I will admit, playing this game with 3 clueless gadabouts on legendary trying to headshot all the grunts so they'll turn into party poppers is quite fun. Very frantic and weird, with lots of death.
I hope you realize that every game, regardless of how good it is, can be boiled down to something that pathetic. Mass Effect 2: Shoot bad guys to get to goofy-looking alien. Repeat. Super Mario World: Jump on shit and run forward. Win. Assassin's Creed II: Climb building, talk to historical figure/Assassin, kill templar. Arkham City: Villain X is doing Y. Go to location Z and beat them up. Skyrim: Hack and slash enemies and press enter every now and again. Rome: Total War: Send bully soldiers led by oppressive cunts to beat the shit out of whiny rebels and whiny civilians. Repeat. Get the idea?
Let me extend that list: Legend of Zelda: Clear dungeons,get items,rescue Zelda No More Heroes: Slice shit in half,repeat till final boss. Prototype: Tear people to atoms and eat said atoms. Megaman: Shoot Robot masters in the croch.Repeat till final boss
I hated how this game removed loads of the covenant and brought the elites back for no good reason, I actually enjoyed playing alongside the elites! This makes the political backdrop to halo 2 and 3 feel pointless!
Just because no one here understands this: Ben Croshaw is a satirist. He obviously does like a lot of the games that he reviews, but it's not what his job is. He's there to make fun of the shortcomings in games, just for laughs. You're all here, not for honest reviews, but to laugh at all of his little jokes. Don't get upset.
yahtzee doesnt like the bright vibrant settings in halo but hates the drab and dusty environments of most modern fps's. it makes you wonder where the hell he would enjoy shooting things
You miss the point. He doesn't expressly not like drab dusty environments he dislikes all middle eastern cities being portrayed similarly as well as the lack of set variety in Modern FPS's. And he doesn't not like vibrant settings, he just doesn't like the way that halo has such bright settings but is trying to tell a story that is fairly dark.
***** In the end, it has nothing to do with how a game looks, but how it PLAYS. Sure, Halo 4 was a beautiful game. That doesn't automatically mean it's 'fun'. It doesn't matter how bright and colorful a game is if it doesn't have that most important aspect.
Caleb Reed Probably in some happy middle ground, where it has a colour palette larger than "browns with some grey and muzzle flash", but it doesn't look so clean as to wonder who's been dusting all the combat areas.
Personally, I loved Halo 4. It's Halo 5 that made me question the continuation of the franchise. Not because it's *another* sequel, but because the writers clearly got lazy and copied Avengers: Age of Ultron. Nothing but disposable android minions and an egotistical AI cheating death, while pretending it isn't making retcons every 10 minutes. Every Halo game has had a healthy relationship between the external media (novels, comics, live action episodes, etc.) and the upcoming sequel. Halo 2, 3, Reach, and ESPECIALLY 4, all connected the dots with the rest of the universe. Whereas despite breaking the record for "most tie-ins", Halo 5 barely mentions the lore leading up to it. 3 YEARS of prequel story arcs and all they used is "Locke works for ONI" and "Promethean Soldiers teleport too much".
Anyone else not like the new enemies? I mean I loved all the other Halo's because they were so immersive - and felt like you were hurting enemies instead of bouncing bullets off of fancy tin cans XD
I don't like the Promethians from a lore perspective. Supposedly, they were supposed to lose to the Flood. How does a special ops army with drone dogs, repair drones, and teleportation lose to zombies? The trilogy made sense because we could see the Flood knock the floaty robots out of the air or instakill unshielded units, but now that there's no Flood anymore, there's no way to conceive of a way for them to lose.
dragonknightleader1 The whole flood thing always baffled me... If one man can go for hours without being swarmed, how can an entire army fail (of military or covenant).
I jumped into Halo 4 expecting the ability to understand exactly what the fuck is going on from just playing the last three previous games (Reach and ODST don't deserve mentioning). Unfortunately, that wasn't the case, as the Halo novels cover topics integral of the story that simply aren't found in the games. Master Chief lands on an artificial planet and releases a being built by ancient space-humans that wants to destroy humans but is aligned with aliens that were my friends in Halo 3? Why? It's really tragic that the Halo story had to be developed in this manner, because the universe is interesting enough for me to want to understand it, but not interesting enough for me to go and read every bit of literature in order to understand it. And to that extent, Halo 4 just another game where I shoot space aliens with futuristic guns. Let's not forget the lackluster multiplayer which exiled fun and was primarily about seeing who could pop each other in the face with a DMR the quickest.
Halo Nation; it is your friend. Honestly though, it's not that hard to understand. Thel'Vadam aka "the arbiter" didn't command all the forces of the religious fundamentalist covenant, just one side of a civil war, and a minority side at that for quite a long time. With the prophets gone and the humans/separatists victorious, that may have left the separatists the de facto Covenant, but that doesn't mean the genocidal crusading twats all just took their balls and went home, nor will they ever be "your friends". Chief was understandably confused about fighting what appeared to be the reformed and now-peaceful Covenant leftovers, but that's not who they were, and it shouldn't have taken more than 30 seconds to realize "oh yeah, these must just be the other dickheads who ran around glassing planets gleefully a few years ago". You don't need to read the novels to gather that. And of course, the Forerunners are just the Forerunners, just your everyday galaxy-spanning hyper-technological people (not humans). Most were okay, the Didact was, well, holding a bit of a grudge for humans decimating Forerunner worlds, weakening them when the Flood came (possibly contributing to their loss), and indirectly being the reason he was imprisoned. I'd be grumpy too if I were him. (for the record, he wasn't built by the Forerunners; he WAS a Forerunner, possibly the last alive) You can gather that much strictly from the games, but the wiki can certainly be of benefit as well, or just asking any Halo fan out there.
Corey Simmonds See? That's how confused I am by the story. I played this game with two other friends, running on Heroic switching off every death, and neither of us could figure it out, other than that the Didact was bulletproof and we had to stop him from doing bad stuff. I got more understanding out of that hipster paradox film Shutter Island. I got more meaning out of listening to the lyrics on any Melvins song.
Jimmy Frye :D Maybe Halo 4 should have included a little story pamphlet or something just to re-lay things out in brief. Games USED to do that. Hell, games used to come with manuals so thick so they practically *were* novels. They were actually cool to collect and keep around, too. Then game makers got cheap :( Still, if you ever have any questions about the lore, now or when Halo 5 comes out, visit the wiki or feel free ask. I'm always around, along with about a million other fans (some who know a hell of a lot more than I do).
I'm done with Halo, I think. I played the SHIT out of Halo: Combat Evolved on PC. I haven't owned one game in the series or an Xbox 360 since the golden days of Halo 3 multiplayer. My friend's Xbox 360 1st-gen "Elite" is on its last legs and he doesn't plan on replacing it. Not really impressed by the Xbone either. The only franchise I'm terribly interested in right now is Warhammer 40k *nerdgasm*
Jimmy Frye I just don't think you payed enough attention to it. Everything came a little bit easier for me because I found the hidden consoles (or whatever they're called, I can't remember off the top of my head right now), and then watched the videos for them. But even without that, I still had a general understanding of what was going on.
I guess I just want to share my two bits on the game. Not to say it's good, but 343 did have a hard time living up to Bungie's reputation for making a good series, so it's understandable that they "didn't make waves" as Yahtzee put it, but I honestly think they did a fair job on the matter. Of course I found it rushed and flashy, and not entirely good, but they didn't burn it by trying to jump the shark. So yeah, the series isn't dead, and considering the developer change, that's pretty significant.
They had some pretty big fucking shoes to fill the fact it didn't make everyone scream into microsoft's asshole till the entire dev team was forced to committed Seppuku is astonishing in itself.
I can't quite put my finger on it. The forge mode wasn't that great and the campaign was pretty bad. Custom game modes weren't great as you couldn't make fun infected modes because the infected couldn't use guns.
***** Completely agree with you, I hands down think it's the best halo game. If it didn't carry the Halo name I think it would have been extremely well received fan wise. If It was just ODST or something.
I'm a hardcore Halo fan but when 343 made Halo 4 I quickly realized that I wasn't a Halo fan but a Bungie fan. I played about 4 levels of halo 4 and then quickly found myself replaying the Halo 3: ODST campaign and playing the Lone Wolf level on Halo Reach. Halo 4 just didn't have the "Wow" facture that Halo 1-3 had. Bungie made Halo so fun that you could play threw the campaign a second time and still have fun with it. My favorite Halo was Halo 3 and that is because of the people I played with and also the A.I.
Yeah destiny will probably be great for bungie fans but don't give up on halo just yet; 343 realized they mucked up halo 4 so there making the master chief collection for the fans and from what I know halo 5 will be a lot better.
There isn't a single map in multiplayer that was pulled from the campaign. At best, a few Spartan Ops missions were taken from multiplayer, or vice versa.
I actually thought Halo 4 was the first Halo that was actually "combat evolved" since the first one. I found myself bored by Halo 3 because I knew how to beat every single enemy I faced. With the new enemies in Halo 4, I had to learn how to beat them. It provided a new challenge, especially when some of those new enemies can regenerate.
When they announced Halo 4 I promised myself I'd never play it because I liked the way Halo 3 left it. I was convinced to try it, and well, I was just a little bit floored by how much there was that I could appreciate.
1:34 Playing Halo 4 at the moment. Yahtzee is so correct... I don't know why or what I'm doing. It's just "go from one set piece to the next." At the moment I'm on top of a giant truck with cannons on it. I think we're destroying the "gravity well"? Which is a device holding our ships on the planet? But I don't even know what it's called. Infinity? Requiem? They keep throwing these names around and expect me to remember them like they're iconic or something. Also I have NO clue if the gravity well is the size of the planet or if it's a device ON the planet. In the opening of the game there's multiple capital ships being sucked into a big, bright, white light. We never see it again, we have no context for where it is or how big it is, just that it's bigger than 50 capital ships lined up? I think? It's so confusing...
The maps I always liked best were the ones that players made. I had made about five small and mid-sized maps by the time I got bored with Forge, and I absolutely loved playing on them.
Halo's difficulty adds nothing to the game, you get essentially the same experience on medium as you do hard. Dark souls, however, would lose so much if it was easier. It's a stylistic thing more than it is an actual difficulty one. After all, you don't play Halo to be challenged.
Because dark souls is fair, Halo 4 has far too many enemies that can and will repeatedly one-shot you one any difficulty above easy. I beat all of the games on legendary so I am not complaining about the difficulty, I just see where he is coming from with the difficulty on this particular game.
Out of a lot of modern day FPS, Halo is the only one that has at least tried to change in every aspect. Not all changes are great, we know, but there are things that Halo 4 got right. The story, characters and overall universe is bigger and better than it was before, and the gameplay seems to be changing and evolving to not only attract more casual gamers, but also still try to appease to the ''competitive shooter'' crowd. Seriously, how many sci-fi FPS games can you name that have had the same impact or even the same level of popularity as Halo, that wasn't fucking Half-Life? There aren't that many shooters on consoles that manage to be entertaining, have given the same amount of effort put into the solo and multiplayer experience or have g a good fucking story, like Halo. I'd take Halo over any other propaganda bullshit about killing foreigners for the 10th billionth time any day.
I think this was the game they should of taken his mask off. maybe just for a short scene, 10 seconds, of him removing his helmet, looking at cortana with his pale ass face and tell her she's going to be fine. AAAand then go back to shooty shooty things.
Yes how would they keep reigning us über-nerds back in for the next sequel? Plus I totally disagree Halo is a great game, you just have to be super nerdy to obsess over it like I do on a daily basis. Heck, they even have a profitable internet series that's been running for about 12 seasons! So yes, hate on me, bring on the annoying, absolutely no-life trolls who have nothing better to do, and the CoD fanboys/tumors
How the fuck could you not follow the story of Halo 3? It left right off of Halo 2, kill the prophet and stop him from fucking the universe. Pretty simple.
I always imagine the Halo games as being one obvious escalation of the same story to the next. I didn't particularly pay attention to the cut scenes, but something like "Halo 1: Stop the Halo" Halo 2: "Stop the other Halos" Halo 3: "Stop the bad guys who were going to use the Halos." I'm surprised Halo 4 didn't have some kind of "Stop the SuperHalo!"
Normally I hate the way Yahtzee rips on the Halo franchise. Mainly because he takes the piss out of it for certain gameplay features which he then turns around and praises in other games. Like in this video for example: "Oh, wahh, even on normal the difficult is too hard because (insert silly reason here)" Cut to: "Oh my this game is nice and hard and I just want to run my tongue all along it's hardness. This is how games used to be!" But, in this instance, I'm okay with it. Mainly because Halo 4 was a gigantic piece of crap (when compared to the other Halos). I imagine the feeling Halo 4 invoked in me is the same feeling that Duke Nukem fans had when playing DNF. It says it's "for the fans" yet constantly tries to pander to the modern demographic.
Levi Newell Jesus, here we go. This is what every defender of Halo 4 doesn't fucking get. Halo 4 _does_ have a complete lack of change or innovation. All it did was copy+paste everything from Call of Duty. Perks, killcams, sprinting, custom loadouts, QTEs in the campaign (although hilarious there's only two as if the developers just put them in there so they could show them in the trailers), prestiging (in the form of "Specializations") and extremely fast respawning. That's not "innovation", that's trying to make your game appeal to the huddled masses. I'm not saying Halo 4 should have "been exactly like Halo 1, 2, and 3". What I'm saying is that it should've at least felt like those games. If you get past the artistic design and focus on the actual gameplay, very little of what made Halo _Halo_ remains.
Levi Newell Here's my TL;DR: Halo 4 shouldn't have been a clone of Halo 3 _nor_ should it have been a clone of *every fucking shooter* on the market today. Now, I know you're probably incapable of maintaining your attention for more than 5 nanoseconds, but do try and push through _my_ wall of text. I gave you that courtesy: Perks: Yeah, sure, there are some other games that use perks. There's, uhm, Battlefield...I think. Maybe Crysis? So that's a whole two other games that _maybe_ have perks. Whoop dee doo. The fact is CoD is the best known for that and the trendsetter when it comes to perks. So, they're the series that garners my ire. Besides, Halo 4 is the only shooter I've seen with some perks that are *dead fucking ringers* for CoD's perks. Mobility = Marathon Dexterity = Sleight of Hand Explosives = Danger Close Stealth = Ninja That's just lazy ass game design. Oh, and of course you can choose not to use the perks. But good fucking luck being able to compete with people who _are_ using perks, which is *everyone*. Choosing not to use perks in Call of Battlehalo: Spartan Ops is like cutting off your arms and legs and trying to play baseball. Sure, you _can_ do it. But all that'll end up happening is you'll be rolling around on the ground in your own blood while the catcher is shoving his balls in your face. See, my main gripe about perks in Halo is it turns the combat into a rock-paper-perk system. Combat in Halo used to be about who's the better player and which weapon you've managed to find on the map and who managed to get the drop on the other one. Now the outcome of a fight often is determined heavily by what perks you happen to have. Like some sort of roulette wheel spawned by the colon of Satan and Activision...so basically just Satan. "Oh, he's out of ammo for his SAW. That shit takes forever to reload!" I'll say before bounding around the corner only to get a hot steamy load of lead sprayed onto my visor. "How did he reload it so fast?!" I'll scream before remembering "Oh right, he had Sleight-of-Dexterity! Silly me!" right before I start slamming a hammer into my ribcage to take the pain away. Killcams: Now you're being purposefully misleading. There are absolutely killcams in the game. Some of the gamemodes don't use them, but others do. The fact that they're even _in_ a Halo game is evidence of the Malignant Modern Military Shooter Syndrome rampant in this game. And what's even _more_ insulting is they *don't even fucking work properly!* If you're going to rip-off another series, at least _try_ to do it right. Custom Loadouts: Yes, some gametypes do happen to not use custom loadouts, but they are few and far between. Swat, Snipers and Flood are the only ones I can recall that remove custom loadouts. Every other one does. And my personal problem with custom loadouts in Halo is it makes the whole point of finding weapons on the map and using them almost entirely moot. Why risk running into the thick of the fighting to get that shotgun when I can just spawn with a 3 shot DMR and chill in the back of the map, popping heads like so many human skull shaped pinatas? Old school Halo wouldn't have let you do that shit. It was like: "Here, take your puny fucking SMG and go get kills. What's that? You want to spawn with some better weapons? What are you, some kind of candy ass? Go fucking find them you lazy twat!" QTEs: Of course you forgot about it. They really were just put in for the trailers. "What do kids like nowadays?" "QTEs?" "Oh fuck, do we have to?" "Fine, just put like two in it and we'll make sure to put them in the trailers." The fact that there were only two makes me feel like there were more but they had to cut them out because the playtesters were getting confused as to whether they were playing Halo 4 or Call of Duty: Space Marine Ops. Specializations: Yes, one of the reasons I hate them is because CoD has the same system. And don't take this as me hating on CoD because "Lel COD suks!". I think the first Modern Warfare was extremely fun in the same way something like Independence Day was. It's stupid, popcorn fun action, nothing more. The problem is that now *every fucking shooter and their grandmother* wants to do what CoD is doing. When it started out it was interesting and now it's just tired and worn out, like that crack whore sleeping off her high outside of your local Wal-Mart. Furthermore it unbalances the playing field. The point of old school Halo games was that everyone, in terms of equipment, were on an even playing field. Everyone spawned with the same gun and the same grenades. The outcome of the game was dependent upon teamwork, knowledge of the map (which Halo 4 pisses on with their giant, moron friendly weapon and grenade markers and circular map design), and each individuals skill level. And it's actually worse than CoD's Prestige mode. At least in CoD it was merely a cosmetic thing. Here it actually *effects gameplay*. Spawn Times: Yes, they are different from gamemode to gamemode. In Team Slayer for instance it's instant but in CTF it's three seconds. Oh my, what a huge difference. And my problem with it is it's yet another hand holdy, over bearing mother type of gameplay feature. "Awww, did you die? No problem little buddy, just press X and you're right back in!" Old school Halo didn't do that shit. You die in CTF and you fucking wait your 10 seconds and reflect on how much of a fucktard you were. Finally, I'm gonna have to just end the argument here since you seem intent on missing the point. The point isn't "ERMAHGERD IT SHULD BE EAXCTLE LIEK H3!" My point is that it should do it's own thing and not try to fit in with every other shooter on the market today. Keep the set loadouts from Reach but make them specific to each map, add more environment interaction in the maps, make it so you can't spawn with AAs and they can only be found on the map, add AI controlled Prometheans to stuff like Team Slayer to mix up the combat, shit like that. It's not hard to come up with some different ideas. It's just scary for big companies like Microsoft to take a chance with some unique ideas on their big paycheck that is Halo. Better to stay on the beaten path and know you're going to make it then to take a gamble on the road less traveled.
50Calabyte Halo 4, was a good game i say but if you where to hand me any other halo i would grab it in a heartbeat. And that boss fight sucked, all you did was just watch a cutsceen, then press 2 buttons, then enjoy him fall off a cliff into nothingness beacuse a plasma gernade stuck on you isent enough
50Calabyte 1.) Perks are actually pretty abundant. I somewhat agree with you about them, and disagree with you at the same time. For example, in Halo 3, it was skill vs skill. In halo 4, it is a combination on skill and strategy, with an emphasis on strategy. It king of evens the playing field for those who aren't very skilled, yet also gives a higher skill level to those who can master using skill and strategy. I would prefer an emphasis on skill, so maybe let someone have one perk that doesn't do as much, just gives you a little edge. It's like sports. 2.) For loadouts - The thing is, you can't just get any weapon you want in the loadouts. It is completely different from COD, where EVERY weapon on the field comes from your loadout. In Halo 4, everyone can still get the same weapons, so it really isn't a big deal. I actually like it more because it evens the playing field out. First person to get a battle-rifle starts camping on high ground and fucks everyone up in Halo 3, in Halo 4, it emphasis skill in this particular category. Again, I feel like there is room for change, like making a less powerful version of the battle rifle/dmr. 3.) QTE- I'm just going to ignore this one. Kind of a stupid argument to have. 4.) Spawn Times- Yea, I agree with you mostly. 5.) I agree with most of your ideas. The way I see Halo, was that it was just their intro. I kind of separate it from the whole Halo series when I play it, so that I'm not always trying to compare it like you. If you just see it as a game, it's still pretty fun. It might not have been what you were expecting, but it is fun. Keep on giving criticism, because that is the only what the developers will know what they need to do with the next games. Sorry if some of the stuff I say may be hard to understand, I feel like I confused myself a little bit just writing this. Ask me if you want any clarification on anything.
The game's purpose was to know exactly why Chief can use Forerunner tech (and not the Covenant) Blah, blah, blah, Cortana dies; blah, blah, blah, you see Chief's human side; blah, blah, blah, beat the legendary campaign see his eyes.
Yeah, I though they were gonna do something awesome with the idea of being an ODST, but nope... They just rehash the same Halo 3 engine, slower and weaker recap story of a group of soldiers, I thought it was going to be a large epic timeline thing like the trailer...
watching these videos is like bringing a pinata to a birthday party. you choose your favorite one so you can watch someone else beat the shit out of it.
Could you all just shut the heck up about the game and repeating EXACTLY what he's already said 50 times? You are just crowding the comments with carbon copies of half the others statements. So please just don't?
What I enjoy is scrolling through the comments. Many people on this video, for example, are calling Yahtzee a hypocrite or that he can't understand a simple plot. When it comes to the 'artificial environments' he meant that it doesn't feel natural; dirty brown everything in things like CoD or Battlefield is boring, yet Halo 4 has a feeling that tells me 'something isn't right, like that nice old man who sells free ice cream to children'. And as for the plot, I think Yahtzee is in a similar position to me; I understood what was happening, just why is it happening. Why does this villain want to kill humanity? Why is it that I'm playing this game when the story is designed for people who read the books? As Yahtzee has stated before, a game needs to stand on singleplayer, yet if the story is only comprehensible to a third of the target audience, then it's already failed.
I only have a few Pet Pevs in Halo 4's multiplayer: 1. Custom Loadouts: The fun stops when EVERYONE is using DMR's and Battle Rifles. 2. The showing of all the weapons on map: It was most fun looking for weapons and memorizing where weapons were on the maps instead of holding your hand and showing where exactly where each weapon is. Why do I still play Halo 4? To make fun Custom Games with my friends only... That's where it's truly fun...
Because everything, at least for the most part, needs careful balance. A game like this, you know in which every five seconds someone is trying to shove a rocket launcher up your ass and pull the trigger (apparently they ran out of Plasma Rifles three games back but found a cache of Fuel Rods they figured would be better used to kill one spartan rather than decimating the presently weakened UNSC), can't be expected to always look nice and shiny. There doesn't ever LOOK like there has been conflict, that's always been a bit of an issue for Halo, even levels such as Outskirts and Cortana all seem a little tidy and they're meant to either highlight the extent of the floodinfection or demonstrate the desturction of Earth. They haven't truly had anything dark or unkept since the Flood elvels of Halo: Combat Evolvedand of those only The Maw and Keyes felt genuinely destructive. It's war, not everything will remain intact, but at the same time, it's war, that means that not everywhere has gone to shit either. Even The Last of Us, Resident Evil and the Souls series that typically go for the darker environments still have those beautiful designs that remind you of exactly why you're trying to not get stabed in the kidney within the next five seconds. Consistant graphical themes are boring and unrealistic. You need something to contrast the drab and dreary destruction with in order for it not to be just another environment designed to invoke feelings of angst. And you also need something to contrast the pretty skyboxes and elvel designs with in order to fully appreciate them. I don't care that Requiem looks good, because everything looks just as good. Nothings went to shit and it all looks the same.There is no reason to stop and stare
***** Was the use of 117 intentional? Also destructible environments are nice but there hardly necessary. PayDay, Mass Effect, Halo, Doom and Unreal are five awesome serieses of or relating to the shooter genre that have typically lacked true destructible environment (there was a mod for Unreal Tourney '07 though which made environments fully destructible) As a matter of fact destructible environments, at least from what I've seen usually go hand in hand with an over emphasis on multiplayer, little direction in story and far too much of a focus on the skybox. Unfair generalisation yes, but hey it had to be born from something (even ignorance on my part which is yet to be corrected by others)
LuckyBullet There are barely any rocket launchers or fuel rod cannons in the campaign... Also, Halo is clean. It's always known as clean, and not gritty. If it tried to add some grit, it might look a little non-Halo. I love my pretty, untouched vistas and the pretty environment. Halo: Reach and Halo 3: ODST actually had a lot of grit and pristine stuff. Shit was destroyed, blood was everywhere, trash floated freely, people wrote stuff like "Help Me!" or "Remember Reach!", cars were ablaze, etc.
I really think Yahtzee hates most really popular FPSs more than anything else, CoD, I can understand wailing on because its a video game travesty, But Halo at least tries to have a story and changing elements in gameplay like Half Life did, It starts as a horror-esque style on Dawn and goes into its full shooter elements on Requiem then it has a good potion of driving, CoD however, is just, shoot ,angst, repeat, I know he is a critic, but come on, beat down the other games that NEED it.
He doesn't hate shooters. He's stated more than once that he actually really enjoys them; he just doesn't consider Medal of Honor and CoD and Battlefield to be shooters, instead referring to them as "spunkgargleweewee". He calls Halo a shooter because it's less linear than those three, but Yahtzee's style is to be critical. Far more so than other reviewers. His _modus operandi_ is to highlight the flaws in games because every other reviewer seems to gloss over the bad portions of games in favour of the better parts, and thus he balances the equation.
Biggest problem I had with the game is summed up with "iron sights". Specifically the absolute lack of them outside a few guns and never being able to keep the guns you like because there is nowhere to replenish ammo, but rather just graphics another weapon in the ground.
For some reason they were almost literally giving this game away for free in the UK. I remember that 12 months Xbox Live Gold plus a copy of Halo 4 was £1 more than the Gold membership on its own and £5 cheaper than Halo 4 on its own.
***** A lot of the plot involving the Didact is revealed in the forerunner saga books. It was very confusing for players not invested in the EU, especially since 343i never tried to get the players up to speed. BASIC SUMMERY: Humans are as advanced as the Forerunners 100,000 years ago and they don't like each other. Suddenly, humans start invading Forerunner space, killing them and glassing the planets. So the Didact as general of the Forerunners wages war on humans. After the forerunners defeat ancient humanity and devolve them to caveman stage, they discover the humans were attacking worlds the flood had invaded to stop their spread. Thus begins the Forerunner-Flood war. During the course of the war, the forerunners try many desperate things. First, they try to use composers to enable the forerunners to go from flesh to digital and back again, basically making them immortal. The experiments fail, so the Didact turns his Promethean soldiers (forerunners) and later ancient humans into Promethean knights. At some point during the war, the Didact gets brain raped by the flood, making him a little crazy. The reason why he joined forces with the covenant rather than the humans was A) he hates humans and wants them all dead and B) the covenant remnant seen in Halo 4 worships him as a god (like they do to everything forerunner) so if he succeeded in composing all humanity, he'd probably use his new army of billions of Promethean knights to slaughter all of the covenant. They'd probably twist it into some sort of honor by being killed by the Didact and his divine army or something.
Yahtzee make up you mind! COD: "Color pallet too bland!" Halo: "Too much color" COD: "Not enough story!" Halo: "Too much story!" Can you just make up your mad about what you don't like?
He doesn't like things that are bad; both aesthetics can work when done right, but neither of these games do. It helps not to view the world in terms of binary choices.
Nyk Carnsew Actually halo does have some of the best story telling ability when compared to other games like Call of Duty, and manages to tell a big intergalactic war.
Rock Steel The story-telling was good right up until Halo Reach. H4 is an abomination that shouldn't have been added to the series. God knows the next game is just going to continue shitting all over it too.
actually in combat evolved, it had a health system that if your shield were to deplete and you took hits, your health bar would go down permanently until you reached a medkit
Played Halo 1. I was bored as shit. Running down continuous hallways with the same bland textures got old in the late 90's. And rechargeable health is for wusses who like to hide behind a wall until they regenerate.
To be fair, I did play it quite some time after it came out (probably 2007)...so it did look dated by comparison. However, Half-Life 2 came out the same year as Halo (2004) and I thought HL2 looked much better and the maps, gameplay, etc. were superior. I guess I just didn't get Halo. The gameplay felt very monotonous to me.
macgroin It's an issue because it makes for lazy story telling. If the protagonist is completely devoid of personality and emotion they're going to react exactly the same way in every situation (i.e. run sort_this_shit_out.exe). A good story will almost always have engaging, complex characters. And since master chief is a true character and not actually the player the choice to give him no personality is a lazy way to prevent having him to react organically to a situation. That doesn't mean emotionless characters are always bad, but when they're also the protagonist then the story rests entirely on the world and supporting cast. A thing that the Halo series (and a lot of other games, movies, etc.) has yet to grasp. Does that make sense?
It does indeed :) still I must like that kind of thing then because I like MC and his lack of emotions...even though the only emotions he shows are in the pitch of the voice. I like that more than a dialogue that almost tells you what he is feeling and I like it more when they make the characters show emotions on the face and use fewer dialog to almost spell things out for the player. Expressions can do more then a lot of words when they are done right. But ofc they can fail hard also. And I know this does not apply to Holo because a person that has a full armor on and a mask needs good writing ofc. I guess I just don't like having everything told to me. I can see what is going on in the game :) you do not need to tell me also. They should have maybe showed more what MC is thinking but also keep his cold attitude to others? I am sorry if this is rather all over the place but I am in a hurry :D
macgroin Except he doesn't change the pitch of his voice and the dialogue isn't written to convey emotion. It's not about information dumps it's about having characters that aren't "insert player here" models. If they made up for the fact that he's faceless with engaging dialogue that would be great. In fact, that's a very interesting story writing technique and wold be very hard to do since they must convey everything through dialogue and not the characters (nonexistent) expressions. But they don't. A cold attitude is fine. However, Master Chief doesn't have a cold attitude, he has no attitude because he has no personality. He's a blank slate which the player is supposed to project themselves onto. It's lazy story writing.
Halo isn't just a "generic shooter franchise". It's the franchise that allowed other franchises such as CoD to become successful and pioneered the basic gameplay mechanics we see today. I'm starting to think that this guy never looks at the reveiws or goes in depth with the story, just hates on games.
MrDustyMonk Except Halo did streamline multiplayer and online multiplayer. That's what the other guy was talking about, I believe. A lot of the people who played Halo: CE would invite friends, or visit a friend's house in order to play the multiplayer. Then Halo 2 came out and online shooters were born. Halo was also one of the first games to be played competitively for MLG tournaments, alongside Super Smash Bros. Also, Halo did pioneer a lot of game mechanics that Call of Duty has or had, such as regenerative health, limited number of weapons, dual-wielding (one of the first in console FPS and online), and melee combat.
theguyshadows GoldenEye and Perfect Dark had dual wielding before Halo. Besides, Dual wielding wasn't in Halo until the second one. Halo handled dual wielding differently for sure, but its wasn't the first game to have the feature.
oh jeezus, I chortled at the Osama Bin Ladens ghost in the Battlefield-on-rails bit way too fucking hard. I was eating an orange and nearly spat it all over my screen. Which would be a relief to my poor laptop from what it's usually used to being splattered all over with on a daily basis... le sigh...
I know the fans don't like it, but God, it's refreshing to see a reviewer who feels the same way about this dreck as I always have. "It's just kind of boring." EXACTLY.
WAIT A SECOND... You are complaing about this game for being too "clean" (i am assuming you are talking about the vivid colors) but in your other fps military shooter reviews, you complain about the games for being too dull and brown. You are being hypocritical. There are other hypocritical example, but this is one where I think you are just trying to find reasons to not like this game just to keep the halo hate going. It's sad and pathetic.
different artstyles for different people. ZP is just trying to continue the trend on hating the game series, and using nitpickes that contradict earlier statements he made in earlier videos just proves it. It's actually a little annoying, he doesn't suggest things that could improve the game, he nitpicks to make himself sound witty. If halo 4 changed the art style to be a fusion of the 2, he would complain about something else.
To be honest, I don't really care about halo 4 that much, I just find Zero Punctuations logic to be contradictory to his past videos, that's all. I know that people make mistakes, but the dickish way zero punctuation presents himself makes him look like he knows everything about the game. If he is going to have that attitude, he should at least make his complaints a little less nitpicky, because right now, it just sounds like he has some gripe with the series itself. On a side note, I think he would be a really great lets player. What do you guys think?
Believe it or not there is a world of color that exists in-between grim ww2 shooters and nyan cat adventure. Its called a restrained yet varied pallet.
I really enjoyed the first Halo. The environments were varied and creative, firefights were tense, the story was pretty well done (for 2001), and most importantly, it was unique and refreshing. Every sequel after that has just wallowed in the original, improving the graphics and maybe adding a few more intuitive design choices but never really changing anything substantial.
Space hulk is the one with the lore that the blood angels somehow all just did stupid shit till they wittleed themselves down to like 100 guys right? If so fuck that space hulk is garbage, the blood angels would never be that retarded.
I actually DID look up Thief when I was considering buying it, and I noticed that there had been several people talking about how Thief had problems running on today's computers, and the site explained why and how you could try fixing it. I had no reason to disbelieve them, and I found similar discussions elsewhere. They could have been wrong of course, but I thought that I had done enough research into the matter to form an opinion, though it wouldn't have taken much to respectfully correct me.
I did actually read some of the books... but I could have swore, that an AI doesn't actually go rampant or think themselves to death so much as they finally go rogue or independent at a point. At least someone hinted at this who read more of the books than I..
Because the elites and other covenant in Halo 4 are in essence a large fleet of terrorist/scavenger/space pirates disbanded from the covenant. I believe that was made very clear in a multitude of ways.
"Sympathetic Kevin Spacey type."
That sentence has certainly taken on a new connotation.
Too soon.
I need to know what he inhales/consumes to come up with such amazing analogies.
My favorite was, " Like a gay African mammoth."
Pengowando
My thoughts exactly
El Mooo I will always love the "dealing heroin in a Glaswegian middle school". My lecturer is from Glasgow you see.
Hal Motley Has he tried to mug you with a sharpened stick yet?
I am sure given the oppurtunity. XD
"his entire role in life is to get to the next USB port so he can plug in his wank hologram"
...dammit
Eh, I'm just being cheeky. Good point though, and that was a surprisingly polite response. I appreciate this. Good day.
Holy shit i didn’t expect you here
I will admit, playing this game with 3 clueless gadabouts on legendary trying to headshot all the grunts so they'll turn into party poppers is quite fun. Very frantic and weird, with lots of death.
Run from USB port to USB port and shoot the same alien bad guys in between is Halo 4 in a nutshell...
I hope you realize that every game, regardless of how good it is, can be boiled down to something that pathetic.
Mass Effect 2: Shoot bad guys to get to goofy-looking alien. Repeat.
Super Mario World: Jump on shit and run forward. Win.
Assassin's Creed II: Climb building, talk to historical figure/Assassin, kill templar.
Arkham City: Villain X is doing Y. Go to location Z and beat them up.
Skyrim: Hack and slash enemies and press enter every now and again.
Rome: Total War: Send bully soldiers led by oppressive cunts to beat the shit out of whiny rebels and whiny civilians. Repeat.
Get the idea?
i'm guna be that douchebag and say you both make valid points
***** Life: work, buy food, eat food, sleep. Repeat for ~70 years if you're a male or ~74 if you're a female lol
prmx93 Indeed.
Let me extend that list:
Legend of Zelda: Clear dungeons,get items,rescue Zelda
No More Heroes: Slice shit in half,repeat till final boss.
Prototype: Tear people to atoms and eat said atoms.
Megaman: Shoot Robot masters in the croch.Repeat till final boss
Call of Halo: Advance Cortanafare
10/10 IGN game of the year
Wow, I'm bored already =D
This guy doesn't have lungs...
You understand he does it in multiple takes that he edits together, right?
@@johnauner5139 hes said he does it it one take, just edits out breathing in and pauses etc
Thats kind of the point. He must have sold it to pay for a memory wipe so he could experience dark souls all ove ragain
I hated how this game removed loads of the covenant and brought the elites back for no good reason, I actually enjoyed playing alongside the elites! This makes the political backdrop to halo 2 and 3 feel pointless!
As much as this is a dick thing to say: read the books. It actually fits in with the political backdrop perfectly.
explain? I'd genuinely like to know. Doesn't justify anything still, they should have provided the exposition
well that was all very useful. It's still bad that they don't provide ANY of this exposition through the actual game though
Read the books bro.
rjcass33 so to understand the story of halo 4 (the game) we are forced to read a fucking book.-_-........ok lol.
Just because no one here understands this:
Ben Croshaw is a satirist. He obviously does like a lot of the games that he reviews, but it's not what his job is. He's there to make fun of the shortcomings in games, just for laughs. You're all here, not for honest reviews, but to laugh at all of his little jokes. Don't get upset.
I know, but he does make valid points..
I've always thought he's like if Simon Cowell played video games and had a sense of humor.
ProjectComi But he makes valid points, weapons in Halo do look like toys
Disagree with what?
***** Read my original post. I have a feeling you didn't.
yahtzee doesnt like the bright vibrant settings in halo but hates the drab and dusty environments of most modern fps's. it makes you wonder where the hell he would enjoy shooting things
Dusty Gothic architecture like Pain Killer and Dark Souls... I'm guessing..
You miss the point. He doesn't expressly not like drab dusty environments he dislikes all middle eastern cities being portrayed similarly as well as the lack of set variety in Modern FPS's. And he doesn't not like vibrant settings, he just doesn't like the way that halo has such bright settings but is trying to tell a story that is fairly dark.
***** In the end, it has nothing to do with how a game looks, but how it PLAYS. Sure, Halo 4 was a beautiful game. That doesn't automatically mean it's 'fun'. It doesn't matter how bright and colorful a game is if it doesn't have that most important aspect.
Caleb Reed Please tell me more of how much you wonder where he would enjoy shooting things!
Caleb Reed Probably in some happy middle ground, where it has a colour palette larger than "browns with some grey and muzzle flash", but it doesn't look so clean as to wonder who's been dusting all the combat areas.
How sympathetic is a “Kevin Spacey type” 🤔
Personally, I loved Halo 4. It's Halo 5 that made me question the continuation of the franchise. Not because it's *another* sequel, but because the writers clearly got lazy and copied Avengers: Age of Ultron. Nothing but disposable android minions and an egotistical AI cheating death, while pretending it isn't making retcons every 10 minutes.
Every Halo game has had a healthy relationship between the external media (novels, comics, live action episodes, etc.) and the upcoming sequel. Halo 2, 3, Reach, and ESPECIALLY 4, all connected the dots with the rest of the universe. Whereas despite breaking the record for "most tie-ins", Halo 5 barely mentions the lore leading up to it. 3 YEARS of prequel story arcs and all they used is "Locke works for ONI" and "Promethean Soldiers teleport too much".
Kevin Spacey and sympathetic in the same sentence. Hilarious in hindsight.
0:45 that aged well didn’t it?
They destroyed the goddamn IP, lmao
0:46 "Thank you for accepting us"... erm, didn't have much choice did we? It's not like a vote was put out for the next Halo dev or anything
You always had the choice of not buying the game.
Or maybe you didn't...
Anyone else not like the new enemies? I mean I loved all the other Halo's because they were so immersive - and felt like you were hurting enemies instead of bouncing bullets off of fancy tin cans XD
but they looked kewl doh'-IGN
"New enemies."
You know so much about Halo. Your opinion is so informed!
HarryBillyBobGeorge i think he was referring to the promethians,which (in the games atleast) were never fought before
I don't like the Promethians from a lore perspective. Supposedly, they were supposed to lose to the Flood. How does a special ops army with drone dogs, repair drones, and teleportation lose to zombies? The trilogy made sense because we could see the Flood knock the floaty robots out of the air or instakill unshielded units, but now that there's no Flood anymore, there's no way to conceive of a way for them to lose.
dragonknightleader1 The whole flood thing always baffled me... If one man can go for hours without being swarmed, how can an entire army fail (of military or covenant).
Leave it to this guy to COMPLETELY annihilate something you love and you walk away laughing. These videos never get old! XD
343: We promise not to completely diddle halo over a doghouse
343: *Proceeds to completely diddle halo over a doghouse*
1:31
Mister Chief
I love Halo 4. Been playing it with friends since it came out. I never knew it had a campaign though...
Are u kidding me? Not to be rude, but it's clearly in bold print on the menu.
3:07 FUCK YEAH SPACE HULK! I LOVE THAT SHIT!
those metaphors
I jumped into Halo 4 expecting the ability to understand exactly what the fuck is going on from just playing the last three previous games (Reach and ODST don't deserve mentioning). Unfortunately, that wasn't the case, as the Halo novels cover topics integral of the story that simply aren't found in the games. Master Chief lands on an artificial planet and releases a being built by ancient space-humans that wants to destroy humans but is aligned with aliens that were my friends in Halo 3? Why? It's really tragic that the Halo story had to be developed in this manner, because the universe is interesting enough for me to want to understand it, but not interesting enough for me to go and read every bit of literature in order to understand it. And to that extent, Halo 4 just another game where I shoot space aliens with futuristic guns.
Let's not forget the lackluster multiplayer which exiled fun and was primarily about seeing who could pop each other in the face with a DMR the quickest.
Halo Nation; it is your friend.
Honestly though, it's not that hard to understand. Thel'Vadam aka "the arbiter" didn't command all the forces of the religious fundamentalist covenant, just one side of a civil war, and a minority side at that for quite a long time.
With the prophets gone and the humans/separatists victorious, that may have left the separatists the de facto Covenant, but that doesn't mean the genocidal crusading twats all just took their balls and went home, nor will they ever be "your friends". Chief was understandably confused about fighting what appeared to be the reformed and now-peaceful Covenant leftovers, but that's not who they were, and it shouldn't have taken more than 30 seconds to realize "oh yeah, these must just be the other dickheads who ran around glassing planets gleefully a few years ago". You don't need to read the novels to gather that.
And of course, the Forerunners are just the Forerunners, just your everyday galaxy-spanning hyper-technological people (not humans). Most were okay, the Didact was, well, holding a bit of a grudge for humans decimating Forerunner worlds, weakening them when the Flood came (possibly contributing to their loss), and indirectly being the reason he was imprisoned. I'd be grumpy too if I were him. (for the record, he wasn't built by the Forerunners; he WAS a Forerunner, possibly the last alive)
You can gather that much strictly from the games, but the wiki can certainly be of benefit as well, or just asking any Halo fan out there.
Corey Simmonds See? That's how confused I am by the story. I played this game with two other friends, running on Heroic switching off every death, and neither of us could figure it out, other than that the Didact was bulletproof and we had to stop him from doing bad stuff. I got more understanding out of that hipster paradox film Shutter Island. I got more meaning out of listening to the lyrics on any Melvins song.
Jimmy Frye
:D
Maybe Halo 4 should have included a little story pamphlet or something just to re-lay things out in brief. Games USED to do that. Hell, games used to come with manuals so thick so they practically *were* novels. They were actually cool to collect and keep around, too. Then game makers got cheap :(
Still, if you ever have any questions about the lore, now or when Halo 5 comes out, visit the wiki or feel free ask. I'm always around, along with about a million other fans (some who know a hell of a lot more than I do).
I'm done with Halo, I think. I played the SHIT out of Halo: Combat Evolved on PC. I haven't owned one game in the series or an Xbox 360 since the golden days of Halo 3 multiplayer. My friend's Xbox 360 1st-gen "Elite" is on its last legs and he doesn't plan on replacing it. Not really impressed by the Xbone either.
The only franchise I'm terribly interested in right now is Warhammer 40k *nerdgasm*
Jimmy Frye I just don't think you payed enough attention to it. Everything came a little bit easier for me because I found the hidden consoles (or whatever they're called, I can't remember off the top of my head right now), and then watched the videos for them. But even without that, I still had a general understanding of what was going on.
2:32 Funnily enough, there actually are two little dots on his visor that look like tear drops.
I guess I just want to share my two bits on the game.
Not to say it's good, but 343 did have a hard time living up to Bungie's reputation for making a good series, so it's understandable that they "didn't make waves" as Yahtzee put it, but I honestly think they did a fair job on the matter. Of course I found it rushed and flashy, and not entirely good, but they didn't burn it by trying to jump the shark. So yeah, the series isn't dead, and considering the developer change, that's pretty significant.
They had some pretty big fucking shoes to fill the fact it didn't make everyone scream into microsoft's asshole till the entire dev team was forced to committed Seppuku is astonishing in itself.
My favorite game is still Halo: Reach.
But man, fuck 343.
+1 to you, my friend!
And the same to you, kind sir.
*Salutes*
***** Halo Reach is an amazing game, but 343 Industries ruined the series with Halo 4.
I can't quite put my finger on it. The forge mode wasn't that great and the campaign was pretty bad. Custom game modes weren't great as you couldn't make fun infected modes because the infected couldn't use guns.
I genuinely think Yahtzee would like halo 3: ODST. Health packs and all that.
***** Completely agree with you, I hands down think it's the best halo game. If it didn't carry the Halo name I think it would have been extremely well received fan wise. If It was just ODST or something.
***** ODST was pretty much what halo 2 was meant to be. But I agree, best one of the series.
ODST was a great game, great music, characters, story, and it was actually hard
maybe a little short though
definitly too short
LFDWDUI No one would've bought it if it didn't have "Halo" Infront of it
I'm a hardcore Halo fan but when 343 made Halo 4 I quickly realized that I wasn't a Halo fan but a Bungie fan. I played about 4 levels of halo 4 and then quickly found myself replaying the Halo 3: ODST campaign and playing the Lone Wolf level on Halo Reach. Halo 4 just didn't have the "Wow" facture that Halo 1-3 had. Bungie made Halo so fun that you could play threw the campaign a second time and still have fun with it. My favorite Halo was Halo 3 and that is because of the people I played with and also the A.I.
***** Yes! I am definitely going to buy Destiny for Xbox One.
Yeah destiny will probably be great for bungie fans but don't give up on halo just yet; 343 realized they mucked up halo 4 so there making the master chief collection for the fans and from what I know halo 5 will be a lot better.
StrikePlaysGames Yeah, I am looking forward to Master Chief Collection but I am still iffy about Halo 5.
There isn't a single map in multiplayer that was pulled from the campaign. At best, a few Spartan Ops missions were taken from multiplayer, or vice versa.
I actually thought Halo 4 was the first Halo that was actually "combat evolved" since the first one. I found myself bored by Halo 3 because I knew how to beat every single enemy I faced. With the new enemies in Halo 4, I had to learn how to beat them. It provided a new challenge, especially when some of those new enemies can regenerate.
.exe and .dll is punctuation...jussayin'
When they announced Halo 4 I promised myself I'd never play it because I liked the way Halo 3 left it. I was convinced to try it, and well, I was just a little bit floored by how much there was that I could appreciate.
1:34 Playing Halo 4 at the moment. Yahtzee is so correct... I don't know why or what I'm doing. It's just "go from one set piece to the next."
At the moment I'm on top of a giant truck with cannons on it. I think we're destroying the "gravity well"? Which is a device holding our ships on the planet? But I don't even know what it's called. Infinity? Requiem? They keep throwing these names around and expect me to remember them like they're iconic or something. Also I have NO clue if the gravity well is the size of the planet or if it's a device ON the planet.
In the opening of the game there's multiple capital ships being sucked into a big, bright, white light. We never see it again, we have no context for where it is or how big it is, just that it's bigger than 50 capital ships lined up? I think?
It's so confusing...
The maps I always liked best were the ones that players made. I had made about five small and mid-sized maps by the time I got bored with Forge, and I absolutely loved playing on them.
Stop defending halo comment section, it's a first person shooter, it's automatically bad.
Wow, way to generalise.
What about spec ops the line?
Exactly.
Half-Life?
I mean Halo is bad but don't generalize all FPS games because of one.
I honestly stopped paying attention to the Halo franchise after 3. It's dragging on so long now that I didn't even remember that 5 existed.
+ethanwdp Price THERE'S A FIFTH!? FFS!
WHAAAT!!!! Since wheeen
+LetSwine4222 Since October. How'd you miss it? Advertisements were plastered everywhere.
+Fireshadow i dunno
To be fair it was the same with me
I totally forgot about halo 5
now i wan't ikea meatballs
That's quite an accurate analogy for campaign/multi-player for a lot of games.
How do you beat dark souls, and then complain that halo is to hard on normal?
Cos fedora wearing scrublord.
Halo's difficulty adds nothing to the game, you get essentially the same experience on medium as you do hard. Dark souls, however, would lose so much if it was easier. It's a stylistic thing more than it is an actual difficulty one. After all, you don't play Halo to be challenged.
Because dark souls is fair, Halo 4 has far too many enemies that can and will repeatedly one-shot you one any difficulty above easy. I beat all of the games on legendary so I am not complaining about the difficulty, I just see where he is coming from with the difficulty on this particular game.
dark souls = unfogiving
halo 4 = unfair
Out of a lot of modern day FPS, Halo is the only one that has at least tried to change in every aspect. Not all changes are great, we know, but there are things that Halo 4 got right. The story, characters and overall universe is bigger and better than it was before, and the gameplay seems to be changing and evolving to not only attract more casual gamers, but also still try to appease to the ''competitive shooter'' crowd. Seriously, how many sci-fi FPS games can you name that have had the same impact or even the same level of popularity as Halo, that wasn't fucking Half-Life? There aren't that many shooters on consoles that manage to be entertaining, have given the same amount of effort put into the solo and multiplayer experience or have g a good fucking story, like Halo. I'd take Halo over any other propaganda bullshit about killing foreigners for the 10th billionth time any day.
Rodney 2x4 But before that I'd take fucking Half-Life.
Star Wars Battlefront 2.
Imperial Game Reviewer I repeat: I would still take any iteration of fucking Half Life first.
Rodney 2x4 Deus Ex?
Rodney 2x4 Bioshock?
I think this was the game they should of taken his mask off. maybe just for a short scene, 10 seconds, of him removing his helmet, looking at cortana with his pale ass face and tell her she's going to be fine. AAAand then go back to shooty shooty things.
Beat the game on legendary and watch after the credits.
o.O? will do my friend thank you.
Kneady Kat
you only see like half his face though and if they showed his face it would kill the allure :/
Yes how would they keep reigning us über-nerds back in for the next sequel? Plus I totally disagree Halo is a great game, you just have to be super nerdy to obsess over it like I do on a daily basis. Heck, they even have a profitable internet series that's been running for about 12 seasons! So yes, hate on me, bring on the annoying, absolutely no-life trolls who have nothing better to do, and the CoD fanboys/tumors
Well, his face is supposed to be covered. That's how the original game developers wanted it, so that you could become the Master Chief.
3:23 I had that when I was a kid. Memories
Space hulk 40k reference I love you.
Yum, Unreal.
This is awesome, and describes exactly how I felt (and Halo was a nice chunk of my childhood). It just isn't that great to me anymore :(
I think the reason it's not as good is because you have to read and absorb all the tie-in material to have even the slightest idea of what's going on.
How the fuck could you not follow the story of Halo 3? It left right off of Halo 2, kill the prophet and stop him from fucking the universe. Pretty simple.
he didn't play halo 2
I always imagine the Halo games as being one obvious escalation of the same story to the next. I didn't particularly pay attention to the cut scenes, but something like "Halo 1: Stop the Halo" Halo 2: "Stop the other Halos" Halo 3: "Stop the bad guys who were going to use the Halos." I'm surprised Halo 4 didn't have some kind of "Stop the SuperHalo!"
Joel Sweeney Idk what "Halo 4" is
MrKennyCakemouth The he's not allowed to complain.
He must have gotten lost during 2, which admittedly would cause a massive mindfuck when playing through 3 for the first time.
The prefab rooms in space hulk don’t matter b/c it’s the combinations that matter
yahtzee came up with the proto ghost train ride in 2012
Normally I hate the way Yahtzee rips on the Halo franchise. Mainly because he takes the piss out of it for certain gameplay features which he then turns around and praises in other games. Like in this video for example:
"Oh, wahh, even on normal the difficult is too hard because (insert silly reason here)"
Cut to:
"Oh my this game is nice and hard and I just want to run my tongue all along it's hardness. This is how games used to be!"
But, in this instance, I'm okay with it. Mainly because Halo 4 was a gigantic piece of crap (when compared to the other Halos). I imagine the feeling Halo 4 invoked in me is the same feeling that Duke Nukem fans had when playing DNF. It says it's "for the fans" yet constantly tries to pander to the modern demographic.
Levi Newell
Jesus, here we go. This is what every defender of Halo 4 doesn't fucking get. Halo 4 _does_ have a complete lack of change or innovation. All it did was copy+paste everything from Call of Duty. Perks, killcams, sprinting, custom loadouts, QTEs in the campaign (although hilarious there's only two as if the developers just put them in there so they could show them in the trailers), prestiging (in the form of "Specializations") and extremely fast respawning. That's not "innovation", that's trying to make your game appeal to the huddled masses.
I'm not saying Halo 4 should have "been exactly like Halo 1, 2, and 3". What I'm saying is that it should've at least felt like those games. If you get past the artistic design and focus on the actual gameplay, very little of what made Halo _Halo_ remains.
Levi Newell
Here's my TL;DR: Halo 4 shouldn't have been a clone of Halo 3 _nor_ should it have been a clone of *every fucking shooter* on the market today.
Now, I know you're probably incapable of maintaining your attention for more than 5 nanoseconds, but do try and push through _my_ wall of text. I gave you that courtesy:
Perks: Yeah, sure, there are some other games that use perks. There's, uhm, Battlefield...I think. Maybe Crysis? So that's a whole two other games that _maybe_ have perks. Whoop dee doo.
The fact is CoD is the best known for that and the trendsetter when it comes to perks. So, they're the series that garners my ire.
Besides, Halo 4 is the only shooter I've seen with some perks that are *dead fucking ringers* for CoD's perks.
Mobility = Marathon
Dexterity = Sleight of Hand
Explosives = Danger Close
Stealth = Ninja
That's just lazy ass game design.
Oh, and of course you can choose not to use the perks. But good fucking luck being able to compete with people who _are_ using perks, which is *everyone*. Choosing not to use perks in Call of Battlehalo: Spartan Ops is like cutting off your arms and legs and trying to play baseball. Sure, you _can_ do it. But all that'll end up happening is you'll be rolling around on the ground in your own blood while the catcher is shoving his balls in your face.
See, my main gripe about perks in Halo is it turns the combat into a rock-paper-perk system. Combat in Halo used to be about who's the better player and which weapon you've managed to find on the map and who managed to get the drop on the other one. Now the outcome of a fight often is determined heavily by what perks you happen to have. Like some sort of roulette wheel spawned by the colon of Satan and Activision...so basically just Satan.
"Oh, he's out of ammo for his SAW. That shit takes forever to reload!" I'll say before bounding around the corner only to get a hot steamy load of lead sprayed onto my visor.
"How did he reload it so fast?!" I'll scream before remembering "Oh right, he had Sleight-of-Dexterity! Silly me!" right before I start slamming a hammer into my ribcage to take the pain away.
Killcams: Now you're being purposefully misleading. There are absolutely killcams in the game. Some of the gamemodes don't use them, but others do. The fact that they're even _in_ a Halo game is evidence of the Malignant Modern Military Shooter Syndrome rampant in this game.
And what's even _more_ insulting is they *don't even fucking work properly!* If you're going to rip-off another series, at least _try_ to do it right.
Custom Loadouts: Yes, some gametypes do happen to not use custom loadouts, but they are few and far between. Swat, Snipers and Flood are the only ones I can recall that remove custom loadouts. Every other one does.
And my personal problem with custom loadouts in Halo is it makes the whole point of finding weapons on the map and using them almost entirely moot. Why risk running into the thick of the fighting to get that shotgun when I can just spawn with a 3 shot DMR and chill in the back of the map, popping heads like so many human skull shaped pinatas? Old school Halo wouldn't have let you do that shit. It was like: "Here, take your puny fucking SMG and go get kills. What's that? You want to spawn with some better weapons? What are you, some kind of candy ass? Go fucking find them you lazy twat!"
QTEs: Of course you forgot about it. They really were just put in for the trailers.
"What do kids like nowadays?"
"QTEs?"
"Oh fuck, do we have to?"
"Fine, just put like two in it and we'll make sure to put them in the trailers."
The fact that there were only two makes me feel like there were more but they had to cut them out because the playtesters were getting confused as to whether they were playing Halo 4 or Call of Duty: Space Marine Ops.
Specializations: Yes, one of the reasons I hate them is because CoD has the same system. And don't take this as me hating on CoD because "Lel COD suks!". I think the first Modern Warfare was extremely fun in the same way something like Independence Day was. It's stupid, popcorn fun action, nothing more. The problem is that now *every fucking shooter and their grandmother* wants to do what CoD is doing. When it started out it was interesting and now it's just tired and worn out, like that crack whore sleeping off her high outside of your local Wal-Mart.
Furthermore it unbalances the playing field. The point of old school Halo games was that everyone, in terms of equipment, were on an even playing field. Everyone spawned with the same gun and the same grenades. The outcome of the game was dependent upon teamwork, knowledge of the map (which Halo 4 pisses on with their giant, moron friendly weapon and grenade markers and circular map design), and each individuals skill level.
And it's actually worse than CoD's Prestige mode. At least in CoD it was merely a cosmetic thing. Here it actually *effects gameplay*.
Spawn Times: Yes, they are different from gamemode to gamemode. In Team Slayer for instance it's instant but in CTF it's three seconds. Oh my, what a huge difference. And my problem with it is it's yet another hand holdy, over bearing mother type of gameplay feature.
"Awww, did you die? No problem little buddy, just press X and you're right back in!"
Old school Halo didn't do that shit. You die in CTF and you fucking wait your 10 seconds and reflect on how much of a fucktard you were.
Finally, I'm gonna have to just end the argument here since you seem intent on missing the point. The point isn't "ERMAHGERD IT SHULD BE EAXCTLE LIEK H3!"
My point is that it should do it's own thing and not try to fit in with every other shooter on the market today.
Keep the set loadouts from Reach but make them specific to each map, add more environment interaction in the maps, make it so you can't spawn with AAs and they can only be found on the map, add AI controlled Prometheans to stuff like Team Slayer to mix up the combat, shit like that.
It's not hard to come up with some different ideas. It's just scary for big companies like Microsoft to take a chance with some unique ideas on their big paycheck that is Halo.
Better to stay on the beaten path and know you're going to make it then to take a gamble on the road less traveled.
50Calabyte Halo 4, was a good game i say but if you where to hand me any other halo i would grab it in a heartbeat.
And that boss fight sucked, all you did was just watch a cutsceen, then press 2 buttons, then enjoy him fall off a cliff into nothingness beacuse a plasma gernade stuck on you isent enough
50Calabyte
1.) Perks are actually pretty abundant. I somewhat agree with you about them, and disagree with you at the same time. For example, in Halo 3, it was skill vs skill. In halo 4, it is a combination on skill and strategy, with an emphasis on strategy. It king of evens the playing field for those who aren't very skilled, yet also gives a higher skill level to those who can master using skill and strategy. I would prefer an emphasis on skill, so maybe let someone have one perk that doesn't do as much, just gives you a little edge. It's like sports.
2.) For loadouts - The thing is, you can't just get any weapon you want in the loadouts. It is completely different from COD, where EVERY weapon on the field comes from your loadout. In Halo 4, everyone can still get the same weapons, so it really isn't a big deal. I actually like it more because it evens the playing field out. First person to get a battle-rifle starts camping on high ground and fucks everyone up in Halo 3, in Halo 4, it emphasis skill in this particular category. Again, I feel like there is room for change, like making a less powerful version of the battle rifle/dmr.
3.) QTE- I'm just going to ignore this one. Kind of a stupid argument to have.
4.) Spawn Times- Yea, I agree with you mostly.
5.) I agree with most of your ideas. The way I see Halo, was that it was just their intro. I kind of separate it from the whole Halo series when I play it, so that I'm not always trying to compare it like you. If you just see it as a game, it's still pretty fun. It might not have been what you were expecting, but it is fun. Keep on giving criticism, because that is the only what the developers will know what they need to do with the next games.
Sorry if some of the stuff I say may be hard to understand, I feel like I confused myself a little bit just writing this. Ask me if you want any clarification on anything.
The game's purpose was to know exactly why Chief can use Forerunner tech (and not the Covenant) Blah, blah, blah, Cortana dies; blah, blah, blah, you see Chief's human side; blah, blah, blah, beat the legendary campaign see his eyes.
I was raised on Halo so maybe I am a little bias but I enjoyed Halo 4 and the series in a whole. Except for ODST I mean Jesus.
Yeah, I though they were gonna do something awesome with the idea of being an ODST, but nope... They just rehash the same Halo 3 engine, slower and weaker recap story of a group of soldiers, I thought it was going to be a large epic timeline thing like the trailer...
nah, i´m no fan of halu but i have to admit halo 4 is pretty good
I loved ODST. *cricket sound*
I also loved ODST!
I wasn't raised on Halo and liked ODST mildly.
Eddis Izzard is the shit
Its a god givin talent, some men are born masters of clay or paint, this great man was born a master lexiconian dervish. And I'm glad he was.
watching these videos is like bringing a pinata to a birthday party. you choose your favorite one so you can watch someone else beat the shit out of it.
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I feel bad for anyone who plays Halo CoD or Battle Field for the story lol
Ive bought Battlefield for the story since 1942.
I haven't enjoyed Battlefield since.
MrDustyMonk
Wasn't 1942 when the second world war ended?
Not sure if intended joke or awkward coincidence...
Therix Battlfield 1942. It was the first one.
MrDustyMonk
Well, that's me told. Thanks for clarifying.
hahahah that was actually pretty funny. I thought he meant the year 1942 as well lol
Halo is overrated.
Could you all just shut the heck up about the game and repeating EXACTLY what he's already said 50 times? You are just crowding the comments with carbon copies of half the others statements. So please just don't?
Oh the hypocrisy!
As an unbiased Halo fan I can state that that statement is true. But as a Halo fan I have to say STFU and go find you're own game to play.
Acharged your* Freaking idiot.
Look, some fucker is gonna yell at me either way I spell it so fuck it. Still, the point remains the same.
What I enjoy is scrolling through the comments. Many people on this video, for example, are calling Yahtzee a hypocrite or that he can't understand a simple plot.
When it comes to the 'artificial environments' he meant that it doesn't feel natural; dirty brown everything in things like CoD or Battlefield is boring, yet Halo 4 has a feeling that tells me 'something isn't right, like that nice old man who sells free ice cream to children'.
And as for the plot, I think Yahtzee is in a similar position to me; I understood what was happening, just why is it happening. Why does this villain want to kill humanity? Why is it that I'm playing this game when the story is designed for people who read the books?
As Yahtzee has stated before, a game needs to stand on singleplayer, yet if the story is only comprehensible to a third of the target audience, then it's already failed.
I only have a few Pet Pevs in Halo 4's multiplayer: 1. Custom Loadouts: The fun stops when EVERYONE is using DMR's and Battle Rifles. 2. The showing of all the weapons on map: It was most fun looking for weapons and memorizing where weapons were on the maps instead of holding your hand and showing where exactly where each weapon is. Why do I still play Halo 4? To make fun Custom Games with my friends only... That's where it's truly fun...
Yahtzee complaining about shiny clean buildings in this game, but complains about grit and drab colors in other games. Clever Girl.
Because everything, at least for the most part, needs careful balance. A game like this, you know in which every five seconds someone is trying to shove a rocket launcher up your ass and pull the trigger (apparently they ran out of Plasma Rifles three games back but found a cache of Fuel Rods they figured would be better used to kill one spartan rather than decimating the presently weakened UNSC), can't be expected to always look nice and shiny.
There doesn't ever LOOK like there has been conflict, that's always been a bit of an issue for Halo, even levels such as Outskirts and Cortana all seem a little tidy and they're meant to either highlight the extent of the floodinfection or demonstrate the desturction of Earth. They haven't truly had anything dark or unkept since the Flood elvels of Halo: Combat Evolvedand of those only The Maw and Keyes felt genuinely destructive.
It's war, not everything will remain intact, but at the same time, it's war, that means that not everywhere has gone to shit either. Even The Last of Us, Resident Evil and the Souls series that typically go for the darker environments still have those beautiful designs that remind you of exactly why you're trying to not get stabed in the kidney within the next five seconds.
Consistant graphical themes are boring and unrealistic. You need something to contrast the drab and dreary destruction with in order for it not to be just another environment designed to invoke feelings of angst. And you also need something to contrast the pretty skyboxes and elvel designs with in order to fully appreciate them. I don't care that Requiem looks good, because everything looks just as good. Nothings went to shit and it all looks the same.There is no reason to stop and stare
*****
Was the use of 117 intentional? Also destructible environments are nice but there hardly necessary. PayDay, Mass Effect, Halo, Doom and Unreal are five awesome serieses of or relating to the shooter genre that have typically lacked true destructible environment (there was a mod for Unreal Tourney '07 though which made environments fully destructible)
As a matter of fact destructible environments, at least from what I've seen usually go hand in hand with an over emphasis on multiplayer, little direction in story and far too much of a focus on the skybox. Unfair generalisation yes, but hey it had to be born from something (even ignorance on my part which is yet to be corrected by others)
his job is to complain about everything I suppose
He kinda pisses me off when he moans about shit like that
LuckyBullet There are barely any rocket launchers or fuel rod cannons in the campaign... Also, Halo is clean. It's always known as clean, and not gritty. If it tried to add some grit, it might look a little non-Halo. I love my pretty, untouched vistas and the pretty environment. Halo: Reach and Halo 3: ODST actually had a lot of grit and pristine stuff. Shit was destroyed, blood was everywhere, trash floated freely, people wrote stuff like "Help Me!" or "Remember Reach!", cars were ablaze, etc.
I really think Yahtzee hates most really popular FPSs more than anything else, CoD, I can understand wailing on because its a video game travesty, But Halo at least tries to have a story and changing elements in gameplay like Half Life did, It starts as a horror-esque style on Dawn and goes into its full shooter elements on Requiem then it has a good potion of driving, CoD however, is just, shoot ,angst, repeat, I know he is a critic, but come on, beat down the other games that NEED it.
***** I'm a 'halo fanboy' too but I still enjoyed this. I just wish people woud consider the books, movies AND games in the series all together.
He doesn't hate shooters. He's stated more than once that he actually really enjoys them; he just doesn't consider Medal of Honor and CoD and Battlefield to be shooters, instead referring to them as "spunkgargleweewee". He calls Halo a shooter because it's less linear than those three, but Yahtzee's style is to be critical. Far more so than other reviewers. His _modus operandi_ is to highlight the flaws in games because every other reviewer seems to gloss over the bad portions of games in favour of the better parts, and thus he balances the equation.
This comment section makes me feel physically ill.
Biggest problem I had with the game is summed up with "iron sights". Specifically the absolute lack of them outside a few guns and never being able to keep the guns you like because there is nowhere to replenish ammo, but rather just graphics another weapon in the ground.
For some reason they were almost literally giving this game away for free in the UK. I remember that 12 months Xbox Live Gold plus a copy of Halo 4 was £1 more than the Gold membership on its own and £5 cheaper than Halo 4 on its own.
How the Hell was the story hard to follow?!
It was so excruciatingly bad, I couldn't bother to get into it. It didn't help that the gameplay was already so boring.
It got retarded after chief downloaded onlyonewhocanstophim.dll
Seriously i sat there just mezmerized at how bad that writing was
*****
A lot of the plot involving the Didact is revealed in the forerunner saga books. It was very confusing for players not invested in the EU, especially since 343i never tried to get the players up to speed.
BASIC SUMMERY: Humans are as advanced as the Forerunners 100,000 years ago and they don't like each other. Suddenly, humans start invading Forerunner space, killing them and glassing the planets. So the Didact as general of the Forerunners wages war on humans. After the forerunners defeat ancient humanity and devolve them to caveman stage, they discover the humans were attacking worlds the flood had invaded to stop their spread. Thus begins the Forerunner-Flood war. During the course of the war, the forerunners try many desperate things. First, they try to use composers to enable the forerunners to go from flesh to digital and back again, basically making them immortal. The experiments fail, so the Didact turns his Promethean soldiers (forerunners) and later ancient humans into Promethean knights. At some point during the war, the Didact gets brain raped by the flood, making him a little crazy.
The reason why he joined forces with the covenant rather than the humans was A) he hates humans and wants them all dead and B) the covenant remnant seen in Halo 4 worships him as a god (like they do to everything forerunner) so if he succeeded in composing all humanity, he'd probably use his new army of billions of Promethean knights to slaughter all of the covenant. They'd probably twist it into some sort of honor by being killed by the Didact and his divine army or something.
Sexless? Have you seen the elites?
Yahtzee make up you mind!
COD: "Color pallet too bland!"
Halo: "Too much color"
COD: "Not enough story!"
Halo: "Too much story!"
Can you just make up your mad about what you don't like?
He doesn't like things that are bad; both aesthetics can work when done right, but neither of these games do. It helps not to view the world in terms of binary choices.
Nyk Carnsew Actually halo does have some of the best story telling ability when compared to other games like Call of Duty, and manages to tell a big intergalactic war.
Lucas Brock It actually has quite an indepth story, but, to each is own i guess.
Rock Steel The story-telling was good right up until Halo Reach. H4 is an abomination that shouldn't have been added to the series. God knows the next game is just going to continue shitting all over it too.
"I dread to think what master chief's buttlock plates smell like by now" Oh God...
actually in combat evolved, it had a health system that if your shield were to deplete and you took hits, your health bar would go down permanently until you reached a medkit
"Combat Evolved" was the tagline of the first game, not the series.
240p so annoying
Well if it is too flashy for you,you can always switch to 144p.
I didn't even notice
MrKennyCakemouth you i almost see you as much as PressFartToContinue
guilty cornet Fart looks for people, in this case, you seem to have sound me *menacing music plays*
Is that supposed to be a pun?
Halo four's story only makes sense if you know the lore.
IE: The stormtrooper genesis story? ;)
Jon Malbrough
wat
Jon Malbrough Regarding Halo 4 the forerunner trilogy irons out the story.
No, Halo: The Fall of Reach isn't what he was referring to, hopefully.
Austin Ellison
I was so disappointed that Halo: The Fall of Reach had nothing to do with the actual story.
SirEvilestDeath
That's not the plot...
You annoy me, leave.
"Whoa-oa-oa he's a working class man"
LOL Jimmy Barnes.
Eh, I liked it. Hated the button pressing and the quicktimes, but overall I enjoyed it.
Played Halo 1. I was bored as shit. Running down continuous hallways with the same bland textures got old in the late 90's. And rechargeable health is for wusses who like to hide behind a wall until they regenerate.
Play Medal of Honor if you want a shooter with health drops and raise your hand at whatever point in the game you start having fun.
Never been a big fan of military shooters. I have always liked other settings like Half-Life 2, Bioshock, FarCry 3, etc.
Now I'm curious. When did you first play Halo 1? As in, how long after it's release?
To be fair, I did play it quite some time after it came out (probably 2007)...so it did look dated by comparison. However, Half-Life 2 came out the same year as Halo (2004) and I thought HL2 looked much better and the maps, gameplay, etc. were superior. I guess I just didn't get Halo. The gameplay felt very monotonous to me.
69johndz Halo came out in 2001
I feel as though this guy never actually played the game but saw a video... a lot of this is bullcrap. Its not even a hard story to follow...
I dont know why he goes on and on about MC showing no emotions....is that not what he is kinda trained to do?
macgroin It's an issue because it makes for lazy story telling. If the protagonist is completely devoid of personality and emotion they're going to react exactly the same way in every situation (i.e. run sort_this_shit_out.exe). A good story will almost always have engaging, complex characters. And since master chief is a true character and not actually the player the choice to give him no personality is a lazy way to prevent having him to react organically to a situation.
That doesn't mean emotionless characters are always bad, but when they're also the protagonist then the story rests entirely on the world and supporting cast. A thing that the Halo series (and a lot of other games, movies, etc.) has yet to grasp. Does that make sense?
It does indeed :) still I must like that kind of thing then because I like MC and his lack of emotions...even though the only emotions he shows are in the pitch of the voice. I like that more than a dialogue that almost tells you what he is feeling and I like it more when they make the characters show emotions on the face and use fewer dialog to almost spell things out for the player. Expressions can do more then a lot of words when they are done right. But ofc they can fail hard also. And I know this does not apply to Holo because a person that has a full armor on and a mask needs good writing ofc. I guess I just don't like having everything told to me. I can see what is going on in the game :) you do not need to tell me also. They should have maybe showed more what MC is thinking but also keep his cold attitude to others? I am sorry if this is rather all over the place but I am in a hurry :D
macgroin Except he doesn't change the pitch of his voice and the dialogue isn't written to convey emotion. It's not about information dumps it's about having characters that aren't "insert player here" models.
If they made up for the fact that he's faceless with engaging dialogue that would be great. In fact, that's a very interesting story writing technique and wold be very hard to do since they must convey everything through dialogue and not the characters (nonexistent) expressions. But they don't.
A cold attitude is fine. However, Master Chief doesn't have a cold attitude, he has no attitude because he has no personality. He's a blank slate which the player is supposed to project themselves onto. It's lazy story writing.
GreedyCapybara7 Actually, in the end of Halo 4 I felt chief and his lost, IDK if you beat it but he had emotion all right.
Halo isn't just a "generic shooter franchise". It's the franchise that allowed other franchises such as CoD to become successful and pioneered the basic gameplay mechanics we see today.
I'm starting to think that this guy never looks at the reveiws or goes in depth with the story, just hates on games.
Except CoD's precursor was Medal of Honor, which came out in1999. Halo CE came out in 2001.
MrDustyMonk Except Halo did streamline multiplayer and online multiplayer. That's what the other guy was talking about, I believe. A lot of the people who played Halo: CE would invite friends, or visit a friend's house in order to play the multiplayer. Then Halo 2 came out and online shooters were born. Halo was also one of the first games to be played competitively for MLG tournaments, alongside Super Smash Bros.
Also, Halo did pioneer a lot of game mechanics that Call of Duty has or had, such as regenerative health, limited number of weapons, dual-wielding (one of the first in console FPS and online), and melee combat.
Name one "basic mechanic" that's in halo, and not in half life 1/2.
Randy butternubs Let's see... recharging health, two weapons, grenades being a button press instead of a weapon, cutscenes...
theguyshadows GoldenEye and Perfect Dark had dual wielding before Halo. Besides, Dual wielding wasn't in Halo until the second one. Halo handled dual wielding differently for sure, but its wasn't the first game to have the feature.
oh jeezus, I chortled at the Osama Bin Ladens ghost in the Battlefield-on-rails bit way too fucking hard. I was eating an orange and nearly spat it all over my screen. Which would be a relief to my poor laptop from what it's usually used to being splattered all over with on a daily basis... le sigh...
I know the fans don't like it, but God, it's refreshing to see a reviewer who feels the same way about this dreck as I always have. "It's just kind of boring." EXACTLY.
I had to rewind a few times because this guy talks super fast. and he doesn't even talk american
I don't even know how to respond to that statement
***** me to
***** thank you....
How do you talk American? Is it sounding like some kind of backwater hillbilly? Expand your knowledge of the world, you ignorant fuck.
I had to reread that last sentence since it wasn't in american.
WAIT A SECOND... You are complaing about this game for being too "clean" (i am assuming you are talking about the vivid colors) but in your other fps military shooter reviews, you complain about the games for being too dull and brown. You are being hypocritical. There are other hypocritical example, but this is one where I think you are just trying to find reasons to not like this game just to keep the halo hate going. It's sad and pathetic.
And he said it was too "unreal" and "plastic-y". Even the opposite of dull and brown can get out of hand if it goes too far.
different artstyles for different people. ZP is just trying to continue the trend on hating the game series, and using nitpickes that contradict earlier statements he made in earlier videos just proves it. It's actually a little annoying, he doesn't suggest things that could improve the game, he nitpicks to make himself sound witty. If halo 4 changed the art style to be a fusion of the 2, he would complain about something else.
He's a critic. He criticizes games. And you don't have to agree with him, I get that. Just don't make such a big fuss about it.
To be honest, I don't really care about halo 4 that much, I just find Zero Punctuations logic to be contradictory to his past videos, that's all. I know that people make mistakes, but the dickish way zero punctuation presents himself makes him look like he knows everything about the game. If he is going to have that attitude, he should at least make his complaints a little less nitpicky, because right now, it just sounds like he has some gripe with the series itself. On a side note, I think he would be a really great lets player. What do you guys think?
Believe it or not there is a world of color that exists in-between grim ww2 shooters and nyan cat adventure. Its called a restrained yet varied pallet.
Fun Fact: The term "Super Soaker or NERF" is redundant as Super Soaker is an offshoot of the Nerf company.
As an avid Halo fan I found this to be absolutely fucking hilarious.
The IKEA joke makes me laugh every time
He was actually quite nice about it considering the things he says about other games.
I really enjoyed the first Halo. The environments were varied and creative, firefights were tense, the story was pretty well done (for 2001), and most importantly, it was unique and refreshing. Every sequel after that has just wallowed in the original, improving the graphics and maybe adding a few more intuitive design choices but never really changing anything substantial.
3:54 good quote
NO DISRESPECTING SPACE HULK!!! (ever...)
Space hulk is the one with the lore that the blood angels somehow all just did stupid shit till they wittleed themselves down to like 100 guys right? If so fuck that space hulk is garbage, the blood angels would never be that retarded.
Aquatictoaster cause you know the very name blood angels sounds like a smart thing.
I like this fellow, he's very concise. Grumpy, but concise.
Remember when there was more than one Free for all gametype?
And your custom character could actually be SEEN?
Nostalgia...
I love the ikea reference; it's hilarious!
I actually DID look up Thief when I was considering buying it, and I noticed that there had been several people talking about how Thief had problems running on today's computers, and the site explained why and how you could try fixing it. I had no reason to disbelieve them, and I found similar discussions elsewhere. They could have been wrong of course, but I thought that I had done enough research into the matter to form an opinion, though it wouldn't have taken much to respectfully correct me.
Also his IKEA metaphor is spot on.
Am I the only one getting T-Mobile ads EVERY TIME I WATCH THESE VIDEOS!?!?!
I did actually read some of the books... but I could have swore, that an AI doesn't actually go rampant or think themselves to death so much as they finally go rogue or independent at a point. At least someone hinted at this who read more of the books than I..
Achievement unlocked : Loremaster of Haloworld. my lawls have been made, I'm going back to Foamy now.
im just puting it out there in halo 4 the marines were almost decedent i saw 4 marines kill on elite, they made me so proud that day
Halo 4 gave us at least 1 good thing, The Mantis
Because the elites and other covenant in Halo 4 are in essence a large fleet of terrorist/scavenger/space pirates disbanded from the covenant. I believe that was made very clear in a multitude of ways.
That's some passion you got their.