I like to brag.

And @Tiel, I tip my hat to you.

I would actually like to know where you would find good voice actors too, I need some custom dialog for stuff.

I can voice act Masters. Rather nicely too apparently.

I find people that sound decent(most come from the choir dept.) and ask. they mostly say yes, I take em to the recording booth, give them a script, the business is done.

If you want voice acting, feel free to contact me. I did a few misc lines for Matt and his sp campaign. I can send you the wavs if you question my ability to voice.
Edited by XlzQwerty1 on Jun 6, 2013 at 01:14 AM

So from what I can gather, people mostly agree to #1-4(right?) and the rest are basically ramblings of a madman. However, I would still like to elaborate on some points which I was not able to do earlier because I forgot that Halomaps has no autosave feature(sigh. It happened while I was forking on commandment #8 too).

By dialogue, I do not necessary mean voice acting. The dialogue can still be delivered RPG style through text just like Covert OPs. The reason why Earthbound has such a cult following is because of it's personality that it is able to achieve through it's dialogue. Unlike other RPGs, Earthbound's dialogue are not used primarily to move the story along. They are passive yes but they are just so entertaining to read that you just go hunting for them.

This is what I think will make Halo much more phenomenal than it already is. Halo was the Crysis of the time. The environments were gorgeous. The ambience played in the background really do set the mood and fits perfectly into the environment. None of that matters though if the player simply runs through to the next firefight. I realised how lonely the Truth and Reconciliation is even without the marines. Cortana was a lost potential in that game really. In the moments of the game where those two were alone, tons of dialogue could be had that would have been somewhat witty given Bungie's writing. It would make the level 343 guilty spark that more phenomenal when you do not have your little A.I. friend talking to you anymore really making it more tone changing and erry. Guilty spark may not even be hated as much if he gave advice along the way helping the player out replacing the position of cortana while she was gone.

So whenever you reach the part of truth and Reconciliation where you are in a room with huge controls in the middle, stop. Go up that pedestal, look at the controls then role play. When I did this, I imagined cortana hacking into the covenant weapons cache(cheat_all_weapons). I then got the Cheer carbine(it plays marine cheering sounds when it is fired and has an incredibly powerful knockback) and jump all over the place like a spoiled brat because that gun is just so fun to play with. Cortana questions why I would want that weapon out of all the others especially since it doesn't seem to do much damage but I just kept firing wildly running head on into some jackals.She then called me a kid and went silent after that. People really should make dialogue like this in their maps just to add more personality to them(Hell, I would play a bloodgulch SP mod if it has dialogue in it)

Yeah, the original was supposed to be lengthier than this. I supposed that it really didn't matter since they did kinda got redundant after #4. Also, you know how hunters can't do friendly fire to each other because the A.I would kill their own teammates? Do the same for marines! Give them a rocket launcher and they would kill their entire squad...and me! I could have sworn most of my deaths were because I was shot in the back by a bullet(I saw that bullet trail marine! It went right through the side of my helmet!)
-Zekilk
(Hah! Ctrl+C! You can't erase my post into oblivion now "Error occurred while processing request")
Edited by cyboryxmen on Jun 6, 2013 at 07:58 AM

Smoothing groups work in halo ce, nuff said. Halo applies the whole model with one smoothing group, and different smoothing groups basically have its mesh and vertices separated from the rest.

No, not really. I can't see the point in them other than to make an already easy game even easier.



Nobody hated Guilty Spark during that level. He was on your side, at least for the time being.



Slight contradiction. You appreciated the eery ambience of T&R yet want Cortana to be cracking jokes the entire time?



Eurgh.

I kinda knew that I lost the ability to convey clear concise information after I stopped participating in forums. Instead of using that horrible example of mine, put games like Bastion and Thomas was Alone and Portal into mind. Those games were praised for their narration and I would assume that you would know of em.

Also, how would commandment #1,2 and 4 make the game easy? The active camouflage is there. I never found use of it since the encounter in the room it was in was kinda easy with the marines around. Only when all the marines died and I was 1 firefight away from rescuing Keyes with one bar of health that I found use of the powerup but had to backtrack my way back to get it. That's not making the game harder, it's just more monotonous. Not to mention the convoluted idea that you would get the very powerup that you need in an encounter inside the very same room. It would be better to allow the player to carry those powerups and use them when they feel when it is appropriate.

The suggestion to remove difficulty settings was put in mind to get rid of easy and normal difficulties so that people can focus on balancing on heroic and legendary. The SP maps that I have played(lumoria...) are horribly unbalanced on legendary and heroic and it is obvious that people cannot balance maps for 4 different difficulty settings. They might as well design the map on a specific difficulty by making each difficulty setting the same. This would help the poor sod who knows nothing and dares to choose to play on legendary or heroic on a very specific map(dat boss fight!). Modders just can't balance the game for 4 different difficulties. I'm not saying that they should always balance the game with Heroic difficulty or higher in mind but we should really just focus on one difficulty.

#1 was also annoying too as no amount of skill will help you win once you are smacked over the edge. No amount of skill can save you from that. It would make the game harder but that doesn't mean that the game is not a douche for doing something like that. Games like Bioshock Infinite already removed killboxes and we should follow suit. #3 is debatable but no one seems interested in talking about that one which is odd. Surely someone would have an opinion on our beloved regenerating health system?
-Zekilk
Edited by cyboryxmen on Jun 6, 2013 at 09:16 AM

Disection time! Quickly! Fetch my Scalpel!

Doing something like what exactly? I can't remember the game throwing me off cliffs.

Please wait until your account is at least a day old before asserting your opinions, regarding people's work. Unless Lumoria looks at other Lumorias sexually, It's impossible for Lumoria to be 'gay'.