OK, so I just started playing this game recently, but I have to say that the level "The Library" when you're trying to get the index and fighting the flood, might be the worst level I have ever played in the history of video games.
It was just a repetitive board with a never-ending flow of bad guys. The little things didn't even warrant fighting, seeing as they couldn't really hurt you at all. I could not wait for that horrificly boring level to end. Ugh, just terrible.
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Then stop playing on Easy, try that level on Legendary and actaully fight until there is no more and THEN move on to the next.
Your opinion may be correct compass, but then, this is a game, not a film and playability is of the essence. Because you have to control the character, how fun the game is shouldn't suffice to this symbolism and messages about character. It may give the impression that Guilty Spark doesn't give a crap about you, but what is more in people's minds when playing this level is how utterly dull it is to play.
To the OP, I agree 100%, this level almost made me stop playing the game. It was so repetitive. But for me it wasn't just this level, it was all the levels that take place indoors. In all these levels, the action takes place in really repetitive, dull rooms that look exactly the same as the last one and you're forced to shoot the same types of enemies about a million times over. Someone told me that the repetition and dullness is a homage to old school shooters like Wolfenstein 3D and all I say to them is, these shooters were changed and advanced for a reason. At least the outdoor levels have some ingenuity (and vehicles), but then you are fighting the same 7 classes of enemies over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over. Come to think of it, multiplayer is the only good thing about this game and the sheer number of hackers on the PC version is now destroying that.
I think that level was supposed to feel like hell, to try and get the player to experience the, dare I say, horror of having to go through all of that...it feels that way in the game, its written in that kind of way in the book...and I think Bungie pulled it off.
Same way with the Cortana level in Halo 3, that level makes you feel like sh!t because its so, can't find the word, difficult, crazy, intense, but when you get to the payoff, when you find Cortana, it makes it all the more worth it.
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you are fighting the same 7 classes of enemies over and over and over...
I agree, quality over quantity. At least the Elites and Grunts had different difficulty levels and unique weapons every once in a while. But at their core, they were perfectly balanced and functional as enemies.
And while I do find the Flood annoying, I can understand that they're SUPPOSED to be annoying. They're the potential extinction of entire galaxies worth of species. Every level with them is annoying because they are like super zombies. Fast, deadly, smart and capable of using weapons, aka, the kind of zombie that would leave even Ash and Doom Guy peeing their pants. And here MC is, one Spartan against an extremely deadly and numerous force. They spell doom for almost all if not contained, and as such, fighting them should reflect that power. The Library level is hell, because it represents the kind of hell that the Flood could unleash on any group of remaining resistance if they ever spread beyond control, hell, they were enough of a reason to glass part of Africa. Considering how devastating it was to lose Reach, I'm pretty sure that allowing part of your freaking home planet to suffer such a fate would be the last thing anyone would want, but the Flood force is hellish enough to warrant and justify that kind of destruction.
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That was a frustrating level but that's partly due to the sudden realism of ammo becoming an issue when faced with superior numbers.
Out of desperation I learned that you could flip weapons forward in order to have ready to use options with you.
This was especially useful when you get locked in that small space, I kept a fully loaded rocket launcher and some stickies to take care of four or five waves as they were coming out of the walls ... then run, shoot, hop, run, shoot, repeat :)
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That was a frustrating level but that's partly due to the sudden realism of ammo becoming an issue when faced with superior numbers.
Out of desperation I learned that you could flip weapons forward in order to have ready to use options with you.
This was especially useful when you get locked in that small space, I kept a fully loaded rocket launcher and some stickies to take care of four or five waves as they were coming out of the walls ... then run, shoot, hop, run, shoot, repeat :)
It's probably the hardest level on Legendary difficulty.
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Agreed. It felt like hell, especially Legendary. Flood use melee, ouch! Flood carry guns, *beep* Flood use rocket launchers...what the *beep*! Those were my exact thoughts when I first played this game.
shareOK, so I just started playing this game recently, but I have to say that the level "The Library" when you're trying to get the index and fighting the flood, might be the worst level I have ever played in the history of video games.
It was just a repetitive board with a never-ending flow of bad guys. The little things didn't even warrant fighting, seeing as they couldn't really hurt you at all. I could not wait for that horrificly boring level to end. Ugh, just terrible.