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#223 "Halo Campaign Evolved Is What Halo SHOULD Be" · It Just Works!

• 0:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: This is Steve Downs, the voice of Master Chief, Spartan 1-1-7.
• 0:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: With an incoming message for Ryan Green and all, we'll listen to the podcast, it just works.
• 0:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: Let's finish the fight.
• 0:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: Listen up.
• 0:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: Chief, out.
• 0:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: Hello, everyone.
• 0:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: Welcome to the AdjustWorks podcast.
• 0:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm your host Ryan.
• 0:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: And today is a very special episode that's been a long time coming, and I'm sure you can figure out what it is if you didn't see the title, which you should have seen the title so that wouldn't really make any sense.
• 0:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: But come on now.
• 0:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: Let's talk about Halo campaign of all of the came out the week of my birthday, so shout out to Halo Studios and Xbox for somehow aligning this.
• 0:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: Clearly it's all about me, and that's all they ever wanted to do, is make sure I was happy.
• 0:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: Obviously that's a joke.
• 0:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: They don't care, and I wouldn't expect them to or anyone, really.
• 0:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: But the stars aligned, and for the 20th anniversary, I get to play Halo, combat of all the completely remade in the package that is campaign evolved.
• 1:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: Now, leading up to this, the game has had a lot of back and forth with a lot of fans of whether or not a remake is necessary, or should we just get the sequel to Infinite or just some type of new title in the Halo franchise.
• 1:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: And this is the first introduction to what Halo Studios is capable of, since they've switched over from 343, which obviously a lot of it is still 343 and then bungee if anyone's still around, which I think a few are.
• 1:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: Um, but ironically, what happened when 343 took over, they made Halo combat of all anniversary.
• 1:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: So it's kind of interesting that we're following suit and Halo Studios is like, hey, let's do campaign evolved.
• 1:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: And obviously with the anniversary, everything kind of lines up and it totally makes sense.
• 1:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: So when this game was announced, I was really excited.
• 1:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: I remember being pretty happy with it, especially with the way it looked, but not being like over the moon about it.
• 1:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: And it's because I wanted a Halo Infinite sequel, I really liked that campaign, even with all of its faults, I still like where it ended and I want to see what was next, especially after the epilogue book that came out.
• 2:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: I really wanted to know what was next for this franchise.
• 2:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: So I was kind of leaning more towards that, or maybe like an ODST2.
• 2:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: Halo Wars 3, a flood-horror game, type experience.
• 2:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: All of those would have been really good.
• 2:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: However, that's not what happened.
• 2:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: We got Halo campaign evolved, which launched for early access, July 23rd.
• 2:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: I actually got to play it on my birthday, July 22nd, because I bought the collector's edition, so I have the disc.
• 2:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: I was able to pre-load the game at 8am and it allowed me to play it, which is crazy, so I was streaming it and Realize I wasn't supposed to so I stopped but I mean I had a ridiculous amount of support So if any of you are listening to this that were part of the streams that I've done since the game has launched I appreciate it significantly all of you guys are amazing and I just I cherish the support But anyways, yes, as I said the game comes out
• 2:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: Early access July 23rd, and then this episode will be out before it's official release date where you can play it on July 28th if you didn't want to play it early, which you don't need to.
• 3:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: You could definitely wait and be just fine.
• 3:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: This episode will have spoilers.
• 3:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: Swirlers for the prequel missions, I'll make sure and try to just kind of do the prequel missions at the very end, which is ironic because they're prequel missions which is starting now, but that's not the case.
• 3:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: I want to start with the main game itself because that's how I played it.
• 3:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: To my understanding, you don't unlock the prequel missions, that's actually not true.
• 3:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: You can just go out right out the gate and play them, which I think is great, because, you know, I think it's a cool experience if, you know, people want to start that way and then go into campaign evolved, which takes place a year later.
• 3:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: So,
• 3:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 3:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: Let's go ahead and start with the game itself.
• 3:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: Obviously the game is packaged with the original campaign completely remade.
• 3:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: Once you beat the campaign and I think the prequel missions, you unlock campaign remix, which is a game mode, which you can kind of randomize your campaign, which if your familiar randomizers are pretty huge in the emulation community for
• 4:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: You can have a bot randomizer fallout in Skyrim.
• 4:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: You can have randomize enemies and you know Just experiences in general and I'm sure there's a ton of other games that do it that I can't think of right now, but yeah randomizers are pretty
• 4:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: Pretty good at keeping a game alive the longevity of it with fan die hard fans and just randomizer enthusiasts Into it's a fun way to play a game because it provides a different experience that you just wouldn't get playing those standard way and I think that's one of the best additions, but it also features four player crossplay cross progression co-op So you can play with people on PlayStation 5 steam windows or Xbox
• 4:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: And hopefully, because I want this damn game on the Switch 2 so bad, I think they've made a huge mistake not trying to optimize this game a little bit more, and then also get it on the Switch 2, because with Unreal Engine 5 being so supported for the Switch 2, I think that they can definitely pull this game off at like 720-60 frames.
• 5:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: I want it bad, and I hope to God I just wake up one day with that announcement because I would love this kind of halo experience on the go.
• 5:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: And there's customization, so there's skins for chief that you can wear.
• 5:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: One of them, if you got the pre-order of the game, you got the original skin, the flawless cowboy skin, which is from combat evolved.
• 5:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think it said combat evolved too many times.
• 5:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: but yeah so there's skins or weapon skins some of them are cool some of them are kind of like whatever they're a little too much for me i do like the idea behind them and like the the the mindset for why they made some of the decisions they made but i know for a lot of fail of fans and sometimes myself included it's a little too far out
• 5:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: But those are completely optional, like I wouldn't say that takes away from the game by name means.
• 6:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: But anything cosmetic is 100% optional.
• 6:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: Anything about this game that you didn't like with sprints, the UI, the target markers, or either the hit markers, the targets on the floor.
• 6:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: It marks like weapons and grenades and stuff, like a little box.
• 6:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: You can turn that off because I really hated that.
• 6:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: Right out the game the game starts like that.
• 6:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: You can completely move the hud around to where it matches like the OG game They have given you about every option to play this is close to the original as you can and I think that's great There's even skulls that stowed reloads that add the 60 round mag for
• 6:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: the assault rifle, they've also added indestructible vehicles as a skull, because a lot of those things are missing, the game allows vehicles to be destroyed, it's a 36 round bag for the assault rifle, which is easily one of the best guns in the game.
• 7:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: They definitely made some balance changes along the way.
• 7:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: But I think one of my favorite things about the game that really stands out, which is a, I think a big part of the package itself is that this is the fact that it's completely remade.
• 7:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's a remake, first of all,
• 7:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: This is a remake that's cut voice lines, that changes some of the current voice lines, that changes some things for continuity, excuse me, to kind of like flow with the current timeline of Halo, and I actually, I fucking love the way they've done it.
• 7:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: When I say that there were spoilers in this episode, it's more of if I talk about a little detail, but honestly a lot of it I'm gonna leave out because I prefer that you guys experience this yourself, so I won't be very descriptive, I'll just kind of lay it out for you.
• 7:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: And so what I mean by that is There's just some things that you see along the way that kind of line up more with like what's currently happened with Halo Especially in the prequel missions.
• 7:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: There's like one nod that I think is kind of like a funny way to explain why some things are the way they are in Halo 4 and 5 But also the the level design like the sandbox I think is peak.
• 8:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think it needs to be optimized till but I think
• 8:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: the changes they've made to so many levels to make them non-repetitive as like they were back in 2001 understandably so by the way that's not a knock to the game.
• 8:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think Halo 1 when it came out at the time I'm still on the most glorious games I've ever played in my life until this day I still love it I do think there's a better version of it now in my opinion But I think like the changes they've made to assault on the control room the library
• 8:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: All around, there's been changes to the level design, so the game, like I said, feels less repetitive.
• 8:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I think it really, really shows the care and ability to craft new things but keep it old but keep it fresh.
• 8:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: because some of it's the exact same like some of the rooms you walk in some of the areas you walk in like it's the same exact area but completely refined to the modern era of gaming and what they can do with the technological capabilities they have today versus back then and they fully utilize
• 9:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I think one of the best ways to describe it to you without giving anything away, because again, I like to talk about it, but I really think a lot of it comes down to you playing it yourself, the listener.
• 9:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: Even if you play it on easy, the game is really fun, because I was playing it on easy to get the skulls and terminals.
• 9:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: Um, but I think one of the biggest things that they did that really paid off was like the atmosphere, the lighting, the, the, the, the way the design, all the, the biomes, like I said, the sandbox, um, for instance, you know, if you remember Halo combat of all the anniversary kind of ruined a lot of that, I mean, it was, the game was like overly bright and it just looked like too much number per being pretty bad back then too, because I think I only, I don't even think I got all the achievements.
• 9:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think I only played at once on Legendary and,
• 9:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: Honestly, I think that was it.
• 9:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: I didn't get like super crazy with it.
• 9:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think I liked it more for the the reach firefight maps that we got, which was just Insolation 04 Yeah, I think in you think of combat of all that adversity and you think of 343 guilty spark, which is like a turning point in the franchise Back then and also the campaign itself, right?
• 10:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: It goes from just being the space opera like really badass like one man army kind of
• 10:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: Save in the saving as many people as you can fighting back to get it, you know, rescue is capped in on it, you know, on this unknown world But then three or four three guilty spark comes around and it becomes a horror game out of nowhere and I feel like in an anniversary They completely ruined the level.
• 10:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's it's nothing close to what it should be
• 10:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: and this game makes it what it should be, and then some, I think that the changes they've made again, the atmosphere and recapturing what three, four, three guilty spark was meant to be.
• 10:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: That was like the level I was the most interested in, especially with the cutscenes, and I think they've done, I think that mission alone is worth playing the campaign for, like I really are the game.
• 11:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, I don't think the game is without its faults.
• 11:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I think one of the glaring ones is the fact that there's no multiplayer There's no firefight and when you play this game the game play is like flawless that 30 seconds of fun That keeps you on a plate that that keeps you playing like it's all there like all the weapons feel
• 11:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: pretty amazing to be honest, like I think the pistol could be a little bit more buffed a slightly, I think the shotgun could use a little buff, but I think everything else is like damn near perfect, like I cannot believe how well, like I use throughout my playthrough, I think I use every single weapon, but I think the least, the weapon I use, excuse me,
• 11:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: Excuse me, that kind of snuck up on me.
• 11:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think the weapon I used the least was the plasma rifle.
• 11:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I do think it could be buffed a little bit.
• 11:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: But speaking of weapons and just how fun the gameplay is, and you know, obviously we talked about the lack of firefight and multiplayer, but the weapons themselves, part of that sandbox conversation, and we're having is like,
• 12:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: They feel great.
• 12:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: They feel the best they ever have.
• 12:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: First of all, like the Asaur rifle is carrying me through the game as I'm lining it up with headshots, burst bursting just because I played it in legendary all the way through and my first play through and some moments in legendary like you have to have an Asaur rifle.
• 12:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think you're doomed if you don't
• 12:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: However, they did add other weapons from the franchise, which I think is fucking awesome.
• 12:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: Obviously, the fuel rod, the sword and the central beam.
• 12:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: Those were not allowed to be used in the game, but they are in the game now.
• 12:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: And they also added the SMG, which feels right at home.
• 12:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: They also added the battle rifle, the needle rifle, and the beam rifle.
• 12:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I think that's everything.
• 12:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: And all of those weapons feel like they should have always been in campanable or combat evolved.
• 13:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: And that's kind of like the whole point of what this episode is about today is Yes, it's another remake a remake.
• 13:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think it's very well done by the way, but it's a remake that takes something you love and gives it more than just a fresh coat of paint.
• 13:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: It gives you new mechanics.
• 13:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: It gives you new level design It feels like a brand new experience I mean, I'm telling you if you play this game side by side, you'd like holy shit
• 13:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think that, you know, I think that campaign of all is the definitive way to play now, 100%.
• 13:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: I do hope that they had Firefight on the road.
• 13:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think that's just like something I can't stop thinking about is just such a missed opportunity that not having Firefight in the game, because the multiplayer I can kind of understand, you'd have to make a whole suite of game types, game modes, a bunch of maps, bring the maps back that already in the game.
• 13:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: It maybe adds some new ones for the prequels.
• 13:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: at a whole magic making system.
• 13:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: I get it.
• 13:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: There's definitely a lot more work there.
• 14:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: Some hoping would like Halo 2 or maybe Halo 3 that they do it.
• 14:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: I feel like there's no way they don't do the other two.
• 14:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think that the reception around this game has been pretty good so far.
• 14:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, I love it.
• 14:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm already 25 hours into the game and it's only Saturday, June 25th, as I'm recording this.
• 14:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: I have no life to hell out of this game, and it has been a treat to be able to do that.
• 14:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: So, whether you're considering it, whether you were on the fence about it, I can tell you with full confidence, if you like Taylor combat evolved, if you like Halo, you like Master Chief, you like Cortana, you like these characters, Sergeant Johnson, I think that you are making a mistake if you do not play this game.
• 14:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: But I mean, I just think that you would love it.
• 14:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: and then any of the PlayStation fans I really hope they all play it because this is like
• 14:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: This is awesome and I think it's so awesome that they get to play it like I said I hope Nintendo Switch gets it But I just mentioned John's in a little bit ago, and obviously Captain keys are there Those two voice actors Sergeant or I think it's Patrick's hacker.
• 15:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know I'm pretty against first name, but the guy who his name is last name stacker He's the voice of Captain keys and Sergeant stacker and then we have David Skulley who's a voice of Sergeant Johnson I believe both of them are retired.
• 15:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: I know it Captain keys guys for sure retired
• 15:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: So they got new voice actors, and I think that they do a pretty good job.
• 15:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: Honestly, the captain keys guys Captain keys guy the more I listen to it the more I like it Sergeant Johnson is definitely a lot harder to get used to in my opinion But I don't think it's like a bad thing.
• 15:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't think the voice actor did a bad job I think he actually did about as good as you probably could do Because his delivery is really good and his enunciation.
• 15:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: I like it a lot
• 15:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: So those are like a couple of other changes that you'll notice when you play the game You can technically do the whole aim-down side thing with the asariful, and I think it's really cool because it doesn't feel like if it feels like right at home That's the other thing to that I probably should have said at the top if you like Halo Infinite You're gonna love this game.
• 16:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: I know it's just the campaign, but like this game is like the culmination of all Halo's put into one
• 16:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: project as in like the mechanics, the gameplay, the feel of the guns, the design, and all feels like it led to this moment, and it's like a rebirth of the franchise.
• 16:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: I really do believe that.
• 16:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: I still think we should get a Halo Infinite too, at least that campaign.
• 16:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: But um,
• 16:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so it's really good.
• 16:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: I love the changes they've made to it.
• 16:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think that there is some unfortunate moments though we're Optimization definitely falls to the bad side.
• 16:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: There's parts on legendary where there's way too many enemies like I there is a part where
• 16:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: and truth and reconciliation when you go up the lift, which it's not a spoiler like it's literally part of the mission that you've probably already know.
• 16:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: However, on campaign remix, on legendary, I honestly don't know how it's possible to get past the part.
• 17:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: Like, I tried so hard and I made good progress and I don't know what else I could have done to survive.
• 17:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: There's also one part about legendary that's really infuriating that is why I can't give the game a 10.
• 17:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's the lack of like checkpoint consistency.
• 17:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: I also on truth and reconciliation, I would like fight waves and waves of people off that lift because as you know there's so many waves that come down before the hunters.
• 17:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: and I wouldn't get a checkpoint and then if I died, I would go all the way back to before it even started and I would have to clear out the area then have the people come down the gravel.
• 17:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: If you're familiar with this, that's a lot of shit to be taken away from you to redo.
• 17:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I think that's really infuriating because obviously you're playing on the hardest difficulty, you got harder odds.
• 17:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's really tough.
• 17:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think that this game is easily the hardest Halo since Halo 2.
• 17:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't even think it's a close competition.
• 17:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think Halo 3 is a cakewalk.
• 18:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: Halo 1 originals challenging, Halo reaches challenging, but not too hard.
• 18:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: Halo 3 is kinda like Halo 3 where it's challenging, but it's not hard.
• 18:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: like this game's hard for sure on legendary some part I will say though if you play in co-op it's not hard at all I died a couple of times when I was playing with a fan of the stream who you know was new and he asked if he could join I was like yeah man I'd love to because I'd like to try out co-op and I think I got him to library in three hours on legendary so
• 18:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: One of the things that they did in this game, it's another good feature that we really got a touch on because I don't want to forget it is the fact that there's 42 skulls now in the game It's the most any halos ever had and it kind of goes into that whole randomizer thing You have a lot of options that choose the way you play the game and wait the way you want it to be set and a couple of them that I'd like to touch on say And both of them were announced In trailers and stuff so they're not really spoilers
• 18:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: But there's a skull that switches the enemy factions around, so you can play the first mission of the game of the player of Autumn with the Flood, and it's so cool to be able to have that, especially if you're a Flood fan like myself, that just loves seeing the Flood and fighting them.
• 19:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: One of the other things that's like a really standout feature that I have always felt like, hey, Lush and have naturally, like, um, Elders trolls are fallout game, because there's
• 19:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: There's a scroll that's called Perspective and it's actually right behind Captain Keys at the very beginning of the mission I'll just tell you that because it's right at the beginning of the game So if you drop down right behind Captain Keys when it gives you the Magnum you can actually just go and grab that scroll and it allows you to play the game in third person
• 19:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: I wish there were still a toggle to go back and forth, but playing combat campaign evolved in third person is very satisfying.
• 19:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: It looks cool.
• 19:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: One of the skins that I wear looks like a full tactical, like guilly kind of situation.
• 19:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think it looks sick as fuck.
• 20:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: So the skulls in the game are really cool.
• 20:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: Again, I hope Firefight comes around.
• 20:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think there's just a giant missed opportunity with Firefight.
• 20:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think at least you could have done Firefight and you could have done it on so many levels.
• 20:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: I, when I was even playing the prequel missions, I was like, I'm pretty sure we could have had like two Firefight missions out of this.
• 20:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, I hope Firefight comes down the road.
• 20:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: I know that there is plan support with like skins at least so I'm hoping that Because of the success of the game where the interest in the game that they really push for Firefight I don't think we're gonna get multiplayer beyond that But I think a theater mode would be really cool too
• 20:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think if you add the theater mode and firefight it like this is a really good packet until we move forward with Halo to Reem the remake because I feel like there's no way they don't do it intent If you played the game then you already know Play it on legendary then you already know
• 20:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, we'll kind of move on to the prequel missions because I don't think I'm missing anything else.
• 20:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: All the vehicles feel good.
• 21:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: You can get in the rave this time around.
• 21:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: The scorpion feels really good.
• 21:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: The ward hog looks and feels better than ever.
• 21:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: I like it a lot.
• 21:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: At first it feels weird, it feels slow, but then I don't know where you kind of really get used to it.
• 21:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: And it feels great.
• 21:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: So I don't know what happened there.
• 21:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: I recommend changing your field of view to kind of have it go out a little bit more on the camera.
• 21:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: Talk about vehicles, weapons, characters, level design, the campaigns, campaign remakes.
• 21:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, we'll move on to the prequel missions.
• 21:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not gonna really say much because I changed my mind I do not want spoilers.
• 21:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: I want you guys to play these, but basically There's a set of three missions that involve the Master Chief in Sergeant Johnson infiltrating a Covenant cruiser to investigate something for O'Ney
• 21:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: And that's pretty much where I'll leave it because that's literally the first 30 seconds Actually, I think it tells you like it stars wetter crawl But the the point of the prequel missions was to showcase some things that you see within it To add a little bit more fun to the game and I think it does a good job of that and then also show the relationship between Johnson and Chief
• 22:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: Which I think they did a pretty good job.
• 22:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think some of the the writing could have been better for these missions, but There's one part that people have a huge issue with with a certain character and I think that if you're familiar with the lore You'll understand why this character acts the way that she does and I think it's perfectly fine.
• 22:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think maybe the writing like the verbage her itself probably could have been a little bit better but She definitely feels a type of way for a reason and it happens in the halo lore.
• 22:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: So
• 22:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: You're going to know what exactly what I'm talking about when you see it and just understand that You can do a quick Google search and see that this is how these characters acted towards another character I'm not trying to spoil anything.
• 22:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: Anyways, I love the missions a lot I think that it would have been cool to maybe even get a couple more Maybe even worn down the road.
• 23:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know
• 23:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: I like the idea though of adding prequel missions, I would say another critique that I do have, which I've seen a lot of people talk about, and I kind of appreciate the conversation because I think that there is room for improvement with hopefully a Halo 2 remake is that they add cut content.
• 23:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: So obviously they added voice lines as I mentioned earlier that we couldn't make it in the original game where it just didn't But I wish there was like full on like cut levels and Maybe a couple cut levels and maybe a couple cut experiences that made a level even longer I definitely think there's something to be said there about that but At the end of the day, I still love what they did and I think that this package for its price point If you get the regular one, I think it's like 50 or 60 bucks
• 23:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think this game is 100% worth of time.
• 23:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think if you're a Halo fan, you want to get back into Halo.
• 23:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: If you're a PlayStation fan, who's curious about Halo, this game is 100% for you.
• 23:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: I love it a lot.
• 23:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think this game is an easy 9 out of 10 for me.
• 24:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's my rating right now.
• 24:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm 25 hours and then I almost have all the achievements.
• 24:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: I still want to play Lasso and hate myself, but this game has really, really reignited my love for Halo, not that I needed it, but it reminded me of why combat evolved is so important, and I would say that statement alone as why this game is worth playing, because if it wasn't for combat evolved, there's so many first-person shooters and experiences that wouldn't probably exist today, because combat evolved pushed the boundary of what can be done with the first-person shooters on console.
• 24:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: So, we owe them a great debt of appreciation, but we're not without their, they're not without their faults, and I think that to a degree that you got to critique it.
• 24:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: You got to critique it, and there's got to be some change.
• 24:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: I do think a lot of Halo fans out there are really annoying right now though, if they want to call themselves fans, because
• 24:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think some of the discourse online is just absolutely ridiculous.
• 24:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think some of it is valid and then a lot of it is just irritating and annoying.
• 24:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: And you definitely got to block out the noise and just take this experience for what it is.
• 25:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: And just play it yourself, form your own opinion, and let me know what you think.
• 25:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: Do you agree with what I said today?
• 25:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: Do you actually hate the game?
• 25:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: I would love to hear if you hate the game.
• 25:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I'm sorry that you did, but I'm sure you got a good reason for it.
• 25:18
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• 25:21
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• 25:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: I wish we brought back the mail bag So I need you guys to send in some questions, but I appreciate it so much And thank you for listening today.
• 25:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: I hope you have a great week.
• 25:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: I hope you're happy and healthy And just thank you for giving me any time of the day and I'll see you on the next episode