Opinion on Halo Reach?

[Not-here-anymore]

Sounds like some more fur of the same dead fox. Who's also been cremated, so now they brought the body back with some evil voodoo mumbo-jumbo.
I really liked the first game, the second sucked and I never played the 3rd.
Sue me.

The second did suck because no assualt rifle everyone dual wielded and why do they call dual wielding akimbo in MW2? I'll never know

It's called akimbo in a lot of things, possibly including real life.

I just stopped to check wikipedia, it seems to stem from having you arms 'akimbo', or one hand on each hip - I guess the symmetry plus the fact that you're shooting from the hip leads to the term being used for dual-wielding.

Halo 2's campaign sucked for the same reason that most middle instalments of trilogies suck - it has no clear beginning, and no clear ending. The entire story is just the middle.
The multiplayer was alright provided that not too many people got hold of dual needlers.

 

[Optimus Hagrid]

This is from somebody who hasn't played the beta, but it looks like... Halo 3.

I just saw the trailer (multiplayer) for Halo reach and I was bored so I just posted this.

Isn't your avatar the guy from the Herdabird cutscene from The G-Man Squad?

 

[MiracleOfSound]

It was a bit faster and more visceral than Halo 3.

I thought it was good fun, and will be getting the full game when it comes out.

Hehe, its amusing that one of the key complaints made was that the gameplay is slower than the previous Halo games. =)

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Wow, I never heard that... did people really think so? For me it felt much faster because you could sprint or jetpack straight into the action!

 

[Big Max]

It was a bit faster and more visceral than Halo 3.

I thought it was good fun, and will be getting the full game when it comes out.

Hehe, its amusing that one of the key complaints made was that the gameplay is slower than the previous Halo games. =)

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Wow, I never heard that... did people really think so? For me it felt much faster because you could sprint or jetpack straight into the action!

Yeh, it was quite a common opinion on the feedback forums.

It looks like the spartans are gonna get a speed boost, and weapons like the DMR might be ramped up a touch. Personally I thought the game was fine as it was but those damnable MLG players on b.net will always complain...

 

[ICanBreakTheseCuffs]

It was ok, pretty fun, I'm not bothered about buying it though, not really my sorta thing

If you love halo, you'll love reach.
If you've never loved halo then don't bother.

same with all halo's
[edit] The only real thing I didn't like with the Halo's is no knives but Reach will fix that

 

[MiracleOfSound]

It was a bit faster and more visceral than Halo 3.

I thought it was good fun, and will be getting the full game when it comes out.

Hehe, its amusing that one of the key complaints made was that the gameplay is slower than the previous Halo games. =)

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Wow, I never heard that... did people really think so? For me it felt much faster because you could sprint or jetpack straight into the action!

Yeh, it was quite a common opinion on the feedback forums.

It looks like the spartans are gonna get a speed boost, and weapons like the DMR might be ramped up a touch. Personally I thought the game was fine as it was but those damnable MLG players on b.net will always complain...

Cool, I guess a speed boost definately couldn't hurt anyway. Halo does tend to feel a bit slow after too much COD.

I did feel the DMR was a bit underpowered, but that could have just been because I was terrible at using it...

 

[Syl4r]

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... because dual wielding weapons is called Akimbo?
Duh.

My god your avatar was so PERFECT for what you just said.
My thoughts, i loved the beta and all previous halo games apart from ODST, which i still liked, so I'll definitely be picking reach up.

 

[Captain Pancake]

I had a lot of fun with the beta, hopefully the actual release will be just as good.

 

[jeejvebe]

One of the few games that makes me wish I had a 360.

 

[Doctor Glocktor]

I enjoyed the beta.

And the assasinations were awesome, btw.

 

[Silver Patriot]

The beta was win.

They said they're going to fix EVERYTHING people complained about, sooo...Orgasmic if you aks me. And yes, not even nerdgasmic, I'm going the full way.

It also helps that most of the backgound for the sky and such were just placeholders [http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&link=BWU_052810]. So expect the final game to be a lot nicer.

Just as things started looking damn good for Playtest 5, the realization that plenty of that content was still placeholder (like the skies you saw over Boneyard in the Beta) is only now starting to sink in for me.

I'm kinda hyped for it. I've always been intrested in Reach so being able to see the final battle in action is pretty exciting for me.

After playing the multiplayer I was annoyed to discover that it was crap(my opinion thats what we were asked to give.) but I still hold out hope for the singleplayer.

Oh yeah, EVERYONE knows that the single player always does better than the multiplayer in halo,
give it sometime, although since the game is coming out in september they're probably packaging it right now.

Actually they discussed that recently [http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&link=BWU_060410].

What stage of development are we in right now? We are closing. There are 18 days 14 hours and 30 seconds left before ZBR*, after which we enter a phase of testing and stabilization where changes are minimal. Most everyone on the project is focused on one thing: crushing their bug counts to zero. A lot of the final polish - the stuff that can only get done once the vast majority of the game stable ? is coming online, and it is glorious. Hallways that already looked beautiful before now have smoke and debris falling from the ceilings, missions that were already fun are getting lots of design polish, troopers who have been previously mute or overly verbose are now saying the right things at the right time.

*ZBR is old school software development vernacular that literally stands for "Zero Bug Release." In reality it's a bit of a misnomer as bugs are still being fixed but it?s come to represent the pivotal milestone where the game gets clamped down and the bar for making changes is significantly raised to only those that are deemed "Pri1Sev1" and have major negative impacts to the game.

 

[ICanBreakTheseCuffs]

Sounds like some more fur of the same dead fox. Who's also been cremated, so now they brought the body back with some evil voodoo mumbo-jumbo.
I really liked the first game, the second sucked and I never played the 3rd.
Sue me.

and why do they call dual wielding akimbo in MW2? I'll never know

... because dual wielding weapons is called Akimbo?
Duh.

what I meant was why couldn't they just call it that,dual wield=2 sylables,akimbo= 3 so dual wield is easier to say

 

[oppp7]

It looks awesome and I can't wait to get it months afterwards when the price goes below $30.

 

[Pandalisk]

It looks really good!, is this really their last? Dare i hope for a Ghosts of Onyx game?

 

[Dango]

Loved every game in the series, and I will buy this and play the hell out of it.

 

[Scylla6]

Sounds like some more fur of the same dead fox. Who's also been cremated, so now they brought the body back with some evil voodoo mumbo-jumbo.
I really liked the first game, the second sucked and I never played the 3rd.
Sue me.

and why do they call dual wielding akimbo in MW2? I'll never know

... because dual wielding weapons is called Akimbo?
Duh.

It's technically having hands on hips arms bent. But that's too much Wikipedia talking.

 

[Reep]

i reckon it will be awesome, they're treating this as their last Halo game and are going full out with it.

Im really looking forward to the campaign, i heard the engine could handle 40 AI and 20 vehicles, should make an epic battleground.

 

[TheSapphireKnight]

I have high hopes for this one. The beta was awesome and all the complaints I had with it are being addressed. I had more fun with the matchmaking of the Reach beta than I did the entire time I played H3 online(excluding custom games).

It is better balanced, better gametypes(Invasion FTW), AA worked great(for the most part). I've been a fan for a long time and Reach has finally recaptured the CE feel. 2 and 3s multiplayer components were pretty good(Good community features), they just became so stale after a while, with most games boiling down to BRs, BRs, BRs, Brs, power weapon, and more BRs.

As for the single player I'm still excited for it too. Elites are back(Hooray!), They are trying for more open level design like they had in the original, and now you can customize your campaign character.

Reach has a lot more going for it than H3 had/does.