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Review: Halo: The Master Chief Collection | Stevivor

Stu Gollan -- "It’s easy to forget just how important Halo has been in gaming history."

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kalimero23472d ago

nice score. currently 89 on metacritic after 6 reviews

http://www.metacritic.com/g...

Ricegum3472d ago

Oh come on, are you seriously following meta critic like a hawk? God, just get the game, play it, enjoy it.

G20WLY3472d ago (Edited 3472d ago )

Yep, good review to acknowledge it's not perfect contrary to what some fanboy sites would have you believe. You can't take a 10 year old game, polish it and expect perfection, it's just not realistic. Good to see this site's not on 'the payroll'...

I think it's well worth getting if you've not played the Halos before. Just don't expect state-of-the-art shooters after all this time.

This site tends to score realistically. They gave Sunset Overdrive 7/10 for example:
http://stevivor.com/2014/10...

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Gaming247allday3472d ago

"It’s easy to forget just how important Halo has been in gaming history."

Without Halo, FPS on Console's wouldn't be were they are today, i have seen many Sony fanboys hate on Halo, but what they don't understand is that Halo did more for Sony Consoles than Killzone ever did!

XBLSkull3472d ago

Lol Killzone has always been touted as the "Halo Killer" that has never even come close to that title. Halo will always reign as king of the console FPS.

XabiDaChosenOne3472d ago

Actual currently that's COD but nice try though.

HeMan763472d ago

"Without Halo, FPS on Console's wouldn't be were they are today, i have seen many Sony fanboys hate on Halo, but what they don't understand is that Halo did more for Sony Consoles than Killzone ever did!"

I salute you my friend!!!

JMyers3472d ago

Why do you have to mention Sony in this article.. SMH. Why not go all the way back and say Without Nintendo and Sega, The PS1 and PS2... the Xbox wouldn't exist? Or without PC's FPS on consoles wouldn't exist...

Jeez. Halo is great franchise, some will like it, some won't. Not just people on other consoles.

FriedGoat3472d ago

This is a very strange comment.

I love halo. Pretty sure Goldeneye reinvented the console FPS more though.

Blues Cowboy3472d ago

Goldeneye proved that the FPS genre can work on consoles, but it had to compromise and cut corners to do so, despite being brilliant. Halo proved that the console FPS can rival anything on other platforms at the time, plus cemented a host of mechanics we take for granted.

Even regenerating health was a Halo 2 thing, for better and worse.

XabiDaChosenOne3472d ago

@Blues Cowboy regenerating health was in golden eye, Halo 2 took alot of fps concepts that were already floating around and made an almost flawless game with them. Halo, like COD did not really invent anything new they just made a couple mechanics standard on console fps's now whether these mechanics are good or bad is up to the individual.

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Five Games to Play While Waiting for Armored Core 6

The newest From Software game is just around the corner. These are five excellent games to play while waiting for Armored Core 6.

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Si-Fly270d ago

Can I suggest BG3 as a 6th? It’s helping me pass the time quite well.

anast270d ago

I'm still trying to finish WotR.

DivineHand125270d ago

With the release date being just a little over a week away, it may not be a good idea to burn yourself out on mech games until then.

RavenWolfx270d ago

i want a Chromehounds sequel so bad...

raWfodog270d ago (Edited 270d ago )

Surprised that the article didn’t mention Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries if we’re talking about mech-related games.

ZeekQuattro269d ago

It was an odd article imo. Like why are games that feature a handful of mech themed levels in there. When I think of mech games I don't think Halo and Wolfenstein no matter how fun those levels were.

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Best Xbox Game Studios Franchises

These are some of the best and most popular video game franchises now owned by Xbox Game Studios and Microsoft.

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Sciurus_vulgaris279d ago (Edited 279d ago )

Microsoft was involved with Halo, Gears, Forza, Ori, Flight Simulator and Fable from early development, I will give them credit for those franchises. Fallout, Elder Scrolls and Doom were established franchise before being acquired by MS.

Crows90279d ago (Edited 279d ago )

Exactly. They had nothing to do with their most popular franchises now.

Their old franchises are dwindling and pretty much non-existent.

They've had perfect dark in the chamber this whole time and haven't done squat...that tells you the kind of company they are. Fable is another franchise that's been destroyed and ignored...let's see how the new game turns out.

Profchaos278d ago

Yeah perfect dark, banjo conquer ms seems to kill more franchises then they like to admit while pretending to care about others like hexen

Sitdown279d ago

Given the article specifically says "now owned", what made you feel the need to do a break down?

thesoftware730278d ago

Sit-down,

Because it's N4G and any opportunity to shit on MS is never missed.

Rude-ro278d ago

Gears is not.
It was the same as mass effect:
Just contracted.

closed_account279d ago (Edited 279d ago )

Ah yes, feels like forever ago since Microsoft created Skyrim. So much so, I had actually forgotten they had created it and the other Elder Scrolls games! 🤔

*They really shaped my preteen years w the original Doom too!

ocelot07279d ago

Don't forget the original Elder Scrolls way back in 1994 or fallout in 1997.

Sitdown276d ago

So you don't understand the combination of "now owned"?

Crows90279d ago (Edited 279d ago )

I fully expect all these popular franchises to be killed off by Microsoft. Just a matter of time.

Unless they take a huge distance approach which pretty much means they don't ba e anything to do with the games being made ...in that case the franchises should be fine. But then...they shouldn't really get credit.

DOMination-279d ago

"I fully expect all these popular franchises to be killed off by Microsoft. Just a matter of time."

Based on what?? Microsoft usually gets stick for releasing too MANY games in their franchises, to the point where it's quite a long-running joke - one I'm sure you've partaken in before.

Pretty much all of their major IP has had releases in the last five years or have upcoming releases scheduled so I see no evidence whatsoever for this claim.

"Unless they take a huge distance approach which pretty much means they don't ba e anything to do with the games being made"

But.. They HAVE been very hands-off for a long time and have drawn lots of criticism for it?

fr0sty278d ago

See: All of Rare's games

DOMination-278d ago

I really wouldn't say that MS have let Rare franchises die. They've just had the freedom to create new IP in Sea of Thieves and Everwild. MS are currently developing a Perfect Dark game, licensed Killer Instinct out, Rare themselves released several compilations and several Banjo games as well as PDZ in the past.

I'm not sure what else you could want. They can only make one game at a time. You can't say MS let all their franchises die but also be annoyed that they allow their studios to make new IP.

Profchaos278d ago

If that's the case where my banjo or conquer sequel why didn't I get sunset overdrive 2 oh yeah not enough bro in those games

ChasterMies279d ago (Edited 279d ago )

EA is a good example of what can happen to a franchise when a larger corporation buys up studios from a smaller corporation. Quarterly earnings should never matter more than quality.

wiz7191278d ago

@Crows that is the case , Zenimax is operating independently of MS and have full creative freedom to do what they want. Zenimax games aren’t being published under XGS ,

ravens52279d ago

Soon Microsoft will be known for making Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Candy Crush, Call of Duty etc. Lmao they know what they're doing. Especially with the archiving issue the gaming industry has.

closed_account279d ago (Edited 279d ago )

Microsoft built the game industry. Microsoft invented games. Didn't you know? ;)

**What a bizzaro world we live in where the losers can become the winners overnight.

Hypertension140278d ago

@ravens52

What are those franchises you're talking about?
Activision/Blizzard only makes Call of Duty and Bethesda has Elder Scrolls and Starfield only, stop making it seen that is much more anti competitive/consumer than it actually is.......

Profchaos278d ago

Zero creative vision and the ability to bankroll it by purchasing everything that everyone else had success with even Halo wasn't technically theirs Bungie had to sell it to them to become independent

Atari6052B278d ago

You mean any studio Microsoft could acquire to flog last gen games on game pass ... What happened to HD-DVD that Microsoft pushed so hard ...

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Games with the dumbest NPCs

Non-playable characters in certain games are meme material, thanks to their foolish behavior. These are the big-budget games with the dumbest NPCs.

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closed_account280d ago (Edited 280d ago )

Bethesda makes the most consistently stupid NPCs, like really bad... yet I still can't help but love playing their games. Guilty pleasure, I guess. *sigh* 😩

Flawlessmic280d ago

How did redfall not make the cut.

anast279d ago (Edited 279d ago )

Every Bethesda game and Every Halo game. This list needed to have Cyberpunk somewhere.