jacoshot
jacoshot
Since 3871 Days
It's possible to have a direct feed video of Halo 5 beta multiplayer?

It would be great!!
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scoobs0688
scoobs0688
Since 5409 Days
I can't wait to get my hands on the beta. Really curious if adding all the jetpack thrust stuff will ruin the gameplay
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Redneck
Redneck
Since 6461 Days
Imo, from what I have seen, the game looks very good. Here is a link of an insight video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCfgVEg8p4Q

I know that people say that armor abilities turn Halo into a CoD copy, but having played halo 2 and 3 online on the MCC, all I can say that those games, while great for their time, now feel dated as hell. Having no sprint on a big map with no vehicle nearby is just frustrating.

What I don't understand about Halo 5 is wether you have to choose one armor ability for your load out. I would like to have them all, maybe switching between them with d-pad...

P.S. Halo 4 would also have been a very good mp game, if there would have been no weapon drops, ordinances and a single good map. But the core gameplay was fun.
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Phaethon360 - Mr Pant<s>s</s>ies
Phaethon360
Since 6620 Days
@Redneck apparently all the powers will be for everyone all the time.

After playing (and enjoying more than expected) Advanced Warfare, Halo 5 looks like it's a better version of that. More interesting because the time to kill still seems to be (roughly) the same as past games. It's copying a lot from Destiny, or at least victim to having a Bungie design document/cheat sheet that turned into Destiny faster than Halo 5 could release.

I'm not a fan of having all the dashing and wall climbing stuff in a Halo, but that doesn't mean it can't be a fun MP FPS. I just remember nodding my head to a lot of Halo 4's changes at the time, and then in execution they just fell flat in those areas. Not only was it my least played/enjoyed Halo but it had the fastest abandonment on the 360.

What I saw looked fun, and I would play it, but it didn't make me feel like I had to run out and buy an Xbox One. Especially if they're starting to copy games I already own versus coming up with some new awesome ideas of their own. If I end up getting one Black Friday it'll be due to the Halo MCC. The beta having 7 maps (I hear) sounds great, so at least there should be a good variety of terrain to try out the new abilities. But if I have an Xbox when this releases there's no way I would skip out anyway, so they already have a potential customer.
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GriftGFX
Since 6774 Days
Posted by Phaethon360
After playing (and enjoying more than expected) Advanced Warfare, Halo 5 looks like it's a better version of that.
Yup. Better balance. Better combat. Dedicated servers.

I don't think it looks very much like Halo at all, but it looks like the superior Advanced Wargame.
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Redneck
Redneck
Since 6461 Days
Posted by GriftGFX
Yup. Better balance. Better combat. Dedicated servers.

I don't think it looks very much like Halo at all, but it looks like the superior Advanced Wargame.
Which Halo did stop looking like Halo to you?
(serious question)
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GriftGFX
Since 6774 Days
Posted by Redneck
Which Halo did stop looking like Halo to you?
(serious question)
Reach.. and then much more so Halo 4. They've addressed a lot of what I don't like about Halo 4, but they've also fundamentally changed the gameplay. This is not the slow methodical shooter that Halo used to be, and it shares a familiarity with current trends that's a little worrying too. They're not staying true to the formula, or forging their own path. But... it still looks better than Halo 4.

They'll continue to alienate some old fans and will likely make some new ones.
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Redneck
Redneck
Since 6461 Days
Posted by GriftGFX
Reach.. and then much more so Halo 4. They've addressed a lot of what I don't like about Halo 4, but they've also fundamentally changed the gameplay. This is not the slow methodical shooter that Halo used to be, and it shares a familiarity with current trends that's a little worrying too. They're not staying true to the formula, or forging their own path. But... it still looks better than Halo 4.

They'll continue to alienate some old fans and will likely make some new ones.
Fair enough I get yout point, although I loved Reach. The grenade launcher is still my favorite weapon of all Halos.

For me Halo is all about map control, so Halo4s mp was by far the worst. The one I played the least. (Probably also because I generally spend less time gaming)

The changes they are doing with Guardians all sound great:
Eliminate advantages of load outs from Reach and H4. Getting rid of the utterly stupid randomness of H4. Bringing back map control etc.

Now all they need to do is to balance the vehicles out. In H4, the machinegun-warthog and the ghost were ridiculously useless.

Yes, Halo in general got a lot faster and their new abilities seem to make it even more so, but imo thats not a bad thing. With map control it still seems to be played very methodically, just a lot faster.

As I said, I played Halo3 online yesterday (only one match, so I guess my impression isn't worth much) and it just felt too slow. I would even say chunky. Not something I would like to be future Halos to be like, actually.

Back in the day I loved H3. Maybe I should not play the MCC anymore and keep H2 and H3 in mind as I remeber them, you know through my nostalgia glasses...
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ManThatYouFear
ManThatYouFear
Since 6717 Days
Makes me sad :(

It looks slick as fuck, but this does not look like halo no more :(

Looks better than the MP in 4, but hell it could not be worse.
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GriftGFX
Since 6774 Days
Posted by Redneck
Fair enough I get yout point, although I loved Reach.
I don't hate Reach either, I just recognize that it's pretty different. I agree with most of your post.
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Tinks
Tinks
Since 6703 Days
I think not looking like Halo is a good thing too? Even though I don't really agree with that statement

Bungie didn't evolve enough with the franchise when they had it and it got progressively more stale with options stacked on top.


Just to throw in another perspective on the matter :)
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Phaethon360
Since 6620 Days
Posted by Tinks
Just to throw in another perspective on the matter :)
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Tinks
Tinks
Since 6703 Days
IT WAS BORING TOWARDS THE END

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ManThatYouFear
ManThatYouFear
Since 6717 Days
I bought a Xbox One for Halo: MCC, and all the broken shit aside it was a very solid experience from what i played..
I say what i played because after boxing day we did not touch it again and traded it for a second PS4 for me and the little lad to play Destiny/BF4/ZAT together, because ya know.. split screen is such a last gen feature (yeah devs.. fuck you)
Anyway, the reason we did not play it much was.. well, its aged.
It has aged well yes, it is what? 12 years old now? it just hasn't aged greatly and it does need to evolve.
And by evolve i do not mean copy every other fucking fps out there, it still needs to be Halo at the core just more too it, Halo needs to set the standard not follow it, reason Halo 4 was just so fucking dire was it was every other game out there just with a chief skin.

343i said they wanted to put there own stamp on the Halo brand and not follow in Bungies shoes, fair enough and good on you..
but your stamp was forged in the same factory as everyone elses.

Anyway point of this rant was that i have been screaming and shouting for them to leave Halo as it was and stop fucking around with it, well i was wrong.
they HAVE to bring it up to speed, and then surpase that.. and up the 16 players for fucks sake. Dont give us a training ground, give me a fucking war.
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laurent75
Since 3285 Days
Yes, you are right.
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Optimusv2
Optimusv2
Since 6666 Days
Halo 4 is still my favorite Halo campaign in the series for how it handled its most important characters and, in my view, embraced all the Halo fiction that so much time was spent cultivating through the books and other mediums. It doesn't mean other Halo games didn't try, but I'm a much bigger fan of how it was done in Halo 4, so my excitement for the followup is obviously way up there.
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Halo Reach using 360 tesselation unit extensively.

Hironobu Sakaguchi is coming back to reclaim the throne :)

Seeing it in motion on your HDTV, will blow your mind!!

Don't ask any questions just shut up and buy Halo : Ghosts of the Onyx one of th

scoobs0688
scoobs0688
Since 5409 Days
Posted by Optimusv2
Halo 4 is still my favorite Halo campaign in the series for how it handled its most important characters and, in my view, embraced all the Halo fiction that so much time was spent cultivating through the books and other mediums. It doesn't mean other Halo games didn't try, but I'm a much bigger fan of how it was done in Halo 4, so my excitement for the followup is obviously way up there.
HE LIVES! It's like John 117 waking up from cryo-sleep at the beginning of Halo 4!
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ManThatYouFear
ManThatYouFear
Since 6717 Days
Posted by Optimusv2
Halo 4 is still my favorite Halo campaign in the series for how it handled its most important characters and, in my view, embraced all the Halo fiction that so much time was spent cultivating through the books and other mediums. It doesn't mean other Halo games didn't try, but I'm a much bigger fan of how it was done in Halo 4, so my excitement for the followup is obviously way up there.
I loved it and hated it at the same time, i loved the story but gameplay was just so dull.
saying that it's still better than a majority of shooters coming out today.
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scoobs0688
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Since 5409 Days
I'm about 5 hours into the campaign, and I can honestly say I have NO idea what the hell is happening in that story. I'm traveling through portals and theres a big ugly guy with force powers. It probably doesn't help I played it coop so we were talking through a lot of it, but still. Absolutely clueless as to what is happening, just shooting dudes.

The new race's weapons are badass though.
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GriftGFX
Since 6774 Days
I played Halo 4 co-op the night it came out, just like every other Halo before it. In my opinion it's the worst co-op campaign of the lot. That's disregarding the story, which I didn't find particularly memorable either. There are just too many cramped scenarios. I'm glad they've taken a lot of feedback/criticism to heart. Halo 5 looks better. Hopefully co-op actually enters their consideration this time.
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I just ordered an Xbone on Newegg. I will be Xboning it up next week.
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Xbone me prz
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Xbone me prz
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GrimThorne
Since 6646 Days
Optimus I don't know if you're still lurking but the H5 Guardian Hunt For the Truth series just fucking exploded with Episode #7.

We're looking at either the internal collapse of the UNSC or the complete meltdown of ONI's executiveship! And don't ask me how the industrial apparatus of the UNSC survives without ONI. The colonies should fair well though, they've proven they could survive without the UNSC holding their hands through worst days of the war.

The thing is I no longer think ONI cares about the blowback of the Spartan IIs, those dirty fuckers are hiding something else!

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I don't buy into collector's editions anymore. They lack any real substance are usually overpriced to begin with.
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