343 last year: enjoy our dumb evil cortana story goys

I shouldnt be even a bit surprised

Imagine it. That tone and music, but instead of force inserting a covenant super plot its just full swat/operator shit in urban and forest environments.

Oh come on, it was predictable that they would show up at one point, I mean there's a reason why the intrigue was so focused on Cortana and the Guardians, she needs an enemy and it's the flood (I mean that's what Halo has always been about. The flood are best and scarier when they come out of nowhere and the final chapter (Halo 6) is the right way to bring them back.
I want to replay the flood mode on Halo 4, that shit was fun and creepy

i only played sp and spartan ops in 4 because i gave up on multiplayer after reach died. Didnt they drammatically alter the floods appearance in that? this new revival is the classic design and apparently even brings in the juggernaut to canon.

I loved everything ODST, but it desperately needed more sneaky and tacticool stuff in it. Felt a bit too much like a regular Halo game.

an underrated element i liked was that they nerfed the jump height, melee and movement speed. Because you arent a super soldier but a black ops regular soldier.

That too. It was a refreshing take on the series. Still wish they pushed it into a different direction just a tad.
I think we can also agree that the drop into hell is one of the best opener to a game ever.

I have to thank 343 for one thing, at least. If 4 hadn't been such a heaping pile of shit, I might actually have bought an Xbone just to keep playing Halo. Keyword being "might," considering how the Xbone was an even bigger dumpster fire.

To get some more ranting off my chest, 4's multiplayer sucked all kinds of ass, mainly thanks to the killstreak system (wow I sure did want to play CoD, thanks 343), a small selection of maps at the start, and everyone always wanting to play on the same map (I forget the name but it was kind of like a loop-shaped Blood Gulch). It was a fun map but not if it's all you ever get to play. Their playlist selection was also pitiful to start, it took them months to patch in Action Sack. Then they ruined Fiesta by removing the infinite ammo. Nothing was more fun than spawning with a Promethean Cannon and nuking everyone else in the map, and they killed it. New maps took forever to be added, but by then it was too late. I was already sick of it and wanted nothing to do with the series ever again.

Hypothetical: if MS released the other Bungie Halos on PC, would Bungie be owed part of the sales? Is that why they refuse to do it, that they're so petty they don't want to let Bungie have any more money from Halo?

Last game to that? Titanfall 2. Regarded as the best single player shooter campaign in years. Checkmate stable landingtheists.

I hated them in Halo 3, those long-range fuckers with armor and shit? The flood only worked well in small doses, whenever you needed some horror and ramp up the energy of the game into the later acts where you had to change up your tactics to kill the enemies depending on what you were facing.

they weren't perfect in 3 but they were always the secondary enemy and in 3 at least they made you use cover and stuff like the covenant. In CE you get a shotgun and you straight up become Doomguy and its time to rip and tear tissue paper.

That first mission to introduce them though. I hear the MCC version ruins that by making it well lit and removing the blood.

I don't blame them, neo-noir stuff along with cyberpunk-stuff has always been niche-stuff really loved by few but not appealing to the masses, that's why Blade Runner, arguably a great fucking film was the bomb and laughing stock for well over 20 years until they re-released it again.

But that fucking Cortana-mission in Halo 3. Has to be one of the worst missions in video-games ever.

I liked the changing from staying in covers and being smart to suddenly having to move around like a lunatic to not get cornered.

BUT THERE IS NOT ENOUGH IN VIDYA, NEVER NEARLY ENOUGH

Yep, they were infected spartans, so you could see the infection spread out of their undersuit. This and the noise they make…that was a nice touch.

I want another ODST game with more tacticool shit.
If 343 ever wants to do that, I hope they get Tim Longo too (Halo 5 might be shit but being able to lead a squad was a nice idea, a spiritual successor to Republic Commando).

You can thank the "community" for that.

I wish 343 would get rid of the weapons for the flood and make them a bit like the necromorphs from Dead Space.
I agree.

True but getting things like a beamsword or fuel rod cannon really served that purpose in any situation and it felt good. You know the feel i mean.

Yeesh, meanwhile in 2017

Long story short, Halo died with the 360 (Since apparently 4 even has some redeeming qualities according to some).

This explains it the best i think.

Myth is the best bungie franchise

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Microsoft own all the rights to Halo so Bungie has nothing to do with it now, this is the miracle of IP law and shitty publishers.

In the original print of Halo CE the Fall of Reach, is was specifically stated the Cortana was theist advanced AI ever developed because she was a "smart" AI that could never think itself to death i.e. go rampant. It was for this reason she and the TRUE MJOLNIR armor were the real prize for the best spartan.
They retconned that fact because money.
Also literal CIA niggers apparently same level as Chief so its okay to run over space aliens with warthogs if it glows in the dark.

Also OP, it's Halo Wars 2, not Halo 6 or whatever the fuck.

I bet MS thought they were the ultimate gentile then. But now

Can you imagine the salt levels?

Really? Holy fuck that's incredible for an MMO.

Yeah Halo Wars 2 this year has been their big 'how much of halo 5 can we wipe under the rug' retcon. Even the art design went back from power rangers 2017 to halo.

I fell for the Titanfall meme and it was mediocre as hell. I was hyped for building a bond with a brobot and got fucking nothing. That time travel level was neat.

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considering it was a last minute idea EA hated i think its good enough to want a bigger sequel story. Its just too short and optimus pri-i mean BT isnt around enough talking wise.

I-I liked Reach

Reach was fun. They just made the mistake of inserting firefight locations into levels to save time and this made the design feel disjointed at times. But its a fun enough game.

I liked 4 despite its flaws, but that was mainly because I only cared about the campaign. Bit on the short and too-easy-on-Legendary side, but it was satisfying.

Still, CoD killstreaks sucked as did the overly repetitive nature of Spartan Ops - they were pretty much just lazy Forge edits of existing maps plus cutscene.

As for post-Halo 4:

Haven't played H5 Guardians, but way to kill your own story, 343. Retconning and settling game stories out-of-game does not help your franchise.

They had a chance with the turbo nigger, but I feel a big problem is that you never fight humans or other Spartans. They spent all their time implying ONI is super corrupt in 4 and how they want to remove and replace John, but the confrontation never arrives. Might be that it could seem too derivative if fighting enemy human soldiers is put on the table.

Which was the Halo game that had the fat assed marines?
I want to see if their models have been ripped yet. I want them for porn purposes.

Halo Reach

SOON

There was someone who does SFM porn with those fat ass Reach models but I don't recall their name. If you look up "reach sfm porn" or something you may find it.

Just let it fucking die a peaceful death 343, just let it fucking die.

Apparently microsoft also fucked over a game Obisidian was making called Stormlands, which would have massive raid battles against big monsters online with other players, inbetween a single player experience. Some type of new styled game but they fucked it all up.

They also nearly destroyed Platinum Games, which would have had to close if they weren't allowed to make Nier Automata with Square Enix, cause Microsoft did the same thing, stringing the company along then cancelling the game they were working on.

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And nobody in Japan ever had children again.

No, the Otakus would just die out and the age of anime would come to an end.

MS is being run into the ground by a retarded currynigger. They've been making dumber and dumber decisions for several years now, it's bound to catch up to them sooner or later.

You know what, I can agree with this.

If this video is anything to go by, the problem isn't 343 itself. The problem is the industry and the mindset it has gotten itself into. It has become such a big-budget, soulless machine (I did not mean to make a reference to 4), that they're ironically killing what made the industry such big-budget market in the first place. Apparently the only team actually left over from 4 who were still operating in the same department was the multiplayer team who did learn how to improve and make Halo 5s multiplayer much better than the previous title's, while still suffering from some issues. But, that was also the point.' They made the game, noticed the problems, fixed it, and then went on to see what other aspects of the game they could make more unique or optimized or experimental.

The story mode, on the other hand, didn't have that. Microsoft and other higher-ups pretty much went the usual route of "Well, these guys left, time for some rearrangement." And, that's why things will be continue to be heading down hill. Unless Microsoft does everything in their power to get the old team back, or make the current heads own up to their mistakes and improve the next game (And, I mean actually own up to it since a lot of developers have become spoiled brats), Halo is just a foreshadow to where the rest of the industry will (Like the series always has been, strangely enough).

I know Microsoft has always been the one to pull shitty business practices, but that makes me wish Gates came back to helm the company and make it "Another fine example of of the evil side of capitalism" again instead of the "Incompetent sibling to the Apple and Google empire". At least, in the former, they made "good shit" to compensate for their greediness.

And, of course, there's the screw up in formatting.

Hopefully sooner then. I'd rather they crash and burn already. And take google and the others with them.

At least the silver lining is the freedom hating bastards seem to be incompetent which makes their efforts to censor windows and other things easier to avoid.

Since Halo will never have a chance of being relevant again unless M$ relinquishes the IP, who do you think should own the Halo IP? It's either Nintendo or any of those AA studios that work for the likes of THQ and Focus Home.

fug, I didn't need to know that I really want this.

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are we posting covenant sluts yet?

only if you start. no gay shit

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fresh out of the oven

delet this

pic related

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FUND IT

let me guess, that's just a fan mock-up? Why must you hurt me so.

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I thought it looks like a heavily modded Left 4 Dead. That hospital and the layout reminds me of the hospital level in Left 4 Dead.

It's SFM with the hud based on The Division

Shame it'll never exist.

now THAT is a monkeys paw scenario

This looks interesting

provided the enemies didn't have ridiculous HP pools and the ODST aesthetic was used liberally i'd buy the shit out of a Division clone in that setting, and that's saying something for me since I fucking hate Halo and its universe

I mean, given then shield technology the Covenant uses it would be more excusable than it ever was in the Division.

A shame that ArmA III was part of that stupid near-distant future genre that shouldn't exist.

Oh who am I kidding? ArmA was never and will never be a good franchise.

that's a good point, but i still want a headshot to be a goddamn headshot, know what i mean

Could just work shields in as a gameplay mechanic like in actual halo games. Energy weapons do lots of shield damage while projectile weapons are good against flesh/armor.

Fuck you.

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Huh, I actually remember reading that.

Weird. I work with a dude who looks a lot like this but paler and with longer, curlier hair.

To eat a banana you have to peel its skin, user.

touch his butt with your butt

ASS TO ASS

Only Marathon matters.

I dunno user, that sounds kinda gay.

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Halo ended at 3. It's literally called finish the fight and ended the story.

There is no right way to bring them back faggot since they shouldn't be back.

It's only gay if you don't cuddle afterwards.

It's still gay.
If you're going to be gay then embrace the gay. Cuddle and drink hot coco together while snug in a warm blanket.

Why didn't Microsoft just have Bungie make a new Marathon game?

No men are innately masculine so sex with men is masculine, and men should strive to be masculine. Thus sex with men is the most non-gay thing you can do. Women have an absence of masculinity so great that it drains masculinity from the area.

Man on cuteboy = classic straight, -50% gay
Man on man = take-what-you-can-get straight, 0% gay
Man on woman = nu straight, 50% gay
Woman on woman = gay, 100% gay, fetch wood for a fire

Once again, women are the problem you see. Woman are the gay that lurks in the shadows, with their hook-nosed titties they spread misinformation about the manliness of man love in an attempt to crush western male tradition, naturalness and civilization with their witchy, blood-stealing ways.

user, enough with your shitposting.
Just cuddle your husbando and get over it.

The best thing about Halo is the BFs

Not until its race war against women.
DAY OF THE MAXIPAD SOON

I enjoyed the swat from reach. Everyone who played sucked, so it was an easy 20-30 kills per game back when anyone played. I did occasionally run into someone who could match me, though, which was the really fun part.

I agree with that. I don't want Venus in my universe.

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I wish being a faggot was a choice because I would choose dick any day if it meant I didn't have to deal with woman blabbering about stupid shit for 4 hours just so I have a chance to get a tiny bit of pussy.

People like you should be put in a gas chamber.

It's a fetish you have to be really degenerate or desperate to just jump right into, but you can make yourself a faggot over time if you wish.

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You make a fair point, user…

Call me when you're not sticking your dick in a shithole.

or degenerate

Wait, does this mean you saying you don't like anal even when it's with a woman?

>not cuddling, kissing and frottage, with plenty of blowjobs and hand-holding
What are you some kind of homo?

Shit goes there user, not dick.
Anal is for the deranged and depraved.

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I'm not defending MS, but Bungie sold them Halo. that's what happens when you sell something, you no longer own it.

they wanted a brand new franchise. can you imagine microsoft saying
see, that's funny because halo was going to be a rts on the mac

i'd report you for being OT but faggotry and halo go hand in hand

Halo after Reach?

Should have made the master chief collection for PC and ported that, would have been way more successful. They would probably make it windows 10 only though.

odst was shit, reach was the last good halo game

Actually on the subject of Halo what Halo mods are out there now? I knows there's one for Sins and one for Homeworld, were there any others?

Because bullet soaks that cling to walls and shoot you from a massive distance, and one hit kill melee bullet soaks are a good design?
The Flood were a cool shocking twist that a lot of people didn't expect and the level leading up to them held a great atmosphere that really worked, but Halo 3 was only good for PvP.

SPV3?

Of couse they should be back, it's the only way to give Cortana and her guardians something to do.

gross

Y'know the SPV3 developers are working on a new project that's intended to be something of an unofficial ODST sequel now?

Now this is more like it.

Apparently the PC port of Halo Wars only sold 2,000 copies. I don't know whether to be sad that that can only be expected to be taken ala Capcom as an excuse for the company to ridicule its customers and refuse to release more games or just glad that of course that's what you get when it takes you ten years to get around to it.

MS dug their own graves. They had the unique opportunity to be what Valve is today and a leading publisher/supporter of the PC, but they instead chose to throw it all away, shit on their biggest userbase and choke to death all the beloved IPs under their banner in pursuit of a shitty console that has never been profitable for them.

They dug that grave with glee, now they can die in it.

actually you might be able to in H2PC at least. Project Cartographer's new netcode works to synch AI almost perfectly. right now the only thing wrong is device switches.

Old but last vid (which I can't find) they had 8 players on metropolis and got as far as the tunnel before the game went belly up and crashed on them.

Fags are a blight like communists. No matter what no one actually likes them because they're obnoxious shits

MS is fucking retarded and MCC is too. Even if they re-released H1 and H2 on steam and their store we wouldn't see a re-release of Custom Edition nor the editing kit for either HCE or H2 and frankly without out custom content online communities burn out quicker. There's only so many times you can play on a slightly modified bloodgulch before shit gets boring and uninteresting.

user, you should pull a documentary together.

This guy has facecam so that's pretty cancerous but he showcases every one of 343's mistakes.

I wish someone would make a mod like that.

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There's one thing that was really missing from the MCC: a matchmaking system for every game and playlist.

I don't think it's true, there are rumors about some bugs that couldn't be fixed, and they also can't invest a ton of money into a team dedicated to fix the MCC.
I don't want to sound like a shill but the gay community should know that just because 343 is a Microsoft studio doesn't mean that they get infinite money and people.

343 gets special assistance with development from microsoft being the home studio of their effectual mario.
Granted after MCC and Halo 5 Microsoft has been trying to shift that over to forza or potentially trying to get a new flagship from RARE, my point being that they MORE than have the resources at their own disposal to rework MCC and fix some of the issues with matchmaking, and just plain missing flags for certain checks that otherwise break it. Like some of the issues with split screen where it will become confused if one player has a Xbox Live subscription.
Personally, yes, I have grievances with MCC because of its platform exclusivity which wasn't part of the original plan, but to state the lie that 343 doesn't have the resources to at least fix the mostly butchered version on Xbone is ridiculous.
Even if you consider the hackjob of "Remastering" ODST for the collection, in lieu of actually fixing technical issues with the game itself.

I'm gonna be sick

It's kind of stupid in addition, since, as far as I can recall, Switching visual styles doesn't switch down to a lower resolution. It's still 1920x1080.

I was referring to the fact people can't even play through a game like Halo anymore because it isn't pretty (read: over saturated with lighting effects) enough for them. A bit further in the video the guy himself even says the jungle area you start in is fine, even though they basically got rid of the fog and completely demolished the eerie feeling the place has in the original.

I'm more taking issue with the "low res" visuals statement. Personally, I do think the low draw distance (Fog effect) and contrast in the jungle was important for themeing purposes.

She's a woman. What would you expect?

losing that eeire shit was horseshit. I was like 14 when CE came out at the oldest and playing on legendary blind and getting the intro "fight the only enemy the covenant fear" and walking through scenes of cooling carnage that was maybe minutes old with the fog was brilliant.

I mean shit the whole point of fog in silent hill was pulling in draw distance to run smooth and that shit works.

So wait can we all finally agree that Milo Yiannopoulos is a blight on this timeline?

Him being a complete faggot, sure, I can agree with that it's not so much an issue typically with gay people but faggots, just on a visceral level piss me off.

Did JJ Abrams make this game or something? Every shot from the AR fucking blinds you.

Milo is an alt-right plant. He does not represent classical natsoc values.

What flavor of Covenant do you like, user?

The problem in hindsight lies within the fact that 343 is really inexperienced, they were more or less thrown a series and expected to continue it. In fact they've acknowledged trying to make deeper stories in the games while trying to interconnect all the games to each other instead of the simple stories in Bungie games while the books are more or less standalone was a mistake.

There is no such thing as a good halo game.

t. Normalfag

Do you mean just on the Windows Store? Because HW Definitive Edition sold over 100,000 copies on Steam. I mean, that's not good by any means - but it's about 50 times better than only selling 2k copies.

For context - fucking Sonic Adventure 2 sold 550,000 copies on Steam.

Idk if Halo 5 changed the mechanics from halo 4 but this video well detail exactly why Halo 4 had such a shit campaign from a purely gameplay perspective.

Btu what really irked me was by the time you ran over to a dead enemy to pick up their weapon, more often than not it would disappear since the xbox360 couldn't handle all the items.

youtube.com/watch?v=oBv8UVOSG8U&t

I wonder why they didnt delay Halo 4 until the Xbone's launch. Most of the 343 made games feel rushed.

That is actually a good point. Could have even been better from a marketing perspective.

An extra year to playtest would have not only potentially allowed 343 to fix some of Halo 4's many flaws, it might have even given the Xbone a solid enough launch lineup to overcome the disastrous E3 reveal. They could have even made it available for both consoles, which would really drive up sales. But who knows what Microsoft was thinking, or if anyone is actually thinking. It's a like a Matrioshka doll of incompetence and stupidity, starting at the top, going through the Xbox division and 343, and culminating in the last 3 (4? Apparently Halo Wars 2 was okay but >console rts) disastrous titles.

Whatever the case the Halo IP well is poisoned.

and reach was later re-added as DLC! Only 4.99$ goy!

Too bad all there is now is "what-ifs" and people looking back on Halo 4 going "it wasnt that bad but they needed to fix ___". I wonder if MS realized rushing things killed their golden goose and thats ultimately why they're focusing on the Xbone X becoming a multiplat machine as well as focusing on Forza more than any other series they've worked on.

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