@jdc6305 Next gen consoles aren't that much more powerful than last gen, but there's definitely a noticeable step up from 360 in this case. Not sure what you're expecting.
The original gameboy? Now that's an exaggeration. Once again, games like Torchlight, and Borderlands are as visually appealing to me as whatever ridiculous high end stuff you're thinking up. Halo 4 is more fun than Battlefield, and Crysis, and any of those aother "better" looking games. There's such a thing of artistic direction over raw graphics. As much as I hated the game, Diablo 3 looked great, because it had a cool art style. If Master Chief barked, I don't see how that's out of character, since he has none. About Cortana, when something like that is driving you crazy you don't just tough it out that's why people with dementia or dying from other extreme circumstances hit a point where they aren't the person they used to be, insanity isn't nice like that man. She can't tough it out because she's going crazy. She isn't a damsel? My ass she isn't. Halo 3, the whole game Cortana pops in on your visor all slumped over and weak looking, basically crying. You lose her for a good chunk of Halo 2, she's the very definition of a damsel in those games. In Halo 4, she's with you most of the time, and she's like a terminally ill person. Seeing war doesn't effect her because she is an AI, why would it? Why not give a real criticism for the game? So far nothing you've said really explains anything. What about the gameplay, in the campaign differs from the other Halos? One level was a lot like Star Wars, but hey? It's a SciFi space game, that's bound to happen, we can't drive out of the Pillar of Autumn at the end of every game. And yes, you do have to always upgrade your hardware. 360, outdated or not, I never had to update the hardware, owning a PC in that 8 year span, I'm sure people have upgraded their hardware at least 3 to 5 times, if you wanna stay on top.
@jpnelson82 @Master_Vexov I like PC as much as the next guy, but I've gotta say as a Halo fan since the start, I don't get anything of your criticisms. Halo 4 didn't feel any less like a Halo game. It was miles ahead of Reach which did feel like a CoD clone. Guess what? Master Chief is a hard ass Marine dude. He's been in the Spartan program since infancy against his will. He didn't act any differently than he usually does. Cortana has dementia more or less which isn't being "emo". I agree with the above comment about console reliability, and I don't understand why graphics have to look better. I still play a lot of PS2 games and some of them still look beautiful. The writers were mostly the same, because half of Bungie stayed behind to work on it. I've loved the Halo series and I'll admit the stories aren't that amazing. Halo 4 is so much like it's predecessors in the way that the story doesn't really make much sense unless you're paying a lot of attention to it, but it doesn't matter because the gameplay/experience takes over. I do miss the old music, but the new music seemed pretty solid, plus they didn't resort to any dub step BS. The melee was fine, better than Reach as that felt slightly locked on. They also improved the aiming over Reach, which felt wrong when I went back to play it. Graphics mean nothing unless they can produce really good fluid gameplay. Crysis 2 has horrible gameplay, but amazing graphics.
I think I read they're actually fixing the fighting and maybe even making it somewhat like the first 2. They said they were adding in more spells and weapons upgrading systems. I think I might have even read somewhere that they're taking out some of the button context stuff and making it focus more on the actual fighting. Also I noticed there was a monster in the video, wasn't that a fiend?
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