- Black Eagle X99
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- Intrepid Legendary Member
I don't see you doing anything to help our country.
Except sitting at home, naked, eating twinkies, rubbing your hands together going "Heh. Target Destroyed. Mission Accomplished." Oh wait. that's not helping.
Posted by: DarkBen64
Posted by: Black Eagle X99
Posted by: DarkBen64
MS is messing 343i around. 343i are using a lot of new tech and are working together as a new team for the first time. They're using some very clever tech to push the 360 to it's absolute limit. Personally I enjoy Halo 4 and don't get overly emotionally attached to the past games, and don't whine constantly about it.Not an excuse. Push back the date if you can't put out the game in finished condition. It's not like it's programing issues, file browser wasn't done, the servers weren't stress tested, and the game was CLEARLY never bug tested. It is painful that I can get behind a transparent rock in campaign by just leaving the flat part of the level. No effort needed. Great, they have good graphics, that is expected in this generation. Sending out the game like this is on tier with Dragon Age II.
Complete proof you have no idea what you're talking about.
If they pushed back the date I can guarantee you would be whining about how 343i can't meet deadlines and how they should have the game done by now.
The game is finished. The file browser is an extra, it isn't part of the game, per se. As for the game "CLEARLY never being bug tested" well, I'm not even going to warrant that with a reply. THe servers were stress tested fine. I don't think I've ever played a popular AAA multiplayer title that hasn't had server issues early on.
Good graphics is NOT expected in this generation. Else you'd be -blam!-ing about Halo 3's graphics, since that was this generation too.Ah yes, features essential to downloading maps aren't important. What do you think drove Halo 3 custom games? They could have and should have pushed the deadline back. I at least can say I would have respected them for that, as it would have been months ago that it was announced.
Yes every big game has issues in the first few days. We are over a month into the game now and there are still issues. There are still obvious glitches and bugs. The update to fix these issues is coming in maybe December, but they don't know for sure. Obvious glitches. I fell behind a rock and got trapped in it. It was not a high rock. This happened multiple times.
Halo 3 was on par with games that came out around it. Halo 4 is on par with games that came out around it. Sales would have tanked if the game had used Halo 3's graphic system. 343i would have been laughed out of the industry. Stop making excuses up for them.
Posted by: flamedude
Posted by: Kneecap
I just wish that they would have actually added anything to the Covenant sandbox. All they did was take away, literally nothing was added as far as I am aware of.
I dunno man..... they replaced the Scarab with the Lich. That's got to be good isn't it? Replace the awesome giant all-crushing robot monster with a flying lump of trash, that's going to be amazing isn't it?
And replace the classic iconic Plasma Rifle with a Carbine concept reject and call that an improvement. Because why not?
I agree though. 343i added nothing whatsoever to the Covenant sandbox. And yet they are still the best part of Halo 4, Prometheans are just crushingly boring to fight. Spartan Ops only gets exciting when the Covies get in there (with their fuel rod Elites no doubt).
I still can't get over how many obvious mistakes there are in Halo 4. Really obvious things, that if 343 asked you about 6 months ago you would be able to help with. Don't forget that with H4 the storyline makes little to no sense continuing from H3.
-Should the Chief be wearing the same design of armor in H4? Bear in mind that we're probably going to replace his armor in H5.
-Should we redesign the Dawn? You never ever see it in-game but we are thinking of redesigning it.
-Should we keep the Falcon or bring back the Hornet? We were thinking about removing it
-Should we replace the Plasma Rifle with a new design? Best way I can describe the new one..... a purple loaf of bread with a spout.
-We are thinking of removing Assault and CTF. We will replace CTF with a 'new' version with 'new' rules that 'promote fun'. Thoughts on this?
-We've got a new menu design that doesn't utilize the on-screen space very well, and is clumsy. We know the Reach UI was amazing and easy to use, but we thought we'd change it. How do you feel about that?
-For multiplayer we thought we wouldn't add Mk V, ODST, CQB or even Noble Six' helmet. Noone likes those helmets right?
-Also instant respawn and JIP, the idea is good so we're just going to throw it in there.
-And to top it off we thought we wouldn't have a public beta, because if we did we'd find out all sorts of things that we would have to fix. And thats bad isn't it?
These things are so obvious to me, I have no idea how they slipped passed their quality control. And this is just a small list.
/end generic Halo 4 rantYou and I are one brain and the same. I agree with everything you said.