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Halo |OT4| Trust's a Tough Thing to Come by These Days
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Blue Ninja
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Demon and Fury? You just know nobody's going to use those names, 343.
I'm really trying to see the shield and knife... but all i see is nunchaku =(.
I didn't say that Halo music has never had, nor should never have, electronic elements in its soundtrack, but you can't deny that this particular part is strikingly similar to Mass Effect.
I was probably being too bold when I used the term "compete". I love both franchises equally and if they happen to feel similar in some respects, so be it. I don't care if I'm contradicting my earlier attitude.
If you're playing golf, you don't use a baseball bat just because someone else has already chosen a golf club. If there's only one correct thing to use for a given task, then everyone has the right to use it. It's not a perfect analogy, but it'll have to do.
Mister Negative
Member
FRANKIE, BY GOD, IS THIS EVA OR IS IT NOT.
Looks like more colors than we got in the past.
ElzarTheBam
Member
I apologise if this has been clarified before, but I must ask, in SO, if your team mate goes down, do you get to revive them? Or do you share a pool of lives, so when they respawn you instantly lose one life?
Blue Ninja
Member
You know, I've had a lot of complaints about Halo 4, but making it more like Mass Effect in terms of style/music would be a good thing.
About the Prometheans: they're only like the Protheans in the sense that the Forerunners or any other pilot race are.
I'd not thought about that. I'd just assumed it would work like co-op campaign.
Tha Robbertster
Member
Spawning on your bro, co-op style?
StalkerUKCG
Banned
Your husband is ugleh
Hypertrooper
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343i should open a store finally.It's not an avatar code, but I have a shirt to give away to one lucky fellow member of HaloGAF. First person to quote this in a reply gets it. It's and XL
*If you live outside the US you'll have to cover shipping if you want it!
This were thrown out randomly to the crowd waiting in line to play the game.
Bottom left side
Right shoulder
Back
That's the only synth track in ME3. ME1 OST is the best OST and has a lot of pretty amazing synth. Go that way and I am happy!
First off, welcome!
From the story beats we got so far, we know that Master Chief and Cortanas relationship will be a major plot point going forth. Which seems like a logical progression story wise seeing as the rampancy of Cortana is creeping up. We know that he will not become the chatty type, Frankles assures us that, but we cant expect the Chief to be the strong silent type anymore. Their relationship will surely be tested with all is going on hearing Chief say nothing substantial during this time would feel awkward.
More Cortana talking seems, from my perspective, to let the player get attached to the character again. Its been a while since we have seen her, remember Halo 3 came out in 2007. Since then we have not seen her in action. Lets look at from that perspective, new player would be baffled as to why Cortana is so important. Imagine Chief being the silent type during course of Halo 4, but then something happens to Cortana and players are confused as to why they should care about it. Putting that relationship up-front is to highlight why each character is so important to one another so later on the emotional impact is bigger for new and veteran players.
Chief himself is already a strong character as the silent type, but him being fleshed out is not a bad thing. He is iconic, but expanding his personality and getting to know his thoughts to some extent does not break that he is a vessel for the player. It supplements and already iconic character and the player hopefully feels more attached to him. You can either expand his character via banter or cut-scenes. I prefer the former, because it feels more personal between the characters. The cut-scenes need to focus on the bigger battle and story-ark.
Reach and ODST were very much smaller scale stories, which Bungie deliberately did to highlight the characters and to make it feel more intimate. The main Halo games have always been epic space opera games, with big set pieces and story-arks. Everything we have been shown from the Halo 4 trailer seems to indicate that, much like Halo 2, is that they are expanding the universe and making everything bigger and more epic. Which is what I come to expect from mainline games, because well Im done with the smaller scale stories.
I think the music we have heard is really good and the way the handles the new sounds is great. First off, you cant retrace the same music themes from the previous games in Halo 4. This because, the previous games had their unique setting and feel, so the music complemented it. However now, we are going through a whole new world the sound is has to have must be distinctive and unique. This is why I love the music and sound design I have now heard, it has its own voice.
The Prometheans were first mentioned in Greg Bears Halo: Crytum. I will give you that the name seems uninspired now, but I see no real problem with it. The suit changes were mentioned in Karin Traviss Glasslands,
Nanomachines have upgraded the Chiefs armor while he was in cryo sleep
Mister Negative
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dream feature: ability to watch theater films on my iphone/ipad and be able to take screenshots.
Doubt this would ever be possible because of how theater works.
Doubt this would ever be possible because of how theater works.
Blue Ninja
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ME1 has the most synth, yeah, but there's a few good ones in ME2 and ME3. Like The Illusive Man, New Worlds, A View from Palaven, there's a few good ones in there.
Gabotron ES
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Nah, HEADSHOT is good enough.
its pronounced "spunnin" on your bro.
Mister Negative
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HiredN00bs
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*ahem*343i should open a store finally.
The Henery
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If they kept just one of the new additions we saw with Reach I hoped it would be the Grenade Launcher. I guess that was just too much to ask.
So? It required more than just pointing the reticle at your opponent and holding RT so of course it wasn't going to be used by the average MM shitcunt. Beautiful functionality, multiple uses (kills, EMP, stripping shields, shoot around walls), decent learning curve to get the most out of it. Most importantly, a FUN weapon to use.
It improved any map it was on. Countdown and Zealot would be infinitely more playable had they a GL.
This sticky detonator does not look to be a suitable replacement. Because it's sticky, it becomes a case of merely pointing it at where you want it to land. It completely cuts out the ingenuity one could employ with the bounce of the GL rounds, the sheer creativity a player could put in to their shot. I seriously hope you can have to hold the trigger for the cooking rather than shooting it then pressing again for the explosion.
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Amazing
Mister Negative
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I don't think the 'Pipe was even ON that many maps, was it? If it was I definitely missed out on it. When I do find it I love it though. If there was a 'pipes only gametype in action sack or something I'd have trouble playing anything else.
So who wants to do 'pipes only customs sometime tonight?
So who wants to do 'pipes only customs sometime tonight
?Didn't see these posted, so sorry if it's just repeat pictures:
Why is so much screen space wasted on player character models and instead of highlighting the map, mode and a few of it's settings? That is terrible.
Good point. Mayby it is just one of the sub menus?
Yeah, I've enjoyed their menus so far but that interface seems to be a ton of waste of space.
Yes, it does need to be said, the UI in Halo 4 is absolutely awful compared to previous Halo games. It's the one area so far where I can undoubtedly say the game has taken a serious step backwards in quality. It makes the game look like some random third party sci-fi shooter, rather than the next Halo. It doesn't exude quality.
Oh, and there's another post in the gaming side thread about skill based ranking. It's still my number one worry for the game; and unlike custom game browsing it's actually important.
Oh, and there's another post in the gaming side thread about skill based ranking. It's still my number one worry for the game; and unlike custom game browsing it's actually important.
"Promethean" (is this confirmed?) Knight is not the same as a Promethean.
Knights are mechanical whereas Prometheans were flesh and a cast of warriors. Very tall, around 4-5m, so no way it's them stuffed inside, and they would probably still have memories and will like the ones in the Sphinxes from Cryptum.
Funnily Orange Knights show their teeths whereas Blue Knights have full-on face plates.
Funnily Orange Knights show their teeths whereas Blue Knights have full-on face plates.
Hypertrooper
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Yeah, I am agreeing with TheOddOne. It looks that it is a sub menu. If not, at least they give us more information about the gametype.
bobs...onGaf
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There's only space for one bob on here. Halo 3 sniper 1v1, loser is banished from gaf forever.
Joke, welcome man, now that there's 2 of us we will be unstoppable
bobs...onGaf
Member
Don't 1v1 GUI, he is a power weapon
bobs...onGaf
Member
I actually hate you all, new halogaf podcast downloaded, I accidently played it. "so uh let's talk about tits".
I was browsing my phone in the middle of my office without headphones on.
Screw you all.
I was browsing my phone in the middle of my office without headphones on.
Screw you all.
Anyone see the details on ZombiU multiplayer? That sounds like a really fun version of Infection. I want to play it.
Also the game has no checkpoints and permadeath. If you die, you switch to being another survivor, and if you want your stuff back, you have to go find and kill your previous-now-a-zombie body.
Also the game has no checkpoints and permadeath. If you die, you switch to being another survivor, and if you want your stuff back, you have to go find and kill your previous-now-a-zombie body.
Hypertrooper
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Plan succeeded!
ElzarTheBam
Member
This must happen.
I noticed people think the Promethean vision is OP.
Why?
It seems that people think it's too useful and start leaning on it. That's bad... Use something else, learn the maps and make educated guesses where your enemy is based on the map, your radar and his movement direction, just like in previous Halos. And then use some AA that gives you an edge in a fight (Thruster?).
Sure, firm knowledge is better than an educated guess but leaning on a single AA weakens one as a player, i think, especially when it aids in finding enemies. Not mention PV revealing you're using it.
I know i'm not going to use it much, i really do not see any reason why would i need it, especially once i know the maps and the flow.
Why?
It seems that people think it's too useful and start leaning on it. That's bad... Use something else, learn the maps and make educated guesses where your enemy is based on the map, your radar and his movement direction, just like in previous Halos. And then use some AA that gives you an edge in a fight (Thruster?).
Sure, firm knowledge is better than an educated guess but leaning on a single AA weakens one as a player, i think, especially when it aids in finding enemies. Not mention PV revealing you're using it.
I know i'm not going to use it much, i really do not see any reason why would i need it, especially once i know the maps and the flow.
Well theres 2 parts. There's how it looks and how it works. If it's quick and easy to go through the menus, I'm happy. I'm gonna wait to use it before I completely shit all over it like you have.
Blue Ninja
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Yes.
You're definitely mistaken. Besides, my B.net username is canman88.
They've been referred to as "Prmethean Knight" by both Frankie and Josh Holmes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00_EyaZpbsU&t=6m
Mister Negative
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Has Ninja's rant on the 1-50 ranking system been posted before?