Note: I edited this post so it won’t be ‘non constructive’ toward 343 and players, the soul purpose in this post is to be constructive and maybe helpful toward 343 industries
After playing Halo 5 for past couple days straight I decided to take a brake and play Halo 2 Anniversary and some of the old halos including Halo 4, and I played forever. I forgot what Halo really felt like. Halo 5 doesn’t feel like the old Halos , its flawed and it has a multitude of problems we all know this. But that doesn’t mean it’s not a good game. Just look at H2/H2A (Halo 2 Anniversary, NOW THIS IS JUST AN EXAMPLE) was a great game, good old fashion Halo right there, Halo 5 doesn’t feel like the old Halo, Halo shouldn’t change, of course add new factors such as movement and what not, but don’t change Halo so much you dont recognize it! Each Halo game has similarities while Halo 5 feels like its own thing. I know what you might say “Then it would turn into CoD or People would just lose interest” Let’s get one thing straight I Hate CoD, (and that’s not the point of this post it’s just another example) they are ALL the same but they are still successful. Halo 5 isn’t recognizable just look at halo 3 armor and helmets and Halo 5 it looks like a entirely different franchise, It needs that feeling of Halo, throwing in some Halo 1 weapons and gravity hammers won’t help, I actually don’t know why they didn’t gravity hammers and infection right off the bat but that’s a different story. Look at Halo 4 it was awesome maybe even one of the best but then they took a step in the wrong direction, 343 I love you guys you have my trust because of what you turned Halo 4 and 2A into they are awesome But you could’ve made Halo 5 better it’s a half baked game I mean this in the nicest way possible…
Again I don’t mean to be nonconstructive do not take this the wrong way…
Halo 5 has felt more like halo than any other halo since 2 in my opinion.
Also I’m not a ‘bungie ensure’ and I’m not comparing Halo to CoD
I’ve expressed this before. Some of us came in with CE, we’ve been here since the beginning and have seen it all. I watched some people hate Halo 2, and halo 2 brought in new players. Halo 3 came along and some people hated it and we got a lot of new players to replace them. Reach led to endless debates about armor abilities and cries of adapt, but we gained a lot of new players. Halo 4 didn’t feel quite right to me, so I didn’t play much of the multiplayer, but for a lot of people that was there first halo. Halo 5 multiplayer wise was different, but for me felt more like halo than Halo 4. We’ve all come in at different times, for every change some people have left and others have come. For the new players that halo is "halo’ to them and therefore perfect. We’re divided by our love of the franchise.
The change from halo ce to halo 2 is probably one of the biggest halo changes (for the fps genre.)
I hate these “343i shouldn’t have change halo” threads when halo at its core is always changing.
Halo 10 could be identical to a fps minecraft. So what? If it’s still a good game that sells and some people enjoy then they done their jobs.
The question is, do you really want halo to stay the same forever? Really? In that case, we’re no better than CoD with the lack of innovation.
here is the problem. speaking to someone played the original halo after it was to pc. each installment did change jyst a simple fact. 343 has in fact trying to bring it back to its roots while trying appease everyone involved from microsooft studios and the player base.
your problem is and always will be comparing it to COD. simple fact is COD has evolved to the point. as well. my proof is COD started as a ww2 fps. I was playing SOF2 when COD first started out which used very hackable quake3 game engine. Just stop and really look at halo 5 that has 4 previous installments pieced together while trying to bring game engine to current times while keeping ms studios and meet their timelines.
Halo CE and Halo 2 were not quite as similar as you seem to remember…
No, they shouldn’t have, but they did and now we can only hope that they either go back to the classic formula or make more complete games.
I will not sit here and watch you people indulge on kissing 343’s butt.
Halo has changed in a way that has changed Halo in a way that’s unexplainable.
This Halo, like the OP said, stands in a different corner from the other Halo games, and is very much it’s own things.
I would compare this game much more to COD than any of the other Halo games.
On a side note people thought that Halo 4 was bad… Well sorry, but loll, no this is the laughing stock of all the Halo games.
This is just not Halo.