Halo More Dead Than It Was Already
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I'm just thankful the original trilogy exists and was made in relatively sane times.
Edit: I just cannot stop looking at this profile. There's a whole class of people like this woman. "Educated" pencil pushers who legitimately have no clue they make everything run worse by their mere presence. She thinks she's out solving problems all day when in reality the devs groan every time she comes around the corner. They probably have to explain basic things to her but she thinks they're the dumb ones because she can't even comprehend what they're saying.
That's a woman?
I thought it was a tranny when I first saw the pic. I genuinely can't tell what sex this person is.
Who even knows anymore...
I swear that must be a stage name chosen as bait. You can't look like that and be named Boone, it's like a cosmic joke.
My money is on tranny.
"Nah, white boyeee. Dah hallway always be makin dat noise."
CHIRP
People like this cow are why mediocre games take them years and $300 million to make.
Turns out Master Chief was wamen the whole time!
It's 117 because they needed the DNA of 117 wamens to make the perfect warrior.
That's canon now, bigot.
Seems like it would've been easier to use the DNA of one man.
Halo 3 was god tier before the cheaters ruined shit. We really didn't know how good we had it back then.
Pvp is AIDS
And Ai is even more retarded.
Sometimes I think the milsim wargaming dorks have unlocked the pinnacle of gaming.
Halo 4 was lame, 5 sucked, but man, I really enjoyed Halo Infinite's campaign. The whole open world with the grappling hook was so fun. I'd pay for a DLC with a new "island" area to take on. I never really played any multiplayer aside from co-op though.
Halo 4 was awesome. They even went out of their way to make Cortana hot.
Halo 4 was bad. Not necessarily the actual gameplay, although there were at least some bad parts there. The lore. A core idea of the original trilogy was that you’re in the shadow of giants. The Forerunners existed on a scale so far beyond humanity and the Covenant that it’s laughable. There’s a throwaway line early on when you meet 343 Guilty Spark about how the Chief—wearing the pinnacle of human engineering—is in something like a level three combat suit, and should really upgrade to at least an eight. The Forerunner technology we run into in the little drone guys, the Flood as it exists in modern times, these are all remnants of a long dead glory and a long-passed war.
And then in Halo 4 you fight the superweapon robots created by the most fervent warlord the Forerunners had, and they die no problem just like everything else. It’s lame.
Also, I know that it was at least alluded to before and the possibility of Cortana going insane was not completely out of left field, but man, we didn’t need to see it. We didn’t need confirmation that sorry, that character you like, your near-constant companion, really does die like that. “Wake me if you need me” was the perfect ending, they didn’t need to fuck with it at all, but they did.
Maybe I was harsh on it, but I didn't like the new alien robot things much at all. The graphics were great though.
I actually enjoyed Halo 4. Granted, I played all the games back to back in 2023 so I didn’t have the anticipation built up, but it was still quite fun.
One of the biggest problems with 4 is that the game almost literally starts, and does literally end, with a quick time event.
When you're moving around the derelict Forward Unto Dawn and climbing the lift shaft you get to a closed door that opens suddenly something tries to attack you. You resolve this with a QTE that grabs whatever it is and pulls it into the lift shaft, throwing it down the drop below you.
You defeat the big bad who was introduced, built up, and beaten in a single installment in typical shit fashion by slapping a blue plasma grenade onto him in another QTE.
It borders on how boring the end to ME3 was compared to the previous installments.
ME1: showdown with Saren
ME2: proto Reaper fight
ME3: "Marauder Shields" meme then either talking TIM into shooting himself or using a Renegade interrupt/QTE to do it yourself.
Halo managed to put off such a bad move until at least the trilogy and Reach were out.
Halo 1: warthog run.
Halo 2: primate leader with the hammer.
Halo 3: warthog run.
Reach: last stand.
All action packed, even self referential with 3 ending on another warthog run like the first did, but still all involving the player actually doing something other than pressing a single button to get to the next block of text.
Mate, that Halo 3 ending -- while the entire structure was collapsing while the music is blaring and you're trying to race to the end -- was one of the most epic moments in all of gaming. That trilogy is probably the best all-around greatest trilogy in gaming history when it comes to mechanical excellence and overall technically achieved gameplay. I could replay all three games easily and have as much fun now as I did when I first played them.
It's ironic because the ending to Mass Effect 3 was made boring on purpose. There was a planned and prototyped final boss fight with the Illusive Man but Casey Hudson was so far up his ass because he vetoed it so players would get to his "watercooler Lost ending" more quickly.
He even vetoed and locked out all the writers while scripting it because he thought it was so incredible it didn't need any other outside input. And we all saw how that turned out.
If you play Halo 4 directly after playing Halo 3 (something I did after getting the Master Chief Collection on PC) makes it so apparent how much of a huge step backward it is in terms of continuity, storytelling, and overall balance.
Mechanically, Halo 4 plays perfectly fine. However, the weapons are a huge step backward, as all of the Forerunner weapons are just human weapons with a metallic skin and orange lasers. They even reload like human weapons, which was a huge step back from all of the unique weapons they introduced in the original Halo trilogy.
The only actual new thing they introduced that was cool was the mech, which you didn't even use much in the campaign. If Halo 4 came out after Halo 1, I think it would have been an awesome game. But it had way too many step backwards compared to Halo 1 - 3 + Reach, especially when they did the story pivot instead of having it humans vs Covenant vs Forerunners, they turned it into another humans vs Covenant + Forerunners again, and that just made it really lame, as the best moments were when it was a free for all and felt like all out war.
I didn’t notice the “feel” of the weapons being too similar, but I’m not the most in depth halo fan and I really wouldn’t notice anything being too similar.
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Really?!
Her pronoun is she. Let's put it together, kids!
She / Boone
Boone Coon?
Usually the hard swerve into this level of Affirmative Action nonsense is what causes the franchise to fall to shit.
Instead this time its been shit for over a decade, and they are hoping this will be the one thing that pulls them from that muck. Hilarious really.
The process is actually pretty standard. Things hit a rough patch, start going downhill and instead of returning to their roots, franchises turn to DEI for easy bootstrap money thinking they just need a bit of a push to get them over the hump.
You turn woke because you're already broke or close to it.
The monk chant in space becomes swears.
Ahh-oooo-ahhhhhhh FUCK!
Exactly
Even worse, it'll be like those feminist musicals where it's just women making ugly noises
Who knew Yoko Ono was a precursor.
No matter what happens to this franchise, no matter what they do to it, no matter what skin-suit they parade...
I'll never forget
It gets a lot better when you do like what is done with many a franchise and remember there are only 4 mainline games (1-3+Reach) and three spinoffs (ODST, Wars 1+2). Plus the expanded lore from things like the books naturally.
Much like how there is only 2 Terminator movies, only 1 Matrix movie, only 1 Pacific Rim, only 7 Star Wars, etc.
I will give Terminator 3+4 a pass because of 3's ballsy ending and the more original story with Marcus in 4.
The thing is there always was gonna be a Terminator 3 coming because of how much money T2 made and after reading T3's original script we could of ended up with a much worse movie. That would of not been a good movie even if Cameron had helmed it.
It was strange the video announcement showed mostly white men stating they will make a better game. Just a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
Such an impressive black lady. One day she may even fail upwards into the presidency of the United States of Hamerica. Go team!
Meme magic.
She/Her Boone
🎵They fall in line, one at a time, ready to play (I can't see them anyway) No time to lose, we've got to move, steady your hand (I am losing sight again) Fire your guns, it's time to run, blow me away (I will stay in the mess I made) After the fall, we'll shake it off, show me the way
Only the strongest will survive Lead me to heaven when we die I am a shadow on the wall I'll be the one to save us all
There's nothing left, so save your breath, lying in wait (Caught inside this tidal wave) Your cover's blown, nowhere to go, holding your fate (Lonely, I will walk alone) Fire your guns, it's time to run, blow me away (I will stay in the mess I made) After the fall, we'll shake it off, show me the way
Only the strongest will survive Lead me to heaven when we die I am a shadow on the wall I'll be the one to save us all Wanted it back Don't fight me now Here it comes Die
Only the strongest will survive Lead me to heaven when we die I am a shadow on the wall I'll be the one to save us all Save us all🎵
Might as well be a troon flag, looks like a dude.
Edit : A litteral She / Boone.
Some (real) black women have somewhat masculine features. The mirror image of some Asian men.
Halo reach was the final halo. The franchise died immediately after that. Nothing worth considering ever again.
Oh god, and her last name is Boone.
Some hiring manager over there has a sense of humor.
Halo pretty much Died after Reach
Geez look at all the experience she's had running a studio:
https://imgur.com/DRV9MaG