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[Mech42Ace]

Shar Wolf, on 18 February 2015 - 03:50 PM, said:

HOLY 2 YEAR NECRO BATMAN!

Yup, I do that once in a while lol.
For some reason this thread was at the top of the roster so I clicked thinking that it was a new thread and stated my opinion
Though I am rethinking it... I mean Battletech technology is about 500 years ahead of anything in halo...

[Alaskan Nobody]

Mech42Ace, on 18 February 2015 - 10:14 PM, said:

Though I am rethinking it... I mean Battletech technology is about 500 years ahead of anything in halo...

I do not have much experience with Halo - and most of what I do have is giving myself a headache trying to understand their writing.
(So the precursors could save samples of every race in the galaxy.... except themselves?!)

The gameplay was fun - if rather un-original - but decent gameplay is more valuable to me than original gameplay (says the person who plays mostly turn based RPGs )

The storytelling though (and attitude of the multiplayers) more than killed the franchise for me.
Nephew had me watch the Halo4 movie the other day - and it was Manos and the Hands of Fate levels of BAD.
(Which I enjoyed Manos - mostly by laughing at it the whole way though - which seems to offend a lot of the Halo players I know )


TLDR (or were offended by me disliking Halo so much - hey! they are plenty where I live!)
I have avoided most of Halo so I could not comment on their combat effectiveness.

[Mech42Ace]

Yeah bungie really didn't get the story line across effectively. TBH I started the halo 4 movie and got about 10 minutes in and nothing got good so I turned it off.

[Alaskan Nobody]

You did not miss much

Spoiler

It was about the soldiers being trained to fight the Covenant - by teaching them how the ancient romans fought eachother (without giving any modern context - IE: they explained why the phalanx was such an awesome maneuver - and how much they should learn from that - when the class ended) and how to play capture the flag with paintball guns (With little to no training on what they should be doing - just thrown out into the field and yelled at when they did it wrong)
Edit:
Because either of those is going to train them well to fight the Covenant.
endedit

The very existence of the covenant was not even talked about until they attacked the planet - the soldiers were told they were fighting human insurgents (who were apparently fighting for a just cause - so few of the soldiers were actually happy about having been drafted)

The main character had a deathly allergy to the weapons they were given and was only involved because he had been drafted - and his family was career military (because if they are safe enough that they can keep the true identity of who they are fighting from the soldiers they are training - they are totally so desperate for soldiers that they can draft soldiers who can die just by firing his own gun)

I will say I laughed out loud with honest enjoyment when

Spoiler

Master Chief shows up

And asks who is the best shot out of the survivors
He gets told
"I believe that would be you, sir"

Edited by Shar Wolf, 19 February 2015 - 12:08 PM.

[Mech42Ace]

Lol, then did master chief narrow-down his question and say: ok, who is the best shot in this room that is not a super human in any way?

[Alaskan Nobody]

No - if I remember right the person then shook his head (he was kinda in shock finding out he was not being trained for fight humans) and pointed to the other cadet with the best scores there.

[Rear Admiral Tier 6]

Pfft,Gurren Lagann will destroy everything

Its final form can throw galaxies at enemies for christ sake

[Mike Forst]

Oh wow look at all the posts in this thread!

[Alaskan Nobody]

Some of them were even worth posting

[Mike Forst]

Well I'm not going to go find the good ones.

[Alaskan Nobody]

You made several of them

[Mike Forst]

Did I? Have I already posted in this thread before this page?

[Alaskan Nobody]

Nope.

[Mike Forst]

Oh I see what you mean. None of my posts are good though.

Well...maybe the odd one here and there.

[Alaskan Nobody]

I will take your word for it

[MarineTech]

Quit taking Mike's things.

It gives him a sad.

[Alaskan Nobody]

I only borrowed it.

If I kept it - it would not be his word, but mine

[Mike Forst]

I'm not sad.

[Alaskan Nobody]

Yay!

That makes me happy

[Mike Forst]

I'm glad I guess.