- While it is well known to many not like this installment due to different problems or for gameplay reasons, the question is how to grade your experience with halo 5 gurdians?
- If I am still playing it almost a year later, it was definitely worth my money.
I gotta give it a 9. I’m still thoroughly addicted but there are some Campaign and advertising related things I can’t forgive. Definitely worth the money I’ve put into it though and I can’t wait for Halo 6. Will preorder first day they allow it.
Warzone and Infection - 11/10
The rest - meh/10
Without forge - 3/10
With forge - 7/10
Forge carriers this game for me, I can’t really find to many other positives besides the amount of vehicles added to the game.
I feel like this should be a poll.
I’d say 6 overall.
If they fixed WZ (better map design, FF A.I. fixes), better matching system/party restrictions in Arena/WZ, more playlists, improved the UI (game lobby), and worked on bettering the aim system it could be a solid 8. The campaign prevents a 9 or 10.
My opinion, would defiantly be a 7/10. The campaign sucked but I got addicted to the Warzone gamemode.
im usually an 8 or 9
Can’t really give an overall rating as I enjoy some aspects and utterly DESPAIR others, but I will break it down “shortly”.
Gameplay 9/10 - Let me just say this real quick and simple, I FREAKING love the way the game plays (well except for spartan charge). I honestly think that if 343 had just released this game as a multiplayer “game” only, i’ve would have given the game a 9.5 rating. There is just endless fun in playing arena for me, I ADORE the competitive aspect of this game and it has gotten me into Open circuit, just because I love the way the game plays. Every weapon is useful, heck the previours god awful suppressor is now useful, and in certain situations it is just straight up better than the AR.
Advertisement & Campaign 2.7/10 - Ugh just thinking about this pisses me off, there is no way around it. BRAIN what the HELL did you do !? I know that somewere in development 343 or Microsoft decided that the game needed to change (WHY, GOD WHY!) and that is that. BUT the old advertisement was STILL sold of as "this is what you are gonna get, trust me, pssst im lying ", When in fact it what we got was something totally different and had NOTHING to do with what was advertised. We don’t even get a “Yeah so we apologise for this bleh we’ve made” kinda message from 343i, Nothing REALLY !? It seems to me they just kinda hoped this would be forgotten… Plus NOTHING and I say NOTHING in the -Yoink!- campaign makes any freaking sense !? (If you want an explanation watch this). Just this entire “story” is just terrible and utter garbage…
Overall Content 4.7/10 (at launch) vs 7/10 (Now a year later) - (Im gonna start this section from launch and move forward) Now at launch, we had NOTHING that resembled what the previous titles had at their launch. At launch we had : No forge, no carnage report, no fan favourite gametypes/playlists and NO -Yoinking!- SPLITSCREEN !!! (and don’t tell me it was a better choice to have 60fps instead). We had to wait 2 mounts for forge, 7 mounts for infection and carnage report and so on… That is simply just not acceptable in this day and age, and especially not with a AAA game such as Halo, a game which have had SO many different variations of content AT LAUNCH. But with Halo 5 we had just the bones and had to wait for the meat. Now at Halo’s current state it has gotten better and a lot of great content has been added to the game, and I am only guessing that more is to come, which is great !. However 343i Should NOT and I repeat NOT try and sell me back the gametypes and content that SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE at launch as “free” dlc, because it is not, it is damage control. However with that being said, I do REALLY LOVE what they have done so far with forge, they should keep adding to it !
**UI (user interface aka menus, req stations, blah blah…)**5.8/10 - AGAIN Ugh ! Why did you not rethink this 343 !? WHY did you drop the beta / planned UI ? It looked SO much better. It is literally BROKEN half the time. The Req stations are clunky and lags when browsing , you can only sell one Req at a time, the menus are dull and so on…
This is just my thoughts summed up really fast and not very detailed. As a long time halo fan, i’ve been let down at where it was most important and there are still a lot of things to talk about, things that NEEDS to be fixed, Yeah the gameplay is great and addictive but that DOSNE’T out weight or justify some of the poor decisions which was made by 343i or Microsoft in the long run. They need to address this.
Am I being a bit harsh ? YES of course I LOVE HALO and have for over HALF my FREAKING LIFE !
And I want to be able to continuously love it, I grew up with this franchise. 343 Industries has a responsibility here, they need to start acting.
It’s fun at times, but very repetitive and boring after a while. Grinding REQ points feels like a chore.
It’s been weeks since I’ve last played H5, and before that at least a month.Halo 5 is without a doubt the worst Halo game I’ve played,
Gameplay is a solid 8/10 story campaign is god awful at a 2/10 (deduction for the disabling of split screen). Forge is…fine…I guess…it’s not fun as it used to be but it does create even funner game modes and maps so I’ll give it an 8/10 as well. Matchmaking is okay, some good game modes and some bad ones added to the fact that 343 took so long to add old game modes so a 6/10.
Getting armor/customization is probably the most frustrating, I’d prefer that it went back to Reach so I can buy armor individually, I wanted to add the pauldrons from one armor set and the chest piece of another, packs make it so damn hard to get what you want and the added grind it takes to rake in enough is just under being unbearable so a 4/10. Visually Halo 5 is really good looking, 7/10.
As an average, Halo 5 came to me as a 5.4/10. Every Halo before knew what to hit but now 343 just lost touch on how to make a good Halo game and cave into more of the business side of Microsoft too much to create the Req system in order to add microtransactions. (Un)fortunately, I’m obligated to buy Halo 6 but if 343 can’t even end Halo off right then I refuse to buy any other halo game made by 343.
Definitely a 9. I have minor gripes but overall I paid $60 for a game and have had an absolute blast with it, almost regardless of the mode I’m playing, even a year later. On top of that, I’ve met some great guys / friends online through the game, and they’ll translate to future titles as well (Titanfall 2 anybody?!). Halo 5 is easily the best purchase I’ve made on the Xbox One, and I’ve made several.
Honorable mention goes to Ori and the Blind Forest. A 10 in its own right, just with far less longevity.
I’d have to say about a solid 8 or 9. It may have been lower before the monthly updates but I still had (and still having) a blast with this game. Hoping we get that custom games browser soon and that will change to a 10 IMO.
9/10. There are some flaws with the gameplay but I can look past that because it’s so fun.
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I give it a 9/10
I’d say maybe an 8 out of 10.
2 out of 10
Bad campaign, bad gameplay, neary all my friends stop playing the game, I stopped playing the game, bad ranking system, lack of content etc…
Why still 2 points? Because of the Forge (where we still miss an tutorial programm)
I’d say a solid 7 out of 10. I just want a better story for the campaign in H6.
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> Can’t really give an overall rating as I enjoy some aspects and utterly DESPAIR others, but I will break it down “shortly”.
>
> Gameplay 9/10 - Let me just say this real quick and simple, I FREAKING love the way the game plays (well except for spartan charge). I honestly think that if 343 had just released this game as a multiplayer “game” only, i’ve would have given the game a 9.5 rating. There is just endless fun in playing arena for me, I ADORE the competitive aspect of this game and it has gotten me into Open circuit, just because I love the way the game plays. Every weapon is useful, heck the previours god awful suppressor is now useful, and in certain situations it is just straight up better than the AR.
>
> Advertisement & Campaign 2.7/10 - Ugh just thinking about this pisses me off, there is no way around it. BRAIN what the HELL did you do !? I know that somewere in development 343 or Microsoft decided that the game needed to change (WHY, GOD WHY!) and that is that. BUT the old advertisement was STILL sold of as "this is what you are gonna get, trust me, pssst im lying ", When in fact it what we got was something totally different and had NOTHING to do with what was advertised. We don’t even get a “Yeah so we apologise for this bleh we’ve made” kinda message from 343i, Nothing REALLY !? It seems to me they just kinda hoped this would be forgotten… Plus NOTHING and I say NOTHING in the -Yoink!- campaign makes any freaking sense !? (If you want an explanation watch this). Just this entire “story” is just terrible and utter garbage…
>
> Overall Content 4.7/10 (at launch) vs 7/10 (Now a year later) - (Im gonna start this section from launch and move forward) Now at launch, we had NOTHING that resembled what the previous titles had at their launch. At launch we had : No forge, no carnage report, no fan favourite gametypes/playlists and NO -Yoinking!- SPLITSCREEN !!! (and don’t tell me it was a better choice to have 60fps instead). We had to wait 2 mounts for forge, 7 mounts for infection and carnage report and so on… That is simply just not acceptable in this day and age, and especially not with a AAA game such as Halo, a game which have had SO many different variations of content AT LAUNCH. But with Halo 5 we had just the bones and had to wait for the meat. Now at Halo’s current state it has gotten better and a lot of great content has been added to the game, and I am only guessing that more is to come, which is great !. However 343i Should NOT and I repeat NOT try and sell me back the gametypes and content that SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE at launch as “free” dlc, because it is not, it is damage control. However with that being said, I do REALLY LOVE what they have done so far with forge, they should keep adding to it !
>
> **UI (user interface aka menus, req stations, blah blah…)**5.8/10 - AGAIN Ugh ! Why did you not rethink this 343 !? WHY did you drop the beta / planned UI ? It looked SO much better. It is literally BROKEN half the time. The Req stations are clunky and lags when browsing , you can only sell one Req at a time, the menus are dull and so on…
>
> This is just my thoughts summed up really fast and not very detailed. As a long time halo fan, i’ve been let down at where it was most important and there are still a lot of things to talk about, things that NEEDS to be fixed, Yeah the gameplay is great and addictive but that DOSNE’T out weight or justify some of the poor decisions which was made by 343i or Microsoft in the long run. They need to address this.
>
> Am I being a bit harsh ? YES of course I LOVE HALO and have for over HALF my FREAKING LIFE !
> And I want to be able to continuously love it, I grew up with this franchise. 343 Industries has a responsibility here, they need to start acting.
Well written!