Don’t know if 343 reads through any of these but…
The majority of true Halo fans have Halo 2 at the top of their list, but there are people like myself who’s true love for Halo started with Halo 3, mainly due to the awesome custom games and amazing fun playing splitscreen (games like rocket race on sandtrap and Valhalla, sacrifice on lava pit, and system link games).
Since the majority want to play the regular slayer games and the like (I don’t know why - if you do that, then you may as well play Battlefield 4, but whatever) and are in general mainly only concerned with playing Halo 2, it is only logical that you would take care of the issues involved with those games first, but once you do, please don’t forget us - the not-so-popular fans.
I’m talking specifically:
Fixing the forge in Halo 3 so we can choose a game type and move around goals so we can create a proper rocket race map on Sandtrap.
Providing a way for people to EASILY browse user-created forged maps, just as there was a way in previous Halos.
Create a “fun” playlist in matchmaking which would include custom games such as rocket race and sacrifice (and many other ones that I won’t list) just as was the case at some point in Halo 3.
Fix the system link so that we can a) create usernames for splitscreen people who ARE NOT going to play online, just through system link (instead of having everyone have the same name with a little (1) or (2) at the end), and b) even if you cannot make it possible for systemlink to happen completely offline (due to how the consoles are built these days requiring to ping every now and then, then please at least increase the general stability of LAN games.
Halo 3 is my favorite of the 4 - everything (the story, the multiplayer, the weapons, the vehicles, the maps) was IMO the best of the 4, and now there’s Halo CE having amazing graphics, Halo 2 having amazing graphics (due to being remastered), and Halo 4 having amazing graphics (due to being relatively new), while us, Halo 3 fans, are stuck with “Doom” graphics, so the least you could do is at least fix it enough so that it can be half as fun as Halo 3 was on Xbox 360 (of course, after you’ve made all the Halo 2 fans happy).
Sincerely,
Halo 3 fan who’s a PS4 fan who decided to buy an Xbox One just to play Halo 3 with friends, essentially having spent 500 bucks on ONE game that isn’t even working.