Author: madtown
Date: Sep 17, 07 8:02pm (PT)
Subject: General Discussion XII :: CoD4 + Halo 3
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Mom... the cat shredded my sack. ;O;
Author: Silent Storm
Date: Sep 17, 07 8:05pm (PT)
Subject: re: General Discussion XII :: CoD4 + Halo 3
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Wow. I have nothing else to say.
Except that it was funny how noone caught what Excal was trying to say.
Author: Verdant_Abyss
Date: Sep 18, 07 2:06am (PT)
Subject: re: General Discussion XII :: CoD4 + Halo 3
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I'd promised Incidnia a quick review on Stranglehold, so I'll start with the multiplayer facet. Tomorrow I'll do the single-player.
Stranglehold's multiplayer is... ugh. It's just ugh.
For starters, the damage from the weapons is infuriatingly inconsistent. I shot someone 7 TIMES in the stomach, close-range, with the shotgun, and he still didn't die, but somehow managed to kill me with his assault rifle. However, another time it only took a few shots to the stomach to kill someone with it.
It's also extremely glitchy. Sometimes you respawn with no weapons and sometimes you respawn WITH weapons. I threw a grenade and nothing came out of my character's hand, he just performed the motion (leading me to believe that he hadn't actually thrown anything) but a few seconds later the game told me that I had committed suicide, despite the fact that my 'death' was devoid of any explosion! I just fell to the floor as if I'd been sniped in the head.
In addition, you can't use Tequila Time in multiplayer. The only time you can slow others down is when you're using a Spin Attack, which takes several Origami Cranes to gather the necessary energy, but by the time you've found the third one in the map you're most likely dead.
Although you can use all of the 'interaction' things (i.e sliding down banisters, shooting out from behind walls etc.) from the single-player campaign, as the maps you play on in Multiplayer are the same ones in single-player, they're pretty much useless. When you're trying to swing across the room by grabbing a chandelier, you'll only grab onto it 50% of the time, so usually you'll end up flat on your face, lying on the ground.
The Golden Pistol is also useless in multiplayer. It took 6-8 shots to kill someone with it.
So, in conclusion, the single-player is great (I'll be starting it again on Hard mode when I get back from Sixth Form) but the Multiplayer is terrible.
This message was edited by Verdant_Abyss on Sep 18 2007.
Author: Incidnia
Date: Sep 18, 07 3:49am (PT)
Subject: re: General Discussion XII :: CoD4 + Halo 3
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I told you the multiplayer was supposed to be meh.
And the single player is supposed to be very, very short but good. Kinda like Gears. Pfft, I won't get it anyway.
And Verdant. Get on AIM tonight. I need to ask some stuff about the co-op 4 player.
Author: Woudo
Date: Sep 18, 07 3:50am (PT)
Subject: re: General Discussion XII :: CoD4 + Halo 3
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Lol... AIM...
Author: Tengu
Date: Sep 18, 07 4:20am (PT)
Subject: re: General Discussion XII :: CoD4 + Halo 3
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Sexy banner Cid.
I reached Rank 16 in the CoD4 Beta in two days which is roughly about6 hours or so of playing time, if not less. I really really like it, but did anyone else experience hat downloading game settings shit yesterday ?
That had me so annoyed. I'd just downloaded the Beta and got that. It's not British lag, Fyi because I wasn't able to walk, shoot or aim straight in any of the matches we were in.
*Sigh* 7 days until Halo. I can't bare this any more, the wait's killing me.
Author: Circuit
Date: Sep 18, 07 4:23am (PT)
Subject: re: General Discussion XII :: CoD4 + Halo 3
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Speaking of Halo 3, turns out the ending was leaked on youtube.
One of my faggot ass friends sent a message to all of his friends telling us the ending. He was off my list and got a file complaint in less than 30 seconds.
Author: Woudo
Date: Sep 18, 07 4:35am (PT)
Subject: re: General Discussion XII :: CoD4 + Halo 3
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quote CircuitDont you hate that?? You'd think some people would be smart enough to say "Message me if you want to know the ending to Halo 3" instead of including it's entireity in their message.Speaking of Halo 3, turns out the ending was leaked on youtube.
One of my faggot ass friends sent a message to all of his friends telling us the ending. He was off my list and got a file complaint in less than 30 seconds.
I swear, some people fail at logic.
Besides, I already know the ending. It turns out that Master Chief is the reincarnation of Jesus and wants to kill all the Covenant for not believing in Christianity.
Author: Incidnia
Date: Sep 18, 07 4:45am (PT)
Subject: re: General Discussion XII :: CoD4 + Halo 3
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Did you READ the ending Circuit?
My friend was a prick. He decided to play the ending of BioShock on YouTube and told me something about it. I still haven't beat BioShock yet, mainly because I haven't played it much. That's the ultimate pain in the ass. Someone who hasn't even played a game tries to ruin the ending for you.
Author: Tengu
Date: Sep 18, 07 4:45am (PT)
Subject: re: General Discussion XII :: CoD4 + Halo 3
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So you already know the ending, Chief ?
Shit, that sucks. I'd have just got him perma banned from Live or soemthing because that is like the worst thing to happen around this time.
Author: Incidnia
Date: Sep 18, 07 4:49am (PT)
Subject: re: General Discussion XII :: CoD4 + Halo 3
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Cheif*
Author: Woudo
Date: Sep 18, 07 4:52am (PT)
Subject: re: General Discussion XII :: CoD4 + Halo 3
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10 minutes and $10 later it will be Chef Aramaki.
"Damn It!"
Author: Tengu
Date: Sep 18, 07 4:54am (PT)
Subject: re: General Discussion XII :: CoD4 + Halo 3
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I was kind of trying to avoid that debate. Ah well.
Shell Engel was cbetter imo but w/e.
Cid, you getting Halo 3 upon release ?
I think we're doing clan custom matches to play the maps and find out where all the power weapons are to make ranked easier. That, and I want to drive the Elephant. <<
Author: Incidnia
Date: Sep 18, 07 5:04am (PT)
Subject: re: General Discussion XII :: CoD4 + Halo 3
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Preordered my Collectors Edition copy about 2 weeks ago so it should be here by the time I get home from school on the 6th. Most people say they aren't touching Online until they play the campaign but for me it's the other way round. So hell yeah I'm up for some orientation, might need a few minutes to edit all of the options and make my character etc.
Author: Tengu
Date: Sep 18, 07 5:06am (PT)
Subject: re: General Discussion XII :: CoD4 + Halo 3
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Awesome.
A word of advice though, please, for me play Online with your headset out. There is goin to be some shit who's bent on ruining the game, there always is. I'm not doing online until I've done the Campaign so no one can ruin the plot for me.