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| The Halo Thread; A thread about Halo | |
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| Sonia Chaud | Feb 25 2014, 12:48 AM Post #406 |
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No fucks left to give.
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Well now I'm worried. |
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| Psycho Werekitsune | Feb 25 2014, 09:29 AM Post #407 |
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Part man...part beast...full psycho!
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Except, at the end of the day, it just ended up using Reach's multiplayer instead of its own which, again, wasn't what people wanted. The smart thing for them would've been to either re-release the original game and rework the netcode to make it work, or actually put more effort into remaking it. Instead, they just ended up Frankensteining those two ideas into an end result that, I'd say, wasn't very satisfactory; they neither gave people a proper new singleplayer experience that they sort of advertised, nor did they reproduce the multiplayer experience from the original. You might not feel cheated, but a lot of people did, especially people who payed extra for a special edition. They'd have been better off releasing it digitally only or maybe giving it out for free or something, considering they didn't really do much to add to the game anyway. |
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| Sonia Chaud | Feb 25 2014, 05:40 PM Post #408 |
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No fucks left to give.
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They didn't 100% copy the old multiplayer into Reach's engine but they did a damn good job with what they had when you played in the Anniversary gametypes, as well as having the maps playable in both Anniversary mode and Reach mode, which hey, jet packs in Blood Gulch? Yes please. In all honesty, to keep costs where they did, retooling the Reach engine was the best option they had, as it also allowed those with Reach to join in just the MP fun for 10 bucks if they just got the map pack, instantly making a giant possible install base for multiplayer, which is the heart and soul of Halo's continued success. As for the poor singleplayer experience...it's Halo 1, it's a 10 year old game, it's not going to be as flashy or well done as a new game. I don't think there was any overselling, just quite literally "Play Halo on your 360 online with pretty graphics", and no special edition beyond just a Grunt Birthday Party skull on the first print, which still went for 30 bucks tops at launch. |
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| Psycho Werekitsune | Feb 25 2014, 10:05 PM Post #409 |
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Then they could've just released the map packs for Reach; clearly everyone was still playing it, even after Anniversary's release, so much so that they released it concurrently. Hell, people are still playing Reach over the other two games released after it. And yeah, my bad, I got mixed up; it was Halo 4 with the limited edition, not Anniversary. |
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| Sonia Chaud | Feb 25 2014, 10:10 PM Post #410 |
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No fucks left to give.
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Well those with Anniversary only can just play the anniversary maps with those on reach, or you can take the included code to get the maps to play in reach regular. |
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| -Spade- | Feb 26 2014, 09:30 AM Post #411 |
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Psycho, get excited. Halo Wars 2 is likely going to happen (final-fuckin-ly)! |
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| -Arem- | Feb 26 2014, 12:29 PM Post #412 |
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Fabulous Homosexual
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SOURCE NOW |
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| Arcana Fang | Feb 26 2014, 12:33 PM Post #413 |
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Bullshit Patrol
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Source or it gets the FLOOD! |
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| Psycho Werekitsune | Feb 26 2014, 12:45 PM Post #414 |
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SOOOOOOOOOOOURCE, ALL OF MY FUCKING HYPE, WHERE IS THAT SOURCE?! |
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| -Blacklightning- | Feb 26 2014, 01:07 PM Post #415 |
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BL;DR
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This was all I could find. The thumbnail's blatant clickbait - apparently they're just continuing Halo Wars's story through a comic or some shit. |
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| Psycho Werekitsune | Feb 26 2014, 03:37 PM Post #416 |
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But that's not new, they already did that shit. |
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| -Luffy Foxtrot- | Feb 26 2014, 04:38 PM Post #417 |
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Raining on your parade with a truckload of awkward awesomeness.
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Who would even be developing the second one, since Microsoft axed Ensemble all those years ago? |
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| Psycho Werekitsune | Feb 26 2014, 04:51 PM Post #418 |
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They did? No wonder I haven't seen any new Age of Empire games lately. O: |
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| -Arem- | Feb 26 2014, 09:14 PM Post #419 |
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Ensemble died right after Halo Wars was completed. |
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| Psycho Werekitsune | Feb 26 2014, 09:54 PM Post #420 |
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That is all kinds of depressing. |
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