Halo 5: Guardians
log entries
- 5947I went into a store to get this at launch day. Later, at Martin's place, it started downloading a 40 GB (!) patch, and the process stalled at around 84%. We had to give up and play Metal Gear instead.
- 5949I left the Xbox running all night to make sure the game was ready and patched today. I played the first part of the first chapter on Heroic difficulty. The game plays well, I look forward to playing some more of it.
- 5971I really like the graphics of mission 7, an alien landscape of Roger Dean-esque weirdness.
- 5972The scale difference between the Phaeton craft and the Spartans is really cool in mission 7. A pity the turret shooting gameplay in that section is completely uninteresting.
- 5987Mission 8 (of 15) also looks great.
- 5989Completed mission 10/15.
- 6781I entered a code from my Halo box, and got 14 days of Xbox Live Gold, so I should get some sweet free games to play during the next week.
- 6824After struggling with the poorly controlled and slow Mass Effect, switching to this awesome 60 FPS technical marvel of a shooter was pure joy.
- 6825Completed mission 11/15. I had a lot of trouble with a Wraith, which I spent a lot of time trying to kill, but ended up bypassing. Still, it was fun to slowly analyze the area and figure out what to do.
- 6835completed the game on Heroic difficulty (Campaign). The last couple of large scale battles were fun.
- 8488I played a couple of matches of Warzone Firefight, the online co-op mode with a bunch of random dudes. This game is still very technically impressive, and this mode seems cool with new characters and weapons to unlock, but I would much rather play by myself.
- 8492I tried a weird workaround for playing Firefight alone, and it worked, but I couldn't figure out how to make the match go for more than 5 minutes.
- 10161At a certain developer event in London, I tried playing Halo streamed to a phone using Project XCloud. The stream was running over the public network available to all attendees, and it worked well. A few minor hitches, but the latency was generally low enough for the game to be perfectly playable.
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