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Welcome one and all to the seventieth semi weekly site poll! This weeks question is quite the interesting one. Its a bit different from the usual question's I ask but is perhaps an easy one to answer. Obviously from the picture above you can guess this is going to be about armour and you would be correct. This weeks poll is going to be about armour. Customisation ever since Halo 3 has been a big part of Halo games this tradition so to speak continues in Halo 5 with a plethora of armour pieces demanding to be unlocked. My question to you all this week is. What is your favourite helmet in Halo 5? Is it Air Assault? Noble? Breaker? Or something else entirely let me know! As always,voting ends on December 1st, If you have any suggestions or criticism, feel free to pm me. Happy voting, JXZAW out!

Its been a whole week so lets get right to the reason you may look at this post. The answer. *Drumroll* And the chosen option for this weeks question is.... A draw. The weekly site poll's first ever in actuality. Thanks for voting everyone, until next time.

What a brilliant twist. Nice going Fishy!

Finally I have had enough spare time to commit to making a smashup. So with that out the way lets begin. Article one: The PlayStation Four total sales pass over the 30 million mark worldwide If you don't know the PS4 is selling well, very well and is currently outpacing the PS2. So that's why it should be little surprise that the PS4 recently crossed over the mark of 30 million units sold around the world. Its been little over two years since the consoles release and its continuing to demonstrate the fastest and strongest growth in PlayStation hardware history. Are you surprised by this news? Article two: Dying Light season pass and expansion price goes up Developer Techland announced that the upcoming expansion for Dying Light and its season pass price's will be going up on December 8th. The season pass was previously being sold for $20 but now Techland has been buffed the price up to $30. Not only that but zombie game's upcoming expansion, The Following, has also seen a price increase. From $15 to $20. The reason for this sudden increase in price is because the new expansion's scale has been increased to be much larger than originally planned. "Over the past weeks, Dying Light: The Following has almost reached its final stage: main quests, side quests, new skills, and driving challenges are ready," Techland has said. "We now are moving into the polishing period. Looking at it, it's clear how big the expansion pack has grown, it could be a standalone title, but since it would mean a launch delay, we decided against it. However, due to the increased scale of the project, we needed to revise the pricing that we announced back in August, and so we want to let you know that Dying Light: The Following will be priced at $20." What do you think of this increase in price? Is it justified? Article three: The Xbox 360 is now ten years old This is less of an article and more of a retrospective because the Xbox 360 recently turned ten years old and its honestly hard to believe its been ten years. I grew up with the Playstation 2 and played it quite a bit. Or at least to the extent where I began to get interested in the new generation of consoles. It ultimately came down to a choice between the Ps3 or the Xbox 360. I was leaning towards the Ps3 but that all changed when my friend brought his 360 to my house one day. In it was Halo 3 and that was the game that convinced me to buy an Xbox 360, just for that game because I enjoyed it so much. I still remember going down my local games store and buying my 360. This was back when the console was still white so I think you know what happened next. The red ring of death came but luckily I was not deterred and managed to get enough money together to buy newly released Xbox elite that I still own to this day. The 360 is really a great console. So many things we take for granted today come from the 360. Achievements, Indie developers, integrated online play, among many things. Its been ten good years for this console and even though I rarely touch my 360 I still have many fond memories using it. After all it was the system that really got me into gaming so I guess I owe it a great deal. Thanks for reading this weeks smashup everyone, until next time! Article one: http://uk.ign.com/articles/2015/11/25/ps4-sales-pass-30-million-worldwide Article two: http://www.gamespot.com/articles/price-increase-for-dying-light-expansion-and-dlc-p/1100-6432603/

Here's some food for thought. How about you stop making assumptions about me based off a single post? "The reason why you can't understand the difference in the story line is because your a game leach, you just play whatevers out there without rhyme or reason, thats the problem with society we love to take it all and leave nothing, our depth of thought is becoming shalow because whe're to spread out." That hardly makes sense at all. You are saying I cannot see a difference, but I already pointed out how I saw Halo 4's story as better than anything Bungie has ever done in my previous post.

That is correct, it did not have shields. At a guess this helmet is based off the original Mark IV's but has obviously been updated and is an entirely new helmet. So that's why it can have energy shields, that is one explanation. Another is because its simulation. A third is that 343 just dosent care. Whatever the reason the helmet looks pretty cool. But why a military would put so much effort into cosmetics is beyond me....

Imagine playing as Locke fighting Chief in a boss battle or something? It just an idea I'm throwing around but if the request was to play stuff out I'd say this is a brilliant idea to go with it.

Blind followers campaign? What's that..... By the way can I point out that Halo 1-3 is the one with the cheap terrible script not Halo 5 and 4. Granted Halo 5's story kinda sucks but at least Halo 4 was good and well written for that matter.

Wow this looks really great I wish I could help but I lack the technical skills required. So all I can day is say good luck to you and your team and hope it gets released for all to play!

Because that's what Humans do its almost something of a natural instinct to prefer something. But when someone tells you they dislike what you prefer or prefer something else Humans are quick to defend their decision. Its natural for most Humans to do this and there is nothing wrong with it. Plus we should not have to accept that they screwed up in some areas. 343 are not some steam greenlight developer just out of college oh no. Some of the people in 343 for example its creative director have been in the industry for over 10 years. All of them have experience with games and probably a lot of experience at that. A lot of developers can make great games their first time around but I can accept a bit of screwing up the first time but the second time, not so much.......

Welcome one and all to the semi weekly site poll 16. I cannot believe its been sixteen weeks already since I started doing this. After all they do say time fly's when your having fun. A topic of much debate in the Halo community is Requisition packs. Otherwise shortened down frequently to REQ packs. Obviously if you've played Halo 5 you know what these things are and can do. From spawning Scorpion tanks provided you have the energy for a one time only use. To unlocking a permanent new skin for the Battle Rifle. However REQ packs do change how you unlock new items compared to prior Halo games making everything more based on chance. Not only that but you can also spend real world money if you so choose on REQ packs. All this may or may not seem like a bad thing but there is most certainly upsides. The biggest of which being that instead of paying for maps packs. New maps will be delivered for free and so to not fragment the community. So my question to you all this week is.... Would you prefer to pay for Map Packs and have the requisition system removed in favour of an unlock system more like prior Halo games or keep things as they are? (Or something else entirely?) Let me know! As per usual: Voting ends on November 30th, If you have any suggestions or criticism, feel free to pm me. And as always, happy voting, JXZAW out.

In January of this year a Sony rep said they were looking into emulation for the Ps4 so that's clearly not the case.

Alright lets tally up the votes and find the winner in all this. *Drumroll* And the winner is the Prometheans! They are truly the preferred enemy of the forum to fight. Thanks for voting all and I'll see you next time!

Like last week I have a lot going on right now and not enough time to do a smashup but hopefully next week I can deliver a full smashup. With that out the way lets begin. Article one: PS2 emulation coming to the Ps4! At E3 this year Microsoft dropped the bomb that backwards compatibility for Xbox 360 games will be coming to the Xbox One. Giving the Xbox One a huge advantage over the PS4 in that area. So it would be a good guess to assume that something similar would be coming to the PS4 in time, and recently that has been proven true. An unnamed Sony representative confirmed that a PS2 emulator is coming to the PS4 in an email with Wired. “We are working on utilizing PS2 emulation technology to bring PS2 games forward to the current generation” The Sony representative stated. “We have nothing further to comment at this point in time" However for some people this has already happened. A bundle available now at retail includes a PS4 console and Star Wars: Battlefront. But also includes a selection of bonus classic games. Such as, Super Star Wars, Star Wars: Racer Revenge, Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter, and Star Wars: Bounty Hunter. In addition to various visual improvements and remapped controls there is also Trophy support. But these three classic games are not simply ports of old code but are actually running on proprietary emulation software according to Digital Foundry. (So Sony decided to emulate games and not tell publically announce it?) So it looks like emulation for other games is not very far behind. Yet there are still lingering questions. Will emulation just be limited to bonus features? Will you have to buy the games from the PlayStation digital store? Or will you also be able to insert a PlayStation 2 disc into your PS4 to play it? Only time will tell I suppose. Thanks for reading this latest article! Source one:http://www.wired.com/2015/11/playstation-2-emulation-coming-to-ps4-sony-confirms/

But past Halo games were not running at 1080p and 60fps were they?

My favourites console? The original Xbox, no doubt. Favourite game on the original Xbox? That's easy, Knights of the Old Republic II despite the cut content.

Coming back for its fifteenth week is none other than the semi weekly site poll, so welcome back I guess! Halo 5 features two distinct types of enemy factions. The Covenant and the Prometheans and unlike Halo 4 they both hate each other so you will never see them fighting side by side. Both enemy factions fight with different units and use both different tactics and equipment. So my question to you all this week is.... What is your preferred faction to fight in Halo 5 and why? As per usual: Voting ends on November 23th, If you have any suggestions or criticism, feel free to pm me. And as always, happy voting, JXZAW out.

Alright everyone its been a week so lets tally the results up and find the winner in all this. *drumroll* And the winner is.... No.Out of everyone who voted it was universal that overall nobody was satisfied with the length of the campaign. As always thanks everyone for voting and until next time!