Alright, i’ve sunk plenty of time into Halo 5 on two different accounts, I have the Warzone Req bundle as well as the Arena Req Bundle. I’m getting bored of the game; we need more modes, simple as that. Arena and Warzone are simply not enough, yes 343 is trying to focus on a competitive scene for this installment, I understand that. However, the variety of content is especially lacking, especially regarding the five hour campaign, I mean come on we can’t even play splitscreen. (I understand that it was “limitations of the console”, but a game running at 60fps doesn’t keep me immersed with animations going on in the background at sub-30fps, but I digress) Don’t get me wrong, Forge is amazing and custom games are a blast, but we’ve had them since 2007. We’re getting Griffball back, that’s good, we’re supposedly getting Infection again, even better, but this still isn’t enough to carry the game. According to 343, there simply was not enough of a vocal community for Firefight, I don’t believe that. Firefight was the reason why people even kept ODST after playing the story, and made Reach even better, on top of an already strong multiplayer component.
Halo 5 was made with the goal to have players continue playing for a long time, but only having two primary multiplayer modes which are very similar to each other is not the recipe for this. We need something very different, something that will fill the obvious gap in Halo 5. What happened to Spartan Ops? That was my favorite mode to play in Halo 4, especially when I got tired of conventional multiplayer. Perhaps it became expensive to produce with Blur Studios producing the amazing cutscenes? I don’t know but I miss it greatly. Also, going back to Firefight, this plethora of new characters makes the window for more Firefight voices a dream. I would relish the opportunity to unlock the voices of Blue Team and Fireteam Osiris. Also, a mode such as this will promote our customization options beginning to matter, instead of the same bland red and blue color scheme.
I’m not writing this out of criticism, I just simply want the game to improve, yes I admit I feel that Halo 5 is the weakest of all the Halo games thus far, but it doesn’t have to be. Giving the players more options and freedom to play the kind of modes they want in matchmaking besides Warzone and Arena would make the game much more enjoyable. How does everyone else feel about this? I just want to share my opinion on one of the ways Halo 5 can improve, it is already good but why settle for good when it can be great?