Games I’ve only played so far is Combat Evolved, Halo 2, Halo 3, and Reach. I know that’s not that many compared to how long I’ve been involved in the franchise. Waiting for the MCC collection to release the rest due to no longer having acsess to an Xbox. I cannot speak about gameplay accurately with ODST, 4, or 5.
Sprint, armor abilities, and bloom: I don’t have much experience in multiplayer, I am naturally scatterbrained and do much better verse NPC’s and all of that- and if I do play multiplayer its normally infection or capture the flag. I don’t have a problem with sprint in campaigns, but I do in most multiplayer modes. Why? I’m not sure, just gives an extra urgency and concern to look out for. Same thing for armor abilities, fine in campaigns but not in multiplayer as it’s unfair and frustrating to those that should of got the kill. Bloom is meh, I’m used to it from other games but I can understand the frustration.
Spartan loadouts and GENDER in game: Loadouts like in Reach are perfectly fine in my book, they look nice and still have that nice classic look of Halo while feeling new, and most armor colors are muted and not an eyesore to look at- as far as I can tell in Halo 5 the armor looks and colors are a complete eyesore. I love the idea about Reach being able to change your gender, me being a female gamer (rare, I know) I felt way more connected with the story because I was able to be a female. It might not seem like a big deal, but to me it was. Now I’m not saying that we should go and make a male and female Master chief, he is fine. I don’t mind playing Cheif, most of the story is about him- its just nice to be able to play “yourself” like in Reach, made me actually feel connected to the game. Though I do question the females butt in Reach, really Bungie? You had to make them have a bubble butt.
Aliens in game: Fine in my book for most cases in multiplayer, I understand not being able to play a elite in Reach as that would go against a lot of the campaign. Covanent looks fine from 1 to Reach, I’m not impressed with their looks in 4 and 5.
Chiefs suit in 4 and 5: Meh, I understand the anger people have I guess. I think it was silly and dumb how they explained the sudden change. The only part I like about it is the collar, though it should not be as round as it is. Rest of the suit is meh, looks odd to me especially his torso and codpiece. I do like how the upper suit makes him look more like a tank and stoic, but Chief isnt just a super tanky guy, weird as it is to say. 4’s undersuit is way to detailed, distracting, looks more like shiny scales than a bodysuit. In infinite I like most of his suit, though I wish the green was less saturated, definitely understand that they were going for classic but a mixture of 5 and infinite color would be perfect IMO.
Battle royale/arena mode: Personally I would like if it was called arena mode, odd to say I kind of like the idea of a no respawn game and only one ends up to be the winner. Of course I don’t want them gunking it up like fartnite.
Overall the rest I don’t have to much experience in, I’m more focused on Lore and Campaign more than multiplayer.
To sum it up: Reach had the best armor don’t even try me on that.