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I remember the start of this level being so frustrating I almost quit the game. I started with almost no health, fired off the last of my ammo at Guilty Spark thinking I had to kill it to open the doors* and somehow managed to make a save about two seconds before a flying robot lasered my face off. I died so many goddamn times. Everything after that, though, was a blast. * hooray for old school "incredibly vague idea of what you're supposed to do next" gameplay
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Given that the Halo spins to simulate gravity, there's no way that chunk would fall towards the other side of the ring after the Pillar exploded. Also, if the Pillar had just crashed into it, wouldn't that have destroyed the ring, too? But then there wouldn't have been a game. Great LP. Definitely looking forward to the rest of the series.
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Ablative posted:The Pillar of Autumn is one and a bit kilometres long. Yes, but I meant if the reactor blew up if the ship smashed into the ring. If just sitting on the beach and going boom was enough to destroy Halo, hitting it at the speeds spaceships travel at and the reactor exploding would have double boomed it.
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Mar 27, 2021 14:15
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To add to the little off topic discussion - definitely watch Aliens. Do not even hesitate, it is just an incredible movie in every way.
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Could be, but there's one just like that in Aliens when Ripley has an audience with the queen.
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May 17, 2021 14:35
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With respect to how long you could fall before being crushed, Joe Kittinger who jumped out of a balloon at 102,000 feet, fell for around 4 and a half minutes. He went from about 0.02 atmospheres to 1 atmosphere. So, assuming you didn't fall into a pocket of toxic gas and just asphyxiate, you could fall for a very long time before dying.
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Kibayasu posted:Halo 2 does kind of suffer from a large lack of context in this part. Without the ~~lore~~ you brought up in the previous update I would have been just as confused now as I was then about why a civil war, why Elites vs Brutes, why are the grunts and Hunters (I think?) with the Elites, why the Jackals and Drones are just going along with the status quo. You're just thrust into the middle of it without much beyond "Well the Arbiter doesn't like the Brutes and the Brutes don't much like the Arbiter either." Quoting this because Frenzy's lore video really helped me a lot. I would have had no idea why the hell things were happening (or what the big "building" in the middle of the city was) if I hadn't watched it. One thing I'm still confused about - one of the Covenant mention the Parasite being released. I thought it was always down in it's "empty grave"?
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Oh yeah, on this ring the Flood and sentinels have been fighting in a stalemate for forever, hadn't they? Then: quote:How was the flood released in Halo 2? Pretty sure you even pointed it out in the video with the gondola ride.
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You first see the wall of the dam on the gondola ride in video #7. Here's a timestamp where the captain of In Amber Clad mentions the barrier, during the second gondola ride in the video and Frenzy talks about what it is immediately after, but doesn't mention its relationship to containing the Flood. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz3XcHXqGyc&t=1566s The Arbiter is the one who turns off the barrier wall in the next video so they can get inside and grab the key and get betrayed and kicked off a ledge and all that. EDIT: It also means the part where the Gravemind grabs the Master Chief and drags him under the lake makes a lot more sense. It was just on the other side of the wall all along. Ditto with grabbing the corpse of the Prophet and turning it into a meat pupper. And, of course, catching the Arbiter. Megillah Gorilla fucked around with this message at 17:56 on Sep 8, 2021 |
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Love the Gravemind hacking the PA system. Like, dude, who the gently caress you even talking to?
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Sep 18, 2021 19:10
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Lucky the Covenant never heard of lobotomies.
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FrenzyTheKillbot posted:
Well, that cleared up a lot of confusion. Thanks. I always wondered how the sargent and captain got to Earth first.
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Wow, the Brutes are so ugly in this one. Never noticed it before, but coming so soon off watching the remastered Halo 2, drat they ugly.
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Nov 27, 2021 14:49
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Love that the Covenant's big idea for excavating the Ark is firing their main weapons at the ground. Sure hope the Forerunner supertech doesn't suddenly activate and decide to fry everyone!
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In the real world, everyone on those Mongooses would have killed themselves in seconds. I can just imagine the Brutes coming along later and seeing all these soldiers crushed under their own vehicles and being so confused.
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Dec 19, 2021 15:43
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Flashback to The Many from System Shock 2.
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NinetySevenA posted:the latest video is when i realized that i have never actually played all the way through halo 3. This is as far as my knowledge of the series extends, too. From here on out it's all new 
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Dec 27, 2021 03:48
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Watching the Dawn come in. Just drat.
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Okay, those Hornets look like a shitload of fun.
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I've got a question about the Flood arriving on the Ark. How did the Gravemind get off the High Charity and slither to where Master Chief was? They were above a massive drop. And why did it leave immediately after waving its tentacles around a bit?
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I like that the Ark's weapon, which can wipe out all life in the galaxy is activated by a single button press. Not even a code, just boop. Hell, there aren't even any locked doors to get in there, any fucker who finds the place could accidentally wipe out the whole galaxy with a "What does this button do?" EDIT: Replace shotgun with Halo 
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I have no idea how Frenzy knew where they were going on the way back out of the High Charity. I've always hated levels where you're crawling around inside something alive, it's always a nightmare. System Shock 2 came out in 1999 and had sphincter doors. I think it might have been the earliest game like that, not counting 2-D sidescrollers. Here's one of the doors, with a cool tidbit on how they got the textures for the Many: 
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I miss Looking Glass Studios. Too pure for this world.
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Had completely forgotten about those https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZTdh75rBdg&t=708s
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So "It's over, we won" says Admiral Stonyface. Except now the Gravemind has access to the most powerful weapon in the history of the galaxy - the Ark? Also, what's to stop him from having captured a human during all the fuss, not assimilated them, and then mashing their face against the "Kill all life in the galaxy" button?
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Geemer posted:I'm not really sure what they even accomplished. If the Flood are a hive mind, who's to say there's not several Grave Minds? Yeah, we already know that enough Flood will naturally form a Gravemind. It doesn't matter if the current one on the new Halo goes boom, there are still other Flood running around on the Ark and that means one day another Gravemind could form. Cythereal posted:Honestly, I think the writers of Halo 3 just plain forgot that because this plan makes no loving sense unless you assume the Flood would be left stranded on the Ark, never again a threat to the galaxy. Given that the Flood are sentient and can repurpose and sabotage Forerunner technology (see Halo 2), this is... probably not the best idea. Gravemind can fire off the Halos, kill all the remaining humans/Forerunners who are a threat, then slowly make its way back to the galaxy on a new Halo which apparently only take a few years to make (assuming the one we saw was made from scratch) while life slowly repopulated the galaxy. Doesn't matter to the Gravemind if it's just slime and mould. It's all biomatter and that's all it needs. And what's a thousand year journey to something like it?
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The Flood could also just fire off a single halo near humanity and the Covenant. That would leave a huge chunk of the galaxy still possibly containing useful life for them to corrupt while getting rid of the only people who can stop them.
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I'll never get over the suit having a wank function.
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Feb 14, 2022 00:57
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ODST stands for Orbital Drop Shock Troopers and is not actually a variation of Original Sound Track. Yes, I have been confused by the name of the game for some time.
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The city AI using its signs to point your way is just an inspired game mechanic.
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Really liking the concept of playing half a dozen different characters in the one game, each with a slightly different style. An inventive way to change things up.
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FrenzyTheKillbot posted:I haven't watched it yet but I plan to. I've heard some, uh, "iffy" reviews. 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. Also we see Master Chief's face. As of the end of the first episode, it looks like it's doing its own thing. Yes, there's still the Covenant and rebelling human worlds, and the Spartan program and all that, but it's not just a remake of the first game. And that's what seems to be driving certain segments of the online world insane.
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The other thing pissing of The Gamers is that there's a :female: She's the audience insert character. But the purity of my Spartan husbando  and all thatedit: honestly surprised there isn't a smilie for that.
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I typed it into the smilie search bar and didn't see it. Turns out it was literally just off the bottom of the screen. Once again a man has been brought low by the 
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Nice to see a big setpiece battle where you aren't expected to win, but have to repeatedly retreat.
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I just want to say that the sign on the building saying "Jotun", not "Scrotum"was a huge disappointment.
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That clip was from the first few minutes of the first episode. I'm prepared to give the show a lot of leeway for what was probably the pilot they used to get the show off the ground. It did look janky as hell and I almost laughed when I saw the lovely cgi gun, though.
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If we're talking about breaking immersion, they really have to stop showing the Spartan's feet and their massive lifts.  It's like Elon Musk every time I see them.
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Pickled Tink posted:He was checking to see how much force would have been required to do such a thing. As a kid I did that a lot when I found bent metal for exactly that reason. "How the gently caress did they manage to gently caress this thing up this loving badly?"
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I really like the idea behind this game - play as the rookie, but also as every other member of the squad in a series of setpieces interspersed between running around the city. But it feels, I dunno, so confined compared to all the other games. Sure, this time it isn't Master Chief, it's Just Some Guy and the fate of the galaxy isn't at stake, it's just trying to survive in a single city. And I like that Bungie was brave enough to change up the formula. But all the little difference make it feel like a knockoff. Like using a Nantemdo 64 to play Super Blario. Only Super Blario was still actually made by Nintendo.
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