Free for All (the original BR) is enough
King of the Hill is enough
FREE TO PLAY is enough
Halo doesn’t need a battle royale to hang with today’s gaming landscape. Honestly, I think it would ruin the game, and give toxic fans another reason to complain about “how 343 ruined Halo.” Halo has always been a niche game, it always will be a niche game. 343 knows what they’re doing in regards to making the game accessible for new players AND keeping long time fans happy. They don’t need to “bend the knee” to the demands of a crowd who is addicted to one style of play. Honestly, Battle Royales are becoming SO BORING. The games that have one, have all but lost their uniqueness and originality.
If the devs end up making a Battle Royale for Halo, I won’t be mad at them. But it would be way more original if they just kept it with various multiplayer game modes. At this point, I think people are trying WAAAY to hard to push for a Battle Royale, like a dude who tries waaay to hard to get the girl (-Yoink!-!). It would be forced, unoriginal, and it would ruin the Halo playstyle.
I’m going to give an attempt at making a BR custom game and map just to see if I can and if it works, but I agree that there should not be an official one implemented into the game.
It’s more important that halo does it’s best to have the tools available to make any custom game someone can think up over a dedicated gamemode.
> 2533274816257608;3:
> I’m going to give an attempt at making a BR custom game and map just to see if I can and if it works, but I agree that there should not be an official one implemented into the game.
>
> It’s more important that halo does it’s best to have the tools available to make any custom game someone can think up over a dedicated gamemode.
That thought game to mind, if the users want to make a BR, that’s COMPLETELY different and should be encouraged! But we shouldn’t put pressure on the devs to make it. They’ll have their hands full for awhile on launch, and they should focus on making sure the servers are running well on multiplayer.
> 2533274816257608;3:
> I’m going to give an attempt at making a BR custom game and map just to see if I can and if it works, but I agree that there should not be an official one implemented into the game.
>
> It’s more important that halo does it’s best to have the tools available to make any custom game someone can think up over a dedicated gamemode.
Heck there’s already a Halo Reach variant. I’d be happy to play customs of it but as an official gametype it would be a logistical nightmare to handle.
Plus the entire sandbox takes a hit because if you can just land on rockets and sit with em for 5 mins in a dark room then that defeats the point of both BR and Halo.
I have no interest in a Battle Royale mode and don’t support the pathological need of many companies to shamelessly chase the latest fad. It’s silly. If RocketGoose modes in Halo (which were often a lot of fun) had been much more huge than they were, how silly would it have been for other companies to try the same?
The world is more interesting with variety of experience.
That said, variety means people giving things their own spin. I wouldn’t have an issue with Halo having BR, if, and only if, everything else was already in place and solid. Which might well be their plan. It could easily work.
But.
Why would 343 bother when Forge already lets you create such a gametype? And that’s the thing, BR is just a map and some custom FFA slayer/KotH rules. Giving the weight and value of something larger is redundant and would be putting a lot of eggs in one basket.
While we’ve seen this rush from studios that are owned by vacuous, money blind publishers, well known for a history of player outrage and disgruntlement, 343 has a more protected commercial position and is not so beholden to ignorant shareholders/publishers saying “my five year old nephew, Kevin, won’t stop playing Battle Royale! Do that!”.
They can, and are, charting their own course, which is very Halo, and having played in the Flight, if you play Halo for the Halo experience, I think you’ll be plenty happy.