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Didn't that change for Reach? It defaults to CoD's let it ride system instead of asking if you want to party up? Or do you mean it still boots the entire group out to the queue instead of just picking up the missing slots? I can't remember if Reach did that, but that's... dumb.
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kater posted:Didn't that change for Reach? It defaults to CoD's let it ride system instead of asking if you want to party up? In cod you can join a game thats already started. That becomes a permanent lobby for future games with those players until you leave. While you couldn't join mid-game, at least once you've got a game you default to lobbying up with those players at the end of the match
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Oct 5, 2012 09:56
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What the group think on the live action series. I was going to hold off for the dvd that comes with the LE before watching it. Is it fine standalone?
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Oct 5, 2012 21:35
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It's pretty good alone. Though if you can wait to watch it all at once it would probably be more epic.
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Oct 5, 2012 21:43
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BabyMauler posted:What the group think on the live action series. I was going to hold off for the dvd that comes with the LE before watching it. Is it fine standalone? The first one that came out today? It was filmed well, acting was ok, set was a bit above average. I don't understand the context though. What am I watching? A bunch of no name grunts before the Covenant came along?
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Maker Of Shoes posted:The first one that came out today? It was filmed well, acting was ok, set was a bit above average. I don't understand the context though. What am I watching? A bunch of no name grunts before the Covenant came along? No I'm pretty sure this is set in the time after halo 3 but before 4
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Oct 5, 2012 21:57
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Maker Of Shoes posted:The first one that came out today? It was filmed well, acting was ok, set was a bit above average. I don't understand the context though. What am I watching? A bunch of no name grunts before the Covenant came along? Same opinion. It's hard to care when I have no idea what the context is. Maybe it'll be explained later on, but really this is suppose to be setup from the start. Not enough is explained.
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Oct 5, 2012 21:59
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MickRaider posted:No I'm pretty sure this is set in the time after halo 3 The bit at the beginning with the captain of the Infinity listening to the distress call from Forward Unto Down is immediately before Halo 4, the rest is a flashback to his academy training during the inner/outer colony civil war immediately before the Covenant attack.
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Oct 5, 2012 22:01
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^^^^ ok, that makes sense. I was getting the flashback vibe too.MickRaider posted:No I'm pretty sure this is set in the time after halo 3 Either way, they better find a hook other than "hurf Halo" or this will be Terra Nova levels of yawn.
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Oct 5, 2012 22:02
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Wow that looks way better then I expected.
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Oct 5, 2012 22:41
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Jesus, that was awful. Was this made by the same people that did the live action commercials from previous games?
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Oct 5, 2012 22:52
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Friendly Factory posted:Jesus, that was awful. Was this made by the same people that did the live action commercials from previous games? No. It wasn't _that_ bad
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Oct 5, 2012 22:58
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Whatever, the ODST live action thing was dope as gently caress. This was pretty much a non-event. Nothing happened. At all. I guess I'm willing to watch more, but only in the sense that I was willing to watch this in the first place. And goddamn does the AR make a goofy gun model.
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Oct 6, 2012 06:55
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The AR looks even goofier embossed on a wall for no reason.
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Oct 6, 2012 07:26
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The short black woman trying to act as a tough military leader was awful, terrible miscasting there.
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PriorMarcus posted:The short black woman trying to act as a tough military leader was awful, terrible miscasting there. Glad I wasn't the only one. The problem was that she put absolutely no emotion into it at all. I know there's a very limited budget for this show, but it's supposedly not that hard to hire actual military people and cheaply.
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Aren't they supposed to be teenagers? Like, high schoolers? I thought she was great as a kid trying to act like a tough military leader. I thought the scene that transforms from the kid getting court marshaled into whining about mommy being away was far more ridiculous. kater fucked around with this message at 15:29 on Oct 6, 2012 |
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Oct 6, 2012 15:26
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For marketing bullshit for a game it's not bad, but it does come off like The CW presents: Halo High. Nice to see they filmed it in Vancouver though.
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Tighclops posted:For marketing bullshit for a game it's not bad, but it does come off like The CW presents: Halo High. Nice to see they filmed it in Vancouver though. In fact I swear the wooded location was also the same place some parts of Battlestar Galactica were filmed.
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Oct 6, 2012 17:19
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I'm pretty sure that university campus and some of those actors showed up on BSG also, probably Stargate too.
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Oct 6, 2012 18:21
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Tighclops posted:I'm pretty sure that university campus and some of those actors showed up on BSG also, probably Stargate too. I'm pretty sure the campus was also the market on Caprica in the BSG miniseries.
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Oct 6, 2012 23:32
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Spoilers ahead (not for Halo 4): I am amused by how the protagonist faction, the UNSC, are a bunch of space fascists who brainwash, mutilate and experiment on recruits (SPARTAN program), and otherwise act like unethical jerkbags in their struggle against the insurrectionists. If you've read the books, they are fighting a dirty war against people tired of being oppressed by space bureaucrats thousands of light years away. The concept of what right and wrong pretty much go out the window given the brutality of the ostensibly democratic regime that runs things and the fact that the guerrilla conflict against the "Innies" has been going on for decades before the Covenant showed up and starting kicking their asses left and right. I liked the dispatches from the front line part of the video the most, reminds me of stuff you'd see coming back home from the troops in afghanistan.
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Peven Stan posted:Spoilers ahead (not for Halo 4): It had to be done. -A n i m 8- fucked around with this message at 23:47 on Oct 7, 2012 |
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Peven Stan posted:Spoilers ahead (not for Halo 4): [nerd] If I was in charge I would probably green light a program like this myself. It was the tip of a inter galactic human conflict with multiple factions all getting uppity. I'm sure if the Alliance in Firefly had the option they would of taken it, instead of having a civil war with the brown coats in which hundreds of thousands die. Kidnap 75 kids, 33 survive to be demi gods that could save millions of lives by surgically eliminating opposition. Spartan III's were mostly angry expendable orphan children from the colonies so no evil flash clone fun to be had there. The Spartan IV program is adult volunteers. Hell I would green light that poo poo right now if we had the technology in order to curb stomp world wide militant religious groups, but that's just me. (Saying that has a dad) [/nerd] Anyways, gently caress yea Halo 4, picking it up on day 1. I'm brushing up on my H:Reach so I don't get stomped to hard next month.
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NuckmasterJ posted:[nerd] I don't know that I'd go quite that far, but didn't they say at some point, either in one of the books or the trailers for Forward Unto Dawn (I haven't actually watched the first episode) that there's such a precarious balance between Earth and the colonies, where both sides need each other's resources to survive, that any disruption of the order would be disastrous for all mankind, so they needed drastic action to prevent that, or something along those lines? I mean, I may not like the idea of all that stuff, but if the alternative is "without the massive interconnected economy everybody in the galaxy starves," well... Of course, I may just be thinking of Leviathan Wakes, which had the same explanation for why the outer colonies rebelling would be so disastrous.  I seem to remember a similar explanation in Halo, though.
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WeaponGradeSadness posted:there's such a precarious balance between Earth and the colonies, where both sides need each other's resources to survive, that any disruption of the order would be disastrous for all mankind- If this was true I'd imagine that Earth would be hosed right now considering how far back the Covenant pushed humanity, I don't think resources have really been mapped out in this universe.
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D1Sergo posted:If this was true I'd imagine that Earth would be hosed right now considering how far back the Covenant pushed humanity, I don't think resources have really been mapped out in this universe. Wasn't Earth down to a population of 100 million or so and half the planet was glassed by the end of Halo 3? I thought all that was left of humanity was Earth, a handful of random shithole borderworlds, and a few stations or something.
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RBA Starblade posted:Wasn't Earth down to a population of 100 million or so and half the planet was glassed by the end of Halo 3? Did they glass any part of earth other than that one section to reveal the portal?
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Dvlos posted:Did they glass any part of earth other than that one section to reveal the portal? I thought the whole of North America was on fire at one point? I know they glassed most of Africa and the Elites were still pissy because a flood spore could have floated away or something.
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RBA Starblade posted:Wasn't Earth down to a population of 100 million or so and half the planet was glassed by the end of Halo 3? I thought all that was left of humanity was Earth, a handful of random shithole borderworlds, and a few stations or something. 200 million according to the Halo 3 extras. All the explosions shown hitting Earth in the Halo 2 reveal trailer actually happened, just we never got to see any of it in game.
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Pudding Tame posted:200 million according to the Halo 3 extras. All the explosions shown hitting Earth in the Halo 2 reveal trailer actually happened, just we never got to see any of it in game. Ugh, I guess resources from across the galaxy are kind of moot at that point.
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Oct 9, 2012 12:13
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Some forge information: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOJ5lqXXtpU In case forgeworld wasn't gray enough for you
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Oct 9, 2012 18:59
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Yeah, don't know what they were thinking with that. Not sure what the point of multiple maps is. I can't think of any environment that would be attractive to use the same lincoln logs over and over again in. They should just let people retexture poo poo. That said, being able to turn off assassinations or weapon drain or whatever for an entire map is awesome.
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Oct 9, 2012 19:12
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Far Cry 2's map creation system was loving amazing on consoles. If Halo let you have that kind of creative freedom, I'd never stop playing it.
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Man, they could not have gotten more boring people to talk about Forge if they tried. The hype I had from "awesome, new Forge information!" got the life sucked right out of it listening to those two drone on.
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Oct 9, 2012 21:03
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At least now instead of having every forge map be a grassy field we can have forge maps be either a grassy field or a moon base. It's an improvement,
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I don't think we've seen the third Forge map yet, so you never know what they'll come out with. We might get a desert, a tundra, or even a river delta! and I'm sure it'll have some appropriate features, like a hill, or a rock-- hell, it might even have a cave. The possibilities are endless!
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Pretty sure the 3rd Forge map is just another empty Griffball hangar.
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Because lord knows we need another map made just for that garbage. Just give us some big rear end floor pieces and an actual interesting environment.
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How about a forge map that's inside High Charity with some flood-themed objects? Or even, a forge map on the Elite's homeworld so we can all lament at the irony of being there but not being able to play as an Elite anymore?
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