The Halo Thread V12: The Last Thread Turned Into A Bridge - Games

[QUOTE=KorJax;49000412]I'm not finished with the campaign yet but I really don't understand the hate? The story isn't amazing or anything but the missions themselves so far as really damn good, so is the level design. It's fun and works well. I really think the campaign hate is a pretty kneejerk reaction. Plays, looks, sounds, feels excellent. Then again I'm not the kind of person who invests so heavily into marketing hype and is a lore fiend enough to start in Halo 5's campaign already invested. The actual plot points are completely secondary to me. I like the Halo universe but the games have never had top tier stories. Halo 2 was famous for a shitty ending and not much happening beyond fleshing out the universe and establishing Arbiter as a character, Halo 3 had some pretty big plot holes. That said, in their defense it was nice having a story that backdropped with huge battles that felt like you were actually apart of and had a side on.[/QUOTE] From what I hear, the campaign plays fine for the most part, besides maybe the endgame [sp]triple Warden fight[/sp], but it's the unremarkable and downright poorly written plot that most are complaining about. Or the fact that the four-player co-op is pretty much a pointless advertisement since you can only play online with friends, yet your offline AI buddies are basically braindead meatshields.

[QUOTE=usaokay;49001332]The partner AI is god damn moronic, like most co-op shooters.[/QUOTE] Played with Xaelener last night and half the time we were just laughing and screaming at the AI while we were downed.

The Ai might be total Dumbasses, but they come in really useful when you need to take down a real bullet spunge. Tell em to target it and they'll light it up with everything.

I must be stupid. I can't figure out how to find the Spartan Company.

First sentence/link in the OP.

[QUOTE=Makol;49001661]First sentence/link in the OP.[/QUOTE] Maybe I'm a big ol' dummy, but all I see is a picture.

to clarify what i said earlier, i think the campaign has great level design and its really fun, especially the blue team missions, but the overarching story is incredibly bland and downright stupid comic book writers are some of the worst in the business when it comes to writing intriguing stories and/or good villains

[QUOTE=Falstad007;49001822]Maybe I'm a big ol' dummy, but all I see is a picture.[/QUOTE] It's right below the picture.

That's a link to a picture on dropbox, man. It's just a list of armor from reach.

They removed Reach from the backwards compatibility page, it hurts to live. [url]http://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-one/experience?xr=shellnav&ocid=Platform_SOCIAL_Twitter&cid=Platform_SOCIAL_Twitter[/url] [img]http://compass.xbox.com/assets/3d/2e/3d2e94f5-3a86-4454-ad9a-99a92693ca80.jpg?n=BackCompat_XB1_collection_all_ac_576x324_01.jpg[/img]

So far i am liking Warzone and Arena Slayer.

Fuck the gunplay just feel so damn good in Halo 5 Really hoping the BTB maps have some good variety and life to them. Arena maps we have now are fine for quick 4v4 scraps but they are small and don't have quite the same "inspiration" a lot of the bigger classic halo maps had

[QUOTE=Phantom Lord;49002070]That's a link to a picture on dropbox, man. It's just a list of armor from reach.[/QUOTE] Oh shit. My bad. Should be fixed now.

Played fine on launch now getting all sorts of errors :v: 'Profile Sync Error' being the current one fml

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/WNKY44i.jpg[/IMG] Was in the middle of a firefight when Buck wanted me to draw him like one of my French girls.

[QUOTE=Fat White Lump;49002394]They removed Reach from the backwards compatibility page, it hurts to live. [url]http://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-one/experience?xr=shellnav&ocid=Platform_SOCIAL_Twitter&cid=Platform_SOCIAL_Twitter[/url] [img]http://compass.xbox.com/assets/3d/2e/3d2e94f5-3a86-4454-ad9a-99a92693ca80.jpg?n=BackCompat_XB1_collection_all_ac_576x324_01.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] Reach confirmed to be coming to Master Chief Collection? Please?

Can't even do multiplayer because of these problems starting dedicated servers. What a joke.

[QUOTE=Dmaster;49002679]Can't even do multiplayer because of these problems starting dedicated servers. What a joke.[/QUOTE] Even custom games use dedicated servers, so you can't even play that.

[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvx6owcri7s&feature=em-uploademail[/media]

[QUOTE=overwatch pvt;49002504]Oh shit. My bad. Should be fixed now.[/QUOTE] It's all good man, requested to join.

Wait, so do they block out their maps in forge and then geo the map out with their own tools?

[QUOTE=xalener;49002909]Wait, so do they block out their maps in forge and then geo the map out with their own tools?[/QUOTE] If I understand it correctly just with the brakeout maps. [editline]28th October 2015[/editline] Oh I didn't finish the video, I see what you mean.

[QUOTE=ghghop;48999588]I see a lot of complaining and yet no one is gonna return it. You like the game so just fucking play instead of bitching about it on an Internet forum[/QUOTE] Maybe because everyone seems to think the rest of the game is solid.

Christ these pubs are terrible I've lost 6 games in Arena in a row now [editline]28th October 2015[/editline] Make that 7 now whelp I'm done for today

[QUOTE=Tuskin;49002714][media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvx6owcri7s&feature=em-uploademail[/media][/QUOTE] This is the biggest joke I've ever heard. How does anyone think its a good idea to model a pistol as a brick and use a normal for details you can model. Normal maps are for small details and optimization not for "classic feel". This is such a failure of a remake imo.

[video=youtube;WVQ4Bp7vlwc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVQ4Bp7vlwc&feature=youtu.be&t=7m16s[/video] Very helpful jumping advise.

The Campaign plot was fanfic tier writing. Gameplay however was actually pretty fun. The AI was often hilariously bad, but made boss fights easier (sometimes) On co-op the game is freaking cheese

Moving onto mission nine now, I'm actually liking the story so far. Spoilering for good measure; [sp]I love that the Sangheili have Grunts on their side as well, I missed having Grunt allies, also, Arbiter does seem to sound a bit more like he did in the older games with whatever they did to Keith David's voice, unless I'm just in that big of denial.[/sp]

[QUOTE=Killer monkey;49003797]This is the biggest joke I've ever heard. How does anyone think its a good idea to model a pistol as a brick and use a normal for details you can model. Normal maps are for small details and optimization not for "classic feel". This is such a failure of a remake imo.[/QUOTE] The idea was to make it exactly the same as it was back in halo 1, albeit with normals since cubemaps aren't the only source of lighting anymore. I think they accomplished that quite well.

I'm actually ok with the major plot points beside the [sp]Chief's fake terrorist attack charges just disappearing [/sp] but it's just paced and told soooo fucking badly This game is lucky it's good.