Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn

[Teylar Ta Palulukankelku]

I haven't seen a thread here about this game yet (Pelun  ) so i thought i'd create one myself  .

Personally i think it's got the best campaign since at least the first Halo trilogy. Still a bit skeptical to the new multiplayer but i think i can get used to it. Plus, Spartan Ops is pretty fun.

So what do aynga think of this game  Please, share  !

[Mako]

Gotta say, I was very impressed with the game overall. And I kick kxetse in the MP.

[Teylar Ta Palulukankelku]

About the MP: Do you think it's become more and more like the COD games, with the ``Create-A-Class´´-system and all  ? 'Cus to me it started a bit in Halo: Reach and it's continued down that road a bit further on Halo 4. And now it's got Spartan Ops as well, which is quite similar to the COD: Modern Warfare games' Special Ops. Not that i think this ``COD-ification´´ is a bad thing (I actually think that in some regard Halo makes better COD multiplayer than COD itself, if you catch my drift.), i just think that there's quite the possibility that 343 Industries took some inspiration from COD when they made Halo 4  .

[Mako]

I'd be a fool if I said there wasn't any resemblance, however I think that 343i took and improved the class system in ways CoD developers haven't even imagined yet. And I would also propose that Spartan Ops is absolutely nothing like Spec Ops in MW2 and 3. Weekly campaign missions vs. arcade mode missions. There's no comparison. I'm highly impressed with the way the ranking system affects the class system and vice versa (wait until you start to specialize in other areas besides Spartan-IV and you'll see what I mean).

[Teylar Ta Palulukankelku]

And I would also propose that Spartan Ops is absolutely nothing like Spec Ops in MW2 and 3. Weekly campaign missions vs. arcade mode missions. There's no comparison.

I'm not saying they're identical or anything, it's just that i see the resemblance in the concepts of the respective game modes themselves, like the resemblance in the COD and Halo 4 ``Create-A-Class´´-system  .

BTW: Do you think...

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... That Cortana's really gone  ? Because i have a hard time imagining the Halo games with Master Chief continuing without her. I just don't see how that'd work  .

[Mako]

No I do not. I think that...

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...she's been uploaded to the Forerunner Domain (basically cloud storage for all of their networks). The fact that you can still hear her after she is out of your suit is proof of this, because John can hear the Didact speaking through the Domain in earlier parts of the game. I also think that she was able to pass through the final stage of rampancy into metastability as a result of ejecting her rampant parts into the core like she did in the last mission.

It's all very open for interpretation though, which is pretty awesome. They wrapped up the ending of Bungie's Halo 3 nicely and set the plane wide open for future games.

[Teylar Ta Palulukankelku]

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Yeah, i'd like to think that, too  . And your theory kinda makes sense; Shes shattered, but still out there somewhere. I actually felt a bit like crying when she said goodbye to Master Chief. It was quite painful to watch  .

[Teylar Ta Palulukankelku]

Let's talk some MP  ! What do aynga think about it  ? I still think Reach's MP is better (My favorite MP in any game, in fact.) and i'm quite unused to all of the news things in the Halo 4 MP. But then again; I felt the same way about the Reach MP when i first started playing it  .