Zero Punctuation: Halo: Reach

[Niccolo]

And my day is made. I can't quite believe he didn't blast the Mjolnir-plated testicles off of the game, but hey.

But the true entertainment comes from the highly amusing arguments that lie within the comments section...

 

[JJAB91]

Well I'll be damned, he wasn't the only one who noticed it was Halo 3 with Jetpacks XD

Either way well done Yahtzee, you seemed to have said alot what I was thinking about this god awful game ¬_¬

However I will say the ending was a bit gripping, but that's like saying the last 10 mins in superbad make up for the crapfest

How is it awful? It's anything but.

I love how this entire thread is composed of people hating on Halo simply because its Halo. I doubt the majority here has even played a Halo game. Is it milked somewhat? Yeah but everything is nowadays, I mean look at your precious Half Life or Call of Duty or other games. Halo is popular FOR A REASON.

 

[Phototoxin]

Yay! Gay-lo Reach-around !

Seriouly its just another FPS... they all were ... big deal why?

 

[Little Duck]

So how is fun space game the game coming along?

Also I wonder who will develop the next halo.

 

[Madara XIII]

Well I'll be damned, he wasn't the only one who noticed it was Halo 3 with Jetpacks XD

Either way well done Yahtzee, you seemed to have said alot what I was thinking about this god awful game ¬_¬

However I will say the ending was a bit gripping, but that's like saying the last 10 mins in superbad make up for the crapfest

How is it awful? It's anything but.

I love how this entire thread is composed of people hating on Halo simply because its Halo. I doubt the majority here has even played a Halo game. Is it milked somewhat? Yeah but everything is nowadays, I mean look at your precious Half Life or Call of Duty or other games. Halo is popular FOR A REASON.

I played Halo Reach and I'll out right say it, Halo 2 was better than them all.

Yahtzee adressed it best and It can't be expressed enough. Halo Suffers from SOS(Same Old Shit) syndrome. The same Syndrome every Madden game or New Call of Duty suffers. Nothing drastically changes (Or Impressivly for that matter) and what few changes they do add, they take away from an older previous category that alot of people liked (IE using 2 Needlers).

So yeah...Halo:Reach dissapointed ME (Not the majority, just me), and the weapons...The only thing worthy of noting was the Goddamn Golfclub, that provided some entertainment.

 

[JJAB91]

Well I'll be damned, he wasn't the only one who noticed it was Halo 3 with Jetpacks XD

Either way well done Yahtzee, you seemed to have said alot what I was thinking about this god awful game ¬_¬

However I will say the ending was a bit gripping, but that's like saying the last 10 mins in superbad make up for the crapfest

How is it awful? It's anything but.

I love how this entire thread is composed of people hating on Halo simply because its Halo. I doubt the majority here has even played a Halo game. Is it milked somewhat? Yeah but everything is nowadays, I mean look at your precious Half Life or Call of Duty or other games. Halo is popular FOR A REASON.

I played Halo Reach and I'll out right say it, Halo 2 was better than them all.

Yahtzee adressed it best and It can't be expressed enough. Halo Suffers from SOS(Same Old Shit) syndrome. The same Syndrome every Madden game or New Call of Duty suffers. Nothing drastically changes (Or Impressivly for that matter) and what few changes they do add, they take away from an older previous category that alot of people liked (IE using 2 Needlers).

So yeah...Halo:Reach dissapointed ME (Not the majority, just me), and the weapons...The only thing worthy of noting was the Goddamn Golfclub, that provided some entertainment.

Well...sorry to say this but...the golf club was in Halo 3. The thing is everyone expects it completely different than the other Halo games. Its part of a series of course it is going to be similar to the previous games. You see the same type of thing in some of the best games of all time ala Zelda etc.

 

[midget_roxx]

I can't wait till he reviews games like Bf1942 and Red Orchestra on the single player. He really needs to look at games with multiplayer (not on consoles). I know he's said numerous times that single player should hold up, so does that mean games such as WoW or Eve should do the same?

 

[squiggothhunter]

Did anyone else notice he assumed reach was the first contact with the covenant? They knew what to do because they had been fighting a losing war for a good while then. Other then that yes good review as always makes me laugh.

I love the game and I love the multiplayer. Of course if I sucked at multiplayer I would hate it to. The campaign wasn't super long or anything, but lots of people play Halo for the multiplayer and forge and firefight and custom games so instead of a main goal its more like a top 3 kinda thing.

 

[Zydrate]

I still think he left out a lot. Considering how much he enjoyed the customization options in Saints Row 2, you would think he would have given credit for the fully customizable player model that was represented in campaign.

However, customization wasn't nearly THAT advanced.
And you needed to grind credits. And seeing as how he usually only has a week to play this stuff, he probably went with some of the cheap, bare-minimum stuff.

 

[JJAB91]

I can't wait till he reviews games like Bf1942 and Red Orchestra on the single player. He really needs to look at games with multiplayer (not on consoles). I know he's said numerous times that single player should hold up, so does that mean games such as WoW or Eve should do the same?

EXACTLY, by skipping over multiplayer, firefight, forge and theater he is skipping over 3/4th the game. Not to mention he said the game manages to stand up with singleplayer alone I think he would enjoy the game in its entirety.

 

[13lackfriday]

I heard "Scrotum Monster" and lawl'd hard.

I agree that Halo could have done a lot more in the way of the titular "Evolving," but it had a formula that worked well enough and I was sold on the universe from the start, so it's a definite buy for me.

 

[SageRuffin]

'Sup y'all ni**as!?

Sorry, I actually found that more than offensive for some reason.

 

[FiveSpeedf150]

I enjoyed reach, good game, and what few gripes I have with it (severe lack of opportunities for scorpion apocalypse, etc) in single player, aren't really deal breakers. I gotta ask bungie though, did you guys update the AI's vehicle driving abilities at all since Halo 1? NPC's still cannot drive for shit. I really wanted to be on the turret, but god forbid I put these fools in charge of the driving for one second. I'm surprised Yahtzee didn't mention that... pants-on-head retarded is still applicable here.

Still, I like the game.

 

[Madara XIII]

I like this short summary for the Online Section of Halo: Reach!!

 

[rofl jet]

I was expecting another super smash brothers, where it takes him 5 months to do it, oh well.
It always bugged me how open and flimsy the vehicles looked in halo and the no seatbelt things when your rolling a warthog

Have you looked at the passenger, they're supposed to be sitting but instead they're crouching, they even have their foot on the dashbaord

yeah, really the vehicles in that game wouldn't be good to fight in but they would be great for launching your passengers into space with

Yeah... and it's sure as hell fun to watch

 

[Worgen]

I was expecting another super smash brothers, where it takes him 5 months to do it, oh well.
It always bugged me how open and flimsy the vehicles looked in halo and the no seatbelt things when your rolling a warthog

Have you looked at the passenger, they're supposed to be sitting but instead they're crouching, they even have their foot on the dashbaord

yeah, really the vehicles in that game wouldn't be good to fight in but they would be great for launching your passengers into space with

Yeah... and it's sure as hell fun to watch

they spent an awful lot of money to make a game that has the same entertainment value as theme park

 

[cmdrmonkey]

I agree with Yahtzee that if you're going to pay full price, you expect a full game. Games need to be able to stand up on single player alone. And as he said, a lot of HD console games have no longevity. Their multiplayer is a ghost town after a few months, so it's hard to recommend them strictly based on multiplayer.

Reach seems like your typical overhyped cash-in sequel. It was a hot item for about a week, and now less than a month later, no one is talking about it.

 

[ThePhobicMan]

I'm the first to admit: I'm a Halo fanboy. But I'm disappointed that he didn't even mention Firefight or Forge mode. They're both really fun and distracting if you get bored with Campaign or Online Multiplayer.

 

[Belbe]

An ending to a series these days is surely a lie...as he said someone will surely dig it back up and milk the cows till...forever.

 

[Jezzascmezza]

Soooo... He almost liked it?

Whatever, that comment about the new gameplay variants being over faster than "an erection at a Bangkok strip joint" was funny as hell.