ONLY THE STRONGEST WILL SURVIVE LEAD ME TO HALO 2 THREAD WHEN WE DIE

>>389430246
is there a way to play multiplayer on pc for this game

>>389430246
Still a little sour about this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_y3cbIV-Xg

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>>389431016
I can forgive it since Bungie was under a lot of pressure from Microsoft. A lot more content than just that had to be cut. I think maybe half the game? I may be wrong about that though. All things considered it turned out great.

>>389430273
http://www.h2v.online/

>>389431016
>>389431348
I've never got the drama over this, it doesn't look that much better then the actual outskirts/metropolis levels we got

> A lot more content than just that had to be cut. I think maybe half the game? I may be wrong about that though.

They had to throw out the entire game and rebuild it 9 months from launch, so probably more then half

>>389433184
I would love to see that classic art style on the Xbox One. It's not fucking fair. Just give me one more game that looks and plays like classic Halo.

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>>389433471
Literally play Halo 2 Anniversary, in regards to both visuals and gameplay, especially the multiplayer for the latter

that being said, I think H5's gameplay does a good job of significantly adding and improving on classic halo's gameplay (wheas H2A's MP's changes were more minor and subtle) without changing it in the wrong ways: It preserves even starts while just adding new movement mechanics that mesh well with Halo's vertical level design.

I legimately wish the thruster packs and clamber was added to the series before and wish it was there when I replay CE, 2, and 3 now.

Halo 3 anniversary fucking when

>>389433807
>Halo 2 Anniversary
>So much fucking bloom that it'll burn your eyes

>>389433914
Only in the MP, which runs on it's own seperate engine rather then the SP which is a new graphics skin over the original

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>>389433807
>I think H5's gameplay does a good job of significantly adding and improving on classic halo's gameplay
>I legimately wish the thruster packs and clamber was added to the series before and wish it was there when I replay CE, 2, and 3 now

These are the people 343i are making games for.

>>389434784
How about you actually explain what you dislike about it or why it's bad instead of just making banal insults without presenting an arguement. I've been playing the games since CE came out and was actually reading The Fall of Reach before CE even launched when I found it in a book store a few days before CE released.

Halo is an arena shooter, and a key part of arena shooters are advanced movement mechanics, especially highly vertical movement. That's the one area Halo has always lacked relative to other titles in the subgenre: Movement was slow and relatively simple, and while maps were highly vertical, there wasn't much advanced or heavy vertical movement, only what you could do with basic jumping, and crouchjumps and grenade jumps.

H5 adding advanced movement systems brings it closer to it's arena shooter roots and makes the gameplay feel a lot more fluid and dynamic, without hurting the core of what makes Halo Halo.

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>>389430246
I AM A SHADOW ON THE WALL
I'LL BE THE ONE TO SAVE US ALLLL

That was one of like three songs I would fantasize about singing to my school at the talent show so they'd all think I was awesome and wanna be my friend and the girls would wanna date me.

The other two songs were "Move Along" by All-American Rejects and "Dance, Dance" by Fallout Boy

Haha yeah man Halo 2 was great. Especially the slew of Dane Cook comedy routines using Halo 2 to act out the scenes he'd describe.

>>389435091
Halo's intentionally slow paced with equal movement speed for all players in any given situation because predictable movement is integral to the slow-paced combat system, allowing for well-timed ambushes, trick shots, or feints.

The more movement variety there is, the less predictable a players' position will be - that's fine for titanfall, unreal, etc. etc. but this is Halo and Halo was not designed around highly variable movement speeds. People who like Halo are playing Halo and not these other games designed around these movement systems.

It's no wonder the series floundered and died. They forgot they were supposed to make a Halo game.

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>>389433807
H2A visuals are (almost) literally perfect. Just lower the bloom a bit.

>>389435429
The thing is, I don't think the added movement systems hurts those things you mentioned. And I agree that tactical positioning and flanking was a huge part of what halo does well relative to other shooters, and, if anything, that 5 just handles it better. There's more interesting angles and pathways to move and shoot across the map without them being so numerous and unconvential that you get pinged by a BR or DMR or magnum and then can't do shit, there's still opounitiers to change the tables mid-encounter via clever play and use of the terrain.

The fact that 5 actually has every gun be decent enough to do well with helps too, vs just a few guns being useful outside of power weapons like 2 or 3.

>>389435091
>Halo is an arena shooter
>H5 adding advanced movement systems brings it closer to its arena shooter roots
>without hurting the core of what makes Halo Halo.

Literally sounds to me like you don't even know or remember what Halo's identity as a multiplayer shooter was and you always just viewed it as a slow arena shooter. Halo wasn't Quake, Halo was Halo.

Disregarding that, "the core of what makes Halo Halo" extends far beyond the multiplayer, into a multitude of other realms where 343 consistently dropped the ball.

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>>389435319
>those Bionicle commercials promoting AAR
>playing Halo 2 after school with my best friend until the next day when we'd go to class again together
>playing flash games in the computer lab
>jacking my young weiner to awful hentai for the first time
>listening to angsty pop-punk before hip hop completely overtook the music scene


Take me back with you.

>>389435642
>The fact that 5 actually has every gun be decent enough to do well with helps too, vs just a few guns being useful outside of power weapons like 2 or 3

Why the hell do people keep saying this as if it's a good thing? The AR and SMG aren't supposed to be effective at long range.

If you're dumb enough to try and take on someone using a BR with an AR at range then you deserve to be killed. However a skilled player who understands positioning can make use of automatics at mid/close range. It's all about understanding the scenario and reacting.

>>389433184
>Halo 1
Alright!
>Halo 2
Lookin' good
>Halo 3
My man!
>Halo 4
What the actual fuck.
>Halo 5
...

>>389435932
Sure, and UT isn't Quake either, but both are still arena shooters, as is Halo. I think 5's mechanics do a good job of preserving that, if you disagree, that's fine, but don't assume it's because I don't know what Halo is or aren't a fan of the classic games or are a newfag or whatever.

>Disregarding that, "the core of what makes Halo Halo" extends far beyond the multiplayer, into a multitude of other realms where 343 consistently dropped the ball.

Sure, and I agree that 343 has done a shit job at making 4 and 5's visual design be in line with the spirit of the series, among similar stuff, but I wasn't defending those things, I was defending the mechanics.


>>389436097
And they aren't effective at long range in 5, the AR is just actually somewhat effective at medium range if you burst fire, and the SMG is usable out to close-medium even if it's still not great there. And in the recent tuning update announcement, 343i has said they'll be tweaking the AR to be less good when sprayed, but better when the player using it is using accurate bursts; and also scaling the SMG range back slightly, so that should assuage your concerns.

>If you're dumb enough to try and take on someone using a BR with an AR at range then you deserve to be killed.

of course, but if a player uses a BR or carbine or DMR at AR or SMG ranges in past games, they could still do reasonable well, as they can at every range. Automatics have never had either the raw DPS output or range verstality relative to preicsion weapons to justify using them, and most maps weren't designed in such a way with such close quarters that trying to was even possible, let alone viable.

This has consistently been my number 1 issue with the series and thing I wish was fixed. They needed to either make them do more damage inside their intended range, and/or make them more versatile, which is what they did.

>>389436110
>My man!
>what the actual fuck

You didn't even /try/ to hide your scent, r*dditboi.

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>>389435319
DELETE THIS

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>>389433184
>>389433471
>>389436464
H2A chief is sex

>>389436110
*le upvoterino*

worry not, le friend, i know when our beloved narwhal bacons ;^]

This song has no right being this good, I completely forgot about Breaking Benjamin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44IxwYa0ujc

>>389436781
Diary of Jane and I Will Not Bow were my shit in high school.

>>389436854
Same, I used to listen to these guys all the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaRaqT6V-sg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AdREvScRok
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWyBmEsKm1U

>>389433184
>Halo 3 looks better than Halo 4 and 5
What did they mean by this?

>>389436954
Nostalgia shouldn't make me this sad.

>>389436954
>>389436854
>>389436781
Still listen to them even if Ben if the only original member left after the lawsuit. Just got a new BB t-shirt the other day. I wish I could go back. My life sucks now.

Also I can't find it but there is a clip somewhere of Ben saying "Fuck 343" on stage.

>>389437026
Halo 4 and 5 have an ugly art style but what 343 was able to do with Halo 4 graphically on the 360 is pretty impressive. Graphics can't save that shit art style though. Halo 2 Anniversary is the direction the series should have gone

>>389430246

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF0-gs9ORe8

official theme for this thread

>>389437151
>Ben saying "Fuck 343"

Oh my God top lel

>>389437331
He goes on a rant about the MCC. Says something like "it doesn't work but when it does it's great". The man loves his Halo. Pretty sure Blow Me Away was done for free. He just wanted to be in the game.

If anyone in this thread can find this clip I'd love to have it to share in the future.

>>389431016
God 2 had a great score.

>>389437492
>>389437331
I found the clip on twitter but it's a private account so I can't see it but here he is complaining about Halo 5 on his Instagram.
https://www.instagram.com/p/9cvSb3PmvR/

I forgot he was a big Halo fan.

>>389437139
Have another.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJa2Pc1ufjI

>>389436464
>>389436669
So I'm a redditor just because I don't like 343's artstyle? I don't mind the games I just don't like the new style they went for. I'm all for Halo 4 cortana tho, that ass.

>>389438216
The new art style is ass but God damn that Halo 4 Cortana does things to me. Too bad they went full retard with her Halo 5 design.

Breaking Benjamin not being in H2 Anniversary was lame. I still listen to the song.

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>>389438463
I've never understood this. Halo 4's cortana looks like a bimbo, 5's cortana does a good job at matching what her facial structure should looks like in a way that fits her personality while also looking attractivev.

I swear everybody who likes H4 cortana and Hates H5 cortana is just thinking with their dick

>>389430246
best easter eggs

THERE ONCE WAS A PLACE QUITE AIRY

WITH LEAPS THAT WERE DREADFULLY HAIRY

TO GET TO HI BEN

TAKES A GONDOLA THEN

A LEAP WITH THE TOUCH OF A FAIRY

>>389438620
>I swear everybody who likes H4 cortana and Hates H5 cortana is just thinking with their dick

No one is denying that retard

>>389438685
Where was "hi ben"? Outskirts right? Or am I thinking of Rex?

Also does anyone know how to get the IWHBYD skull to spawn on outskirts on the MCC? It's the only one I'm missing and I couldn't get it to work the last time I played it.

>>389437614
Halo 2 also had the best art design and writing of the series

>>389438958
hi ben was on the level with the gondola where you fight the covenant

iwhbyd is a 1/7 chance to spawn, completely random.

>>389439048
>art design

Reach and 3 beat it out, i'd argue, even as a 2fag myself, but it's also hard to say just due to the fact that 2 was still so limited by it's hardware, visually speaking.

>>389439104
There's that number again. Does 343i do anything with the number 7 in their games?

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>>389439179
http://halo.bungie.net/projects/halo3/asset_thumb_viewer.aspx?at=51&cc=22

Is there a fix for running Halo 2 on Windows 10? I can't get it to run at over 15FPS.

>>389439048
Man I love Halo 2 but Reach probably has my favorite art style.

>>389439201
Yes.

https://www.halopedia.org/Seven

>>389439245
I own all the artbooks anon, i've seen it. It's good but I like 3's slightly cleaner and more polygonal aeshetic more, and then reach taking the same sort of concepts but making them more rugged, even in the conce[t art

Reach > 3=ODST > Wars > 2AMP > 2 > Wars 2 >> 4 > 5, IMO. I'm not even including CE due to it being even older then 2 and super limited visually by it's own models and textures. Going by concept art, i'd put it probably below 2 but above Wars 2

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>>389439282
bungie were inspired by halo 1, right?

>In the case of the newly designed Grunt, inspiration came from a logical place - the early Shiek Wang concept sketches created over ten years ago as Halo: Combat Evolved was taking shape inside a Chicago office building.

>Scott explains it further, "We really wanted to push the visual distinction of variants in Reach. One day Eric, one of our artists, and I were flipping through one of the old Art of Halo books and saw a sketch for a Grunt concept that really liked." That Grunt variant, on the far right in the image below, is internally referred to as the "pony keg" Grunt. "Just goes to show you that good design can really be timeless," notes Scott.

http://halo.bungie.net/news/content.aspx?cid=24541

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halo 5's multiplayer is the best since 3. The problem is the fucking maps (and character customization). Why can't they just make fun, iconic maps instead of focusing on e-sport styled maps!?

What did /v/ think of Halo: Anniversary by Saber Interactive?

>>389440027
Its alright. Though like everyone said, some of the art direction halo anniversary took ruined the original look on some missions (like 343 guilty spark). Really did not like the assault rifle being the halo 3 version. Wish they could have at least scaled it to be bulky looking the original assault rifle.

>>389439968
I actually think 343 got a lot right with H5's maps. It's a return to CE/2 style highly vertical maps, and they have a ton of really neat pathways you can discover via experimentation with the new movement mechanics.

But in terms of actual layout and visual design they are pretty lacking.

>>389440027
I think it's fine and most people's crticism's with it are nitpicking. MCC's version is much better thanks to the re-addition of certain shaders that were missing it's original classic mode and higher framerate/resolution and is pretty much the ideal way to play CE, bet it in classic or new graphics

>>389440401
>pretty much the ideal way to play CE

Haha.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1423070

>>389440695
Oh, that's neat. So all the shaders and the 30fps animations are fixed?

>>389440401
>MCC's version is much better

https://youtu.be/3UgDWDfg4ik

>>389440736
Vehicles are in 30 fps still. Shaders are still fucked.

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>>389430246
Does it ever actually play this in game? I never got to play Halo 2.

>>389440889
Blow me away? Yeah, just the instrumental obviously. They used a different song in anniversary mode though.

>>389440889
It plays an instrumental version.

https://youtu.be/eu7VKEBelEk

>>389440826
Some of the effects are still missing, but a lot of them were fixed from the PC port/the original CEA.

>muh one or two missing instances of fog outweighs a massive increase in framerate and resolution

>>389440841
>Shaders are still fucked.

Are they working on it?

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>>389440826

Just fired up halo ce and im getting artifacts up the ass. Why is this?