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Spade on 25 November 2013

Any racing fan here? Can you tell me if you like Forza 5? I've never been into real life racers (never actually played them), been wanting to try new things and I've been pretty much 88% buy, but just push me over the fence.



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ice on 25 November 2013

Looks like 343i hired another Halo pro, my hype is rising for Halo 5



hollabackenny on 25 November 2013
Slade6alpha said:
Any racing fan here? Can you tell me if you like Forza 5? I've never been into real life racers (never actually played them), been wanting to try new things and I've been pretty much 88% buy, but just push me over the fence.


I'm not a big racing fan but I was pretty into Forza 4 and Horizon. I played 5 at my friends and it more or less so feels like 4. I'd definitely still buy it if I had a XO as I get into random moods to play racing games. Could get you more into the series and hopefully 6 will have far more content. 



Jaywood2010 on 25 November 2013

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ice on 25 November 2013

Pretty sure I said they should've done exactly this in an older thread



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ice on 25 November 2013
shikamaru317 said:
iceland said:
Looks like 343i hired another Halo pro, my hype is rising for Halo 5


Wait, who did they hire? I heard that Corinne Yu left 343i for Naughty Dog, did they hire a replacement for her already?


ha definitely not a replacement for her, he is probably a play tester or something. When I say Halo pro, I'm just talking about the pro players. The pro I'm talking about is Dersky, they also hired Bravo and Neighbor. Hopefully they have some say in multiplayer



JoeTheBro on 25 November 2013
iceland said:
shikamaru317 said:
iceland said:
Looks like 343i hired another Halo pro, my hype is rising for Halo 5


Wait, who did they hire? I heard that Corinne Yu left 343i for Naughty Dog, did they hire a replacement for her already?


ha definitely not a replacement for her, he is probably a play tester or something. When I say Halo pro, I'm just talking about the pro players. The pro I'm talking about is Dersky, they also hired Bravo and Neighbor. Hopefully they have some say in multiplayer


I disagree with this line of thought. These people are the best at Halo 4 because they like the way things work. Bringing them on will only push Halo 5 into a copycat instead of fixing the serious problems in 4. Personally, they should just do what they feel is right.



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Jaywood2010 on 25 November 2013

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ice on 25 November 2013
JoeTheBro said:
iceland said:
shikamaru317 said:
iceland said:
Looks like 343i hired another Halo pro, my hype is rising for Halo 5


Wait, who did they hire? I heard that Corinne Yu left 343i for Naughty Dog, did they hire a replacement for her already?


ha definitely not a replacement for her, he is probably a play tester or something. When I say Halo pro, I'm just talking about the pro players. The pro I'm talking about is Dersky, they also hired Bravo and Neighbor. Hopefully they have some say in multiplayer


I disagree with this line of thought. These people are the best at Halo 4 because they like the way things work. Bringing them on will only push Halo 5 into a copycat instead of fixing the serious problems in 4. Personally, they should just do what they feel is right.

I'm not sure what you're saying, a copycat of what? Halo 4 or the older titles? They've been pretty vocal on the downsides of Halo 4, if they have a say in it I'd expect a solid multiplayer. Decope is pretty much guranteed to return.



ice on 25 November 2013
shikamaru317 said:
iceland said:
shikamaru317 said:
iceland said:
Looks like 343i hired another Halo pro, my hype is rising for Halo 5


Wait, who did they hire? I heard that Corinne Yu left 343i for Naughty Dog, did they hire a replacement for her already?


ha definitely not a replacement for her, he is probably a play tester or something. When I say Halo pro, I'm just talking about the pro players. The pro I'm talking about is Dersky, they also hired Bravo and Neighbor. Hopefully they have some say in multiplayer


Yeah, they've definitely got to do something about multiplayer, Halo 4's singleplayer was great, if a bit too short, but the multiplayer had a number of issues. Halo 4's multiplayer numbers started out strong, but within just a few months they had already dropped to record lows for the series, Halo 3 for instance still had over 100,000 people online at any one time more than a year after it's release. There was alot wrong with Halo 4's multiplayer, less maps on disc than previous games (and unlike previous games, certain maps were restricted to certain playlists leaving players with even less maps), the create-a-class system felt uninspired and had some balance issues, plus it left many fans of classic Halo multiplayer dissapointed, the balance issues took a long time to fix. 343i has acknowledged those issues at least, so hopefully they will do a better job on Halo 5's multiplayer.


I personally hope they go back to the roots, no AAs, descope, no loadouts, no instant respawn, etc. H4 was good but the multiplayer was ridiculously easy and most of the maps were kind of bad IMO. The menus also seemed cluttered, forge was obviously rushed. Eventhough it seems like I'm being harsh I actually like Halo 4 and I have faith that 343i will deliver on all fronts in H5. BTW I miss campaign scoring, where the hell did that go?