I have been a loyal fan of Halo since the first reveal trailer of CE, and I want to give my thoughts on 343 and what they’re doing with halo. First off they have been doing a decent job with story telling (minus halo 5). In halo 4 they made the chief more human, they gave him emotions. Why do people hate that? And also hunt the truth was spectacular! I can’t say enough about how I love it’s direction and it’s story telling. Now when it comes to multiplayer, that’s where 343 suffers a bit. In halo 4 the multiplayer I thought was fun but extremely unbalanced and frustrating, bug in halo 5 they got the multiplayer right this time with the new movement being on non-traditional maps and some new verticality. The art work in 343 halos are pretty good, the skyboxes are beautiful, the armor looks pretty cool even though there are some that look odd, stupid, or just outright ugly. I honestly hope that 343 continues to support Halo 5, The MCC, and Halo reach (my favorite halo) so that all players can be happy and we still have the older halos as well as the newer halos to enjoy! Thank you for taking the time to read this, and have a wonderful day.
I have always been a big fan of the books and any out of game lore. I love the fact that 343 have brought more of that in. I never thought I would see the Didact but they did not let me down with 4. Hell with 5 I still enjoyed it. The multiplayer is honestly some of the best for a game I have played in awhile. I see myself still playing it when 6 comes out. Something I have only ever done with Battlefield before now.
i been playing since halo ce too but still the campaign was fun i know that, but it was too short really extremely and disappointing short at the same time the campaign was more about locke. In the side of multiplayer i didn’t like it at all with all being ranked and the req packs also unlocking the armor you like is all about getting luck, i didn’t like the style of game on mp with a limited playlist, the game had the potential to be the best of all halos but that didn’t happen the multiplayer could be the best without being ranked and adding something like arena but like in halo 3 without sprint and the new spartan movement things (you like the mp like it is already is alright this wasn’t going to affect you because there were going to exist 2 modes the modern and classic mp) i don’t include warzone in this because the point of warzone is being crazy and that did what promised. (please take the time to read it all, you disagree it’s ok everyone got it’s own opinion)
I drank with some people that worked at Bungie. And I drank with some that claimed they work at 343. They might have been lying though. I saw the Bungie peoples badges but not the dude that said he worked at 343. The Bungie people were kind of -Yoinks!- though.
Honestly. Been playing Halo since CE, and I am loving what 343I is doing.
You could tell Bungie stopped caring for Halo after Halo 2. Only pumping out games because they had to. They cared nothing about the lore in the expanded universe.
343I took Halo and decided to make it their own. They made Halo 4 on how they thought the franchise should have evolved in. They tripped themselves up, but they didn’t let it drag themselves down and actually listened to community feedback to make 5, yet still keeping to their image in how Halo 5 should be.
I noticed on this and Reddit, everyone has a different opinion on how Halo should be. You have people agreeing, but they all have stubble differences to the point that no 2 ideas are the same.
343I sticking to their guns and making halo in how they see it yet listening to the good points that the fans brought up has clearly, to me, made Halo 5 the best Halo game to date
I am very pleased with the game, I think 343 are doing a great job.
I think 343 has done a fine job with the halo franchise. MCC was a disaster at launch but halo 4 was one of if not my favorite halo campaigns. Halo 5 had its moments within the campaign that I loved (going to the elite home world was fantastic) and while I did enjoy the campaign it was definitely weak for a halo game.
Now the MP in halo 5 is just great I’m having a blast and with forge coming this game’s going to keep me busy for sometime.
My one problem with 343 is that they do a very poor job of communicating with the fanbase. Right now there is an issue with people unable to connect to the servers that’s been ongoing for weeks and they’ve yet to say anything. Bungie does a pretty good job communicating with people within the destiny forums.
Been playing since H2 on original Xbox… to me 343 has done a way better job telling the Halo story better cut scenes. The story line of H4 was what really got me into the Halo story and made me want to learn more. Now their scripts need work the Spartan banter of Spartan Ops was horrible and the conversations in H5 needed some help as well, not very good at all. But where 343 truly falls short is finding that good middle ground for multiplayer. Bungie had it perfect with H3 IMO. They had the best ranking and matchmaking and best playlist set up. If 343 would have kept the multiplayer with the same set up as H3 Halo would be perfect. 343 made it way to casual with H4 and now just way to competitive with H5.
Give me the playlist set up, ranking, and matchmaking of H3 and the mechanics and aiming of H5, and the armor customization from Reach with a few more added armor types, with plenty of maps from across all the Halo games with vehicles from all games and you would have the perfect Halo
Its enjoyable, we may not have as many playlists as we would like but the weekend playlists are fun and the weapons are really well balanced.