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| Blame Microsoft's Men in Black? | |
| Posted By: kapowaz <halo.bungie.org@kapowaz.net> | Date: 9/21/09 7:03 p.m. |
In Response To: Re: Ars Technica pans ODST (Narcogen) : Maybe Bungie ought to send out special reviewer copies locked to Heroic or above. From reading between the lines in this and other reviews it seems that Microsoft has such a strict hold on the conditions in which reviewers get to play the game that running through the game is kind of a given. I'm pretty sure they did the same with Halo 3 (at least in the UK; I heard they rented out a hotel and then basically locked all the journalists in there for a mammoth overnight playthrough). It can't help. That all said, I don't think you can necessarily blame a reviewer for playing a game on normal and it being over too quickly. Die-hard Halo fans will almost certainly want to play a game on Heroic to begin with, but without prior experience there's no obvious reason why anybody else would go for a setting other than Normal. I don't think I've ever done that in any another game. Frankly I'm beginning to find arbitrary difficulty levels a bit of an anachronism nowadays, since many games auto-tune the difficulty according to the skill of the player. Perhaps we'll see that happen in a future Halo game too?
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| Ars Technica pans ODST | Jordan117 | 9/21/09 12:36 a.m. |
| Re: Ars Technica pans ODST | PsychoRaven | 9/21/09 12:42 a.m. |
| Re: Ars Technica pans ODST | Hedgemony | 9/21/09 12:47 a.m. |
| SPOILER (not really) | Lord Osiris | 9/21/09 1:03 a.m. |
| Re: I'm right there with you *NM* | Hedgemony | 9/21/09 1:07 a.m. |
| Re: Ars Technica pans ODST | Cody Miller | 9/21/09 2:11 a.m. |
| Re: Ars Technica pans ODST | PsychoRaven | 9/21/09 2:56 a.m. |
| Re: Ars Technica pans ODST whoa, whoa | Hedgemony | 9/21/09 3:03 a.m. |
| You're right | PsychoRaven | 9/21/09 3:07 a.m. |
| Ugh I'm calling it. | PsychoRaven | 9/21/09 3:09 a.m. |
| Re: Ugh I'm calling it. | Hedgemony | 9/21/09 4:56 a.m. |
| Sorry about the angry reply | PsychoRaven | 9/21/09 3:05 a.m. |
| Re: Ars Technica pans ODST | Narcogen | 9/21/09 5:03 a.m. |
| Re: Ever the voice of reason, Narcogen | Hedgemony | 9/21/09 5:50 a.m. |
| Re: Ars Technica pans ODST | Blackstar | 9/21/09 5:52 a.m. |
| Stacker. | Narcogen | 9/22/09 2:55 a.m. |
| Re: Ars Technica pans ODST | rolandk73 | 9/21/09 6:20 a.m. |
| Re: Ars Technica pans ODST | PsychoRaven | 9/21/09 11:01 a.m. |
| Re: Ars Technica pans ODST | Cody Miller | 9/21/09 12:18 p.m. |
| Blame Microsoft's Men in Black? | kapowaz | 9/21/09 7:03 p.m. |
| Saxaphone trouble | Rockslider | 9/21/09 7:53 p.m. |
| Re: Saxaphone trouble | Narcogen | 9/22/09 3:00 a.m. |
| I hope I'm not the first to say this... | stan | 9/22/09 10:33 p.m. |
| The only thing I don't like about it... | Jordan117 | 9/22/09 10:50 p.m. |
| Re: I hope I'm not the first to say this... | Ibeechu | 9/23/09 9:27 p.m. |
| Re: Saxaphone trouble | FyreWulff | 9/23/09 12:16 p.m. |
| Re: Saxaphone trouble | Louis Wu | 9/23/09 12:25 p.m. |
| Re: Saxaphone trouble | Narcogen | 9/23/09 11:50 p.m. |
| Re: Saxaphone trouble | FyreWulff | 9/24/09 12:56 a.m. |
| Re: Saxaphone trouble | Narcogen | 9/24/09 2:05 a.m. |
| Re: Saxaphone trouble | Rockslider | 9/23/09 5:13 p.m. |
| Re: Saxaphone trouble | Bry | 9/23/09 5:40 p.m. |
| Re: Saxaphone trouble | Narcogen | 9/23/09 11:51 p.m. |
| Re: Saxaphone trouble | Anton P. Nym (aka Steve) | 9/25/09 11:08 a.m. |
| Re: Saxaphone trouble | Rockslider | 9/26/09 7:00 a.m. |
| Re: Ars Technica pans ODST | Ragashingo | 9/21/09 12:51 a.m. |
| Re: Ars Technica pans ODST | electrojew | 9/21/09 2:13 a.m. |
| How odd... | Anton P. Nym (aka Steve) | 9/21/09 10:51 a.m. |
| Re: How odd... | DogCow | 9/22/09 10:38 a.m. |
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