/hg/ - Halo General

>Halo 4
>6 hours
In what realm of existance?

>Takes a solo speed runner 1hr30m to beat it on Legendary with no deaths.
>Thinking you should not be able to fly through the game on normal in under 6 hours with no deaths.

My point is that Halo 4 is much shorter than a "6 hour game"

/hg/ is literally fucking dead

no u

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I was the user from last thread asking for a Warthog code for Forza Horizon 3. My Steam name is Snickers Enthusiast for the guy who asked, and my gamertag is LightningGearz.

Not even in my top 5 anymore, and i started with CE before anyone asks.

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People's nostalgia creates undue admiration when it comes to their first game/first game in a series.

It's partly why people are so rabid about Halo 3 despite it being mediocre.

It's partly why people are so rabid about Halo 2 despite it being mediocre.

Objectively speaking, there are more people that like Halo 3 to Halo 2. Either for starting on 3 first, or not being able to look at a game critically to notice the flaws of 3.

it's partly why i'm so rabid about Halo CE despite it being mediocre

Nah, it's forgivable if it's a really good game like Halo 2

Objectively speaking, there are more people that like Halo 2 to Halo 3. Either for starting on 2 first, or not being able to look at a game critically to notice the flaws of 2.

I've really never met someone IRL who really puts ANY thought at all into looking at a game critically, sad to say.

Most of my High School friends were CoD kids who spat on Halo first and foremost because it wasn't *realistic*. They adored CoD because it was "realistic" and because adverts tell them that CoD is the best game ever, and they believe them without hesitation.

One of the few people who didn't play exclusively CoD (and sports games) was something of an Alien and/or Predator fanatic. And when I mentioned that the Aliens: Colonial Marines game had sorta bombed his sole complaint was "Yeah... the graphics weren't that good."

You realize the same can be said about CE and any other game in the series right?

Right, but see, they're not mediocre. That's the key point.

I started with 3 and CE I like the most by a significant amount. I can see why so many still like it the most.

CE is like a 9/10 game considering when it came out.

If that's the case then today it's like a 12/10 considering the fact that the standards for a good game now are so much lower

Again, all those are just opinions.

Well, opinion would be "I like Halo 2"

A fact would be "Halo 3 is mediocre"

Here we go.
Buckle up everyone.

>the standards for a good game now are so much lower
Really makes you think

He said game

An opinion is "Halo 3 is mediocre"
A fact would be "Bungie specifically designed Halo 3 to have the slowest-killing starting weapon in the series, and purposely made the BR unable to hit the broad side of a barn"

It's alright m8, I won't debate it.

The more intelligent fans know it's a fact and the ones who don't are too stubborn and autistic to ever admit it, so it's a pointless exercise overall.

I obviously didn't find it in the TV/movies categories.

It sounds like someone needs to work on his aim.

It's nothing to do with aim, retard. The BR spreads like butter in that game. It was a design decision to not have a gun's bullets go in a straight line.

It's called balancing/nerfing my friend and if it was so bad, 4-shots wouldn't be a thing in Halo 3.

They hardly ever were 4-shots on default damage settings unless you were practically touching the guy. Even then, your shots would probably drop due to the shitty netcode.

We all know that Bungie knows dick all about balance, since the BR was still far and away the best weapon in the entire game even after making it a slot machine.

>We all know that Bungie knows dick all about balance
Now that's something we can agree about, especially on CE-3.

CE was pretty well-balanced, though. Reach was decent if you removed all of the automatic weapons and bloom.

>CE was pretty well-balanced

Could be worse
Could be 343

It was if you weren't trying to AR people from across the map and learned what weapons did what.

How is having proper weapon balance and lack of useless weapons "worse"?

>magnum vs p.pistol = magnum wins
>magnum vs p.rifle = magnum wins
>magnum vs AR = magnum wins
>magnum vs needler = magnum wins
>magnum vs magnum = magnum wins
>magnum vs shotgun = 50/50
>magnum vs sniper = 50/50
>magnum vs rocket launcher = rocket launcher wins
>CE
>balanced
Give me a break m8, i enjoy CE as much as the next guy but bragging about weapon balance in CE isn't a smart argument. Remove the magnum and you got a point.

>using plasma pistol to actually kill stuff
>not ambushing with the plasma rifle or using it against OS guy
>straight-up shooting with the AR instead of spraying at a weak guy or double meleeing

See? That's weak weapon balance right there.

Why is that? Everything has some kind of use. It would be worse if everything was a gun that you could just pull out and create an "I win" scenario. Every weapon has a unique function over another weapon.

Because both of those examples are still outclassed by a simple 3-shot with the magnum.

If you're running out in the open and trying to cross-map with ARs, sure.

Why do you guys do this?
None of your opinions have any more weight than someone else's.
Why don't you actually talk about Halo instead of how you're view on something is "more correct" than someone elses?

What else are we gonna do? Circlejerk about our REQ packs and armor?

Let's talk about how good GoW4 is looking:
youtube.com/watch?v=ji2aU4EdQww

>yfw the cole train is back

>real story
>co-op
>fan favorite and new modes at launch
>with more on the way

Damn 343 about to get BTFO

>What else are we gonna do? Circlejerk about our REQ packs and armor?
How about we circlejerk to Halo porn?

You guys want a big or small map today?

>You guys want a big or small map today?
How about you just make sure it's a good map

This

It has to be big

Small

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my last halo game was reach/odst (whichever came out first). Can someone pls catch me up on the lore? I know there's a lot so however much you feel like typing. I have watched the cutscenes for 4 and 5, but they're pretty lore-thin. halo 4 had a lot of lolwtf moments for me

Small

Adorable

Shite

>Chief wakes up
>Covenant splinter faction attacks his ship
>Escapes onto Forerunner world Requiem,
>Awakens AN ANCIENT EBIL (an old Forerunner leader who fucking hates humans)
>Shenanigans happens
>Stop Forerunner leader, Cortana """""""dies""""""
>Ends with Chief on the UNSC ship the Infinity (mary sue of ships)

Overall, I think the story for 4 was good. It showed human side of Chief, had good development, and the Didact was cool. Now on to 5.

>Some time after 4
>OG donut steel Fireteam Osiris is full of diverse asskicking badass Spartan IVs! :^)
>Chief is with Blue Team, his original team, kicking ass
>Chief hears/ sees mirages with Cortana telling him to go to glassed planet
>UNSC says don't go report back
>"I don't like it" (never understood this. the line doesn't make sense in context)
>Chief goes """AWOL"""
>Locke and Fireteam Osiris given the mission to bring him back
>Fight on Glassed Planet
>Go to new foreunner world Gensis
>Cortana is actually alive, in the forerunner version of google, and wants to use the Guardians to enforce her will on the galaxy blah blah blah
>Chief says no
>Cortana says too bad, locks him in Forerunner jail for 10,000 years
>Osiris tracks them and stops Cortana, frees Blue Team and Chief
>Cortana uses the Guardians to EMP every inhabited world and ship, bar the Infinity
>Ends on Cliffhanger

Worst story in the series. Absolutely atrocious. It will be hard to recover from it too.

I'm bored as shit /hg/

The forerunner wouldn't glass a planet until getting any holy artifacts off the planet correct?

And they had Mendicant Bias (the Oracle) to help them find the artifacts on each planet and track them, correct?

So why was Meridian glassed when there was a Guardian underneath it? The Guardians are the greatest Forerunner weapons next to the Halo rings and the Composer. Wouldn't the covenant come across them at least once and want to find more of them?

Why glass a planet with all of those holy Forerunner artifacts underneath?

Why were prometheans attacking Meridian from space if the guardian was both underground and not woken up yet?

>Why were prometheans attacking Meridian from space if the guardian was both underground and not woken up yet?
It's just terrible writing

I was under the impression the Prometheans were attacking under orders from Cortana to basically clear a path for Chief

Though even after fucking around and fighting Prometheans, Chief only barely beat Osiris to the Guardian

It's gameplay alone though makes up for the crap storyline. That was what made 4 tank I think

5's campaign gameplay is abysmal

Anyone hosting on pc currently?
Have about an hour to play before I have to leave for class.

I miss Bungie :-(

Sorry, I meant overall including multiplayer.
Strictly campaign-wise yeah I think it's the most lacking in the series, but I let it slide on account of me buying the game for the multiplayer.

>to basically clear a path for Chief
Yeah, because those miners sure are a tough enemy.
They could have just flown in, ran inside, and been done. Even dumber when you consider the entrance that Blue Team took was actually just outside of the town you walk around, but their Prowler was at the mines.

Alone it is the worst solely because of the awful AI teammates being so essential. But with four people I think it might be the best.

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>Previous threads since numbering began:
#226 - Big Team Refresh #225 - Shenanigans #224 - Reach's 6th Birthday #223 - Logo #222 - A Tale of Two Companies
#221 - Old Game, New Tricks
#220 - Forge
#219 - Anvil's Legacy
#218 - Build a PC
#217 - Last Chance to Prepare
#216 - Xbox General
#215 - Variety is the Spice of Life
#214 - Vroom Vroom
#213 - The Halo Cycle
#212 - Reach
#211 - Fuck Veggies
#210 - Personal Hell
#209 - Place Your Bets
#208 - Graphs and Ratings
#207 - More DLC
#206 - 10,000 Hours in MS Paint
#205 - Energy Sword > Gravity Hammer
#204 - Gravity Hammer > Energy Sword
#203 - One General One Company One People
#202 - Achievement Unlocked
#201 - Facebook Steals Our Memes
#200 - Milestone
#199 - Free For All
#198 - Under Cover of Night
#197 - Prepare to Drop
#196 - Hexagons are Real
#195 - Spartans Never Die
#194 - Halo 4 is Technically a Halo Game
#193 - Never Trust a Hinge Head
#192 - In Remembrance of the Beta
#191 - Were It So Easy
#190 - Master Chief's Bizzare Adventure
#189 - Arby Had a Hard Life
#188 - RIP Jul
#187 - Smart A.I. was a Mistake
#186 - Our True Cause
#185 - Black Undersuit
#184 - Heretic Hunt
#183 - Master Chef
#182 - Take the Cruiser Back
#181 - What Were They Thinking
#180 - What About That Stupid Cloak
#179 - Parasite's Cove
#178 - We Numbered Now

Always preferred this version over the remake

I mean, four people still doesn't account for the severe lack of creativity with enemies.
The covenant hydra thing was cool, but it was kind of a footnote compared to the Warden(s) coming back every 2 levels.

The memories a flooding back now

I said a good map.
A GOOD MAP.
Do you know what good means?

True. I forgot about the dumbass Warden fights over and over and literally no new enemies except Soldiers

What the fuck happened with 5s development? Why was so much missing?

The creek is still the best multiplayer flag map in the series, you dolt.

Incompetence

It's a nice simple map.

>the best multiplayer flag map in the series
As opposed to that singleplayer flag map.

Autocorrect.
I meant multi flag map

Blue Base has a distinct advantage

Not in the PC or MCC version, the rock on red side blocking camo can be walked behind now.

Wat?
How does that stop blue base from having easy access to rocket?

Because you can nade rockets away.
Red base has the better geometry too. There's more cover up there and you can drop down to overshield with no effort.

>CE
>needing rockets

The Camo is far more useful but Rockets are always nice to have.

>incompetence
If anything its Microsoft's meddling, since I doubt that it was 343's idea to scrap everything and start over without enough time. Same reason Bungie took a nose-dive with Destiny.