I looked back a bit on some of my old posts. I was a bit aggressive when it came to criticising 343 for their mistakes, I wasn’t constructive much. I was running on a lot of emotions. Maybe I still am. But now I value 343 more. I see they are keeping Halo alive and without them then who? I don’t want Halo to be dead, I want it to be alive and thriving!
I can’t forget how painful it was to play the campaign of Halo 5. It feels like I was stabbed in the heart honestly. I played the campaign only once and I could never bring myself to play it again, except when I made my wife play it. It really hurt you know. I spent years watching trailers for Halo 4 craving for the disc to release so I could get my hands on the story. I watched spoilers before I even bought the game. I was hooked on that game although some sound designs didn’t work for me. Then when the first Halo 5 trailer came out with that giant guardian coming out of the sand I was just so damn in love with Halo 5, craving for the next trailers. When the trailers kept coming out they were so badazz! And when I finally got my hands on the game I played it with all my siblings. We prepared to play this game together. But the campaign was nothing like the trailers and when the game ended I was thinking in my mind “this was it?”. I was deeply hurt and still am.
But you know what, despite that, I’ve played Halo 5’s multiplayer for a very long time. It’s one of those most addicting games for me, especially the forge mode. There has been so much potential with it. I’ve built some really epic maps. All I ever wanted was to play on my maps, my visions, and that’s what I did. I’ve had a serious addiction to play on the maps that I created. The only struggle was getting people to play with me. Either people didn’t like my maps, (they liked them) or they were just too used to vanilla style maps and gameplay, and so on. To this day I still host my maps hoping people can play with me. It’s addicting. I’m afraid that Halo 5’s population is dying now and that all my hard work and invested time may have just gone to waste, which is sad. But I have to thank 343 for making Forge mode so awesome. The updates really gave it a kick too.
If 343 makes Halo 6’s Forge mode better than 5’s, I’ll be so damn addicted to it. I hope there’ll be a custom browser too! Hopefully I’ll have way too much fun. But to compensate for the lonliness, please add scriptable AI into forge mode so that I can fight them when I’m lacking players. Would make my dreams come true again.