I loved Halo 4, the campaign is simply fantastic, the story, and of course master chief cortana.But what I really missed was that feeling of Halo 3, those funny grunts and brutes tucked who felt the “smell” of human enemies … lost their “lives”, characteristics that distinguished them from other games in the last halos. Halo 4 they just go from one side to the other and so are the kill, kill, kill … they have no life! So I posted this topic to give advice for the 343 … no one will regret if they do … especially me.
I say we keep that to IWHBYD.
What is IWHBYD?( I new in the forums)
All the IWHBYD skull does is change up their dialogue. Seeing that 343i doesn’t seem to want ANY of the covies to speak English and to be mindless alien killing machines, theres really no point in including it. What would it do anyways? Make them say “argargargargar” instead of “grawgrawgrawgraw”?
If they were to bring back English speaking covies, then I could see the IWHBYD skull being of some use. (Plus, suicide grunts would be funny again)
Suicide grunts + Fuel Rod Hopping Grunts + Dancing grunts = Best Halo Campaign of all time.
> Suicide grunts + Fuel Rod Hopping Grunts + Dancing grunts = Best Halo Campaign of all time.
If by best, you mean most painfully unfunny then yes. I don’t feel this kind of silly gimmick has any place in a setting like Halo’s.
To me the grunts in H4 sound very much the munchkin / little peoples in the Wizard of Oz. And the Elites sound like they are speaking some from of Japanese (listen to the broadcasts in the broken ship consoles when Chief crash lands on Requiem).
I do prefer the Halo Anniversary, H2 / H3 / ODST covenant broken english dialogue to H4’s.
> > Suicide grunts + Fuel Rod Hopping Grunts + Dancing grunts = Best Halo Campaign of all time.
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> If by best, you mean most painfully unfunny then yes. I don’t feel this kind of silly gimmick has any place in a setting like Halo’s.
Why so serious broski? Not like they force u to turn the skull on…
The only reason why these characters had life is because they spoke English.
The only reason why these characters had life is because they spoke English.
English speaking covies was the best, I remember a particularly foul mouthed grunt on Halo 2 when I stuck him, haha!
But the main problem with Halo 4 is the multiplayer, and that Spartan Ops is so boring and heavily scripted…
Bring back firefight, playable Elites, English covvies, etc and people that actually know how to make a Halo game!
> The only reason why these characters had life is because they spoke English.
1)Double Post
2)The ‘I Would Have Been Your Daddy’ skull triggers rare effects in dialogue to replace those more common.
3)We Nobles must stick together.
OT: I liked the campaign, but it had less emotional feel to it then I would have liked. Make Halo 5 a bit more H3-esque, feel-wise.
I miss the English-speaking Covenant. It was a mistake for them to speak their native languages in H4.
English speaking covies made them feel more like soldiers (to the extent a grunt can be classed a solier) and yes, while soliers won’t shout, “KILL THE DEMON!” there were times where they felt more orderly (such as the brute giving orders in Halo 3)
Also yes, the grunt lines made me like the game. There was always an underlying comedy in Halo.
> What is IWHBYD?( I new in the forums)
Its a skull In halo 3 and others it stands for
I
Would
Have
Been
Your
Daddy
The skulls description says ‘but a dog beat me over the fence’
The skull altered the dialogue making the rarer dialogue more frequent and the common less frequent
> Suicide grunts + Fuel Rod Hopping Grunts + Dancing grunts = Best Halo Campaign of all time.
I personally think an army of Grunts is da best, but I won’t argue with your logic.
Grunts have indeed received a lot of treatment in H4, so many (albeit sometimes forced) humorous SO cinematics! I just love the one where the Hunter whacks a Grunt out of the way. xD
> > Suicide grunts + Fuel Rod Hopping Grunts + Dancing grunts = Best Halo Campaign of all time.
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> If by best, you mean most painfully unfunny then yes. I don’t feel this kind of silly gimmick has any place in a setting like Halo’s.
343 seem to think suicide Grunts have a place. Who can forget the 20+ suicide Grunts spawned in the SPARTAN THORNE chapter?
Hint: they are important
If you don’t like how convenient the easter egg/scenario is in H4, it is possible to replicate it anywhere. Active camo spooks them into suicide. 0.0
As for hopping Grunts, why would you not want this? FYI, it’s been in Halo since CE (seen in a sequence on the level PoA).
Lastly, dancing Grunts. Yeah the dancing Grunt easter eggs in H4 seem a bit forced, but that’s not the only way to make a Grunt dance. It’s only a matter of time before I make a Grunt dancing video.
Ah campaign theatre, you were sorely missed, along with:
Campaign scoring
Good connection searching
Race
Infection
Forge world
VIP
BTB objective
Assault
Playable Elites
Invasion
Firefight
Saved film rendering
Exporting screenshots
Territories
Human aerial vehicles
loads of custom game options
Precision forging
Juggernaut
To name a few things.
What’s worse is that when you boil it down to what they actually added to Halo, it’s all just borrowed stuff from other games. They just stripped Halo down of loads of features and replaces them with stuff from other games.
I agree with the folks who want the grunts funny again, but I also want new things, for example, a sangheeli drawing a sword of energy and then beating his chest and screaming why he is a “ELITE” would BE VERY COOL . And as demon insults, and threats, would be fantastic…