If you compare the few pros to the many cons that Halo 5 has, we can safely say that Halo 5 is not a success. The worst thing about this is that most of the problems this game has could’ve been avoided if 343 wasn’t so ignorant. Lets start with the Campaign; Halo 5 has the worst campaign in series history, why? because 343 decided to put major plot elements (that should’ve belonged in the games) in expanded fiction. 343 put a lead writer in charge that was OBVIOUSLY lacking in writing which was already clear in H4 Spartan Ops yet they blindly keep him in charge thinking he’s doing a great job. And finally they market the game in a cool way with the whole Chief is a traitor theme, only to put nothing of that even in the game while they KNOW that’s way better than the games’ actual premise, so why haven’t they made Halo 5 as good as their OWN ads? Seriously why?
On to multiplayer; Who asked for the REQ system? Why wasn’t it in the beta so we could’ve formed an opinion over it instead of some dumb video’s that we got to see last-minute? Because we shouldn’t have opinions over your shady business practices right 343? Why is the UI -Yoink- even though they could’ve taken notes from Halo Reach or even their own beta? Why do they rely on MLG focus groups to force in a terrible aim acceleration instead of relying on their own creative developers to come up with ideas? Why is the social aspect of Halo completely gone? Why is the map/art desingn lacking compared to previous games?
Many questions huh? Well, we have to ask them ourselves more often because 343 isn’t going to listen to them.
Sorry if this came across as a rant but Halo shouldn’t be a game that’s just ‘‘good enough to ship’’ like 343 is handling it right now.
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> You can tell they don’t care. There’s hardly any community interaction. When is the last time we heard any official information on upcoming endeavors?
On the recent of the monthly live stream. And the weekly canon fodder too.
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> > Sorry but i would say this is the best halo since 2. Its not just “good enough to ship”, its excellent. Just my 2 cents
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Seeing as how they shipped a good couple million i would say its probably fine.
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Guees I should keep up with those lol.
But I think if there was any actual information being released, I would be hearing about it on these forums from other users as well.
That last part, “Halo shouldn’t be a game that’s just ‘good enough to ship’” this is so true, 343 should NOT be lazy, Halo has always been more innovative than the other games that have released at the same time, there’s no reason for it to stop now. The carnage report is pretty bad too, but they’ve shown some other previous variations of it that had a much better feedback. The micro transactions don’t bother me because they were done right, you aren’t forced to buy them if you want to win, you can earn them yourself. And the game not being like the ads was just stupid, and the Warden, he was stupid too. I personally didn’t like the campaign either,
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Arguing about sales is stupid, because we have no definite way of knowing how many were sold.
But from what I’ve seen, it is heavily estimated that Halo 5 is the lowest selling main series title of all time.
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Yeah it’s mostly just lore in Canon Fodder but Grim likes to sneak in some hints and stuff when the time is right. If you are a fan of the Campaign you can get loads of untold info from it. The most recent one is about the new Sanghelli ships which will probably play a role in future games.
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> That last part, “Halo shouldn’t be a game that’s just ‘good enough to ship’” this is so true, 343 should NOT be lazy, Halo has always been more innovative than the other games that have released at the same time, there’s no reason for it to stop now. The carnage report is pretty bad too, but they’ve shown some other previous variations of it that had a much better feedback. The micro transactions don’t bother me because they were done right, you aren’t forced to buy them if you want to win, you can earn them yourself. And the game not being like the ads was just stupid, and the Warden, he was stupid too. I personally didn’t like the campaign either,
> especially Jul’Mdama being killed so quickly.
Microtransactions aren’t the problem, the problem is the complete overhaul of the games’ own progression system that nobody asked for in the beta. What’s the point in beta testing if stuff like this happens?
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They do but they get buried underneath people raging constantly
Based on their replys and changes they have implemented since the beta I would say they do. If a developer didnt care about the life of their game why would 343 be adding and tweaking aspects of the game that people had problems with (beta changes and control manipulation)
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Doubtful. Those fuckasses lied to us about the plot, advertising something way better than the half baked mess that was Halo 5’s story. I doubt they care very much, especially since Brian Reed is still writing for them after Soartan Ops.
I think the delivery of the campaign was horrible.
Req system did come out of nowhere but at least it was only for Warzone gametypes… (wish we had more but I don’t think they are considering a PvE warzone)
Ads were way off. Like even in the background of a trailer, you can see the infinity being destroyed. Like I was looking for that moment. I hate that ship. Its so unnecessarly big (jk I like the infinity)
hunt the truth made no sense to me at all. Good stories though.
Aim acceleration was horrible. Absolutely horrendous at first. They might as well give us full controller mechanic. My look sensitivity is down to 4 or 3. Before I had it at like 6 because turning was so slow. Now the turret look sensitivity is affected too and I aim so slow…
The social aspect is completely wiped out. I hate it, only BTB and a holiday social for social playlist? Why not have all Social and ranking for all game modes in arena. I am so bored of these competitive game types. The only thing I find fun is CTF. Because dying with a flag is so dramatic and funny. Sometimes, I JUST WANT TO PLAY CTF.
The UI is alright. I don’t get why they changed it to white text color. Looks nice though. Hard to see stuff with white.
Definitely lacking on maps. Like why aren’t there maps that have themes of the setting in the campaign. (I don’t mean exact replica but like a feel of it. Ex: A map that has a theme from Meridian.)
So probably no? Maybe they don’t know what the community want. The developers of the Halo 5 forge had to troll forums to find out what they need. Maybe we’re so used to Bungie writing a good story. But 343 can evolve the gameplay.