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This world has been connected. Tied to the darkness... soon to be completely eclipsed. There is so very much to learn. You understand so little. -Ansem

Did anyone like me, Also try and save every single one of them in every mission or place they showed up?

I remember Halo 3 had at least a dozen marines I was basically looking over like a cyborg babysitter. :D Those were the days..

  • 11.27.2012 5:59 AM PDT
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I've always done this.

Actually, even on legendary, if you give them a bunch of power weapons they can be extremely helpful, since they spam it without losing ammo.

  • 11.27.2012 6:01 AM PDT

Cole

After getting run over by marines hundreds of times in Halo 2, I stopped really giving a -blam!-. I still try to avoid friendly fire though.

  • 11.27.2012 6:03 AM PDT

You look around.You fire your weapon before you realize.
Its just me. I fall and you walk up. You cry why.
When i pop up. You look at me in wonder. I say,"ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL."
You bend to my will and go to a cliff, walk off, and fall.
The last thing you hear is me stating as fact,"All will fail the battle of life, you just went early"

I use them as bullet spnges unless I have access to heavy weapons. In that case, I give them those weapons and keep them alive, though they don't really need my help...

  • 11.27.2012 6:04 AM PDT

In the old halos yes but in Halo 4 it's just not the same. These guys aren't kids defending their homes, they're a professional military and should be able to handle themselves.

  • 11.27.2012 6:04 AM PDT
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Yeah, I'd jump back to the last checkpoint if a bunch of my Marines got killed.

I'd also give them better weapons. Near the end of High Charity, you can have a whole squad rocking Beam Rifles. And on Tsavo Highway, you can load up the troop Warthog with Fuel Rod guns.

  • 11.27.2012 6:22 AM PDT

The Game

In Halo, Fallout or The Elder Scrolls, I'd always put their life before my own. Especially in New Vegas since I played with Hardcore mode on, which gave my allies permanent death.

  • 11.27.2012 6:50 AM PDT

A competitive players main goal is to win.
A casuals main goal is to have fun regardless of whether that results in a win or loss.
It has nothing to do with individual skill or knowledge, it has to do with the reason you play.

Depends on games.

But one thing I always try to save, protect whatever.

Animals, I don't know if it's my love for them but I don't see myself ever shooting or sacrificing a dog or other animal in a video game, In Skyrim I always tried to save the dumb goats that got attacked by wolves and never attacked non-aggressive animals in the game.

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  • 11.27.2012 6:53 AM PDT

What a waste....

I either try to save them or intentionally run them over with the ghost b/c reasons. ;)

In Fallout or TES, of course they die for real so... yeah of course I try to save them! If they do die I generally just reload a save or use console commands though.

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  • 11.27.2012 6:54 AM PDT
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Well yes I liked saving teammates back in the Halo 1,2 and 3 days, but it's not rewarding anymore. Back in the 'old days' your AI would actualy do something rewarding if you saved their puny lives. In games now a days, they just try their hardest to die as fast as possible.

  • 11.27.2012 6:55 AM PDT
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Mass Effect, mayne. Mass Effect.

  • 11.27.2012 6:56 AM PDT

Posted by: AngryBrute1
Oh yeah, since somebody does not believe what YOU believe; that makes us vapid...
I cannot grasp that what you call "Something happened to nothing, and that nothing became something, and it was smaller than than a period."

Posted by: Heisenburg
I've always done this.

Actually, even on legendary, if you give them a bunch of power weapons they can be extremely helpful, since they spam it without losing ammo.
And then one plasma shot kills them...

  • 11.27.2012 7:06 AM PDT
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There was that one who saved me from becoming paste via hunter twice.


I was sad when she died especially considering she made it all the way with me to fight Regret.

  • 11.27.2012 7:11 AM PDT
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Takes me back to my Halo: CE days.

I always attempt to save as many Marines as possible. I also ended up reverting to a previous checkpoint so I can save them all.

  • 11.27.2012 7:31 AM PDT

Favorite Quote by an Anonymous YouTuber:
"I hate when people compare Ozzy to God, I mean, he's great, but he's not Ozzy..."

I remember in Star Wars Battlefront, both 1 and 2, I would always attach myself to an A.I. and just try to keep him alive for as long as I could. It was even more fun when I made squads of Dark Troopers or Droidekas; me and my A.I. compadre(s) usually decimated loads of enemies.

I even did it with vehicles. Dual IFT-X's and AT-ST's...

  • 11.27.2012 7:43 AM PDT

Give all your Marines Beam Rifles on Gravemind in Halo 2 and they'll take down errthing.

  • 11.27.2012 7:46 AM PDT

Multi-trillionaire modern cowboy.

That's right.


Posted by: Binman59
In the old halos yes but in Halo 4 it's just not the same. These guys aren't kids defending their homes, they're a professional military and should be able to handle themselves.

  • 11.27.2012 7:49 AM PDT

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Posted by: snip3r dud33
Honestly, this is a good cover up for all the idiots who won't know its a cover up .

I never was able to save those Marines in 343 Guilty Spark :C

  • 11.27.2012 8:23 AM PDT

Dear tomorrow, Find some sensibility, Respond to emotion.
Dear Politician, Define sagacity,
All chances of survival are beginning to diminish.
Comedy is no excuse for our own blasphemies.
Mass media, Mass pessimism, Mass Denial.
My television tells me to panic, but I don't think I'll listen.
The apathetic force us to persevere, with their backwards priorities.


Posted by: Heisenburg
on legendary, if you give them a bunch of power weapons they can be extremely helpful, since they spam it without losing ammo.


I always gave to them with one round left.

  • 11.27.2012 8:24 AM PDT

If you can read this, that means I'm not a Shaolin monk...

yet.


Posted by: Koolen
Well yes I liked saving teammates back in the Halo 1,2 and 3 days, but it's not rewarding anymore. Back in the 'old days' your AI would actualy do something rewarding if you saved their puny lives. In games now a days, they just try their hardest to die as fast as possible.

  • 11.27.2012 1:37 PM PDT

<(-_-)> Teh mokey is not amused

I always try to save ODSTs, spartan 4's and similar high profile NPCs, though many allies die too quickly for me to save them.

  • 11.27.2012 1:39 PM PDT

Take me into your heart! Accept me as your savior! Nail me to the -blam!- cross, and let me be reborn!

Depends on the game. If it's Halo we're talking about, I don't give two -blam!-s about my allies.

  • 11.27.2012 1:40 PM PDT
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In CE Legendary, I would breath a sigh of relief if I had marines with me. They sucked in every game since. In Halo 3 I'd just betray them.

  • 11.27.2012 1:40 PM PDT

If you can read this, that means I'm not a Shaolin monk...

yet.


Posted by: SubtleSpartan
I always try to save ODSTs, spartan 4's and similar high profile NPCs, though many allies die too quickly for me to save them.

Keeping them alive was far more manageable in earlier games

  • 11.27.2012 1:47 PM PDT