343 you’ve been wonderful to Halo. You’ve given fans almost everything we’ve asked for, regardless of how insane our request. Now Halo 5 is over 100 gigs of awesome content. That being said, all released thus far really only balances the scales from those two games you tragically murdered (Halo 4 and MCC).
So it’s only natural for fans to continue to demand things of you, for you have sinned. So, a few big things we still want, as well as arguments for them:
- Playable Elites
The only people who think Halo should be Spartan V Spartan only are the competitive crowd, and let’s face it, they suck. You’ve got multiple threats with thousands of fans crying out for the chance to play as everyone’s favorite blargers. That’s thousands (maybe millions) of dollars you’re pushing away 343.
- Split Screen
When you guys said you wanted to leave your mark on Halo, you should have mentioned that the mark in question would be a burning brand right to our collective faces. “But, 60 fps.” That’s a silly excuse for the following reasons:
-Your excuse for forcing us to always be online is cloud computing, and you dare say that rendering 60 fps split screen would be too much? No way, that bs is a two way street buddy.
-If you don’t wanna shell out the extra cash for more cloud computing, fine. Lower the fps to 30 frames when people use split screen. I personally can’t tell the difference. I bought three controllers, let me use them!
- AIs in Forge
This one is big. Give us some bots to play with and we shall give you some glorious creations. If they take up some memory, that’s dandy. Just give them up, they are already in the game. I also refer to the whole cloud computing thing again. Don’t force us to submit to the always online stuff if there isn’t a benefit to it. AIs take up processing power, we get it, but we want 'em, and you got 'em!
- STOP WITH THE FORCED ARMOR SETS
Every Halo since Halo 3 has had better and better customization (sans Halo 4, but we don’t talk about that). And you follow that up with less? How dare you. On a side note, stop giving me Defender Armor. I have almost every variant, and the Helmet looks like a surprised Asian man. The visor colors are sweet, and you’ve added in some sweet armor sets (I’m in love with CIO). That being said, let me change my shoulders and chest. The whole full body thing is annoying, because while you’ve made a lot of good armor sets, you’ve also added in some bad armor sets. Let us decide what combos of armor we use.
- Do all the above in Halo 5
Its easy to push these requests off until Halo 6. Don’t. Halo 5 (at launch) was cripplingly undersold, due to the lack of about 90% of its current content. Really though? No Forge at launch? REALLY?! You’ve shown that you’re willing to deliver all that sweet content right into the laps of your returning fan base. That being said, you’ve got to set the standard. Your first impression was pretty poor my friends. Then you messed up again with MCC. Then you delivered a near fatal blow with Halo 5.
However, you saved the fan base with all these nice things you’ve given us. And believe me, we like nice things. You need to establish a precedent that these gifts are a proper apology, and not just a distraction until you make another mistake. So, prove it by serving up what the community wants. Of course, the Elite thing can wait (playable models are in the game), but the other stuff would definitely prove that you know what you’re doing.
Thanks for taking the time to read this.
-One of your many pretentious (but loyal) fans