Halo 4 review

[EvilBoris]

You have to have the choice as to whether you want to be gay or not.

[MisterBubbles]

Is being gay a choice, i thought you just knew or didn't, guess it would be controversial making a gay character as the lead.

[EvilBoris]

Is being gay a choice

[EvilBoris]

Anybody keeping up with Spartan Ops?
The trailer for this weeks one makes it look like it's about to get crazy.

I'm well impressed with the story being drop fed to us, but it's a shame that the actual levels are a bit meh so far.

[MisterBubbles]

Ive played the first few chapters in the new episode , but i tell you the problem, infinite lives, just makes it pretty boring, as said before in this thread, make it 10 lives max each and be able to fail the chapter, and having a scoring mechanism and leaderboards would spice it up nicely.

[nonny]

Anybody keeping up with Spartan Ops?
The trailer for this weeks one makes it look like it's about to get crazy.

I'm well impressed with the story being drop fed to us, but it's a shame that the actual levels are a bit meh so far.

Yep the story is actually decent, the re-visiting of locales for chapters isnt.

[EvilBoris]

Definitely, they've let themselves down with that.

Tonight's one was the best so far I think, those ones on Ragnorok were a bit insane with so many enemies. Seeing 10 Elites chase you team mate around the map is pretty funny

[BaronSqwelch]

I got the Hunter challenge in about 5 minutes
On legendary it gets daft at times...I managed to die 20+ a level....also had a glitch on thelast one so had to do it twice. A jackal somehow managed to glitch into the cliff!

Shame there was no specific achievement for Ep3 (or 4 for that matter) I had great fun parking a ghost in the tunnel to save a marine in Ep2!

[nonny]

I've only played all of episode I in Spartan Ops and currently only on normal difficulty... I'm waiting for a couple of mates to get onboard with this before we really hit it hard and I think given the weekly release schedule its nice to have a backlog of content to play on.

I wish they'd hurry up actually (my mates) excepto most of them dont want to try Spartan Ops before finishing the campaign in case it spoils anything. So far nothing I've seen has as yet? I've watched the trailers for all three so far but as I said, not played them through. I take it there is nothing massively spoilerific in it?

[BaronSqwelch]

I dont think there is...maybe something in the intro to the first? TBH I normally have a pissed up brummy/geordie/aussie shouting in my ear and the sound down low so may have missed most of the story!!

[EvilBoris]

There is nothing spoilery at all

[Riskbreaker]

I'm enjoying Spartan Ops but for my money it needs the following:

-Legendary Matchmaking
-Scoring
-Skulls
-Set Lives (adjustable by difficulty and or skulls)

It also needs more set pieces, having Crimson doing the kind of stuff 4 players should be walking away from feeling awesome. Episode 3 Chapter 4 actually did a pretty good job of that

->Open Spoiler<-

with everyone stomping around in Mantis' blasting Covenant from the sky as a carrier visibly closes in.

Game needs more of that, I thinking adding lives has the potential to accomplish some of this as knowing you may have to replay a chapter through repeat deaths would add a sense of urgency. In fact, I'd almost be tempted to have it single death and out

[Uli]

scoring? what do you mean?

i just miss a real challenge other than patience to basically sit a mission through. limited lifes? maybe.

[jimtendo]

You know, scoring. The thing arcade games have. Points based thing. You might not have heard of it.

Otherwise Spartan Ops has been a one and done affair with me.

[Riskbreaker]

scoring? what do you mean?

i just miss a real challenge other than patience to basically sit a mission through. limited lifes? maybe.

Same as Firefight used to have buddy. Points assigned for kills, headshots, time spent in the mission, difficulty etc. Just elements that could make it a bit competitive in addition to cooperative so that it has more replay value. Doesn't have to be on by default, they could have a skull to turn it on.