Re: Halo 4

by dragoon9105 Tue Jul 31, 2012 12:00 pm

Gauz wrote:~~Well lets hope I'm wrong, because The Hobbit is going to be a trilogy and it would be a shame if it sucked~~. Troll failed? quick better change topic again

Translated!

by **Angatar** Tue Jul 31, 2012 1:07 pm

Gauz wrote:Well lets hope I'm wrong, because The Hobbit is going to be a trilogy and it would be a shame if it sucked.

by **Vigil** Tue Jul 31, 2012 2:37 pm

http://screenrant.com/hobbit-3-peter-jackson/

http://screenrant.com/hobbit-3-movie-trilogy/

So, apparently he is talking about something that is actually happening.

Not on topic though mind you.

by Arty Tue Jul 31, 2012 4:18 pm

How are they going to turn the Hobbit into 3 movies...?

by **Vigil** Tue Jul 31, 2012 5:21 pm

Arty wrote:How are they going to turn the Hobbit into 3 movies...?

By using a lot of the Middle Earth appendices stuff. Tolkien wrote a lot of backstory for Middle-Earth, some of which were made into books of their own.

Plenty of material for some movies.

by **KrAzY** Tue Jul 31, 2012 5:38 pm

plenty of material for some movies, none of which has anything to do with the hobbit story... unless they plan on spending egregious amounts of time with the camera not pointed at bilbo.

the hobbit covers less ground than I think could be stretched to 2 feature films... and since they are talking about re-conviening the actors to shoot a 3rd film, that means they plan on the 2nd movie wrapping up that story.

theres a reason many people can't get through the silmarillion or the appendacies of his work, they would have to dumb them down a lot.

anyways, i'm fairly certain there is a "the hobbit" thread in general discussion, that would be a better place for this

by Gauz Tue Jul 31, 2012 6:02 pm

I wasn't trying to troll... ever... once at all in this thread...

People stated their opinion on Halo, so I stated my own. I guess because it didn't match your opinions you felt that I was trolling right? (Just because I used "obscure" language doesn't mean I'm trolling, it means I'm using strong language to convey a strong position I have on a topic.)

Someone mentioned Episode 3 (not me dipshit) so I gave my opinion on it because they did too.

Civ got upset that had a foundationless argument, so I provided some reasoning making everything righty tighty. Then some other people gave some insight about Episode 3.

Now lets re-cap. We're on topic so far. We're talking about how Halo 4 might be bad because the clone wars didn't work after the original trilogy. I decide to wrap this slightly off-track discussion by saying "Lets hope I'm wrong (about trilogies after trilogies being terrible messes) because The Hobbit will be a trilogy (and no one wants to see another ruined franchise).

So no Dragoon, i'm not trolling or changing the subject.

by Gauz Tue Jul 31, 2012 7:46 pm

double-y post

To be honest, I look like a massive ponce in this thread. I'm being awfully pretentious and I just want to apologize for that.

by **Lord Pheonix** Tue Jul 31, 2012 8:03 pm

The Brokeback Mountain Avatar's not helping.

by Gauz Tue Jul 31, 2012 8:30 pm

Nope, probably not, but it's a little treasure I found on Tumblr!

I'll change it to a kitteh till I find something else.

by **Angatar** Tue Jul 31, 2012 8:54 pm

Gauz wrote:I wasn't trying to troll... ever... once at all in this thread...

I find this hard to believe. I knew there would be another Hobbit movie (woo facebook!), but how does that have anything to do with Star Wars? Or Halo 4?

by **KrAzY** Tue Jul 31, 2012 9:25 pm

gauz apologized, drop it

by Divine Virus Tue Jul 31, 2012 10:00 pm

^Indeed.

I wish to carry on the Halo 4 discussion, join me if you wish.

So now in CTF, you can use a pistol while carrying the flag. And in Oddball, you can now pass the ball to your teammates like a football . I find the passing of the oddball to be really cool and adds some more teamwork to an otherwised underplayed gametype. I may just play it more now with a feature like that.

by **Lord Pheonix** Tue Jul 31, 2012 10:21 pm

Addition of throwing the skull is quite nice.

by **KrAzY** Tue Jul 31, 2012 10:31 pm

this will actually make team oddball worth playing, good move.

the pistol with the flag is kinda meh, if you want to shoot with the flag its easiest to just drop it and shoot with a gun that actually does damage

by Gauz Tue Jul 31, 2012 10:34 pm

Angatar wrote:
Gauz wrote:I wasn't trying to troll... ever... once at all in this thread...
I find this hard to believe. I knew there would be another Hobbit movie (woo facebook!), but how does that have anything to do with Star Wars? Or Halo 4?

I thought it was relevant 'cos we were on the topic of trilogies.

On-topic:
Those are some unique ways to diversify strategy for Oddball, and I can see it being way more fun now with the passing mechanism.
can the flag carrier still instakill people with the flag mele attack though? (or does that even still instakill people? idk I thought it did)

by **Angatar** Tue Jul 31, 2012 10:52 pm

KrAzY wrote:gauz apologized, drop it

Did not see, will drop.

Underplayed gametypes I think are more the fault of the matchmaking. I still don't have You Ate All The Chips because Stockpile is only in SWAT and one other playlist, and SWAT players want to play SWAT, not Stockpile. I wish each gametype had it's own playlist, or be more equally represented. Like a flag playlist with CTF, Stockpile, Territories, etc. with more equal weights.

by dragoon9105 Tue Jul 31, 2012 10:58 pm

Squad objective gets a stockpile game running once and a while.

by **KrAzY** Tue Jul 31, 2012 11:07 pm

well, I still feel like the reason team-oddball was never played (or wanted to be played) was because it was all about one guy surviving in a corner while the rest of the team played slayer, not as much about teamwork.

I hope they come up with some other cool fixes for boring gametypes (though none come to mind ATM)

I hope they do something further with infection though. thats a fantastic gametype that they seem to ignore for the most-part. the original halo 3 haloween infection games were always the most fun things.

by Divine Virus Tue Jul 31, 2012 11:24 pm

The flag still insta-kills I think, but maybe not because you now will have a pistol? Not sure on that one. What I also want to know is if the ball can be intercepted by an opponent.

I actually really liked Stockpile. I personally it makes a comeback in Halo 4 with a few tweaks to make it more appealing. I agree too that Oddball in the past has been very boring with 1 guy holding the ball and camping somewhere just to instakill with the ball. If they can change that, It would be more likely to be played I think. Passing is a great first step.

I also agree with Krazy about Infection. Really fun gametype that deserves a spot again in matchmaking with added tweaks to further the mode. IDK what but if they are changing CTF and Oddball like they are, I'm sure 343 or even the community would come up with something good.

That's another thing I wanna see. Huge community support. Like gametypes and mas etc. Reach had the tools for this but it unfortunately did not come to fruition. I hope it does here. I miss playing Custom Games like we did in Halo 3.

by **Lord Pheonix** Tue Jul 31, 2012 11:27 pm

I haven't played Reach but watching the "Game Night" series on Roosterteeth it seems to me that the community support is at an all time high.

by Divine Virus Tue Jul 31, 2012 11:29 pm

Well, that may be true. I just didn't really feel like it was happening in Reach. I probably wasn't looking in the right places.

It also didn't help that not a lot of people on the friends list did not want to play Reach...

...Poor Reach.

by **CivBase** Wed Aug 01, 2012 12:57 am

Gauz wrote:double-y post

To be honest, I look like a massive ponce in this thread. I'm being awfully pretentious and I just want to apologize for that.

Sounds like you just had a bad week. Or an epiphany. Either way, I'm happy to see it's resolved. In fact, I'm happy to see something can actually be resolved in the internet to begin with.

KrAzY wrote:this will actually make team oddball worth playing, good move.

the pistol with the flag is kinda meh, if you want to shoot with the flag its easiest to just drop it and shoot with a gun that actually does damage

Yah, I agree with this. Maybe they upped the pickup/drop times, though.

by **Vigil** Wed Aug 01, 2012 2:37 am

It's an interesting idea, but the problem is those back assassinations rarely ever happen in normal play and I still think oddballl will be played exactly the same as it was in previous games.

Having the flag carrier have a pistol is helpful, but most flag carriers either jumped into a vehicle or they did the drop and grab with it, so they could shoot if they had to.

by Nocbl2 Wed Aug 01, 2012 11:04 am

But remember, drop and grab was removed in Reach.

Another unknown game mode is Territories. It's incredibly fun but everyone hates it for some reason.

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