Don’t give up on halo 4 yet hang on a little while and see what 343 does. They might surprise you yet.
Hey, if you don’t like it, then send it to me…
China Called… They want their wall back 
God i love the classics
I have to disagree OP. I played Halo CE for quite some time, it was my very first FPS. I rarely played Halo 2 or 3 with friends, and I got really into Halo Reach. But Halo 4 brought me much further into the fandom. I was a Gears of War fan and a HUGE Battlefield fanboy and Halo 4 makes those games feel bland and boring to me.
But I’m curious… What is it that you dislike? The game is still very much Halo. You seem to feel that because players have more control and options over what guns they use (mind you, mostly guns that have been in the franchise for a loooooooong time), maybe that there hitmarkers now (OH NOES), that the game is turning into Call of Duty?
I can’t convince myself to believe that this is a valid arguement against Halo 4. The campaign is fantastic and I’ve never felt so invested in a story. Spartan Ops is nothing new but nothing old and overused either, I expect it to get better as they release more Ops. Matchmaking is interesting and makes sense in Halo 4’s setting, offering just as much as previous Halo games.
The graphics, the animations, the gameplay have changed. The art style has gotten more intricate. Frankly, 343i took the step that needed to be taken with Halo. they pushed the franchise leaps and bounds beyond the previous games, but also its competitors in the FPS market. I’ve nothing but the utmost respect for them as developers, and really look forward to playing everything this game has to offer me for a very long time.
TL;DR - Halo 4 just converted me into a fanboy
Another hipster ruining the forums…go play Reach and stop crying wussy
What I have found funny is many people who i know who have been with the franchise since CE hate halo 4. Those of my friends who only played 3 and reach love halo 4. If you been wit hthe series since the beginning then this isnt halo for you anymore. this is how i feel.
> Another hipster ruining the forums…go play Reach and stop crying wussy
I never thought I would see the Day the Community was Calling Halo Reach a good true Halo .And I liked Reach .
> What I have found funny is many people who i know who have been with the franchise since CE hate halo 4. Those of my friends who only played 3 and reach love halo 4. If you been wit hthe series since the beginning then this isnt halo for you anymore. this is how i feel.
I started with CE and played every Halo game that released after that…and I enjoy Halo 4 immensely.
Aww… Here’s a bucket for your tears if you don’t like it don’t play easy . It’s not hard just stop playing and stop complaining in my 11 (I’m 17) years of playing Halo… Halo 4 has been the best.
I don’t know what you’re trying to prove. Do you use the crappy control scheme with A as sprint? Halo 4 has been designed with lowest common denominator in mind, and it’s hurting it.
> You didn’t even say what was wrong with Halo 4… If you’re talking about the bugs in the game, that’s temporary. If not then I don’t know what you’re talking about. Halo 4 still feels like a Halo game despite some CoD inspirations.
Taking inspiration from CoD is the last thing Halo should be (or wants to be) doing.
Quickly! Call an ambulance STAT! This man is butthurt!
This is not a critique… its a rant. The only purpose a rant serves on a blog is if youre looking to get made fun of. Go find a friend to be angry too because no one here cares for that the fact alone, that you’re angry.
Regardless of the fact that your post barely says anything I am going to tell you why you could not be more wrong. Ive been playing halo since halo came out. Literally.
Halo 3 might be the best, most balanced FPS ever created. HALO RACH WAS A PEICE OF JUNK! I have things to do so I am only going to elaborate on the one main reason why this is true.
Bloom. Halo’s combat prides it self on being able to evade and shoot as opposed to stopping and shooting. The very popular inverse of this style of fighting is demonstrated in games like Call of Duty. Halo being longer drawn out gun battles where movement and persistence wins you metals and Call of Duty gives reward to your speed of reaction and immobility, which is more realistic. One is more of a video game and the other more of a realistic simulation. Neither is right or wrong they are different. Halo reach tried to be like call of duty. Adding bloom totally and completely changes the way a battle is fought. Bungie thought they did well be conforming to what appeared to be the more popular style and it could not have been more of a cop out. Halo Reach is and never will be a good video game. The members of 343 that worked on Reach could tell that Reach was such a horrid excuse for a video game that they could not let it be the end of the halo legacy.
… and the forum bashing started… c’mon guys give the man his thought!
he does have a point, you know? it is so obvious how halo was turned into call of duty with this ordinance stuff. to be honest i don’t even know for myself what to think of it so far, for this system clearly benefits the already skilled players that wouldn’t need to call in f.e. a forerunner rocket launcher at all… and especially not if leading 350 to 270!
also the BR definitely ruins any mid-range maps, while the DMR ruins any long range maps. - still the main problem with this weapons may not even be the weapons themselves but the awful lot of call of duty players that are now drawn into halo, because especially these guys utilize highly nerdy and unfair but nevertheless utmost efficient gaming equipment like a mouse.
we will see how it plays out in the end though!
halo always was about team play and this part obviously has the most focus on teaming up compared to any other part! I am so positive that given all these complementing abilities and support options real teams can beat the hell out of anybody, even the best call of duty players… so
TEAM UP! 
1: Bungie can’t step in
2: The wall of text. All I see is “rubbish” and “343 is ruining Halo”. Give explanations.
3: I don’t care if Halo 4 plays like CoD. If it’s MM is fun and campaign has good story, I have no problem.
It’s not dead, Jim.
Remove the Ordinance drops, stupid load outs (only thing that should be left to choice is the primary and grenades. And all be available at once, how the hell a SPARTAN can’t use a damn BR till he ranks up?), STUPID stupid instant re-spawns, and put the weapons and power ups back on the map, we have Halo.
Classic variation would be nice, so all the CoD freaks can keep that garbage Infinity Slayer. And before someone says I’m a bad player or looks up my stats… I think I do pretty damn good for a constant yellow or worse connection due to me being stationed in Japan, so kiss my -Yoink-.
Halo 4 is good and is only going to get bette as it is updated. You can’t expect me to take you seriously when you say Reach is any good. If you like that broken, random mess, go back to it. That’s just one less bad player AR rushing everything and saying the game is bad when they die.
Well, my argument for people who disliked Reach’s multiplayer was to use custom games and forge, but 343i have completely messed it up, so…
I very much disagree. Reach was trash