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Hello, I am Username. I’ve been playing Halo since the CE release, I’ve been a member of Xbox LIVE for 9 years going on 10, I was a member of the original Xbox LIVE beta test. I’ve played a couple of matches on the maps Haven & Adrift. I am would place myself as a competitive player (this is more of my mess around account [Yes, I used it to derank & boost] I have 2 accounts,and probably over 50 expired accounts I’ve used for Halo 2-3, my main ‘competitive’ one I can’t access on these forums, I plead the fifth) but I am NOT a pro player (but, I’ve gone to events). I believe that the pro players such as Bravo, etc, aren’t being 100% honest, why? Because it is their CAREER. That being said I don’t think they’re being 100% dishonest with what they’re saying at all moments either. I believe some of the things they say could be because of the ‘new Halo feeling’, and the ‘I get to play this game and you don’t feeling’, just like Reach was the ‘best Halo ever’ the first week because it still had the new car smell. Just try to understand when I say that having a good PR for themselves, and the MLG league benefit them largely, as well as having good relations with 343i members such as Frank O’ Connor.
I would say this game is like both Halo 3 & Reach, where the very basic core mechanics feel similar to Halo 3. Although other then things such as the aiming on some weapons, the feel to some guns, this game feels like a VERY ‘polished’ version of Reach. I believe this game will be picked up for MLG, but later dropped. This game at default settings won’t be hardly anymore competitive then Reach, almost all of the nonforge maps won’t be competitive because so far IMO only Haven is somewhat competitive, and 343 stated something a long the lines of that being the smallest map I believe. MLG is going have to strip down this game to the basics to have this game competitive, and forge the maps. You might be saying what’s wrong with that? Well, the settings being so far from default will discourage playing that playlist. Maps including Haven probably won’t be used, as they were intended for AA’s, MLG won’t have them other then pick ups, so they will want maps designed differently with forge. Not having any viable non-forge maps will further discourage MLG as people don’t only want forge maps. MLG will most likely be forced to drop Halo again because of the numbers of people that take this game seriously competitive wise won’t be much larger then Reach, and it will be unwise to keep it on the circuit because the ratings are so low compared to the other games like, LoL, and SC2.
Basically what I’m saying is this game is going to be great for a lot of the members on this forum, as it will be a fine casual game. Competitive wise it probably won’t be much different then how Reach was, and it’s a shame because there are better routes 343 could’ve gone to make it more equal for the casual and competitive communities. I will still purchase this game as an avid Halo fan (just because someone doesn’t like what it’s becoming doesn’t mean they aren’t, by the way) but I don’t see players such as myself staying for any longer then we did Reach. I don’t know how long the population will be soaring, that will depend on how fun this game really is compared to the last installment for the casual players. You can only polish a turd like Reach so much.
It’s 10:53 AM, and I haven’t slept in over 24 hours. I probably could’ve wrote this much better had I slept and did this when I woke up. There will probably be some stuff missing, errors, bad grammar, bad paragraph and sentence structure, as no proof reading or editing is going to be done, it’s bedtime for me. Goodnight.