Community,
Although im sure this thread has been used 100,000+ times, I just watched a video of Nadeshot who uploaded a video of a Call of Duty Wishlist. What has made games as huge and successful like League of Legends. Esports is huge and I remember MLG Halo being a huge event with $100,000 dollar payouts. I also remember a time when Halo was king of FPS.
My personal wishlist:
RANKING SYSTEM: I think the Halo 2/Halo 3 ranking system was perfect! Literally! You gained XP from just playing online and winning, and you lost XP for leaving a match. The menu for multiplayer was laid out simple! Ranked, and Unranked. Under each you had Slayer, Big Team Battle, Team Double, Snipers, etc. To gain a 5 star general in the game pushed you to move your talents to Ranked. You HAD to get a 50 in some type of playlist to get the 5 star general. I also enjoyed that playlist themselves having their own ranking system. Example: You ran into a 5 star general who had a 5 star ranking in Slayer (implying the dude got his 50 in that playlist and obviously plays ALOT of that specific playlist).
The 1-50 style ranking was perfect! I think it made the game competitive if you wanted it to be, or you could just join unranked and have 3 friends hop on the same console with you. I remember running into alot of 50 players who to me at the time were amazing and few who sucked and all the trash talk that came from “oh hey kid did you buy that 50?!” I remember when I first got my 50, years after the game came out because more towards the end of H3 life span I got into the competitive scene.
FORGE: Forge should come straight out of the box, being able to customize and create maps is a huge thing in the Halo community. I remember messing around in custom games and being able to try other players map/game types.
THEATER MODE: Big thing, should have a working full functional theater mode that is not a pain in the -Yoink-! Being able to record clips and then screenshot photos or events in games! Also allowing players to join your lobby and watch the same videos with you at the same time.
FILE SHARE: Plays into theater mode, being able to share custom game types, photos, gameplay, etc. Is what connected the Halo community. Anyone else remember Bungies picks of the week under the menu? Or when joining a lobby you would click on every players profile and see what they had in their file share? Alot of good memories looking through someones files share, really allowed players to express themselves in such creatives ways! I think of it like emblem creator in COD.
Bungie/343 INVOLVEMENT: Anyone else remember 7 on the 7th? Bungie day? The day EVERY player hopped online to hopefully get a chance to run into an employee and if you did run into them and WIN you all won Recon Armor? Ah yes the every sought after RECON ARMOR!! I spent countless hours youtubing how to get it, and looking through hundred of thousands of players profile to see if I ran into someone who had it. I remember the first time I saw it EVERYONE in the lobby was saying “oh my god look that dude has RECON ARMOR!!” 343 needs to create a VERY rare and unique armor that EVERYONE wants, recon looked very aggressive and badass. Now that anyone can get it, its time to create a rare one that only employees have or people that 343 found worthy to possess. They also need to be more involved with the community and hold special events on weekends/months/years. I remember 7 on the 7th they awarded recon armor to select people who had the most kills that day, or most sniper head shots, etc. We need to know employees are on the game and enjoying it.
MAPS/PLAYLISTS: We should have a good mix of maps and playlists. MLG gametypes should be loaded up under ranked. Anyone else missing T2, Naded, Snip3down, etc all these pros go at in at events? Seems like there isnt as many events and I looked up alot of the pros and they are either on teams I have never heard of or retired and moved on to bigger and better things cause lets be honest…Halo 4, and 5 have sucked. We should get a good mix of larger maps for BTB, and smaller maps like Guardian (personally 1 of my favorites) and some should be symmetrical. Thats what made ALOT of H3 maps awesome. We should also get special events over the weekend, Oddball, Zombies, griffball, etc! Double XP weekends should be big as well.
STORY: The story should play just like the commercial, who thought H5 was going to be Master Chief vs Locke? The commercials implied Locke was hunting down MC and they were going to have a battle. Didnt play that way, it should be a good story that sucks us in, makes us laugh, get mad, annoyed and emotional. The end of H4 was pretty sad and made me go “NO WAY WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?!”
ADVERTISING: H3 in my personal opinion did so well cause of the numerous commercials they had on TV, time square, Mountain Dew cans (the release of the ever so delicious Game Fuel), adds on magazines, etc. Anyone else remember seeing those badass H3 commercials where the Master Chief was being held up by a Brute and the title “believe” popped up on the screen as you saw MC raise his head (which we all thought he had died). Perfect marketing, showed some real emotion in the trailers. Youtube H3 launch, and there are multiple major news outlets in like NYC, LA, etc covering people standing in lines for days to get there hands on the new Halo. I feel like the new Halo launches arent that big.
CUSTOMIZATION: I think the past Halo games have done well on this. I like they added different visor colors, arm pieces, etc but we need to do AWAY with the REQ Packs. THOSE SUCK! Micro transactions to get players to spend even more money on the game. H3 if you got certain achievements you unlocked more armor pieces NOT by grabbing mommy or Daddies credit card and packing a 100 dollar gold req pack or whatever it is. These should all be things that come with the game out of the box! I think they could add in ways to unlock more armors, etc if you do things like get a perfection in a game type, or get an Overkill in a ranked playlist, etc. I think we also need playable ELITES! Whatever happened to that?!
LASTLY A BETA!!!: H3 had a beta, give the game a chance to try the servers so we dont have another “Master Chief collection” incident. That game could have done so much better had they found the issues and fixed them ASAP. By the time everything got fixed (like a month after launch) people had moved on and either returned the game, or didnt bother to follow up on 343 twitter which was swamped with Xbox Live issues. Guys cant launch a massive title like that and drop the ball big time.
However at the end of the day this will always just be the rambling of some guy online, who really knows nothing about creating a game. Just a mere fan though trying to give back some constructive feedback of what great memories he had playing H1-H3, and how Halo online community/multiplayer is pretty much dead. How many people are currently on H5 servers? I bet not many.
Thanks everyone! - Bliz
p.s. Bring split screen back on campaign and multiplayer. Jesus Christ!