R.I.P. HALO

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While I wouldn’t lay claims of being an expert what is Halo, unlike many a Halo fanboy, I can honestly say, Halo 4 is to me, a total departure from Halo. Having received one of our copies we ordered yesterday, my wife & I fired up the game, to find a game that neither of us could say felt like Halo.

The guns don’t have their signature sounds & burn through ammo too quickly. The graphics in general seemed not quite right, disjointed from the previous games. Any trolls that respond with something about the cut-scenes, realise cut-scenes aren’t gameplay & you’re missing my point, it doesn’t mesh with the look of previous titles, updated graphics or not. We ended our campaign play after just a few levels, unable to reconcile this with Halo, Halo 3, Reach or even ODST. The look, the feel, the sound, like a bad Halo clone… Not my words, the words of one of our friends who came over to see the game, all three, yet to collect their copies, now likely to cancel.

As for multi-player, I don’t play COD, I was a fan of Halo’s brand of multi-player gaming, my wife also enjoyed what Halo had to offer. She was recently asked to jump in on a game of Black Ops at a friend’s place during a party, while not a fan, she became more familiar with the COD franchise (she has played a few games with them a couple of times since). When we fired up Infinity & looked through everything, her first words to me were; “You are going to hate this, aren’t you? They’ve CODified Halo…” Indeed, I did, indeed, 343i have, right down to a control scheme that will allow COD players to jump right in, mirroring the set-up my wife used at our friend’s place.

I’m not going to demand 343i ‘fix’ the game, it works fine for what it is, an attempt to regain players lost to the COD franchise & put it back at the top of the FPS genre. I just wanted to make 343i aware of my personal disappointment, to stand up & be counted, so to speak. We’ve already contacted the company we purchased my LE copy from, I’ll be be shipping it straight back for full refund as soon as it arrives. That leaves us with the copy my wife ordered, which she’s thinking she might use as a trade-in for Black Ops 2.

The 6th of November 2012, will be for me, the day Halo died.

Oh well, back to Reach & Halo 3…

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I don’t give a fudge.

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good thing i dont care what your lil opinion is, huh?

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> Oh well, back to Reach & Halo 3…

Reach sucked bro

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Oh the tears, they taste just the same as when Reach came out.

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Reach was better.

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So what you’re saying is that you prefer to play the same game over and over again?

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I don’t get how you can like Halo Reach and not like Halo 4…

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lol HALO DEFENSE FORCE TO THE RESCUE

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It’s an understandable reason and I will not even attempt to change it. Live on with that thought and be left behind for now. However, just stahp!

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Unfortunate. I honestly felt like I was still playing a halo game. While it is very clear that it has been “CODified” I don’t particularly mind, mostly due to the fact that every FPS is now. Im just happy 343 implemented these changes before Halo quite litterally died.

FPS gaming is evolving, I fear the simple arena shooter has died, I am just happy Halo did not die with it.

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I wish everyone in the Halo 4 forum would just stop with their complaints…who gives a rats butt.

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> I wish everyone in the Halo 4 forum would just stop with their complaints…who gives a rats butt.

You think this is bad? You should have been in the Bungie forums when Reach came out, or the Epic forums when Gears 3 came out and everyone and their mother was rocking the Sawn-Off.

This is witty banter compared to the straight up drunken bar fights those forums became.

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Cry baby

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see i loved reach…more so then 3. 4 is pretty cool but its just sad that real halo has died. Like a fighter who didnt need glitz and glamour just polain black trunks. now ill be prepared to be hack booted lagged and disconnected.

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> good thing i dont care what your lil opinion is, huh?

Then why are you posting?

This is a forum for people to freely discuss their opinions. That does not mean attacking people just because they don’t like Halo 4. People have the right to not like the game.

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Go play COD then. No one cares.

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> I don’t get how you can like Halo Reach and not like Halo 4…

Because Reach despite its couple of flaws is a far superior game that focuses on team play. H4 is some H3 / CoD hybrid that has bad MM mechanics.

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> > I wish everyone in the Halo 4 forum would just stop with their complaints…who gives a rats butt.
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> You think this is bad? You should have been in the Bungie forums when Reach came out, or the Epic forums when Gears 3 came out and everyone and their mother was rocking the Sawn-Off.
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> This is witty banter compared to the straight up drunken bar fights those forums became.

LOL, I know. I’m just saying it’s getting old already, but like anyone is going to listen to nothing. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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> While I wouldn’t lay claims of being an expert what is Halo, unlike many a Halo fanboy, I can honestly say, Halo 4 is to me, a total departure from Halo. Having received one of our copies we ordered yesterday, my wife & I fired up the game, to find a game that neither of us could say felt like Halo.
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> The guns don’t have their signature sounds & burn through ammo too quickly. The graphics in general seemed not quite right, disjointed from the previous games. Any trolls that respond with something about the cut-scenes, realise cut-scenes aren’t gameplay & you’re missing my point, it doesn’t mesh with the look of previous titles, updated graphics or not. We ended our campaign play after just a few levels, unable to reconcile this with Halo, Halo 3, Reach or even ODST. The look, the feel, the sound, like a bad Halo clone… Not my words, the words of one of our friends who came over to see the game, all three, yet to collect their copies, now likely to cancel.
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> As for multi-player, I don’t play COD, I was a fan of Halo’s brand of multi-player gaming, my wife also enjoyed what Halo had to offer. She was recently asked to jump in on a game of Black Ops at a friend’s place during a party, while not a fan, she became more familiar with the COD franchise (she has played a few games with them a couple of times since). When we fired up Infinity & looked through everything, her first words to me were; “You are going to hate this, aren’t you? They’ve CODified Halo…” Indeed, I did, indeed, 343i have, right down to a control scheme that will allow COD players to jump right in, mirroring the set-up my wife used at our friend’s place.
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> I’m not going to demand 343i ‘fix’ the game, it works fine for what it is, an attempt to regain players lost to the COD franchise & put it back at the top of the FPS genre. I just wanted to make 343i aware of my personal disappointment, to stand up & be counted, so to speak. We’ve already contacted the company we purchased my LE copy from, I’ll be be shipping it straight back for full refund as soon as it arrives. That leaves us with the copy my wife ordered, which she’s thinking she might use as a trade-in for Black Ops 2.
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> The 6th of November 2012, will be for me, the day Halo died.
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> Oh well, back to Reach & Halo 3…

I’m sorry you feel that way because my wife and I felt the exact opposite to this. The campaign brought back some of the mystery and wonder I felt during CE. The sounds in this game are amazing so much better than Halo 3 the AR for example sounds like it means business unlike Halo 3 where it sounded like small typewriter. As far as the MM this game plays way more like Halo than Reach did. Yes we have some elements that similar to COD like custom classes but to me and my wife they take nothing away from the feel of the game. The first thing my wife said after our first game BTB was “thank god it still feels like Halo” so I’m sorry you feel your Halo is dead but my Halo is alive and well and better than ever.