Halo 5 has done it for me, I cannot allocate any more mental willpower in playing it. Rankings are flawed, maps are flawed, gunfights are ruthlessly uneven, warzone is a mess, arena smells like an unchecked gym locker room. I’ve spent so much money and wasted so much energy with a game that, at its core, never really worked in the first place. It’s only gained publicity thanks to HCS and Achilles that the people would couldn’t care less have already moved on, diminishing the population and leaving only the best of the best. There hasn’t been one time where I’ve been subdued by rage as much as Halo 5, until today. Today, I was almost reduced to tears regretting spent over $100 on a game I looked far too forward to. I had high hopes and high expectations. I used to love Halo. It was my first game on Xbox. And to see it devolve into such a mess and blinded by my hopes to relive what once was great and nostalgic, it can make a guy feel just as diminished.
Thanks to the low population, matches aren’t even anymore. The system can’t help but pair disjointed and foreign ranks together.
Smurfs have plagued matchmaking to a point of no return, there’s always at least one per game.
Dedicated Servers brought upon a consequence no one could even see coming; servers have always tended to favour those playing in closer proximity.
Map design has fatefully ruined the flow of memorable past Halos including Halo 4 and even Halo: Reach.
Warzone has been memorized all too often. Farming has never been easier and best practiced with smurfs and companies alike.
Campaign AI stretching to Warzone AI are unreasonably disjointed just like Jigglypuff’s B-Air in Melee. Ever play Firefight and REQ a Hannibal Scorpion right before the next round takes place at the vehicle garage? You’ve just wasted a Scorpion and have to wait an unreasonable amount of time to respawn only to spend more time traversing the entirety of a Warzone map to- Oh, nevermind. The core’s already destroyed.
Being the only low diamond in a median onyx game. Getting pub-stomped and playing the next one just alike.
It’s time I threw in the towel. I cannot fathom why I haven’t quit sooner. Maybe it was the completion of the armory. Maybe it was hoping one day I’d finally enjoy myself and do well.
All-in-all, I think I’m done. To those reading this, please enjoy Halo for as long as you can, who knows if you’d follow me after.
