I was wondering whether I should get Halo 5 or not. I don’t have Xbox live gold, and I’m curious to know if it would still be fun to play offline.
If you’re only interested in the Campaign, then sure, because that’s the only thing you can do offline.
All you will get is the campaign. Which I still say gets a bit more hate than it deserves. Yeah the story isn’t very good and you only play three missions as Master Chief but the missions can be fun to play. Fighting along side Blue Team in the mission Blue Team was good. The mission Swords of Sanghelios is a great mission as well. You can probably get a used disc version really cheap so might be worth checking out. But for just campaign I wouldn’t pay more than $10…
Yeah… personally I wouldn’t recommend it, but if you really like the characters from the comics or whatever than I guess you could enjoy it.
No, there is no Forge offline, or anything for that matter, just the campaign, and unless you know ALL of the outside lore, the storytelling will disappoint you.
On the upside, the design is fun.
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> I was wondering whether I should get Halo 5 or not. I don’t have Xbox live gold, and I’m curious to know if it would still be fun to play offline.
If you want to play the campaign then that’s great but you won’t really have access to much else. Maybe custom games? I’m not sure.
I enjoyed the campaign and getting the achievements so that’s something to do!
If you can get the game for cheap or discounted then maybe pick it up. Personally I wouldn’t spend full price for only part of the game.
If you get a cheap then yes
Unless you absolutely have to experience every Halo game, I can’t recommend paying to play it without an Xbox Live Gold subscription. If you can borrow it off someone, do that.
If you don’t have an Xbox Live Gold subscription, you get the singleplayer (not cooperative) Campaign. Nothing else is included (not even Forge or Theater).
Here’s a brief list of its issues:
- A story that’s all setup with little development and no resolution - Only four hours long - Bland characters mixed with poor imitations of older ones - Interesting story setup from Halo 4 is immediately abandoned - Unintelligent friendlies which can often leave you to die - Repeated boss fight makes it uninteresting - Repetitive, repeated, and uninspired level locations - Filler missions where you speak to NPC’s which accomplish nothing cutscenes couldn’t - Little replay value after finding all skulls and intel
I’d say no. I think it’s ridiculous that games would require you to be online in order to play the majority of it.
If you like playing through Halo campaigns whether their good or not I’d yes buy it and there is also a range of achievements and stuff to unlock to keep you busy.
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> Unless you absolutely have to experience every Halo game, I can’t recommend paying to play it without an Xbox Live Gold subscription. If you can borrow it off someone, do that.
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> If you don’t have an Xbox Live Gold subscription, you get the singleplayer (not cooperative) Campaign. Nothing else is included (not even Forge or Theater).
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> Here’s a brief list of its issues:
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> - A story that’s all setup with little development and no resolution - Only four hours long - Bland characters mixed with poor imitations of older ones - Interesting story setup from Halo 4 is immediately abandoned - Unintelligent friendlies which can often leave you to die - Repeated boss fight makes it uninteresting - Repetitive, repeated, and uninspired level locations - Filler missions where you speak to NPC’s which accomplish nothing cutscenes couldn’t - Little replay value after finding all skulls and intel
I have to disagree with the un-inspired level location. The levels/missions were very well done IMO. Sanghelios was very well done.
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> > Unless you absolutely have to experience every Halo game, I can’t recommend paying to play it without an Xbox Live Gold subscription. If you can borrow it off someone, do that.
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> > If you don’t have an Xbox Live Gold subscription, you get the singleplayer (not cooperative) Campaign. Nothing else is included (not even Forge or Theater).
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> > Here’s a brief list of its issues:
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> > - A story that’s all setup with little development and no resolution - Only four hours long - Bland characters mixed with poor imitations of older ones - Interesting story setup from Halo 4 is immediately abandoned - Unintelligent friendlies which can often leave you to die - Repeated boss fight makes it uninteresting - Repetitive, repeated, and uninspired level locations - Filler missions where you speak to NPC’s which accomplish nothing cutscenes couldn’t - Little replay value after finding all skulls and intel
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> I have to disagree with the un-inspired level location. The levels/missions were very well done IMO. Sanghelios was very well done.
That obviously doesn’t mean every level, but many of them (Argent Moon, Meridian Station, Genesis) are environment types we’ve either visited before, visit multiple times in this game to reuse assets, or are Meridian Station.
If you don’t mind just playing the campaign go for it. Unfortunately forge/customs doesn’t work offline
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> I was wondering whether I should get Halo 5 or not. I don’t have Xbox live gold, and I’m curious to know if it would still be fun to play offline.
Would you be able to try xbox game pass, I think there’s some good deals around.
You’re not missing much if you’re not playing multiplayer, but if you can’t use forge or play custom games you’re really missing out.
You’ll like the campaign if you keep an open mind to it. There’s no split screen so it’s strictly solo with no gold.
If you’re gonna be playing offline, I’d recommend getting MCC instead of Halo 5. Other then the campaigns, you can’t really do much offline but with MCC you have more campaigns to play through.