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Re: Questions: a (sort of) review of Halo 4
Posted By: General Vagueness <General.Vagueness@gmail.com>	Date: 1/11/13 11:18 p.m.
In Response To: Re: Questions: a (sort of) review of Halo 4 (uberfoop) : Clearly, Halo 4 is not just a story about the relationship between the chief : and cortana, and the Didact's personality quirks. It is also a story about : Lasky's mutiny attempts and eventual success to become captain of the UNSC : Infinity. hmm... : About the vibrantness: : This is usually a great thing, but when you have stuff like Forerunner where : you have overall dark imagery with a bunch of whacky glaring patterns : thrown in, it can be rather eye-burning. I'll take your word for it. : Image quality at lower resolutions: I got that part. : I think it's an entirely likely possibility that they simply didn't want to : allocate the 360's resources to handling sentinel beams. : Less to render on the map, the game doesn't have to be able to load a HUD : model for another weapon on the fly (probably means freeing up more RAM), : less physics to do with objects bouncing around the map... : In general, Halo 4 is extremely picky about this stuff. It's why the : Promethean enemies don't leave much behind when they die, and why their : guns cause bodies to dissapear, and why vehicles dissapear so quickly : after blowing up, and why the Lich exploding was so comically underwelling : compared to Halo 3's scarabs, and why weapons vanish quickly after being : dropped. yeah, maybe... :/ : No it doesn't. Especially not when you're gunning for a cohesive style with : intentional flow throughout the game (which has always been the case with : Halo). Again, I don't care. I'd prefer quality over quantity, consistency, cohesion, flow, and a lot of other things. They could just alternate between the Halo theme and a song from Halo or Halo 2 or ODST and I'd be monumentally more happy with the music than I am (yes, I would be disappointed they just used old music, very disappointed in fact, and I'd still like it better than this). : Oh, that. Uh... I guess they figured they needed to make up for the bullet : sponges and low ammo capacity. Which I suppose calls to question why they : have bullet sponges and low ammo capacity in the first place. Whatever. I don't where you're coming from with and the low ammo capacity comment for Forerunner weapons. Anyway it's those and the fact weapons disappear so fast. Actually that reminds me, I noticed something weird and I did some testing (not extremely thorough but I think it was enough) and apparently if you take any weapon that was placed on the ground as part of a level, if you use up its ammo, pass through a loading zone, and then re-enter the area, it'll respawn, complete with ammo, and this works with certain weapons placed in crates too. Between that, the fast weapon disappearance, and Spartan Ops, it kind of seems like someone reverse-engineered campaign-style spawning from previous multiplayer spawning. : It makes all the difference in the world. Crazy rough explaination ahead. : [snip] I've read about electronics and worked with low-level things somewhat, and I know a decent amount about logic gates, but I didn't know that.

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Questions: a (sort of) review of Halo 4	General Vagueness	1/9/13 9:24 p.m.
This is the epitome of nitpicking.	zoojoo	1/9/13 9:57 p.m.
It's like you've never met GV before =P *NM*	Lurono	1/9/13 11:52 p.m.
Agreed.	Ragashingo	1/9/13 11:59 p.m.
Honestly...	SonGoharotto	1/10/13 12:09 a.m.
Re: This is the epitome of nitpicking.	General Vagueness	1/10/13 12:53 p.m.
ITS OK.....	zoojoo	1/10/13 2:00 p.m.
Re: Questions: a (sort of) review of Halo 4	Avateur	1/9/13 10:12 p.m.
Re: Questions: a (sort of) review of Halo 4	General Vagueness	1/10/13 2:08 p.m.
Re: Questions: a (sort of) review of Halo 4	uberfoop	1/10/13 4:06 p.m.
Re: Questions: a (sort of) review of Halo 4	General Vagueness	1/11/13 7:20 p.m.
Re: Questions: a (sort of) review of Halo 4	uberfoop	1/11/13 7:35 p.m.
Re: Questions: a (sort of) review of Halo 4	uberfoop	1/9/13 10:32 p.m.
Re: Questions: a (sort of) review of Halo 4	General Vagueness	1/11/13 12:07 a.m.
Re: Questions: a (sort of) review of Halo 4	uberfoop	1/11/13 1:40 a.m.
Oops.	uberfoop	1/11/13 1:42 a.m.
Re: Questions: a (sort of) review of Halo 4	General Vagueness	1/11/13 11:18 p.m.
Re: Questions: a (sort of) review of Halo 4	General Vagueness	1/11/13 11:34 p.m.
Selected Sarcastic Responses	RC Master	1/10/13 11:34 a.m.
Re: Selected Sarcastic Responses	General Vagueness	1/11/13 5:56 p.m.
Re: Selected Sarcastic Responses	RC Master	1/12/13 9:03 a.m.
Re: Selected Sarcastic Responses	General Vagueness	1/12/13 12:11 p.m.
Re: Questions: a (sort of) review of Halo 4	scarab	1/10/13 12:35 p.m.
Re: Questions: a (sort of) review of Halo 4	General Vagueness	1/11/13 6:21 p.m.
Re: Questions: a (sort of) review of Halo 4	uberfoop	1/11/13 6:44 p.m.
Re: Questions: a (sort of) review of Halo 4	scarab	1/12/13 3:41 a.m.
Re: Questions: a (sort of) review of Halo 4	Quirel	1/10/13 7:55 p.m.
Re: Questions: a (sort of) review of Halo 4	snakegriffin	1/10/13 9:48 p.m.
Re: Questions: a (sort of) review of Halo 4	thebruce0	1/11/13 9:11 a.m.
Re: Questions: a (sort of) review of Halo 4	General Vagueness	1/11/13 7:50 p.m.
Re: Questions: a (sort of) review of Halo 4	Quirel	1/12/13 8:09 p.m.
Re: Questions: a (sort of) review of Halo 4	General Vagueness	1/12/13 8:19 p.m.
Re: Questions: a (sort of) review of Halo 4	Quirel	1/13/13 6:31 p.m.
Re: Questions: a (sort of) review of Halo 4	General Vagueness	1/13/13 7:08 p.m.