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[Drew]

From zero to my father, how drunk are you at any given moment?

[Nightshade]

From zero to my father, how drunk are you at any given moment?

About sums me up.

[Jironimo]

Can we please keep this thread spoiler free? Feel free to start a new thread for story if you want to talk about anything that happens in Halo 5.

So far, I agree with Nightshade, the story is lackluster although I do enjoy playing as Blue Team.

[JCTucker]

SNAPE KILLS DUMBLEDORE

[SharpeWolfe]

FUCK. I WAS ALMOST DONE WITH THAT BOOK

[Nightshade]

I'm going to include my thoughts, which have spoilers but they will be tagged. Ivan, just don't bother reading this till you're done.

Alright, so since I'm too lazy to write a full review I'm just going to do a bulleted list format. Here we go:

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What I liked:

• For what it's worth, the shooting feels nice. The controls feel nice. I was initially against Aim Down Sights (ADS), but ironically now this has become the first Halo that I've spent less time zoomed in overall. It's way too big of an issue to get knocked out of scope in this game and have to readjust. So, in all honesty, I spent less time zoomed in than I ever have before. Might not be the same for everyone, but that's my experience. 
• Pistol feels good, balanced. It's not the Halo 1 pistol, especially in reticule size, but it does feel good.
• Fireteam Osiris' armor designs look nice, one of the only things about 343i artstyle I will ever complement.
• There's some interesting set pieces in the game, mostly revolving around Genesis and Sanghelios.
  • One in particular involves sprinting down a Guardian towards Genesis and I actually thought was pretty cool.
• Kelly sounds like Fat Amy, and says "CERTANER". 
• The music isn't half bad this time around. Far more Halo inspired. 
• Multiplayer plays pretty good. Not a great Halo game, but if you want some Titanfall-esque combat this game has it in spades.

What I Disliked:

• Artstyle is bad, unsurprisingly.
  • Blue team's design is bad.
  • Pelican design is bad.
  • Weapon design is bad, especially the plasma pistol and rocket launcher.
  • Multiplayer armor design is bad.
  • New Covenant cruiser design is awful, has two giant thrusters on it for no fucking reason.
• Some straight up lazy things in campaign that make no sense.
  • When you're in dark areas, your flashlight comes on. For the Master Chief, they use the lights on his helmet. However, everyone else has a mysterious invisible light that pops out of their armpit. It screams "oh shit we forgot to put lights on these characters, but no one will notice!"
  • The whole "switching between 30 and 60 thing works most of the time, but you can see this really weird, low animation jutter that happens even in cutscenes when it's not supposed to happen. For example, look at the legs of Blue Team here.
  • Linda has a special sniper rifle in gameplay, and one cutscene, but in all other cutscenes she has a generic one.
• Writing is just straight up bad. Not even in terms of plot, but dialog too.
  • Cortana as the enemy isn't the worst idea in the world, but the execution is bad. Ironically enough, 343i got a bunch of flak for relegating too much to extended universe books last time. Now, they've left a bunch of plot holes but there aren't even any books to fill them. So it universally just doesn't make sense.
  • What do the Guardians do? Not explained. Looks like they EMPed ships at the end.
  • So, Cortana lost the cryptum at the end but she still has control of the Guardians. Not really seeing how that's a victory when she can theoretically snipe people from space with the Guardians.
  • In true "lets copy the Avengers" fashion, this game is verbatim the plot of Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
• Voice acting or voice acting direction is bad.
  • Arbiter sounds like shit.
  • Master Chief sounds like shit.
  • The anime monitor you find sounds like shit.
• Two of the 15 missions are "walk around with your gun down and talk to people" missions.
  • These aren't inherently bad, a nice change of pace. Where I'm upset is the fact that they count as two individual missions.
  • Still a dumb Halo tradition, the beginning and ending cutscene count as a mission. So there's 4 missions in the game out of 15 where you're doing nothing.
• The fact that 343i thinks "sustainment" is an excuse for delaying content.
  • Detailed it earlier, but delayed gratification in order to attempt sustained engagement isn't going to work like they think it is. We won't ever know, because 343i dropped the player count. But I promise you it's not going to work as well as they think it will.
  • In effort to boost Warzone, Big Team Battle was delayed. But that's not all.
    • According the the Halo 5 stream, it seems like all Big Team Battle maps will be made in Forge.
    • Even worse, from The Sprint series (haven't watched it) reportedly all the free maps will be "remixes", as in slight alterations to the maps we already have. There is concept art to back this theory up.
  • The one Forge map in the game sucks.
• All of the multiplayer maps are ugly and look the same, save for the one that looks like a Titanfall level.

 

That's all I can think of for the moment.

[DualX]

This is the Halo game I didn't know I wanted. Odd campaign mission choices though

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especially when the marketing had absolutely nothing to do with the stuff that actually happens in the story like the Ironman Locke trailer and how there was no buildup to Locke finally fighting Master Chief nor was it anything to call home about.

Please tell me they are doing some kinda Spartan Ops story dlc continuation here because...it needs one.

Going back to my first sentence here, I am glad to say I was wrong about this game. This easily feels the most polished and robust in terms of gameplay. Visual and audio cues for the tiniest things. The weapons are FINALLY the most accurate they've ever been. ADS hasn't been an issue for me either. And all that of that tied into a working online multiplayer makes this so much fun. I'm bringing donging back like it's 2004. Last team slayer game I played, I went 22-1.

Feels good, man.

[Syracuse022]

"Bringing donging back" lol

[Nightshade]

I find the better I am at Halo games online the worse of a game overall it tends to be. Tucker and I's numerous Halo 4 30+ big team battle matches and the fact I'm onyx in several categories in Halo 5 says a lot, to me anyway.

[Nightshade]

Oh boy, a Big Team Battle update!

Wait... the maps are all Forge...? And they look like this...

 

Thanks for those free maps 343i, did you have your interns whip those up in a afternoon? I sincerely hope this isn't what 343i is considering free "DLC".

Also, just for funsies:

[Syracuse022]

I caved. You guys said it already, but the story's got some interesting aspects to it and multiplayer's actually kind of fun. Much better than Halo 4 so far.

[JCTucker]

I caved. You guys said it already, but the story's got some interesting aspects to it and multiplayer's actually kind of fun. Much better than Halo 4 so far.

 

Everyone will, eventually.

 

We have no convictions!

[Drew]

You are weak.

[DualX]

Wait... the maps are all Forge...? And they look like this...

I do like that they seem to be bringing back some of those maps (except for Standoff...eww), and since they are in forge it would allow them to make changes quicker if need be. As long as the map plays good that's what will matter the most. I do hope they put more effort into their original map content though.

 

Is that sniper headshot currently possible?

[JCTucker]

I just ordered it, but it was G1 in the Target B2G1 free sale.  So... On a scale of 1-Locke, how bad should I feel.

[Nightshade]

You should feel Hypersexualized Certener/10.

And yes, that headshot is still possible as far as I know.

Edited by Nightshade, 14 November 2015 - 06:28 PM.

[deftech]

I've been headshot around corners by the fucking sniper. Ridiculous.

[JCTucker]

Nevermind, there was a problem and the order didn't go through.  With the sale over, I'm not ordering it.

[Jironimo]

I still prefer classic Halo, but it's a lot of fun. Mechanics are much better than I expected.

[deftech]

I finally finished the campaign today, and it's not very good! It's very clear you need to read the books to understand what the hell is going on, and the choice for the new 'big bad' of the series is ridiculous at best.