If the additions, and withdrawals, of features in multiplayer deter you from buying Halo 4, just remember that there is a campaign and Spartan Ops to play. You can enjoy the game even without multiplayer.
I don’t play campaign for 500 hours.
> I don’t play campaign for 2500 hours.
Fixed 4 me.
> I don’t play campaign for 500 hours.
Pretty much this. Most people play far more multiplayer than single player.
However, it is good to remember that yes there are other things to the game than MP. If the campaign were crap, fewer people would buy the game which would diminish the MP quality as a result.
Oh joy, 20 hours of gameplay. As opposed to 1000s of games and 100s of hours.
Of course it isn’t everything. At this time, however, we’d rather have everyone be quiet about it until we get to play it ourselves.
> > I don’t play campaign for 2500 hours.
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> Fixed 4 me.
Reach killed it for me, and I was just going off of my CE numbers.
> > > I don’t play campaign for 2500 hours.
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> > Fixed 4 me.
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> Reach killed it for me.
That was more of a H3 statistic. Reach killed it for me too. Played reach about 10 times less than H3 or H2.
As many have already said, I don’t buy Halo with the intent of pulling hundreds of hours into campaign/co-op.
Once you’ve completed the five missions on Spartan Ops every week, are you just going to sit playing the Campaign/Spartan Ops levels over and over again?
I know I won’t be, Multiplayer is what makes & breaks a game for some people.
Campaign, Spartan Ops, Forge and Custom Games. War games is a big component of Halo, but it isn’t the only thing. I’m pretty sure there are Campaign and Spartan Ops Challenges on a Daily/Weekly basis.
Campaign is important in that it draws the crowd inward, but multiplayer is just as, if not, MORE important because that’s where the wealth of replay value lies. Multiplayer is a fun and competitive experience with an unlimited amount of scenarios that can take place.
Not to say you’re wrong, OP, because you are right in that campaign and Spartan Ops SHOULD be taken into account and given a chance in determining the quality of Halo 4, but if you have Xbox live Gold, it would make no sense to not utilize the multiplayer, which will always have a replay value that dwarfs everything else.
It’s literally the filling in the Halo pie.
BTW OP, I would rather Halo shipped without a campaign, if it meant the mutliplayer experience I loved in H1/2/3.
> If the additions, and withdrawals, of features in multiplayer deter you from buying Halo 4, just remember that there is a campaign and Spartan Ops to play. You can enjoy the game even without multiplayer.
“Most people actually play campaign and don’t play competitive.” — Frank O’Connor
It will be interesting to see if Halo 4 changes that reality.
> > If the additions, and withdrawals, of features in multiplayer deter you from buying Halo 4, just remember that there is a campaign and Spartan Ops to play. You can enjoy the game even without multiplayer.
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> “Most people actually play campaign and don’t play competitive.” — Frank O’Connor
Id love to know where Frank pulls these stats? sure some people will only play campaign but surely lots more will at least put as much time in the multiplayer ?
Campaign doesn’t have the same replay ability as Campaign. I love the story and the Halo universe, but I have easily put more time into multiplayer.
> > If the additions, and withdrawals, of features in multiplayer deter you from buying Halo 4, just remember that there is a campaign and Spartan Ops to play. You can enjoy the game even without multiplayer.
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> “Most people actually play campaign and don’t play competitive.” — Frank O’Connor
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> It will be interesting to see if Halo 4 changes that reality.
Whatever statistic he has is meaningless without context.
Most people who play any video game play through it once or twice and never touch it again. Why should those people matter at all when developing a game?
I would love to see the statistic of time spent in multiplayer vs campaing for all Halo players. I cant imagine more time is spent in campaign when players like me have 100 days of Halo played alone.
You’d still like to play through the campaign at least once, right? You can’t do that if you don’t buy the game because you don’t like the multiplayer.
OP - People will spend the majority of their time playing War Games It’s rare that people will play Campaign and Spartan Ops multiple times or even a fraction as long. Although, your point is well made. It’s the cousin of telling folks, well, don’t buy the game then.
> > > If the additions, and withdrawals, of features in multiplayer deter you from buying Halo 4, just remember that there is a campaign and Spartan Ops to play. You can enjoy the game even without multiplayer.
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> > “Most people actually play campaign and don’t play competitive.” — Frank O’Connor
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> Id love to know where Frank pulls these stats? sure some people will only play campaign but surely lots more will at least put as much time in the multiplayer ?
I have no objective information to say differently, so I have to take him at his word.