Would you be willing to pay for an arcade mode in Halo 4 if 343 designed it?
Leave a comment and a vote of why they should or should not create it.
If they make Spartan Ops customizable, this will solve a lot of problems and we might not need a Firefight mode.
Very True Keeboy.
Do I want it? Yes. Of course. My friends and I were playing Spops today and talking about what features would make it better, and we agreed that adding a more competitive, “arcade” feel to it would be an easy and instant improvement. As it stands all you get is a kills/deaths leaderboard and a stripped-down “Carnage Report Lite” that lists your medals and best kill.
Features that would make Spops better:
- Theatre mode. Maybe even a final kill cam, or match highlights at the end?
- Visible scoring and medals in-game. Make it optional to keep the purists happy.
- A full Carnage Report. Kills by weapon, full list of enemies defeated, etc.
- Enable skulls and create a par time for each level.
- Optional “Spartan Ops Limited” mode - the players get a pool of (say) 10 lives; when they’re gone they’re gone.
- Keep the Spartan Ops Challenges coming but vary them up more. Encourage speed runs, no-death runs, melee-only runs…
Would I pay for it? Hell no. I consider this to be something 343 owes to their fans as a way of improving and broadening the overall Halo 4 experience and bringing the features back in-line with previous titles. Halo 4 was shipped incomplete and in Beta stage - charging us for fixes would be immoral.