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BrownieVK posted:Halo 5s multiplayer is the best in the series hands down. It's also X enhanced and looks amazing on a 4k panel. The story is really really dumb but whatever. Finding matches takes forever in both MCC and Halo 5, populations must be extremely low for both games. All the loot boxes popping up completely killed any interest I ever had in playing Halo 5 multiplayer. And there's barely any exclusives on Xbonx, it's super sad and obvious Microsoft has let the division languish for many years now.
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It's crazy how Halo used to be Call of Duty levels of megapopular, but now is just another notable game release out of the sea of dozens.
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Jul 27, 2018 17:28
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Jul 27, 2018 17:29
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lol yeah remember when microsoft told Bungie to gently caress off because they were sure they could make a Halo game on their own and the tentpole series of their entire games division fell over and died.
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Jul 27, 2018 17:32
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Intel&Sebastian posted:lol yeah remember when microsoft told Bungie to gently caress off because they were sure they could make a Halo game on their own and the tentpole series of their entire games division fell over and died. Im mad that the macintosh only rts i was promised never happened. Thanks a lot bill gates
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Jul 27, 2018 17:36
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RBX posted:For Halo every numbered game and Reach matters, for gears you can ignore judgment. What's OC? Feel free to give me any recommendations. I haven't played xbox since Halo 2 in my dorm years ago.
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Jul 27, 2018 17:39
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You don’t buy a Xbox one x to pay Microsoft games. You buy it because it runs third party and old games better and has a better / less toxic community than psn and a better UI
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Jul 27, 2018 17:48
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Lambert posted:Finding matches takes forever in both MCC and Halo 5, populations must be extremely low for both games. All the loot boxes popping up completely killed any interest I ever had in playing Halo 5 multiplayer. The "loot boxes" are 100% optional. Those are cards for the Warzone and firefight game type where you can spawn with the items on the cards after getting enough points. This is entirely separate from social or ranked multiplayer which is old arena style control of power weapons and everyone spawns with the same loadout. I used to play H5 all the time up until a few months ago. Matches usually take 30 seconds to a minute to load. Not really sure if anyone in here actually has played any of the games they are bitching about?
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Jul 27, 2018 17:52
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Real hurthling! posted:Im mad that the macintosh only rts i was promised never happened. Thanks a lot bill gates Yeah, looking forward to the Marathon remastered 4K edition.
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Jul 27, 2018 17:53
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I played H4 and 5 mp and they aren't bad for a halfway point between Halo and COD but it's extremely laughable to pretend they're anywhere near as good as Bungies' good Halo games. I never had problems with matchmaking but I never tried playing at any point after the natural fall-off point for mp games that aren't that great.
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Jul 27, 2018 18:23
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I wonder why Halo has had such a steep drop in popularity over the past decade?
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Jul 27, 2018 19:00
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punk rebel ecks posted:I wonder why Halo has had such a steep drop in popularity over the past decade? because 4 and 5 weren't very good reach was great though
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Jul 27, 2018 19:09
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Empress Brosephine posted:You don’t buy a Xbox one x to pay Microsoft games. You buy it because it runs third party and old games better and has a better / less toxic community than psn and a better UI The Xbox UI is super terrible, the PS4 has a much better interface. What the hell was MS thinking. Also lmao @ "less toxic community".
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Jul 27, 2018 19:10
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Empress Brosephine posted:You buy it because it runs third party and old games better and has a better / less toxic community than psn and a better UI A PC does the first two things better, the Xbox just has less community full stop and who the gently caress gives a poo poo about the UI? You see it for 3 or 4 seconds before you start a game.
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Jul 27, 2018 19:11
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punk rebel ecks posted:I wonder why Halo has had such a steep drop in popularity over the past decade? because people finally woke up to the fact that halo sucks poo poo and always has
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Jul 27, 2018 19:11
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BrownieVK posted:The "loot boxes" are 100% optional. Those are cards for the Warzone and firefight game type where you can spawn with the items on the cards after getting enough points. This is entirely separate from social or ranked multiplayer which is old arena style control of power weapons and everyone spawns with the same loadout. I used to play H5 all the time up until a few months ago. Matches usually take 30 seconds to a minute to load. I have. Searching matches regularly takes minutes at a time.
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Jul 27, 2018 19:12
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Lambert posted:The Xbox UI is super terrible, the PS4 has a much better interface. What the hell was MS thinking. Also lmao @ "less toxic community". they both have terrible ui why the gently caress are people still arguing about this lmao
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Jul 27, 2018 19:12
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I'd dispute "less community" than PC. Xbox is still selling tons, just can't keep up with the miracle that is ps4. On PC games are much more in danger of having empty lobbies. edit: not best selling xbox, no one actually knows since numbers aren't released. Bad info from a podcast. 
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Jul 27, 2018 19:15
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They're both pretty bad but the xbone definitely seems like someone actively tried to make something worse than the PS4's and somehow succeeded.
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punk rebel ecks posted:I wonder why Halo has had such a steep drop in popularity over the past decade? You left college. Halo 5 had the best launch in the franchise and Im fairly sure each has sold more than the previous.
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Jul 27, 2018 19:16
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a bitchin jetski posted:A PC does the first two things better, the Xbox just has less community full stop and who the gently caress gives a poo poo about the UI? You see it for 3 or 4 seconds before you start a game.
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Jul 27, 2018 19:17
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Intel&Sebastian posted:They're both pretty bad but the xbone definitely seems like someone actively tried to make something worse than the PS4's and somehow succeeded. They should just make the input reader ignore commands while the ui is lagging so hitting b twice in the store doesnt send you back 2 pages when it finally decides to load
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Barudak posted:You left college. Halo 5 had the best launch in the franchise and Im fairly sure each has sold more than the previous. the numbers i can find show that halo 4 sold less than halo 3 or reach, and halo 5 sold less than halo 4 so uh
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DEEP STATE PLOT posted:the numbers i can find show that halo 4 sold less than halo 3 or reach, and halo 5 sold less than halo 4 Please only quote engagement figs
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Jul 27, 2018 19:21
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UnfortunateSexFart posted:I'd dispute "less community" than PC. Xbox is still selling tons, the most successful Xbox ever, just can't keep up with the miracle that is ps4. The Xbox One is far behind the 360 launch aligned, it is absolutely not "the most successful Xbox ever" or "selling tons". Barudak posted:You left college. Halo 5 had the best launch in the franchise and Im fairly sure each has sold more than the previous. Also not true (and the "biggest launch" thing was some "game and hardware" meaningless PR number MS was touting) Lambert fucked around with this message at 19:27 on Jul 27, 2018 |
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Jul 27, 2018 19:22
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Barudak posted:You left college. Halo 5 had the best launch in the franchise and Im fairly sure each has sold more than the previous. The WiiU was Nintendo's most successful launch ever
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Jul 27, 2018 19:25
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http://vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/Halo Seems that the series has sold consistently with Halo 3 being the outlier. Though that means the series has declined in relative popularity. TheScott2K posted:The WiiU was Nintendo's most successful launch ever Successful launches don't mean poo poo because it's all early adopters at that point who are all diehard fans.
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UnfortunateSexFart posted:I'd dispute "less community" than PC. Xbox is still selling tons, the most successful Xbox ever, just can't keep up with the miracle that is ps4. Oh my god
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RBX posted:Oh my god I retract best selling xbox, got bad info somewhere, but my PC gaming experience was filled with empty lobbies in games where you'd never see empty lobbies on any console. Obviously some games like PUBG, Overwatch, etc will be more popular on PC though.
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I always assumed Halo's decline in mainstream popularity happened due to Call of Duty taking over (back then, at least), combined with 4's underwhelming multiplayer that everyone hated and had a very sharp player drop shortly after release.UnfortunateSexFart posted:I retract best selling xbox, got bad info somewhere, but my PC gaming experience was filled with empty lobbies in games where you'd never see empty lobbies on any console. MP popularity on PC is really hit and miss and it's going to depend on the game. On PC Call of Duty is practically dead, especially if you're outside the US, but you can consistently find matches on console, especially PS4. Games with tacked on online modes will also be somewhat active while on PC they'll be DOA. If I had to take a wild generalized guess I'd say that annual/bi-annual games tend to be forgotten quickly on PC and the games that remain popular are the evergreen games as service ones like PUBG/Fortnite/R6 and mobas. GUI fucked around with this message at 22:29 on Jul 27, 2018 |
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Halo 3's MP numbers were absolute insanity since it was basically the only online multiplayer FPS at the time, it took a few releases on 360/PS3 before Call of Duty really started getting serious multiplayer inertia. I don't think a game can hit those kinds of numbers ever again, there's just too much competition now.
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It was also extremely good. Just about every map was great and the physics and balance allowed for a lot of really varied and crazy situations, great replay and match review system. Really great gameplay for flag/bomb modes. All before the weird psychology hooks of progression other than like, your icon/number by your name maybe? I wish we had direct youtube upload back then. I remember shooting down a banshee in one of the old blood gulch maps bases, turning around to walk away and then the large "head" piece of it fell perfectly on me and killed me. Also had one of the classic "grenade accelerates an orange cone to lethal speeds" deaths too. Intel&Sebastian fucked around with this message at 23:41 on Jul 27, 2018 |
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Lambert posted:The Xbox UI is super terrible, the PS4 has a much better interface. What the hell was MS thinking. Also lmao @ "less toxic community". Wait until you deal with this crap (not the xbone) on the enterprise side. So many decent products. Let's buttfuck them.
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I played a ton of halo 3 even after cod mw came out but yeah cod really changed the landscape of shooters and now everyone is copying that model to some degree. Halo 5 would have had a much better chance of surviving if they didn't have the lovely moba mode as their only social/unranked game mode for the launch period. The halo 5 ranked stuff was really good but sometimes you don't want to be playing against sperglords and want to play fun games on well designed maps that weren't bland Grey box spaces made in loving forge. Halo 4 wasn't terrible MP Wise but it tried to incorporate too much cod. Halo reach is the best story without a doubt. Maybe ODST? they both have such a feeling of hopelessness which was a great juxtaposition on 1/2/3s master chief is a badass who saves the world tone Halo 3 is the best multiplayer.
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GUI posted:I always assumed Halo's decline in mainstream popularity happened due to Call of Duty taking over (back then, at least), combined with 4's underwhelming multiplayer that everyone hated and had a very sharp player drop shortly after release. Well yeah it's this. Like there was a good while where halo had a clear lead on good feeling fps shootin' on modern dual analogs and many games still hadn't quite got the hang of giving you a good feeling when fps'n. Not that COD aiming and stuff was ever particularly similar to halo ways, but they'd learned the same lessons the Halo devs did for providing a good way to do it, ya know? There's just so many things you gotta do right to have an online multiplayer that's fun for like deep fans of a genre versus classic halo like "everyone likes this mp p much"
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UnfortunateSexFart posted:I retract best selling xbox, got bad info somewhere, but my PC gaming experience was filled with empty lobbies in games where you'd never see empty lobbies on any console. I'm not sure where you are finding empty lobbies on PC, but popular games are doing very well and it's easy to find games. Unpopular games have low player count on xbox/playstation as well.
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He's confused why COD 43 and NBA 2K29 aren't the top of steam. Console online games peaked around that Era. They really died when party chat was solidified and everybody ran away never to socialize with anybody outside of their bubble ever again. Half the fun of games like Halo were the random funny moments and actually being able to talk to the enemy team. Console games had real communities back then.
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RBX posted:He's confused why COD 43 and NBA 2K29 aren't the top of steam. Console online games peaked around that Era. They really died when party chat was solidified and everybody ran away never to socialize with anybody outside of their bubble ever again. Half the fun of games like Halo were the random funny moments and actually being able to talk to the enemy team. Console games had real communities back then. Yeah, that sucks. My favorite gaming memories were talking with strangers in Counter Strike and forming strategies. Now it's just random chaos that gets old after an hour or so.
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Yeah the pre/post smack talk in halo 3 lobbies was hilarious. Especially in the unranked playlist where proximity voice worked and idiots would be hiding or sneaking and talking into their headset loudly and give away their position.
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