Does Anyone Like Halo 4?

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So I’ve seen just about everywhere that everyone dislikes Halo 4 from the soundtrack, to the campaign, to multiplayer.

I had picked up Halo 4 at the midnight release and have played it ever since. It seems that I am one of the few individuals who actually enjoyed a new Halo experience from 343.

When I played through the campaign the first time, I was on the edge of my seat the entire way through. And every time I play through the campaign, I notice something I missed previously. There was the old Halo feeling again to me.

When it came to the score, I felt like the Neil Davidge did a phenomenal job at portraying the emotion Chief felt through each battle and cut scene in the campaign. The best example I can think of is after Cortana dies and you hear the score “Green and Blue”. I don’t know about everyone else but the score and what was happening made me tear up, which is a powerful thing that music can make us do.

But when it comes to multiplayer, I guess I still find it as fun as day one. Even when I go back and player Halo 3 or Reach, there are plenty of glitches that pop up and they lag as well. Still, I feel that the multiplayer section of Halo 4 has been something that everyone seems to focus on only the multiplayer portion of the game because that is the portion of Halo 4 that I spend a lot of time in as well, but the Halo 4 game as a whole I feel is a great addition to the Halo universe.

I guess in close, the reason I started playing Halo in the first place was the amount of mystery that surrounded the game and eventually finding the true meaning of what ever we were working towards, which to me Halo 4 had plenty of mystery.

What do you think?

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I won’t pay as much attention to the Campaign as you did, let alone the music score.
The Campaign was fun-ish, but not memorable. In fact, the only two parts I remember are flying a pelican and Midnight, and that’s saying something considering I LASO’d it…The music score was great, though. I still love Midnight’s theme even after hearing it 1,000,000 times.
The Campaign not being great was ok for me though; C.E’s was the only fantastic one.

Spartan Ops was more fun than me than the Campaign. Some people thought it repetitive, and it’s easy too see why. However, I enjoyed thinking of myself as just a regular Spartan, it allowed me to think of myself as a solider rather than the MC. The cutscenes were nice too, and it portrayed a short story really well.

And now the meat of the pie, Multiplayer. At first, I hated it. I was pretty good at Reach, but new maps, guns, grenade physics threw me off.
After about 2 weeks of playing though, I started to do well again, and now I think it’s my favourite of all the Halo’s.
3 never grew on me, it was too vanilla for me. Reach was great, but it was missing the awesome maps. 4 gave the new maps, plus new, now balanced, weapons, and the gameplay itself just feels better.
I can’t explain it, really. It’s smooth, fast due to everyone having Sprint, Power Weapon locations means faster havoc.

With the recent weapon rebalancing, I’ve found myself even more involved, trying to win matches rather than withhold a good k/d. I’m trying to get a CTF team going, since that’s, along with Dominion, my favourite playlist.

Maybe the game’s not that great, and it’s just me becoming more involved with it and enjoying it more that’s giving off an illusion of it being better, but I’m having fun, so I don’t care :wink:

Bottom line, I love it; you’re not alone.

With that in mind, OP if you want to play sometime, add me.

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There are a few annoyances yes, but I s find myself overall in love with it regardless. Your def not alone :slight_smile:

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I love it. Like a child. It has faults, and you feel like scolding them, but you correct it with love, and it becomes wonderful.

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Campaign was a great story, but the missions are too linear.

Spartan Ops was good, except for the dialogue (egg heads/hingeheads every other sentence?) I wish they had not stopped.

Matchmaking has improved a great deal since it was rolled out, at this point the issues I have are around getting a game where I am not stuck playing level 50’s all the time.

Theater and Forging and their limitations.

Overall I feel Microsoft shipped an incomplete product.

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I loved the campaign, it was amazing even though we didn’t get to drive the mammoth. It looked great too, something you just don’t get in FPS games. (It looks better than Battlefield 4 on the xbox one. And that’s saying something)

I would have liked spartan ops more if it didn’t lag for me.

Multiplayer, is ok. Ordnance drops were annoying, as atleast once per game, a player would get rockets, or Shotguns from it. Actually, that’s another thing. I know that Bravo is a ex-MLG Halo player, but does every map really need a sniper? What happened to swords and Shotguns? I don’t think the scattershot even spawns on maps naturally anymore. Anyways, The un-balanced weapons and insta-spawn ruined it for me.

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Of course! I love Halo 4.

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It can get on my nerves some days but overall I still play.

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Well my friend, your obviously not alone :slight_smile:

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I liked the campaign but didn’t find it to memorable. I didn’t think an emotional chief was to realistic and in halo 1-3, his and cortana’s relationship was more flirty but halo 4 kind of turned it into a love story between a super soldier and a hologram. At least that’s the way I see it.

The multiplayer I can’t stand but I still think it’s fun. It’s fun but there isn’t much to keep me playing more than a couple games. I played Halo 4 for the first time since january this weekend and had tons of fun playing turkey bowl. For about an hour… The problem is with the progression ranking system, you reach SR 130 to quickly, and “SR 130” doesn’t sounds as neat as “inheritor”.

The music again, I liked it but didn’t find it to memorable. It was different, but in a good way.

The way I see it people come for the campaign but stay for the multiplayer. If Halo 4 gave me more incentive to stick around I’d probably be playing it more than reach.

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Yep I think it’s fun.

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IMO, Halo 4 is one of the best Halo games to date. The soundtrack is good, but Marty set the bar so high in the first games, I don’t know if anyone could match it. The campaign was way too straightforward and there was hardly any openness or choice during engagements, but it had the best story and storytelling since CE. The multiplayer was incredibly polished and looked beautiful.

Unfortunately, all of the above accomplishments were overshadowed by the massive failure that was Infinity gametype settings. 343i has failed at launch and every point since then to address the issues arising from the noncompetitiveness and lack of fun from the dominant matchmaking gametypes. If “classic” playlists existed at launch and if sprint, descope, and flinch could be toggled on or off in custom gametype options, things would look much brighter for Halo 4 right now.

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I still play it daily regardless of its flaws. The only thing the aggravates me is the lag.

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I love Halo 4. Easily my favorite of the 360 Halos. Great campaign. Spartan Ops is very solid. The soundtrack, while not as good as Marty’s music, is still very good. As for the MP, yeah it’s no Halo 2, but I think it’s quite solid. Frankly, I like it better than Halo 3’s.

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It’s nice to see that not everyone dislikes it!

But it’s weird when I were to type in Halo Waypoint in a search bar, the first hit was “Halo 4 a flop” or “Why Halo 4 is a sub-bar game”

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The campaign and music/art style were different, but well executed nonethless. Could’ve been better, but I did enjoy the campaign quite a bit. It has its memorable moments, such as driving out of the caves and first seeing requeim’s towers. Reach had a better campaign in my opinion, mainly due to the AI being more of a challenge.

Multiplayer is…heavily flawed. Good in some areas, inferior in many others. Overall, it’s a step above Reach.

Forge is a slight step back from Reach, but still ahead of Halo 3.

Customs were a downgrade, even compared to Halo 3. That is too much and inexcusable.

Spartan Ops is fun the first time you do a mission, but has no replay value. I grinded through it to reach level 130, and I hated it. The CGI scenes though were well done, but the storyline itself was irrelevant to your team and was mediocre.

I enjoyed bits and pieces of it. The overall experience was lacking.

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It was a bold experiment which sometimes bit off more than it could chew. Having just played nonstop H3 since it was released on XBL, I can see the ‘classic’ appeal and nostalgia. I like H4 plenty, but I suspect I’ll like it most for the lessons it will teach the next Halo.

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I like Halo 4.

A lot of the big cons are stuff that I never really used anyway. Custom games and forge being the two biggest.

Campaign was well done but ‘that’ story is overdone if that makes sense. Halo 3 finished the epic fight that Halo 2 left so open. Halo 4 just feels forced to me.

It would be like watching a basketball game and seeing a crazy game winning shot! Riding the high (Halo 3). Then saying ‘hey, let’s just keep playing b/c that was fun’ (Halo 4). Feels pointless, a team already won.

Spartan Ops was a nice add on to the game. It replaced firefight as the third wheel in the game. It lacks replayability but I felt firefight lacked options.

I would love to have seen an improved firefight all n all (customize deeper when and where the bad guys come from. Not just ‘this type of enemies in this wave’. So I guess I’m asking for a hybrid. Basically create SO missions for friends to try to beat. Call them ‘challenges’ or whatever (it’s not FF but it’s not SO).

Anyway, a bonus 20+ from SO was a good thing, not a bad thing.

MM is fun. I personally don’t like POD and wish AA were map pickups. However, I DO like loadouts (at least gun choice) and having more options of primary weapons that are pretty well balanced. Keeps the variety high while not making anything too OP.

The huge knock is ‘purpose’. Even as a more casual player I really miss a rank… going up or down over time, to SHOW me how I’m doing. I also dislike the lag (host selection) situation. But all in all, I think MM is a good time.

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I like Halo 4, but I would be playing it right now if my Halo 4 wasn’t broken.

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I love it, I play it everyday…it does have flaws…but none the less I love it.