Zero Punctuation: Halo 4
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I had to go and check out the ending 'battle' on youtube, assuming your description to be an exaggeration, and boy did I have a laugh. Not only was the QTE worse than I thought, but those awful textures, obnoxiously loud SFX, terrible and monotone voice acting, and pitiful writing in general really gave me a good laugh.
The forerunner weapons he criticized as looking like toys also caught flak in other areas too. I don't remember if he said it in the review but they are basically light-based versions of human weapons. There are reasons for this, however. The promethean knights that wield them have a backstory explained in game and it kinda explains in canon why they are like forerunner versions of human weapons, and since you played it on legendary you prob already know that. Plus, there is the multiplayer side of things for balance of weapons in competitive matches.Waaghpowa said:
As for the Covy weapons, I've always liked them. I agree they do kinda seem like toys but I just accepted that as the aesthetic of the covenant. They shoot energy projectiles based more often on an energy source/battery than an actual clip of ammo. Also, I love the colors. Halo has always been colorful. I remember people always throwing it in with the rest of the grey/brown shooters and that always irked me. The fact that Yahtzee acknowledged Halo 4 wasn't like Battlefield or CoD is one of those things that will keep me watching ZP. In Halo and Halo 2 on legendary you'd be taking cover behind a wall being shot at by...
Plasma pistol (green)
Plasma rifle (blue)
Needler (purple/pink)
Plasma grenade (blue)
Brute Plasma rifle (red)
The fact that all those ^^ are a neon colors makes it practically a Pink Floyd light show.
I've always thought that the human semi-auto guns like the BR and new one have always had their aim a little screwy. Like I'd use them to get headshots on the knights and I'd kill them, but sometimes I'd swear to myself I didn't hit them in head for the kill shot but they went down anyway. I dunno
Yes, he should review a game that at most came out 3 days ago (Wii U) or at least came out 1 day ago (every other system).Balkan said:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/3540-Hunted-The-Demons-Forge
Watch the first minute, you might learn something.
Personaly, I liked playing online when me and 6 other friends went over to my one friend's house and we clocked an all nighter online. The only reason it was fun was because of the local. It got a litte coo-coo bonkers around our midnight griffball matches.
When Yahtzee says sniffing its own farts, does plot sniff through its neck, or are the farts coming from the front end?
Yea Del Rio was there to basically be a terrible leader and be a foil to Chief and Cortana, thing is they didn't even do it in a good way. He just came off in a way that didn't even attempt to disguise his purpose as a plot point.erttheking said:
Ur other picture was an ODST helmet right? I think you might be as big of a halo fan as I am. So let me ask you. What did you think of the end "boss battle" qte?
It didn't really bother me, mostly because as it was happening my mind was firmly held in the realm of meta. Having read the books and knowing just who the Didact was (all but confirmed that was the Ur-Didact you kill) and his rank/history of command, to me any other way of doing it wouldn't feel right. Now I am not a huge fan of quick time events but I thought that it didn't detract from the ending too much. The Didact is basically a god. From reading the books and knowing the forerunners for what they are, he of course isn't a god, but nevertheless he is portrayed as being nigh unstoppable with immense power the entire time. From how he descended from his cryptum, has his armor formed around him, simply waved a hand and took control of the prometheans and the covenant at once, continually held the chief in some kind of grip. I just couldn't imagine fighting him like the spartan lazer guilty spark ending. Would have been kinda lame.
I was expecting this reaction from Yahtzee actually. Just kind of indifferent. I knew people would be lost when the whole exposition scene with the Librarian happened. I'm actually still put off by them putting her (or her essence but pfft it might as well be her) in the game. She and the Didact (ur and bornstellar) are basically the only forerunner characters of any significance in the entire story, with maybe the exception of Master Builder Faber. I knew we'd see the Didact eventually but I kind of wished they would have kept the Librarian as sort of an enigma instead of coming right out and showing her.
I agree with Yahtzee about the big open environments and the organic gameplay. As long as they keep that, then I'm happy.
Also, spunkgargleweewee is still not a real word.
Also, spunkgargleweewee is still not a real word.
Fair enough review.
Most of Yahtzee's criticisms are quite accurate, I must admit. Many of them I share.
Even so, I'm still, in the very least, a casual fan of the series. I still have fond memories of late-night co-op games of CE. I even load up the occasional play-session of ODST or Wars sometimes.
Still, while I must credit 343 with interjecting a slight touch of better characterization to the series story, they still didn't do anything that "wowed" me with Halo 4.
Maybe I'm biased, though. When they released the "HD" remake of Halo: CE, I wasn't just underwhelmed, I was appalled. How they managed to make CE run worse on the 360 was baffling.
Even so, Halo 4 isn't the "worst thing ever". It's a commendable start. Time will tell if 343 can keep this series alive and, more importantly, fresh.
Most of Yahtzee's criticisms are quite accurate, I must admit. Many of them I share.
Even so, I'm still, in the very least, a casual fan of the series. I still have fond memories of late-night co-op games of CE. I even load up the occasional play-session of ODST or Wars sometimes.
Still, while I must credit 343 with interjecting a slight touch of better characterization to the series story, they still didn't do anything that "wowed" me with Halo 4.
Maybe I'm biased, though. When they released the "HD" remake of Halo: CE, I wasn't just underwhelmed, I was appalled. How they managed to make CE run worse on the 360 was baffling.
Even so, Halo 4 isn't the "worst thing ever". It's a commendable start. Time will tell if 343 can keep this series alive and, more importantly, fresh.
I guess you could say they implanted new bits of code.Casual Shinji said:
Anybody else find they get a massive full-screen advert when they try to play this? I can't even SEE the video that I came for.
Seriously guys, I don't even own a bloody X-box. If I want the stuff you're advertising, I'll click on the damn advertisement. Don't advertise a ZP video and give me an unskippable advert for - irony of ironies! - Halo 4. That stops the video I want from even loading.
Seriously guys, I don't even own a bloody X-box. If I want the stuff you're advertising, I'll click on the damn advertisement. Don't advertise a ZP video and give me an unskippable advert for - irony of ironies! - Halo 4. That stops the video I want from even loading.
Well, never mind, I got it in the end. There's something in the top right hand corner of the screen that looks as though it might be one of those "the content will appear after this ad" warnings, if the screen actually rendered enough of it to be able to read it.TheMadDoctorsCat said:
Look, I know you guys are paid for by adverts, and I'm appreciative of the content. But these ads - especially putting a Halo ad in front of a Halo review - are just obnoxious.
I guess a bland mediocre game can only get a bland mediocre review, even when we're talking about Yahtzee.
I kept getting bored and losing focus through this particular review, I guess partly because I've never given two shits about Halo since they refuse to release a half-decent PC port, and partly because Yahtzee sounds more bored than mathematically possible
Cmon Yahtzee, you and everyone else are BORED of powered-armor-space-marine-cover-based-shooters, yes Halo 4 is one of those. (On that note, can we please give a proper name to that?)
Review something else like ZombieU, an Indy title, or some Kinect game! Or a JRPG!
I kept getting bored and losing focus through this particular review, I guess partly because I've never given two shits about Halo since they refuse to release a half-decent PC port, and partly because Yahtzee sounds more bored than mathematically possible
Cmon Yahtzee, you and everyone else are BORED of powered-armor-space-marine-cover-based-shooters, yes Halo 4 is one of those. (On that note, can we please give a proper name to that?)
Review something else like ZombieU, an Indy title, or some Kinect game! Or a JRPG!
That's two games in a row you've called boring now. Did Halo 4 just have bland samey challenges? Because it looks pretty quick.
I agree with the guns and their crappy sounds, they all sound so weak. I really enjoyed Counter Strike because how powerful most of the popular guns sounded, especially the AWP.
I agree with the guns and their crappy sounds, they all sound so weak. I really enjoyed Counter Strike because how powerful most of the popular guns sounded, especially the AWP.
"and there were no boss fights to" something something
Yahtzee. Stop trying to turn every shooter into Painkiller. You can not necessarily improve all games by making them more similar to the select few youve decided to approve of.
I am not a fan of boss fights and think they are particularly unsuited for the fps genre.
Yahtzee. Stop trying to turn every shooter into Painkiller. You can not necessarily improve all games by making them more similar to the select few youve decided to approve of.
I am not a fan of boss fights and think they are particularly unsuited for the fps genre.
I'll admit that the lack of a proper health bar does make it difficult to gauge things, but it still feels inconsistent. There are times where I'll run around with no shields against a half dozen enemies and survive for an extended period of time with the incessant beeping, while other times I get killed almost instantly against the same enemy composition before my shield can beep once or twice.Jabberwock King said:
I'm not new to Halo either, but I always preferred the classic shield and health bar system from Combat Evolved and ODST.
At least then you have a way to quantitatively measure how injured you are.
No, not really. I've read the first 3 books, and while it helped a little bit, it's not like you're going to miss a lot if you haven't read them. Everything is explained in some form or another in the game, even if it is just a passing mention.NameIsRobertPaulson said:
