Hey, so is anyone a little tired of the 343i Loop? It seriously holds alot more water now then it did during Halo 4’s time since that 343i has had time to make alot of choices which are amazing and annoying.
For those of you who don’t know the 343i loop is “Every time 343i makes something awesome they MUST follow it up with something stupid that blocks it out.”. While the 343i Knights ignore these things like a wife denying her abusive husband, the Bungie Boys make each seem like the end times. 343i still seems to make these mistakes with the most recent being releasing memories of reach but no Reach vehicles or weapons coming with the update.
Another community member calls 343i “The Masters of Half-Assing It” to describe the 343i loop. What they do, they do well but they always have that -Yoink- up to make all their hard work useless. Halo 5 without a doubt has the most solid gunpay of any Halo game BUT the worst campaign experience. Just check out the Halo Archive to see what I’m talking about. You’ll see a big ol thread with literally hours worth of reading as a sworn member of the community goes on a rant about the flaws of Halo 5’s story.
Anyone who ignores this man is trying their best to keep that tint in the eyes. Don’t worry he only hits you because he loves you.
So let’s list a few of examples of the 343i Loop for Halo 5.
- Introducing Blue Team into a game but limiting them only to 3 missions.
- FREE UPDATES that are mostly just microtransaction bait that other people pay for. (I eat the food you pay the bill)
- Forge is back and bigger, but you’d have an easier time controlling a drunken bull them operating the new system.
- 60 FPS but no split screen. (Go home long time companion, don’t you known modern games choose graphics over gameplay features!)
- Uses Firefight to say they’re listening to the fans but they continue to ignore the largest thread on their website asking for the return of playable Elites.
- Creating an amazing ad campaign to be ignored at every point in the games story.
- Releasing new maps, which just so happen to be remakes of reimagines, remade.
Stopping at 7 for obvious reasons but you get the point. Of course the obvious solution to these would be to have polls. Of course having too much info drop in people’s faces is bad since you want some element of surprise. Taking respected members of the community with high opinions of Halo into a dark room with a 2x4 that has a nail in it to ask them what they want could help alot. I know 343i has their own pro dream team helping them make alot of gameplay decisions but they quickly forgot the commoners POV on alot of things with Halo 5.
Seriously, was the decision to make infection so hated among 343i employees that it needed to be highly requested by the community for it to be added?’
Anyways just having an area on the forums dedicated to 343i getting the opinions of community members who’re in the loop (HA!) to help 343i make some better choices. The Brute Plasma Rifle was so random and uncalled for. It’s a nice addition but annoying to even close at considering weapons such has the Grenade Launcher, Confusion Rifle, Plasma Launcher, Spiker, The Normal Plasma Rifle, Plasma Repeater, Needler Rifle, Target Locator, Focus Rifle and Reach styled Assault Rifle are from reach. It’s not like 343i isn’t okay with releasing conversion skins for weapons, we got the SPNKR and the normal rocket Launcher so what the hell? Why not a Repeater and Storm Rifle?
Of course those members would have to be tight lipped, so that means I’m out sadly but it’d also give 343i some points for just being a better company. To be fair that really isn’t hard with their competition. There’s awhole lot of -Yoinks!- out there so there is a grace with 343i for not being ball bustingly horrible, just mildly frustrating. Mostly because they’re too good to be making these mistakes. They’ve proved their skills, they just need to slow down from time to time.