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Halo: The Master Chief Collection now on Steam
Jack Of Owls
Arcane
lol, I feel sorry for the retards who can only watch something if it's 120 FPS or better, even cutscenes. It's clearly a mental illness but, hey, we all have our psych issues, some of them a bit more pronounced than others.
Jack Of Owls
Arcane
I should check this out though. I played the original Halo on PC years ago and found it quite fun. Then tried to play Halo 2 on Xbox but couldn't stand the clunky mandatory use of a controller, and poor resolution, after getting use to mouse and keyboard and the HD of the PC version. Nice to see this will have different controller scheme support.
Nobody said "only" you fucking try-hard. Just that if you promise high framerate, you should deliver high framerate. This is especially true now that it ends up unlimited framerate in-game is broken as well. Once you get used to 144fps, especially in first-person games, you will notice 60fps being choppier and less fluid.
Multi-headed Cow
Arcane
Same here. I found some potential workarounds, but they involve editing files. Which you can't do with game pass since Windows locks everything down. I probably could download a tool to force ownership of the files but that's more effort than I'm willing to go to to play fucking Halo. Edit a file, yes. Download a program so I can edit the file, fuck it.
Finished it. Ending is a long slog of combat but most FPS games do the same thing so whatevs. I upped the resolution to 5k since I was using 60fps and the game looked a lot better that way. Still don't think it looks as good as games like Deus Ex 3 and Dishonored, but it looked more solid. The atmosphere is really good all game, especially for a sci-fi nut like me. I'm sure many PC only gamers like myself would deny it, but there is something unique about Halo's combat and I dig it. Looking forward to the remaster of the original. Might replay some of the early levels of this one at 5k, we'll see.
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Agree. Halo's combat is very solid. It is especially noticable when you play it nowadays when almost all FPSs are dumbed down beyond belief.
If you replay it, try the Legendary difficulty, it really forces a player to play strategically and thoughtfuly.
If you replay it, try the Legendary difficulty, it really forces a player to play strategically and thoughtfuly.
Legendary is more of an exercise in patience IMO.
Think you gonna like ODST as well. That campaign is pretty cool too. It has this sad melancholic feeling to it.
I played on the one up from normal... heroic?... and thought it was a nice balanced challenge. Died here and there, had to pay attention and use skill, but it never got annoying except for some of the ending slog. Can't imagine that final section on the hardest mode, oof.
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the broken audio mastering in reach is unacceptable. why did microsoft think this is acceptable? i'll patiently wait for a patch, but still, i think tech giant microsoft could afford to test the game on a wide variety of personal computers with varying motherboards that have different onboard sound hardware
sullynathan
Arcane
Reach on Legendary is one big cheese fest from start to finish. Played through about half the game on Heroic and then started over on Legendary with a pal of mine and the pace of the game slowed down significantly, especially when fighting Elites. Their AI is fantastic, but goddamn are they a pain in the ass to deal with.
sullynathan
Arcane
That's halo for ya
I'm thinking about picking up the whole MCC, or should I just pick them selectively? What's the KKCodex consensus about campaign quality? Heard Reach, CE and 2 are gud, then it goes downhill from there. Never played any of the Halo games 'cause Herrenrasse and stuff.
I really enjoyed Halo 3, but I'm biased as that's one of the first video games I ever played. From what I understand, Halo 4 and onwards is when things went to shit, with ODST being pretty solid.
EDIT: I personally plan on playing Halo Reach, then Halo 1-3, and finishing off with ODST. From what I've heard and seen, Halo 4 and 5 are pretty shit and not worth playing, as things weren't the same after Bungie stopped developing the series.
Gotta wonder how much of the "Halo 4 and up suck ass" talk is because that's when Bungie left. People let stuff like that color their perceptions. Not saying Halo 4 and 5 are great or anything, I have no idea. Just saying I don't trust the hive-mind on that kind of thing.
ultimanecat
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Since I was into the series 90% for the campaigns (usually on Legendary), I can safely say that 4’s campaign is still okay but suffers a lot from the engine change and transition to a more CoD type experience. More than any Halo before it it felt like traveling from setpiece to setpiece, where even the “expansive” areas felt boxed in and contained. The new enemies are either annoying in a not-so-fun way or massive damage sponges in an absolutely-not-fun way, and the new weapons are fine but only vaguely different than ones we already had. Since I don’t read the books, the story is not really very comprehensible either and apparently is just somebody at 343 shoehorning some other sci-fi garbage into Halo’s universe. It’s undeniably one of the best looking games of that console generation, though.
I have no experience with 5 but from what I’ve seen it looks like more of that.
I have no experience with 5 but from what I’ve seen it looks like more of that.
Multi-headed Cow
Arcane
God damn, this is rated 92% on Steam. I guess the god-awful audio issues must be a fringe case, because it's so fucked up I can't even stand playing it but apparently it's not dinging 'em too bad. Guess I could see if there are new audio drivers out there, never know.
Edit: Poking around the Steam forums some more and apparently the developer knows it's an issue and claims to be working on it. Guess time'll tell since it looks like I'm SOL as far as newer audio drivers are concerned.
Edit: Poking around the Steam forums some more and apparently the developer knows it's an issue and claims to be working on it. Guess time'll tell since it looks like I'm SOL as far as newer audio drivers are concerned.
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For that price, you might as well just purchase the collection imo. As far as which titles are the best, it's going to change depending on who you ask.
I've always considered CE/1 to have the weakest campaign of the main ones due to it's repetitive and boring level design, with the best(worst?) example of this being the mission "the library" and another example is one mission being a previous one but in reverse. I definitely prefer 4 over it and since we're discussing Reach, that campaign is much preferable too.
Yeah, the level design in Halo CE sucks at times. However, the story was a lot better than I expected, and I enjoyed the campaign because of it.
That said, I don't have much of a basis for comparison since the only other Halo game I've played so far is Halo 2.
That said, I don't have much of a basis for comparison since the only other Halo game I've played so far is Halo 2.
Fairly sure everyone has the same audio issues, you're probably just more sensitive to it. I noticed some crackling here and there, and the guns sounded super weak, but none of it really bothered me much.
sullynathan
Arcane
Halo 3 was the best
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