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Halo Reach & Bungie at GamesCom 2010
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most magazines and sites do hate halo. the previews and reviews are very negative, they always use the same shitty complaints (to much like halo, bad graphics, to childish, to colorfull, always the same, bad indoor levels and so on). there is only one positive preview on a german site so far.watership said:
yankeehater
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derFeef said:
Completely agree. General impression about the game would have been a good substitute for detailed impressions about the specific missions he played. I think tthere you run into the problem of Jeff not being excited or interested in Reach at all, so his general impressions propably would have been along the lines of it's more Halo.
Devin Olsen
Member
I don't follow CoD at all, but please tell me the same 'shit' gets said about CoD.S1kkZ said:
That franchise more than any other (except sports games) looks the same year in and out with very little improvement.
I don't mean to start a CoD bash fest here, I am simply curious of all AAA title games get the same flack from reviewers as Halo.
You did the right thing, god I hate host booters. I can usually tell a host booter by the 50 on his highest skill.Tashi0106 said:
About the assist thing, although I see the intention, knowing the Halo community people would just find ways to farm assists rather than actually killing people, probably by getting in a couple of shots and retreating. This would change the way Halo plays too much, so for that reason the maximum amount of points that can be allocated towards assists can never be greater than a kill.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
Teknoman said:
Not only that, but the grenade impact alone can kill.
Gareth Bale
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Tashi0106 said:
Then people would quit more often than they would if it didn't
Major Williams
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GAh, all this talk about the beta made me happy again - there is sprinting in mah Haloes!
It actually is nice that this relatively standard thing on other games is finally finding its way into my favorite series. It makes escaping from a firefight you're about to lose that much cooler IMO.
It actually is nice that this relatively standard thing on other games is finally finding its way into my favorite series. It makes escaping from a firefight you're about to lose that much cooler IMO.
Devin Olsen
Member
oh my god, well first off i was going to reply to this by saying I was tempted to highlight the first couple letters of your teaster, and I am very intrigued, but I stopped... Second when I hit quote your spoiler un spoiled and I almost read the whole thing! so I am now typing this reply starring directly[/B at my keyboard (as to avoid accidentally reading your post above), so please forgive any errors...]Kibbles said:
edit: my god that whole post was a mess... My apologies.
Blergmeister
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Kibbles said:
Seems odd as that kind of thing has been out of practice for shooters since the N64 era.
GarthVaderUK
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Nintendo currently has the biggest slice of the gaming pie this gen in the UK I believe (like most places I suppose!), but Halo and 360 are pretty damn popular here. Sony has fallen into third place in the UK this gen.
Deputy Moonman
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Late as usual. Just saw this link on bungie.net.http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/digital/gaming/halo-reach-preview-1955640?click=pm_news
Part of me is not sure I like true skill. i guess it does its job, but if you're anything like me then you kind of want a break every once in a while, too, which is why the social playlist, clan ranked games, and individually ranked playlists in Halo2 were so nice. Tired of getting steam rolled in team slayer? Drop down to one of your lower ranked playlists for a break. Tired of playing with morons, and quitters alike in social big team battle? Switch to ranked big team battle and enjoy some real matches. This is not so in halo3. I'm so sick of Halo3 and will never play it again. It's like pulling your teeth out and i was never hot on the game to begin with. I like competitive matches, but not every single game I play, no matter which play list I'm in or whether it's social or ranked. True skill is fun for people like Tashi and others who are so good, it doesn't matter who they're pitted against. But for me, it gets old having my face kicked in repeatedly. And I'm supposed to appreciate this? pffft Take me back to random matches with no ranks please. yeah sure, sometimes I'll get absolutely demolished by really good players, but I'll get breaks from high skill leveled players to balance it out.
Along the same line, if Bungie really wants to invent this monthly arena setting where people play competitively, trueskill should have no part of it. People get to rank up in arena by playing people of similar skill? that's stupid imo. Yeah, I know the game is finished, but i'm on a
roll. Now that Halo3 is so close to being nothing more than a memory, all my bitterness and hate for the game are finally seething out. Reach can't come any sooner!
Part of me is not sure I like true skill. i guess it does its job, but if you're anything like me then you kind of want a break every once in a while, too, which is why the social playlist, clan ranked games, and individually ranked playlists in Halo2 were so nice. Tired of getting steam rolled in team slayer? Drop down to one of your lower ranked playlists for a break. Tired of playing with morons, and quitters alike in social big team battle? Switch to ranked big team battle and enjoy some real matches. This is not so in halo3. I'm so sick of Halo3 and will never play it again. It's like pulling your teeth out and i was never hot on the game to begin with. I like competitive matches, but not every single game I play, no matter which play list I'm in or whether it's social or ranked. True skill is fun for people like Tashi and others who are so good, it doesn't matter who they're pitted against. But for me, it gets old having my face kicked in repeatedly. And I'm supposed to appreciate this? pffft Take me back to random matches with no ranks please. yeah sure, sometimes I'll get absolutely demolished by really good players, but I'll get breaks from high skill leveled players to balance it out.
Along the same line, if Bungie really wants to invent this monthly arena setting where people play competitively, trueskill should have no part of it. People get to rank up in arena by playing people of similar skill? that's stupid imo. Yeah, I know the game is finished, but i'm on a
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A bit offtopic, but since I have not tried any Firefight yet but thinking it looks like a blast in Reach - is it really broken in ODST? Everytime I read something about Firefight, "lag" and "shitty map design" get´s mentioned.
Guess it would be the best to wait for Reach to try it out?
Guess it would be the best to wait for Reach to try it out?
Gareth Bale
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Gui_PT said:
Spain and Portugal =/= Europe. And Halo is very very popular in the UK.
oddworld18
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Kibbles said:
couldn't this just be
Microsoft's way of experimenting with "Project $10", offering first-purchasers further online capability? It may be that it's not technically tied to beating campaign, that's just one way you're told to look on LIVE.
That being said, I was sort of expecting
day-one (free?) DLC for a few extra MP maps ever since the map counts first showed up.
Shake Appeal
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I read those spoilers by accident, and if you are interested in MP it's probably worth reading. Doesn't pertain to anything in the campaign, plot, encounters, anything.
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Does anyone know how much the magnum has slowed down exactly compared to the beta?
LAUGHTREY
Modesty becomes a woman
what's this tweet all about?
Deadly Cyclone
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So since we cannot do the OT for a bit, someone could make a "Bungie at PAX 2010" thread in the same vein as this thread.
If you do, add my Youtube and twitter to the OP as I will be posting some videos of PAX and tweeting what I am seeing. I am going to try to do as much Halo as I can.
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If you do, add my Youtube and twitter to the OP as I will be posting some videos of PAX and tweeting what I am seeing. I am going to try to do as much Halo as I can.
Youtube Link
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
Dunno, maybe someone got a smack down. That account doesn't exist! :lolLAUGHTREY said:
Photolysis
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derFeef said:
Firefight isn't broken in ODST but it does have some game design elements that can ruin it a bit. Having the Black Eye skull on makes the game very quirky and frustrating, especially when you end up fighting Drones.
A lot of people do have problems with lag in Firefight because of the way it differs from multiplayer. The game can't just carry on like in MP, and it can't do much to compensate for errors, so a much larger percentage of players experience problems.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
derFeef said:
Ok, now I'm completely confused.
Devin Olsen
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Oh man... They just cannot catch a break. (assuming this is true... not sure of it's authenticity)
100 Copies of Halo Reach Stolen
100 Copies of Halo Reach Stolen
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Wow, only just read those changes from the Beta and I gotta say some of them are amazing.
Rapt they're increasing the damage on the AR, and nerfing the grenades.
I never noticed melee being 'broken' to be honest. But I'm not all that competitive online so I'm probably ignorant as to what makes melee broken.
Also glad their fixing headshots. They were VERY 50/50 in the beta. Robbed me of many many kills.
Rapt they're increasing the damage on the AR, and nerfing the grenades.
I never noticed melee being 'broken' to be honest. But I'm not all that competitive online so I'm probably ignorant as to what makes melee broken.
Also glad their fixing headshots. They were VERY 50/50 in the beta. Robbed me of many many kills.
Deputy Moonman said:
But what about the lesser skilled players? They match up against you because you want a "break". That shits not fun for them. I'm with you that it's nice to go into social playlists and beat up on the bad players once in a while but it must suck getting trounced like that.
However, with the new Reach setup, there's no ranked and then social. It's Arena and then semi ranked social. I expect the objective and MLG playlists in Reach to be very competitive, and they should be in my opinion. That's why true skill matters to me. I don't want to play these non Arena competitive playlists against the same people who play ONLY Social Slayer in Halo 3. That would be so lame.
And if true skill is working correctly, I'd imagine that you would be winning 50% of your matches and not having your face kicked in every time right?
The Librarian
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lol Giantbomb.DancingJesus said:
NullPointer
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Seriously. I love the Giant Bomb guys and always check out the Bombcasts every Tuesday, but I dunno what the hell that is either. Reads like a long form stream of consciousness rant.Hey You said:
Palette Swap
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To be fair, that's true for Spain, Portugal, Italy and France. Hypertrooper says the same holds true for Germany. I don't know about markets like Switzerland, Austria or Belgium but it does paint a picture where UK is the odd man out in western Europe. Maybe MS fares better in northern Europe?Bungieware said:
FunkyMunkey
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urk said:
*bow* Yay.
I'm positive I missed this, but have they changed the vehicle health from the beta? It seemed I would hop in one and blow up in seconds.
I thought Halo 3's implementation was perfect but I'm confused as to how it was different from the Reach beta (even though I know it was
).
Genesis Knight
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I just want to say fuck Jeff Gerstmann's opinions. Don't know about the guy himself but the man's been spewing baseless, uninformed shit since the late 90s and I was pretty happy when he got fired. I've never seen a guy who is supposed to be a professional load so much flat-out ignorance and incorrect statements into his writing. I'm not saying this as a Halo fan, I'm saying this is as a video games fan observing his BS for the past fifteen years.
NullPointer said:
Same here, the whole thing reads really weird. On the one hand people probably knew that Giantbomb was at the event and were expecting something from them on it, and I can totally respect Jeff's honesty here. On the other hand I don't really understand why he wrote that article, at least like that.
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