BigTnaples
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Halo for Xbox One is Halo 5? *gasp*
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Lmao.
Halo 4 was "comically bad"? Gotta love that hyperbole.
Randolph Freelander
Member
It's just one opinion. But it isn't hyperbole. I found the game irredeemable.
gaming_noob
Member
I played Halo 4 at launch and lost interest when I reached Ganon.
BigTnaples
Todd Howard's Secret GAF Account
Halo 4 was fantastic.
As good as Reach? No. But fantastic first effort that was better than 90% of FPS games out today.
Gamefreaks221
Member
Please tell me this isnt their surprise....
As good as Reach? Lolwut. Both games were terrible.
I have zero expectations for this game. After halo 4 I don't think the series can get any worse. Hopefully 343 realized that halo 4 was crap and fix the series. Too much COD features ruined halo.
Halo can be Halo while COD and its clones be COD. No reason 343 needed to ruin the series
Halo can be Halo while COD and its clones be COD. No reason 343 needed to ruin the series
Randolph Freelander
Member
If Halo 4 is better than 90% of the genre, I find that quite sad for that genre. But I don't play the genre, I play (or rather, played) Halo.
Also, that.
BigTnaples
Todd Howard's Secret GAF Account
The Reach campaign is by far Bungie's best.
Twin Tails
Member
The have admitted that Halo 4 was a misstep in campaign.
Randolph Freelander
Member
Well, good for you that you enjoyed it. I don't think they've put together a memorable campaign since CE. All others have failed to recapture that magic.
Bowing out. No need to continue derailing another Halo thread.
R3TRODYCE
Member
Yep.
on a scale of 1-100, I'm pretty sure everyone's expectations are at a 1. A 2 at best
CassidyIzABeast
Member
Guy got pooped with a AR and he had a Battle Rifle...sheesh.
NullPointer
Member
I'd swap 3 and 4 but yeah. I can dig that.
Halo 4 had all the parts to make an amazing, genre defining game, but whether it was rushed or 343 just couldn't fully grock the magic of Halo, it fell short of the mark. But not for any lack of ambition - I'm still amazed that we got 50 episodes of Spartan Ops, which ultimately even included several great ones ;P
Give 343 time to organize, time to listen and understand the feedback from their playerbase, and time to cook. The two year turnaround does worry me - that and the almost certainty that it will have to be a showcase for Kinect and the cloud.
Edit: I take back cloud worries. 60fps + dedicated servers could only mean great things.
lionkitten
Banned
Halo 4 had flaws, but it's still a great game. The actual sandbox gunplay/gameplay is fun and interesting.
Fixing the narrative to go beyond pushing buttons to finish a level can't be that hard.
343 and MS know what's riding on Halo 5. A truly bad Halo 5 or even another step backward would be catastrophic to their first true holiday on the platform. (launch doesn't count. We're all buying it or not buying it LONG before Black Friday - few consoles around for anyone else.) And then they're dead. I suspect it's going to be amazing.
Fixing the narrative to go beyond pushing buttons to finish a level can't be that hard.
343 and MS know what's riding on Halo 5. A truly bad Halo 5 or even another step backward would be catastrophic to their first true holiday on the platform. (launch doesn't count. We're all buying it or not buying it LONG before Black Friday - few consoles around for anyone else.) And then they're dead. I suspect it's going to be amazing.
KingPhizzle
Neo Member
i cannot for the life of me figure out wtf m$ is thinking.... I should apply to their PR department when i finish grad school.....
Twin Tails
Member
ViewtifulJC
Banned
I was somewhat joking as I realised Halo 4 was going to happen after the terrible ending to Halo 3, but using that as a fake point of outrage is something I enjoy doing.
the anime man
Banned
ODST is my personal favorite campaign. The music, atmosphere, missions... I love it. As far as the other campaigns go, here's how I rank them:
1. Halo 3: ODST
2. Halo: CE
3. Reach
4. Halo 3
5. Halo 2
6: Halo 4
Multiplayer-wise, all 3 games in the trilogy are great, with Halo 2 being the standout IMO. Reach... is pretty bad. It has the worst maps in the series and it added armor abilities that slowed down the game. The movement felt bad too. As for Halo 4, I loved it at first but as I played it more and more, it's flaws became more apparent. Halo 4 improved on the mobility and map design (slightly) but it really did everything else worse. Ordinance was a terrible idea and I hated the whole create a class system and the maps were only a small improvement over Reach. It doesn't feel like Halo at all.
I hope 343 learns from their mistakes for Halo 5.
1. Halo 3: ODST
2. Halo: CE
3. Reach
4. Halo 3
5. Halo 2
6: Halo 4
Multiplayer-wise, all 3 games in the trilogy are great, with Halo 2 being the standout IMO. Reach... is pretty bad. It has the worst maps in the series and it added armor abilities that slowed down the game. The movement felt bad too. As for Halo 4, I loved it at first but as I played it more and more, it's flaws became more apparent. Halo 4 improved on the mobility and map design (slightly) but it really did everything else worse. Ordinance was a terrible idea and I hated the whole create a class system and the maps were only a small improvement over Reach. It doesn't feel like Halo at all.
I hope 343 learns from their mistakes for Halo 5.
My personal taste differs a little bit, but this quote is the most accurate SP Halo Scale.
Surface of Me
I'm not an NPC. And neither are we.
Campaign wise:
3>ODST>CE>4>Reach>2
3>ODST>CE>4>Reach>2
ElzarTheBam
Member
It killed my friends list.
90 percent of which are HaloGaf.
Amazing how one game did so much damage to this (HaloGaf) community.
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RadarScope1
Member
Surprise, mutherfucker.
Halo CE >ODST >Reach >Halo 3 >>>>>>>>>>Halo 4 >Halo 2
Halo 4 campaign is just a bunch of long straight paths with switches at the end (and then later at intermittent points along the path).
MP was shit, with too few maps, and could barely hold my interest through the four days that lead up to Black Ops 2's release.
I'm still convinced 343 can make a good Halo game though.
Edit: Above rankings are just for the campaigns, MP has gotten progressively worse with each new release.
What's a halo wars?
Halo 4 campaign is just a bunch of long straight paths with switches at the end (and then later at intermittent points along the path).
MP was shit, with too few maps, and could barely hold my interest through the four days that lead up to Black Ops 2's release.
I'm still convinced 343 can make a good Halo game though.
Edit: Above rankings are just for the campaigns, MP has gotten progressively worse with each new release.
What's a halo wars?
Nervous Sausage
Member
Reach did have the best campaign, I'd say Halo 4 had the worst. None of the charm of the Bungie games and the Prometheans were terrible to fight. Reach gets too much shit for it's multiplayer, I thought it was better than Halo 3's. Halo 2 is still the highpoint for me but that's probably because it was the first online Halo I played.
fluffydelusions
Member
Damn, my money was on it being called Halo One
lol was just gonna post
See I'm a huge PC RTS fan and hate console RTS games with avengance, but that game was actually really enjoyable in single player and I even played and owned quite a lot of people in the online because that was where the issue of the game crept in. The game was laughably easy to win if you knew how to do more than one thing at once and the balance was completely broken. It was never designed to be played by people who had RTS experience and I get that, but they could've atleast made it so it didn't suffer from noob Warcraft 3 player syndrome of flying units win against everything in the game if you get that late.
Me and my Mate would 2v2 all the time and just rush them with spartans/heros and take any vehicles they got as nobody knew what they were doing, even on the higher rankings
Syphon Filter
Member
Halo 2 campaign> Halo 4 campaign
Surface of Me
I'm not an NPC. And neither are we.
I look forward to them announcing the month and day of the release 3 months before the year.
Nothing is worse than Halo 2's campaign.
Midnight launch me and buddy were all set to sit up through the night and co-op the entire thing (we had a 5.1 setup, a big screen TV, pizza, coke, the whole nine yards). We booted up the game excitedly, only to be met by awful graphics pop-in, English speaking Covenant, unfinished stages where we could could fly out of the game world, and then the game had us playing as fucking Elites!?! We only managed to complete the first Arbiter level before we stopped, started drinking, and bitching about how it made us want to give up gaming forever.