Right now the community seems to be divided in two about Halo’s multiplayer (thank god everyone is happy with 343i’s campaigns so far, kudos to them on that! Right? Maybe?). Everyone is split 50/50 on these forums about how Halo 4 and Halo 5 are becoming less Halo. The Smart Scope and Sprint being the most controversial.
Halo 3 is considered the golden days of Halo, and I remember, back in 2007 when it was coming out I was 11ish and I remember the hype. THE HYPE. It was the statistically biggest video game release in the history of the world (at the time)! I think the Hype prevented controversy from spreading throughout the internet.
During Halo 3’s launch did people ever freak out and say “OH MY GOD, THE EQUIPMENT! THEY RUINED HALO 1 AND 2’S NORMAL POWER UPS BY MAKING THE EQUIPMENT PORTABLE, AND DEPLOYABLE AT WILL! THE GAME IS TOO EASY! OH MY GOOOOOHHHHD!”.
I’m not trying to make an argument, I’m just curious. People freak out with Halo 4 and 5 for its changes. But did anyone ever freak out about Halo 3’s changes back in the day and go “WHAT THE YOINK DID BUNGIE DO TO HALO!!! THEY RUINED IT! ITS TOO DIFFERENT FROM HALO 2! THE GUN SOUNDS ARE DIFFERENT FROM HALO 2! THE SHIELD IS AT THE TOP OF THE SCREEN! THE SMGS DON’T HAVE RECOIL ANYMORE AND ARE TOO OP!!! YOU CAN DETACH TURRETS?! THATS GOING TO RUIN THE BALANCE! WORST OF ALL MASTER CHIEF HAS A CRACK IN HIS CHEST PLATE AND THE ARMOR LOOKS UGLY NOW! IM BOYCOTTING HALO 3!”.
I’m not trying to make fun of anyone, just making light of our current situation. Purely out of curiousity, did anyone freak out over Halo 3? or was the hype so huge that everyone ignored the changes? be them good or bad?
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> Right now the community seems to be divided in two about Halo’s multiplayer (thank god everyone is happy with 343i’s campaigns so far, kudos to them on that! Right? Maybe?). Everyone is split 50/50 on these forums about how Halo 4 and Halo 5 are becoming less Halo. The Smart Scope and Sprint being the most controversial.
> Halo 3 is considered the golden days of Halo, and I remember, back in 2007 when it was coming out I was 11ish and I remember the hype. THE HYPE. It was the statistically biggest video game release in the history of the world (at the time)! I think the Hype prevented controversy from spreading throughout the internet.
> During Halo 3’s launch did people ever freak out and say “OH MY GOD, THE EQUIPMENT! THEY RUINED HALO 1 AND 2’S NORMAL POWER UPS BY MAKING THE EQUIPMENT PORTABLE, AND DEPLOYABLE AT WILL! THE GAME IS TOO EASY!”.
> I’m not trying to make an argument, I’m just curious. People freak out with Halo 4 and 5 for its changes. But did anyone ever freak out about Halo 3’s changes back in the day and go “WHAT THE YOINK DID BUNGIE DO TO HALO!!! THEY RUINED IT! ITS TOO DIFFERENT FROM HALO 2! THE GUN SOUNDS ARE DIFFERENT FROM HALO 2! THE SHIELD IS DIFFERENT! THE SMGS DON’T HAVE RECOIL ANYMORE AND ARE TOO OP!!! IM BOYCOTTING HALO 3!”.
> I’m not trying to make fun of anyone, just making light of our current situation. Purely out of curiousity, did anyone freak out over Halo 3? or was the hype so huge that everyone ignored the changes? be them good or bad?
Oh yes yes it did. I remember quite alot of complaints about the game.
Halo 2 had it bad as well.
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But really for as much praise as halo 3 gets i think its utter bull crap Sorry, And going back to it on the MCC it still lives up to that disappointment,
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I find halo 3 to be fun, but i find all halos to be fun in their own ways. halo 3 did get criticized, so did halo 2 on halo2sucks.com. people complained about the br and the magnum.
Halo’s 2 and 3 very much did have controversy sorrounding them. But what makes it different is that said controversy usually died within a year or so. But this is clearly not the case with Reach and 4, and I fear that Halo 5 will suffer the same fate.
The biggest forum issue H3 had was about the BR spread lol. Bungie had to actually make a “the only BR spread” thread to stop the insane flooding of the forums with BR spread complaints.
God we had it good back then. It was “first world problems” in comparison to all the garbage we have to deal with now.
Halo 2 had a lot of hate at first because the jump from LAN to online was quite jarring. Things like magnetism and lunging. Halo 2 was heavily patched and altered by Bungie and eventually we go the game we all love.
Halo 2 comes relatively close to the hate Reach/H4 and H5 have received. But the hate towards Halo 2 eventually wore off. Halo 3 wasn’t even close in any way.
Yup, i remember the complaints about equipment. The halo community complain about the smallest stuff. Why do people want it to be such a stripped down plain shooter? (And no that’s not it’s roots, the exact opposite is)
Anyone who thinks the complaints about H3 are anywhere near the level they are at for H4 and H5 is totally delusional.
It may have just seemed like a lot because the game was sooooo popular and the forums were soooo busy. If you made a thread in the H3F and it didn’t get a reply for 5 minutes it would be buried on like page 3. Most people that don’t like h4 and h5 are not around to complain.
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Halo 3 is arguably the most skilled of the series, and IMO is the best game overall, don’t know how anyone could think it was bad. I’m looking forward to 5, though.
Halo 1 was amazing. MP = unbalanced with super pistol.
Halo 2 was amazing. MP = more balanced but SMG start was worst design decision possible
Halo 3 was amazing. MP = most balanced PVP to date in Halo series
Halo Reach was terrible. MP = not an arena balanced game at all. Halo began the CODification.
Halo 4 was OK. MP = Attempt at moving away from CODificiation by introducing more CODificiation under a new style of development.
Halo 5 Beta was good. MP = moving more towards arena play and removal of armor abilities where everyone is balanced from the start = best design decision 343 has made.
The downfall of Halo is the uplift of re-engaging the community. Halo has always been a game where people have to play it quite a bit to be “good” at it. It’s not a drop in and play kind of game. Halo has been trying to move in that direction, but it has alienated its fanbase at the same time by doing so. They are also having the problem of stealing the Call of Duty players because the original Halos were too hard for them.
Halo 5 should have been a move back to Halo 2/3 with updated graphics, new guns, new maps, new everything.
Don’t break the fomula of the sandbox that works. Guns, Grenades, Melee. Throwing in more tools to the sandbox doesn’t make it “innovative” but instead dilutes the experience into waaaaaaaay too much junk in a game.
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It seems like everyone else is posting here about h3, but never actually played it at launch like us.
@OP. The real only issues the game faced was the fact you had to lead your shots, and the fact they introduced equipment. Equipment was implemented as a tool to give you an upperhand. Sure your opponents can see you with rocks in your hand, but can they see you have a regen? No.
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You mean Halo: RNG? That game’s spread physics on precision weapons is so incredibly drastic and unpredictable at range that I will literally miss a headshot with the reticule smack dab in the middle of the skull. The only benefit to that being that it makes automatics more viable at just about everything compared to Halo 2, but holy crap.
Glad they made the Sniper rifle so perfect in H3, though… (best balance between auto aim and magnetism, ever.)
Anyone who tries to say there was as much outrage from CE to 2 or 2 to 3 has absolutely no clue what they are talking about. 3to Reach was bad but reach to 4 was by far the worst and 4 to broken mcc is pretty bad as well
