First off this is just my feels!
This Halo brings back that excitement and fun I had playing with friends when I was in HS (HALO), going over to my neighbor in the barracks and playing halo 2, deployments and halo 3 and how much effort and time I spent in REACH. I bought Halo 4 and MCC and probably put a total of 150-200 hours on it or about the same amount of time i played Reach’s campaign (loved them LASO challenges and well the campaign challenges in general).
The story was interesting to say the least I liked playing as someone other than Chief and before you crucify me let me explain. The personification of halo reach’s Noble 6 and how you felt you belonged to that character hasn’t been matched, halo 4 spartan ops came a little close but fell short regardless. I enjoyed that more so than I did playing chief. I feel as if chief can never really face adversity as nothing can stop him. He is basically a god among men, this is awesome because of the amazing feats that occurs during his story. I want to be apart of his team and run along side him helping him in his greatest challenge yet or tell the story of my spartan and their fire team taking on some forerunner threat on a world and see the chief come blazing through and assist us on our way. I feel the ODST game missed out on that chance, nothing would have been more bad -Yoink- than to see chief take out some covies as you were making your way across Mombasa. Halo is an entire Universe (mainly the same galaxies but you get the idea) not just the story of Master chief and Cortana. I want to play a game where I am grey team, red team (after the halo wars, but I think that is where they will stay)another was how Black team meet their demise to the didact and blue team came in and saved the day (that could have been a game in its own right!).
Last I feel Master Chief’s Legacy will never reach full potential until he either ascends or becomes MIA for good.
The multiplayer has the fun and enjoyment of the classic halos while keeping it up to date with today’s competition. They got it right when they said Warzone was like BTB on roids. Warzone assault on the other hand needs to be 2 rounds (1 defense,1 offense) and could take a lesson from its old uncle Invasion (Reach). I miss the extraction you had to do once you got the core in Invasion. Can we get a firefight/survival/waves mode, whether it is round limited or as high as the sky can go with ever increasing difficulty. Lastly will there ever be a continuation of Spartan ops the missions as I know that story line was wrapped up via Halo:Escalation.
I was all over the place with this one but I love the game and glad to see other people feel the same. I admire the progression and allowing it to stay halo while going forward but I feel we left a lot of stuff behind us that was just as good. Look forward to hearing what requisition purchases bring to the game as far as revenue and DLC! Keep up the awesome work!