#3677113 - 11/07/12 12:54 PM
Re: HALO 4
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Started playing last night, big battle multiplayer only. Enjoyng the large maps in big battle with lots of vehicles. Much better than halo 3. Ordnance drops are a nice feature, think of MW's care package system with three options to choose from and no waiting for the chopper to arrive. The only thing I really do not like is the controller layout options, but Halo's options have always been that way. Took me a while to find one I liked and I am still not comfortable.
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#3677127 - 11/07/12 01:11 PM
Re: HALO 4
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I forgot I pre-ordered this back in Feb. I didn't do any MP yet, I'm not that crazy about it in this game. I like the campaign and nice to see MC back in there. I played the first scene, which was fairly reminiscent of the Pillar of Autumn opening in the first game. They mixed in a good bit of cinematic scenes that look really nice, and the game itself looks pretty good too. Not ground breaking at all, but a good looking game. Some new alien weapons (at least to me, I skipped the non-MC games). Otherwise it's pretty standard Halo. More challenging than some before and so far watching your ammo is a bigger factor than I've seen before. I'll give MP a shot later, but I don't care for the fast paced gameplay and respawn games.
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#3677158 - 11/07/12 01:42 PM
Re: HALO 4
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I love some good scifi, and there's a decent story in Halo. Even read the initial 3 books. The first was pretty good and there's a good bit of that story built into this game so far. Looks like they're going to flesh out the origin story for those that don't know it. IMO it would make a good movie if they ran the first book's origin story and through the first game.
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#3677164 - 11/07/12 01:48 PM
Re: HALO 4
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I'm not a big space and sci-fi person either. Halo is about as far as I go. Picked this up yesterday and have played the first 2-3 campaign missions, and no multiplayer so far.
First impressions:
1. This game frustrates me more than any other Halo except maybe ODST. Keep running out of ammo and getting killed. On freakin' NORMAL difficulty. I don't think I'm even going to bother with the higher difficulties this time around. Maybe they just designed the campaign for coop play?
2. My hands hurt after about 30 minutes of playing this. I don't know why, it doesn't happen with other games. Except for Bad Company when I would play as a sniper and get "sniper claw". (where my left trigger finger would get so tired from constantly being pulled, that it would feel like a gnarled claw)
3. I HATE the weapons. It feels like killing enemies with water guns. Seems to take a whole magazine to kill one enemy a lot of times. Seems like I miss way more often than in previous Halo games as well.
4. I like Master Chief being back, and the new look Cortana. I want to keep playing just to see what happens to her, actually.
5. It's not really drawing me in though. I'm more likely to put Assassin's Creed 3 or Forza Horizon in the Xbox at this point.
Not hugely impressed so far. Really only picked it up after hearing all the good reviews. It's not a bad game, but I may not be the right audience for it.
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#3677173 - 11/07/12 01:53 PM
Re: HALO 4
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I picked the game up yesterday and spent a few hours with it last night. My previous Halo experiences were the original on PC and then Halo: Reach on 360 -- I missed all the others. So, I'm a bit out of the loop on the story, aside from summaries I've read online. Still though, I'm having fun with it. It occurred to me about two hours in, though, that I'd probably seen all the gameplay variation in those first two hours that I'm going to see for the rest of the game. That's just the Halo strategy: walk in a huge environment, confront groups of bad guys, move onto next environment, repeat. Done well, there's nothing particularly wrong with that formula, but I can't help comparing it to the other three games I'm currently playing: Dishonored, Skyrim and Dark Souls, all of which have a vastly wider amount of gameplay possibilities and skills required. But then again, Halo4 is not trying to compete with any of those games, so, for what it is, it's pretty damn good.
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#3677237 - 11/07/12 03:22 PM
Re: HALO 4
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i gotta finish Halo 3 SP first.. lol
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#3677269 - 11/07/12 04:00 PM
Re: HALO 4
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I just bought it for my boys yesterday for their report cards. Was going to hold till Christmas but I'm sure I can find some other games to get from Santa. They love it, I just can't stand the Bunny hopping in MP.
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#3678028 - 11/08/12 05:38 PM
Re: HALO 4
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the cut scenes are pretty amazing, was watching my 2 boys play the campaign together last night. Funny to hear an 11 & 8 year old describe the game as being "the balls". It's very graphical and my younger boy complained about all the running around giving him a head ache. Will have to see if that happens tonight.
Very impressive with what I've seen so far, they're only an hour in to the campaign
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#3679756 - 11/11/12 02:41 PM
Re: HALO 4
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I like the MP just from a change of perspective aspect. I forgot how addictive the game is.
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#3679883 - 11/11/12 05:32 PM
Re: HALO 4
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I've watched my kids play, I really like the new improved look and sound of the weapons. I"ve always enjoyed human weapons despite their at times ineffectiveness, or is that me lol Well, I too like the new looks but bringing an assault rifle to the fight in Halo I always feel naked. Just started with the Halo 4 campaign on heroic and got that feeling confirmed meeting the first Elite!
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#3680656 - 11/12/12 07:05 PM
Re: HALO 4
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played the campaign for about 3 hours on Sat morning, I love some of the new weapons used where you're taking down the beams. Some of the things that attack you look like the Dog transformer that enters the military station in the 2nd Transformer.
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