Has anyone else experienced this? You know, where you’re still going around on Halo (now MCC), and all your friends have drifted from game to game every few months (currently Elder Scrolls Online). They insist you move on too, but don’t feel like investing in a game you wont like. I don’t know, it’s a weird feeling, kinda depressing.
And the worst is when they do get the MCC and play a couple matches with you and then go back to something else without you.
Yeah, I kinda feel lonely when I play online. I have 0 real-life friends that play Halo. I have a brother I play split screen with, but when you play split screen, the lag is freaking real
i get lag even without split screen -.-
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> And the worst is when they do get the MCC and play a couple matches with you and then go back to something else without you.
Yup, and that’s why neglecting split screen and creating online-only game designed around coop is the worst thing 343i could do. Nobody will be happy with Halo 5, not even those online-only dudes who are saying split screen is not important because they haven’t used it for years.
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> Yup, and that’s why neglecting split screen and creating online-only game designed around coop is the worst thing 343i could do. Nobody will be happy with Halo 5, not even those online-only dudes who are saying split screen is not important because they haven’t used it for years.
Well you can’t say they won’t like it exactly. Nobody has their hands on the official game as of yet, so stating people will like or dislike doesn’t hold any ground. If people get the game and dislike it then we can talk about it more in that aspect, but doing so before helps no one.
I feel ya’, OP.
There have been at least two-to-three instances in which my friends have moved from Halo to games like Battlefield, GTA, and CoD.
Then they claim that “nobody plays Halo anymore”. XD
Completely agree, my old LAN friends hardly play XBL period and most of my online friends play other games such as Destiny. Hopefully, Halo 5 reels them back in.
I feel more bad for the poor souls who think they don’t want to keep playing Halo. ESO? psh.
I once had a friend named Tyler, we were the best of friends from 5th grade 'til high school. We used to play Halo 2 on his Xbox all the time, and after Halo 3 was released I would get together with him and some of his other friends and play custom games every Friday after school. He is the reason why I play Halo now. If I’ve never met him, I never would have heard of Halo, nor would I have ever gotten an Xbox. We drifted apart after we got into high school. He became more interested in smoking pot than anything else, including Halo, and he gradually talked to me less and less after I made it clear that I didn’t want to smoke with him. I still visit him sometimes, and I invite him over to play Halo on the MCC with me. He says he’ll come over, but he never does.
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> I once had a friend named Tyler, we were the best of friends from 5th grade 'til high school. We used to play Halo 2 on his Xbox all the time, and after Halo 3 was released I would get together with him and some of his other friends and play custom games every Friday after school. He is the reason why I play Halo now. If I’ve never met him, I never would have heard of Halo, nor would I have ever gotten an Xbox. We drifted apart after we got into high school. He became more interested in smoking pot than anything else, including Halo, and he gradually talked to me less and less after I made it clear that I didn’t want to smoke with him. I still visit him sometimes, and I invite him over to play Halo on the MCC with me. He says he’ll come over, but he never does.
That’s really depressing
The great thing about any game is that the game itself is the source of new friends who can play the game with you. I never used to accept friend requests, but about a year ago I started and I’ve actually met some really cool people that way. Many were randoms who I never played with again, but a handful are people I still play with regularly. And sometimes some of them move on. I wish them well… and go right back to cultivating my friend list anew. What you’re experiencing isn’t unique to gaming. It’s unique to life. High school friends will drop away when you go off to college, college friends will drop away when you get a job, job friends will drop away when you get married, married friends will drop away when you have kids. Not all friends drop away, but it’s human nature that very few friendships, virtual or in-the-flesh, will last a life time. Celebrate the ones you stick with (and who stick with you) and always be open to the next cool person you meet. Even if it’s in a video game.
Half my friends list I met during the Halo 3 glory days. Most of them jumped on the Call of Duty bandwagon… Now it’s fractured into a COD, Battlefield and Destiny.
I’m still rocking the Halo after all these years.
My friends do not play Halo, and most are not on a Xbox One yet. I need to find a very casual group to game with.
I guess this also happened to a lot of people with the new consoles were released. A lot of people jumping ship to the other side fractured a lot of gaming groups and communities.
Its it’s now just about playing what you enjoy and finding others who are doing it in the same games as you are now. It’s a cycle that will continue for many many years to come.