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If you’re a 343 fan or whatever you call yourself don’t bother wasting your time here. This post is for all the Halo players that enjoy the genuine Halo experience and don’t want to see it continue limping to its inevitable death. This post is for the Halo players that miss and enjoy the real classic arena gameplay, the perfectly balanced weapons, the unique Halo feel, and the passionate developers that once resided behind the curtains. Halo is going down a path I have been fearing since Halo: Reach, we are working our way towards a more and more generic copy and paste version of what we once loved. Its almost hard to distinguish H5 from Advanced Warfare at this point. 343 is not interested in Halo, the fan, or the gamer; they are interested in our money (as any company obviously would be, but more so than others.) All these additions have been in an attempt to draw in more players from other fan bases so they sell more copies. They aren’t the least bit interested in making it into what we want or what it should be, but rather what they want and what is going to make them more money. So all of you original trilogy lovers out there, UNITE! Take to these pro-343 ridden forums and voice your opinion! Bring back the real genuine Halo!
I’m not entirely sure what you’re suggesting here… what do you want to happen? You bash 343i, but don’t offer suggestions as to what they could do to fix what you don’t like.
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These statements seem to contradict each other…
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I’m fairly certain -Yoink!- pays 343i the same amount of money whether the game is successful or not. The folks at 343i are mostly commissioned, like how most developers get paid.
I also think 343i is very good at responding to community feedback, and I love what they’ve done with H5. Before you go bashing my opinion, I did love the original trilogy. That’s what got me hooked.
Bungee was a small company of gamers working to make a game fun. Grenade jumping, unusual dialogue, trying to jump and access outside the normal gameplay. I spent more time fooling around driving vehicles where they weren’t supposed to be, trying to get to ledges and out of the game than just gameplay. Bungee made fun games. 343 was assembled with programmers and engineers who live in the structure of Microsoft. Halo 4 was a technical success but sterile, with stupid return to battlefield and without the heart and soul of the others in the series. No coop? No split screen? Of course a more polished game, better graphics and frame rate. More fun with 3 bots than with my wife or son next to me late at night sweating through a tough part? I predict a technical success, raves in all the blogs and mags and a one or two times through then back in the box. I am hugely disappointed already.
Before you get too weepy about the glory days of Bungie, go take a long, hard look at the soulless money grab that is Destiny. Then we can talk some more.
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> Halo has evolved. Take your extreme views elsewhere.
Evolved usually implies improved upon.
We lost splitscreen, we lost playable covenant, we lost file sharing, we lost the classic Halo theme.
Remind me what is considered evolving when it comes to Halo because so far I’m not seeing it.
What about those who like the direction that 343 is taking with Halo? Their attention and expansion to Halo’s lore, bringing more live action Halo to our screens, a range of novels, the beautiful scores by Tom Salta and Nathan Lanier (if you haven’t head the Forward Unto Dawn soundtrack, I have to recommend it). Don’t get me wrong, I’m as much a fan of the original Halos as the next fan - 2 and ODST being firm favorites - but I also had a blast playing Halo 4, MCC and the Halo 5 beta with friends. There are areas the can improve on for sure, absolutely no denying that.
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> We lost splitscreen, we lost playable covenant, we lost file sharing, we lost the classic Halo theme.
> Remind me what is considered evolving when it comes to Halo because so far I’m not seeing it.
Classic theme is back. And file sharing. Not the other two though.
Although, after the MCC’s menu music on top of the decade plus of hearing it, I’ve personally had enough of the theme for a while. I like new things, too.