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Lostplanet22 on 01 November 2012

Not including firefight is a big deal for me. I spend 350 hours only in the firefight games in Halo Reach so yeah =p.



 

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VicViper on 01 November 2012

Yikes, I missed this thread!

90 only very strange... but congratulations on the IGN review! I've seen it and Master Chief is the man!



Proclus on 01 November 2012
BenVTrigger said:
Really no one expected 90 or a little lower?

I certainly did and Im a gigantic Halo fan. This has the lowest reviewed year Ive almost ever seen. Once I saw how bad Resident Evil 6 and AC3:got hammered by some reviewers I knew anything over 93 was out of the question. I still cant believe Mass Effect 3 is the highest reviewed game this year.

Pretty much to get anything over 92 at this point in the generation you have to do something MAJOR revolutionaty. God Of War wont get it next year, Gears of War wont do it next year. Beyond and The Last of Us have a slight chance as both are new IP which reviewers seem to be a little more leniant on just look at Dishonored bloated review score.



Well it deserves at least a 92, so anything below 90 would just be BS (IMO), and Dishonored is actually something that comes to mind why Halo 4 should be ~92, it's a decent and fun game, but it's really just a 7 hour story with pretty much nothing extra to want to replay it several times.



Lostplanet22 on 01 November 2012
sales2099 said:
Slimebeast said:
selnor said:
Slimebeast said:
BenVTrigger said:
Wow actually doing slightly better than I thought. I got worried some would review it harshly but a 91 for a FPS this late in the generation is incredible. Probably will get GOTY from most sources, but not all. Im guessing it will end up closest to universal GOTY. That or Mass Effect 3.

And Slimbeast you sound rediculous. Its not like the IGN review is even out of place or the highest. Theres multiple websites and publications that gave Halo 4 a strait 10. But then again your just blindly hating on a game youve never played so Im just wasting my time

9.8 out of 10.0 is a much stronger statement than 10/10.

Why do you accuse me of "blindly hating"? Where did I hate Halo?

Btw. you yourself have admitted that the inflated GTA4 scores back in 2008 were outrageous.


You have been hating on Microsoft products and games pretty much since you got your PS3. Your a very different person to who you were on here when you first arrived. I used to ride into battle with you back when VGC had alot more Xbox fans here. Now your like Slimebeasts darkside twin. That killed off the legendary Jedi Slimebeast.

Sometimes I feel very guilty about my betrayal, but I just couldn't take the heat anymore.

Man, it's much easier to be on the winning side.

Last place = winning

I love PS fan mindsets! :)

Yeah Slimebeast you are going to far now and it hardly make any sense anymore.  Supported you when MS was lacking in software and reasons to stay on my X360 but the last months they are doing better (Happy wars, Forza Horizon, New awesome dashboard update, etc).  Honestly I just believe that you hate Halo 4 getting good reviews and have the possibility to be GOTY on sites.    Yeah people don't like the GTAIV scores but that was after they played the game.  When I saw the reviews of GTA IV I got the game pretty fast but end up dissapointing and so far (except for firefight) I see no reason why Halo 4 would be the same.



 

Slimebeast on 01 November 2012
Lostplanet22 said:
sales2099 said:
Slimebeast said:
selnor said:
Slimebeast said:
BenVTrigger said:
Wow actually doing slightly better than I thought. I got worried some would review it harshly but a 91 for a FPS this late in the generation is incredible. Probably will get GOTY from most sources, but not all. Im guessing it will end up closest to universal GOTY. That or Mass Effect 3.

And Slimbeast you sound rediculous. Its not like the IGN review is even out of place or the highest. Theres multiple websites and publications that gave Halo 4 a strait 10. But then again your just blindly hating on a game youve never played so Im just wasting my time

9.8 out of 10.0 is a much stronger statement than 10/10.

Why do you accuse me of "blindly hating"? Where did I hate Halo?

Btw. you yourself have admitted that the inflated GTA4 scores back in 2008 were outrageous.


You have been hating on Microsoft products and games pretty much since you got your PS3. Your a very different person to who you were on here when you first arrived. I used to ride into battle with you back when VGC had alot more Xbox fans here. Now your like Slimebeasts darkside twin. That killed off the legendary Jedi Slimebeast.

Sometimes I feel very guilty about my betrayal, but I just couldn't take the heat anymore.

Man, it's much easier to be on the winning side.

Last place = winning

I love PS fan mindsets! :)

Yeah Slimebeast you are going to far now and it hardly make any sense anymore.  Supported you when MS was lacking in software and reasons to stay on my X360 but the last months they are doing better (Happy wars, Forza Horizon, New awesome dashboard update, etc).  Honestly I just believe that you hate Halo 4 getting good reviews and have the possibility to be GOTY on sites.    Yeah people don't like the GTAIV scores but that was after they played the game.  When I saw the reviews of GTA IV I got the game pretty fast but end up dissapointing and so far (except for firefight) I see no reason why Halo 4 would be the same.

I'm sad that I lost your support.

I'm not hating on Halo 4. I want the game, I honestly think it looks great. Really great. It was only that 9.8 review by IGN I wanted to address, which has nothing to do with Halo in principle. It was a spontaneous thing to do it in this thread, but you could see from that post that I've been thinking seriously about this issue.



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BenVTrigger on 01 November 2012

Yeah Im sure Halo 4 dies deserve a 92 just from what Ive seen Im just saying reviewers arent giving those scores anymore. I think AC 3 is the best in the franchise by a large margin yet its behind other games in the series. Resident Evil 6 is much better than reviews stated.

Dishonored certainly doesnt deserve a 91. Thats a pretty solid game and definitly in the 80s range but I dont see how in the heck it got the scores it did. Thats all Im saying though is it looks like at this point they are onky gonna hand out huge scores to either a new IP or something that revolutionizes gaming.



jamesmarkus87 on 01 November 2012

For the Halo franchise, a 90 in 2012 is equivalent to a 96 back in 2007.

Anyways, what many of you don't realize is that most of the great things critics are saying about 4 is similar to the great things they said about Reach back in 2010. Many critics thought Reach was the best Halo game since Combat Evolved, and yet they only gave it a 91.

I'm a hardcore Xbox and Halo fan, but even I thought people's 94-97 prediction for Halo 4 was over the top.The three publications that I follow the most closely (GameInformer, IGN, and Official Xbox Magazine) all gave it good reviews (9.25, 9.8, 9.5), so I'm happy.



M.U.G.E.N on 01 November 2012

well it seems this thread went to some strange places :D either way some solid scores all around. Good job 343

Keep in mind this is their first entry into the series. They will do better with time

One thing I have to point out tho..I read a line of that IGN review that REEKS of marketing. As usual my advice is take the content, ignore the score and listen to user reviews. You will get a better understanding that way



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Roma on 01 November 2012

sounds and looks amazing!



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sub-zero-TM on 01 November 2012
jamesmarkus87 said:

For the Halo franchise, a 90 in 2012 is equivalent to a 96 back in 2007.

Anyways, what many of you don't realize is that most of the great things critics are saying about 4 is similar to the great things they said about Reach back in 2010. Many critics thought Reach was the best Halo game since Combat Evolved, and yet they only gave it a 91.

I'm a hardcore Xbox and Halo fan, but even I thought people's 94-97 prediction for Halo 4 was over the top.The three publications that I follow the most closely (GameInformer, IGN, and Official Xbox Magazine) all gave it good reviews (9.25, 9.8, 9.5), so I'm happy.


LOL i think you meant 94 back in 2007