The cavalry has arrived!

Halo CE marines were bros

>>386400471
Until they frag you.

>>386399013
Post sangheili porn mods are asleep

>>386400471
Halo 2 marines were the best. Better programmed, regenerating health, and unstoppable when given precision weapons.

GET UP SO I CAN KILL YOU AGAIN

>>386400973
>386400973
you seem to forget halo 1 sniper marines

emptying a mag in 2 seconds killing every enemy within a mile radius

>>386401128
But you can't give them snipers. Halo 2 allows you to change any marine to be useful.

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>>386401070
>>386401070
YA MIND NOT KILLIN MY MEN

YEP HE'S DEAD

What's the best Marine and why is it Chips Dubbo

>>386401426
was the only non-story marine that stuck around thru all the bungie games

>>386401483
So did Stacker

>>386399013
Can someone explain why the friendly and enemy AI of Halo 1-3 is somehow better than pretty much every other AAA shooter released after?

>>386401679
Because they're funny.

>>386401679
3's friendly AI was retarded, especially when driving.

>>386401679
then they got lazy

>>386401679
They actually shoot each other and are funny

>>386400912
Go to e621 you lazy cunt.

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>Let an AI drive
>He drives us off a cliff

why did they get rid of their scouters?

DAMNIT JENKINS, FIRE YOUR WEAPON

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Why does master chief have big cute eyes in halo 1?

>>386401679
Lots of dialog and fun touches like when you make a jump in the warthog, the marines raise their hands and cheer.

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>>386400973
They don't freak out when they get stickied and don't woohoo when you go over jumps in the warthog.

>>386402707
Only in Halo one

>>386402678
I always thought those shadows looked really out of place

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I love how their attitudes change from hopelessness to just pure optimism and glee when the Chief shows up. Even to the point of Suicidal bad-assery.

>Oh shit everyone, the chief just showed up in a tank
>What should we do?
>I know, let's just ride on the side of the fucking TANK WHILE FIRING OUR GUNS WILDLY AT THE ENEMY

God I need to play this game again

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>>386402953
Especially considering earlier models didn't have it.

>>386400852
I messed around as enemies in custom edition.

Their frags are crazy accurate if you can't do a dodge like an elite can.

>halo 3 will never come to pc

>>386401679
Halo was supposed to be an RTS but then bungie decided to turn it into an FPS.
The games are basically an AI vs AI RTS match where you play with one of the units pretty much.

>>386403285

Microsoft could at least have the curtesy to release Halo 1 and 2 on steam or something.

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https://youtu.be/BZxqrylX4nk

What's the verdict on this?

>>386403285
september 25 just wait

>>386403569
Source? I thought it started as a tps. I don't doubt you, but Bungie has always made shooters.

>>386399013
AHHH THE BURN

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Thank God it's you!

>>386403872
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6NSm54ImcA

Bungie went thru a quite big RTS phase with Myth and Myth 2 on PC.

>>386403872
Bungie made Myth which I'm pretty sure was an RTS.
Here's a video showing RTS and TPS gameplay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN9vO_gRzoI

>>386403872
Bungie made Myth, an RTS, and Halo was originally going to be a Sci-Fi Myth clone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN9vO_gRzoI

>>386404152
>>386404178
>>386404197
guys i think he got it

You fuckers are going to make me play this again

I have a bone. Should I get Halo 5?

So how do we get inside the ship if it's in the air? The Corps issued me a rifle, not wings.

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>>386400973
>regenerating health

What?

>>386404374
NO

>>386404389
I wonder how the covenant didn't notice the big fucking dropship landing 50 feet from them at the start of the mission.

>>386404443
well even the player had health regen so it makes sense

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRMUYpH7bQk
How come this trailer alone be better than all the new 343 games

>>386404767
what's better, we are odst or landfall

>>386404489
Halo games always have really inconsistent technology. Radar is apparently non-existent.

On another note, anyone else dislike how over the top Halo cutscenes have gotten? The older games had fairly normal cutscenes where everything felt similar to gameplay. Now the cutscenes have insane shit happening all over while characters are doing flips and stuff.

>>386404152
>>386404178
>>386404197
hmm always assumed myth was an fps like marathon. honestly never played any non halo bungie games, thanks for the links, cool stuff

>>386404801
ODST, the CG in Landfall looks like shit now.

>>386399013
those snipers with perfect accuracy were the shit in a warthog

>>386404894
get 2 of em on your tank in AOTCR boiii

>>386404851
It's like they saw those Halo anime shorts and decided to put them in the games for whatever the fuck reason

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdTKUaWMYvo

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I loved playing 343 Guilty Spark just to have a squad of shotgun marines fighting the flood while trying to keep as many of them alive as possible.

>>386405023
I forgot about those. I can definitely see the resemblance.

>>386401679
>Decently accurate, meaning hit above 50% of shots consistently with auto weapons
>Really, essentially never miss with precision weapons
>Strafe to avoid fire
>Focus fire on elites/hunters
>Go berserk
>Frag
>Dodge frags

That's just CE. They become tougher, got melee, got weapon swapping, started taking cover, could flip vehicles in groups (even the Scorpian), and got a ton of lines. Really, amazing AI.

>>386403242
i still find new dialogues from halo 1 marines

if johnson throws a grenade and it lands near him he will say 'stupid...' before he blows up

>>386405279
I did this when I didn't have online during Halo 1 and 2... I probably put around 2k hours in both combined just doing campaign missions over and over.
>That halo 2 level after the 1k year war where you go deep into the underground compound and walk past all the flood and turn around to face 80 flood enemies

Shit was fun if you restricted yourself to no explosives...

>>386405421

It's a shame you can't use the command console to just spawn npcs in Halo 1. It'd be pretty fun just fucking around with the AI for a while. But you gotta do that shit with the mapmaker in custom edition which is annoying.

>>386405421
Why did we stop getting shooters with good AI again

>>386405740
Destiny

HOT POTATO

>>386400973

>Weapon damaged reduced
>AI reduced

he he he, well isn't that cute...

>>386404443
To be fair, it's for NPCs. A slow health regen for them when not in combat is fine.

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>>386401829
>letting Kat drive in Reach

>>386405740

Halo 2

>Jackal snipers
>Damage Reduction OS Elites
>New health enemies but they hardly show up
>Those fucking brute animations.

Halo 2 was a mother fucking mistake.

>>386405740
Because it's easy enough to design a target that sorta spawns in at a point and follows some basic combat routine. It's probably a lot harder to make AI that actually fights effectively, can keep up with you through a level by navigating well, and doesn't just roll over and die as soon as enemies spawn.

At least the AI in the Army of 2 series was pretty well done, if not at the least the best non-invulnerable bullet sponge ever

>>386406173
No I just don't remember them having health regen is all. Or at least I never felt the effects of it.

>>386406465
FEAR had great AI, too bad you don't even notice since the game is so fucking easy you'll be killing enemies left and right non-stop

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why was halo 1's forerunner design the most magical and mysterious?

this pic isnt even from the game, it's from a mod

>>386406887
Was it really? The Forerunner style seemed very similar to the humans except more polished and with some better tech, I'd say the Covenant design fits that description more simply due to how alien it feels like

>>386399013
Anybody remember marines in Halo 2 saying to the Chief to, ''turn down the sun/suck" something of the like when you shoot them? I swear they said something like that in the original but, in the MCC I havent heard a marine say that.

Why the fuck was donna from that 70s show in halo 2?

>>386407068
http://nikon.bungie.org/misc/h2dialogue/marine_perez/marine24_20050915.mp3

>>386407058

maybe it was the music, but wandering these vast technological chasms where you had no clue what anything was or how it worked felt mysterious.

>>386407068
i think the david cross marine said that to the chief

>>386407258
she was popular then I think. idk so was that nasal comedian

>>386407414
Now that you mention it, it was probably the music. Martin did an amazing job with the soundtrack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifGtPnqmUJM

>>386401426
Dustin Echoes

>>386407529
gonna be doing a video soon on all the sound modules marty used on halo 1 and 2 for the instruments

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>>386406887
>tfw the Forerunner mystery and all of halo is defiled and ruined
It's not fucking fair, why'd Bungie have to be lying cunts and not just continuing this with more spinoffs?

>>386404152
Myth was actually Mac first and PC second believe it or not

>>386407937
It's alright, anon, if you believe it hard enough the 343i games stop being canon
Why did they have to change the entire fucking art style as well holy fucking shit it looks bad

>>386407993
That was bungie in a nutshell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO1y7WQfD9c
I dare you to find ANY moment in any game that was as hype and adrenaline-fueled as the final escape in the first Halo. It didn't matter if you had a hard time on Legendary or breezed through on the lowest difficulty; you were on edge and pushing through the final long ride with everything you had.

>>386400973
Halo 1 marines with sniper rifles were deadly

>>386408109
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebr-UTWLfyE
Can't beat this

>>386408034
Halo was the only sci-fi series to separate itself from the others. There was no flying cars, hideous plastic armor or magic. Anything high tech was only for the aliens while the humans had a severe disadvantage. Still using wheeled vehicles, tanks and even 50 cal bullets. But it was all still good at killing aliens. Now 343 made it so fucking generic and hideous.

>>386401128
>>386401229
I actually liked keeping certain guys alive

them sniper bros were worth 20 men with AR's on Heroic or legendary

>>386407937
Recruit and Wetwork are good, though.

>>386408561
It's just that the games don't even feel like Halo anymore.
Honestly, it would have been pretty good if 343 just decided to make a new franchise to add their science-fantasy bullshit

>>386407539
That commentary was great.

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>>386403242
>tfw you can only play as a Marine in certain levels due to freezing at checkpoints

>>386406887
What mod?

>>386401426
>>386401563
Explain.

>>386409515
http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Chips_Dubbo
http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Marcus_Stacker
Are you saying you didn't pay attention to your battle comrades, anon?

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>>386409515
Chips Dubbo is the Aussie Marine who's in all 3 games. So is Stacker

>>386409635
>aussie marine keeps making shitpost-tier comments in the games
What DID Bungie mean by this?

>>386409612
>>386409635
Oh, THOSE two!

I just gave all my marines their own names. There was Aussie, Sergeant Johnson, Other Sarge, Mendoza, and a couple others I've forgotten over the years.

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>>386409716

343i needs to make a recurring Canadian Marine to stay relevant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwfnAM3dBrM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBi_xx26ClM
If anyone hasn't watched these they are absolutely great and have lots of little cool behind the scenes information.

>>386409716
It's called "witty banter", something completely foreign to shitposters no matter how hard they try to make it.

>>386399013
Man you're a sight for sore eyes, we got wounded up here!

Useless pieces of shit can't even drive

>>386409791
Palmer already is as annoying as your average leaf

>>386409790
>Mendoza
You remember the marine alongside Jenkins in the Flood reveal? Jeez.

I remember Johnson, Dubbo, Stacker, Banks and Reynolds.

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>>386408034
Halo Wars 2 actually made me start liking some of the 343 designs, they made an effort to match the new physical shapes of the equipment with the older grittier army type materials instead of the new shiny sci-fi hexagon aesthetic 343 is trying to push for all the UNSC and Covenant shit.

>>386409943
Mendoza shows back in the city levels of Halo 2 IIRC.

>>386408975
The Flood: Forgotten Exile.

It's not out yet.

>>386409943
Banks keeps getting crushed by a radio tower every damn time.
Fucking Scarabs, man.

>>386410048
Was that in the Metropolis cutscene? Because I don't remember any names from earlygame Halo 2 besides Banks.

>>386410172
Jesus Christ, you have the worst luck.

>>386410076
Speaking of mods, is SPV3 finished yet?

>>386410173
I was fairly certain there was a rando marine with the same VA and a similar face. The random mexican one.

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>>386410003
I don't actually hate the 343 designs, I think some of them look pretty cool. But just take a look at this, what the fuck is this thing doing in a Halo game?

>>386410256
Releases this month.

There's a trailer for it in this thread, scroll up and you'l lfind it.

>>386410281
Don't think the hispanic marine in Outskirts had a name. BRB, just checking Halo Nation for the guy who says "Jackals with sniper rifles"...

>>386400471
Yeah it was sure nice they carried ammo around for you.

Marines with sniper rifles were basically the red shirts of the halo universe.

>>386410367
Like I said, I made up my own names for them because I was young.

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Is he /ourguy/?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PLwasbalZ_RsDNfMOKbFHl-GCO2Y_Jccsn&v=3sCbz8H9fqU

>>386410256
Almost. I think a week or two. It's a shame they opted to cut a lot of the bonus content they were planning to release (extra levels, enemies, weapons, vehicles). I understand it's a fan project but I was really looking forward to that stuff.

>>386410367
Isn't Dubbo the one that says 'the only thing worse than jackals are jackals with sniper rifles"?

>>386410367
Perez?

>>386410475
I see this guy's videos on my recommended all the time but I've never bothered to watch any of them.

>>386410446
Okay, that's just adorable. I used to make up dreams in my head where I fanfic dramaticized the Halo 2 and 3 campaigns.

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>>386410003
Halo 3 Marines would probably always be my favourite design. For me it was the perfect blend of the Halo 2's slightly ridiculous looking armour, and Halo Reach's (bordering on generic space marine) design. Plus there was so much variety in the armour sets you encountered.

>>386410547
Watch them man. Professional quality documentary series on the games.

>>386401679
Because every other AAA shooter was built for multiplayer and then included single player because corporate executives made it a requirement. Same thing happened with Battlefront.

>>386410475
raycevick is the ben shapiro of halo yt

constant information overhaul with an autistic delivery that works to his favor

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>>386409847
ausfag detected

>>386410594
I just wish they had the green scouters still.

>>386410563
It was more of a H1 thing. Since the Marines were more or less randomized my brother and I find ones we liked and try to keep them alive, occasionally restarting if one died.
>Aw shit, The Aussie died, we gotta go back!
>Oh hey, is it Johnson or Other Sarge here this time?
And so on.

>>386401679
Each unit type has a distinct personality and set of tactics they use with often complimented each other on the battlefield. Most shooters these days are just human beings who do nothing but take potshots at you from behind cover or throw endless grenades.

>>386410475
Yes.
>>386410539
No, it's the hispanic marine (who btw doesn't have a name according to Halo Nation). Dubbo is the aussie. Just watch any playthrough of Outskirts.

>>386410547
Watch him. He speaks actual human and isn't a stupid fanboy. He even talks about the behind-the-scenes shenanigans in videogame production, explained why co-op was removed for Halo 5, and recently put out the best video on Spec Ops: The Line anyone's ever made.

>>386406887
It's because of the music anon. I can hear it from just looking at that screenshot.

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>>386410328
Some of the guys at 343 used to work at Retro Studios. I can almost see that channeling some elements of the Prime space pirates.

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>>386410563
Vydia universes seemed so much bigger when I was younger
fuck me where did the time go

>>386408809
can you fill me in

>>386410824
>best video on Spec Ops: The Line anyone's ever made
Eh, maybe I'll give it a go some day. I love that game

>>386410875
No kidding.
I used to obsess day and night about Megaman Zero when I was puberty age, which seems really weird nowadays given how little actually is in those games. I haven't even played the Megaman X games yet.

>>386399013
Why can't I play this game on PC?

>>386410882
halo dev commnetary with the devs broing out and making fun of each other and pointing out cool things about scenes and the game and the """""""""fun"""""""""" it was to make all of this

all lighthearted and fun to watch

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>>386410003

>>386404767

>there will never be a full, downloadable version of that song

Speaking of reliving the internet silver age...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl7qtlx9nwE

>>386410875
Halo had so much mystery because so much was left unanswered. The covenant were pretty much done and explained by Halo 3, their history was done by 343 during the anniversary remakes, and thanks to Halo 4-5 even the forerunners have no mystery left.

>>386410076
Oh shit, is that still being worked on? I thought it was discontinued after he released the demo level.

>>386411091
But you can? 1 is great on PC and even has a giant fan revamped campaign about to release. 2 is good as well but lacks the modding.

>>386410882
Mondegreen

>>386411030
kek guess that's two of us, anon, loved Mega Man as a kid, looking to replay the games now (especially X and Zero which I played the most). I guess part of young me still lives on as I can be pretty autistic when it comes to Elder Scrolls lore

>>386410875
For me, things simply got too meta. When I was a kid, I was never concerned with how lazy or Jewish certain developers were. I was just mystified by the games themselves. Now days it's a constant cost/benefit analysis, and you start to feel ripped off when you see shitty glitches or half-assed animations.

Same thing with movies and tv shows. Nothing will ever be perfect again.

>>386411091
You can find old copies on Amazon or Ebay if you don't want to torrent. It does require a small tweak to run though, since the game freaks out at how much RAM modern systems has and thinks you don't have enough.

>>386411131

oh shit, I was wrong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpXboX7hyNc

>>386411218
Halo Combat Evolved Anniversary is on PC?
Or do you mean some shitty community-developed version of Halo 1?
If so, do you have a working link?

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>>386410875
>18 now
>used to read the Halo Encyclopedia at the library and fantasize about all the cool shit the UNSC and Covenant would do after Halo 3 now that they weren't at war

what halo books are worth reading

where can i find them

>>386404178
So that explains why the covenant seems to have equivalent vehicles, all named and usable when possessed through a trainer in Halo CE.

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>>386411091
Where have you been?

>>386404117
BOB!

>>386411490
Both versions of Fall of Reach (retcon prep)
The Flood (because the concept of publicized playthrough fanfiction is still hilarious to me)
First Strike (setup)
GHOSTS OF ONYX (no, seriously, this thing is the bedrock of Halo lore)
Contact Harvest (Worth it if only for the hilariously shameless ending)
After that, go wild.

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>>386411273
I feel that too, anon. Don't blame yourself too much for it though, vydia aren't the same as they used to be. Sure the industry was always jewed but you can clearly see effort and passion put into older games. Nowadays? Not so much.
But really, I guess it is part of growing up. Hell I used to be immersed into vydia back in the day, it doesn't even seem so long ago. Today vydia doesn't grab much of my attention anymore, even though I still love the medium.
It's just not fun to play anymore.
WHERE DID EVERYTHING GO WRONG

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>>386411439
Anniversary isnt on PC but the original Halo Combat Evolved is.

>Megaman roms are missing from Emuparadise

WHAT THE FUCK, FIRST FIRE EMBLEM AND NOW THIS

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>>386411795

>>386411867
Which ones are you downloading anon? I'm getting Mega Man X Collection right now.
Also I might have some of the MMZ DS roms laying around somewhere

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>>386411795
I just wish bump possession wasn't buggy as fuck when passing through checkpoints. Would have loved to do a Marine playthrough. Flood would have been Nightmare Fuel.

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Just throwing this out there, all of the Halo 3 map packs are free now.

>>386412001
Megaman SNES roms.

>>386411490
>>386411735
I swear I have a Mega link full of Halo books some anon posted early this year.

>>386412030
How the hell did you manage to get a marine into the security center?

>>386411439
>SPV3
>shitty

nigger

>>386412084
What are they, and can you link them?
If you're scared about getting banned, you can use the archives and ghost post them.

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>>386411490
>>386411735
>>386412084
HERE

https://mega.nz/#F!UKZyHbwQ!ntLGpaRszBonD-JzaKSZeg

FREE HALO BOOKS EVERYONE

>>386412084
>>386412221
just remembered to check /hg/ there's a link there

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>>386412138
Checkpoint bug doesn't occur if driving a vehicle. So I drove a warthog down the corridor up to the point where the Golden Elite normally locks the door. Once past the checkpoint I could hope out and not freeze. Had to enable invincibility after this cutscene though, since the trigger that kills all of the Marines on the beach kills you too.

>>386412235
REJOICE

>>386412296
Dude, everyone knows about ramming the Warthog into the underground with the cartographer. I'm talking about how you got them into the security center in the middle of the island.

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>>386412502
I possessed him and fought my way in?

>>386412296
Oh wait, you're playing a mod that lets you play third-person as a marine. NVM.

>>386412584
I couldn't find a working "play as a marine" mod. I'm using the standard bump possess cheat. Only mod is 3rd person camera

DELTA WING HAS ARRIVED

>>386412656
Huh. Never heard of that glitch.
Then again, I never hear of any glitch beyond easter eggs that let you listen to Siege of Madrigal or turn your Banshee into a Phantom.

Ive been reading up on an overhaul mod that could even potentially surpass Halo anniversary addition for Halo CE on PC called SPV3 do for a release on August 19. What you guys think?

https://www.reddit.com/r/halospv3/comments/545mhs/spv302_released_download_for_all_users_inside/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZxqrylX4nk

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>>386412162
are you calling me a nigger?

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>>386410830
The music, story, controls, gameplay, voice acting, everything in Halo 1-3 (kinda Reach) was so fucking good. It was so concise and realized. Almost nothing was half-thought. There were great FPS games like Half-Life, but Halo made an arcade FPS that wasn't as stupid action-y as Doom, or as methodical as Deus Ex. It was somewhere in-between. It was before Battlefield 1942, Metroid Prime, and Call of Duty.

People joke
>babby's first shooter
But that's because it is and was one of the greatest shooters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xufR_zt9o10

>>386412812
Old news, really.

>>386412810
When playing as anyone other than the Master Chief, if that character has AI then you completely freeze in place when passing places where it says "Loading... Please Wait".

You can play the entire first level as a Marine, plus the Swamp level (As there is an AI-less Marine hanging around the map boundaries that you can reach by doing the glitch to jump back inside the Pelican. Flood were nightmare fuel though since a single one of those little floor spore enemies latching onto you kills you.

How the fuck did humanity win the war with the covenant

>>386399013
>>>386400912 >>386401679 >>386404021 >>386404894 >>386407068 >>386409870 >>386411091
where are they're horses?

>>386413018
The backbone of the Covenant force (the elites) joined forces with Humanity. Flood wiped out the bulk of the Covenant by taking over High Charity. Basically what was left headed to Earth with the Ark, then left Earth once uncovering the relic they wanted.

>>386413182
Also the Brutes were leading now and they are as intelligent as your average nigger

>>386413018
Covenant kept waging land invasions for the sake of Forerunner artifacts, and UNSC had more than enough numbers to make those fights hell on their ground troops. Problem was that Covenant space fleets just completely outclassed UNSC equivalents.

>>386413182
Don't forget the NOVA bomb wiped out most of the Sangheili forces.

>>386413485
Is that in a Book because I havent read them.

>>386413610
Read Ghosts of Onyx, dude. I'm not gonna say it again.

>>386413485
Didn't that bomb blow up a Separatist fleet?

>>386401679
>>386401829
>>386401846
>>386401898
>>386402707
>>386405421
>>386410802
Reach had better AI then CE though, and CE then had better AI then every other halo game.

>>386411490
>>386411735
>>386412084
>>386412235
huge lorefag here: The only one I outright think is so bad it's not even worth it's time is the last kilo 5 book, which is Mortal Dictata. In terms of reading order, order of release is more of less the best way to go.

That being said, The Flood is skippable since it's not that great and is basically just CE in book form.

>>386413725
Separatists=Sangheili=Elites

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>>386413485
>>386413610
>>386413725
>>386413663

>>386413018
>overconfident Prophets continually underestimating humanity
>preoccupation with the Great Journey
>betraying the major leading component of their military in the middle of a galactic war
>human ingenuity
>Spartans
>superstitious Covenant troops demoralizing themselves by demonizing the Spartans
>Prophet incompetence

If the Elites has complete control of the Covenant from the beginning humanity would have been wiped.

Who's got a MEGA link to CE, I know there's been a few floating around over the years

>>386413821
Elites that were on OUR side.

>>386413834
Isn't that the Yellowstone supervolcano?

>>386401563
Stacker wasn't in ODST

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>>386413834
>tfw in the orange

>>386413862
I'm not so sure about that, because

1. Elite hubris was a key part of them being defeated when they were, the Prophets were far more pragmatic leaders, at least the lest religious ones/the hierarchs

2. The elites would have had humanity join the covneant had it been up to them, most likely, they liked humanity's sense of tenacity and bravado.

>>386413920
I got one for Halo 2

>>386413834
why did commiefornia of all places had to survive

>>386413928
Maybe. It's left ambiguous whether the Separatists would have even allied with humanity if it wasn't for their numbers being so suddenly and violently culled.
So we can probably thank Whitcomb for the Separatists stopping the Flood outbreak on Earth at ground zero.

>>386413725
Their forces would have attacked humanity as well, so in the end it was a win anyway.

https://www.halopedia.org/Xytan_%27Jar_Wattinree

>>386414021

Does that shit work for Win7? If so I'll have the link

>>386414094
They wanted to cripple the world, not help it.

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>>386413937
No, that's the nova bomb the other anon mentiond's numbers plugged into a nuclear bomb blast range caldulator

>>386414010
You'd be fucking atomized, but the entire planet is dead: If you look, the entire globe is still in thermal radiation range, the entire atmosphere would basically combust, it would render any planet it was used on complete inhabitable.

Pic related shows a frigate's MAC cannon blast, for instnace, just to compare to see how fucking huge the nova bomb is

>>386401679
They have a goofy charm to them in what is otherwise a grim setting

>>386414212
I'm on Win10 now but last time I played it I was on Win7 and it worked fine.

https://mega.nz/#!8XAVSYzD!HKkSDHJEPBDWcMdNtbOU3AZVvNEUaeDYJwMdlBpJ7UI

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How did Bungie make such interesting and compelling enemies just to turn around and make kill fodder/bullet sponges in Destiny?

>>386414335
>only funny tab is "SKULL TRUMPET.mp4"
You disappoint me, man.

>>386414094
It didn't survive, see
>>386414335

All of north and south america, the entire atlantic ocean, and half the pacific ocean is in air blast range, IE, shockwaves blowing apart buildings. Not that it matters since, as mentioned, this would literally set the entire atmosphere on fire.

>>386414419
I thought most of the original Bungie team had left by then. Most weren't even around for Reach.

>>386414368

Thanks anyway mang, barring anything past ODST. Halo 2 was the only one I never played

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>>386414335
>>386414474
>>386413834
And super MAC damage (IE, from an orbital platform like what the first mission of Halo 2 was on, or the UNSC infinity)

>>386414535
Well I'll just sit tight until Bungie decides to release Halo 3 on PC so I can finally finish the trilogy at least once

>>386414590
Shame we couldn't mass produce those, would be nice to glass the Covenant for a change.

>>386414335
>completely inhabitable

neat!

>>386414615
That's up to Microsoft now.

>>386414419
Bungie is a shell of it's former self. If Marty getting kicked out wasn't a red flag I don't know what is.

>>386414368
Even better since I haven't played that one a hundred times already. Thanks anon.

>>386414419
The sad part is the Destiny enemies were supposed to be as interesting and compelling. The concept art book for Destiny is fucking heartbreaking.

>>386414335
In the hypothetical scenario that the atmosphere isn't immediately set on fire you can notice that Russia would still survive.
FUCKING SOVIET SPIES

>>386414335
>uuuu
is that a baneposting folder
upload that shit anon

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>>386408120
>assault on the control room
>get scorpion
>get a couple snipers on it

ELITES DEAD! RUN AWAY!

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>Copy of Halo CE on XBOX HUEG has half the levels not able to run
>Don't have PC version

I'LL TAKE YOU ALL ON

>>386415578
I'm outta here man! This is loco!

>>386412235
Is there any way to get those files onto my iPhone? I'd like to be able to read these things from somewhere other than my homebound laptop.

>>386415732
NOICE AND SMOOTH NOW M8
NOICE
AND
SMOOTH

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>>386415280
>scorpion with two sniper marines and two rocket marines

>>386415820
>iphone
get fukt

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>TWO SCARABS
>I REPEAT TWO SCARABS

Being a marine in the Halo universe would probably be the worst thing ever until you team up with Master Chief then it just becomes a blood bowl raining bullets, lasers and explosions followed by a glorious death

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>>386416020
>mfw giving Dubbo a shotgun in Halo 2
Those bullet sponge brutes got oversoaked pretty fast

>>386413778
>That being said, The Flood is skippable since it's not that great and is basically just CE in book form

I like to imagine the entire B plot following Zuka Zanamee' was conceived for the sole purpose of explaining why the fuck a SpecOps elite had a turret encampment in a goddamn maintenance elevator aboard the PoA.

>>386415732
That is a guaranteed court-martial when we get back to Earth, soldier!

>>386411490
>>386411735
The books up to and including The Cole Protocol are decent. Everything after is nuHalo garbage.

>>386416160
Pretty cool on how they focused on such a retarded detail though

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>>386416236
>mfw the way they killed off the Rookie
So
Fucking
Retarded

>>386416236
Forerunner saga isn't too bad.
Halo Evolutions has cool stories too
Shadow of Intent has qt Sangheili females

Captcha: Columbine route

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What 343 did is pure evil

>>386416020
Honestly a game where you play as a marine would be a horror game

>>386416494
I genuinely don't mind that. I have a huge boner for main characters dying in a sequel or later works

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>>386416650
Mona Lisa: Vydia Edition when

>>386403724
Finding 1 and 2 online is incredibly easy, and setting them up is almost as simple

>>386416650
I used to try regular runs of 343 Guilty Spark as a marine using the bump possession command and a third-person camera mod. Shit was intense since a single polyp can end the run as there's no way to get them off without also killing yourself.

>Slightly limited arsenal options because animations
>Grenades take a second to throw and are only lobbed maybe fifteen feet tops
>No shields
>Partial HUD
>Limited jumping height and movement pace

Might try it again sometime now that I've got myself thinking about it again.

>>386415732
WHO WANTS A PIECE OF MEEEE

>>386416704
I can like it when done well, but Rookie's death was anything but.

>>386416494
He deserved more. They should've at least killed him off at the end of a game with him as the protagonist.

>>386416650
Nah, apparently you would still have shields that regenerate. Remember ODST?

I know that game is loved on /v/ but I couldnt get into it for wasting its concept.

>>386404152
hah the nvidia card turned to be a flame thrower

>>386417057
rookie is a shit character that does nothing

odst could have happened with him dying on impact and it would have no difference storywise

>>386417001
In the novel "The Flood", there is a Marine that got pretty far when he was abducted by 343 to the Library to activate the Index before dying to the Flood. Chief finds his body in the Library.

>>386404767
>there will never be a competently produced ODST live action series that focuses on the war, and not emotional personal bullshit that shows focus on nowadays

>>386417223
Yeah, the marine you find in-game with the shotgun. I think he was a Gunnery Sergeant.

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>>386416020
>tfw space combat ends up even worse.

>>386415831
Literally a walking simulator made artificially difficult due to the boner.

Is there anyway to play Halo 1 campaign coop on pc?

>>386417413
xbox emulator :^)

>>386416548
Forerunner saga is well written, I just preferred the Forerunner remaining nebulous. They've lost the sense of mystery surrounding them.

I haven't read Shadow of Intent, but it was written by Joseph Staten, the author of Contact Harvest. I'm not surprised it's decent. Envoy might be good as well, since it's from the author of Cole Protocol.

>>386417210

He survives in a Covenant controlled city for a night and uses his tracking skills to regroup with his squad.

How is that doing nothing?

>>386404767
ODSTs look so fucking cool. I found a tutorial to make the armor out of foam but I wish I could recreate the way the visors go from clear to mirrored. I never do cosplay shit but the armor just looks so good

>>386417713
I think he's either memeing, or referring to Raycevick's ODST review.

>>386417331
>LotGH.webm

>>386404767
When I was a retarded kid I wanted to be an ODST so bad.

>>386417223
>That marine fought his way with barely any armor through rooms even the chief was having trouble with
>Only died cause I think he ran out of ammo or something and got overwhelmed
>Chief even admits that he wish he had known him cause he would have been one serious badass


I forget how did the CHief handle the crazy marine in the previous level int he books?

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>>386417781
>ywn be an odst spec ops purging xenos with your spartan bros
I wouldn't last a second against Elites but I feels so fucking awesome

>>386418025
this probably my favorite armor design of all time

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>>386417934

>>386418012
He disarmed him and then gave him back his weapon and told him to go to the surface. The Marine curled up into a fetal position then committed suicide after the Chief continued on.

>>386418319
>bootis

>>386418257
I love that helmet

>>386416236
That's wrong though

Evolutions, the forerunner books, and pretty much everything since the travis books are all great

I hate how the crosshair is just underneath the center of your screen in Halo 2. It might work on a console but that shit just feels weird.

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>>386410003
Hahaha I'm laffin for real. How pathetic is 343? they just put shit they like from other universes into Halo now and ruin it further.

>>386418790

Crosshair is offcentre in every Halo game

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>>386418585
I don't play Halo anymore but it sucks seeing 343 destroy the legacy Bungie made, look at how they ruined the ODST design

>>386418479
Metal

>>386418790
I remember one reason given was 'because people's eyes naturally drift downward' and to this day I fail to see the relevance of this statement. That a lower crosshair position never caught on is just further evidence that it was a dumb choice but they stuck with it all the way to the end.

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>>386418257
For me it's these two

>>386418836
I mean, I wouldn't mind the UNSC going full Imperium mode

>>386419107
Halo 3's design was perfection, it just went downhill from there.

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>>386419520
Reach had the best ODST design, 3 had the best Marine design

>>386419216
What series is the one on the right from, it looks familiar

>>386419765
Reach's ODST looks like a tacticool clusterfuck to me. Too many details in one place. Halo 3 looks cleaner while still looking cool and realistic.

>>386419846
Killzone.

>>386419107
Bungie did that to their self with Reach, m8.

>>386410003
I hope Halo 6 has Halo Wars 2's art style.

>>386420124
I remember people hating Reach when it was released, it seems now people like it a lot, I agree with you though the Reach armor was the worst of the Bungie's designs.

>>386420326
I think Reach had the best Covie designs. Weapons too.

>>386420326
I don't understand what they liked about it, the more time that passed, the more I hated Reach.

>>386420419
Reach had some of the worst designs for Covenant too.

So we can agree that the ad campaign for Halo 3 was hands down the best ever?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40jdpzrpIps

>>386410594
Reach were supposed to be UNSC army, not marines. Note how they are referred to as "trooper" rather than marine.

>>386410594
God I love Halo 1-3 marine designs.

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Where did they find these old guys? The acting in these was decent. I get chills when the old guy picks up the Brute Spiker
>you know... picking up and enemy weapon like this I.... I don't like it

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>>386420560
Don't forget these
https://youtu.be/MapTlW80f6Y
https://youtu.be/3rridXskgWg
I still watch these every couple months to reminisce about those days

>>386413778
There are some cool parts of The Flood, like the chapters focusing on the Covenant and the Helljumpers. The Chief-centric chapters you can skip through because they're mostly just describing what you went through in the game already.

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>Aw, man! We're trapped in here! We're screwed! We're screwed, man!

>Stow the bellyaching, soldier, remember you're a leatherneck.

>>386412235
cant get the link to work, it keeps looping

>>386411756
dood i had that feeling.
it got worse during pre release of DOOM.
then i played DOOM.
then that feeling was replaced FUCK YEAH VIDEOGAMES

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>>386418836
Hahaha I'm laffin for real. How pathetic is Bungie? they just put shit they like from other universes into Halo now and ruin it further.

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>>386420419
I have to disagree. Pic related voiced most of my complaints pretty well. Reach introduced shit like the Plasma Repeater and Concussion Rifle ,weapons that look they they were made for human hands and just happened to use weird exotic materials.

>>386421334
>actually replaying halo 1 on og xbox
>just got to this part
god i love scifi military shit

>>386403782
Can't fucking wait, myself. Semi-revamped combat is something Halo really needed along with semi-revamped level design.

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>>386421642
Man it's almost like video games are inspired by films and books or something.

>>386420912
God damn that Believe ad with the diorama is hands down the best hype trailer ever, and there's no fucking movement or sound effects at all.

>>386422086
Yeah, almost. And it's almost like I was replying to some dumb fuckhead.

>>386422457
don't be mean in my halo circle jerk thread pls

I'm interested in Halo 6 to see where it goes. The game already has Master Chief as the focused, split screen, lan, black undersuits, a simple story, and the possibility of Halo Wars 2 art style so I want to see how it goes.

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>>386422717
>the rings come back into play somehow
>heroes are powerless to stop them from firing
>all the galactic civilizations get fucked
>forerunner robots reseed life across the galaxy, but there wasn't a contingency plan this time so all the races just kinda get jumbled up together on various planets
>skip ahead thousands of years later to all the savage humans and covenant species using remnants of their old technology and rocks and shit to fight each other all over again, setting the stage for Halo: Combat Devolved

>>386422717
Was there a trailer?

>>386422717
Well we know one thing: Cortana is curating the Grunts as pets. lol

>>386412235

what reads epub these days? kindle is mobi right?

DEAR HUMANITY

>>386423605
You can use Perfect Viewer on Android.

>>386423718

ohh, nice

>>386423657
WE REGRET BEING ALIEN BASTARDS

>>386423605
convert them to mobi using mobipocket creator or calibre

>>386407937
The series ended with 3 man, the 2 spin offs were what they were, spin offs.

Unfortunately Microsoft can't make any good new OPs so they just drag the same shit over and over.

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>>386419107
The Halo 5 buck suit looks great though, and nightfall actually looks good in that image, it just looks shit in game.

In any case, neither buck's suit or nightfall is the 343-era ODST suit, pic related is

>>386422717
>Master Chief as the focus
I don't know why /v/ passes this around as a good thing. It's way past the suspension of disbelif at this point that MC is still t the center of events and the stakes keep getting raised like this.

The series needs to let MC retire and the main conflict end, at least for a while in universe. Have future mainline titles cover other stories and events and characters.

>>386407529
>>386407414
Emulating CE's use of electronic and synth for foreruner areas to give them a good sense of atmosphere is one of the few things Halo 4 did right, IMO.

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>>386404860
Fuck you. go play Myth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LsJ_ejVbOw

Halo threads are always so comfy

>>386407529
This reminds me of Animusic. Brings back cozy feels.

>>386423176
Not yet

>>386424161
Maybe if Halo games without him were good, then maybe they would make more Halo games without him. As far as I can tell, Master Chief needs to stay in if they want me to be interested in a Halo game.

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>>386419846
Jin Roh: The Wolf Brigade

>>386410594
The orange visors seemed like a really cool evolution from the DBZ green eyepieces that Marines had in CE

>>386418836
>Posts shit stolen from Starship troopers
>WOW I CANT BELIEVE OTHER PEOPLE TAKE STUFF
Warhammer autists everyone

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>>386424161
>>386424876
Am I the only one that enjoyed Locke as a protagonist? He's a decent character, not too many unlikable qualities, so I'd be happy with him inheriting the role of main character.

>>386405740
(((consoles)))

>>386425113
COME ON YOU APES

YOU WANNA LIVE FOREVER?

>>386410003
Is halo wars 2 fun

>>386413778
>Reach had better AI then CE though

Watch these ODSTs get fucking annihilated by Jackals and say that again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcrqTgIfrno
Reach ally NPC AI seemed to be lacking, sadly. CE and 2's are definitely above it.

I don't know how Bungie's friendly AI seemed to regress a bit as the games went on.

What's the music that you hear in your head when some mentions CE?

For me its https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t97u9qmgwN0

>>386423832
WE REGRET COMING TO EARTH

>>386425143
YES, YES YOU ARE!

>>386425347
>Halo 3 had terrible ally AI
You and I must have played different games.

>>386425143
I would've rather had the Rookie. He should've been made into a S4 like the rest of his squad, and used his detective skills honed in the streets of New Mombasa to track down Blue Team. He was someone familiar with the Human Covenant War and all the shit Chief and the other Spartans went through, and so would be sympathetic to their cause. His skills in evading surveillance would be helpful in toppling the all-seeing AI empire that now exists thanks to Cuntana.

>>386425327
I'd say it's worse than the first one. Still had a good time though. The main multiplayer attraction is pay to win bullshit though.

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>>386425520
>rookie got killed in a fucking novel
Words cannot express how mad I am

>>386425451
It's been too long for me, but I remember it being alright but not as effective as 2 and CE.
Reach's was definitely shit though, and I don't remember or care enough about 343's Halos to comment on.

>>386418025
>Not a spartan with crazy abilities/endurance
>crawling through a small covenant infested city at night
>rain constantly falling
>amazing soundtrack

It really bothers me when people shit on ODST. It's not Halo 1-3 sure, but that doesn't make it a bad game. It was different, but it was still great. With how shitty 343 Halo is, I don't think this game gets enough credit as being a very good Halo game while also separating it from the main series.