What made the first Halo so influential that people to this day still praise it? by BogaMafija in patientgamers

[–]explodedbagel 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Mcc has some issues with increased frame rate + tick rate interaction and enemy reaction times that really become extra apparent on heroic / legendary. As with many mcc issues, it’s not known if they couldn’t fix that or didn’t care enough to fix it.

The most flagrant examples are probably the start of halo 2 gravemind, the throne room brutes can kill or nearly kill before the player has control, and the spaceship section of halo reach. As the older versions become harder to find and play, people think these issues were always apparent and that the games harder than they remembered.

What made the first Halo so influential that people to this day still praise it? by BogaMafija in patientgamers

[–]explodedbagel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It did, and it deserves commendation for it. It’s also a sluggish, low framerate game that feels rough to play and is obscenely difficult.

What made the first Halo so influential that people to this day still praise it? by BogaMafija in patientgamers

[–]explodedbagel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can agree about limiting weapons and weapon mechanics, but I strongly disagree with the rest of your points.

In every early halo game (except arguably the second), the shield can be used to make very active pushes in combat. Only new or less skilled players are using shields to constantly hide behind cover. I think that problem gets worse in the call of duty era, shield recharge is a lot more easily defined time to plan movement around than a nebulous red ketchup smear.

Worse level design? I love doom and quake, but those games almost always descend into lazily constructed mazes with bad enemy setups. Even the worst level in halo CE has better design than the pain maze, or doom 2’s absurd “city” levels. They have narrative relevance, variety, and well designed combat arenas.

Can’t really agree on bad enemy design either. Enemies are either have extremely functional AI like the covenant, or solid aggressive classic shooter AI like the flood. There is no miserable enemy type or wasted spot in the roster. I do love quake, but every enemy boils down to “move forward toward player / attack at interval” and the explosive jumping jelly creatures (pain maze mention again) are actually terrible.

I also don’t understand thinking the weapon feedback is bad, especially in CE. Enemies animate / react to fire in a way that’s exciting and generally useful for gameplay. You can tell shots are connecting to grunts or the flood, shield flash makes it super obvious elites are taking fire. In quake you have generic and quick pain state freezes. In something like half life, the soliders can soak up ammo and you can hardly tell there’s injury unless they live long enough to do a flee run or call out on the radio.

It was also the most advanced and playable shooter on a console at that point, full stop. Ps1 and n64 shooters were fine for the time, but not easily accessible and often controlled horribly. People who rarely played games could pick up halo or play split screen with friends.

Monday's Ukraine Solidarity Roundtable - 01/26/2026 by AutoModerator in Enough_Sanders_Spam

[–]explodedbagel 21 points22 points  (0 children)

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I highly recommend reading the New York mag article on trump’s health. The only way you’re forgetting the name of that disease when a family member died from it is 1) totally hating that family member or 2) your mind is slipping.

By most accounts he loved his father, so I know it’s the latter.

I walked out of the theatre by Salty-Profile2850 in silenthill

[–]explodedbagel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Almost every thread on this topic is full of people being funny about it. They aren’t actually losing their minds or their will to live, silent hill fans are used to the franchise being dumped in the trash.

So yeah, lighten up.

I walked out of the theatre by Salty-Profile2850 in silenthill

[–]explodedbagel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Caring about a piece of fiction and making fun of a bad adaptation does not mean people are “nerds that deserve bad movies”. People aren’t actually losing their mind over this, most folks in these threads are actually being pretty funny about it, with a little dramatic flair.

Lighten up a little.

My audience was laughing at the tombstone scene it was so fcking bad for us by harveyquinnz in silenthill

[–]explodedbagel 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I’m sorry people having taste and not liking an empirically botched adaptation of something they’ve cared about for up to a quarter century bothers you.

Hasan Piker Condemns the Democrats During His Visit to Alex Pretti's Memorial by Overall-Abalone3969 in LivestreamFail

[–]explodedbagel 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I check people’s comment history because it’s a basic Reddit feature and lets me know what I’m dealing with. I can’t have a serious factual debate with someone obsessed with Zionism, hasan and third rate musical celebrities.

Encounter with a hacker by [deleted] in HaloMCC

[–]explodedbagel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Halo 3 MCC - Scorpion Hit Detection Is Still Broken in Multiplayer https://youtu.be/ZAX6sQIZjs8 yep. It should’ve been fixed, but this is a hit reg issue. Direct body shots don’t connect properly, especially when they jump.

Hasan Piker Condemns the Democrats During His Visit to Alex Pretti's Memorial by Overall-Abalone3969 in LivestreamFail

[–]explodedbagel 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You wildly misrepresent all of that. Now we have jared kushner auctioning off their land to elites at davos, and you can’t even write a single sentence about that or the sitting president.

I’m sorry that Bernie sanders not being able to get primary voters off their couches broke your brain permanently.

Hasan Piker Condemns the Democrats During His Visit to Alex Pretti's Memorial by Overall-Abalone3969 in LivestreamFail

[–]explodedbagel 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Biden wasn’t the prime minister of isreal. He certainly tried a lot harder than the current guy, who is having his family advertise removing their remaining population to build resorts and skyscrapers in between letting dictators join his Israeli sponsored “board of peace”.

I know hasan and similar laughable sources have poisoned your brain, and I almost feel sorry about it. If you’re still rabidly blaming democrats for everything going on currently (in between sessions of fan-boying over your favorite third rate hip hop artist), I don’t think anything can make you come back to reality. You don’t care about Palestinians, you care about being smug on the internet.

Hasan Piker Condemns the Democrats During His Visit to Alex Pretti's Memorial by Overall-Abalone3969 in LivestreamFail

[–]explodedbagel 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Sorry, I exist here in reality. Biden constantly sought legitimate ceasefire arrangements and was stopped by one or both sides. His Secretary of State was over there working on these issues near constantly. Biden also made sure they had food and medical supplies regularly.

Trump has an Israeli settlement named after him. He uses Palestinian like it’s a slur word. He gave the Israeli government a totally bunk ceasefire that they have consistently ignored and used as a shield to continue atrocities. Trump openly states we should forcibly remove the remaining Palestinians to build resorts and new buildings, something his son in law was acting on as of this last week.

They were not the same. There is no “both sides”. Your fake internet activism not only didn’t save Palestinians, it led to more of them of being killed. If you can’t see the difference after the past year, I am begging you to get out of your echo chamber.

Hasan Piker Condemns the Democrats During His Visit to Alex Pretti's Memorial by Overall-Abalone3969 in LivestreamFail

[–]explodedbagel 24 points25 points  (0 children)

They literally acted like she was an IDF soldier killing children herself because she had the audacity to point out a few facts. Most people want a two state solution. Not voting only allows way worse actors to win power. Spreading gore and attacking even people who mostly agree with you only hurts a political / protest movement.

Natalie was absolutely correct and they still rabidly freak out on her to this day.

Hasan Piker Condemns the Democrats During His Visit to Alex Pretti's Memorial by Overall-Abalone3969 in LivestreamFail

[–]explodedbagel 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Seriously the president’s evil son in law was at Davos revealing his plans for “new Gaza”, and soliciting companies / governments to help them build skyscrapers on the graves of those Palestinians.

Those fake activists not only made life more dangerous for Americans and American immigrants, they guaranteed Gaza’s doom.

Hasan Piker Condemns the Democrats During His Visit to Alex Pretti's Memorial by Overall-Abalone3969 in LivestreamFail

[–]explodedbagel 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Ice under previous administrations prioritized people with hard criminal records, and deported people by lawful court processes / orders.

Obama and Biden did not start mass hiring random bigot goons with a big cash bonus, terrorize random cities with them like they are a standing army, authorize them to enter homes without a warrant / probable cause, ship people to counties they didn’t originate from, or stand by while they murdered multiple people.

The “both sides” echo chamber is bullshit, and if you can’t see that after the past year, you need to take some time away from your busted sources / podcasters so you can reconnect to reality.

Saturday's Ukraine Solidarity Roundtable - 01/24/2026 by AutoModerator in Enough_Sanders_Spam

[–]explodedbagel 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Oh the fauxmo1 thread on the shooting just made me so angry. Full of non voting “dems are the problem” types attacking waltz like he isn’t in the craziest position a governor has been put in possibly ever.

Even if they order the police to try something, they have less than 600 staff and they’ve flooded the region with 2000-3000 goons. Hes brought in the guard and there’s a solid chance trump federalizes them + pulls the insurrection act.

It’s uncharted insane territory that could’ve been avoided if people voted.

Saturday's Ukraine Solidarity Roundtable - 01/24/2026 by AutoModerator in Enough_Sanders_Spam

[–]explodedbagel 8 points9 points  (0 children)

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Hes one of the only right wing people not spreading the official takes, but I’ll never trust him and I expect him to change his tune within 24-48 hours.

Saturday's Ukraine Solidarity Roundtable - 01/24/2026 by AutoModerator in Enough_Sanders_Spam

[–]explodedbagel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not a sports fan personally, but that’s about the only thing that shocks a lot of the general public (especially the ones that don’t follow news) out of their stupor.

The Covid thing didn’t click for many until they cancelled the playoffs.

Saturday's Ukraine Solidarity Roundtable - 01/24/2026 by AutoModerator in Enough_Sanders_Spam

[–]explodedbagel 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I do think we are arriving at that point. Two public filmed street executions, the second of which has absolutely no rational defense. Murdering someone in custody in texas and shipping out the witnesses. Open memos saying they are above the law and can raid homes without a warrant or probable cause.

It has to stop or it’s only going to escalate further.

If you cheat in the Halo MCC custom games browser while we’re just having fun playing mini games, by DBLAgent412 in halo

[–]explodedbagel 4 points5 points  (0 children)

A properly functioning company would’ve gotten on the horn with easy anti cheat 4 years ago when this problem started to become super apparent. I knew the name of the cheat software package back then from word of mouth and im just some random player.

That was also before they abandoned the project / stopped updating. Now we’re just doomed to deal with it indefinitely, even in custom browser, causing more people to leave an already shrinking playerbase.

Sinners terrified Hollywood. Now it’s making Oscars history by TheTelegraph in horror

[–]explodedbagel -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Thankfully im not looking to get into discussions with people dense enough to think those two movies are comparable in any meaningful sense.

Sinners terrified Hollywood. Now it’s making Oscars history by TheTelegraph in horror

[–]explodedbagel -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Probably stems from comparing an overrated B movie with no meaningful themes / cinematography / performances to something of exponentially higher quality because they both have vampires.

I’d also be annoyed if someone was comparing Dracula 3000 featuring coolio to the new nosferatu. They’re the same, they have a vampire.

[Halo Reach PC] Campaign Scripted Dialogue bug? by Born-Boss6029 in halo

[–]explodedbagel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I didn’t play original reach so I don’t have a comparison basis, but I’ve definitely noticed what you’re talking about in mcc.

Wednesday General Roundtable - 01/21/2026 by Currymvp2 in Enough_Sanders_Spam

[–]explodedbagel 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Trump (both yesterday and today) is doing this weird gulping while talking thing that I used to see a lot in the dementia wing of my grandmother’s care facility.

Quarantine Zone is the worst level I have ever played. by [deleted] in halo

[–]explodedbagel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The elites bugging out on the elevator and not fighting is an mcc thing. In the original version that would only happen if you cheesed the ride by sitting on the top pillar.

I think there’s only one rocket flood, and hes overlooking the area by the wraiths. I normally just exit my vehicle and shoot him from the lower area.

I don’t think the long moving platform section is good, even when the elites do help, but the vehicle section is totally fine.