Everything Right and Wrong with Halo 5 in One Post

Games Halo 5: Guardians
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(Notice: It’s all a matter of opinion. Don’t get all mad if you see something you disagree with lol. Feel free to make your own additions if you feel I’ve missed anything. These aren’t listed in any particular order, just what occurs to me. Subject to edits. Spoilers)

We’ll start with the right:

Campaign:
-Sweet looking HUD
-That skybox is purty
-I dig the new covie vehicles
-The abilities are all pretty usable
-The Spartans look pretty sweet
-Solid framerate (mostly)
-Ground-pounding grunts is probably the funniest thing about this game
-Buck

Multiplayer:
-Equal starts
-No more JIP
-Dedicated servers
-The return of Camo/Overshield pickups (as opposed to ordnance drops)
-Thrusters, clamber, and yes even sprint, make the game feel slick.
-Silky smooth 60FPS
-Some new weapons to fool around with
-Lots of variants in weapons for those who play Warzone
-Standard issue weapons for Arena
-Giant Warzone maps
-No more pulse grenades- splinter grenades rule

Wrong
Campaign:
-Loosely-threaded story directed by Michael Bay
-Frame rate/Resolution drops for objects at a distance
-Fireteam Osiris is boring (except Buck sometimes)
-Blue Team is boring
-Not enough Chief
-The told us “Fifteen missions OMG!” we got 12 actual missions and 3 where you just run around and talk to people… man that’s not a MISSION, that’s an errand lol
-They ditched the emotional story Halo 4 told us
-Advertising (and H4) made me believe we would get hella character development… what we got was a handful of Mary Sues
-Hunt the Truth = advertising. It had nothing to do with the game
-I was looking forward to seeing ONI and their shadowy evil-doings and how they affected the campaign… it turns out they’re so shadowy they don’t appear at all D:
-Cliche sci-fi story. We don’t need another Age of Ultron/Terminator
-Graphics. In my opinion, Halo 4 looked better than this game. Especially the grass. It looks like it’s copy-pasted out of the original Borderlands.

Multiplayer
-No split-screen. It’s been said but it can’t be overstated. At first I had no problem with it, but I realize now that I would LOVE to play with my dad, my girlfriend, my brothers, my friends… now they would all have to buy an XB1 and a copy of H5 to play. 343 says they cut it to maintain 60FPS, but let’s be honest they want your friends to buy more copies of H5.
-MicroTs. There used to be a day when unlocking armor meant you had to unlock certain achievements, or perform incredible feats online. Now the guy with that sick helmet just got it cause he dumped $100+ USD on gold packs. That to me really sucks the soul out of Halo.
-Weak customization. We used to have so many more options…
-Ugly armors
-So much quitting! This is a community problem not a game problem, but holy moly.
-Aiming. Recent update makes this a little better, but I still feel like I’m fighting my reticle. It’s weird since I’ll die because I can’t control my reticle, but I’ll sometimes get unfair kills because of magnetism haha.
-Radar is barely relevant.
-Maps are really… boring. We got so many recycled maps and forge maps… seriously. Truth and Regret are basically the same. Same for Empire/Eden. Forge maps are straight up ugly. Reach did a better job for cryin’ out loud! Plus we have a handful of remakes from previous halos, and 4 Warzone maps. It gets really stale really quickly.
-Lack of game modes. No more Oddball, Assault, Juggernaut, Regicide, Infection, Grifball etc. I mean, what do we have? Slayer, Strongholds, Breakout, CTF. $60 USD used to get you a lot more. But people defend this saying “don’t worry it’ll come in next month’s update”. I don’t want to wait month after month for content that was siphoned out to get trickled back in when it should’ve been included since day 1.
-Personally, I dislike Strongholds and would much rather play KOTH. Whenever I play Strongholds it’s either an easy win or a crushing defeat, I rarely have a close game. I think it’s because the first team to start scoring /knows/ where the other team is and can defend correctly (if they’re smart) whereas the other team is gonna have a much harder time because they don’t have that information.
-No in-between from Hardcore Arena and Uber-Casual Warzone.

Congratulations! You’ve made it to the end of the post. Feel free to add stuff ^^

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You’ve pretty much rapped it up. You forgot to mention no elites in multiplayer. This is also a serious mistake, because Elites in Halo defied the game since Halo 2, separating it from other FPSs by a mile

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> -I dig the new covie vehicles

I think they’re pretty ugly.

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> -The abilities are all pretty usable

“Pointless” would be the first word to come to mind. “Irritating” is the second.

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> -The Spartans look pretty sweet

Hell no. Most of them still retain that ugly Power-Rangers-look.

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> -Solid framerate (mostly)

You mean the 5FPS-enemies? Well, it is at least consistent, I’ll give you that.

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> -Dedicated servers

…that don’t work and provide nothing but Lag for anybody outside the US.

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> -Thrusters, clamber, and yes even sprint, make the game feel slick.

The word “no” doesn’t have enough letters to express the “no-ness” of this sentence…

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> -Silky smooth 60FPS

Didn’t we already touch that one?

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> -Cliche sci-fi story. We don’t need another Age of Ultron/Terminator

Alright, to be fair… Halo always was supposed to be cliché. I dislike the campaign as much as anybody else but this is a universe that revolves aroung a faceless soldier with the “name” Master Chief, that might as well have been played by Michael Biehn.

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> -Graphics. In my opinion, Halo 4 looked better than this game. Especially the grass. It looks like it’s copy-pasted out of the original Borderlands.

I think Halo 4 and H5G look pretty much the same, for better or worse. The Sanghelios-missions look as if they had been ripped straight out of the level “Reclaimer”.

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> -MicroTs. There used to be a day when unlocking armor meant you had to unlock certain achievements, or perform incredible feats online. Now the guy with that sick helmet just got it cause he dumped $100+ USD on gold packs. That to me really sucks the soul out of Halo.

There might have been countless better ways to tackle this problem, but in my opinion, this is still better than Halo 4’s way of forcing people to make hundreds of kills with the plasma pistol.

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> -Ugly armors

Didn’t you say the exact opposite before?

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> -So much quitting! This is a community problem not a game problem, but holy moly.

To be fair, it has always been this way.

No comment on the rest of the post.

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> …that don’t work and provide nothing but Lag for anybody outside the US.

I heavily disagree with that statement.

…because foreigners don’t have a monopoly on lag. The dedicated servers are so bad even Americans like me suffer from rubber banding, getting dropped from matches, and losing connection to the req servers on a constant basis.

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This retort was about perfect.

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> …because foreigners don’t have a monopoly on lag. The dedicated servers are so bad even Americans like me suffer from rubber banding, getting dropped from matches, and losing connection to the req servers on a constant basis.

Off topic, but what is the character limit for a signature? You should have kept Hyenas montage in it.

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I think its a ping problem.

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  1. I also like to mix things up.
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> You’ve pretty much rapped it up. You forgot to mention no elites in multiplayer. This is also a serious mistake, because Elites in Halo defied the game since Halo 2, separating it from other FPSs by a mile

Cmon dude. This is a niche problem. Back in the day almost no one used the elites anyways.

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While I agree with most of this, Halo 4 definitely did not like better, seeing as how Halo 5 has more advanced graphical fidelity and is on more powerful hardware. I guess you can say 4 looked better for its time, but not now.

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Campaign wrapped up for Halo 6… FIRE BRIAN REED… Why on Earth would you allow the guy who made Spartan Ops worse than ET the game LEAD WRITE Halo 5. Say your goodbyes and let him go, Let Frankie right it, I’m 99.99999999%% that if he did Halo 6 would have 20+ missions and 100+ hours of gameplay.
As for multiplayer, just fix the grenade spams. Put a timer on after your grenade throw so someone can’t span 6 grenades at once. Those are my biggest issues really

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Yeah, that’s Halo 5. This could be a review.

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> > 2535414369351666;2:
> > You’ve pretty much rapped it up. You forgot to mention no elites in multiplayer. This is also a serious mistake, because Elites in Halo defied the game since Halo 2, separating it from other FPSs by a mile
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> Cmon dude. This is a niche problem. Back in the day almost no one used the elites anyways.

Bullshiezer, it’s the neatest edition. Reach has even the best customisation and reason to use them

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-Loosely-threaded story directed by Michael Bay = this actually made me laugh out loud.