Halo 4 is good in a lot of respects, but it’s like an old high school friend. they’re fun to hang out with, but in reality, nostalgia is the only thing holding it together. I know it’s a little early to be complaining considering there is TU on the way, and too treat this game like a beta test until that TU, but the beta should have happened before the release. Furthermore, I don’t think that future halo titles are going to be any better. There is just too much going on at once in MM games that makes the game difficult to handle.
The second I heard MS was making a subsidiary company for the creation and continuation of future halo titles back in 2007, I just knew that it was going down hill.
Yeah, expect it to get worse from here. This is just the beginning. Hopefully campaign remains uneffected.
Microsoft should have just let Halo take a rest and put it away in a box, and let the ‘talent filled’ team of 343 make a new IP for Xbox. Advertise the new IP and try to make it the new Halo, if worse comes to worse take Halo out of the box and make a new Halo game if the new IP doesn’t do very well.
Too late for that though, since Microsoft already started the new trilogy…
> Halo 4 is good in a lot of respects, but it’s like an old high school friend. they’re fun to hang out with, but in reality, nostalgia is the only thing holding it together. I know it’s a little early to be complaining considering there is TU on the way, and too treat this game like a beta test until that TU, but the beta should have happened before the release. Furthermore, I don’t think that future halo titles are going to be any better. There is just too much going on at once in MM games that makes the game difficult to handle.
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> The second I heard MS was making a subsidiary company for the creation and continuation of future halo titles back in 2007, I just knew that it was going down hill.
Not really. I’d liken halo 4 to an old classmate who’s sold out and is trying to be a thug.
I don’t see how it could get any better. I personally like halo reach, but to speak for the majority of those who didn’t, it continued the hate because they kept AA’s. I can’t believe how easy it is to rank up, the spartan points system was so useless. It was also like that in halo reach, but halo 4 didnt take nearly as long as halo 4 did to unlock everything that could be unlocked.
I will continue to buy Halo games primarily for the campaign and will ignore other features such as Custom Games and Forge as 343 clearly have no idea what the community want. It is really not that hard to listen to your own community, spend a few hours browsing the net, your own official forums or even watching live streams. Actually having communication with your fan base is a good way to find out what they want from your games and yet, where is this communication? No where.
I shouldn’t be surprised with how Halo 4 turned out looking back but they hyped it up so much and in the Vidocs they go on about how they are all massive Halo fans but yet they created a game that has got just as many problems as Reach did. At least back in Reach we had working file browsers, customizable custom games and forge world. They either need to listen to the community for the next game or I am afraid that the Halo community will continue to get increasingly smaller, since Halo 3 the population has gradually been getting smaller, smaller and smaller and will only continue this trend.
> Microsoft should have just let Halo take a rest and put it away in a box, and let the ‘talent filled’ team of 343 make a new IP for Xbox. Advertise the new IP and try to make it the new Halo, if worse comes to worse take Halo out of the box and make a new Halo game if the new IP doesn’t do very well.
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> Too late for that though, since Microsoft already started the new trilogy…
I don’t get how people who call themselves Halo fans/used to be Halo fans can hate Halo so much. It’s a betrayal saying Halo should have died after 3. Halo needed to be continued. Not for profit, but for obvious reasons. ODST, Reach, and Halo Wars were all pathetically stupid ways to continue it, but that doesn’t mean Halo should have died altogether.
Yes Halo 4 has it’s issues, but it is still a solid game. The campaign reminded me very much of Halo 2 and I loved it.