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Re: Currently Playing in 2012....
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 9:32 pm
by Henke
Mafro wrote:Henke wrote:HSH28 wrote:Henke wrote:CE's campaign is probably the worst. Most nostalgic and most innovative for it's time but it doesn't hold up well at all. Reach pisses all over it.
Complete nonsense, like 3 the levels in Reach are all too focused for the games own good. The best thing about CE are the levels where it seems like you can go anywhere at all. Theres nothing like that in Reach.
CE has strawberry floating abysmal level design and you replay a third of the game by going through it again backwards! And it has the Flood.
The Library
343 Guilty Spark!
Re: Currently Playing in 2012....
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 9:34 pm
by Frank
The Library is like a Horde mode without the points
Only noticed playing it through in CE how chuffing boring it was. Liked how they'd added the glowing arrow signposts on the floor in the remastered version, too.
Re: Currently Playing in 2012....
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 9:36 pm
by HSH28
Henke wrote:HSH28 wrote:Henke wrote:CE's campaign is probably the worst. Most nostalgic and most innovative for it's time but it doesn't hold up well at all. Reach pisses all over it.
Complete nonsense, like 3 the levels in Reach are all too focused for the games own good. The best thing about CE are the levels where it seems like you can go anywhere at all. Theres nothing like that in Reach.
CE has strawberry floating abysmal level design and you replay a third of the game by going through it again backwards! And it has the Flood. :lol:
Thats tosh.
The best levels in CE are better than all of the levels put together in Reach or 3. Library or no Library, CE is just better.
Re: Currently Playing in 2012....
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 9:37 pm
by Cosmo
Reach is probably my favourite of the Halos, followed by ODST. I did care when everyone is Reach got merk'd.
Re: Currently Playing in 2012....
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 9:54 pm
by Henke
Reach created a really interesting world around the action too. The other Halos, ODST being the exception, were just like moving from one battlefield to the next. Plus, Reach had strawberry floating ostriches!
Re: Currently Playing in 2012....
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 9:55 pm
by Harry Bizzle
I too cared apart from Kat, and also the way they killed her was totally stupid. You can take Needler bullets all day long but all of a sudden one takes out a bloody Spartan.
Re: Currently Playing in 2012....
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 9:56 pm
by melatonin
They're all utterly forgettable games about a jumping spaceman.
You can stop arguing about it now.
Re: Currently Playing in 2012....
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 10:01 pm
by Henke
Right lads, wrap up all this game chat and keep it in the OT.
Re: Currently Playing in 2012....
Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 1:38 am
by Joer
Half Life: Opposing Force
Just played it for about an hour or so and am apparently already 1/4 of the way through it, so it's clearly really short. Again i'm taking screenshots of it while I play which you can check out
here. Although I know it was made by Gearbox, it surprisingly feels different too. The weapons don't seem as accurate (as far anyway) and it seems a lot more straight forward so far. Loving the Wrench/Dagger combo rather than the Crowbar too in all honesty.
Although the night vision rather than a flashlight is gooseberry fool.
Also, why the hell don't these games have subtitles?
Re: Currently Playing in 2012....
Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 2:54 am
by chalkitdown
Brerlappins little hat wrote:Henke wrote:Mafro wrote:Henke wrote:HSH28 wrote:Henke wrote:CE's campaign is probably the worst. Most nostalgic and most innovative for it's time but it doesn't hold up well at all. Reach pisses all over it.
Complete nonsense, like 3 the levels in Reach are all too focused for the games own good. The best thing about CE are the levels where it seems like you can go anywhere at all. Theres nothing like that in Reach.
CE has strawberry floating abysmal level design and you replay a third of the game by going through it again backwards! And it has the Flood.
The Library
343 Guilty Spark!
Just to pint out the amount of reusage of levels in CE
Pillar of autumn - reused as The maw
Truth and reconciliation - reused as Keyes
Assault on the control room - reused as two betrayals, also reused over 9000 times as AOTCR as that level is just the same room and bridge over and over again anyway
The library - reused as the library and eventually segues into AOTCR strawberry floating AGAIN
The level design in CE is strawberry floating abysmal. People only rave about silent cartographer because its one of a handful of levels in the game that isnt just a bunch of reused assets copied and pasted over and over.
Re: Currently Playing in 2012....
Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 8:59 am
by Frank
Brerlappins little hat wrote:People only rave about silent cartographer because its one of a handful of levels in the game that isnt just a bunch of reused assets copied and pasted over and over.
It's the best level of the entire franchise, too.
Re: Currently Playing in 2012....
Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 10:14 am
by Seven
Playing more of Dead Rising 2. Despite Off The Record is superior game, Chuck Greene is just miles better and the story canon wise is really good. I'm just working on getting all achievements from it before I start 360 version of Dead Rising 2 Off The Record; mainly because my mate wants to play that.
I love Dead Rising so much. Although it does take me while until it finally *clicks*.
Re: Currently Playing in 2012....
Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 10:17 am
by Skippy
I only played CE for the first time recently and while I'm sure ten years ago it would blow minds there are definitely parts that don't hold up today. The Library and Assault on the Control Room levels are abominations but there's still some great stuff in there
Re: Currently Playing in 2012....
Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 10:22 am
by Qikz
The reason why the first Halo's single player was so good is it was a different experience all together. Halo 2 captured this too but I think Halo 3 was when the formula got a bit stale. I've not got to play Reach though yet so I can't say how good that is.
ODST was quite good as it was unlike anything the Halo series had done before.
Re: Currently Playing in 2012....
Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 10:24 am
by Skippy
Reach > ODST > 3 > CE > 2
Re: Currently Playing in 2012....
Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 10:48 am
by Christopher
ODST > CE > Reach > 3 > having a cigarette put out on your bellend > 2
Re: Currently Playing in 2012....
Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 1:20 pm
by Gemini73
Still playing FarCry 2, which is superb, however I decided to download Chrono Trigger onto my android phone to play during lunch breaks. Not played it before but liking it so far.
Re: Currently Playing in 2012....
Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 10:58 pm
by Joer
Half Life: Opposing Force
I've just met
these two dudes and turned it off, and i've been told that they're going to be sticking about for a while which I suppose is good. Always nice to have company when everyone else thinks you're there to murder them or have left you.
Re: Currently Playing in 2012....
Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 11:00 pm
by Winckle
Joer wrote:Half Life: Opposing Force
I've just met
these two dudes and turned it off, and i've been told that they're going to be sticking about for a while which I suppose is good. Always nice to have company when everyone else thinks you're there to murder them or have left you.
I love in opposing force when you encounter things that you saw in Half-Life but from the military perspective.
Re: Currently Playing in 2012....
Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 11:14 pm
by Joer
So far, I might actually be enjoying it more than Half Life. At least finding it funnier anyway.
This,this, and
this in particular!
Things seem to be happening a lot quicker in this too, like the guy who gives the warning in Half Life about your last missile targets
(This bit) I saw in Chapter 3 or so in Opposing Force. I got a screenshot of that too, but it's hardly worth showing.
