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  • Halo 5 : Guardians game review

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    • Xbox Live Gold Members who play Halo 5: Guardians by November 7, 2015 will receive the Teishin Raikou Armor Set (code delivered by Xbox Live).
    • Xbox Live subscription required for online play.
    • Intense story on a galactic scale: Play as the Master Chief and Spartan Locke across three new worlds.
    • Your team is your weapon: Play solo or with friends in a 4-player co-op experience.
    • Warzone: New, 24-player massive-scale multiplayer mode.
    • Arena: Pure, skill-based 4-vs-4 competitive combat.
    • New rewards system: Earn Requisition Points to redeem for new gear.
    • Extensive multiplayer content: Receive more than 15 new free maps and earn fresh, new content like weapons and gear, each month after launch.

    Source: Amazon.com

    Considering the major misteps of Halo 4 were fresh in my mind, going into Halo 5 I had limited to no expectations that 343 was going to be able to get their heads around how to do a well structured campaign story, and for the most part my expectations were correct.  There were a few moments that the story made sense and progressed logically, but they were few and far in between.  Luckily there were no random new villains (the didact? the librarian?), but the story really felt like a stepping stone from halo 4 to halo 6, with less story progression than the throw away Spartan Ops missions from Halo 4.

    Another major problem that 343 has is adding new game mechanics, then never explaining them or showing them in use at all in the single player portion of the game.  In Halo 4, it was the run mechanic, where it was added, but no one in the game ever actually said “hey, you can run now, just hold down this button right here”.  In Halo 5, they have a thrust/dodge and a “ground pound” set of mechanics, but never properly introduce them in the game.  They do show off a running wall smash thing, but that’s about it.  It was until I was about 10 games into the multiplayer that I realized that everyone else was using these things and I had to look it up to see 1 – what it was called and 2 – how to do it.  Terrible implementation and makes me bitter towards 343 for such a stupid misstep.

    Speaking of multiplayer, I find their plans for it to be laudable, but I’m already bored with the 3 maps you get in the various game types.  The REQ cards are interesting and may keep me coming back for a while, but once I have the achievements for the MP stuff, I doubt I’m going to stick around for very long.

    All in all, it’s an interesting game, certainly not work the cover price of $60, but you can already find it for $40 out on the internet.

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    A WIP. What it would look like on alien planets with bullying.

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    Chocolate Matcha Wafer Cookie

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    Close Call

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    Station Wagon

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    CBS Television Studios has just announced that it will be introducing a “totally new” Star Trek TV series in January of 2017, the first since Star Trek: Enterprise went off the air in 2005. This TV rebirth follows the two latest movies, and though the press release says nothing about when or where the new series will take place, it seems safe to say that the show will exist in the new continuity created by JJ Abrams’ 2009 Trek film.

    a couple points:

    1 – 2017? wtf guys.

    2 – It’s going to be in the shitty as fuck JJ-Verse.  wtf.

    3 – 2017, seriously.  2 years from now.

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  • Halo: The Master Chief Collection game review

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    • Halo: CE Anniversary
    • Halo 2: Anniversary
    • Halo 3 & Halo 4
    • Halo: Nightfall (Digital Series)

    Source: Amazon.com

    I’m really not into the multiplayer side of Halo, which might be an odd thing to say considering that most people consider Halo: CE and Halo 2’s multiplayer to be one of the defining features of the series, but there’s just too much of a difference in the play style and tactics and not enough new stuff going on to keep my attention.  So that being said, I can’t really speak to the apparently tragedy that is Halo: MCC’s multiplayer.

    All the content of this collection is the same exact game you’ve played before, with the exception of Halo 2 Anniversary, which was pretty well done, though it had some stupid bullshit shoehorned in from Halo 5 : Guardians that makes absolutely no sense at all in the context of the Halo 2 storyline, but was there none the less.  I was able to play through all the campaigns in time for Halo 5, which was great, cause I got to sit around for a couple days waiting for it to be delivered from the online Microsoft Store.

    There’s not much that’s surprising in this package, but it’s damn convenient to have them all digitally installed and be able to jump from halo 3 to halo 4 back to halo 2 without any disk changing.  If you’re a Halo fan, this is a must have, if you’re not, this is a curiosity at best, there’s nothing here that’s too amazing.

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    I. Want. COOKIES!!!!!!!

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    Alien

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    Art by Oliver Barrett

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    What if I told you…

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    ducks

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    Get well soon

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    at the beach

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    Dude with odd socks

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    Rachel

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    Bitter Batman

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    Star Wars

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