- -Fire the people who designed the armor in Halo 4. All of them. They have no idea what a human being looks like.
In Halo 3, you can clearly tell what is the undersuit(the person) and what is the armour. You can clearly tell where the shoulder pieces end and the torso begins. This has become so muddied by Halo 4 that everyone just looks a Jackson Pollock monstrosity.
- -Fire the people who designed the map layouts. Oh they’re pretty multiplayer maps, I’ll give them that. But they’re all designed like gigantic, sprawling forests of metal, with no interesting choke points or landmarks.
They have no personality. Mario Kart racetracks are as much characters as the racers, and the same is true for multiplayer maps. Zanzibar had personality. Blood Gulch had personality. But I can’t even remember the names of half of the maps in Halo 4, and I bought them all!
The fans come up with better, more interesting, engaging maps in Forge every day. Step up your game, guys.
- If you’re going to spend millions on cutscenes, maybe make the characters go through some sort of change, or do something we can relate to or care about. Maybe have them do something instead of doing nothing for six hours like in Halo 4’s campaign.
- Don’t. F***. Up. The. Arbiter. Do not screw this one up, guys. This is the single most important, most emotionally impactful character arc the series has known. Yes, even more than “WAAAH MY VIRTUAL MOM/GIRLFRIEND DIED”. You have bene given the gift of Keith David. Do not waste it.
- Offline players should have access to every armour piece in the game. This is for machinima purposes. I did not enjoy playing 1,000 matches of Halo 4 just to get that helmet I needed. Games are supposed to be fun, not work.Let the online bros work to get the helmet that looks like a dead raccoon’s liver, or whatever Hazop was supposed to be this time.
- Let us change your mistakes in custom games. There is no reason why I shouldn’t be able to play a regular game of CTF, or have unique colours in Flood beyond snot yellow. Even if it’s just offline, with friends.
- If there are going to be playable Elites, bring back Invasion.
- Bring back the Falcon, or Hornet, or some UNSC flying vehicle.
- Maybe do some QA testing this time, so that my bullets don’t just magically phase through every enemy while their pistol acts as an orbital strike? That’d be great, thanks.
- Better weapons variety than “same gun but with a different skin”.
- If you’re going to have a Join In Progress system, don’t turn it off if the game is halfway over. That’s stupid and defeats the only purpose of a JIP system.
- Some alternative to Firefight. Spartan Ops didn’t work out so well.
- Achievable goals. Telling me I need to get 9 zillion kills with a plasma pistol to access a helmet is how a five year old designs a game for the kids at school that he hates
- Maybe find a way to get the Multiplayer announcer to say “Spreenis!”
- And finally: DON’T GO OVERBOARD WITH PREORDER BONUSES! Halo 4’s pre-release was a catastrophe. “This things are exclusive. Now they’re not. Now only Best Buy has them. Wait, that’s wrong. Months of silence from 343i. Oh hey, it’s not exclusive anymore so you just got robbed! This comes with the game. Just kidding, you have to buy the SUPER ULTRA ALPHA HYPER FIGHTING EDITION X version to get those things we promised were free!”
I hope someone was shot out of an airlock for that fiasco.
That’s all I could think of for now. Anyone else have any suggestions?