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Halo |OT8| A Salt on the Control Room
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3. Not that bad. The only hairy spot is the beginning, you've gotta take out the Elite quickly and run out of there while the Sentinels and Grunts fight it out. The rest of the time, just speedrun it when there are Covenant around.5 Anniversary achievements left for me! (Finally got the warthog run on The Maw one, pretty easy after I turned off Boom!)
1. Complete the game on Legendary
2. Complete The Library without dying
3. Complete Two Betrayals without killing any Grunts
4. Complete Two Betrayals without picking up a new weapon
5. Kill all enemies in the first fight of T&R without being detected
Any tips for 3, 4, and 5?
4. Turn Bandanna on, no problem. Grenade everything in sight.
5. The U shaped rock near the beginning will net you most of the moving enemies without being detected as long as you headshot everything, when you've mopped up the jackals, elites, and turret grunts just whack the sleeping grunts along the ledge.
Vire
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Cop drama? What the fuck are you smoking cause I want some of it.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Sci-Fi cop drama
IN SPACE!
Duck Dodgers in the 24th and a half century
IN SPACE!
Duck Dodgers in the 24th and a half century
http://soundcloud.com/neil-davidge/halo-ost-samples
The first 1:40 or so might as well be set to a scene in which Strong Female, Awkward Genius, Scarred Leader, and Token Minority slam in their SUVs to stop the serial killer just in time.
Fascinating Frankie Fact #416: I played cello in the Tynecastle High School Orchestra. I did until they discovered I wasn't playing and letting the second cellist do all the hard work. But because I knew the finger positions I got away with it for a long time. I wanted to play guitar but it was already taken (dur) or Sax (because this was Lost Boys Eighties and sax was cool) but it was gone too. So I referred to the greatest cellist of all time, Captain Stringfellow Hawke and picked that instrument.
Let's hear Fascinating Frankie Fact #417
Barrel Cannon
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Going to stick with normal LE over here. I prefer having the extra maps and buying the soundtrack separately so I get a separate case instead of having to take it out from the game case. Also the sideshow Master Chief Statue is taking up the majority of my gaming budget this year.
Hypertrooper
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The Chief figure comes out next year.
Mister Negative
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Yeah, people have to remember that our main enemy isn't a bunch of aliens with an ancient religion anymore.
Now it's a bunch of super-futuristic but ancient robots.
So, electronic sounding music should fit them better.
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FRIDGE BRILLIANCE!
EDIT the Covenant are the "monks" in Halo theme chant! Halos music is the Covenant's music!
And Halo 4's music is made by the Prometheans!
EDIT doesn't apply to ODST and Reach really... I assume those musics are their location's musics, Mombasans preferring jazz and rock, and Reachians preferring.... well, whatever Reach's music is.
Tron Legacy Reconfigured says otherwise.
With the $75 special edition, apparently.
Barrow Roll
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Shake Appeal
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Huh.
Can't stop listening the samples again and again.
I really like the tension, the fast tempo in them, especially Awakening and To Galaxy.
I can imagine Awakening on the first level, i assume it is for it anyway.
Consider what's going on: Your ship is going down, the Covies are trying to kill you, you're in the hurry, all alone in the unknown. Definetly needs fast, high-tension music.
I really like the tension, the fast tempo in them, especially Awakening and To Galaxy.
I can imagine Awakening on the first level, i assume it is for it anyway.
Consider what's going on: Your ship is going down, the Covies are trying to kill you, you're in the hurry, all alone in the unknown. Definetly needs fast, high-tension music.
Steelyuhas
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lol
I think most media outlets shoe-in GOTY would have been Bioshock Infinite, but that has been pushed to next year.
I kind of find the whole notion of this "singular GOTY" pretty ridiculous though. Every publication, website, or some scrub with a blog declares a GOTY. When's the last time there was basically a universal GOTY that everyone agreed on?
MLG pro weapon guide. 75% of the weapons in the game "don't pick this shit up, ever."
Shake Appeal
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5 Anniversary achievements left for me! (Finally got the warthog run on The Maw one, pretty easy after I turned off Boom!
1. Complete the game on Legendary
2. Complete The Library without dying
3. Complete Two Betrayals without killing any Grunts
4. Complete Two Betrayals without picking up a new weapon
5. Kill all enemies in the first fight of T&R without being detected
Any tips for 3, 4, and 5?
Coop.
The P of Poland
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The only weapons with terajoules of capability were the Super MAC orbital platforms around Reach and Earth, and they had absolutely no issue with the Covenant whatsoever.
The planet busting bombs were purely experimental at a late stage in the war, and indeed there were only one set of them, if you were wondering why it was never deployed.
Viperidae was a special case, and to be quite honest, that one is fairly weird.
It is stated repeatedly in Halo canon that the reason so much was expended on MJOLNIR and the Spartans is because they were the only ones that consistently had success against the Covenant.
The Halo rings were SUPPOSED to wipe out all life in the galaxy, it wasn't a byproduct; it was the only solution the Forerunners could think of after three hundred years of trying.
StalkerUKCG
Banned
Nope. Half life series is never going to be my GOTY
Halo 2 was the best game of 2004.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Does any entertainment medium age WORSE then video games?
Does any entertainment medium have a better track record at good sequels then video games?
Does any entertainment medium have a better track record at good sequels then video games?
He meant "Game Of The Year," not "Greaty Overrated That Year (and every year)."
Can't think any.
Can't think any... wait, literature maybe?
Also, 7 more posts till personal 5k posts.
EDIT ZOMG, i'm top poster of this thread at the moment. WTF, barely posted in the previous one...
Reagan's BR
Banned
Congrats buddy!
Vire
Member
I dunno a lot of movies don't hold up particularly well, where as I can go back and play Super Mario Bros or World and it's still boss.
To your second point, some second or third albums are greatly improved over the debut, but yeah I'd have to say video games have the best track record when it comes to sequels.
Shake Appeal
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Figures that a bunch of sweaty Halo dorks wouldn't like one of the best single-player FPS of all time (trumped only by Half-Life 1).
Vire
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I like Half Life 2 quite a bit, Episode 2 was also pretty great, but Halo 2 was the GOTY in 2004 for me.
thezerofire
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Was it HL2 or one of the Episodes that had you running from that Antlion Queen? That part was amazing, so much tension
Also I didn't think Ravenholm was as scary as everyone said it was
Reagan's BR
Banned
Just catching up with the soundtrack...it is good. It is not Marty's work which is both good and bad. Also, my favorite song is still from that old preview.
I want to get the LE soundtrack but 75 is a little steep considering I plan on buying the LE game as well as both controllers.
With Reach I bought the Legendary Edition, the console, the headset, and three controllers. That was way too much money.
I want to get the LE soundtrack but 75 is a little steep considering I plan on buying the LE game as well as both controllers.
With Reach I bought the Legendary Edition, the console, the headset, and three controllers. That was way too much money.
Reagan's BR
Banned
I've found that 3d games age worse than sprite based games.
A fucking maze. Also boring. Frustrating. Also way too many saw-blades, kinda obvious...
But not scary.
EDIT also, EP2 sucked. Fuck that final mission. So fucking annoying.
The P of Poland
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How'd you find that out? Where do you look?
Click "views" in community-tab next to Halo thread. Or any thread.
EDIT if you mean personal posts, click user name and view public profile, or click "your profile" via user CP
The P of Poland
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No, you told me what I wanted, thanks.
Did you really find the gunplay to feel anything but flat? Be honest.
xxjuicesxx
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Somebody has to fill in for him.
Reagan's BR
Banned
He still has more posts than I do in this thread.
Never played HL1... but 2 bored me to tears.
Reagan's BR
Banned
Scratch that here is a better stat: He was accepted in June or July of this year. I was accepted in June or July of last year. He has more posts on GAF than I do.
HL1 begins in an interesting way (as does Blue Shift) but.. I was never a fan really. Would have loved if it were "open world" game where you do stuff around the complex.
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