Over at the Bungie forums we hard some “discussing,” about the MCC. Surely I will get banned for speaking maturely on a M-rated game’s forum (logic, right?), but it needs to be heard.
> TL;DR in bold.
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> I love the ability to play Halo 2 matchmaking again, and the clean no-lag play of Halo 3 is a sight to remember, but - it’s not the Halo games we have had.
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> The “Master Interface” that 343 adored so much is an absolute mess. Halo 4 was a saggy mess with UI, but at least it was navigable. If I want custom games Halo 3, I go into multiplayer, get drop down tabs, go into custom games, get drop down tabs, select halo 3. Load the Halo 3 custom games selections. Oh, you want to switch to forge on this map you just tried? Back up, back up, back up, now select forge and choose that game. Seriously? I quite honestly would rather just have each game launch with there original UI and main-screen separately. I’m not filing through my PC program files, stop making me feel like I am.
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> Reach had a great UI. Left side compiled your game options and you could navigate all of it by simply scrolling vertically. Switch easily to your roster and do what you will with friends on the right side. Again, only up and down to navigate it all. MCC? Get a physics book on dimensions and go watch Inception, because that’s what it’ll feel like when getting into a custom game and inviting a friend.
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> Halo has always been strong on customization, it kept advancing and getting more complex. So what the hell is this? I can’t even properly color my Spartans for -blam!-s sake. They are trying way to hard to look fancy. In any other Halo, if I go to select a color, I have the entire palette on screen, and as I scroll through them, I can see how it effects my Spartan. No longer! You want to make sure that’s the right shade? Load up a damn game and find out. Not only that, I have to scroll down a single-file list of every color, not sure when I’ll get to what I am looking for - or IF it’s the right one.
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> Did you enjoy having your emblem be a part of you, did you enjoy having meaning in saying - “Hey, that’s me!” Too bad. Your emblem is only relevant in pre-game lobbies. You will be stuck with a -Yoink- pre-select emblem slapped over you and everyone else’s shoulder to ruin your color palette and uniqueness. Oh, and you see my Phoenix and shield up there? Guess who’s back? A raisin. Undersized and distorted, what should be the thin outline is now about half of the emblem, maybe more.
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> Did you enjoy rocking a nice Katana with your hard-earned Recon? Did you Love the bulky Security shoulders to go with that Mark V? Forget about it. Downgrade is 343’s middle name with this one. They pulled the Halo: Reach Elites approach to - EVERYTHING. You want to wear a Mark VI helmet? That’s all you get. CQB? Full set. Rouge only has a Helmet? Fine, you can only wear that then.
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> Did you think it was epic and truly legendary to spot a Halo 3 Bungie employee warming the match with their burning face? Get over it, because all of the children will be roasting marshmallows with their helmets now. Seriously 343, that was Bungie’s thing. Don’t rob them and Halo’s history like that.
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> Now introducing Halo 2 Anniversary Forge mode where it’s either a Halo 4 import or the same damn thing in a different size! It’s okay if you feel chubby, 343 has your back to fit all of you with the same -Yoink- rocks, trees, grass, and cut-stone. Oh, but don’t worry, you can feel like Superman and fly like the wind with one of the new innovative forge maps! Flying in the empty sky shooting across the Halo rings upper atmosphere like a fighter jet can make you feel like the wind! If that’s not your thing though, venture higher into space, where we literally took Halo 4’s space forge map, and just removed the map. After you’ve had enough emptiness in life, drop from orbit and try the final map, which is literally Forge Island without the island. You can finally traverse the Jesus water, though, so feel good about that.
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> I get that having a big empty canvas is nice and desired by many, but 3 whole maps like that? Come on, that’s blatant laziness. While the forge does include a few returning features and some new content, I feel that it’s just stale with the palette it shares with Halo: Reach and Halo 4. We’ve used those items enough now, a new palette would be great, not just a new skin. In Halo 3, every forge map got a bunch of unique objects made just for it.
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> Halo 2’s remastered items in campaign look and feel far superior to that of the so called remastered multiplayer. You were doing the work to remake the same damn things, why do it 2ce when you could do it once? Not to mention that H2A’s multiplayer looks and feels like Halo 4 without armor abilities and different weapons. So classy, what a remastering of Halo 2: Actually Halo 4. It doesn’t PLAY like it, but it looks like Halo 4, and I thought that a Halo 2 remaster should… look like Halo 2?
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> Did you think the Scarab Gun was a reward of fun for hardships and patience to acquire it? -blam!- your feelings of accomplishments, the 5 year old your neighbor won’t shut up can just turn on the skull and every gun is a Scarab Gun, any level, anywhere. Say goodbye to a challenging campaign.
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> Custom games will now randomize your teams after each match. CUSTOM GAMES. If I wanted random team play I would go play solo matchmaking. The hell 343? If I want to set up a custom games night, that’s going to be a -Yoink–show, especially with how annoying it is to switch teams. X activates roster, select your profile, scroll down, change team, select team.Any other Halo: you press “RB + A” and you are done.
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> In conclusion, if Halo 2 still had multiplayer and Halo 3 could without lag, I really wouldn’t bother with this game.
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> “But 1080p 60fps.”
> Oh well, Halo has always been a 30fps game and it was never a problem before, It wouldn’t hurt keeping it that way.
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> “but 1080p HD”
> At the end of the day, I’d much rather have my original game with a usable UI and original options. What is the point of having everything unlocked if you can’t use it how you could 7 damn years ago!
Now you thought that was it? Wrong. Unfortunately I do not have enough characters to post the second half here, which covers the more game-breaking issues in detail. Therefore here is the link to the thread at Bnet, feel free.