/v/ - Video Games

>>16564262

I don't fucking care about halo, and go take your shitty xeno fetish to /xen/ you muh dick nigger.

Those better be boys, OP

>>16564404

you better get in the bog, fag

What did they end up saying about Reach Beta for PC? Launch today?

>>16564462

>game pass

Halo Reach better come with a reach around if they want anyone to use that shit.

>>16564581

Anything made post 343 buyout isn't canon.

>>16564581

Holy shit why weren't there more cool energy weapons? I know Covenant shit uses depleteable (to humans) battery weapons, but the idea of an energy spear is just baller

>>16564586

>written by Joseph Staten

Are you fucking dense?

>>16564626

Not. Canon.

>>16564650

Not👏Canon👏

>there were actual good games at mircocuck's conference

>lol let me make another thread for gaylo

So, I didnt play 4 or 5. Did Chief end either of those being ejected into space?

>>16564593

You are a certifiable nigger.

>>16564798

>>there were actual good games at mircocuck's conference

I sat through the whole ordeal and you are a lying sack of shit.

>>16564874

Why's that? Do you ever get deployable plasma shields or cool energy melee weapons that aren't swords?

>>16564262

Reminder to use /xen/

Is Infinite based on First Strike or something? Any details on the story so far?

I'm calling bullshit on that trailer, no way a dude would pass up a hug with master chief.

>>16564934

There aren't any details as far as I know. This and the announce trailer are the only things that I know of.

>>16564934

It's set on Zeta Halo, which has already had some explaination in the lore. If you're a lorefag you can go here https://www.halopedia.org/Installation_07

So is it a soft reboot or what?

I stopped playing halo about 2 or three chapters into 4. The story was just stupid. Why is a snackbar saving Master Chief?

>>16565249

Yes.

>>16565247

Looked too clean to me. Reach at least had noticeable grime/wear and tear on it.

>>16565249

Only in the sense that they want to distance themselves from the shit people hated, it's still in the same timeline

>>16566103

but hey they have tits.

what? they're aliens? You are right, why do aliens have tits? That's not very alien…

>>16565216

>It's set on Zeta Halo, which has already had some explaination in the lore.

<All lore related material was made after Halo Reach

So, all the lore behind it is the equivalent of fanfiction.

>>16565478

So, rather than try to "fix" all the bullshit that happened in Guardians, they're running away to do something completely different? That already makes the game sound like it's going to be top notch material ( :^) ).

>>16566250

Well, Draenei females also have cloven feet and horns. Goats have cloven feet and horns and they also produce milk. Therefore, goats have tits.

>>16566332

> they're running away to do something completely different?

No, it seems like they're probably continuing the same storyline since they've written themselves into a corner

If anything they'll just cut down on the bullshit parts and go for a more classic bungie thing

I'm sure they will fail horribly at it regardless

no gameplay

>>16564448

But that's not a female elite. It's a female of the prophet species their other ruling class.

>>16566540

>No, it seems like they're probably continuing the same storyline since they've written themselves into a corner

I don't see how they could have written themselves into a corner when they had the entire story planned out for the next 20 years: http://archive.fo/Rjvct

>If anything they'll just cut down on the bullshit parts and go for a more classic bungie thing

>I'm sure they will fail horribly at it regardless

Of course they will because Bungie was willing to rebuild entire levels if there wasn't anything fun about them, and rewrote entire parts of the story when it didn't seem like there was any flow or direction to it.

Why no fucking gameplay?

>>16568678

Likely because it's not coming out this year

>>16568743

Not an excuse

>>16568743

Didn't they say Holiday 2020?

>>16565046

I think odst had the best soundtrack tbh.

>>16568823

Infinity will likey be a Next Box exclusive. And, they're probably trying to guage this year as to what features will and won't be in the game. Basically another case of them announcing the damn thing too early.

>>16564798

It wouldn't be such a big deal if there was at least something to talk about. This newest trailer showed absolutely nothing that we didn't already know from last year's conference.

My condition for interested in this game is if I see that they've at least made an attempt to get away from the secondary movement mechanics (Sprint, clamber, thrust gimmicks etc.) that people have been bitching about since Reach. If they can manage that I'll give it a chance.

'It's not canon' literally equals: 'I only liked the original(s)', they've still got (your parents) money.

>>16564626

>>16564448

>>16564650

>>16564659

>not canon

What the fuck does your 'canon' matter when the only modern iterations of anything baring its name are gonna be more of this kind of shit? There's more trash Halo than there are half decent titles now. Yeah you can go back and play the old ones (why bother unless you've never played them) or ignore this new dreck entirely but you can't delet the stink of this newshit from Halo by saying it doesn't exist. Soon it's all Halo will be.

>>16564415

you mean >>>/bog/

>>16566332

343i's halo novels aside from the travis ones have actually been really good.

It's baffling how they fucked up 4 and 5 plot's so bad in comparsion

>>16571466

>even further split fetishes into more boards that will all die

Great idea! /demonp/ already exists

>>16571479

That board name sounds bad though, you gotta name it something that consolidates everything weird that normal people dont find sexy. but still isn't freak shit like piss and shit.

>>16571484

What's in a name? Making a new board just because you don't like the name is kinda stupid.

/xen/ and /clang/ both also already exist and have for years, so anon's idea of consolidating these boards together won't work.

>>16571479

Isn't /demonp/ for gay stuff?

>>16571528

Think about it from a marketing stand point, something with a poorly thought out name doesn't sell

cough, wii u, cough

>>16571535

Yes, but I'm sure the BO wouldn't mind a straight thread.

>>16571543

This is an imageboard, not a marketplace. People used /gamergatehq/ for ages even though that board had a horrible name.

>>16571551

Yes but non directly invited people will never check it out if it doesnt have a decent sounding name.

I like how this thread derailed from Halo discussion into "what kind of board we should make for degenerates".

>>16571459

>>16571466

Consider that calling your board anything related to xenophilia and/or teratophilia may also attract rapefuges with niggers and/or people with serious visible defects, or mostly their supporters/apologists. I'm aware that these terms usually means attraction to aliens and monsters respectively, but they have two meanings. I have made some name that aims at non-human spot but it's homemade and maybe not 100% accurate, besides implies something worse.

And since you want board for degeneracy combined without freak shit you might as well allow furfags, just not the kind with their fucked up sonas and otherkins. Bad idea but hey, you might grab that little percent of activity, because many of these sick bastards are into monsters/aliens as well. :^)

>>16571586

When in the ever has the term been thought of for refugee niggers?

>>16571446

vien is that you

>>16568882

They've already confirmed it to be on both current gen and PC

>>16571594

Why do I also know that name?

>>16564262

Gaylo, Baby's First FPS was never good.

>>16571594

Nope, I don't even know who that is.

>>16571632

This is true

>>16571591

Because even lowly retard can search for xenophilia and first they will see is that "attraction to foreign people, manners or culture", which is not always means aliens but niggers.

Same with teratophilia, with term is used not only to monsters, but also to deformed people.

Exophilia, on other hand, is an attraction to strange or otherworldly life-forms, including extraterrestrials, supernatural beings, monsters and robots.

>>16570880

I-I like space boys

And here I was expecting to see H1

>>16571642

/xen/ has a gay thread

>>16571642

I mean whatever floats your boat as long as it isn't human

>>16571640

Maybe, but i don't think anybody would be that stupid since boards also have a co description in the site search.

>>16564764

Doesn't matter. Once the franchise was sold off, it stopped existing.

>>16564448

>"Her decidedly humanoid appearance is a stylistic choice to make her a more sympathetic character."

this shit is fucking cancer

>new halo game

<its just master chief again

cant we get one where we play as the grunts in large scale battles and a focus on teamwork?

>>16575611

I can imagine it now, it would basically be like Pikmin.

The three different classes of Gruntmin. Red grunts with plasma pistols build stuff and attack. Blue grunts with needlers buff the army attack and make grunts not scared. Yellow grunts with fuelrods are the only ones that can use special weapons and emplacements, and repair things. If any of them run out of ammo or get scared enough they either run away or activate suicide mode. You play as Captain Ramilo, an Elite who's trying to reunite his army and rebuild his space cruiser after crash landing on a ring due to fighting humans.

>>16566339

but why not have crotch tits? That's where a goats teats would be if they stood on hind legs.

>>16578103

cause that's fucking disgusting and impractical to design around clotheswise.

>>16564448

>halo legends

Fuck I need to go rewatch that, I dunno why so many people call it shit. Half the stories on it were amazing. Something about the Be Human one really touched me.

the ones with daisy too

>>16579003

a-anon the closest I've been to drawfagging is the E3 squilliams. I'm not skilled enough to draw lewd items like handholding

>>16574897

I take this stance on everything vidya and film related.

>>16579064

You will never know unless you try.

>>16578742

Yuri isn't really that good since it wont lead to cross species impregnation but more power to ya.

if Master Chief model looks unfinished in the trailer i am really worried for whats going to be released

>>16583626

No anon don't be disgusting. Yuri magic causes impregnation through h*ndholding and headpatting.

>>16583626

This faggots clearly not down with his Atelier lore, what a gay hahahaha!

>no gameplay

Who cares?

Apparently each MCC game will cost $9.99 on Steam and the Windows Store.

>>16589392

Considering they will be releasing one at a time chronologically, its not a bad price at all. I'm pretty excited tbh.

>>16578140

tits are gross in any case. Besides, tits only really develop when the female is pregnant. It's something unique to humans to have breasts and not have young sucking on them.

Your aliens should be alien and not human, lest you get into that ultra-faggotry known as monster girls.

>"infection" stuff towards the beginning

>name is "infinite"

its going to be procedural generated flood with no plot

>>16590974

>>tits are gross

Found the homosexual is what you should have said. It's pretty ironic that a literal homosexual like him would call anything gay

>>16590974

Entoma is a skinwalker.

>>16591340

But she's a spidergrill anon

>>16592234

She's a stinky bug that needs the boot, that's not even her real face.

>>16588055

Halo 5 had the best forge in the series and really good core gameplay and MP tho

>Halo online

it's shit.

It had potential but the moment they changed shit not just to improve or refine it, but just to make it closer to Halo 3 for the sake of it, it became shit.

Removing sprint, loadouts, etc is one thing, but they outright made the AR and pistol shit just to be like how they were in 3.

>>16575611

>>16578011

Unforantely dudebros, anti-lorefags, and radical-classicfags (emphasis on radical, obvious the classic halo games overall are the best ones) bitched and moaned so hard about 5's story and pinned the blame on locke/not having enough MC rather then the shit writing that 343 commited to shoving MC into every game moving foward

>>16564262

Can someone who has kept up with this dead horse of a franchise explain this to me.

Why was masterchief floating in space? And why were they outside installation 04 again*(the halo from the first game)**?

>>16594544

>i can't spoiler

fuck me

>>16594544

>Why was masterchief floating in space?

No one knows yet.

>were they outside installation 04 again?

No, this one is Installation 07.

>>16564874

>thinking spears are only for niggers

You have a certifiable nigger brain.

>tfw no sangheili gf to hold hands with in the missionary position for the sole purpose of procreation

>>16596186

>procreation

I don't want to imagine what a human/Sangheili hybrid would look like

>>16596191

Don't be mean to my hypothetical daughterfu anon-kun

>>16596186

>tfw no sangheili bf to hold hands with in the missionary position for the sole purpose of love and pleasure

>>16565046

No music has the right to be this comfy

>>16596224

You better not be one of those homer-sexuals. /xen/ is not for sexual gratification but starting a Christian family and welcoming them home after a busy day glassing heretics

>>16596309

If one of the main characters of Halo 5 is a sangheiliboo, who's to say one of them cannot adopt human culture? And proceed to start a family

>>16596242

>/xen/ is not for sexual gratification

I agree, that's why I'd cuddle with him every night and generally be a good househusband

>>16566103

>that one oglaf comic

>>16593521

Halo Online is still the best we got until MCC comesto PC

>>16596471

It's not gay if you want to bear their offspring

>>16597546

What >>16599895 said :^)

>>16600300

I respect your shit opinion, anon.

>>16600426

Ours is a mission for mankind that doesn't also have the prerequisite of autism

>>16600426

>Furries

<Want to lower themselves to fucking animals

>Xenophiles

<Through the power of their dick, they constructed spaceships that travelled to the farthest reaches of the universe in search of xeno pussy

>>16600462

If you think that liking furry means you want to fuck animals, then you must be the kind of idiot that equates loli with pedophilia.

>>16600566

The difference is furries keep getting caught raping torturing and murdering animals whereas lolicons have, what, that one guy in Japan?

>>16600278

All of your posts have been about being a huge faggot. I only wish to mother a half sangheili child.

>>16600306

Based off Halo 5 Forge, I can say that the gameplay is a step backwards but the forge mod is goddamn glorious. It's pretty satisfying to ground pound too

>>16600462

What if the furries are aliens like sergals ?

So its ok to fuck sergals ?

>>16603487

I don't know what that is, but it's a fact that sangheilis can't be compared to fur faggotry

>>16600306

Nah, i'm correct. 99% of the people I see who shit on 5's MP haven't played it.

Loadouts, armor abilities, perks, killstreaks from reach and 4 are all gone, on map pickups are back, descope is back, and even starts are back. Map design is the best it's been since 3 or arguably even 2; since it's got CE/2 style verticality and more skilljumps then any other game in the series.

Aiming and movement is tight and responsive, probably the best in the series aside from maybe 2. Guns are all hyper accurate, with automatics actually being useful past 5 feet; and in the general pretty much all guns are useful in their own niche and decently versatile (though the TU fucked weapon balance), etc.

Thrust, Hover, Slide also all add new skilljumps and movement complexity, which is something that Halo has always struggled with relative to other arena shooters; and are in line with Halo's core design pholsophy as putting emphasis on map traversal and platforming, unlike Reach and 4's gimmicks which go against Halo's core design goal of even starts and pickups.

>>16602208

Gameplay sure as shit isn't a step backwards from 4 and Reach.

>>16604002

Halo 5 also kept sprint - which is cancer - and added the clamber mechanic which completely removed the need for crouch jumping - which is double cancer. Ground pound was okay though.

>>16604002

You celebrate all the things that furthered to ruin the franchise after 3, how did you find yourself here casual?

>>16564262

What the fuck did you see? Link needed to this official Elite titty shit.

>>16606801

He's talking about how there's no gameplay. Unfortunately there was no qt xen on stage

>>16607066

Okay let's talk about Halo.

I used a Covenant Carbine and shot a Spartan online. This means I want to commit mass murder. Fuck off. Filtered.

>>16607150

Have you tried playing Halo: ODST?

>>16609112

Is 2D non-human?

>>16609112

Furfaggotry is sub human and the xeno is at least human, maybe even higher than human

>>16564448

Looks like someone spent too long spanking it to James Camerons Avatar and thought they want them tasty Pandoran Dollars

>>16609043

Of course, it's one of my favorite Halo games. But it still felt rushed, and lacked certain things that could have made it far better.

>>16606621

Anon, you clearly misread my post.

Halo 5 REMOVES the bullshit that Reach and 4 did: Loadouts, nodescope, perks, killstreaks, armor abilities, etc are gon, and BRINGS BACK Halo CE, 2, and 3 style even starts, pickups, etc.

>>16606524

There's still crocuh and nade jumps in 5 you can't use clamber to make, though, and hover, thrust, etc also add way more skilljumps on top of that.

Would you choose a female spartan or female elite?

Or both?

>all these furries ITT

At least MG fags want to fuck thibgs that actually look like people. Thos is just pathetic, then again a good 94% of /v/ has honosexual tendencies. No wonder this boatd is shit. Gays and furries everywhere

>>16610176

Female Spartan. That would be like dating an actual Amazon.

>>16610356

no one cares, cry about it in your blog or go be a hero somewhere if it bothers you that fucking much.

>>16611879

>tfw no dragon husbando

This thread is fucking awful. A real shame when we're talking about a Christian series.

>>16610176

Reach and Halo 5 spartans have armour that really show off the good stuff, which is what any self respecting man should pick.

>>16611915

What if it's consensual sex in the missionary position for the sole purpose of procreation?

>>16611915

>not being a space missionary who convinces xeno to be Christian through intercourse

>>16611879

>skates by the post because grammatical errors

Calling it now, the dude is a phone poster, but it doesn't excuse the fact that furries are disgusting and /v/ is a den of furries and closeted homosexuals

>>16612973

the thing you have to remember about furries is that they're all prison gay

>>16610356

>thibgs

anon, don't post while you're jerking off, it's just impolite

>>16612973

like, actually straight? like 100% straight?

fuck no

>>16612973

>Commies are bleeding in the streets

>To protect you from FAAASHHHISSSHTS

I wasn't aware that old veterans, women, children, and essentially anyone who looks like an easy target is a Fascist.

>>16612973

They just fap and that's it. They don't participate in the social aspect of it.

>>16613771

>And most of it is betas giving up part or all of their sanity to join a group that makes them feel "loved" but in the worst possible sense.

You're not wrong there, a significant amount of the way they interact can be categorised into "lovebombing" which is a major red flag for cult identification when applied to broad groups or just straight up co-dependence nurturing in purely 1on1 situations.

>>16613781

No, scalies and xeno lovers are not furry

>>16614618

Still faggot shit that has nothing to do with the game. Take it to its containment board.

>>16614767

I still don't understand how placing AIs in slipspace prevents rampancy

>>16614852

So you're saying /xen/ is the patrician's fetish?

>>16613781

So its ok to fuck Halo's aliens and female soldiers ?

I never said it was not a fetish, what is wrong with having a fetish? i just jerk off too the fuzzy whammen and be on my way. I dont give a fuck what you have to say about it.

>>16616267

>Fuzzy women

>Not scalyboys

>>16616428

Anon its 2019, girls can be boys too

GOD

>>16564404

>>16616274

>>16616431

Would you mind not trying to be a fag?

>>16564262

gaylo is a shit game and you should unironically kill yourself, as well as every /xen/fag that can't be bothered to take his fucking porn to /vp/ or any other board

>>16621435

Anon you can't escape the /xen/. It's only a matter of time before you have a spess waifu

>>16621188

I wasn't until you responded to me

>>16615134

Time passes differently. It's basically just slowing down the passage of time from a non-slipspace perspective.

>>16617978

>try to play halo 1 and 2 on PC

>they're really boring

I just hope theres a MCC gamenight

>>16622441

>I was pretending to be a faggot

>>16626123

One could argue that Marty's music made Halo. I have all his OSTs in my music library.

>>16626720

Why is his work so memorable and unique when most game orchestal stuff is so bland and forgettable?

>>16626746

Because he's a music genius (autist)

>>16626720

Then you should probably check out this:

zophar (dot) net/music/xbox/halo-2

It has some extra music not on the OSTs

Where is the fat femspartan T&A?

I tried Halo 1 recently and didn't get far, quit at the third level. Do the games get better as you go further into the series or is it just good for the multiplayer?

>>16628749

Why did you quit anon?

>>16628762

For one I disliked a lot of the weapons. Two, the highest difficulty, legend or legendary, everyone was a bulletsponge. I liked the idea of vehicles and large open levels, but the whole area where you go indoors in some vehicle with a mounted gun felt like a mediocre setpiece and then I just forgot about the game.

>>16628749

>Do the games get better as you go further into the series or is it just good for the multiplayer?

Halo CE was released in the year 2001. Its the roughest entry in the series and a lot of the mechanics feel clunky due to shitty aim assist and poor visual cues. Playing through it is only important for the exposition, specifically on the forerunners.

>>16628772

>played on legendary and complained about everyone being a bullet-sponge

Energy weapons do more damage to shields and bullets do more damage to flesh. This is one of the core mechanics of Halo and legendary difficulty turns it up to 11 to test players who are well versed in their damage tables. Try playing on heroic or normal for your first play-through. Legendary relies on you being able to know the exact potential of every weapon you encounter.

>>16628888

I guess I could give it a second shot. Nice quads.

>>16628893

the plasma pistol and regular pistol is a strong combo for elites. use the plasma charge up to knock out the shield then switch and headshot to put them down.

>>16628893

Also don't play 2 on legendary. THey had to rush that part of development at the end so it's utterly unfair.

>>16629455

Every title after 2 did that. Reach especially was the most deadly. Damn elites were ready for anything. They'd actually circle around and melee you in the back if you weren't careful. Also the grenade spam. So much grenade spam.

>>16628749

Nah if you don't like it then don't play the series. Halo is naturally kind of weird and floaty, it does get better but if you can't stand CE then you probably won't like the rest of the games.

>>16630265

>The campaigns have optional co-op

Can't wait to play this with my potato buddies!

>>16628749

Don't be so lewd anon

>>16630368

I believe in the superiority of mankind through badass space marines and round, bouncy T&A.

>>16630481

What about with intercourse with xeno

>>16643495

God yes.

>>16630265

>Designed for controller

Not really before being ported to xbox, it was Mac/PC with a Half-Life styled weapon system (weapons are grouped into types). Microsoft gave them like something to the amount of 5 months to get everything to work on the xbox

>>16629455

H2's development WAS rushed. Due to what they had originally not running on Xbox hardware and when it did it was shitty. They had to rewrite the entire engine from the H2 E3 demo

>>16643495

Absolutely, I cannot go more than a few days without watching the full vid.

>>16630265

>the series was developed with a controller in mind.

The first game was developed for nearly 4 years as a Mac exclusive and only 8 months for an Xbox release.

All it's mechanics were transitioned (sometimes very poorly) to the sequels as well.

It realy is telling how previous PC exclusive first person shooters with PC FPS mechanics became popular on consoles and console exclusive shooters were forgotten.

Too bad said previously PC FPS games franchises are now pieces of rancid shit.

>>16643530

>>16644297

Halo has always been a console-first series; the fact that it was initially developed for Mac is irrelevant. It was bought by Microsoft, tailored to the Xbox (which is still the highest rated version of any Halo game on Metacritic of all time, with a 97), and the rest is history.

>>16644297

It did set the control scheme that most other modern shooters today are based on

>>16644543

>Halo has always been a console-first series; the fact that it was initially developed for Mac

Stopped readig right there, you literally proved yourself wrong

>>16644878

Unfortunately it standardized aim assist which is absolute cancer and one of the worst FPS game mechanics you can have on a console.

>>16644996

Aim assist is only acceptable if your game requires the player to be managing numerous variables simultaneously. Of course modern games are so dumbed down and slow that this never happens.

>>16645014

>Aim assist is only acceptable if your game requires the player to be managing numerous variables simultaneously.

Like something throwing off your aim, yeah, I thought of that but publishing executives nowadays are too pussy to implement anything of that sort on their cashcows, much less their console cashcows that are in decline in favor of Fortnite and PUBG.

>>16645014

>Position

>Velocity

>Acceleration

>Look (XYZ)

>Ammo

>Nearby enemies

Yeah, no variables whatsoever

>>16645054

>Actually defending aim assist

You need to be punched in the fucking mouth

>>16645046

If you took a game like Titanfall 2 but gave it a greater emphasis on melee combat and crowd control I could see it being great, but there's no way in hell any studio capable of such a thing would try it.

>>16644515

>That pic

That is a build of macworld 99, back when the game's MP would play more like battlefield. just an FYI

>>16645068

I'm not defending aim assist. I'm just proving you wrong hun

I demand more xen in this thread

>>16645182

Everything that would be posted exists in one way or another on >>>/xen/

>>16645068

Everything or Nothing was the magnum opus of TPS Bond ludo, shame most bond games are stuck on console

>>16645842

Go to cuckchan with you.

>>16645001

Considering it’s Friday, 343 probably fucked again and it ain’t happening

>>16645484

She's super skinny, though.

>>16645842

You tell’um, nigga.

These craka’s don’t know bout some finna Halo, gnome saiyan?

Get dat Ex-baux, niugga.

Bid Nood.

Should I pirate CE for some singleplayer? I think I've burned out on Doom/Quake fanmaps and I need a bit of a break.

>>16645997

What is "finna" supposed to mean?

>>16646070

Finna is a bastard form of "fixin' to" which is already a bastard form of "going to" or "gonna" if you want to be informal but still have a general audience understand what you're trying to say.

>>16628749

people dicksuck CE because it's the first game a lot, but it's really flawed in terms of how repetitive it gets with lacking enemy, weapon, and envouirmental variety.

2 still has some levels like that but the other half of the levels are vastly improved, and 2 also has legitmately good writing, not even just by video game standards, though this turns off some people who would rather a more minimalisic expierence just about shooting ayys

>>16648270

>full recon armour set

are they seriously going to limit it to sets only?

>>16648500

They're keeping it just how it was anon. The only thing they mentioned that would change would be the way you unlock it.

>>16648489

>I completely forgot to rank Halo 1

I'm retarded. Halo 1 goes above Reach in Story, goes above Reach in multiplayer, and goes above Reach in my personal favorites.

>>16648937

What about Project Cartographer, and the different Halo:CE servers that sprouted after GameSpy went diwn?

>>16648937

>my PC was absolute shit back during ElDewrito and I couldn't get to join those

Halo Online was designed to run a russian PC toasters, how bad is your PC?

>>16648937

Anon how bad is your PC goddamn

>>16649353

Because ED is based off a early alpha build and is unoptimized as fuck. Don't take the fact the game is RU based in origin as a reaosn why "it should run on toasters".

>>16651517

>>16649353

I couldn't open a browser for a long time without my PC imploding itself, that's how bad it was. I upgraded my PC recently, though, so I'm good to go this time around.

>>16649342

I honestly slept hard on CE for years, but I should probably check out the Cartographer mod. That's the one that expands upon the campaign, right?

>>16651817

Cartographer is for HALO 2 VISTA and basically is a work around for the GFWL going off. uncaps framerate and does some other stuff. They wanted to originally also get co-op working over netgames but that seems to have died off.

Custom Edition/Halo PC don't have a "unofficial" mod to get the server lists working. their respective 1.10 patches updated the masterserver table to look at a new one instead of the gamespy one.

Shame Custom Edition is dead and most of the servers left are spics with 200 ping, playing on stock map servers. Even coldsnap is fucking dead.

>>16651817

>I couldn't open a browser for a long time without my PC imploding itself, that's how bad it was. I upgraded my PC recently, though, so I'm good to go this time around.

Almost certainly some bit of hardware was fucked or it was full of malware.

Bump

the same thing that happened to banjo and kazooie with rare.

WITH YOU LOSE!

>>16566103

>Reminds me of the sexual dimorphism in the Draenei from WoW.

>tfw male draenei are more lithe in all their previous artwork

>suddenly roided out after the exodar crashed.

>>16648489

>The only redeeming thing from Halo 4 is that its story is unpopular opinion the peak of the series.

By story do you mean campaign/fighting ai or cutscenes?

>>16648482

>>16648489

Good shit anon. I think this is a much more intellectually honest assessment of the games then most people do, and I largerly agree with most of what you've said.

Wanna dispute/add a few things though.

>he movement is floaty as hell, maps can get repetitive real quick, the Library is aids, and the multiplayer suite is very barebones.

I don't mind CE's movement; but the big issue with CE from a campaign perspective is it's lack of variety. Not only is there barely any guns (though, to be fair, CE has arguably the most balanced sandbox in the series) and barely any enemy variety, but the indoor environments all use copy pasted geometry and layouts, while most outdoor areas are wide open and empty, leading to you engaging the same enemies the same way over and over with the same weapons in the same sort of envoirments.

>but its storytelling was definitely an upgrade from 2 which is cool I guess,

Vehemently disagree. 2's got some actual narrative complexity going on, with multiple plot threads and narrative lines, the arbiter actually undergoing character development, way better use of thematic symbolism (MC's medal ceremoney being contrasted with The Arbiter's trial, for instance), etc. 2 is the storytelling peak of the franchise.

>and it's a shame it was let down by a less than stellar story

It's not shakesphere or anything, but you have an actual cast of characters who interact with each others and great use of cinematography with neat camera angles and framing. That alone puts it above CE and 3 from a story perspective. Likewise, while none of the missions are 9/10's or 10/10's, I'd say they are consistent 7.5/10's to 8.5/10's, which IMO arguably puts it on par with or ahead of 2 or 3 overall, even if it's got less highs.

Personally, 2 still has my favorite campaign even if it's got a lot of lows simply due to the sheer number of highs and how good the core gameplay feels, though, combined with said excellent storytellibng.

>reticle bloom being introduced where now there's a fucking luck aspect to actually hitting someone regardless of how good you are

Halo 3 had random spread on the BR to begin with, which I would argue is even worse then Reach's DMR bloom, since at least the DMR can pace it's shots to keep the spread down and it's shown on screen, and since aside from the DMR bloom functions fine, with it outright helping guns like the AR be more accurate.

I also personally enjoy how reach feels to move, aim, and shoot then in 3. Armor abilities break even starts, yes, but movement feels more responsive (3 feels fucking glacial even compared to CE holy fuck), aiming feels tighter, guns feel way more impactful to shoot, and so on.

>'d say the only good things about Reach was that forge and custom games were even better than 3,

I think yoiu are underselling this. Not only is forge like 3x better, there's more custom game options, there's campoaign matchmaking, fireifght is back and while it's more arcadey then tense now, it's got way more options and supports matchmaking now, etc. Halo Reach may be the most content dense FPS package ever released on console.

> Reach's campaign is so-so,

Again, like ODST, I feel like reach, while having no excellent missions, has consistently great ones. Not as good as ODST (similarly, reach likewise has an actual cast of characters and good cinemagraphy in cutscenes and framing/thematic use, albiet not AS good as ODST's) but still consistently above average by OT standards. I think part of the issue with ODST and Reach's campaign is both go for a way more subdued feel, which leads to them feeling a bit less exciting.

>>16648489

>>16666793

>>16648482

cont:

>4's base movement and shooting is Halo to the core…

I used to agree, but having gone back to it it's way worse then I remember It's still Halo, yes, but it's slippery and feels bad.

As far as loadouts, perks, etc, I agree, though I'd argue that loadouts and perks alone COULD work in a specific game-mode tailored to them, the issue was placing them in by defeault and ordiiance/drops is just bad in general. 4 with all of them turned off is decent, though. Not sure why they brought loadouts back after intially disabling them in H4 matchmaking in MCC.

> The only redeeming thing from Halo 4 is that its story is unpopular opinion the peak of the series. The writing was better, the pacing was better, the VA was better, the depth was better, everything was just better.

I think 4 TRIED to do this, but failed in execution. How Cortana and MC act make no sense, the dialog was cringy, etc. I'd also like to note that 4's sense of atmosphere is fucking stellar. It does a lot of the same shit CE did with contrasting natural spaces with forerunner ruins and using ochectral tracks vs electronic ones with synth to do so, but to an even greater effect: A lot of tracks freeily mix the ochestral and synth elements, sort of mirroring how much more extensively engineering Requiem is as a setting, and it also mixing in glitchyness, distortion, and more omnious, threatening style of chanting vs just the classic monks, which makes those electronic tracks feel threatuing on top of mysterious, mirroring how the forerunners are the enemies this time around./

Seriously, go back and listen to 4's soundtracks, some of them are fucking gems. In general the atmopshere and music really makes me wish 4 was sort of Halo: Metroid Prime edituion, with MC and Cortana stuck alone on requim together, with no UNSC and mminimal covenant, more open, explorable overworld rather then linear missions, etc. Cortana slowly going insane over the course of the game with you having to kill her at the end, and then instead making the didact be the villain of H5, with him wanting to bring the galaxy to peace by force makes more sense for him then it does for her (not to mention her being brought back to life for no reason).

>Multiplayer is much, much better. Power weapon control is back, classes are gone, random loot drops are gone, weapons are actually balanced again making everything viable again. They also actually kind of managed to do something which Bungie couldn't do which is add another layer of depth to Halo's core gameplay by adding spartan abilities. Unlike Reach's armor abilities which were either completely useless, broke map design, or just brought the gameplay to a screeching halt, spartan abilities actually work. Spartan abilities keep movement going and actually elevate the movement set especially with things like clambering, and being able to float mid-air while aiming. I'm actually a big fan of the expanded movement set of 5,….5 is the only game that actually gives me Halo 2 vibes with how fast and chaotic it can be sometimes and I found it quite fun actually.

100% agreed, especially with the H2 comparsion. I think some Spartan abilities are sort of pointless and charge is broken, but on the whole they are great additions and I think people are shitting on them on principal just because people, after reach and 4, still have open wounds with Halo trying new things even if 5's stuff, unlike them, actually works with what makes Halo Halo.