Halo has been declining in popularity ever since call of duty 4 came out. What Must be done to make halo the best again?
People are too lazy to play Halo. Halo takes skill and takes years to fully learn how to play and understand. Twitch shooters do not.
> People are too lazy to play Halo. Halo takes skill and takes years to fully learn how to play and understand. Twitch shooters do not.
so what look at me. I suck at halo. I will never get a posotive kd ratio yet I still play every chance I get
> > People are too lazy to play Halo. Halo takes skill and takes years to fully learn how to play and understand. Twitch shooters do not.
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> so what look at me. I suck at halo. I will never get a posotive kd ratio yet I still play every chance I get
Some people do not look at it that way. If COD try hards get wrecked by the casual Halo player when they try hard, they do not like it. But I hope more people come back to Halo 4. The biggest thing missing from Halo right now is no competitive drive.
halo 4 shouldn’t be about being the best, it should just pleasing the fans. call of duty is multiplatform, it’ll be a cold day in hell when it beats it’s numbers
Look, Halo 4 could be the best game ever made and still lose to CoD in numbers. It’s all about quality and that first and foremost starts with the campaign. As long as there is consistent quality, then the game will continue to grow.
> People are too lazy to play Halo. Halo takes skill and takes years to fully learn how to play and understand. Twitch shooters do not.
Halo might take “skill” for a console shooter, but that bolded part is definitely wrong. Quake would make you Halo players cry for your mommies ;]
Anyway, tbh, this imaginary fight between CoD and Halo is getting old. I mean really old, like ancient old. Both games target a different audience and they’re both different types of FPSs for crying out loud!
If you really wanted Halo to be at the ‘top’ again you’ll need to draw in players from the two largest player pools out there on the consoles atm. Those two being CoD and BF, both of which are military shooters. So in order to draw those players into Halo 343 would need to do some pretty radical stuff, which’ll probably just piss of Halo fans.
Halo 4 doesn’t need to be at the top, it just needs to have a decent player pool, and most importantly it needs to please Halo fans. If Halo 4 turns out to be a fantastic game, who knows, it might just rise to the top by itself.
Well obviously, the first thing is to make a good game that will get good reviews and people will enjoy, both Campaign and Multiplayer. I have every faith in 343 to do this, and hopefully they will not let me down.
Secondly, Marketing is key to good sales and with Microsoft now owning the franchise I think that advertising is not an issue.
Third, people must be looking forward to the game and for Halo 4 to only have 2 teaser trailers and be on VGA’s Most Anticapated list comes to show that people are interested. Also, 100,000 pre orders more than a year from release.
Hopefully Halo can achieve this.
> Halo 4 doesn’t need to be at the top, it just needs to have a decent player pool, and most importantly it needs to please Halo fans. If Halo 4 turns out to be a fantastic game, who knows, it might just rise to the top by itself.
Exactly,
I don’t personally see why people are so determined in one game outselling another, you are the player who gets to play and enjoy a great game if you choose to buy it regardless of how many copies it sells. But hey, thats just me.
Call of Duty, Battlefield, Gears of War, Halo etc are all great games. Yes theres big competition between them in terms of profits and game quality/standards, for the companies behind them. Being a consumer and player we should all be incredibly happy that all these amazing games are there for the taking and at the moment, at very fluid and constant rate.
If its pride of the game and company’s work you are looking for then please by all means continue to support the product. But please don’t let statistics of sales, audiences, and influences change the way you play and experience the game.
When i buy a game that i know and love, in particular Halo, i will reap the full potential and experience out of the game for what i see. I don’t care if Call of Duty or any other game on any platform comes out above Halo in sales, as long as the quality of the product satisfies me, thats all that matters 
> Halo has been declining in popularity ever since call of duty 4 came out. What Must be done to make halo the best again?
We need a decent game. When Reach dropped so many players left our community.
Halo 3 actually competed with CoD for the 3 years before Reach came out.
> Halo has been declining in popularity ever since call of duty 4 came out. What Must be done to make halo the best again?
CoD needs to cease to exist. It’s the only way to make Halo more popular. And even then, the Battlefield franchise would still top Halo.
Halo is generating more money than ever. It’s never been as popular as it is now. I could care less if CoD has more players, as long as Halo games are good and have enough players.
The fact is, Halo has a huge amount of competition these days from other console shooters. Halo 2 didn’t really have that. Add the fact that the Halo series is a platform exclusive and you’ll realize it will never be “on top” in terms of sales. It doesn’t need to be either.