After playing most of the maps and the playlists available I have firmly agreed that 343i believes Call of Duty to be the batter game, seeing as how being it was clearly 343i goal.
Here are the shocking similarities:
Spartan Ops = Spec Ops
Insane currency system making you unlock anything and everything.
Individualized loadouts
Perks
and soo much more.
Bungie had the balls with the halo series to make halo halo, but it seems Microsoft is obviously in it for the money. I spent all this time leading up to launch trying my best to say this game would rule, that halo would be halo again… I was very wrong.
So it would seem that in terms of new games I either play large scale cod (battlefield) halo cod (halo 4) or call of duty. It would seem that there is no longer innovation only “how can we be as successful as cod?”
So remember kids - if you want to be as successful as another, do what they did.
It’s an ugly truth, but Halo has been CoD-ified in the hopes of looking ‘cool’ in the eyes of the newer consumers. It wants to be a trendy little thing. It has no spirit any more.
Why is this debate still raging? Do people really care? CoD has great features that 343i would have been negligent to leave out. Sorry bud, but they do have to make money. In case you didn’t know, CoD also adopted some Halo features. So, that means, CoD=Halo. But, then, if Halo=CoD…doesn’t Halo=Halo? That’s just using logic, though.
There’s no doubt that they took influences from cod and other modern shooters, but it still has that halo charm that we’ve become accustomed to. While it may not be the exact game I was hoping for, it’s still better than Reach, and a hell of a lot better than any Call of Duty. That’s enough for me.
> Hey guys, this is a first person shooter. Frickin Wolfenstein 3D clones everywhere.
Ha!
OP you act as though CoD invented all the things it has. News flash! It didn’t.
It has done nothing but take from every other shooter out there. The first few CoD games were little more than a pathetic rip off of medal of honor. Then after Battlefield 2 modern combat’s success it jumped on the modern shooter bandwagon, riding on battlefields coat tails.
MrCheesy got it right, its lost the spirit of what halo was. Now its a call of duty wanna be.
And those of you talking about how every game rips from another you aren’t wrong but you are missing the point. Technology had come far enough to allow individualism in the industry, the days of being envious of other companies should stop. This whole “Damn there more popular than us, lets do what they are doing” is just lazy and wrong.
Halo had something when it was made all the way up until Bungie gave birth to their MS influenced -Yoink- child. It was halo, it was purely its own, just as call of duty was its own. What happen that made that stop? Greed? Laziness? all of the above?
You guys pulled this with Reach, Chill the hell out and just enjoy the game, there also sevreale diffenses between COD and Halo, just because it barrows a few things means OMG HALO IS NOW COD RIPOFF BETRAAAAALY
> MrCheesy got it right, its lost the spirit of what halo was. Now its a call of duty wanna be.
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> And those of you talking about how every game rips from another you aren’t wrong but you are missing the point. Technology had come far enough to allow individualism in the industry, the days of being envious of other companies should stop. This whole “Damn there more popular than us, lets do what they are doing” is just lazy and wrong.
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> Halo had something when it was made all the way up until Bungie gave birth to their MS influenced -Yoink!- child. It was halo, it was purely its own, just as call of duty was its own. What happen that made that stop? Greed? Laziness? all of the above?
> Hey guys, this is a first person shooter. Frickin Wolfenstein 3D clones everywhere.
Holy truth. A month before I was hater of this “clone” too, but after several hours in H4 I must said it’s just better Halo 3 (and the best Halo till now).
> You guys pulled this with Reach, Chill the hell out and just enjoy the game, there also sevreale diffenses between COD and Halo, just because it barrows a few things means OMG HALO IS NOW COD RIPOFF BETRAAAAALY
more than just a few things, most of what they pulled are a CoD staple, and a lot of people are playing it like CoD. which is really annoying due to the radar scanner somehow picking you up all the time.
I will agree that Halo 4 is better than call of duty its just I really hate to see it get closer in resembling call of duty instead of staying in its own domain.
> you forgot the kill streaks and somewhat underpowered grenades
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> really only difference in the 2 is that halo is hipfire and jumping everywhere with no recoil.
Kill streaks, eh? Please, tell me more. You mean when you get a weapon as a result of playing well? Yeah, definitely in the same boat as when I get SR-71, Chopper, and Dogs. Exactly like dropping a Nuke in MW2 and ENDING THE GAME. Totally the same.