If drew was using the tranq pistol instead of the shitty horrible oh my god please stop because it sucks so bad stun smg he'd have been able to sleep that guy silently then done the same to the other. Zero risk, maximum efficiency.
Damn you dan for making drew play with such an inferior awful loud, stupid, weapon. lol But then maybe I'm more just annoyed it encourages a less stealthy play style which I guess has never been drews thing ah well.
EDIT: They keep saying about the intro cutscene, "Man, this is cool." All I can think is, "Man, this is anime."
Also, I wonder how Bungie feels about 343 retconning this much? Bungie: "Spartans have to be engineered from birth." 343: "Oh, Buck? Yeah, he became a Spartan in about three years, no problem." And that's just the tip of the iceberg. I don't think the Halo lore is some amazing thing, but I did really enjoy the premise. But they've gone so far off the rails; the early books added so much absurd tripe, and they've just built on it since.
Let me put it this way: The manual for Halo: CE says, in a very space opera-ey way, that Master Chief is "the last SPARTAN-II." Now? We got high flyin', fist pumpin' Spartans for days. "Master Chief Petty Officer First Class?" Psh, this is the military, kid, call them by their names. Remember how cool Captain Jacob Keyes and Cortana were? Well, now we've decided that Keyes hooked up with Halsey, the lady who created the Spartan program and who Cortana's mind is based on! So, since Halsey is your mother (literally, George calls her mom in Halo: Reach) and Cortana is a memory imprint of her, you're basically lightly flirting with your mom for three games. Also, a close friend and co-worker, Sergeant Johnson has a thing for Miranda Keyes, the daughter of Halsey and Jacob. So your mom/AI is in your head while your co-worker tries to date your half sister. This is less space opera and more soap opera.
This just in, Halo fiction sucks you guys. Because it was totally flawless shakespear before.
Personally I am 100% for them embracing more and more stupid, why not get as dumb as possible with this kind of stuff. It's literally a franchise built around the idea of toy space soldiers and goofy colorful aliens smacking each other with 80s-kids-cartoon lasers n shit. It's never been respectable or well thought out, its just a bunch of dumb sci-fi tropes and adolescent male power fantasy silliness like any other game series. The whole fiction of it all is one big joke and its amazingly funny to see how intensely serious some people get about it when its always been so dumb.
I kinda love how seemingly dumb and inaccurate this looks like its gonna be. Its basically a goofy comic book version of english history and I can get way behind that.
Of course that's if this one doesn't have the insanely terrible performance and tsunami of game killing bugs the last one had.
Wow is that stun machine gun lame as fuck, drew should stick to the far far more effective tranq pistol. What was dan thinking with that thing, its the worst.
Beat it today. Short, only about 5 hours or so but damn was it a boat load of fun and because its platinum very replayable, some fun challenges etc.
Also Jeff is completely wrong about the PC version. Mine ran at a wonderful 60+ fps and scaled to the full res of my monitor, had various settings etc and runs beautifully maxed out on an older machine.
I love everything this game is doing, especially the dark subject matter but man does the adventure game old school puzzle crap turn me way way off. I hate hunting for items and doing all that backtracking tedious bs. Real shame they had to bog down such amazing presentation with that kinda stuff.
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