Every new Halo game is deemed as the worst in the series. Halo 2 came out and the thousands who played Halo 1 competitively at tournaments or programs like XBox Connect or X-Link Kai or even GameSpy Arcade said Halo 2 was such a newb-friendly drastic change that we now see was the trend the series would take later on.
Each successive Halo game has become worse and worse in terms of gameplay. Halo 2 slightly breaks this mold because it had Xbox Live and introduced matchmaking, but if you give that to Halo 1, no one would’ve played Halo 2 at the time. Anyone who was around during that period and saw the internet explode with outcries of how different Halo was would know what I’m talking about.
Halo 3 comes out and what? The game became so sluggish and inconsistent and again the trend continued that this new Halo game was the worst.
What happened when Reach came out? Same. Exact. Thing.
So as history shows us, 343i needs to make the necessary changes because Halo 4 is doomed to becoming “the worst Halo game created.”
Halo 4 will be deemed “the worst Halo game ever” no matter what. It’s what happens when something new comes out. No matter what 343i does, not everyone will be satisfied.
> > Depends on what you mean by “necessary changes”.
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> The generally accepted changes like a GOOD ranking system, faster gameplay, better vehicle combat, searchable custom games, etc etc
See, but the problem is that you’re saying that Halo 2 was deemed the worst Halo thus far when it was released. That’s bound to happen, there’s almost no way around it. The same thing happens with movies and music (usually). Let’s use Eminem as an example. His first three albums were The Slim Shady LP, The Marshall Mathers LP and The Eminem Show. Today, these three CDs are widely known as his best work and overall Hip Hop classics. But, when TES dropped two years after MMLP it was met with a criticism of being “too poppy/soft” and “not edgy”. Nowadays, many consider it his magnum opus and pinnacle as an artist. The general consensus is: TES = MMLP > SSLP. Looking at things in retrospect makes a difference. Some things take time to sink in.
Reach is a different story. I highly doubt most of the community will say Reach was better than Halo 4, even in its first days/weeks of release. Halo 3 didn’t get anywhere near the same hate as Reach.
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> Halo 3 > Halo 2 > Halo 1.
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> God, even ODST peaked in respects to the music and campaign.
As much as I agree, from a campaign standpoint. The multiplayer buffs will completely disagree.
It would probably go Halo CE > Halo3 > Halo2 > Halo Reach for some multiplayer buffs, however there still remains the people who enjoyed abusing Halo2’s glitches and even deem them to be skill full.
OT: It’s a damn shame that people can’t just sit back and enjoy games these days, but whatever. Sucks for them.
> Halo 4 will be deemed “the worst Halo game ever” no matter what. It’s what happens when something new comes out. No matter what 343i does, not everyone will be satisfied.
Actually for many people each halo game was an improvement from the last but even for the people who prefered the previous installment atleast they still played it and/or another halo game but thanks to reach many of my friends have flocked to other fps’s because reach was Bull Yoink! and if halo 4 does turn into a good game that plays like the original triology then the only major haters will be little kids who want tornado guns and the ability to turn into a fast hedge hog and cod players, so in that case you are right that not every one will like it but if the game is a proper halo and is a great game then more people will like it than not like it because people are desperate for a non spin off halo game that is worth 60 $
> > No.
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> > Halo 3 > Halo 2 > Halo 1.
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> > God, even ODST peaked in respects to the music and campaign.
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> More like Halo 2>Halo 1>Reach>Wars>ODST>3
Opinion are opinions but atleast you two can still agree that atleast one halo game is better then it’s predessesor meaning that if halo 4 is a good halo then it won’t automaticly be deemed the worst but if it truly is the worst halo game then it deserves the title of worst halo game
> Halo 4 will be deemed “the worst Halo game ever” no matter what. It’s what happens when something new comes out. No matter what 343i does, not everyone will be satisfied.
Halo 4 needs to be like Halo CE in terms of gameplay. Halo 2 was nooby, Halo 3 had a -Yoink- net code and spread, Halo Reach had a good net code but -Yoink- gameplay.
Halo 4 = Halo CE Gameplay + Halo Reach Net Code + Halo 2 Ranking System + Halo 3 Art scheme + a few more advancements
It’s a good thing I’m not one of those people. Though I dislike Reach, I don’t simply think that every new Halo game is the worst in the series. Reach is the only Halo that I haven’t liked so far. I think that all the other Halo games are awesome in their own special ways.
Its exactly like the future Sonic The Hedgehog Titles in comparision to the old Genesis Sonic Games. You will always have the purists that won’t accept the idea of the slightest change in the formula.
That’s why some Gears of War Fans say that Gears 2 was horrible because of the lag and that Gears 3 is unplayable because of the Walkable Crutch Weapon known as the Sawn-off Shotgun.