Halo 4

[keverton]

Will anyone be getting this tomorrow? I probably will. If its crap I can always trade it in for black ops 2

 

[ijjysmith]

I honestly don't know a thing about Halo.

 

[keverton]

Last time I played it was halo 3 about 4 years ago and the online play was brilliant. The game side of things did not interest me much

 

[Avaseer]

Never caught onto the halo buzz, just puts me off that i have to hit with every single bullet in a clip to kill the shield, i havent even damaged the guy yet. Combine that with australian lag and its simply only ever been a frustrating experience.

 

[BlueTak]

It's amazing. I'm a massive Halo fan, and I might go out on a limb and say this is the best Halo game ever.

 

[Jags..class]

Only been on for an hour and i'm liking it much better then reach already, the multiplayers games are going to be epic.

 

[Shogun]

Never liked or got into Halo,

Think there ****e tbh.

 

[linglong]

Played the first game and enjoyed it but the sequels never interested me to be honest

 

[Roztitute]

Halo 2 and 3 were absolutely amazing, some of the best games ever.

 

[Brennan]

Installing now, takes FOREVER. Two discs.

 

[Tubey]

Very good article on the problem a mammoth franchise like Halo presents.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/ha...much-fun-to-play/story-e6frf7jo-1226511115161

Too much emphasis on style, little to no emphasis on substance - a theme that has ran through this entire generation of consoles.

Top quotes from that article:

We need to start thinking of more inventive ways of keeping players occupied in a game world than flinging waves of repetitive target practice at them.

... I do think that the developers of Halo and all the other members of the current generation of shooters need to drastically re-think the way that they go about engaging their audience.

Gamers are older and more sophisticated than we used to be, and personally, I’m getting a little sick of playing in a paddling pool of roughly the same construction (albeit with a prettier shell) as the one I was splashing about in when I was five.

Amen...

 

[Jags..class]

Very good article on the problem a mammoth franchise like Halo presents.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/ha...much-fun-to-play/story-e6frf7jo-1226511115161

Too much emphasis on style, little to no emphasis on substance - a theme that has ran through this entire generation of consoles.

Top quotes from that article:





Amen...

To much moaning over games these days, they are just for fun, why is everyone so serious

 

[Brennan]

Very good article on the problem a mammoth franchise like Halo presents.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/ha...much-fun-to-play/story-e6frf7jo-1226511115161

Too much emphasis on style, little to no emphasis on substance - a theme that has ran through this entire generation of consoles.

Top quotes from that article:





Amen...

Meanwhile Halo 4 is one of the highest rated games of this console generation and is getting rave reviews from pretty much all of the well respected gaming publications. I'll trust their opinions more than some guy from the Herald Sun.

P.S The game is fun.

 

[Tubey]

Meanwhile Halo 4 is one of the highest rated games of this console generation and is getting rave reviews from pretty much all of the well respected gaming publications. I'll trust their opinions more than some guy from the Herald Sun.

P.S The game is fun.

I didn't say it was a bad game - I said it's "same old same old". That's without playing it but what I'm reading pretty much confirms that view.

http://www.t3.com/reviews/halo-4-review

Another sentence in that review from T3 that sums up my view on the matter:

This is tough, because Halo 4 epitomises some of the things that plague the games industry today. While there are tweaks, and good ones at that, this isn't the reinvention that many were hoping for, and 343i could be accused of a lack of ingenuity. At the same time, why fix something that isn't broken? One man's 'boring and dated' is another mans 'vintage' after all.

By the way, I'd trust "fringe" publications far more than Gamespot etc.

http://www.ngohq.com/news/20153-duke-nukem-forever-reviews-controversy.html

Ask Jeff Gerstmann for details.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkai...urnalist-lost-his-job-over-a-negative-review/

If Microsoft threaten to not provide an advance copy if the game doesn't score at least 80/100 etc. then Gamespot will bend over backwards.

I'm sure Halo 4 is a good game - for what it is. But this kind of crap from IGN - "Halo has been rebuilt. It has been redefined. And it has been reinvigorated." - is clearly disingenuous and reeks of "paid for".

 

[Brennan]

Wasn't talking about Gamespot, that's why i said 'trusted'

And that was Kane and Lynch, there is absolutely ZERO evidence Microsoft have ever done anything like that. As i already said earlier in this thread, do you really think it's more likely that MS paid off or blackmailed sites to give a positive review than it just being a good game ?

And the IGN quote isn't disingenuous at all. The game has been rebuilt, and it's certainly been reinvigorated. I don't think you're really in any position to judge that when you've not even played the game (and i'm guessing you didn't play the last Halo title either).