As a long time veteran of the Halo franchise, I recently returned to Reach and immediately remembered why the Halo scene died. I preface by saying this is not a whiny complaint, but a clear observation.
Every game someone tells me Im a noob. Mind you, this is before a match even starts.
The definition of noob is new player. I’ve played since Halo CE and spent two years playing Reach on my old account. Not one of these kids can explain how having a new account makes me a noob. Ive asked every one of these kids, if I’ve been playing for about 13 years, was a core member of two prominent Halo 3 btb squads, and previously held high ranks in every Halo title’s online matchmaking on my old account, how am I a “noob”? No one can answer. So apparently, if you lost the login credentials from your old account and have to make a new one, somehow that negates your history and makes you a new player all over again?? Sorry i moved on to other games before coming back, so sue me.
Which brings me to my point. Halo died when every little MLG fanboy started running their mouth to everyone else in the community. People don’t want to play a game where everyone talks as if they are legends like Walshy and the Ogres. This kills playlist population. This kills people’s interest in playing the game. Trash talking your own teammates before a game, before you see how they play, is childish as well as foolish. Nevermind the fact that whether ang of these players are good or not, they are basing their diarrhea of the mouth around a game that has been irrelevant in the competitive community for almost five years. You are essentially trash talking people because you have not moved on to newer titles. For some reason, these inept morons actually think it’s funny, when really they just make themselves look like stupid childish fools.
So if little Johnny installs Reach on his Xbox One because he can backplay with 360 kids, even if he has been destroying kids on MCC and H5, Reach kids will still talk trash and call them noobs. This only seems to happen on Reach. I generally don’t see this in H3 and H4, both of which I play regularly. In those games, we welcome newer players. Many good H3 and H4 players these days actually help the newer kids with advice and such to better their game, not say everything they can to make them want to stop playing. Reach kids, especially Reach MLG kids seem like they want people to not play Reach, at least that is what they imply when they speak.
Common sense…if you make everyone hate the game, you will have no opponents left to play against. The recent example that proves tbis is Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. The MLG fanboys who feel the need to run their mouths to everyone caused playlist populations to dwindle several months before the next title was even released, making it impossible to find a game.
It is quite sad to see that the players of Halo Reach still havent realized this common sense issue. In less than thirty minutes back on Reach, despite playing well most games, these delusional pros-in-their-own-minds drove me to put Halo 3 back in the tray.
So as many have said for years, yes, Reach killed the Halo scene. But the harsh reality is, it’s the players, not the game.
Food for thought
I read the whole thing and that did not make any sense
I haven’t played Reach in a while but I know what you mean. They’re running their mouths off at your expense. It should be the other way around. These kids don’t know who you are or your service record in the other titles. If they did, they’d probably back off. For all I know, Reach could have been their first game. There is no reasoning with the types of vermin you describe. I silence people like that with my DMR and K/D ratio.
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> I read the whole thing and that did not make any sense
It was something like people are annoying, this generation of gamers are annoying, so lets blame a game he doesn’t like.
This happened in all Halo’s. Was worse in Halo 3. Grow a pair or mute them. Hell Halo 5 is the worse one for this. They have over 10,00 you tube post on this. How long has 5 been out compared to Reach? Just so you know… Reach never died, It’s had one hell of a run for a game and was still going strong during 4, MCC and 5.
Lmao you just get in trash lobbies. Also, try playing a different game if you can’t handle it.
Sounds like you need to use a handy dandy mute button…I instantly mute anyone no matter what they say because I work better without the noise.
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> I read the whole thing and that did not make any sense
He’s saying Halo is a community based game and when the community is terrible, nobody wants to stick around.
Utter crap. The Halo 3 community was dire long ago.
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> This happened in all Halo’s. Was worse in Halo 3. Grow a pair or mute them. Hell Halo 5 is the worse one for this. They have over 10,00 you tube post on this. How long has 5 been out compared to Reach? Just so you know… Reach never died, It’s had one hell of a run for a game and was still going strong during 4, MCC and 5.
So true.
These things have been happening in every game, ever. Nothing new. There’s a mute button for this exact purpose.
Idk what OP meant in his post, but I agree with the title. I hate Reach and the ignorant people that champion it.
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> This happened in all Halo’s. Was worse in Halo 3. Grow a pair or mute them. Hell Halo 5 is the worse one for this.
This I agree with.
I don’t understand why the OP feels the need to “prove himself” here. It was way worst in Halo 3 anyhow. Plus, you can’t generalize populations. Online play varies depending on things like time, seasons, days of the week, etc.
It’s incredibly shortsighted and immature to blame a game on an issue that is totally irrelevant to the game itself.
So let me ask you this, OP, what do you care if an immature Reach player talks trash to you? You claim you’ve been playing Halo for 13 years (and FYI, I’ve been playing for about 10 years on and off), so why should the opinion of a Halo novice concern you?
Halo Combat Evolved is a great game. When I would play on the PC, however, there were constant flame wars and aim-bots that would occasionally ruin the match.
Did I blame Bungie or Halo CE for this? No, because I could simply ignore the immature players, or if the chat was really bad, I could leave that server and join another one that doesn’t tolerate flame wars. And if a player was using an aim bot I could sight-jack him and report it to the moderator if they didn’t handle it already.
Halo games have always had problems with trolls and other unsporting users. Everything from Halo CE, to Halo 3, and now to Halo 5. Don’t pretend like Reach was the one that started this trend.
If you really are a Halo Vet, then you should start acting like one by not blaming games for irrelevant issues and by rising above the insults of Halo novices.