i used to play halo frequently but since halo 4 i only play once in a blue moon if there’s nothing else, i think to myself “well it can’t be that bad to just have a couple of games” but oh god, entire enemy teams with DMR’s, teammates who seemingly enjoy standing there watching me die before the kill the enemy attacking me and the enemy team spawning right next to me, either that or i spawn next to the enemy team miles away from my teammates.
sure on rare occurrences i see competant teammates, but only very rarely 5% chance I’d say, most games are 40% but in this game only 5% and with those that are competant games last seconds because we kick their -Yoink- before they even realize, but seriously i see the enemy team catching the flag constantly and my team don’t do a thing to them, i seem to think players lack common sense in this game, in fact halo 4 in general lacks common sense, the entire team who made it aren’t talentless, aren’t idiots but they lack common sense which most developers do but 343 have absolutely no common sense whatsoever, for example, why is the dmr in halo 4? first of all the weapon was bad in reach second it should have disappeared along with reach third theres already a precision weapon which is far more satisfying yet challenging to use, the battle rifle, why do we need another precision gun?
that aside lets talk about forge shall we, first of all, there are holes in nearly every single object so it leaves a gap, if you want to make an interior area in forge, think again unless you want to make your building look like swiss cheese, this is worse in maps like impact.
oh and the maps are horrible to forge on, just look at settler and how everyone camps on top of the cliffs with dmr’s, if 343, the creators of the game can’t make a good map on ravine, what hope does anyone have? then theres other maps like complex which is a dmr campfest, adrift which is sticky spamtacular, ragnarok which is ruined by the mantis, exile which is a medium sized map with a scorpion on one teams side (fail logic), solace, a snipefest with a beam to disorientate the sniper more than necesarry, haven which has way too many holes to jump down and pillars that get in the way when you’re trying to strafe which have gaps in the middle so that enemies can ambush you, and what is with this anyways? every encounter is just me vs 2 people, very rarely do i get 1v1 encounters.
spartan ops is a joke, spartan ops is a waste of 343’s resources that could have been used well, no lives, boring story segments and no challenge whatsoever, it’s supposed to be a way to relieve stress players say, well allow me to prove otherwise, instead of being challenging and giving players limited lives they just make the ai really strong and kill you in an instant, this wouldn’t be bad if the game was meant to be a challenge though but it isn’t, ever since 343 took over firefight limited dissappeared from reach, it seems 343 don’t like players to have a challenge.
oh and action sack, wait thats not action sack, that’s what halo 3 used to be before playlists were all the same boring crap, 343 obviously doesn’t think minigames like dodgeball, zeus, haloball, hockey, team sumo etc are fun and so they didn’t include them, instead they made it into a playlist for noobs to get easy kills, casual players are not noobs, 343, the fact you do this is simply a way to insult casuals, isn’t that the opposite of what you’re trying to do? how about the other playlists, team throwback is what halo 3 would have been if it was stupid, it has all the classic gametypes from halo 3 but no motion sensor, do you know the reason why i play halo? it’s because i can pinpoint where my enemies are and strategically plan my move, not like cod where you get shot in the back by some guy you didn’t know was there because theres no motion sensor, i heard there were other problems with it but those problems didn’t frustrate me.
campaign is short but ok, nothing spectacular, not that halo has ever been amazing for it’s story (seriously halo is nothing special in terms f story, anyone can make a game where some armoured badass kills aliens and saves the world with a plot device which is only discovered half way through the game so that at the start there is no motivation whatsoever and you just kill covenant, generally games with military themes bore me so i might be slightly biased on this but still it’s nothing spectacular and i’ve seen better from a sci fi space marine game (warhammer and starcraft for example). halo 4’s story was ok, just ok, nothing special, jusk ok.
now that i have vented myself as have many other people here i would like people to know that i am not stopping them from playing the game, if you want to play the game and you enjoy it, fine just stay out of this if you don’t want an argument. otherwise any supporters who empathize with me feel free to post your frustrations with the game and how it can be improved. here are my suggestions:
-remove the dmr
-remove the mantis
-improve action sack playlist
-allow community maps in flood and action sack
i would list more but these are the only things that can slightly improve the game at it’s current point, everything else will have to be done in halo 5, with bungies destiny along the way, 343 oughta get their act together if they don’t want to be washed off the face of the earth, we all know that no one (aside from dedicated fans) will be playing halo once destiny comes out, i personally won’t be playing it because it’s published by activision but i have other games to turn to, farcry 3 for example, a game that frustrates me less than halo 4 somehow, a game that i can have fun in despite dying often because it is rewarding and endorses team play and co-operation despite it’s many flaws i still think it’s the better game, story mode too is even better than multiplayer, it just shows what an fps can do, halo is old now, i forsee bungie are going to do the same with destiny and make it more open world, 343 will have to keep up and in all honesty i cannot see them lasting.
thanks for reading my wall of poor grammar, thats what happends when you play 3 minutes of halo 4, i’m mad bro and i hope you guys know that. oh and i’m not that good at halo but i’m not that good at fps anyways, i just want to have fun, this game isn’t fun so comments like “it’s because you suck” are irrelevant because i ahve fun in farcry 3 yet die more than i do halo 4.
