Difficulties in gaming have stteadily been decreasing over the years in order to cater to the casual gamers.
Look at halo 1/2 compared to 3/odst/reach
the first game was pretty hard, and halo 2 upped it again for the greater challenge.
same with gears. gears 1 was 10x on insane that gears 3.
and cod. and many other well known franchises.
I want Halo 4 to be the hardest game yet on Legendary. Surpasing even the frozen hell that was Halo 2. I want to rage until i tear my vocal chords, and be at the point of throwing my xbox out of the window before i finally get that checkpoint i was begging for while crying in fustration. There is no greater feeling than knowing you did something only the dedicated few can do. And this is why Halo 4 Legendary should be this difficult.
Easy? Normal? these are for the casuals.
Heroic? Pfft, experienced players can cope and still play and enjoy it.
Legendary? this is where the fun starts.
Ramp up the difficulty. Throw in MORE enemies. Give them better sheilds.
Do whatever you can to make it the hardest yet.
I’m gonna mention Mythic as well. I want that to be so hard that possibly nobody can complete it! (looking at you halo 2)
eh…ive been running laso’s and slasos for awhile. halo reach slaso gave me night terrors. halo CEA slaso got kinda ruined by bandana. but it still was pretty difficult. halo 2 wasn’t that bad after your first 2 runs. the only things that gave me issues were jackle snipers. there spawns are fixed however and if memorized halo 2 legendary is so much easier. halo 3 was iffy. only levels i hated was flood.
Halo is only hard because of the extremely unbalanced AI. Apart from that, Legendary is not very hard at all, so yeah, if they can sort out the AI then they should try and up the difficulty.
This is the problem I have with Halo, it relies on cheap methods in order to make the game more challenging (for example, the one hit kill Jackal Snipers). If they could come up with some decent ideas, then they could easily buff up the difficulty without using these cheap tactics.
> > > All halo 4 needs is jackel snipers lots and lots of jackel snipers.
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> > And allow them to shoot like if it was an assault rifle.
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> And make them a one shot anywhere on the body.
They shall rarely miss too and see you before you even see them.
The original trilogy was difficult on Legendary, including Halo 3. ODST was the easiest one, and only took me two or three days to beat. Halo Reach was a pain in the -Yoink!-.
> > > All halo 4 needs is jackel snipers lots and lots of jackel snipers.
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> > And allow them to shoot like if it was an assault rifle.
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> And make them a one shot anywhere on the body.
I thought it already one-shot anywhere on the body.
> > > > All halo 4 needs is jackel snipers lots and lots of jackel snipers.
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> > > And allow them to shoot like if it was an assault rifle.
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> > And make them a one shot anywhere on the body.
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> They shall rarely miss too and see you before you even see them.
Legendary mode isn’t the most difficult mode any longer. I believe playing SLASO (Single-player Legendary All Skulls On) is the most difficult mode, far more difficult than Legendary.
If you think playing Legendary is too easy, turn on the skulls.
In fact there are whole communities based around playing SLASO and even speed-running on that difficulty.
I do expect there to be skulls in Halo 4 campaign to satisfy those who think Legendary is a cakewalk.
> eh…ive been running laso’s and slasos for awhile. halo reach slaso gave me night terrors. halo CEA slaso got kinda ruined by bandana. but it still was pretty difficult. halo 2 wasn’t that bad after your first 2 runs. the only things that gave me issues were jackle snipers. there spawns are fixed however and if memorized halo 2 legendary is so much easier. halo 3 was iffy. only levels i hated was flood.
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> i look forward to halo 4 though.
Agreed.
Halo: Reach was by far the most difficult for me. In Halo 3, I absolutely despised “Cortana” on Legendary… I think I almost had a stroke in that mission.
Halo 2 was pretty challenging as well, but I also agree that once the Jackal Snipers positions were memorized, it got a bit easier.
> > > > > > All halo 4 needs is jackel snipers lots and lots of jackel snipers.
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> > > > > And allow them to shoot like if it was an assault rifle.
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> > > > And make them a one shot anywhere on the body.
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> > > They shall rarely miss too and see you before you even see them.
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> > They shall shoot you from across the level.
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> > Nope a foot shot wasn’t a one shot.
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> It shall be hit-scan… through walls.
They shall spawn randomly never in the same place.