Cook worked on Halo Wars 2 right? Please 343 make him art director for Halo 6!
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Halo |OT| She's Gone, Sir
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Cook worked on Halo Wars 2 right? Please 343 make him art director for Halo 6!
Halo 5 is looking really good in 4k, solves my "blurry" issue I've had with it.
Also tried Halo 3 and man is it looking really good in 4k HDR, but there is totally a difference in the MCC aiming and that, so I hope that's in the patch notes for MCC :)
Rewatched Halo Legends once again. For those who haven't, Origins I & II give some great insights in regard to Cortana's current train of thought.
It's also amazing how 'Prototype' gave me more feels than the entirety of Halo 5 did.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s7lXk9VcEQ
It's also amazing how 'Prototype' gave me more feels than the entirety of Halo 5 did.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s7lXk9VcEQ
Did any of you guys play Halo on or near release on the original Xbox?
I was too young to appreciate it. Had a Gamecube which I loved, never really had much interest in Xbox until mid way through the 360 generation.
What was it like?
I was too young to appreciate it. Had a Gamecube which I loved, never really had much interest in Xbox until mid way through the 360 generation.
What was it like?
It was great. I got an Xbox and GC day one, so imagine how fun that was to play Halo, Rogue Leader, Melee soon after, etc.
One of my first times playing Halo was a match on Battle Creek starting with the Plasma Pistol. I was enamored by its gameplay, such a fun game through and through. First time playing online was December '01 on XBC against someone who kept getting Camo on Hang 'Em High. My friend and I thought he was cheating lmao, little did we know how the game actually worked.
The Warthog was especially amazing. Two people in one vehicle, one driving and one using the turret was mind blowing at the time. That first moment stepping out on the Halo ring cannot be understated with how awe inspiring it was. Truly a phenomenal game.
I loved the prototype mjölnir, but i played with Halo Wars. And i saw the Cyclops. :)
https://cdna.artstation.com/p/asset...arge/gerard-muntes-hw2-cyclops.jpg?1494949947
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I played through the campaign 3 times in a row in 2 days. I remember starting the campaign at 9am and playing it until dinner to just rush my food and restart it and play until bed time. It was mind blowingly good.
I remember playing Halo on my friend's Xbox for the first time and it was like nothing I'd ever seen before. If you had only played console shooters like I had, it was just in a different league than games like Goldeneye and Perfect Dark in terms of feel and controls. Somebody had finally made aiming work on a controller without feeling imprecise and relying on strong, magnetic autoaim.
It's cliche to say now, but the first time you play the level Halo really is magic. That's when you realize that you're in for something that's way more than a corridor shooter. The environment feels huge, open, mysterious. Seeing the Halo ring above you in the skybox at all times adds an element of awe that is seldom replicated. It's still impressive now, but in 2001? Unreal.
It's cliche to say now, but the first time you play the level Halo really is magic. That's when you realize that you're in for something that's way more than a corridor shooter. The environment feels huge, open, mysterious. Seeing the Halo ring above you in the skybox at all times adds an element of awe that is seldom replicated. It's still impressive now, but in 2001? Unreal.
I played Halo CE at a basketball party because my dad was a coach, I didn't know what it was until a year after playing the demo at a GameStop when I was picking up a Xbox and Steel Battalion. Loved it when I played it, but I for real went a year going "What the hell was that gammeeeeeeee?"
I got it right before E3 where Halo 2 got it's date, so I got really hyped. Didn't get XBL until a year after Halo 2 though, but I played that and CE daily with my cousins hahaha
I got it right before E3 where Halo 2 got it's date, so I got really hyped. Didn't get XBL until a year after Halo 2 though, but I played that and CE daily with my cousins hahaha
I will never forget XBL with Halo 2. No experience has been surpassed. The community, proximity chat, shenanigans, competitive play, eSports scene, birth of YouTube Halo content, glitches, custom games, and clans.
Remember the whole KSI vs MoB clan rivalry? Lol I crack up when I see someone with one of those clan names in someone's GT nowadays.
My friend and I were in MoB for a while and I remember having scheduled clan meetings in the custom games lobby lol!
I also really miss Head to Head in matchmaking.
Remember the whole KSI vs MoB clan rivalry? Lol I crack up when I see someone with one of those clan names in someone's GT nowadays.
My friend and I were in MoB for a while and I remember having scheduled clan meetings in the custom games lobby lol!
I also really miss Head to Head in matchmaking.
Man, I'm jealous of all you guys experiencing that for the first time.
Again, I was at the mercy of my parents who didn't have any interest in broadband so we didn't get wifi until 2006.
When I finally picked up a PS3 in 2008 or so, it must have been a different environment online. Not to mention PS3's poor chat quality and the fact that hardly anyone had mics.
Again, I was at the mercy of my parents who didn't have any interest in broadband so we didn't get wifi until 2006.
When I finally picked up a PS3 in 2008 or so, it must have been a different environment online. Not to mention PS3's poor chat quality and the fact that hardly anyone had mics.
Clan Wars were cool before they got removed too.
But yeah having Halo 2 as my first online experience blew me away.
I hooked up my Xbox to XBC a couple years ago and was surprised to see MLG FFA games still going strong lol
Just looked up my MCC game count, and I safely made 20+ games in the last 6 months. Hope I get into this first flight.
Yeah me too, i remember i rented an xbox console, halo CE and star wars: Obi Wan. Played obiwan first, it sucked so much ass so i moved onto halo. I was instantly hooked. Finished the game, sold my ps2 and bought an xbox with halo and have been playing it ever since. I still play CE to this day.
Damn, was hoping for a code so I could give it away here (I already bought it)
My first time playing Halo was on the demo disc that came with the Xbox. Silent Cartogropher, CO-OP with my little bro.
Man, we must have played through that demo 30 times that day- and when we perfected beating it, it was all about creating our own fun on the island. Man what an amazing sandbox that game had. Amazing how quickly we picked up the dual analog controls ( I was 13 he was 8).
It was magic.
Man, we must have played through that demo 30 times that day- and when we perfected beating it, it was all about creating our own fun on the island. Man what an amazing sandbox that game had. Amazing how quickly we picked up the dual analog controls ( I was 13 he was 8).
It was magic.
I won't disagree, but I found the Covenant to be overrated. It feels like it was an event that was rushed with very little build up to it.
I will say the only Halo 5 level that I think is badass is the Sangheli level. Looked good, played well, and is more re-playable. The campaign definitely had its moments in places across the game, but the story/writing completely spoils it for me.
Swords of Sanghelios is awesome. And then it's followed up by the meh Enemy Lines, which ends with an absolutely awful boss fight. Halo 5 suffers a lot from Halo 2 syndrome, where the moments that are supposed to be big set piece events fall super flat because of how uninteractive they end up being. (ie. the kraken in 5 is a lot like the scarab in 2.)
I will say, I genuinely love how Glassed looks.
Well a first it was "Halo themed" and rainy, it just wasn't visual interesting was literally our content shoved into an older version of the map with added rain and fog. Then it got reinvented as a AOTCR style map and then when we introduced the day/night switch it became 2 betrayals esque. Those bases were pulled from Wartorn Cove, which then became snowtorn cove, who's author did what became snowgrove. Personally, I enjoyed the "Fragment" map a bit more than snowtorn cove but I guess I am in the minority on that one. It's awesome to see the map has such a following and that weapon balance held up so long.
My understanding that it was a test map in the aspect of it was what they iterated on the most, but wasn't just some area they had no intention on not having as a playable space in the campaign.
This. Even if I don't like playing it the most, to me it highlights everything there is to love about Halo. It's long, grueling, but damn does it offer everything the series has to offer.
The Ark level that starts off in the desert is my favorite level of Halo 3. Extremely varied and paced so darn well.
Ranking missions?
Gold tier:
Silent Cartographer (H1)
The Ark (H3)
ONI Alpha Site (ODST)
Silver Tier:
Composer (H4)
Forerunner (H4)
AOTCR (H1)
Regret (H2)
Covenant (H3)
Swords of Sanghelios (H5)
Halo (H1)
Bronze Tier:
Most everything else
Weakest missions:
Midnight (H4), Crows Nest (H3), everything Flood in Halo 2.
That said I feel like Halo fans sometimes forget how above-average the campaigns are compared to most shooters. A weak Halo mission is something I'd rather replay than anything out of Killzone or Resistance.
Gold tier:
Silent Cartographer (H1)
The Ark (H3)
ONI Alpha Site (ODST)
Silver Tier:
Composer (H4)
Forerunner (H4)
AOTCR (H1)
Regret (H2)
Covenant (H3)
Swords of Sanghelios (H5)
Halo (H1)
Bronze Tier:
Most everything else
Weakest missions:
Midnight (H4), Crows Nest (H3), everything Flood in Halo 2.
That said I feel like Halo fans sometimes forget how above-average the campaigns are compared to most shooters. A weak Halo mission is something I'd rather replay than anything out of Killzone or Resistance.
I'll always have fondness for Tsavo Highway - seeing the space elevator collapsed around the African landscape, the excavation site from the first announcement trailer, and of course the massive Covenant cruiser that comes swooping in overhead. They somewhat re-use this effect in The Ark when the Dawn drops off some Scorpions for you - the scale of those ships still impresses me to this day.
Wartorn/Snowtorn Cave was a good series of maps, but I definitely preferred Fragment over them. So many solid outdoor maps on offer, and I'm counting a great number of the Gearbox offerings too.
Anyone enjoyed Portent?
You guys are making me crazy excited for new CECE maps I never experienced before. The gift that keeps on giving!
I really hope they can get CE working for CE.
I really hope they can get CE working for CE.
I really hope that's not the only metric they are using to choose testers. I have not played MCC Matchmaking at all in the past year or so, but i have played through the campaigns many times in that time frame. Currently playing through Spartan Ops with a friend.
I also authored some of the very few Forge maps in MCC matchmaking, 4 of which broke and were removed for technical reasons, so i will certainly have tonnes of constructive feedback.
I hear ya man. You've definitely contributed a heck of a lot more to the community and Halo than I have.
The sad part of the above is the 4 maps which broke were built in MCC H3 Forge. The other 4 which are still in use today were ported from OG H3.
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Completely disagree.
The Sanghelios string of missions are some of the best in the series.
I really enjoyed 'The Breaking' in Halo 5, too, despite the double Warden fight at the end. The atmosphere in that level was great.
Any chance we could get the Halo 1.5 maps? I'd be more excited for those than custom edition maps.
Wow! at this point the should just change the name to GetRecktHere.
Edit: I got my Voice Pack too! yeah!
It's the same situation for me. I've played through chunks of the Halo 2 campaign probably a dozen times in the past 6 months and maybe 5 mp games. I can tell you the coop bug on Delta Halo is still there and loading bug at the Rex sword is still there.
I think a lot of what brings down Halo 5's missions in my eyes is that a lot of them don't evolve in a story sense. In "The Breaking", we're fighting to Cortana. That's all. There's a lot more bookending of story beats in cutscenes that I think hurts the individual campaign missions, even if the gameplay is good.
It's one of the reasons why I think Halo 3 has such a great campaign even with its story that doesn't progress in a macro way for a third of the game. Individual missions have their own arcs—"Crow's Nest" has the defense and detonation of the base as you fall back, "The Ark" goes from recon to a sizable push and has that mini-story with the Chieftan, etc.
I still reckon the standard assault rifle from Halo is one of the coolest guns in any game ever.
It pains me that it's quite useless.
It pains me that it's quite useless.
CE assault rifle has some use to it, it's pretty crap in 3 though that's for sure
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