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Arcsquad12 posted:I mean unsc Frigate Grafton is so memorable. UNSC Say Baby I Love You Capital Cruiser When Noone Is Around You
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Strelok604 posted:Continuing the Bungie lineage of excellent ship names with the, uh, UNSC "Infinity"
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Jul 29, 2020 04:26
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Reach has a problem with weird dialogue redundancy. You have people saying "hostile tangos," "UNSC frigate", I mean whose frigate would we think it is on the radio?
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Jul 29, 2020 04:26
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Just you wait, one of those times the tangos are gonna be docile and you'll feel real silly.
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Jul 29, 2020 04:31
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The worst dialogue in Reach is when Kat refers to a problem as a "solvable".
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Jul 29, 2020 04:38
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The worst dialogue is Kat opening her mouth period. I don't think a single one of her lines was delivered well. No offense meant to the actors but whoever was in charge of the voice direction for Reach really dropped the ball.
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Strelok604 posted:Continuing the Bungie lineage of excellent ship names with the, uh, UNSC "Infinity" 
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Fuzzy McDoom posted:The worst dialogue in Reach is when Kat refers to a problem as a "solvable". the line that comes out of left field for me is in H4 when suddenly the covenant are suddenly somehow "more fanatic than the others"
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Jul 29, 2020 07:57
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alf_pogs posted:the line that comes out of left field for me is in H4 when suddenly the covenant are suddenly somehow "more fanatic than the others" That was so drat dumb. Sure Chief, more fanatic than the Covenant who resorted to suicide tactics just to kill one Spartan. Yeah.
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Jul 29, 2020 08:25
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Marathon is genuinely better written than the entirety of the Halo series. fake edit: You can tell because they keep lifting from it wholesale.
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Jul 29, 2020 13:25
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General Battuta posted:Reach has a problem with weird dialogue redundancy. You have people saying "hostile tangos," "UNSC frigate", I mean whose frigate would we think it is on the radio? There's a mission with civilian transport ships on the radio, so that makes sense
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Jul 29, 2020 13:39
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Pursued by bees posted:That was so drat dumb. Sure Chief, more fanatic than the Covenant who resorted to suicide tactics just to kill one Spartan. Yeah. Speaking of suicide tactics - what felt kinda goofy to in Reach was the "covenant suicide squads" I sorta get the whole grunts kamikazing in a panic/desperation, but sending grunts to blow themselves up against defenseless civilians seems odd and wasteful? I guess shock tactics?
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Jul 29, 2020 14:02
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Oxyclean posted:Speaking of suicide tactics - what felt kinda goofy to in Reach was the "covenant suicide squads" I was genuinely offended by it since it was clear WoT poo poo seeping into my sci-fi in an awful attempt to be "gritty".
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Jul 29, 2020 14:10
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I never noticed that when rampin' it at the end of Halo 3, with the lighting changes the planet the Ark is around starts to look like a spooky skullArcsquad12 posted:The worst dialogue is Kat opening her mouth period. I don't think a single one of her lines was delivered well. No offense meant to the actors but whoever was in charge of the voice direction for Reach really dropped the ball. I like Kat 
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Jul 29, 2020 15:26
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jivjov posted:There's a mission with civilian transport ships on the radio, so that makes sense Civilian transport ships aren’t frigates, and in any case the weird frigate dialogue is from a giant military operation with nary a civilian in sight.
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Jul 29, 2020 15:37
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It was a major disconnect when it first showed up. In gameplay, grunts would always panic when you killed their commander (Elites/Brutes) and in 3 they would sometimes switch to suicide mode. It works in a gameplay sense that killing the most dangerous enemy results in an extra challenge as the suicide grunts can easily take you or your allies down if you aren't careful. But then in lore the grunts are forcibly bred and sent to the front lines. Basically child/slave soldiers so this becomes kinda gross. And then yeah, Reach just throws (side note: in my opinion, the worst combat section in the game-even having completed it solo legendary multiple times) suicide squads randomly to make the invasion seem more barbaric. There's a huge tonal dissonance between the lore and the games in the Bungie era. Its a big part of why the 343 games, which lean hard into the lore, feel tonally strange compared to the games they are obstinately sequels to.
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Jul 29, 2020 15:38
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A good part of Reach is the bit in Nightfall where you meet the civilian militia. You can totally ignore them and continue the mission if you know where to go, skipping a bunch of fairly intense combat. Fits the UNSC’s ethics perfectly!
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Jul 29, 2020 15:42
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My favorite part of Reach will always be the Bullfrogs Rip Bullfrogs
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Lawman 0 posted:I was genuinely offended by it since it was clear WoT poo poo seeping into my sci-fi in an awful attempt to be "gritty". isn't halo about a guy named after a bible verse and the USMC killing space muslims? the arbiter's original name was "dervish" lol
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Jul 29, 2020 15:46
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Communist Thoughts posted:isn't halo about a guy named after a bible verse and the USMC killing space muslims? No, it's about a guy named after a bible verse and the USMC killing space christian evangelicals and fundies More specifically Halo's about Christ and humanity (and elites) rejecting divinity when it's not about teabagging space aliens. 3 literally ends with you shooting the divine spark with a laser rifle code named "Galilean" then breaking a universal symbol for divinity to blow up the ark of the covenant to turn back God's flood Also Johnson's there! RBA Starblade fucked around with this message at 15:54 on Jul 29, 2020 |
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Jul 29, 2020 15:51
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RBA Starblade posted:My favorite part of Reach will always be the Bullfrogs I wanted to empty quote this lol. In my first legendary play through (I did all my MCC PC playthroughs on Legendary first time because I have brain problems) Reach had the dumbest friendly AI. Jorge is always useless but I don't remember him killing anything even as a gunner on the jeep in winter contingency. Jun fell into the canyon before the jammer tower on Nightfall and thus contributed nothing. Kat spent the better part of Tip of the Spear doing sweet gently caress all or falling to her death. The Bullfrogs were so funny. "A group of ODST specialists". I think one of them made it over those platforms only to be killed pretty much instantly. I've seen one get splattered by banshee, multiple ones gently caress up jetpack pathing and just fall and the one time I gave one a rocket launcher he killed me. The last level gives you just Emile as a partner and the shotgun is SO USELESS.  That being said the cutscenes and voice acting sells Reach. I care even if the gameplay is disconnected. Except maybe about Carter, who is super generic soldier guy boring even in death.
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Carter's death made me notice that the UNSC did not invest in ejector seats at all
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I'm playing through Reach right now and the military-esque lingo seems to take away from it a bit compared to the other Halos. I liked the more casual dialogue that Masterchief, Johnson and Cortana had. That being said the actual gameplay itself seems to be better than Halo 4. I found the fights, particularly the ones with the new enemies in Halo 4 to be significantly less fun than the previous games. It feels like 343 is more invested in lore than actual fun. Also, The arbiter seems more useful than any of the Reach NPCs, although I could just be biased because I like him better as a character. When it comes to Multiplayer I've taken 4 and reach out of my rotation. I like how 1,2 and 3 are pure areana shooters. I don't like how reach introduced loadouts and 4 introduced killstreak-esque rewards. If I wanted to play Call of Duty I would play Call of duty. TheGreySpectre fucked around with this message at 23:06 on Jul 29, 2020 |
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Jul 29, 2020 23:02
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If we can include nameless idiots I nominate the Gypsy Company member who got trapped under the Mammoth in Reclaimer, spent five minutes running into the underside of the loading ramp, somehow escaped when it started moving again, and then used this newfound freedom to run around to the front of the Mammoth and then stop again in front of a massive wheel. To add insult to injury, this cost me 200 points.
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I like to think noble team just have a culture of being tryhard tier 1 operator navy seals because they played too much spaceCOD but never saw much action, and that's and that's why they talk like that. Master Chief is way more chill because he knows he can never die, plus his suit jacks him off. That last bit is official Canon BTW.
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Jul 29, 2020 23:56
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Chief you mind telling me what you're doing on that ship
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Your Brain on Hugs posted:I like to think noble team just have a culture of being tryhard tier 1 operator navy seals because they played too much spaceCOD but never saw much action, and that's and that's why they talk like that. Master Chief is way more chill because he knows he can never die, plus his suit jacks him off. That last bit is official Canon BTW. 
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RBA Starblade posted:Chief you mind telling me what you're doing on that ship Sir, finishing in flight.
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Jul 30, 2020 01:09
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kinda puts all those times where if you just stare at a marine long enough he goes "uhh... Chief?" in new context
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one of the best parts about halo 1-3 campaigns is that the story is very grim but all the marines talk like idiot fratboys. the guys scanning incoming ships near the start of 3 fistbump each other when they hear master chief is coming, the official military plan to take down the scarab that show sup is a buncha guys riding around on the back of ATVs with rocket launchers, etc. buncha fuckin idiots
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Jul 30, 2020 01:20
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Covenant speaking english is another one of those factors. Like, I assume it goes without saying Reach made them not speak english for tone reasons. It's really kind of funny to compare the Covenant in Halo 1 and Halo Reach. Halo 1 they're bordering on comic relief, with The Flood being where the game gets serious.
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Jul 30, 2020 01:34
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Assumed the aliens speak their native language and we as the player or even characters understand what they’re saying, so we hear it in English. Mass Effect did the same thing by basically saying everyone has technology that auto translates what everyone else is saying.
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chaosapiant posted:Assumed the aliens speak their native language and we as the player or even characters understand what they’re saying, so we hear it in English. Mass Effect did the same thing by basically saying everyone has technology that auto translates what everyone else is saying. Apparently the reason Elites start speaking english in 2 onward is because of updated translation libraries, so. Grunts are actually taught english because they're the ones they make do SIGINT. No, I don't know why. Covenant's dumb
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Jul 30, 2020 01:55
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Oxyclean posted:Covenant speaking english is another one of those factors. Like, I assume it goes without saying Reach made them not speak english for tone reasons.
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Jul 30, 2020 02:24
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It would be pretty neat to have a full campaign as the Arbiter or another elite and explore more covenant worlds and history. And then a dlc campaign where you play as the grunt's equivalent of master chief and instigate Grunt Rebellion 2, and liberate your home planet from the covenant. I just realised the main reason why reach's time is so different: no Chips Dubbo.
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Ablative posted:Apparently the reason Elites start speaking english in 2 onward is because of updated translation libraries, so. I coulda swore I heard covenant troops speaking English in Halo 1 as well. The little tiny Krogan dude yelling “grenaaaaaaaaade!!!”
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Jul 30, 2020 02:59
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The grunts always spoke English.
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So I’ve finished Halo 1 and 2 and am working my way through Halo 3. These games are still rocking my socks. However, I’ve never dabbled in Halo multiplayer. Is it fun/worth getting into, and what are the best games/modes to play. I took a glance at the multiplayer menu briefly and it looks daunting.
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Your Brain on Hugs posted:I like to think noble team just have a culture of being tryhard tier 1 operator navy seals because they played too much spaceCOD but never saw much action, and that's and that's why they talk like that. Master Chief is way more chill because he knows he can never die, plus his suit jacks him off. That last bit is official Canon BTW. https://twitter.com/NostalgicVGEdit/status/1285877674083147778
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