Reach was the perfect halo. The controls were tight, the maps were varied and gameplay was perfectly balanced. Firefight was a brilliant time sink. Splitscreen. Armor was varied and colorful and fully unlock able in game by leveling up. Not many people quit games. And when they did, and your team lost due to it, you didn’t lose rank as long as you performed well.
Then sprint was added in halo 4 along with airdrops Ala call of duty. And now here we are, halo 5 with completely flawed aiming mechanics, microtransaction gametypes and a ranking system that is a perpetuating cycle of unhappy quitters and players who lose rank due to them.
I’d be ok as long as the aiming is fixed. At this rate i havent progressed past campaign level 3 in disgust. But I think this game needs a lot of work. Halo reach was bungies last masterpiece. It laid the groundwork for where the halo franchise should have gone. 343 has put a ton of effort in, and I commend them, but if something ain’t broke you just don’t fix it. You improve on it sure, but what some of you see as improvements, I see regressions. So, maybe I’ll see some of you on reach.
It’s in the first wave of backwards compatible games. 
Microsoft already confirmed that all 1st party titles are BC.
Eh, i wouldn’t say perfect. I’d say Halo 3 was the perfect Halo. But Reach was a very fun party game.
I also enjoyed Halo: Reach. On Major Nelson’s blog, an image of his games/apps showed up and revealed it as backwards compatible. It was taken down after, so it might be coming soon.
Two things
1- How is H5 aiming broken?
2- What is up with all the Reach love? Doesn’t everyone remember DMR bloom, jet packs, armor lock, no maps, than 20,000 random forge maps, a divided community between bloom and no bloom, finally a non bloom playlist that no one played… that’s because no one played halo reach anymore, it went to Halo 4 numbers mid cycle. I just don’t understand, but when it becomes BC maybe everyone will remember these things and many more I didn’t list.
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> 2- What is up with all the Reach love? Doesn’t everyone remember DMR bloom, jet packs, armor lock, no maps, than 20,000 random forge maps, a divided community between bloom and no bloom, finally a non bloom playlist that no one played… that’s because no one played halo reach anymore, it went to Halo 4 numbers mid cycle. I just don’t understand, but when it becomes BC maybe everyone will remember these things and many more I didn’t list.
What’s wrong with bloom? I never had a problem with it, only makes sense accuracy goes down the more you use it. Do you expect a laserbeam? At least I was shredding heads no scoping in swat with it.
Armor lock was considered a noob skill by me and my friends. It hardly saved anyone from my team. Jetpacks were novelty. Active camouflage and hologram were the only useful armor abilities if used properly. Camo to jam radar and hologram from behind a wall to expose the fools locations that were shooting at it.
I just jumped in between master chief collection, battlefield 4, call of duty aw and titanfall. Halo 5 has something fundamentally wrong with the aiming. It has nothing to do with aim assist. There is a large zone on the right stick that when aiming down the sights is a slow and precise movement. It’s a single speed, and any movement outside of that zone and you are instantly thrown into your sensitivity speed. Changing your sensitivity has no effect on the speed of the “precision aiming zone”. There is no smooth transition between aiming speeds. Aiming down the sight and trying to line up a headshot at the pre determined deadzone speed isn’t fast enough. And moving outside of the zone causes you to overshoot your target, causing a back and fourth battle to catch the target’s head. I can’t play like this, it has nothing to do with aim assist. Play any other shooter and come back and play halo 5. Something is either wrong, or if this is an intended mechanic, whoever thought this was a good idea needs a bullet to the head, in bf4 or some other shooter because it sure as hell isn’t happening in this game.
That’s going to be a great day when they release that, I put quite a few hours into that game.