Out for delivery as of 8:56 a.m., an hour and a half ago. C'mon, the UPS location is five minutes away from my apartment! Let's go!
^ Tell me about, I'll probably have to wait until Friday. Damn you, Royal Mail/Deutsche Post DHL, DAMN YOU TO HELL
Started playing at quarter to 10 this morning, had a break for about an hour around 1ish, and ive just completed it at quarter to 5. Great game, but bloody short. EDIT: Make that 5 to 5.
Oh, only normal. So it was fairly easy, I just feel the spaces arent that expansive. Your only gonna get more time just with harder enemies, and while that kinda is how its "supposed" to be, I think its pretty cheap. Same with the multiplayer maps. Except Forge World, EVERY SINGLE MAP is in the Campaign. With only very minor alterations too. That seems a lil cheap as well to me.
My copy just arrived a few minutes ago. I now have a decision to make: after lunch, do I play Reach... or do I actually watch my Middle Eastern Politics lecture? Choices, choices... That was a conscious design decision. Bungie felt that doing so would tie multiplayer and single-player campaigns together, rather than having two entirely separate, disjointed experiences as had normally been the case in the past.
Xbox Live Halo: Reach Poll Question of the Day: "How much time do you plan on missing from work/school to play Halo: Reach this week?" 1) None. After hours is all I can do. 2) Shhh. I am sick... cough, cough. 3) Halo is my job and I take n00bs to school. 4) I might need a new job/school after this week. Love it! There's also a free invasion theme available; find it on the Spotlight channel. Installing the game to hdd right now so that it's all ready for me to play when I can get to it.
Dear Amazon.com... Fuck you! --- This is what I wake up to this morning They're refunding my shipping charges... big damned deal, it was a whopping 99 cents! And that whole "shipping now" was also BS as I have still yet to receive a shipping notice. Fortunately a friend of mine is going to get his, so I'll be over there...
Gaaaahhh! I just got home from work a few minutes ago, and my copy still isn't here. I must be like on one of the last parts of UPS' delivery route or something, because it's been marked as "out for delivery" since 8:40 AM.
Important note: While Halo 3 was developed before installation to the hard drive was even rumored, much less an option, Halo: Reach benefits greatly from installation (to the tune of load times reduced by 15 - 30 seconds).
I thought the load times (competed to Halo 3 and ODST) were great just playing from the disc. Especially in multiplayer, where it used to take up a minute for me to load a map, now it can load Forge world in about 20 seconds tops.
Spartans can't drive worth shit. Note to self: Driving a forklift into a group of Covenant is not advisable.
Whereas the entire covenant army is psychic and can predict your every move. The enemy AI is scarily impressive. I just wish friendlies were on par with Halo 1 AI....
I got it about half an hour after my post, of course. It is glorious. I still prefer CoD's controls (heresy! ), but I love the Halo universe, and Bungie's presentation is top notch, as always.