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Day 198 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots (lemmy.world)
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Today's game is Halo Reach. Me and a friend were going to play Halo 2 but for some reason MCC on steam only downloaded Reach, so we played that instead. We found a pair of forklifts and while the NPCs handled the fighting we drove them around and crashed into eachother. You can see the battle above taking place. finally after a while we progressed through the mission.

The whole game gives me kind of skyrim vibes, and also Half Life 2. I think it's the car and the highway like infrastructure remind me of HL2 and the environment reminding me of Skyrim. There's a lot of snow everywhere and there were even some glaciers we drove past.

The game also gave me a great chance to test out my new gaming rig. I am proud to say it handled it at 4k, at max settings at a stable 60 fps. I was going to push for 120 but for some reason i guess my monitor can't do that despite me being 100% sure it could. I even had it hooked up via DP.

The game is really pretty. I really liked this mountain region. It reminded me of Far Cry 4, with all those high up peaks and things you could climb. That game was also really pretty when i played through it.

Overall i really like reach. The powerup system has been fun to play with and it looks really pretty. After Halo 2 i might go back and finish it.

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[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh, yeah. Reach is worth finishing.

There's some great stuff.

Spoilers for Reach

  • I personally found it very satisfying that the mission leading up to a space battle actually then includes participating in the space battle, and it's fun. Most games would cutscene past what the game engine couldn't handle, or would include a barely playable space battle. The one in Reach was a nice surprise.
  • The cutscene after taking down the space station is easily among the top 10 video game cutscenes, for me. It may be the most Spartan thing ever Spartan-ed.
  • The end fight is pretty unique. I replayed it recently with my kid, and I was amused by the respect it earned with him. I can't even put it in a spoiler tag, though.
[–] MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

i've heard good things about the ending fight. I'm really excited to get too it. I wish i hadn't spoiled it for myself years ago though

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

I wish i hadn't spoiled it for myself years ago though

For what it's worth, I read the book the game was based on, before playing the game, so I knew

(vague nature of a Reach spoiler)how the ending would go
in advance, but it still works great, even when spoiled. The game really earns it, so it works even if it's not a surprise.

But that's why I still can't even include it inside a spoiler tag. Feels best to let folks find it themselves, who don't already know.