[QUOTE=The Jack;51166298]Honestly stopped caring for lore when the themes changed. The forerunners were mysterious, the war a loosing one, the spartans rare and tortured super soldiers, not [I]The Avengers[/I]. And the games didn't have a story that was personal that became less identifiable with because of increased personality.
When I played bungie's halos, The player character was me with a nice voice saving the world. When I play 343's halos, we're looking at an emotional,personal story that distances me from the character.
(I then included a multi-paragraph explanation on how a lot of promethean tech doesn't make sense either on practical terms, like buttons disintegrating when you use them, or was drastically different to contemperary tech, like how their weapons disintegrate on kill while every other game has had sentinels go to the effort of trying to burn flood clean. This went on to things like hardlight without relevant projectors (that scene at the end of halo 4) , copy-paste of prometheans, colour coded prometheans, and a bunch of other shit that was added by writers and gameplay developers with little care for sci-fi conventions. But it was better to not bore everyone)
You can't buthurt me with lore anymore. I treat 343s stuff as an entirely different universe to bungie's stuff. Once you recognize them as distinctly different things, it's not so much a problem.[/QUOTE]
not to mention the reliance of books/comics
With bungie, books were an addition to the story for players that wanted more, now if I want to be up-to-date with the story I have to buy dozens of books and comics
So, while home from college (had to evacuate due to the hurricane), I did indeed wind up buying a used copy of Reach. Turns out, I got lucky- it was a preorder edition copy with an unused code for the Recon helmet and an unused free 2 days of Gold membership code as well.
The game's playing quite well so far (I'm playing it on a 360), and the MP's actually still somewhat active. A pretty good deal for 9 bucks.
halo reach back compat comparison between when it was first released and now with the ~900mb update releasing today
[hd]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb3xFIA8J5I[/hd]
Jesus fuck that Campaign performance in the original XBO release.
No wonder people were pissed.
Yeah I was watching that and thinking "This doesnt look to bad, maybe the textures are a little better." but then it got to the campaign and I instantly went "Oh"
That looks promising, I think I might actually give it a try.
That looks a lot better
halo reach now runs BETTER than the 360 version, here's a more proper analysis. practically 30 fps solid where 360 would dip to 25 or so
[hd]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAUL1iXw210&feature=youtu.be[/hd]
[QUOTE=343N;51174651]halo reach now runs BETTER than the 360 version, here's a more proper analysis. practically 30 fps solid where 360 would dip to 25 or so
[hd]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAUL1iXw210&feature=youtu.be[/hd][/QUOTE]
I get a feeling the textures/graphics aren't perfect yet, but damn is that an improvement.
Is it me or does the new BC release also have more popping colors compared to before?
I haven't bothered with H5PC in a while, did they get around to fixing FOV and such already?
[QUOTE=Linda,Octopus;51174720]I haven't bothered with H5PC in a while, did they get around to fixing FOV and such already?[/QUOTE]
You mean adding? Fixing would mean it was broken.
Also no.
man now that I have decent internet I'm host for every single reach game :v huge advantage goddamn i love it
[editline]9th October 2016[/editline]
i can finally scope down the center of the map in asylum and snipe properly since my fps doesnt dip to 20 anymore like on 360, goddamn yes
I actually managed to do pretty well for my first few Team Slayer and BTB matches on Reach (360) yesterday and today. Not spectacular, but I managed to have a positive K/D most of the time and held my own against a lot of veteran players.
That being said, it seems like a lot of players in Reach really get OCD about camping power weapons and vehicles. I can understand in game-modes like BTB or objective gametypes, but I had a match earlier where I picked up a sword off a dead enemy player and he continually chased me the rest of the match trying to hog it.
[editline]9th October 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE=343N;51174915]i can finally scope down the center of the map in asylum and snipe properly since my fps doesnt dip to 20 anymore like on 360, goddamn yes[/QUOTE]
I got a cross-map DMR kill on the forge world version of Coagulation in a BTB match earlier, feels so satisfying, especially when you snipe somebody out of a vehicle.
[QUOTE=RikohZX;51158892]Definitely, it's not the 'best' game of the series and opinions about it are pretty mixed in some ways, but it's still a solid game in its own right. Plus if you have an Xbox One, I think the backwards compatibility problems have been patched (though I may be wrong).[/QUOTE]
I haven't played the newer Halo games, but Reach was honest to God my favorite Halo game just on the odd virtue that Noble 6 was technically you or your Noble Six. You're not pre-determined person other than dying at the very end but I felt it was like a fucking swan song because it was the end for you but really the beginning.
MP was pretty fun with some the new vehicles, I really digged the Invasion gamemode because was Humans vs Aliens which was fun shit and the armor customization was pretty good because it retained that very utilitarian, very rough and grounded armor that you'd picture Humanity wearing. Compare Reach to Halo 4 and 5 and you kinda wanna slap yourself with how fucking stupid the armor designs got, hell read my point on Fallout 4's armor in the Fallout thread to see how much I had very bad and radical changes.
testing frame interpolation to see if i can get reach in a good looking 60 fps format online
[hd]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot5hEJrvKYk[/hd]
60fps? yes. good looking? mmm....
Would it ever be possible to update it to 60fps natively or would that involve reworking everything? (I understand why the games are locked to certain framerats)
im guessing itll be fine but i mean halo 3 odst and halo 3 were ported over fine and they use the same version of the engine so, then again we have no way of knowing if they added interpolation to animations or w/e for 60fps or if it's already there, (basically if they made it so it wont be like CE where all animations are 30fps)
I think there was some issue with the positions of the camera in cinematics being done per frame but I guess they could just be keyframed
[media]https://youtu.be/hb0gsD5m3Rw[/media]
Positions of cameras shouldn't be an issue because a handy thing called "tweening" exists.
[IMG]https://image.halocdn.com/h5/requisitions/26ec394c-ae06-4144-ba10-86152c666460?locale=en&width=200&hash=QHCtk4neTkmZ3K6mfWbDnC53%2feDqEQ%2fEDr15zQ0h7vw%3d[/IMG]
FUCK YEAH
Now if only I could apply it...
[QUOTE=RG4ORDR;51175384]I haven't played the newer Halo games, but Reach was honest to God my favorite Halo game just on the odd virtue that Noble 6 was technically you or your Noble Six. You're not pre-determined person other than dying at the very end but I felt it was like a fucking swan song because it was the end for you but really the beginning.
MP was pretty fun with some the new vehicles, I really digged the Invasion gamemode because was Humans vs Aliens which was fun shit and the armor customization was pretty good because it retained that very utilitarian, very rough and grounded armor that you'd picture Humanity wearing. Compare Reach to Halo 4 and 5 and you kinda wanna slap yourself with how fucking stupid the armor designs got, hell read my point on Fallout 4's armor in the Fallout thread to see how much I had very bad and radical changes.[/QUOTE]
You know that there was people in this thread that defended 343i's armour design?
[QUOTE=343N;51174915]man now that I have decent internet I'm host for every single reach game :v huge advantage goddamn i love it
[editline]9th October 2016[/editline]
i can finally scope down the center of the map in asylum and snipe properly since my fps doesnt dip to 20 anymore like on 360, goddamn yes[/QUOTE]
I've long avoided sniping in asylum just because of that. Do you experience any drops now? IIRC the Noble Actual cutscene ran like complete arse on the 360 when all the spartans were heading towards the falcons.
[QUOTE=SpartanXC9;51176574]You know that there was people in this thread that defended 343i's armour design?[/QUOTE]
Actually it's almost there, but they need to bring back the space diapers to fix it.
[QUOTE=FlandersNed;51176587]Actually it's almost there, but they need to bring back the space diapers to fix it.[/QUOTE]
and the black undersuit
[QUOTE=SpartanXC9;51176574]You know that there was people in this thread that defended 343i's armour design?[/QUOTE]
Do you feel a compulsive need to take every chance you get to point out how horrendously awful it is that people have opinions?
I hate the art style too, but seriously dude, that had nothing to do with what he was saying.
[QUOTE=SpartanXC9;51176574]You know that there was people in this thread that defended 343i's armour design?[/QUOTE]
tbh the armor design isnt [B]horrid[/B] on every armor
the only armor set im kinda feeling shitty about is the one that looks like doom's starter set and the recruit set
and the one that has a spike coming out of the forehead
the rest look pretty ok tbh
The slightest wiff of destain for 343 and Spartan emerges from a crack in the wall... Can you please do something other than discuss your reasons for hating 343 and anyone with an opinion different to your own?
[QUOTE=Wickerman123;51176112]Positions of cameras shouldn't be an issue because a handy thing called "tweening" exists.[/QUOTE]
I don't really get why they didn't just do that in the first place
[QUOTE=SpartanXC9;51176574]You know that there was people in this thread that defended 343i's armour design?[/QUOTE]
How are you still here?
Is it just me, or are vehicles weaker than they should be? It's difficult to kill people with a Wasp (my aim sucks) but it can be downed in less than two clips from an AR. I've had missiles hit me in a Banshee but a single railgun shot is all it takes to kill me. Warthogs are more unwieldy than I remember them being and their weaponry is shit. Wraiths are a no-go because it's too easy for anyone to hijack you now. I haven't had a chance to use a Mantis yet, but everyone on r/halo says they're garbage. Ghosts are still pretty fun though.
I remember beating the crap out of my friends when using a Mantis on Valhalla in Halo 4, what changed?
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