What Are You Working On?

Discussion in 'Halo and Forge Discussion' started by ForgeHub, Jul 12, 2013.

  1. icyhotspartin

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    buy a switch and play Mario tennis online tourneys
    its a trip
     
  2. Zombievillan

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    Not too impressed with the finalists. There’s definitely some good ones but there are a couple of questionable choices. I don’t want to say the names lol but there are at least 2 that left me scratching my head.

    I knew I wouldn’t make it, I only forged 2 maps in that game and only one supported 4v4 and it was a boring 2 base 2 tower symmetrical map. Oh wait... isn’t that the criteria for elite competitive gameplay?!!?!!
     
  3. icyhotspartin

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    total sidetrack from all conversation going on right now

    I am not joking when I say Mario tennis is the king of online competitive gameplay right now
    especially the simple mode that's basically just tennis
    one movement speed
    parrying and positioning
    pushing and defending
    its just such a good game (minus the hitboxes, but its Nintendo so whatever)

    sidetrack 2:

    If any of you are drivers, take a trip over to the Nacimiento-Fergusson road just south of Big Sur,
    my god what an experience
     
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  4. MultiLockOn

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    Dude I ****ing LOVED Mario Tennis and Mario Strikers on gamecube, I'm super tempted.
     
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  5. Xandrith

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    thanks for the assessment soldat! It's good to know that epic is a balenced map

    btw if you still pick your own maps whenever anything like contests or playlists are brought up, you still haven't graduated from your "forger status"
     
  6. HeX Reapers

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    what status
     
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  7. no god anywhere

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    "Today we announced that we are working with some incredible talent to bring you an epic new story experience set in the Halo Universe, the Halo TV series. SHOWTIME brings its powerful legacy of experience in building stories for premium cable and together with Amblin Television and legendary storyteller Steven Spielberg, have been gracious partners in helping put together the right creative team to bring Halo to television. We are thrilled to have experienced showrunner Kyle Killen (Lone Star) and blockbuster director Rupert Wyatt (Rise of the Planet of the Apes) on board, both of whom bring their own flavor of vision, intelligence, and voice to Halo."

    This is going straight to limbo. Who wants to place bets?
     
  8. icyhotspartin

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    last weekend I spent 3 days playing it nonstop at a friend's house (except to eat,sleep,****,shower), its that tight
    stay away from the standard mode if you don't want the magical super moves and slo-mo to get in the way, its like two different games
     
  9. icyhotspartin

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    Just like the last 3 times it was teased
     
  10. a Chunk

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    Shamelessly stolen from here
     
  11. CHUCK

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    i might have to get that mario tennis game
     
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  12. Goat

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    This is probably the most meta Halo image I've seen.
     
  13. K a n t a l o p e

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    Dude this new Overwatch character is dope af. There better be a pizzaball skin for him or I'll fukkin cheddar all over Kaplan's cherry ass
     
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  14. Xandrith

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    So apparently Schnitzel had a conversation with a judge about the recent finalists, and this is in part what was said to Schnitzel.

    "We're trying to balance what we think is best, what we think 343 would like, and what we think the community would like."

    Okay.

    Assuming that the judges are competent, they are judging on the basis of satisfying 2 other less competent groups of people along with themselves. 343 can't be trusted with map choice, as we've seen in the past, and neither does the community at large know what it wants.

    And that's assuming these guys actually know what they're doing.

    What a stupid way to judge a contest. That's beyond frustrating to read. Isn't the entire point of electing a judge to put the results of a contest in the hands of a select few because the community at large isn't capable? Why else would we need judges!? We could just vote on every contest!

    I don't even care about the results so far. One of the two maps I submitted is in the finals, so please don't try to play this off as if I'm just disenchanted. I just can't stand to see every Forgehub contest go down the drain because of this sort of thing. It's beyond predictable at this point.

    Maybe we should look at the one contest that ever subsisted without some sort of scandal or extreme negligence, and learn from it. Maybe we shouldn't just pick moderators and admins as judges, as if their status magically grants them the ability to judge. Maybe we don't hold good maps back in the name of diversity because having multiple maps by one person in the finals would be "unfair". Maybe every Forgehub contest doesn't have to be an absolute joke.

    It's worth thinking about.
     
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  15. Goat

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    overwatch with bots might be my new favorite thing to play
     
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  16. Goat

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    The point of a contest is to select the best maps according to a certain criteria.

    If

    -what we [judges] think is best
    -what we think 343 would like
    -what we think the community would like

    is the criteria, then it doesn't matter who is "competent". Isn't this for a playlist?

    If you're driving your family on a road trip nd you're making a CD to play, don't you need to consider what everyone in the car can enjoy, and not just what is musically tasteful or pleasing to the driver? Because i sure as hell know i'm not getting in the car if thr driver is a taylor swift fan

    I don't know anything about the maps, so maybe they all suck and the concern is justified. But Halo is dad and MCC is step dad. Who actually still cares about judging? The day Gurf was snubbed is the day FH contests lost all credibility.
     
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  17. MultiLockOn

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    Who were the judges for this contest? Let me know so I can criticize them and tell them I would've done better.
     
  18. Xandrith

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    The car analogy is missing the point. On a family road trip, it is assumed that everyone's music tastes are equally important and usually means everyone gets to pick a song. Nobody in this scenario was elected. That's not even close to how judging a contest works. Like I already said, if everyone's opinions were of equal value in relation to maps, then why do we even use judges? We could just vote on everything at that point.

    I also said that I don't care about the maps. I really don't. This isn't about that. It's just a silly way to run contests and Forgehub will have a real mess on their hands come time for the inevitable honeymoon phase of the next Halo.
     
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  19. Goat

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    No **** that. I'm not letting my brothers put on their shitty hiphop.

    Car analogy considers what is listenable to everyone, not what each person wants represented, or what only one person want's to hear. It's closer to picking a restaurant that everyone likes, even when one person thinks one specific restaurants is the best, as opposed to not going to a foodcourt with a million restaurants.

    At least that's what I was getting at.

    But ya if ForgeHub doesn't have fixed judging criteria for Halo 6, this drama will happen again.... if there's anyone around to still care.
     
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  20. Xandrith

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    Except your scneario isn't a restaurant competition, where someone was elected to pick the best place to eat. If whoever judged that competition took the "community" into account for that, the winning restaurant would be McDonald's. That's the point. Your analogy isn't comparable.
     
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