Pre-teens+Halo=Life

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Hello, today i have noticed a lot of things about this world we live in, now there are enough topics about noob-friendliness and everything in halo 4, but i am talking about the kids who actually play it, i started playing as it was the only shooter i was alowwed as a young child (bearing the 16 rating/T rating). now this has carried on to the next generation of 10 year olds, a lot of people have asked me as they know i play a lot of Halo/Battlefeild/Cod, what game should they get, and now this is a mix between kids with learning difficulties and genuinly smart kids, i obviously recommended Halo, i discarded the skill gap involved as from my experiences with halo 4 i recognise that 343 arn’t living up to halo 2 style skill gaps - im fine with that tbh. but anyway, these children arn’t ‘i am pro at shooters, i play halo coz im a bawss’ kids, they are coming up to me (the smart ones) and saying ‘i think i would like to get halo, i have been looking for a shooter game and halo seems fine with me.’ these kids i actually tell them about skill gap etc. but these are smart kids they are fine, but the mentally ill as per say children go out and buy halo 4 (one kid in particular thought halo 4 was smack out of the shops brand new) and can’t get passed mission 3. (bearing in mind mission 1 was practically a video and 2 a tutorial style mission) and it makes me think, why do these kids play halo not cod? and i realised, there isnt too much skill involved anymore. go back to halo 2/3 with the tactics i use in 4 and get demolished. and i am genuinely worried about the series.

I know that we are moving on because the veterans have gone to colledge, or started adult life and cannot afford to spend 6 hours a day on a videogame, so they are trying to entice the new age group of pre-teens, call of duty have done it since quite a while back now, but thats a run and gun game, fun but eh, its not challenging. whereas i can tell with the new features that 343i are sort of enticing younger players into the game, so they will get more sales from the younger generation, and get them and there friends on, this is how my brother started a call of duty crave, friends played it, one of the reasons i started playing battlefeild, halo was because i was like 9 and it was only one i was alowed. anyway, with this movement in place, although i heard that they are changing it for halo 5 (i havent played the beta or seen much of it) ive seen the skill gap has narrowed since the early 2000’s. and i could be wrong, but from halo 4 i think this is what they are doing. but the game isnt as unique as it used to be with its new features… but i will stop now.

Summary: first off these kids are too young to play, and either playing because their friends play or its only shooter they are allowed, and that i think that it’s sort of ruining the franchise by having almost child-friendly gameplay features in ( i mean newb friendly, not to be confused with noob.) which sort of explains why i was getting 2/3’s of the teams kills in swat on halo 4. anyway i needed to get that out of my system, thanks guys for reading… and don’t hate.

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also note that i am sort of annoyed about the Spartan strike release delay, if they are waiting for windows 10 which would annoy me quite a lot, but i was waiting for that, a few of us prefer the PC games, like 1 and 2, and play either payed or cracked, i have had so much fun on both combat evolved multiplayer (the gamespy servers) which were normally vanilla but the Custom Edition ones were in my opinion worse, they were fun but vanilla ones were better. anyway i was excited for a second game in what i am guessing now is going to be a Spartan trilogy, but when they delayed it to ‘early 2015’ i was sad, and when i heard about windows 10, you know what went through my head. anyway, by now the 23rd of Feb i wouldve thought a release date would’ve been at least appropriate. Again, no hate just wanted to clear that with you and maybe even a 343i worker who may be reading this, if you are, PLEASE GIVE US A RELEASE DATE. and thats me done. Thanks for reading this miraculously hard to write paragraph on my dissapointment. - The game must be finished if it was ready for December 2014, so we are nearly 3 months delayed and still no release date? seriously?

-Jdc

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I just do not get how you can be upset over the younger generations playing games when it is the exact same thing you did. It really does not matter if it was the only game you could play, you still played it regardless. I am also pretty sure that children were not the only people to buy CoD 4 when it first released. I bet the majority were adults and the kids started playing it because it was cool. I also find it funny how this generation of gaming is taking all the heat for being too easy when in reality games have been progressively getting easier over the past 30 years. Can you please tell me why skill gap even matters if you are recommending a game in the first place? I can understand giving a fair warning like “just so you know it might take some getting used to as this is not the easiest game”. Is this something people actually look for? I would recommend a game if it is FUN, whether is be from winning or just the core gameplay. I am not trying to act smart or start an argument, it really confuses me.

I also want to say that your remarks against the Halo 4 campaign simply are not true. On the Easy and Normal difficulties, Halo 4 is hardly any less difficult than the other games. The first level is also not mostly a cutscene (unless you are talking about the Prologue, which is entirely a custscene). The second mission is basic, but hardly a tutorial. Your thoughts on the MM confuse me as well. You say your fine without expecting a skill gap yet you also say the younger generation ruining the series with making sure there is no skill gap. It does not sound like you are fine with it to me. While I am no pro gamer or a good gamer in general, it does not take a whole lot of thought to recognize that in older games you should not rush into the open and power weapons are not going to get up themselves and jump into your arms. The game is also not unique any more because the franchise is over 13 years old. As for Halo 5, modern elements do exist in the game. The difference this time around is that everyone is equal and you have to control the map and actually be better than your opponent to win.

Spartan Strike was delayed because of the persistent issues with the MCC. While it would be nice for a release date, you can expect the game to come out when the issues are fixed. We will not know when that is.

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I think some of this argument loses its luster when you remember one of the biggest pros during Halo 2’s time was 6 years old.

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When was this?

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Lil Poison.

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Oh. Gosh you’re right.

Man, I’m such a noob.