Played up to the Silent Cartographer level in Halo: Campaign Evolved and so far I'm having just as much fun on this as I have on any other version of the game, which is a lot, it's just really fun combat design. (We'll see what I think when the Flood arrive)
I still wish we got the original with this somehow, so far it feels like if Halo 1 was Halo 3-ified as noted in GVG's review, so I can only assume it upsets a few purists (I've already seen people using the new Sprint to just run past encounters) but I'll at least take a Halo 3 in Halo 1's body over playing Halo 4 or 5 again. But hey, I really liked Infinite's single player so maybe I'm an outlier again…
No online multiplayer is…kind of tragic though, I think I'm more bothered by it than I was now it's in my hands, I guess if I really want to Halo Infinite online is still alive and well?
I thought the combat for Chained Echoes was really fun and super engaging, I've heard people rag on SoS's combat as apparently relying on the special attack minigames too much and apparently not giving you anything new to play with, whereas CE at least had new mechanics like introducing mechs with a whole new combat mechanic.
…erm, I'm not trying to shill CE and shit on SoS or anything, I haven't played the latter (and probably never will) it's all just coming back to me. Although yes, story does kind of shit the bed and it can be a bit mean sometimes.
It got DLC too but I feel like I'm a bit too far removed from that setting at this point to go back. :thinking:
That's the general gist I've heard from everyone I've seen to complete it, sounds like Chained Echoes without any of the cool idea from that game, is that unfair?
Need to check the series out
Besides Kingdom Hearts, I can't think of another long running continuous narrative in gaming like this one, it's currently on 13 games. Not going to pretend it's like playing 13 (You favourite Final Fantasy here> in a row or anything, there's at least 2 games I love to criticise harshly but overall it's my favourite RPG series
Just come back from The Odyssey and despite really enjoying it at the time I came out and reflected on it and it's…okay/pretty good, I'm glad I watched it but I'm not sure I'd call it a masterpiece or anything. I watched it in an IMAX screening and…I guess I dont really have a comparison, maybe its completely butchered but IMAX seems like a con to me, definitely preferred having reclining seats on a normal screening over seeing all of Odysseus' helmet in shot.
Anyway, that brings me to my next point, I thought some scenes, particularly the dark ones, kinda hard to follow, Nolan still makes fight scenes bordering on incomprehensible so I cant say I enjoyed those parts as much as I'd like. And unless I'm deaf, the audio mixing for this film was atrocious, legit some scenes where I could barely hear what people were saying to the point it started to piss me off.
There are other scenes i really liked too but I dont want to say what they are because I went in blind and they surpassed me a bit, maybe they're in the trailers but I hadn't seen any so I don't know.
Alastor