Halo Reach

Since 6337 Days

Fuck me this game is fun - and I've only played about 20 minutes of the singleplayer campaign. Visuals aren't always consistent, but at times it looks damn spectacular. Lovely vistas.

But, most importantly, it is ridiculously fun.

EDIT: Holy shit. I just got a taste of one of the Modern Warfare-esque set pieces. So awesome.

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roxwell

Since 6954 Days

Loving it!

Heroic is definitely tougher than 3 but no where near as hard as waiting for the game to install.

Great job Bungie and thanks.

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Jin187

Since 6750 Days

Posted by blmbox

I've only played about 20 minutes of the singleplayer campaign. Visuals aren't always consistent, but at times it looks damn spectacular. Lovely vistas.

Wait till you see the second and third missions of the campaign, it looks absolutely stunning!

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blmbox

Since 6337 Days

The second mission was absolutely beautiful; one of the best I've experienced this gen in terms of visuals.

Right up there with the cave levels in Gears 2.

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GriftGFX

Since 7006 Days

I need to replay the first three missions because I was accidentally on a different profile. Woops.

I tried some forge stuff this morning too. I was a little disappointed by the quality of what was online this morning, but I know there will be much better content down the line. Every Lockout remake that I've tried is OKAY, but not quite. The Beaver Creak knockoff I grabbed was horrible. The best forge map I've seen thus far is a big ramp. Yup. Most well constructed custom map is just a ramp. :P

Despite all the talk, legendary is still pretty easy to rush through on co-op. I guess there's really not much they can do about that.

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dcdelgado

Since 6866 Days

ok what the fuck the fucking elites are crazy good!! i'm getting fucking owned, i may have to come down from the Hard level :(

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TheBeagle

Since 6611 Days

Posted by GriftGFX

I need to replay the first three missions because I was accidentally on a different profile. Woops.

I tried some forge stuff this morning too. I was a little disappointed by the quality of what was online this morning, but I know there will be much better content down the line. Every Lockout remake that I've tried is OKAY, but not quite. The Beaver Creak knockoff I grabbed was horrible. The best forge map I've seen thus far is a big ramp. Yup. Most well constructed custom map is just a ramp. :P

Despite all the talk, legendary is still pretty easy to rush through on co-op. I guess there's really not much they can do about that.

One of the bungie forge maps (I forget the name) that keeps appearing in matchmaking team slayer reminds me a lot of lockout and it plays freakin great on team slayer pro. MP is god damn fun.

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Megido

Since 6331 Days

My favorite Halo map was always Hang em high, i want that :)

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blmbox

Since 6337 Days

I'm loving Boardwalk. Such a cool design, and it makes for plenty of close-quarters awesomeness.

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dcdelgado

Since 6866 Days

Holy crap thats me done for tonight!! hardest enimies ever but so much fun to fight, not had this much fun since blasting through Gears 2 :), bravo Bungie!!

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Viginti_Tres

Since 6508 Days

Posted by dcdelgado

ok what the fuck the fucking elites are crazy good!! i'm getting fucking owned, i may have to come down from the Hard level :(

Use Plasma Pistol and DMR. Only way to master Legendary.

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dcdelgado

Since 6866 Days

Posted by Viginti_Tres

Use Plasma Pistol and DMR. Only way to master Legendary.

I shall leave you and the big boys to Legendary, i'll stick with Heroic :).

Oh yeah and on the dashboard did anoyone else see the 12month live deal for £24 :)

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BLackHawkodst

Since 5893 Days

Posted by blmbox

The second mission was absolutely beautiful; one of the best I've experienced this gen in terms of visuals.

Right up there with the cave levels in Gears 2.

Got to agree, plus i have not had this much balls to wall action fun since Gears2 :), this game is so epic, goning to try some firefight tomorrow be for i carry on with SP :)

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Tinks

Since 6936 Days

My friend tells tale that if you beat the game on Legendary by yourself you get some unlocks otherwise not available. How about Legendary by yourself? Anyone ever done that in a Halo game?

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Jin187

Since 6750 Days

Posted by GriftGFX

I need to replay the first three missions because I was accidentally on a different profile. Woops.

I tried some forge stuff this morning too. I was a little disappointed by the quality of what was online this morning, but I know there will be much better content down the line. Every Lockout remake that I've tried is OKAY, but not quite. The Beaver Creak knockoff I grabbed was horrible. The best forge map I've seen thus far is a big ramp. Yup. Most well constructed custom map is just a ramp. :P

The Hang em high remake is almost perfect!

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Despite all the talk, legendary is still pretty easy to rush through on co-op. I guess there's really not much they can do about that.

That's what the skulls are for :) I'm playing it with two others with just the first skull on (Restart from checkpoint if any team member dies), its ridiculously difficult to get past some parts.

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roxwell

Since 6954 Days

Every one of them :)

I don't consider myself to be a good player mind, I'm just determined.

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TheBeagle

Since 6611 Days

Posted by roxwell

I'd install it straight away to save some time on the disc drive and it may just hang on.

Unfortunately installing it does not help. It still has to read the disc to play it off the HDD. I installed it anyway but yeah I still have to try a few times to get it working

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roxwell

Since 6954 Days

Could be a dirty laser lens?

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TheBeagle

Since 6611 Days

Could be...either way microsoft still charge 50 or 60 quid for a faulty dvd drive. I also have a broken ps3 which needs fixed..I have no luck with consoles.

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Megido

Since 6331 Days

Posted by TheBeagle

Could be...either way microsoft still charge 50 or 60 quid for a faulty dvd drive. I also have a broken ps3 which needs fixed..I have no luck with consoles.

If your PS3 got YLOD that's easy to fix, me and my friend actually opened his broken console and made it work again :)

As for the 360, i'm just waiting for mine to break down, giving me a reason to get a slim with a hard drive that is not the laughing stock of every USB flash drive out there :P

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roxwell

Since 6954 Days

Might be worth trying to give it a clean with a cotton bud and some alcohol on it.
Or you could just leave Reach in it and not switch the thing off.

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deftangel

Since 6874 Days

Would you believe it, Shop.to failed to get the game to me early and then last night my broadband went down because some tit went through the cables! Still I managed to get through mission six of the campaign, must have taken 5 hours or so all told on Heroic.

Thoughts, it looks great and I really enjoyed the last mission I played the one in space. Other than that, I'm a little bit unsure. I've not had my "The Ark" moment from Halo 3 yet. The characters don't really resonate with me. Jorge especially I find annoying. It was so obvious someone would have to stay on the Corvette that I didn't care and I especially didn't care it was him. I'm not completely sure I agree with this "Halo 1 feel" either, it's a lot like Halo 3 in places. That's not bad, as I enjoyed the middle levels of Halo 3 immensely.

What I was disappointed in however was the intro to Tip of the Spear. The cutscene where the armies are rushing each other got me pretty pumped, but it's a complete cocktease. The night mission too, isn't a patch on Truth and Reconciliation.

In short, I'm not sure what to make of the campaign yet so I might be coming across overly negative. One thing I will say though is that fighting Elites rock. I didn't hate the Brutes as much as most but they are more fun for sure.

Fortunately my broadband was fixed so I had a go on MP this morning and had a blast. Haemorrhage was great fun and I'm glad to see there is a BTB playlist. I actually quite enjoyed Spire too, which I was concerned about.

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Would you believe it, Shop.to failed to get the game to me early and then last night my broadband went down because some tit went through the cables! Still I managed to get through mission six of the campaign, must have taken 5 hours or so all told on Heroic.

Thoughts, it looks great and I really enjoyed the last mission I played [spoiler]the one in space[/spoiler]. Other than that, I'm a little bit unsure. I've not had my "The Ark" moment from Halo 3 yet. The characters don't really resonate with me. Jorge especially I find annoying. [spoiler]It was so obvious someone would have to stay on the Corvette that I didn't care and I especially didn't care it was him[/spoiler]. I'm not completely sure I agree with this "Halo 1 feel" either, it's a lot like Halo 3 in places. That's not bad, as I enjoyed the middle levels of Halo 3 immensely.

What I was disappointed in however was the [spoiler]intro to Tip of the Spear. The cutscene where the armies are rushing each other got me pretty pumped, but it's a complete cocktease[/spoiler]. The night mission too, isn't a patch on Truth and Reconciliation.

In short, I'm not sure what to make of the campaign yet so I might be coming across overly negative. One thing I will say though is that fighting Elites rock. I didn't hate the Brutes as much as most but they are more fun for sure.

Fortunately my broadband was fixed so I had a go on MP this morning and had a blast. Haemorrhage was great fun and I'm glad to see there is a BTB playlist. I actually quite enjoyed Spire too, which I was concerned about.

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GriftGFX

Since 7006 Days

There's definitely a distinct lack of epicness when it comes to the scale of encounters in the Reach campaign. I still enjoyed it enough though. I was pretty disappointed that they threw in some big teases, like the scarab that just wound up being decorations. There's nothing especially.. er.. special to me about this Halo campaign compared to any other Halo campaign, but it's pretty good. I do love the scenery! Some of the cut scenes are really enhanced by how awesome the damaged cities of Reach look :)

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IamLegend

Since 5862 Days

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Completed the game on legendary about three weeks back enjoyed it quite abit.Will be starting the mutiple player from coming saturday.Heads up there will a free xbox live gold weekend from 17sept to 19 have fun!

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deftangel

Since 6874 Days

Posted by GriftGFX

There's definitely a distinct lack of epicness when it comes to the scale of encounters in the Reach campaign. I still enjoyed it enough though. I was pretty disappointed that they threw in some big teases, like the scarab that just wound up being decorations. There's nothing especially.. er.. special to me about this Halo campaign compared to any other Halo campaign, but it's pretty good. I do love the scenery! Some of the cut scenes are really enhanced by how awesome the damaged cities of Reach look :)

Now that to me is a bit disappointing seeing as they were going on about having bigger environments and more AI on screen and their LOD system so to me that should translate into, well, epicness. I can't describe it accurately but I'm sure we're talking about the same thing. I'll try to reserve judgement until I've finished it and replayed the first few levels, could still be jetlagged for all I know. The GAF thread didn't offer up anything to reinforce my initial impressions it must be said and I'm unsure of them as it is.

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[quote=GriftGFX]There's definitely a distinct lack of epicness when it comes to the scale of encounters in the Reach campaign. I still enjoyed it enough though. I was pretty disappointed that they threw in some big teases, [spoiler]like the scarab[/spoiler] that just wound up being [i]decorations[/i]. There's nothing especially.. er.. special to me about this Halo campaign compared to any other Halo campaign, but it's pretty good. I do love the scenery! Some of the cut scenes are really enhanced by how awesome the damaged cities of Reach look :)[/quote]

Now that to me is a bit disappointing seeing as they were going on about having bigger environments and more AI on screen and their LOD system so to me that should translate into, well, [i]epicness[/i]. I can't describe it accurately but I'm sure we're talking about the same thing. I'll try to reserve judgement until I've finished it and replayed the first few levels, could still be jetlagged for all I know. The GAF thread didn't offer up anything to reinforce my initial impressions it must be said and I'm unsure of them as it is.

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