The complaints people address against Halo 4 are absolutely hilarious. I’ve been a fan of Halo since CE on Xbox and at this time the Halo fanbase was moderately respected. I mean, sure, there were PC gamers who looked down at us, but when Gearbox ported Halo to PC, even the Half Life crowd where enjoying Halo.
Halo 2 took Halo to Xbox Live and this is when the fanbase started to get a little bit stupid. On the whole, the fans were fine, but this is when MLG started their Battle Rifle obsession. I don’t have a problem with MLG, if they want to play the game competitively that’s their decision. But it did create the foundations of the tryhards who wanted to play ‘seriously’ and ‘competitively’. Hence, the creation of the button combos and battle glitches. However, it was on the whole respectful and a fringe cult thing. Most people played Halo 2 socially.
And then Halo bloody 3 came out. The ‘vocal fans’ of nowadays were created with this game. Halo became all about ranks and armour to show off player skill. Despite the fact noone cares about your rank, that didn’t stop them. Loads of game elements were removed to ‘accomodate skill’. The majority of the weapons and many vehicles like the Hornet, Scorpion and Wraith were pulled from Matchmaking. In truth, us old Halo fans were not impressed with Halo 3. I mean, it wasn’t bad, but it didn’t change much and was very similar to Halo 2. But it did start the stupid armour and rank obsession.
Do you know what’s even funnier? Despite the fact the tryhard Halo fans nowadays think they loved this game now, I remember things much differently.
Here were the ridiculous widespread complaints:
- Why is the Campaign so short
- Why can’t I have Recon
- Why is the ending disappointing
- Why is the armour hard to unlock
- Why did I delevel! RAGE
- Why did they kill all the characters
- Why does the BR have such spread
- Why is dual wielding OP
- Equipment is ruining the core of Halo! HERP DERP!
It was incredibly irritating…all the tryhard fans complaining and crying about the tiniest details. And do you guys know what, you guys are doing THE EXACT SAME THING with Halo 4!
You aren’t the original fans of Halo and you never were. You only got into Halo because of your tryhard ranks and armour unlocks. Why don’t you go and play a game like Starcraft, you know a game that is much more skilled than Halo 3 ever was, and just go away.
343 made mistakes with Halo 4 but the majority of complaints I see are pathetic. We don’t need trueskill, we don’t need cooler armour, we don’t need sprint or armour abilities removing, loadouts are hardly a problem, even ordinance drops are nowhere near as bad as you make out.
What the future of Halo DOES need is better playlists, more vehicles, less focus on graphics with more focus on large-scale battles, bigger multiplayer maps that support more player to revolutionise the Halo genre. You could also include better custom game and forge options here.
Stop your stupid complaints so real constructive criticism can be made.
You remind me of the Sonic fanbase who cry about green eyes.
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