Halo Infinite

[dalekphalm]

27 minutes ago, Eaglerino said:

Halo 3 was definitely not epic and has by far the worst campaign of all the Halo games

Worst campaign of all the games? So you seriously think Halo 4 had a better campaign then Halo 3?

 

We're seriously gonna disagree.

 

I'd probably rate the campaigns as follows:

1. Halo 1

2. Halo 3

3. Halo Reach

4. Halo 2

5. Halo 5

6. Halo 4

7. Halo ODST (I never finished the campaign due to boredom, which is the only reason it gets this low rating)

[Suika]

24 minutes ago, dalekphalm said:

7. Halo ODST (I never finished the campaign due to boredom, which is the only reason it gets this low rating)

The only reason to own ODST was to complete an achievement for that sweet, sweet Recon armor. Campaign definitely subpar.

[Dash Lambda]

1 hour ago, dalekphalm said:

To be honest, I don't think the game being on Steam would really give it that many more sales. Simply being available on PC itself should drive a majority of sales for those interested.

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I don't really count standalone games, like how for Minecraft you just download its own launcher from the website.

To be totally fair, I'm a bit inconsistent with non-Steam clients. I'm generally fine with Battle.net, for instance, but Origin is why I don't have Dead Space 3 or Crysis 3 and never plan to get them.

 

But I do wonder if anyone's compiled real data on it. Haven't most of the simultaneous releases been horribly broken on the Windows Store?

 

1 hour ago, dalekphalm said:

I'd probably rate the campaigns as follows:

1. Halo 1

2. Halo 3

3. Halo Reach

4. Halo 2

5. Halo 5

6. Halo 4

7. Halo ODST (I never finished the campaign due to boredom, which is the only reason it gets this low rating)

Halo 2's that low? Man, I loved Halo 2. It felt like an adventure.

I'm not actually sure I'd be able to rank the original trilogy, They're all just good in different ways.

 

2 hours ago, Eaglerino said:

Halo 3 was definitely not epic and has by far the worst campaign of all the Halo games.

Not many people will agree with you.

[Guest]

jesus christ this thread is way more toxic than i thought it would be

[Serin]

It looks very purdy. Really pushing photorealism. 

Hoping the story is there. Been really spoiled for great narrative games this last year or so. 

 

[Teddy07]

2 hours ago, NovaMan01 said:

jesus christ this thread is way more toxic than i thought it would be

thought about reporting you for trolling. It is totally fine

[Eaglerino]

4 hours ago, dalekphalm said:

Worst campaign of all the games? So you seriously think Halo 4 had a better campaign then Halo 3?

 

We're seriously gonna disagree.

 

I'd probably rate the campaigns as follows:

1. Halo 1

2. Halo 3

3. Halo Reach

4. Halo 2

5. Halo 5

6. Halo 4

7. Halo ODST (I never finished the campaign due to boredom, which is the only reason it gets this low rating)

I actually do but I don't remember Halo 4 very much. I should probably replay it. Here's mine:

 

Halo 1

Halo Reach

Halo ODST

Halo 5

Halo 2

Halo 4

Halo 3

 

Halo 3 was a straight copy of Halo 1 with inaudible voices and blindingly shiny graphics and too much bloom

[Serin]

Fascinating. 4 for me was easily the most impactful (next to 1 that is). Sure, the gameplay was a bit.. eh, but the story. And that ending!
Could've watched hours of Spartan Ops cutscenes.
Hot off the heels of the Kilo Five trilogy, I loved it. 
 

[aliasdred]

Halo Infinite..... Basically Bioshock Infinite but with Master Chief

[vorticalbox]

13 hours ago, Lurick said:

It's more infinite!!

It's infinite x2 (I'm calling it early)

∞ ^ 2

[dalekphalm]

10 hours ago, Dash Lambda said:

I don't really count standalone games, like how for Minecraft you just download its own launcher from the website.

To be totally fair, I'm a bit inconsistent with non-Steam clients. I'm generally fine with Battle.net, for instance, but Origin is why I don't have Dead Space 3 or Crysis 3 and never plan to get them.

That's fair - but I just think too many gamers have this blind love for Steam, and avoid other launchers/platforms. Giving Steam a monopoly over all games isn't a good thing. Ideally, every game would be on every platform and launcher.

 

There are legitimately people who won't buy a game if it's not on Steam. Those gamers are - in my opinion - not healthy for the games industry.

10 hours ago, Dash Lambda said:

But I do wonder if anyone's compiled real data on it. Haven't most of the simultaneous releases been horribly broken on the Windows Store?

I can think of a few that have been buggy on launch, but I do not have any concrete data.

 

10 hours ago, Dash Lambda said:

Halo 2's that low? Man, I loved Halo 2. It felt like an adventure.

I'm not actually sure I'd be able to rank the original trilogy, They're all just good in different ways.

 

Not many people will agree with you.

It's not so much that Halo 2 is "that low". It's just that Halo 1, 3, Reach, and 2, are all just that badass.

7 hours ago, Eaglerino said:

I actually do but I don't remember Halo 4 very much. I should probably replay it. Here's mine:

 

Halo 1

Halo Reach

Halo ODST

Halo 5

Halo 2

Halo 4

Halo 3

 

Halo 3 was a straight copy of Halo 1 with inaudible voices and blindingly shiny graphics and too much bloom

Wow. Let's just say that I definitely don't agree with you. Halo 3 was not a "straight copy" of Halo 1. Me thinks you need to replay the game.

 

Does Halo 1 feature an invasion of Earth, in which you fight in the Jungles and fight back an assault on a Human outpost? Does Halo 1 feature co-operative battle with the Sanghelios (elites) as our allies, against the misguided Covenant loyalists? Does Halo 1 massively expand the lore surrounding the Flood?

 

If you think they're basically the same game, I don't know what else to say. They aren't.

[flibberdipper]

My body is semi-ready.

[Podo]

12 hours ago, dalekphalm said:

 

I'd probably rate the campaigns as follows:

1. Halo 1

2. Halo 3

3. Halo Reach

4. Halo 2

5. Halo 5

6. Halo 4

7. Halo ODST (I never finished the campaign due to boredom, which is the only reason it gets this low rating)

I'd Go with 
Campaigns in this order.

 

1. Halo 3

2. Halo 1

3. Halo 2

4. Halo Reach

5. Halo 4

6. Halo 5

7. Halo ODST

Multiplayers

1. Halo 3

2. Halo 2

4. Halo Reach

5. Halo 4

6. Halo 5

 

Can't Put Halo CE because I didn't have a PC to run it or Xbox to play it at the time.

 

Halo 3 has a special place for me as it was the first Halo I owned, I did play the first two and played their campaigns, missed the Multiplayer experiences in their primes (I did have the opportunity to play Halo 2 in LANs prior though).  I think the Multiplayer in Halo 3 was near perfect, everyone was balanced, and it was based on your skill and knowledge of the map and game mode.  No loadouts, no Sprint/dodge/climbing, no perks, armor equipment. Just you the starting weapon, and the map.  Not that I dislike the more complexity the updates add, just it was simple in my mind. (I do find it amusing Lorewise that the most athletic/agile human in a powered suit might not be able to get up a ledge because its higher than his base vertical, which was taken care of with the climbing feature in Halo 5.)

 

Halo Reach though was where I fell in love with Shotty-Snipers and Swat playlists, playing Bloodgulch on on reach in 4v4 snipers was so much fun.

 

I'll be honest the last two Campaigns I believe were too reliant on the extended universe with the book trilogies of Kilo-Five and Forerunner Saga to set up the antagonist Jul Mdama and the Didact.  They we were expecting their campaign lovers to have already read those 5-6 books prior to playing the campaign to better understand their villains.  I think this was apparent when they Killed Jul in the first mission of Halo 5.  Then Halo 5 weighed on the expectations of players remembering/understanding Dr. Halsey's need to preserve her Spartans which is demonstrated in books First Strike and Ghosts of Onyx, and explains why Cortana wants to capture Master Chief and preserve him.  

Stepping away from the failures of their writing in the last two, game play I really enjoyed the new things they added in 4 & 5.  Don't understand how the radar has downgraded between 4 & 5 though or how Spartans lost the ability to dual wield.  I recently replayed Halo 3 and 5 Campaigns and the drastic difference in 8yr of game play and story telling is dramatic.  Also the fact 343 felt "comfortable" balancing the Halo 5 Campaign after launch tells me they weren't confident in their game at launch, but that is also the plague of modern video games the first few patches after launch.  

 

I was extremely disappointed in the lack of local multiplayer in Halo 5, and very happy to hear they are including it moving forward.

 

But I want to point out something when it comes to the "coming to PC" cheers of some on this forum.  Halo Wars 2 which was released as a "play anywhere" game (Xbox or PC on one purchase) is no longer supported on PC; granted this was developed by creative assembly, so they may have dropped it.  Also if I remember MS launched a Forge client on in their store for a week or so allowing PC players to play and design in halo 5's forge, but haven't heard anything for a while.

My hope for Infinite is it launches a new trilogy and they are able to write a compelling story.

The Halo Universe is quite vast and I wouldn't mind them branching out in spin-off games in completely different genres.  I could see them easily fitting in a Assassians' Creed/Shadow of Mordor type game based on the Pre-Covenant, Colonial uprising time period which is the original reason the Spartan-II program was intended.  You could be a a Spartan-II in Mark 3 or 4 Mjolnir armor.  They already have decent Console RTS and then the Arcade top down shooters.

 

I kinda hope they don't attempt a Destiny Clone (MORPGFPS), granted they could work it into the Lore, players are all Spartan-IVs running around on missions in fireteams etc.  But it would be redundant in the gaming space because the fan bases are practically the same people, IMHO.

Good Lord, ok I think i'm done.  Rant(?) over.

[I-r0k]

The game looks trash but the engine looks great. 

[The Benjamins]

2 hours ago, I-r0k said:

The game looks trash but the engine looks great. 

How if we only saw a engine demo?

[niofalpha]

Looking forward to playing it. Wonder how they'll handle the competitive scene for it, split between PC and Console.

[Shreyas1]

Just now, niofalpha said:

Looking forward to playing it. Wonder how they'll handle the competitive scene for it, split between PC and Console.

I think there will probably be different servers for PC and Console or keyboard support for console

[niofalpha]

1 minute ago, Shreyas1 said:

I think there will probably be different servers for PC and Console or keyboard support for console

No, there will definitely be different servers for both. Just curious if they're gonna split HCS into 2 divisions, or just ignore PC.