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Subject: Worst video game story of 2012?


Posted by: finalknight92
Halo 4

  • 01.04.2013 3:20 PM PDT

WarZ.

  • 01.04.2013 3:21 PM PDT
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Probably COD.

  • 01.04.2013 3:21 PM PDT

Posted by: RussianHobo115
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Posted by: Hylebos
If that really bothers you then perhaps you should lead by example. You praise Halo 4, but you don't post any reasoning backing it up. You say Del Rio is a deep and well designed character, but then you don't post any reasoning backing it up. It's a two way street guy, if you want reasoning, provide some yourself.


When did I say I praised it? When did I say he is a deep and well designed character?
The only thing I was posting to say was that Halo, while not amazing or a wonderful story, certainly doesn't deserve the title of "Worst game of the year" or "completely bad story", as claimed by others.

You are assuming I meant things that I never actually said.
why doesnt it deserve the title of worst story 2012?
Well...

  • 01.04.2013 3:23 PM PDT

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Posted by: finalknight92
Halo 4

  • 01.04.2013 3:23 PM PDT

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Blops 2


...someone hasn't played it. Treyarch completely changed the formula for how a CoD story is written.
I concur. The story, like every other CoD, is essentially a "leave your brain at the door" action movie, but it's actually pretty good in that respect. The way the plot branches doesn't have worlds of depth, but it did have enough to make replaying the game interesting, and Treyarch deserves credit for it.

Without having played the full game, I'm going to say Ninja Gaiden III. The new series has had a laughable story, but the first two games were the best in their genre in terms of gameplay. The third game probably has a comically cliche story on top of sucking ass, so I have to go with it. I didn't play many new 2012 releases, hence why I had to go with one I didn't play much of.

  • 01.04.2013 3:24 PM PDT


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Posted by: finalknight92
Halo 4


I was wondering when the bandwagon hate train would show up.

Look, I know you're just a guy with a tiny dong and an even smaller brain, but to say it was not a good story is laughably misguided.

  • 01.04.2013 3:25 PM PDT

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Posted by: Hylebos
If that really bothers you then perhaps you should lead by example. You praise Halo 4, but you don't post any reasoning backing it up. You say Del Rio is a deep and well designed character, but then you don't post any reasoning backing it up. It's a two way street guy, if you want reasoning, provide some yourself.


When did I say I praised it? When did I say he is a deep and well designed character?
The only thing I was posting to say was that Halo, while not amazing or a wonderful story, certainly doesn't deserve the title of "Worst game of the year" or "completely bad story", as claimed by others.

You are assuming I meant things that I never actually said.


why doesnt it deserve the title of worst story 2012?

Simple, because the story wasn't bad.

  • 01.04.2013 3:28 PM PDT

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Lol. Halo 4? Hilarious.

You guys have obviously never played a bad game if you think Halo 4 is the worst game.
There was quite a few parts of the campaign that were so laughably bad and seemed entirely avoidable. I've show some of Del Rio's finer pieces of work to friends who aren't gamers, and even they find him completely unbelieveable and ridiculous, especially when I tell them that he is the captain of the biggest and best ship that humanity has ever made.

It's hard to imagine that anybody watching those cutscenes must have thought to themselves "Yes, this is decent and passable work." Del Rio is literally screaming his lines. Even his voice actor must have had a twinge of embarassment delivering some of them.

It's certainetly not the only part of the Campaign that's flawed either. Is it the worst Campaign of the year? Statistically there must exist something that was worse, but for such an anticipated title and the first step into a new trilogy, Halo 4 did fall flat on it's face in many regards.


Del Rio losing his -blam!- was the very point of that scene, to show that he was not a leader of men and therefore inferior to the Chief who was ready to take the initiative outside of protocol.

If you've got a guy with obvious confidence issues next to the man who is believed to be the savior of mankind, you're going to get a laughably pathetic response. Pathetic is the point they were making, I...literally don't get why that's bad.
I'm saying that they could have easily accomplished their goal without turning Del Rio into a Level 10 asshat 24/7. Halopedia says that he has more than 30 years of naval experience against the Covenant, but he sure as hell doesn't act like it. My Dad is an officer in the Navy, and even he independently commented about how unrealistic Del Rio seemed from a millitary standpoint throughout the entire Campaign.

The fact of the matter is that Del Rio has an excellent point, however poorly articulated it may have been thanks to 343 Industry's writing skills. The UNSC Infinity has just encountered and barely survived a new alien threat that is entirely unlike what they've encountered before. The desire to fall back to Human controlled space and get reinforcements / decide what to do is a very understandable course of action. Chief however has more experience and is the only one on the ship that understands just how urgent a threat the Diadact is, so it's only reasonable that Del Rio wouldn't see the situation from his viewpoint.

Portraying Del Rio as a reluctant commander who has been softened a bit by four years of peace and is unwilling to risk the thousands of lives of his crew against an unknown alien threat without backup would have gone over much better in the believabillity department than portraying him as the galaxy's biggest douche. Sure, perhaps tensions flare during the final confrontation where Chief directly disobeys his order to surrender Cortana and come with him, but do so in a believeable way, there's absolutely no need to shout your lines.

It's a complete shame and seems like such an obvious blemish on an otherwise okay Campaign. I actually thought a lot of the other new characters were good, Lasky was okay, Tillson was very well done in my opinion, and portrayals of Chief and Cortana were okay (although Chief at times sounded a bit like a child who had just lost sight of his mother). Naturally the gameplay had it's ups and downs, and I thought the bit where they called Chief the Chosen One and the culmination of a plan that was millions of years in the making was completely cliche and unneccessary, but there were some solid gems scattered here and there.

[Edited on 01.04.2013 3:35 PM PST]

  • 01.04.2013 3:29 PM PDT

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  • 01.04.2013 3:31 PM PDT

Posted by: Deep Fryed Emu
Posted by: Hylebos
If that really bothers you then perhaps you should lead by example. You praise Halo 4, but you don't post any reasoning backing it up. You say Del Rio is a deep and well designed character, but then you don't post any reasoning backing it up. It's a two way street guy, if you want reasoning, provide some yourself.


When did I say I praised it? When did I say he is a deep and well designed character?
The only thing I was posting to say was that Halo, while not amazing or a wonderful story, certainly doesn't deserve the title of "Worst game of the year" or "completely bad story", as claimed by others.

You are assuming I meant things that I never actually said.
And thats why it's important for you to provide reasoning for the things you say, so that unfortunate misunderstandings like this don't arise. You said you liked the scene where Del Rio has a temper tantrum, I only assumed that could be because you somehow thought he was a well developed character and was acting in a completely reasonable and rational way.

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Posted by: finalknight92
Halo 4

These people are either hopping on the bandwagon or are incredibly stupid. Maybe even both.

  • 01.04.2013 3:36 PM PDT
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Posted by: Hylebos
Posted by: Deep Fryed Emu
Posted by: finalknight92
Halo 4


I was wondering when the bandwagon hate train would show up.

Look, I know you're just a guy with a tiny dong and an even smaller brain, but to say it was not a good story is laughably misguided.
"I'm ordering you... TO SURRENDER THAT AI!"

Yep. Quality acting right there.


That line had me laughing so bad when it came on that I almost choked to death

  • 01.04.2013 3:36 PM PDT

1. Half-Life 2
2. Mass Effect 3
3. Mass Effect 2
4. Tie between Halo 3 and CoD4
5. Medal of Honor or Spec Ops: The Line

"You can be larger than life. But you can't be larger than death."

Resident Evil 6. Why does this series need to be alive?

Also Far Cry 3 had a great story but it felt like it didn't live up to it's potential. Both of the endings weren't very satisfying either. The "Join Citra" ending sucks in all ways while the "Save Your Friends" ending didn't give enough closure. It was still a great game though.

  • 01.04.2013 3:42 PM PDT

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Posted by: Hylebos
When did I say I praised it? When did I say he is a deep and well designed character?
The only thing I was posting to say was that Halo, while not amazing or a wonderful story, certainly doesn't deserve the title of "Worst game of the year" or "completely bad story", as claimed by others.

You are assuming I meant things that I never actually said.[/quote]And thats why it's important for you to provide reasoning for the things you say, so that unfortunate misunderstandings like this don't arise. You said you liked the scene where Del Rio has a temper tantrum, I only assumed that could be because you somehow thought he was a well developed character and was acting in a completely reasonable and rational way.


No need to condescend to me; assuming won't get us anywhere.

Anyway, from events prior to the yelling we gain a sense that Del Rio already is frustrated with Chief's interjections on plans. The cutscene prior to Reclaimer shows us this already. Its very well possible Del Rio was always a hot head of sorts, and the fact he already disliked Chief makes his outburst seem feasible. People often act tense or (as we have seen in this thread lol) outburst angrily due to any number of things: stubbornness, fear, etc. I believe Del Rio suffered from all of these things: He was stubborn in his role to listen to Chief, he was fearful of the prior events and wanted to leave ASAP. I think the reaction/over-reaction fit well given these circumstances.

I do think saying the line was "poorly acted" is an over-statement. I don't see it at all.

But yeah, thats my opinion on that scene that you decided to bring up as an example.

[Edited on 01.04.2013 3:43 PM PST]

  • 01.04.2013 3:42 PM PDT

War Z.. duh!

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  • 01.04.2013 3:44 PM PDT

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Tough one. I'm going with Halo 4, but not because I'm blindly hating. I couldn't stop laughing uncontrollably during the "emotional" sequences between Cortana and Chief. AI can't feel emotions. It's silly to base a great deal of the plot around a flaw.

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Posted by: swvjdirector
Tough one. I'm going with Halo 4, but not because I'm blindly hating. I couldn't stop laughing uncontrollably during the "emotional" sequences between Cortana and Chief. AI can't feel emotions. It's silly to base a great deal of the plot around a flaw.


Obviously they can have emotions, because cortana has done throughout the entire series. Blind hater.

  • 01.04.2013 4:04 PM PDT

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Posted by: finalknight92
Halo 4

Goddamn it.

  • 01.04.2013 4:04 PM PDT
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Posted by: finalknight92
Halo 4

  • 01.04.2013 4:05 PM PDT

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Posted by: finalknight92
Halo 4
I was wondering when the bandwagon hate train would show up.

Look, I know you're just a guy with a tiny dong and an even smaller brain, but to say it was not a good story is laughably misguided.

  • 01.04.2013 4:05 PM PDT

1. Half-Life 2
2. Mass Effect 3
3. Mass Effect 2
4. Tie between Halo 3 and CoD4
5. Medal of Honor or Spec Ops: The Line

"You can be larger than life. But you can't be larger than death."


Posted by: swvjdirector
Tough one. I'm going with Halo 4, but not because I'm blindly hating. I couldn't stop laughing uncontrollably during the "emotional" sequences between Cortana and Chief. AI can't feel emotions. It's silly to base a great deal of the plot around a flaw.
They do when they're going crazy.

  • 01.04.2013 4:08 PM PDT

http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=39477223


Posted by: Deep Fryed Emu
No need to condescend to me


That is rich coming from you, the bulk of your posts have been throwing insults at everyone.
Among your first responses was a remark about my brain and dick.

You are in no position to hold yourself over anyone

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We are all going to get banned aren't we?

It is so funny because i think most people are saying halo 4 in an attempt to be funny. I am sure there were games that merit the worst game of the year.


If you only played halo 4 then you can't say it.

  • 01.04.2013 4:11 PM PDT