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Subject: Would you buy a Spartan Ops Season 2?

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Probably not.

The cinematics make promises the actual "campaign" can't keep. The characters are BEYOND FLAT and down-right offensive to listen to... ESPECIALLY PALMER, of whom is one of a rare breed of genuinely interesting female action characters in video games these days who isn't a Mary Sue, written to try too hard to be "one of the guys" or some other lame cliché... UNTIL SHE TALKS IN THE OPS SESSIONS and is a BLATANT attempt to interject "character" into her by making her the most annoying anti-intellectual there is.

Now, recycling maps isn't necessarily bad... But when they make such BLATANTLY LITTLE EFFORT to make each recycling of the map different from another so the encounters feel almost the same each time... it's a little off putting.

The story itself is super uninteresting. There is some crossover with a major enemy character from the post-covenant stuff in the books, and a lot of potential... which they throughly distill into "kill these guys, push button, rinse, and repeat" with Palmer herself telling you not to think about it too much at every chance she gets.

Now, combine this with the fact that it's supposed to "replace" Firefight, a gametype that existed to promote a fun SUSTAINABLE competitive camaraderie, which exists in it's weakest possible, and least repayable form due to the short duration of the missions, the less-than-stellar number of enemies, and the almost completely absent number of customization options for the gametype.
Some missions come CLOSE to stoking those old FF flames (shootout on Valhalla was super popular for reasons beyond it being set on a popular MP map.... though that did undoubtedly add to the experience.

No. SpOps is not something really worth paying for. The only thing worth PLAYING SpOps for... is the potential it presents. And it presents a LOT of potential that it VERY quickly works VERY hard to dismantle.

  • 11.30.2012 1:19 AM PDT

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Nope.

  • 11.30.2012 1:39 AM PDT
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Posted by: evilcam
Bobcast is paid in MILF blind dates.

Would rather throw my money in the toilet.

  • 11.30.2012 1:39 AM PDT

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Posted by: RustedEdge
Nope.

  • 11.30.2012 1:40 AM PDT
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They should just make an HLG playlist then you guys can hide against each other and see how much fun it is.

Posted by: deathjudge2006
They would have to pay me to play.
-Recylced maps
-Laggy ass multiplayer
-Vehicle damage

The only good thing to Spops are the cinematics. Halo 4 itself needs to undergo a -blam!- load of drastic changes before they expect us to buy stuff from them.

  • 11.30.2012 1:45 AM PDT

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In it's current state people would simply find the cinematic episodes online and just play the old missions. I really don't think people would really even play Spartan Ops if you didn't get such a significant amount of credits. Honestly, there's nothing particularly special about each mission, and therefore, there's really no reason to purchase more.

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  • 11.30.2012 1:50 AM PDT
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Oh god, I can already imagine what Season 2 would be like...

"CRIMSON! 1,000,000 Elites with Fuel Rod Guns are heading your way! Take 'em all out. Here's some extra firepower! *Airdrops a Mongoose*"

"CRIMSON! There's 30 buttons you need to push! Push them in clockwise manner, then do it again counterclockwise! Oh, and there's 30,000,000 Covenant heading your way! Good luck!"

"CRIMSON! Majestic team has come down with a bad case of diarrhea and the rest of us are jerking off in the holodeck! Do everything Majestic was supposed to do, and take out 30 Covenant capital ships using only this stick of gum and a toothpick!"

  • 11.30.2012 3:43 AM PDT

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Oh definitely not.

They really dropped the ball on what Spartan Ops could have been.

Scratch that, the game is a husk of what it could have been.

  • 11.30.2012 4:21 AM PDT

Posted by: TheGreenAlloy
Only if the missions become more like Operations and less like kill a million Fuel Rod Elites.

Also more vehicles!

Agreed! I would buy it then as well.

  • 11.30.2012 4:25 AM PDT

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Posted by: SonicJohn
Scratch that, the game is a husk of what it could have been.

Agreed. 343 tried nothing new playlist wise. That Saber space combat thing Bungie did had potential. Did 343 take advantage of that by making it a play list? Nope they just had some boring space flight in the campaign.

The Pelican. This is the first game where we got to fly one without an Easter egg. Did we have some epic level where we had to either drop in. Or recuse some marines in a heavy combat zone? Nope we just have some boring ass flight where we shot down 10 Phantoms. Which we only flew it for about 5 minutes.

The Mammoth. When you look at the size of that thing you can tell it's designed for heavy combat. And Infinity has several of them. Did we have some epic level where we had a couple of them charging at the Covenant? Nope we had just one that was in the typical Halo styled level.


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  • 11.30.2012 4:41 AM PDT

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I doubt it.

The missions have been rarely interesting, the Valhalla ones were good fun.

But multiplayer on it is unbearably laggy, and seeing as I can watch the cutscenes on youtube without the poor vid quality and freezing on my xbox.

343, you dun derped.

  • 11.30.2012 4:51 AM PDT

I'm 23, I have a house, dog, girlfriend, job and I have no interest in any fanboyism so if you're thinking about sending me a childish PM, don't be surprised when I don't call back.

I love Spartan Ops, Palmer needs to fall off a Cliff though.

  • 11.30.2012 4:52 AM PDT

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You know what this calls for?

A 'CRIMSON!' meme.

I might get to assembling one and setting up shop on some of those meme websites later today.

Refrence. Goal is currently to do the same thing with the proper head and change the colors. "Palmer" is the person always giving you orders, right?

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  • 11.30.2012 4:52 AM PDT

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Yup.

Yeah, the re-using of campaign/matchmaking maps is annoying, but I still like the story. Besides, who knows, maybe they'd make original spaces for a new Spartan Ops season.

  • 11.30.2012 4:52 AM PDT

tfw spartan ops is the only thing that attracts me back to h4 anymore
OT: would buy if i get 50 missions for 800mp or less


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  • 11.30.2012 4:53 AM PDT

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Posted by: IonicWaif5269
tfw spartan ops is the only thing that attracts me back to h4 anymore

Same here. I play the game weekly because of it. The only reason why I'm even playing it is because of the EXP and I want that achievement.

  • 11.30.2012 5:26 AM PDT
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Posted by: culexus
I doubt it.

The missions have been rarely interesting, the Valhalla ones were good fun.

But multiplayer on it is unbearably laggy, and seeing as I can watch the cutscenes on youtube without the poor vid quality and freezing on my xbox.

343, you dun derped.




Poor video quality on the ingame Spartan Ops cuscenes is due to your bad connection.

[Edited on 11.30.2012 5:34 AM PST]

  • 11.30.2012 5:34 AM PDT