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Halo: Reach |OT7| What are They to Say Now?

PNut

Banned
Wii ruined the Zelda series. The story still may be good but why can't I just use a regular controller to play it?
 

Tashi

343i Lead Esports Producer
Wii ruined the Zelda series. The story still may be good but why can't I just use a regular controller to play it?

I haven't played it but most people are saying the controls are really great. But yea, I guess if you're not into motion controls, then you're fucked.
 

Sai-kun

Banned
I reserved the special edition, and the golden controller was suppose to be my BF's anniversary gift, and I was gonna take his motionplus thing, but he was a bad kid and pirated the game >_> So...he kinda ruined my gift for him. Oh well. Still takin' dat motion plus. I can't wait to play SS. Schools' over in less than 48 hours! :D
 
That's why I put it at the top of the OP, so my thread wouldn't be flooded with that comment.

The way I see it, you've ensured that people will always give you that response. :p

As for this Zelda talk I see going on, I've heard this new one is fantastic.

Skyrim is also awesome.

Where's my mkv of tonight's Boardwalk Empire?
 

Plywood

NeoGAF's smiling token!
Steelyuhas said:
The way I see it, you've ensured that people will always give you that response. :p
I had to vent about it, some agreed and at least one saw the light, I made a difference and the rest can feign ignorance in spite of it staring them right in the face.
 

Plywood

NeoGAF's smiling token!
Steelyuhas said:
I agree with you, but I don't see it as that big of a deal.
I don't either, though they do bug me, probably shouldn't have made it seem like a big deal here in response to TheOddOne.
 
I don't either, though they do bug me, probably shouldn't have made it seem like a big deal here in response to TheOddOne.

Well it's obviously a huge deal now.

PANIC!
ABANDON SHIP!
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jk
 

Ramirez

Member
Wii ruined the Zelda series. The story still may be good but why can't I just use a regular controller to play it?

This so much, I have zero interest in playing it because of this.

Juices, have you still not played the CE campaign? Shameful if so...
 
On one hand meta-tags are great, on the other hand it depends on the creator keeping up with it and just encourages MS to think that the community management side on their console is solved.

I can directly blame losing some of our Halo players in my clan because it became harder for everyone that wasn't in the web-of-friends to find and get games with people of similiar interest. Halo 2? You just got online and did "Invite online clan members", and you'd either have a full party within five minutes or one of the parties would invite you.

3 / Reach? You're limited to those on your Friends List, a list that is competing for space with your game buddies from other games and other forums. Really hard to get new people in to your games as people are resistant to adding 'unknown' people to their FL.

tl;dr Microsoft needs to implement system wide clans, groups, something so communities can actually you know, communicate

Speaking of... when are we gonna see an increase in the friends list limit, I thought they killed Halo 2 for that :/
 
Halo 3: 1750/1750
Halo Wars: 1200/1200
Halo 3: ODST: 1000/1000
Halo: Reach: 1700/1700
Halo: CEA: 1000/1000

Halo Waypoint Gamerscore: 6650/6650

CEA was awesome. I disliked some of the graphical style at first, but acclimated to it eventually and forgot about the nits I picked. Thanks for putting this out, guys (please consider bringing the multiplayer to XBLA)!
 
Halo 3: 1750/1750
Halo Wars: 1200/1200
Halo 3: ODST: 1000/1000
Halo: Reach: 1700/1700
Halo: CEA: 1000/1000

Halo Waypoint Gamerscore: 6650/6650

CEA was awesome. I disliked some of the graphical style at first, but acclimated to it eventually and forgot about the nits I picked. Thanks for putting this out, guys (now bring the multiplayer to XBLA)!

How long did it take to get the Halo Wars general achievment. I think thats the only achievment I will never get.
 
Too long.

I could probably do it now, from beginning to end, in about 12 hours.

To be fair 12 hours isnt even that bad, but I guess thats with a strategy in mind? I wasnt too bad at Halo Wars, but my tactic never netted me a huge amount of points. I kept doing suicidal distraction runs with hornets/ hawks while my partner got tanks. We won a lot and he would get a decent score but the casualties I took lowered my score loads.
 
To be fair 12 hours isnt even that bad, but I guess thats with a strategy in mind? I wasnt too bad at Halo Wars, but my tactic never netted me a huge amount of points. I kept doing suicidal distraction runs with hornets/ hawks while my partner got tanks. We won a lot and he would get a decent score but the casualties I took lowered my score loads.

There's something like a 32,000 XP per match max, and you need 960,000 XP to hit General. So theoretically, you can get it in 30 matches. The most efficient method I found was matching in a 1v1 DLC list with Human vs. Covenant, building a Scarab as the Covenant, stockpiling supplies/building bases as the humans, and then setting up the Scarab so it can see three supply depots. Then the human builds them over and over again as they are destroyed by the Scarab until the Covenant player reaches 32k XP and the Human player self-destructs all his bases (best time: 22 minutes).

If I really liked RTSs, I would have played this out legit, but I suck at them and much preferred playing Halo 3. It also takes a lot longer playing legit because you'll only earn a fraction of 32k/game, even if you do very well.
 

Donat

Neo Member
To those of you playing Skyrim...what difficulty are you playing on?

Master. I'm still in the area around Whiterun and already level 31. It's really challenging but also very fun.

And to make this post somewhat Halo related, has anyone else a problem with killing all the Elites in Keyes? I searched the entire level 3 or 4 times and there were no enemies left but I still didn't get the achievement.
 
There's something like a 32,000 XP per match max, and you need 960,000 XP to hit General. So theoretically, you can get it in 30 matches. The most efficient method I found was matching in a 1v1 DLC list with Human vs. Covenant, building a Scarab as the Covenant, stockpiling supplies/building bases as the humans, and then setting up the Scarab so it can see three supply depots. Then the human builds them over and over again as they are destroyed by the Scarab until the Covenant player reaches 32k XP and the Human player self-destructs all his bases (best time: 22 minutes).

If I really liked RTSs, I would have played this out legit, but I suck at them and much preferred playing Halo 3. It also takes a lot longer playing legit because you'll only earn a fraction of 32k/game, even if you do very well.

Halo wars is the only game i need the full GS from, if anyone wants to grind that baby both co-op and online boosting then im game. Id ask hired but i fear i already know the answere.

Dem CGI cutscenes
 

PooBone

Member
Can you name a good MP achievement? :p

Fair point.

EDIT: I need to boost those three Defiant Achievements. Is Zombies even in that Premium DLC playlist? I really just don't wanna have to put fucking Reach back in the disc tray every again.
 

Deadly Cyclone

Pride of Iowa State
Halo 3: 1750/1750
Halo Wars: 1200/1200
Halo 3: ODST: 1000/1000
Halo: Reach: 1700/1700
Halo: CEA: 1000/1000

Halo Waypoint Gamerscore: 6650/6650

CEA was awesome. I disliked some of the graphical style at first, but acclimated to it eventually and forgot about the nits I picked. Thanks for putting this out, guys (please consider bringing the multiplayer to XBLA)!

How...

How in the hell have you 1000'd Anniversary already? Also, how did you beat Halo Wars on Legendary? Shit is hard. Apparently I am in the top 2% of Halo achievements, but I am still missing a few on each game, save ODST.
 

kylej

Banned
Off topic but did anyone get Skyward Sword today? I don't have it reserved and tomorrow I'm going on a hunt for the special edition because I need that motion plus. I'm really excited.

Actual portrait of Tashi playing games that I took about 45 minutes ago

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GhaleonEB

Member
To those of you playing Skyrim...what difficulty are you playing on?

One notch above normal. 4/5 on the difficulty range. It's often quite tough but usually fair. My bow still lands scores of one shot kills. :D

I'll hop on Reach tonight to try some Anniversary maps.
 
When they re-release it on the Wii U.

Which will, like the wii is now, be a generation behind. Why Nintendo Why??????

I really wish they had let MS buy them way back in the day. Nintendo could have continued to develop games and handheld hardware. Just thinking of HD Zelda with a proper controller and achievements is too much to handle.
 
Can't wait or the halo 4 version of this!

Remember all the hype, speculation, anticipation and most all the huge amount of freaking out the forums did when Marcus said it would drop in a day!?
 
Devo, I got an xbl message from you asking me to join playfire... it seemed like spam, I also got ome from Duncan a while back, does anyone know what this is?
What? Noooo. :( I don't think I've ever gone to that site... I got one of those messages from Devo though, maybe that was it?

Speaking of... when are we gonna see an increase in the friends list limit, I thought they killed Halo 2 for that :/
I don't think they ever actually said that. We DID get a better voice codec shortly after, I think that was the first/biggest impact of the Halo 2 shutdown.
 

erpg

GAF parliamentarian
Which will, like the wii is now, be a generation behind. Why Nintendo Why??????
It'll suck for third parties again but being a generation behind for Nintendo games won't matter. The next Mario game could look like Galaxy 2 at 1080p and I'll be happy.
 

feel

Member
Can't wait or the halo 4 version of this!

Remember all the hype, speculation, anticipation and most all the huge amount of freaking out the forums did when Marcus said it would drop in a day!?
Good times. Almost everything in the video is a terrible new addition to the franchise, but it's still cool to watch now because of the memories.
 
For the love of god NO.
Why? Because Rare develops shitty games and everyone is blaming Microsoft for it?

Can't wait or the halo 4 version of this!

Remember all the hype, speculation, anticipation and most all the huge amount of freaking out the forums did when Marcus said it would drop in a day!?
I hope the first in-engine teaser has a lot of stuff to talk about.

What? Noooo. :( I don't think I've ever gone to that site... I got one of those messages from Devo though, maybe that was it?


I don't think they ever actually said that. We DID get a better voice codec shortly after, I think that was the first/biggest impact of the Halo 2 shutdown.
So long you won't delete me from your friendlist, I can live with 100friends limit. lol.
 
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