I’ve started playing halo 3 again and decided to give a comparison for those out there. Unbiased facts.
Halo 3: Good
1-50
Moderately well balenced sandbox
No hitscan weapons (player preference)
Playable elites
Strong out if box competitive gameplay
Fast kill times
Predictable movement, weapon spawns and weapon starts.
Emphasis on map control.
Many game types and many many game settings
Bad:
Slower overall pace than h4 (this depends on player perspective)
Bad net code and no hitscan weapons.
Some vehicles were a bit OP.
A lot of redundant weapons because of duel wielding.
Certain aspects of forge and other features weren’t added yet.
Random Br spread
Halo 4: Good
Pace is very fast (depends on player)
Newer features an graphics
In depth character customization
Spartan ops
Bad:
BOLTSHOT
lots of power weapons almost which all are insta kill or kill too fast to react to
Random out of box settings that need to be tweaked to have any competitive relevance.
Barely any playlists
Buggy
Some lag in certain games
No options to disable JIP
Unfair teams for initial game start
Empty teams for initial game start
No FFA MM playlist
no 1-50 ranking or files hate yet
Dmr being back (no gun should be that lazer accurate and have a 3x zoom)
A lot of weapons redundant because of Custom load outs
Barely any custom game options
Glitched custom game options
Removal of many game types
No playable elites
Ill update tm and post others I’ve thought of. These are all top of my head.
I agree with most of the op, except you forgot to put lack of elites in halo 4 multiplayer as a con.
Also, I think the lack of hitscan weapons in halo 3 is a pro (especially when you look at the dmr). And I dont know about you, but I dont think bullets should be able to damage vehicle armor. In halo 3 this was common sense, but in halo 4…
People will probably tell you not to compare a game from 2007 with a game from 2012, but frankly, its almost sad that you found more cons for halo 4 than halo 3.
Halo 3 was so much laggier than halo 4… also one could make the argument playable elites were bad for balancing reasons and same with halo 3’s faster kill times (im pretty sure halo 4’s are faster…)
> Halo 3 was so much laggier than halo 4… also one could make the argument playable elites were bad for balancing reasons and same with halo 3’s faster kill times (im pretty sure halo 4’s are faster…)
Halo 4’s aren’t faster except for light rifle. Halo 3 Br was 1.6 h4 dmr carbine and Br are all 1.8
Also playable elites had same hitboxes as Spartans.
Yeah the thing that killed Halo 4 for me was the removal of all the custom games. That really pissed me off. The fact that the file share was not up during game release is just proof that 343 and Microsoft were just tying to cash in on as much Christmas money as possible. It’s disgusting. I sold my Halo 4 copy the other day and put the money towards the new Hitman. Hitman is awesome! I am so happy I got it.
> I’ve started playing halo 3 again and decided to give a comparison for those out there. Unbiased facts.
>
> Halo 3: Good
> 1-50
> Moderately well balenced sandbox
> No hitscan weapons (player preference)
> Playable elites
> Strong out if box competitive gameplay
> Fast kill times
> Predictable movement, weapon spawns and weapon starts.
> Emphasis on map control.
> Many game types and many many game settings
>
> Bad:
> Slower overall pace than h4 (this depends on player perspective)
> Bad net code and no hitscan weapons.
> Some vehicles were a bit OP.
> A lot of redundant weapons because of duel wielding.
> Certain aspects of forge and other features weren’t added yet.
> Random Br spread
>
> Halo 4: Good
>
> Pace is very fast (depends on player)
> Newer features an graphics
> In depth character customization
> Spartan ops
>
>
> Bad:
> BOLTSHOT
> lots of power weapons almost which all are insta kill or kill too fast to react to
> Random out of box settings that need to be tweaked to have any competitive relevance.
> Barely any playlists
> Buggy
> Some lag in certain games
> No options to disable JIP
> Unfair teams for initial game start
> Empty teams for initial game start
> No FFA MM playlist
> no 1-50 ranking or files hate yet
> Dmr being back (no gun should be that lazer accurate and have a 3x zoom)
> A lot of weapons redundant because of Custom load outs
> Barely any custom game options
> Glitched custom game options
> Removal of many game types
> No playable elites
>
>
>
> Ill update tm and post others I’ve thought of. These are all top of my head.
I agree with you on most of it. The big thing is this is NOT “unbiased facts”.
