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It's amazing how many genre changing things halo did mechanically that were great. And then the campaign itself was absolute trash that required the devs to literally paint arrows on the ground because the player was still going to get lost.
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Good news, soldier! We made it!
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Jan 15, 2021 21:03
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The humans are hopelessly outgunned and outmanned. MC and friends are basically fighting a guerilla war at this point. That said covenant tech isn't strictly superior. In general covenant weapons are stronger against shields, but human weapons rip through unshielded flesh. For example the pistols and their one two punch to take out elites.(charge plasma shot will drop shields instantly but isnt great after that, and the pistol one shots them with a headshot but has trouble getting through the shield. By their powers combined even the toughest elite variants go down to a measly two bullets.)
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Jan 16, 2021 03:17
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Being able to hijack the banshee here is pretty odd because if I remember right it's drat close to, and possibly outright, the only time the player can pilot one. Which is interesting, because you were very clearly not intended to invalidate the level like that. So the banshee was fully realized and player controllable despite the fact that the devs didn't intend you to have any access to it. They did patch them into the PC version eventually if I remember middle school wars over which version was better.
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Feb 6, 2021 00:03
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RIP Keyes. We will never forget you and your memorable valor of.... of.... Well you landed the ship better than the one we rode down, so that counts right?
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Mar 21, 2021 02:46
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I really love that ending for some reason. It's very bleak and desolate in a way that matches the rest of the game and the sole survivor bit fits with the shift into horror genre the game does. It would be a real shame if almost all of it got retconned later on... And as much poo poo as I gave Keyes for being a nonentity last time, landing the ship instead of letting it crash land DID kind of save the day in the end, so I might have been a tad too mean.
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Mar 26, 2021 22:55
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I think my favorite gag is probably the way the game starts off with the serious drama about if the covenant get Cortana they can find earth. And then you get to the end of the game and guilty spark starts laughing at humanity for being dumb enough to put all this info in her.
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Mar 27, 2021 17:13
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Next you'll tell me having the superweapon designed to stop a doomsday event specifically require an outsider show up to fire it was a bad idea. What, you think they'll chose to live and just blow it up or something? Or hell, they could just get eaten not knowing it existed to fire. Or get eaten before they can fly over. ....We really didn't think these plans through did we?
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Mar 27, 2021 22:09
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Until now I never realized how much the warthog needed a shitton of Jerry cans strapped to it for no reason.
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Apr 2, 2021 21:39
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So we mentioned Sgt Johnson surviving the first game, but there's also the covenant commander now. "We're alone," huh Cortana? Maybe the swap from the sole survivor horror movie ending to action movie bomb goofiness is a lot more jarring to me because I didn't seriously play through the story modes until halo 3 was out. I got that back to back rather than the wait everyone else had. That said this level is amazing and everything said about the opening and ending cutscenes is true.
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Apr 24, 2021 02:20
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dismas posted:Man I completely forgot about this level. In my head the game starts on Earth. How on earth did you forget giving the covenant back their bomb? It's so cheesy and good
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Apr 24, 2021 19:58
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Watching that hunter punt a jackal towards the end was beautiful.
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Sep 4, 2021 20:29
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FrenzyTheKillbot posted:Halo 2 actually makes the whole civil war seem kinda "clean" with well defined lines, Brutes vs. Elites and every other species chooses a side. We definitely find out later that the divisions between loyalists, separatists, and "other" is a whole lot more blurry. Like you say, a lot of the lower caste species end up siding with the leaders of whichever fleet they happened to be serving in, for the sake of survival rather than any ideology. I actually really dig his everything is fine meme attitude. And it kind of makes sense given the end cutscene there pretty clearly spells out he doesn't care what happens to anyone but himself.
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Sep 5, 2021 06:21
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Love the Gravemind hacking the PA system. Like, dude, who the gently caress you even talking to? Pretty sure he's just taking jabs at truth. "I have mercy right here" "Man that guy was delicious"
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Sep 19, 2021 05:49
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I honestly struggle to call this a cliff hanger. They all but tell you that earth is the super special place where all the rings can be fired now but... everyone was already going there? They've primed you to go and do this big fight, but the only real tension at this point is that the flood have cortana(And thus have the power to join the fight on earth) and could do all kinds of weird poo poo with that. It feels more like a roller coaster breaking down at the top of the lift hill, instead of dangling off a cliff you're just sitting there going "that's it? We're stopping here?"
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Sep 26, 2021 01:16
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The first thing I noticed is that all our marines at the start had guns. Would have been fun if the one Johnson robbed for chief started off unarmed for the movement tutorial and had picked up a covenant gun when you link back up with johnson.
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Nov 28, 2021 07:15
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Wait really? I thought he was fun.
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Nov 28, 2021 14:48
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Samovar posted:Then again, these same Brutes do use Choppers to drive around in, potentially the stupidest looking method of transportation I've ever seen. OK, but it also let's you make bad Predator jokes so it's actually the best vehicle in the game.
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Dec 21, 2021 05:29
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Weren't the flood attacking earth already? Half jaw glasses a continent trying to stop them, I think.
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Jan 31, 2022 02:56
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FrenzyTheKillbot posted:Man, I watched an LP of DNF years ago and I couldn't tell you a single thing about that game. Just completely forgettable. I remember you get shrunk and drive an rc car or something and that you boosted your health by looking at yourself in the mirror n poo poo.
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Feb 8, 2022 01:40
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Cythereal posted:Remember that it was established right back in Halo 1 that the Halos don't kill the Flood, they kill the Flood's food. Yeah, I always just figured there weren't any dark templars around to stop the overlord from reincarnating in the Halo world.
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Feb 12, 2022 21:55
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Didn't the portal shut down and cut them off (and our ship in) too? It doesn't matter if they weren't killed instantly if they're trapped way the hell outside the galaxy. Which one the note of the ship getting cut in two: Chief took cortana with him, so she wasn't flying the ship anymore. The arbiter not only crewed that massive thing single handed, he did so so well he got it back to port after it got ripped in half.
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Feb 13, 2022 00:17
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Yeah, no engines is a glider and still works fine, being ripped in half is a bigger deal. The miracle on the Hudson was a miracle because when engines go to poo poo during take off the plane doesn't have enough speed to maintain lift on that side and will try very hard to roll to that side and consequently dive into the ground. The big thing that I was going for is that real life ships and especially warships take a ton of people just to get the thing moving from A to B. They're very different beasts from airplanes that can be handled by 1-2 people, and the scale on the spaceships here is much closer to a ship than a plane.
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Feb 13, 2022 04:18
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I'm sure she's probably still alive somwhere, but the spook stabbing the team in the back by lying to them about the mission, having poo poo go to hell because of that, and then immediately dying would also be on point.
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Mar 5, 2022 08:40
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Huh, I thought he looked like Fillion.
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Mar 5, 2022 19:50
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Geemer posted:On the one hand I think it's neat how they made the city AI only speaks in stock voice clips or traffic signs. I registered my car over a landline and the station printed me stuff for it on a dot matrix printer. The city ai being ancient and outdated compared to experimental* military tech is probably the most believable thing here. *the second the tech gets streamlined for mass production it will also go to dogshit
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Megillah Gorilla posted:It's got some 'first episode CGI' issues, and there are a few incredibly cheesy moments, such as a few brief shots from first person view and the obligatory shield depleted/recharging noise during a firefight, but that's about it. don't you mean the helmet under his helmet?
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BlazetheInferno posted:So far I've heard all of one other person's opinion, and he spewed a bunch of poo poo that I don't know whether to believe or not. Stuff that's either making assumptions, exaggerating wildly, or something, or maybe he's right and it's not a great show. Oh no. Oh no. Don't tell me they directly state his suit doesn't jerk him off!?!?
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Even evil murdering rapist monsters can be patriots Oh yuck. I was really confused when he was still trying the kidnapping after he killed her dad, and that would actually make sense.
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Ablative posted:I mean, if you ignore the part where the Covenant is a theocratic dictatorship that started a genocidal war because its current leaders found out they weren't actually gods-to-be and decided to kill the newly contacted to keep this a secret and themselves in power, sure. Okay, but if you ignore the war, and the genocide, and releasing the flood, and attempting to fire the doomsday weapons: What have the covenant ever done to us?
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bewilderment posted:The ending of this level always seemed a little anticlimactic to me. Sure, there's the approaching carrier in the background, but otherwise it's kind of just a pleasant sunset and other than the waves of enemies it doesn't feel as 'final' as the finales of the other games. I feel like it could have been greatly improved by switching the rookie and Dare. Since they won't let you man the gun and ate making you primarily fight by running over dudes, why not have given the player the shielded juggernaut trampling all the cars in its way?
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May 23, 2022 23:13
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Ablative posted:...I think they mean "have the Rookie drive the garbage truck". Look, who's driving is immaterial here: the only important thing is that they set up that scene and then had you play the person driving the warthog and not the one driving the garbage truck doomrolling down the highway.
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I'm trying to come up with a pun for not skipping it, but I always feel like they're Reaching a bit too much.
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Cythereal posted:A few other notes: I note that no where in that list is anything about minimizing casualties. 
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Man. Jorge is just sitting there doing his whole dramatic sacrifice thing with Rodgers and Hanaford sitting there in the background without any way to jump at all. Jerk didn't even offer them his pack (not that they had contained helmets to survive space anyway).
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"Keep a low profile. We take them by surprise, this will be a hell of a lot easier" *6 proceeds to grab several space bazookas, hand the bazookas to their marines, and then have everyone jump in/on a tank before charging right at the enemy* "Take it, lieutenant. ...She has made her choice." FoolyCharged fucked around with this message at 03:50 on Jan 28, 2024 |
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Man, all these people talking about how the series writing takes a swan dive off a cliff and the ending story and stuff, and then there's me sitting over here still laughing at the absolute deadeye marine you handed the spartan laser off to.
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