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post #1251 of 1264
8/26/09 at 12:59pm
Huzzah! Firefight.
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post #1252 of 1264
9/4/09 at 4:12pm
New live action trailer.

Only a couple weeks away. While not nearly as excited as for Halo 3, I cant wait to get my hands on ODST.
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post #1253 of 1264
9/15/09 at 8:44am
Yeah, I missed this- here's the full short though http://chud.com/articles/articles/20...ILM/Page1.html

I'm very curious about the game. Played through Halo 3 again recently online in co-op and didn't completely hate it, so I'm looking forward to the co-op at least.
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post #1254 of 1264
9/15/09 at 9:04am
Great short.

Can't help but feel less and less attached to Halo: The Game and more attached to the idea of getting those shorts turned into a movie though.
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post #1255 of 1264
9/15/09 at 9:24am
I still don’t get why so many people became disenchanted with Halo 3. It’s hardly the weakest of the three games and it’s multiplayer is still one of the best things on Xbox Live (purely because of the way it’s evolved from the fairly standard gametypes available at launch to the bizarreness of Rocket Races and Griffball). Halo: Combat Evolved is still one of the best FPSes I’ve ever played and whilst Halo 3 never quite reached the heights of the original it felt like a far greater experience than Halo 2. What I’m trying to get at is how people were able to weather the storm of Halo 2s utter lousiness and then be disenchanted by Halo 3 (although that horrible goddamn penultimate Flood level probably doesn’t help).

Anyways I’m looking forward to ODST, it’ll be nice to play a nice, bright and colourful game after the ever present redness of Red Faction: Guerrilla.
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post #1256 of 1264
9/15/09 at 9:31am
But it is easily the weakest of the three games. It's one of the most utterly boring campaigns in this generation of first person shooters. I had forgotten most of it because there's not a single memorable moment in the whole thing, unless you count taking down those giant scarabs, which is actually more irritating than anything. Nevermind the ending sequence which rips off Halo 1 completely yet doesn't manage to be a tenth as exciting.
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post #1257 of 1264
9/15/09 at 9:33am
Maybe it's just me, but I rarely recall campaigns in ANY of these games, due to the amount of time I spend in multiplayer.
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post #1258 of 1264
9/15/09 at 9:42am
The Halo 3 campaign was an embarrassment. Worse, it lowered the bar allowing subsequent FPS titles to only focus on multiplayer and utterly neglect campaign modes.
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post #1259 of 1264
9/15/09 at 9:55am
Did you guys only play the campaign solo?

Doing late night co-op legendary runs is some of the greatest fun I've had. The campaign seems to be tailored specifically for just that.
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post #1260 of 1264
9/15/09 at 9:58am
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Originally Posted by Alex Riviello View Post
But it is easily the weakest of the three games. It's one of the most utterly boring campaigns in this generation of first person shooters. I had forgotten most of it because there's not a single memorable moment in the whole thing, unless you count taking down those giant scarabs, which is actually more irritating than anything. Nevermind the ending sequence which rips off Halo 1 completely yet doesn't manage to be a tenth as exciting.
The campaign in 3 is nowhere near as terrible as the second games campaign. Halo 2 is utterly uneven with some dashes of greatness whereas Halo 3 is hampered by its opening and finale but the level run from Crows Nest up to Covenant is solid with moments of genuine greatness. Whilst I miss the one world feel of Halo, the idea that you’re travelling around a persistent engaging world, I feel that Halo 3 did a lot more to make the levels feel like a natural progression and actually created some genuinely great set pieces.

The biggest problem Halo 3 has is that without Elites the Covenant forces feel kind of neutered and as such Bungie added a lot of artifical difficulty ramps for no real reason.

Unless you’re dealing with a huge pack of them, or one of the Invincible Hammer guys, the Brutes are just never anywhere near as challenging as the Elites and their use in the game always felt clumsy to me.

Of course this is all a matter of opinion.
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post #1261 of 1264
9/15/09 at 9:58am
The colour palette looks decidedly more muted than previous instalments. Although the only screenshots I've seen are all set at night.
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post #1262 of 1264
9/15/09 at 12:02pm
Hmmm.. If anything I enjoyed Halo 2's campaign more than 1's. The original halo's campaign shat the bed after the flood got loose. Back tracking 1/2 the game was pretty crap. Halo 2 didn't have too much of that and it felt like it was consistently giving you new 'halo'esque scenario's to play.

As for number 3, I didn't get around to the single player campaign until 3 days ago, and I sort of get alex's complaints but only for the last two levels. Those two levels sucked. Hard. The rest of the game kept me engaged. Sure it was more of the same, but the combat and vehicle set pieces were fun, for me at least. In other words, I agree with everything Spike said about 3.

Either way I'll have ODST when it comes out and I'm up for some chud clan fun. How do I join up?
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post #1263 of 1264
9/15/09 at 2:19pm
I love all three Halo campaigns... as long as I wasn't fighting the Flood. Blech... fuck the Flood.
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post #1264 of 1264
9/18/09 at 4:05am
For those people that don't know, there is a weekend long double XP Rocket Race fest on Halo 3 right now.
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