hello everyone my name is “ark”
I have felt the need to wright this post after spending the last 2 weeks playing halo4.
I wish to talk about the good the bad and everything else you may think about the game.
my first feelings after finishing the single player was the game was far to short, the story telling itself was very good and i did enjoy it, there were a few holes i must admit that i hope are filled in at some point. i wont stay on story topic much more as 343 are trying to build a story base to work from, weather or not it will all tie together still remains to be seen. “your thoughts?”
now just to point something out, iv played and loved halo for a long time, my gamertag will show that. so please take my views with a pinch of salt.
my feelings have gone from “OMG this game rocks” to “a hole lot of WTF!?”
the more time iv spent with the game iv found myself finding more at fault then right. for example load outs, now adding this does give players a chance to use what they enjoy using may that be a BR or DMR. but if i wanted to play a class based fps i would have got cod or played battle field, halo has always been about controlling the power weapons on a map and working as a team to do so.
this brings me onto perks. this is something im not happy with. they do add some skills which are of use like the operator perk, if you dont know this will allow plasma pistols to only stop a tank or banshee for half the time, this is not a level playing field and means players of lower levels may get crushed by other teams who may have this perk. this is not the halo way! " your thoughts on perks?"
moving away from perks as i could -Yoink- about that for some time.
next on my list is something concerning. corners that have been cut in making halo 4 and they can been seen everywhere, i will list a few but please point out anything else you think may be true to this point.
mission 1 “dawn” anyone else notice how crap the explosion of the ship looked after firing that huge rocket?? who at 343 thought that looked good?
there are a few other spots in the game where i was wondering if someone was drunk while making it, as some of the details seemed to just not be there.
next is the fact that they slimmed down halo 4 and i cant understand why.
take your mind back to halo 2 3 and reach. now think of all the guns, ships and toys that are missing.
just to list a few:
bruteshot
falcon
maller
spiker
smg
dual welding
brute chopper
revanet
and much much more the list is huge, i would take the time to list everything they left out but id be typing this till next year in that case! go to youtube and check out the vids for all the weapons from the pre halo games and ask yourself why are they not in halo 4?
they could have given us the best halo game to date but i sadly dont think this is the case.
i feel that 343 have done a good job with the story for now at lest but the MP and playlist are just not working for me, it just does not feel like halo or at lest not a good halo.
im asking myself did 343 trim this game to its bare bones in order to focus on halo 5 for the next xbox? if so they better bring there A game. im a huge halo fan id even go as far to say im a fan boy and supported this shooter for over 10 years!
so why am i feeling like iv been robed of a good game 343?
they added spartan ops which i like the idea of and enjoyed playing with friends, the story thread makes it far better the firefight, but at the same time i feel this took there main focus away from the main body of the story.
my final thoughts of this little rant is that when bungie gave us a new halo it was packed with everything we had loved and enjoyed from pre games plus some new toys and guns. 343 on the other hand have given us a good story but cut this game down bear bones. yes they added new weapons in forerunners but they are the same spec as any unsc weapons, and on the forerunners yes they look cool but are not as much fun to fight as elites, they have some cool moves but all round are not a very good villain IMO.
im sorry 343 but after spending 16 hours in campaign almost 3 days im MP and spartan ops im feeling let down. iv given this game a huge amount of time to come right and it just does not feel as if you care about your players. this build of halo has the finger prints of Microsoft all over it. and not in a good way i might add.
p.s last note i promiss. there are some huge bugs that need fixing, such as broken maps, friendly fire being turned off, join in progress is a disaster as well as players just leave now if its not going there way. and lastly my sr rank which is a 94 turned into a 1 over night and all my load outs are gone. this was a huge WTF moment for me"please let me know if this has happened to you"
ill stop now as im getting more worked up over all of these details.
please let me know your thoughts on the game, may it be good bad or anything else. i want to know how other halo fans and players are feeling