard to care about a character who is a camera and that's it.

Quote from: ChaosMetalDragon™ on March 04, 2015, 05:31:29 PM

Quote from: Mr. Admirals on March 04, 2015, 03:11:39 PM

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Quote from: Mr. Admirals on March 03, 2015, 08:46:09 PM

kek.

Being trained to dehumanize enemies? You don't need to do that shit when the enmies are already not human.

You guys seriously think after 28 years of seeing all humans as allies and friends as we struggled against an entirely non-human enemy bent on our entire annihilation, you'd be able to classify humans as enemies, and have no moral qualms or doubts about fighting to destroy humans?

Shit, you guys even realize the majority of soldiers joined the UNSC to fight the Covenant and save humanity, Quite frankly, they had no intent to kill humans. Mickey included.

Now, I don't follow the lore at that deeply, and quite frankly I find Halo's timeline to all kinds of jacked up, but did the insurrectionists just stop being a thing when the covies entered the picture or something? If I remember right, they had some pretty significant numbers.

They were still active, but for the most part, they just went into hiding and stopped doing such blatant attacks against the UNSC.

Which meant the UNSC had no need to go after them, and basically ignored the insurrection.

They were apparently still a concern in Reach

They were still active, but for the most part, they just went into hiding and stopped doing such blatant attacks against the UNSC.

And as seen in FuD, New Blood and Cole Protocol, insurrectionists fought alongside the UNSC against the Covenant a lot of the time.

I'll try and stave my addiction by learning Russian and finding the online version of the old Fallouts. Been meaning to play it once I figure out how to play the originals first though.

I have 1,2 and tactics from when they were free on gog. I can sen them to you if you want.

Quote from: Mr. Admirals on March 04, 2015, 10:31:07 AM

Quote from: RomanGladiator on March 04, 2015, 10:24:24 AM

What worries me is that there isn't going to be any ODSTs left in future Halo games. Everybody just seems to turn into a Spartan IV at this point.

That's not true at all.

My question is, why isn't becoming a Spartan-IV mandatory for all UNSC recruits? There's no reason not to, if they're so easily mass-produced.

-Augmentations are still incredibly expensive and MJOLNIR GEN2 still costs roughly the same as a Dropship. That's still expensive, and the UNSC's Economy is t exactly amazing post-war. Also, not ever soldier way want to be a spartan nor able to.

Quote from: ShelfBacon on March 04, 2015, 06:43:10 AM

You've seen the backlash from idiots who want John to be a silent protagonist.

Nobody wants him to be entirely silent. Just silent in-game. Having him speak his shiny ass off ruins the effect of the player being in the game and doing all those badass things (and distracts from gameplay in general).

That's my point. Players shouldn't be John because they aren't. If you want the player is the character add customisation and don't make a background story for them a la Noble Six, the most boring protagonist in any Halo to date.