VivaLebowski

Ironically, beacuse its a strategy game, Halo Wars seems to me to be the game that absolutely needs to stay on Console. Its a simple, rock paper scissors game which is way to simple for console PC players...I love it. More than I love any PC RTS's (Starcraft is too hardcore for me lol) but it doesnt belong on PC. Then again, this is kinda analagous to how Halo 1 was for PC, it being the game changer for Console shooters that it was, and it worked great for PC. Thats where I first played it since I never owned the first Xbox. So probably I have no right to judge . But if they were to port Hwars to PC, they should def add custom games and some things to add more depth to it.

I don't neccasarily agree with you about the canon but you raised some good points about the campaign. Kat's death in particular was just lame. Another good point you said was the one about people taking charge who didn't match the previous quality...this is a problem with all of these things. Someone who has the right vision does something then hands it off to less skilled successors. I feel like Reach suffered beacuse the Bungie employee's working on it were not the same as previous. It seems like Bungie or Microsoft or whoever would completely shift up the design team from game to game...makes sense beacuse these productions are exhaustive for people to make but I think it showed with Reach...probably didnt help that allot of the best Bungie guys might have been tired of making Halo too... With 343, theres an even greater chance of the new people not being as good as previous Halo makers. Then again, 343 is unafraid to implement their own vision, as shown by the pretty dramatic changes they are willing to make. So its less of an issue of them f'ing up someone else's vision but of them themselves having a flawed vision of their own to start with.

I would be very surprised if you actually play as someone other than the Chief in game. That would make sense in H5 or H6...personally, I'm hoping for a return of the Arby, which might be in the cards. But having you play anyone other than the Chief just wouldnt feel right, like in the spirit of the game I mean, this time around.

Im hoping the new rail gun is a replacement for the Spartan Laser. I always felt like the SL was just a tad OP versus Vehicles.

Is it possible for someone to sword block twice in a row? I havent played Reach, only H3, in awhile. If it is possible that should definitely been out. Maybe making the penalties applied to sword blocking larger...does it drain the blockers shields or not? I forgot if it does or not. I'd be fine if it was a bit more balanced.

Looking forward to it, the H3 art book was amazing, and one thing I can already tell 343 has in spades is good art direction. The character models are amazing!

That'd almost certainly be something along the lines of a falcon though...who knows if they are gonna include something like that? Having a dropship in Multiplayer just doesnt make sense until we have bigger maps with more players, which likely isnt going to happen until the next gen.

It could use a little more Cowbell. Other than that, awesome.

They should spend more time worrying about making sure people can clearly distinguish between assasinating someone and just hitting them in the back...I cant say how many times I died in reach beacuse I accidentally went into an Assination when I meant to merely bash them in the back. Perhaps if they made it double tap instead of holding? Althought IDK how much of a problem this is for non-bumper jumpers. I'd say its confirmed that they arent going to back Halo 3 style though...and I think one of the reasons is 343 doesnt want to spend allot of time making even half the armory/customization items for Elites that they do with Spartans.

But seriously, the only Halo Vehicles I care about are the Banshee and the Chopper. I already know the Banshee's back but I don't have too high hopes for the Chopper. No doubt most of the other old favorites are returning.

Imo the Halo Reach Warthog's physics were way out of wack. It rolled over way to easily, and while this could lead to some fun times on occasion, in total the lack of control was more nerveracking than it was enjoyable. I'm wondering A) What other people's thoughts are on this and b ) If anyones heard any news about this. I just thought Vehicles in general sucked compared to the ones in 3, mainly beacuse they had a health system and they could be taken down by DMR's and Snipers easily.

As long as they arent the "fun" rolls from reach. Why oh why did they make the physics in Reach so f'ing crazy? You are a silly little man.

Reach's failure to deliver on a campaign level wasnt beacuse it was dark...dark stories are fine, better if they are in the context of a series where the sad ending of the dark story helps lead to ultimate victory. My problem with Reach's campaign was: 1) The characterizations of Noble team were dry, uninteresting and humorless. Being serous isn't neccasarily a bad thing but the characters of Reach were just boring. No interesting interplay of dialogue, funny interesting or otherwise. No interesting backstories or motivations. No real dynamic-ness to them either. I'm not someone who demands character arcs, and I don't expect a masterpiece of story telling but if Bungie could do it with previous Halo's, they could do it with Reach. I could hardly care when they died. 2) Lack of Scale, sense of the struggle. Reach rarely delivers a sense of absolutely gigantic forces clashing. Only in a few scenes do you see more than one covenant or UNSC ship at a time, whereas in Halo 2 and 3, skyboxes and cut scenes full of clashing fleets were a common occurence. The arrival of the massive mainstay of the covenant fleet following Long Night of Solace's destruction feels like a rushed aside, and we do not see the collected force in any large numbers. The cutscene at the beginning of H2 gives more of a feeling of desperation and destruction to Reach's fall than anything in Halo:Reach actually does. Also, Long Night of Solace is one of the coolest things in the campaign, but we see it in action only once and it is completely destroyed within one mission. 3) Unsatisfying conclusion: The final Lone wolf Mission is an interesting capstone but the pillar of autumn mission does not cut it. It feels like the same grind through Covenant infantry interspersed with a few moments of Fire-fight esque hold the fort action. The brief appearance of the Scarabs (who you never fight in any meaningfull sense) feels shoehorned in, and the last few minutes is simply a little bit more firefight.

1) Return of the King 2) Master and Commander 3) Black Hawk Down 4) Duck Soup (Marx Brothers) 5) No idea...but I'll say Pulp Fiction beacuse thats the last really good movie I saw. I have no idea other than that. And the Avengers? 2.5 out of 5 stars tops. Inception and the Dark Knight are Overrated! Someone sue me! Then again, don't midn me, I just want to start World War 3.

EBA Battlegroup: 1 Submarine, 2 Destroyers, 3 Missile Cruisers, 1 Carrier. Transferring 10 F-18's and 12 F-22's to the Carrier. Industrial capacity from Pennsylvania has been transferred to Doc for the time being. Completed production of last three, so have 5 more MBT's, mobile AA, and 2000 additional infantry. Recruiting 5 additional MBT's and 2000 infantry.

IDK seems like maybe they should save the sprees for the special weapons...and it would be kinda silly having a spree with the rockets seeing as how its only 4 shots. Of course, when you have a weapon like the Halo 3 Beam rifle that is functionally the same as the Sniper it should count for these sprees. I just feel like we don't want medal creep so they start losing their value.

'Ello and Welcome.

Building 5 MBT's, 5 Mobile AA. Recruiting an additional 2,000 Troops. (We are allowed to recruit troops right?) Current EBA Territories: Florida (Doc) Penn. (Viva) Del (Viva). EBA Battlegroup: 1 Submarine, 2 Destroyers, 3 Missile Cruisers. Current Delaware Unit Totals: -6,000 Militia -4,000 Paratroopers -6 Coastal Defense Batteries -6 Guided Missile AA Batteries -1 B-2 Stealth Bomber -2 B-52 Bombers -2 AC-130 -2 C-130 Transports -2 Warthog Ground attack planes -12 F-22 Raptors. -25 Abrams MBT's -10 F-18's -5 Mobile AA

I'm going to respond here beacuse you asked me some specific questions there, but after this I'm not going to reply anymore, which you want anyway. 1) "I just don't see any reason why you would?" I have been engaging in a pretty serious discussion about the repurcussions about people trying to "reform" or change behavior in an internet behavior. Obviously I don't dismiss it out of hand as being simply trivial. All that said, I draw the line at comparing yourself to "great men" in history. To be honest, in most contexts, even serious ones, when people start talking about themselves in such tones as "great men" of history I am inclined to remind them to take the context and themselves less seriously beacuse in most cases, even relatively important ones, they shouldn't be proudly talking about themselves that way. Its innapropriate beacuse its against common decency and its doubly innapropriate beacuse the context is not one about "great historical events". 2)"I am merely getting the ball rolling." I've heard. I'm merely asking how you specifically plan on implementing that, or think it should be implemented. 3) "you think tearing them down with well constructed passive aggressive posts is a great way to show yourself as a friendly and community supportive member?" I'm not tearing "them" down. I'm talking specifically to you. And I'm not even trying to tear you down. I'm just trying to get a feel for what you believe is appropriate, based on what you posted, and arguing against those elements of your thought which I disagree with. Beacuse I find this argument interesting. There's nothing more pernicous to it than that. I'm glad you think my posts are well constructed though . Also to reiterate, I don't object to people reforming their behavior. I'm a fan of reform...as long as its from the individual...so I'm naturally inclined to suspect and argue against anything which seems to be inclined against mobilizing people collectively to restrict the speech of others. Naturally, you disagree with that characterization of your position, and that is precisely the argument we have been having. I meant no more harm than that. 4) "And for the record, why should I or anyone else HAVE to tolerate any behavior in which it demeans, insults or aggressively hurts anyone?" Beacuse you already do? Beacuse such toleration is the basis of freedom of speech. I'm going to blow your mind here: When you suggest I think all teenagers and kids are immature, you demean me. When I accuse you of internet fascism, I am insulting you. When anyone makes any even mildly contradictory argument or any statement in a condescending tone, when anyone criticizes someones arguments as says "do you have malformed intentions?"...these staements are insulting, demeaning and hurtfull. But rather they are "insulting" or "demeaning" has absolutely nothing to do with rather the statements are true or not, nor are insulting or demeaning statements restricted to expressions of racism or slurs or what have you that you or I don't have a basic right to say them. IDK what your idea of "toleration" is and IDK what your idea of "intolerance" is but the reality is you have been tolerating condescending jerks, idiots, as well as people who simply disagree with you your entire life and likely are going to continue to do so. You have been tolerating me (at least up until you threatened me with the moderators) even though I have suggested that all sorts of bad things about you. Toleration does not equal acceptance...it means you allow the thing to happen without trying to bring the force of authority to bear to stop it. It means you live with it, in other words. And as I said, you have been "tolerating" all sorts of insulting and hurtfull things your entire life. Me suggesting you are engaging in internet fascism is hurtfull, is it not? And yet, you have tolerated it, at least up until this point? And the point at which you stop tolerating discension such as myself is the point at which this community really does start stamping out the opinions of people who disagree with them. 5) "All I want is for people to not be as rude and intolerant to each-other within the game." Do you want that, or do you want MLG users (to bring back the group you specifically highlighted) to stop posting things you happen to disagree with in the community? The distinction is important. Do you simply want to encourage people to stop calling eachother names, or do you want "competitive" minded players to shut up and stop criticizing Halo 4 and 343 and dividing the community? Dividing the community is bad. Restricting freedom of speech is way way worse. And specifically mentioning a group of people you happen to disagree with in the context of a discussion about getting everyone togethor to "reform" behavior must be treated with suspicion. It's (once again) like politicians trying to encourage "civility" and "bipartisanship" and then proceeding to organize boycotts of media organizations they happen to disagree with. Of course, they have the right to do that, just as you have the right and freedom to call in the moderators and try to get them to shut me down here. That doesnt mean you should. And even if its not the government restricting free speech, any time a group of people get togethor to censor people they disagree with, you are attacking freedom of speech. Of course, there's logical limits to freedom of speech. Theres a whole lot of useless garbage which communites are perfectly justified in banning, locking, and deleting. But theres stuff which needs to be protected. Context is everything here. But I will shut up now, becuse you threatened me with the moderators. If you want to validate the suspicioun of someone who thinks you might have "dictatorial" tendancies, you can hardly do better than talking about yourself as a great man in history and then forcing me to shut my mouth.

But would this still work with Matchmaking? The matchmaking system that Halo has implemented is very good...and I play BF3 quite a bit so I know a bit bout that.

There should be an award for belated introductions lol. Welcome to the forums ZB.

You know that all sounded really good...but I'd kinda like you to address that part about "not tolerating intolerance" before you go back into cliche mode. I'd also like you to address exactly how individuals who are following what you want to do should be interacting with MLG people, for instance, who disagree with you and the rest of us. I was making some none-too subtle allegations that the road your on is leading to softcore internet fascism and I was expecting an angry but succint response, not more lovy-dovy cliches. I realize we have been having a pretty in depth and serious discussion about whats going on here, but can we please remember that this is just the internet? An internet forum over a video game. I mean, yeah, I connected the discussion to big dramatic and pretty serious things, cultural trends, fascism, and what not...And I also know that this community is a not insubstantial part of allot of people's lives...but really, when it comes right down to it, what happens here is not that THAT important and talking about yourself as leading us all towards a better path in the context of great men in History is just silly. What, are you a Great man in history like George Washington? Of course thats not what you were probably thinking of, but really, this is a video game forum. You should remember that and take it a tad less seriously.

Building 5 MBT's, 5 Mobile AA, and 2 F-18's. Current EBA Territories: Florida (Doc) Penn. (Viva) Del (Viva). EBA Battlegroup: 1 Submarine, 2 Destroyers, 3 Missile Cruisers. Current Delaware Unit Totals: -6,000 Militia -4,000 Paratroopers -6 Coastal Defense Batteries -6 Guided Missile AA Batteries -1 B-2 Stealth Bomber -2 B-52 Bombers -2 AC-130 -2 C-130 Transports -2 Warthog Ground attack planes -12 F-22 Raptors. -20 Abrams MBT's -8 F-18's

With Banshee's the only real "rocket" threat is from Missile pods in H3 and we get that beeping tone to alert us. I would assume the first person mode in Vehicles would keep the motion detector handy so you would not be completely blind visa-vi people trying to jack your vehicle. And of course, it hast to be a choice.

Almost certainly. But...if you preorder from Amazon with the fastest shipping theres a small chance you'll get it the day before it is officially released. I got GoW2 that way haha. Total advert for Amazon right there...