David Hughes
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The Master Chief returns to battle an ancient evil bent on vengeance and annihilation. Shipwrecked on a mysterious world, faced with new enemies and deadly technology, the universe will never be the same. Enlist aboard the Infinity to experience Halo’s original multiplayer and Spartan Ops – episodic fiction-based co-op missions
[See the full post at: http://splitkick.com/halo-4/]
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David Hughes
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Turned on my Xbox last night to make sure it still worked!
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Ben Daniels
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The excitement is palpable.
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Aaron Phokal
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I’m ready to start another fight after finishing the last one.
Unless the Flood show up, because then I’d be continuing the fight I didn’t quite finish last time.
Seriously, the Flood had better be dead. Big, blob Gravemind was a terrible character. Remember that time his tentacle tried to grab your drop ship, but it just loosely slapped it and let you go?
Because Hive Minds are always more creepy and intimidating once they have a megalomaniac, singular voice that taunts you continuously about the plans it’s about to do.
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Aaron Phokal
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Addendum: The exception is Picard (temporarily). And if Master Chief gets Flooded, then that would be pretty intimidating and interesting. Not that that’s going to happen.
And not the Arbiter. That would not be an intimidating character.
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Ben Daniels
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No flood, except in the multiplayer mode “Flood” which is apparently a more fleshed out version of “Infection”, the old zombie multiplayer mode.
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Maria Hughes
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Ben Daniels: No flood, except in the multiplayer mode “Flood” which is apparently a more fleshed out version of “Infection”, the old zombie multiplayer mode.
YES! I loved Infection mode (but perhaps I’m a little biased since I really enjoy using the energy sword).
Also, yay for no Flood! I absolutely hated those levels when playing co-op with David.
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David Hughes
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OK. After a few hours into both campaign and multiplayer, the good Halo 4 is the “greatest hits” from the previous games. The bad Halo 4 is everything else.
Obviously there’s a lot more work I need to do, but so far it’s weakest game in the series (by a considerable margin) in my book.
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Jim Hunter
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Judging by the other three RJ guys, you’re wrong.
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Ben Daniels
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David Hughes:
OK. After a few hours into both campaign and multiplayer, the good Halo 4 is the “greatest hits” from the previous games. The bad Halo 4 is everything else.
Obviously there’s a lot more work I need to do, but so far it’s weakest game in the series (by a considerable margin) in my book.
Don’t go “Quarter to Three” on us.
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David Hughes
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Ben Daniels: Don’t go “Quarter to Three” on us.
I like Tom Chick and generally agree with him most of the time. I haven’t read any Halo 4 reviews but felt I had to read his after all the hubbub. I don’t get where he comes from, but I just as equally don’t get the 9/10′s (so far).
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Jim Hunter
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Super impressed with how perfect Heroic difficulty feels currently. Love the fact that ammo management is a significant thing, and that if I screw up, the game will make me pay but not necessarily instakill me. While this may be a Halo-ass-Halo game, it’s a really awesome Halo game. This combat is just loverly.
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Ben Daniels
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David Hughes: I like Tom Chick and generally agree with him most of the time. I haven’t read any Halo 4 reviews but felt I had to read his after all the hubbub. I don’t get where he comes from, but I just as equally don’t get the 9/10′s (so far).
The more I play the campaign, the more I generally think the Prometheans are pretty generic, uninspired baddies. Then again, I refer to the Covenant as “muppets”.
KILLZONE STILL HAS THE BEST SPACE VILLAINS EVAR!!!!!!!!!!!@@@!!!
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David Hughes
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Ben Daniels: KILLZONE STILL HAS THE BEST SPACE VILLAINS EVAR!!!!!!!!!!!@@@!!!
Glowing eyes makes them that much easier to headshot. Long live the Helghast!
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Jeremy
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ODST is still my favorite Halo game by quite a bit. I wouldn’t say the opinion is invalid.
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David Hughes
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Jeremy:
ODST is still my favorite Halo game by quite a bit. I wouldn’t say the opinion is invalid.
I just feel like ODST often gets roped in with Halo 2 as the “weakest” Halo games, which has never made any sense to me. I want to see more shooters do stuff like that.
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Andy
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I think the only reason people dock points on ODST is that it didn’t really have much for multiplayer.
As far as Halo 4 campaign goes, while it really didn’t do a whole lot of new stuff with the gameplay, I found the storytelling to be much, much better. It may be a bit too dense on lore not covered in older games, but I got by with only a little knowledge. I think I still prefer Reach’s campaign, but Halo 4 is either 2nd or 3rd.
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Christian
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If anyone’s still playing… I found this pretty useful for picking your next specialization after level 50.
http://www.gamezone.com/products/halo-4/originals/halo-4-specializations-guide
Granted, I only had 2 to choose from at the time, and preferred a skinned DMR over the magnum, so my choice wasn’t too difficult…
Mostly posting that link for Adam since he had some questions on that stuff. Also, forgot while we were playing – if you want to test out some of the armor abilities play Flood. As either human or flood you’re given the same 3 load outs as everyone else and the only choice is armor ability. You can choose from shield (human only), thruster (i think flood only),Promethean vision and camo.
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