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Subject: Halo 4: A Comprehensive Door Review

Just a side note on your complaints on the story: While I totally understand what you are getting at I would stupid very fast if the entire new trilogy about chief being stuck on the planet. They had to introduce some sort of massive plot. Mayble in Halo 6 we will get that kind of atmosphere.

Also I don't feel new audio should count against the game; I would get bored of the game that much quicker if little details like that were copied and pasted from past Halo's.

  • 11.10.2012 2:53 AM PDT


Posted by: SpAmMer

Posted by: Fuzzy McDoodle
Meh, clearly a Bungie fanboy reaction. Halo 4 exceeds all expectations and blows Reach out of the water in every single aspect.
BRRRT. Wrong.
Say what you want about the other Halo's in comparison but Halo 4 IS miles better than reach in every aspect.

  • 11.10.2012 2:54 AM PDT

Posted by: General Dripik
Just a side note on your complaints on the story: While I totally understand what you are getting at I would stupid very fast if the entire new trilogy about chief being stuck on the planet. They had to introduce some sort of massive plot. Mayble in Halo 6 we will get that kind of atmosphere.

Also I don't feel new audio should count against the game; I would get bored of the game that much quicker if little details like that were copied and pasted from past Halo's.
I'll assume you're saying the series would be for worse if he ended up stuck.

I agree. That's why I said that the ship should be the ultimate goal of the game, or it should get destroyed. If it's destroyed, he should probably hijack a Covenant ship, or something, to get back. I'd prefer the human ship, but I'll take what I can get. However, I would have really liked it if the focus had shifted from run and gun to strategic.

Also, as for sound, I don't mind new sounds. I never really complained about the transitions from CE all the way to Reach. I welcomed most of them. However, too many of the sound changes in Halo 4 don't have the same oomph and affect as in previous games.

  • 11.10.2012 2:57 AM PDT

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I couldn't tell which parts were sarcastic..... and which weren't...

On your statement about the DMR, it's the complete opposite way round. The Br gets damage reduction at range for some stupid reason, yet the DMR retains all it damage at all ranges. Plus it has higher damage per bullet, and fires faster. It needs a nerf more than anything else.

  • 11.10.2012 3:04 AM PDT
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Posted by: theHurtfulTurkey
A real test of a man is if he is willing to scrape a sharpened razor up and down his junk just to please a woman.

Now you team up with humans and go to fight him and stop his plot. So far so standard. However, we get a curve ball in a tried and true formula in that we learn that The Master Chief is really the culmination of thousands of generations of planning. Any and all seriousness or ability to take this series seriously is completely thrown out the window. I can accept The Didact surviving. I can accept the Reclaimer subplots. Heck, I can even accept that Cortana is becoming more unstable and seems to be more lovey-dovey over the Master Chief. Not even the Forerunners' appearance looking like Lord Voldemort even COMPARES to this! The absurdity of this claim is absolutely ridiculous!
Oh, thank Christ for me not being the only person who realized this bit was retarded as well.

/necro because OP linked this in another thread

[Edited on 12.24.2012 11:23 PM PST]

  • 12.24.2012 11:23 PM PDT

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  • 12.24.2012 11:29 PM PDT

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I thought the story was amazing, but I still respect your opinion.

On a slightly off-topic note, the Mantis wins my award for the most fun vehicle to use in a video game.
They story had a TON of potential for amazing plotlines and great, deep emotional themes. However, the addition of humans turns it into a standard Halo affair. If they'd kept it to simply the Master Chief and Cortana surviving on the planet with that ship of humans being an outsider, the relationship between the Chief and Cortana could have been developed in a far superior fashion. We could have really had a great undercover story with Chief launching a solo strike with Cortana being the only thing keeping him alive, and focused way more on a strategic operations style game. That would have really made the game shine. Also, we need to take out the subplot that the aliens planned for Master Chief and Cortana. That's just absurd.

Also the fact, that when you met the spartans and the rest. They don't really update you on the situation or what happened during his 4 years of absence AND they instantly make you work instead of doing something else.

About the weapons and vehicles sounds... I agree. For me they sound very but very annoying at some point that you hate the weapon. I don't why they needed to change everything that was already made and fixed in 10 years.

[Edited on 12.25.2012 12:11 AM PST]

  • 12.25.2012 12:09 AM PDT

william

I disagree

  • 12.25.2012 12:26 AM PDT

"We live in a special time; the only time where we can observationally verify that we live in a very special time" - Lawrence Krauss.

I was a finalist :P

The introduction to Halo 4 seemed fitting in some aspects. You could look at the artistic differences between Halo 3's and 4's Forward Unto Dawn and see that as a massive failure-point. I don't really take it in that way myself, as the introductory level was indeed at a higher echelon of "class" as opposed to some of the other installments, but only when it came to scenery. That's all it does well on, because while the Chief is running and gunning and painting the walls blue and purple, I'm asking myself why the heck are we fighting the Covenant again - more specifically the Elites? At first I thought it'd be explained later on in the story, but all we end up hearing about them is an eleven word, forced, statement by Cortana; i.e "These Covenant seem more fanatical than the ones we've fought before."

There is no mention about what happened in that four year period between Humanity and the Elites; as well as what remained of the Covenant after killing their leader the Prophet of Truth. Are these enemies a faction? Are they the full deal? What happened to all the Brutes and Drones? Nope, no mention, it didn't even pass the Chief or Cortana to ask something that important to del Rio or Lasky.

I also can't seem to understand why so much content was put into the Terminals, an optional objective. The story could have been told a lot more clearly if said content would've been incorporated into the many a cutscene throughout the game. One particular example I could think of is the Didact's entrapment; how it happened (which would've made a clearer link to his hateful nature toward the Librarian.) I'm not stating that you shouldn't place information to find for people who want to delve deeper, but make it so that it is just that: added information which would not effect how understandable the main story is (kind of like Halo 3's terminals.) Added to the fact that people have to not only find a terminal, but access it online in order see it, makes it a complete inconvenience.

[Edited on 12.25.2012 1:42 AM PST]

  • 12.25.2012 1:37 AM PDT
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Posted by: dazarobbo

Posted by: RustedEdge
you also forgot the insane amount of bright light on practically every map
This. This. This. This. This.

I think I may have been sunburnt through my monitor. The glare seemed to be that bad sometimes.

  • 12.29.2012 2:50 AM PDT

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Posted by: General Dripik

Posted by: SpAmMer

Posted by: Fuzzy McDoodle
Meh, clearly a Bungie fanboy reaction. Halo 4 exceeds all expectations and blows Reach out of the water in every single aspect.
BRRRT. Wrong.
Say what you want about the other Halo's in comparison but Halo 4 IS miles better than reach in every aspect.
Sure it is.

Side note:
What the hell is wrong with the lighting?
Culmination of whatever generations... what?
Actually seeing the forerunners ruined the mystery as well as telling us the origin of the flood(in the EU.) I hope they at least keep the Precursors in the dark like those two were before.
Sounds-Some don't even make sense anymore. The plasma mortar sounds like an *actual* mortar.
Textures aren't that great all the time. Mainly talking about the armor on the spartans.

Oh, and what the hell is with all the sky boxes? Its like everything is flat now. Oh wait, IT IS!

  • 12.29.2012 3:08 AM PDT


Posted by: dazarobbo
Good post. I agree with a lot of it, especially in regard to how parts of the story are unexplained.

Posted by: RustedEdge
you also forgot the insane amount of bright light on practically every map
This. This. This. This. This.

I think I may have been sunburnt through my monitor. The glare seemed to be that bad sometimes.
It's never really that bad though...The glare is pretty minor; I find it to be way worse on multiplayer maps like Ragnarok, but even then, it doesn't affect the gameplay itself.

  • 12.29.2012 3:17 AM PDT

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What house has a rocket pod, has legs, and has a long narrow barrel that probably shoots something powerful?

Sounds like you're describing the lower half of my body, actually.


Posted by: General Dripik

Posted by: SpAmMer

Posted by: Fuzzy McDoodle
Meh, clearly a Bungie fanboy reaction. Halo 4 exceeds all expectations and blows Reach out of the water in every single aspect.
BRRRT. Wrong.
Say what you want about the other Halo's in comparison but Halo 4 IS miles better than reach in every aspect.

Yeah man.
I mean Halo 4 has a better firefight mode... wait, it doesn't.
Well, Halo 4 has a better theather mode... Oh wait. It doesn't have campaign theater.

Well...hmmm, forge is... no wait.

Okay well, Custom games is awes... wait you have less options than before.

Well campaign is bett... Wait Halo 4 is more linear and you have more buttons to press.

Okay... matchmaking is... No wait, the matchmaking is handled like crap.

  • 12.29.2012 3:22 AM PDT

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That's one of the more different opinions I've heard.

  • 12.29.2012 3:35 AM PDT

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