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Penny Arcade - Comic - Reclaimer

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Bropocalypse

Player characters are not to be trusted.

gmp

One thing the first game got very right was how enjoyable the marines were to have around, with their banter and complaining. Later in the game when you are fighting alone it feels positively lonely. I remember exerting considerable effort to keep them alive as long as possible.

oh3fiftyone

gmp wrote: »

One thing the first game got very right was how enjoyable the marines were to have around, with their banter and complaining. Later in the game when you are fighting alone it feels positively lonely. I remember exerting considerable effort to keep them alive as long as possible.

Plus, once you can hand them all power weapons, a fire team of Marines becomes deadlier than you could hope to be on your own.

v2micca

Its kind of one of those weird places of disconnect in the game. During several cut scenes you see the Chief being incredibly respectful, even reverent to fallen soldiers and Spartans alike. Then he is back in the players control and mowing down Marines with a Warthog.

Overall, I'm greatly enjoying the experience of the campaign thus far. Two caveats though. They really need to give the Pilot a spine and have him stop whining so much. I know he is supposed to be our every man character who gives the perspective of a normal human being caught up in these events far beyond his abilities. But after the 5th cut scene of him bitching at the Master Chief about how crazy his mission is and that they should just abandon everyone and go home, I seriously wanted to bitchslap him and say "Are you not a USNC soldier? Did you not receive proper training? Can you not go more than 2 minutes without crying like a little bitch?"

Also, I don't know who wrote the Grunt dialog barks, but they are universally awful. Cringe beyond belief. If you wrote dialog this bad, you should feel bad.

oh3fiftyone

v2micca wrote: »

Its kind of one of those weird places of disconnect in the game. During several cut scenes you see the Chief being incredibly respectful, even reverent to fallen soldiers and Spartans alike. Then he is back in the players control and mowing down Marines with a Warthog.

Well you’re the player. Why don’t you just not run them over? I don’t, although I do load a Razorback with them and take them on suicide missions. It’s amazing what five sniper rifles in one truck can do until a sneaky grunt sticks it with a grenade.

Preacher

They could have done this with marines standing under vehicle drop offs! Christ Echo is a master murderer and he doesn't know it.

A Dabble Of Thelonius

v2micca wrote: »

Also, I don't know who wrote the Grunt dialog barks, but they are universally awful. Cringe beyond belief. If you wrote dialog this bad, you should feel bad.

Art is subjective, however, nobody has ever been this wrong before.

Preacher

A Dabble Of Thelonius wrote: »

v2micca wrote: »

Also, I don't know who wrote the Grunt dialog barks, but they are universally awful. Cringe beyond belief. If you wrote dialog this bad, you should feel bad.

Art is subjective, however, nobody has ever been this wrong before.

Yeah seriously the grunt dialogue is hilarious, it only adds to the experience and several times cracked me up either when they killed me or when I killed them.

Also Echo's journey as a character was understandable a lot more than the gung ho human characters of old. Like the events of the game are fucking scary, why should he want to continue, why would anyone want to continue?

Sigma_100

@v2micca: to be fair he's very specifically not a soldier though, just a civilian volunteer.

hibryd7

Master Chief 2024.

Hevach

Halo 1 was my first FPS that didn't fit into the old mold of Doom, Quake, etc. I thought it was neat that the weapon pickups were soldiers instead of just sitting around.

Like four months later, playing with a friend, "Why do you keep killing the good guys?" "I needed his gun." "You can just TAKE their guns if you want them."

oh3fiftyone

Sigma_100 wrote: »

@v2micca: to be fair he's very specifically not a soldier though, just a civilian volunteer.

It sounds like they hadn’t gotten there in the story yet.

Phoenix-D

Bropocalypse wrote: »

Player characters are not to be trusted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U49gsRQg7M

tgbennett30

I was simultaneously amused and horrified when my 7 year old, after having watched me play Forza Horizon 5 for a bit, he asked to play - in his time he discovered the sheep (and all the other animals, too) can NOT be run over, not matter how fast your car or the angle you take (they dodge like Spider-Man on meth), and so he turned and scrambled madly in place trying to hit them for a few minutes, with a total lack of success. He finally admitted, "The game won't LET you run them over," and that was that, and he returned to gleefully destroying the rest of the Mexican countryside in my beloved Koenigsegg Jesko :-P

Preacher

tgbennett30 wrote: »

I was simultaneously amused and horrified when my 7 year old, after having watched me play Forza Horizon 5 for a bit, he asked to play - in his time he discovered the sheep (and all the other animals, too) can NOT be run over, not matter how fast your car or the angle you take (they dodge like Spider-Man on meth), and so he turned and scrambled madly in place trying to hit them for a few minutes, with a total lack of success. He finally admitted, "The game won't LET you run them over," and that was that, and he returned to gleefully destroying the rest of the Mexican countryside in my beloved Koenigsegg Jesko :-P

Kids are monsters this is known.

Kaitensatsuma

Ah, back in the good old days

Johnny17

The right dude looks like Sven from Family Guy.

oh3fiftyone

Hevach wrote: »

Halo 1 was my first FPS that didn't fit into the old mold of Doom, Quake, etc. I thought it was neat that the weapon pickups were soldiers instead of just sitting around.

Like four months later, playing with a friend, "Why do you keep killing the good guys?" "I needed his gun." "You can just TAKE their guns if you want them."

You actually can’t ask for their guns in Halo 1