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Destructoid review: http://www.destructoid.com/review-halo-4-233109.phtml 10/10
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Machinima Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_o9y79QrIE The guy from Machinima playing is the same guy who did their review. He just said a minute ago that it was "an honor to review Halo 4", he gave it a 10/10  Watch some MP action though, eets guud
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Nov 1, 2012 08:48
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 I'm excited for Halo 4, but I've been following this review meta-game poo poo long enough for scores like this to start setting of bells. edit: Actually, Jeff's review is alleviating these fears. I remember his review helped me marginalize my ME3 hype, and this one is also good. Drake Bate fucked around with this message at 09:00 on Nov 1, 2012 |
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Nov 1, 2012 08:58
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Geoff Kieghley should give a score. For Halo-Dew, Haloritos and Halo-V Purple Plasma flavour.
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Nov 1, 2012 08:59
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Dan Didio posted:Geoff Kieghley should give a score. He loves all his children  "Peasants! I decree Halo 4 is a   , I have spoken."
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Nov 1, 2012 09:06
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So who else can't wait for the exciting conclusion of Halo High School?
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Nov 1, 2012 09:51
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scary ghost dog posted:So who else can't wait for the exciting conclusion of Halo High School? If it has a moment as awesome as when Chief blocks the needler shot with his arm in the last one, I am definitely looking forward to it. Though, as my housemate pointed out - if the cadets are driving the warthog, they're going to be even worse than the marines. The first ten minutes will be the warthog flying off cliffs, getting stuck in the scenery and having to be flipped over by an extremely pissed Master Chief.
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Nov 1, 2012 11:54
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Personally I think Davidge's music is really solid. Just let it grow on you a bit. The series needed a fresh new sound. It avoids clichés to an admirable extent
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Nov 1, 2012 13:32
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Nov 1, 2012 13:42
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lenoon posted:Though, as my housemate pointed out - if the cadets are driving the warthog, they're going to be even worse than the marines. The first ten minutes will be the warthog flying off cliffs, getting stuck in the scenery and having to be flipped over by an extremely pissed Master Chief. I know exactly why this made me giggle like a retard and I thank you for it.
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Nov 1, 2012 13:42
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Glad to see the Giant Bomb review, I trust them more than the others.
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Nov 1, 2012 14:00
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I managed to wrangle me a copy, and I just finished the campaign about an hour ago. It was pretty good. It feels a little different, which is to be expected with 343 I guess. I want to say the story was a little bit weirder than previous Halo games. Has a pretty decent length, too. The sprinting is kind of strange, though, because you'd think a Spartan could run for more than 30 meters without having to stop to catch his breath. There's a cool segment near the end where you fly a Broadsword bomber down the hull of a massive dreadnaught. It kinda combines Starfox and the scene from Star Wars where they bomb the first Death Star. Overall it was a pretty good experience though, and I'm eager to see what 343 might do with it. They even wrote a nice little thank-you note at the end to all the fans.
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Nov 1, 2012 14:15
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Nov 1, 2012 14:53
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Booties posted:I'm going to play this game no matter what, but I just don't get why they make some of these decisions. It's fun to make numbers go up. It's more fun when there is something on the line.
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Nov 1, 2012 15:01
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Decent length meaning 8-9 hours? Also hammered out 'A Monument to All Your Sins' in preparation.
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Nov 1, 2012 15:03
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Man, these reviews are getting me even more pumped. I'm like a tightly-wound ball of excitement. The Penny-Arcade one especially: http://penny-arcade.com/report/editorial-article/halo-4-this-isnt-bungies-halo-anymore-its-better It's a two-parter, with this part focusing on campaign (fairly spoiler-free, unless you don't want to know absolutely anything about the campaign ahead of time...but it won't give away plot twists or anything), and the woman writing it came to the conclusion that the campaign is better than anything Bungie's done. And from reading the review, I'm pretty sure it's genuine, too. She seemed really impressed with basically everything about the campaign. I am a little concerned that she said the story may not make sense to people who haven't read the extended universe, though. I've read Traviss's Kilo-5 novels and I think I know enough about who the Didact is even without having read Bear's novels, but I hope I'm not lost at any part of it. Also, a little late to the Gametrailers discussion, but I haven't been able to trust them since their review of Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, where they complained that enemies can see you too easily and if they see you it's sometimes an immediate game over and you have no way of telling why you were spotted!! Complete with a video of someone playing it, walking out from behind cover and immediately getting a MISSION FAILED: YOU HAVE BEEN DETECTED. The thing is, enemies never immediately detect you, it takes them several seconds to ID you, and when they're doing that you get a big-rear end indicator on-screen showing where exactly the enemy ID'ing you is so you can dash to cover before he turns hostile. I don't know if they were lying or dumb or just working off an early review copy that didn't have that feature and they didn't update their review to reflect the changes but now I just watch their reviews for the gameplay clips and ignore the actual review itself.
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Nov 1, 2012 15:17
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Yeah, I use GameTrailers constantly but it's solely to see actual gameplay footage of games that I'm interested in. I don't really think anybody should pay attention to what they actually have to say because their reviews are generally garbage. Speaking of gameplay footage, I saw some multiplayer footage for this game where somebody pulled off a really slick looking assassination on somebody in mid air  Is that new to the series? I don't recall that ever happening in Reach online, but it looks awesome 
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Nov 1, 2012 15:51
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MUFFlNS posted:I saw some multiplayer footage for this game where somebody pulled off a really slick looking assassination on somebody in mid air Yeah, that's in Reach too.
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Nov 1, 2012 15:53
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TheGreatGildersneeze posted:
drat, I too saw that coming. I've met Marty in person at Video Games Live, he's a really nice guy, and gently caress his composing is amazing, definitely one of the more emotional game composers right now. So I knew it was gonna hurt without him. I was thinking they'd just emulate his style, maybe even licence some of the tracks from previous Halo games and just mix in a few new tracks along the same style that we wouldn't notice were new necessarily. I admire the idea to instead break away, since nobody's gonna out O'Donnel Marty. But... sounds like they kinda stumbled, which is the problem with trying to do something different, you gotta do it well. Hrm. :/
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Nov 1, 2012 16:06
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Struggling to ignore reviews so I can have my own opinion when I play,but I'm so drat excited!Leon Einstein posted:It's most fun when you don't have people deranking or boosting during games. Are they going to have credits in this one? If so, there's the number you can enjoy watching rise. Just play a social list to have fun. Not all playlists need to be competitive with a visible rank.
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Nov 1, 2012 16:12
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Sprat Sandwich posted:Also hammered out 'A Monument to All Your Sins' in preparation. If I finish my run of all the games before next week, I think I'll try to knock out that one. I'm already on ODST, only 3 left after this, so I'll probably have the weekend to do a legendary run of Reach 
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Nov 1, 2012 16:14
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Zaphod42 posted:If I finish my run of all the games before next week, I think I'll try to knock out that one. I'm already on ODST, only 3 left after this, so I'll probably have the weekend to do a legendary run of Reach It was actually a lot easier than I expected, mostly because while Noble team is terrible at shooting they are invulnerable. That plus no utterly terrible levels (Cortana I'm looking at you you poo poo) made it relatively painless.
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Nov 1, 2012 16:20
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Zaphod42 posted:
If you have iTunes you can listen to the 1 minute 30 second previews of the OST songs, and I think they sound good. O'Donnell had a one-of-a-kind sound to his work so anyone's going to feel wrong following him up, but I'm doing my best to listen to Davidge's songs with no preconceptions about O'Donnell and I'm really liking them. The first two, Awakening and Belly of the Beast, are especially good, in my opinion.
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Nov 1, 2012 16:23
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The Polygon review is pretty good, it also has some great screen shots. http://www.polygon.com/game/halo-4/2204
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Nov 1, 2012 16:47
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Booties posted:Struggling to ignore reviews so I can have my own opinion when I play,but I'm so drat excited! quote:Stuff about visible ranks A scenario: Little Johnny spends a few weeks of his allowance money on a 1600 MSP card and gives the info to this friendly guy on the internet who says he'll rank Johnny up to 50, all Johnny has to do is give him the password to the account and wait a few days. A few days later with no contact, no 50, and no XBL account it finally dawns on Johnny that something might be amiss. He tells mom and dad what happened, then XBL customer service has to deal with angry parents demanding money back, demanding to know why Microsoft lets bad people prey on innocent childrens' allowances, threatening lawsuits if/when MS says there's really nothing that can be done, etc. Basic phishing scam, sure, and any of us who've been around the internet a while/are at least reasonably intelligent know that, but I'll bet that figures in to it quite a bit. I'd wager some of the scammers don't even bother with the phishing and just go with "send me 1600 MSP and I'll boost you." "Okay!" "Thanks for the $20, later sucker!" Either way, MS probably figured out "if Trueskill isn't visible, that poo poo happens a lot less."
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Nov 1, 2012 17:17
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  What is wrong with his neck?
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Nov 1, 2012 17:23
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iSheep posted:
Nothing?  Looks fine to me. I think he's jutting his head forward slightly, but that's probably due to the sleeve that's around the neck (presumably part of the armor).
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Nov 1, 2012 17:57
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Uhhh yeah, I'm stoked after reading all these reviews
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Nov 1, 2012 18:35
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Machnima Respawn is live streaming 24/7 up till monday Gamespot is featuring T2 for a while if you want to see someone good at this game playing Recap of 343i and Major Nelson playing yesterday These were probably posted already, but no harm in posting again MickRaider fucked around with this message at 18:39 on Nov 1, 2012 |
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Nov 1, 2012 18:37
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Holy poo poo, the almost-comeback on the Gamespot feed just about killed me.
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Nov 1, 2012 18:54
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iSheep posted:
It's mostly that his turtle neck armor is black and blends into the back ground, so it looks like his neck is longer than it really is.
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Nov 1, 2012 19:09
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God drat, I don't think anything could've pumped me up for this game as much as that IGN review
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Nov 1, 2012 19:09
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Rei_ posted:Holy poo poo, the almost-comeback on the Gamespot feed just about killed me. I was watching at the same time. T2 was doing awesome inside the buildings and I totally started rooting for the last minute comeback. Close... but it wasn't his day.
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Nov 1, 2012 19:20
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Has there been confirmation if Reach's psych profiles are back in? Setting them all to the "chill as hell" settings was a big part of why Reach was the most fun MP to me. Nothing I've seen has confirmed or denied its inclusion, though.
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Nov 1, 2012 19:58
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Just went into gamestop and paid off my preorder. gently caress you Halo I thought I was done with you 
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Nov 1, 2012 19:59
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If anyone has any pre-order store exclusive armor codes I would love to give you an offer or take them off your hands if you aren't going to use them.
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Nov 1, 2012 20:18
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Napolean Bonerfarts posted:If anyone has any pre-order store exclusive armor codes I would love to give you an offer or take them off your hands if you aren't going to use them. Ive got a gamestop one coming that I give no fucks about.
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Nov 1, 2012 20:22
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Tsquared is making GBS threads on people also, if the pill emblem that i have been using since halo 2 isn't available i'm going to throw a temper tantrum
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Nov 1, 2012 20:36
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If anyone had any doubt that the music would be awesome https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4jzASp7s2w The soundtrack is on Spotify as well, highly recommended
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Cellophane S posted:If anyone had any doubt that the music would be awesome Its not awful. But it sounds like it came out of the Hans Zimmer music factory.
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