Its nice and all, but from what they say, they are using a selected group of players. Now, I haven’t had my gamertag for very long, but I have played EVERY SINGLE HALO GAME (much like many others). I played H3 competitively on gamebattles. So, I would love the chance to give my input.
I’m not complaining about the possibility of not being able to be a part of the group. I AM complaining that this is going to be a slightly skewed view of the game if they don’t allow ANY/ALL players who wish to take part. In our day-in-age we should have the ability to mass produce surveys for this kind of game and calculate thresholds from a mass group.
I really hope they allow all players to participate to get a good overall outlook on the game as a whole. And I also hope they are lurking the forums or forum moderators are passing design perspectives from players to the development team. As good as this game is, there are a LOT of complaints because players feel it could be MUCH better.
Personally, I was hoping for something that would stand against the hype and player-base of Halo 3. But, from what it looks like, this game fell off. Hard.
Most of my gripe with the game is with the complications and overwhelming forge capabilities. Why change the button scheme for forge, why not keep it the way it was from Halo 3/Halo Reach/Halo 4? The rest of the game is decent (haven’t completed the story as of yet so I can’t say much about the campaign) and plays well, but Forge seems a bit rushed and clunky. I’m a HUGE forge fanatic and the over-complexity/new controls/features of forge is a BIG change compared to the last game(s). I almost wish they would have just released a Forge for the PC and allowed us to port the maps to our profile. Granted people without PC’s or people with PC’s that have insufficient hardware wouldn’t be able to use a PC Forge, but most people now days have at least 1 computer in their home connected to the internet; not to mention having a PC Forge would have sufficiently lessened the complexity and vastly improved the quality of the Forge. Most/all of my complaints are about the Forge’s control scheme, if the controls were customizable or offered different/old controls, I really wouldn’t have very many complaints.
I hear a lot of the same complaints that other games have had, mostly really bad players complaining about the mechanics/balance of the game… Which seems to be a lot better than other games in the series/other FPS games in general. This game is a pretty solid game and for the most part is MUCH better than most/ALL of the previous titles (VASTLY better than Halo Reach and Halo 4). The fluidity of movement coupled with the new 60FPS makes for amazing game mechanics/gameplay.
So, now that my rant is over, what do you guys think? Should they allow everyone to take part in the surveys? I really hope they do, but from what the survey FAQ says, a select group of players will take part.