Halo3: Gone Bye Bye
posted by Jaitu at 10:30
I've been playing Halo3 for a while now and enjoying it as much as I had expected. There's supposed to be some kind of grand story in there but either it's not very clear or I just stopped paying attention somewhere in the first game. To be honest I think it's both. The plot seems to be that someone wants to blow stuff up and we mustn't let them. To prevent them blowing stuff up we have to blow a load of stuff up. When a major blowing things up based victory is achieved we all celebrate until something important to us unexpectedly blows up and then we have to head of to blow something up. Ultimately we catch up with the guy who wants to blow stuff up and dispatch them only to find a former enemy who recently became an ally against the blowing-things-up guy is now a greater enemy than before. The only way to end this new and even more deadly than ever threat is to blow something up.
That's the point I'm at now.
Truthfully the plot doesn't matter to me. Just keep giving somewhere to run and something to gun.
One issue I have with the game is the way that save-games seem to be dealt with. On first loading the game for a session the main menu has an option to "Resume Solo Game" which will start you back where you last left off. While there are copious checkpoints during each level in each chapter unless you "Save and Quit" while playing you will generally only resume from the start of the last full level. I must not have saved the session before last as when I resumed I restarted about an hour and a half's worth of game play prior to where I was last. The frustrating thing is that you cannot continue the Solo game from anywhere you like within the areas that you have completed. You can pick and choose when launching a co-op campaign but this then overwrites your Solo progress leaving with just the option to start the Solo game from the very beginning once more. This was the position I found myself in last night. So as a result I am now playing the game as a co-op mission but on my own.
I think I must be somewhere near completion. I have seen the death of Truth and the rise once more of The Flood and am now embarking on the mission to detonate the partially constructed Halo.
Hopefully next time I play it'll be from that same place.
That's the point I'm at now.
Truthfully the plot doesn't matter to me. Just keep giving somewhere to run and something to gun.
One issue I have with the game is the way that save-games seem to be dealt with. On first loading the game for a session the main menu has an option to "Resume Solo Game" which will start you back where you last left off. While there are copious checkpoints during each level in each chapter unless you "Save and Quit" while playing you will generally only resume from the start of the last full level. I must not have saved the session before last as when I resumed I restarted about an hour and a half's worth of game play prior to where I was last. The frustrating thing is that you cannot continue the Solo game from anywhere you like within the areas that you have completed. You can pick and choose when launching a co-op campaign but this then overwrites your Solo progress leaving with just the option to start the Solo game from the very beginning once more. This was the position I found myself in last night. So as a result I am now playing the game as a co-op mission but on my own.
I think I must be somewhere near completion. I have seen the death of Truth and the rise once more of The Flood and am now embarking on the mission to detonate the partially constructed Halo.
Hopefully next time I play it'll be from that same place.
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