Ok. I am very annoyed and frustrated with this community of so called Halo fans. I have spent only a few days on these forums and I see people complaining about the same stupid things every other thread.
The DMR is overpowered
No the DMR is NOT overpowered. It works exactly as it should. If you were to make it any weaker it would no longer have any purpose and no one would use it. It is perfectly balanced with the other precision rifles. Guess what this is coming from someone whose favorite gun in the game is the Battle Rifle. That’s right the DMR is not my most used weapon and I don’t complain because it is a perfectly fair balanced weapon. I will often use it on bigger maps as its 3 times scope reaches further than the BRs 2x but again not my most used. I have 5 loadouts, 3 are BR and 2 are DMR. It’s a great weapon hat is perfect as is.
Vehicles are too weak!
This complaint really makes me laugh. I’ve never been a big fan of vehicles in Halo multiplayer (love them in campaign). I found them to be cheap and unfair. Halo 2 is was nice because the rockets can lock on having a strong counter. Now the best counter is plasma pistol and that is better balance. I still get annoyed by vehicles in Halo 4 that’s why I usually play Normal Slayer over big team because vehicles annoy me. I’m not saying they are bad I just don’t like them and they are no weaker than they should be. They are perfect not too weak to not be worth it but not too strong their reign of terror can’t be stopped. I’m not saying they are overpowered but if anything in the game is it’s vehicles not the DMR!
Ordinance is dumb
Another very dumb complaint. I’ll start with personal ordinance. I think it’s a lot of fun! I love when I get personal ordnance and can call in a weapon or power up of my choosing. It’s not like you get an ordinance every kill. And if someone gets a power weapon kill them and take it! I like that you can call in something suited to your game style and taste. You love sniping call in a sniper (if you get one) you like the energy sword cool you want to run fast cool. Now random ordinance. Well first off, when the match starts the weapons are in set places so from the start you can get a set up. Then it becomes random to me that’s exciting. You see a sniper pop up and you are like “oh snap I gotta go get that!” and you battle your way to the sniper and then start taking faces after you made it. Another this is if you don’t like the ordinance guess what they added team throwdown. Which brings me to my next topic.
Not Halo/CoD Clone/Needs the Classic Style
The complaint that it doesn’t feel like Halo baffles me. This is pure Halo. Everything from strafing, BRing, Sniping, Melee, Jumping, Grenades, It is Halo and it feels just like Halo. This game is far from a clone of CoD whether they took an idea or two from CoD or not doesn’t make it a clone. The game as a totally different feel and style than CoD nothing alike not even fair to bring CoD up. I like sprinting, JIP, and ordinance all are welcome additions that do little to change the Halo feel or style while adding some new stuff. A lot of people say they need a classic style playlist. We get Team Throwdown. If you do the v2 settings everyone starts the same, weapon drops are not random, personal ordinance is only power ups that are lost upon death. And even though people complain to death the most classic style playlist has less of a population than normal Slayer, is it really what people want? I played Halo since CE and I feel more at home playing 4 than I do playing 3 or Reach.
JIP is dumb
No. Just no. Halo needs JIP. Team Throwdown is a prime example of why. I love the settings of Team Throwdown and it is a lot of fun but I stopped playing it soley because of no JIP. The amount of times people quit and I was alone against a team of four was not fun at all.
No CSR is dumb.
This is one of the worst arguments. CSR won’t change the game. If you don’t like the game a number next to your name shouldn’t make you like it. I know the CSR is fun I enjoyed getting my 50 in Halo 2 and 3 but really how good the game is is what matters. If the -Yoink- game had CSR that wouldn’t make me play it, and if my favorite game didn’t that wouldn’t stop me. You know why? Games are for fun bottom line. If you play Halo for CSR then you are playing for the wrong reason. It’s a bonus, not a necessity and people made too big a deal out of it cheating and boosting just to get 50. I’m much happier without it. I’d rather play Halo 4 with no CSR over Halo 3 which had it because I find it to be a much more fun much better made game. Bottom line.
Too much Aim-Assist/Auto-Aim
Wow really? The amount is perfect. I feel it is at a level where aiming is not too hard not too easy. Just right. I don’t know this for a fact but I think Halo 2 had pretty close to the same amount and that is one of the series’ most beloved games (including my personal favorite).
I really feel that a lot of the complaining comes from conformity. People hear others saying it’s bad enough they start repeating it and feeling the same rather than thinking for themselves and judging the game for what it is. I feel that is the same things with why Final Fantasy XIII gets so much hate (but that is unrelated. If the population is decreasing blame yourselves not the game. You are the ones spreading the hate for this game and convincing yourselves and others it’s bad just because a few things are different. I’m not a 343 defender, I’m a good game defender. If 343 made a bad game I’d bash it, but they didn’t they made a good game and they are trying to please people. Also Halo 2 my favorite in the series is a Bungie game.
Halo 4 is a welcome addition to the series and I wish people weren’t so harsh.
Based on multiplayer I rate the halos as such
2 > 4 > CE > 3 > Reach
I’m probably going to get nothing but hate. That’s ok while this community is spending all there time complaining about a good game I’ll be playing it and having fun. Is it perfect? No and I don’t claim it is but I am more than pleased and my expectations were exceeded.
End of rant.