(SLIGHT SPOILERS AHEAD) Halo 5 is simply the most unskillful, casual friendly game I’ve ever put my eyes on. If you’re going to bore me with replies such as “oh you’re just scarred of change”, “you need to adapt” blah blah blah… NO! You need to open up your -Yoinking!- mind and realize that you’re a damn sheep who thinks that only real Halo fans love every Halo when this simply is NOT the case. This game is atrociously unbalanced, uneven, and take little to no skill. Let’s analyze this. For one let me give you a little history lesson: Before Halo came to the market the single idea that a shooter on console would work was nothing short of a joke. An illogical laughing matter!! Simply because the consistency of aiming was much less without the use of a mouse for precision aiming. As a toggle or joystick was not sufficient enough to pull off proper aiming technique. In comes a little company called “Bungie”. With this little game that had a bit of a following called “Halo”. Halo was once a game built from the ground up for the mac. But word in the industry was that Microsoft was on the tail of creating their own home gaming console and was looking for big companies with new I.p. to come and work for them. Jason Jones of Bungie saw this as a great opportunity and jumped at it. But what would happen with Halo? This game they’ve been working hard on that has this little cult following. Surely they couldn’t release a proper shooter on this new console because it would be dead in the water. Even if the game sold well it wouldn’t last because of the lack of a mouse for precision aiming. So the lead designers came up with a little feature in the game called “Aim assist” This feature, though very overlooked is one of the Biggest reasons Halo ce’s multiplayer was so damn successful. This allowed for gamers to retain the tight precise controls of a computer mouse while at the same time keeping the kills clean and rewarding to the player. Thus making them want to come back for more and more and moooooooooooore to the point where you stop everything else you’re doing because you want that tight addictive feeling in your hands.This is plainly and simply one of the SMARTEST things ANY gaming company has ever done!
Now Let’s fast forward 14 years. Halo 5 releases. They tell you, you got it all dedicated servers, Hit scan detection. 1080p and so on. But right under that is a little ampersand all in lower case “oh and we took out aim assist” Well The reasons… Supposedly for this is it quote" Creates a bigger skill gap for players" To then determine who is “Better” and who isn’t. Now,I wont claim to be the smartest person in the world. I make my mistakes like any other human which is fair enough right? But there is no way in HELL that you can even attempt to get that past me. No aim assist creates total and complete inconsistency. It creates frantic, twitch reacting gameplay. whether you’re good or bad at the game. There is no practice or skill involved in learning this aiming system. as no aim assist creates a complete system based purely off of luck. Which is once again why this was totted as a joke back in the 90’s when it came to putting a shooter on a console. Now the biggest gripe would have to be with the pistol… Oh my god. Talk about inconsistency. In every other Halo if you’re good with a precision weapon. that was it… You 90 percent of the time will rain down wrath and hell fire on most players. even if they were good. But that is simply not the case in this game. I have watched great players get completely screwed over while peons get utter bull kills on them. and then they go and get destroyed by someone of less skill. and it goes back and forth and back and forth. Nobody is good at this game. They’re simply just lucky and this is almost purely based off of taking out something that was innovative from the get go. You cannot do that. It is the reason why the shooting was so tight and rewarding because you knew the kill was based off of your own skill in your movement and placement. t.
Halo 5 is way too loose for it’s own good. Not to mention the fact that there is an abundance of movement in Halo 5. considering Sprint, Ground pound, thruster, Spartan charge. So much fast movement. You’d think this would be the one game where you’d want aim assist,considering players are basically flying around the map. You can argue against this with me all you want. But I’m sorry I’ve played so much halo in my life and you all think"oh so have I yada yada yada". NO! Literally I know every single aspect of these games Halo is the first thing I ever fell in love with and I’m telling you people this game is a joke. if someone as experienced as me can see the issues with this game so clearly there needs to be a change. Let’s disregard that they COMPLETELY LIED TO US ABOUT THE STORY LINE. You know that amazing -Yoinking!- story we were promised in hunt the truth about chief killing civilians and unfolding this conspiracy about who chief is and even his flash clone and so on. Let’s disregard the god awful writing and treatment of these characters because this company is too scarred to take any risks with the storyline and has to ONCE AGAIN go back to using Cortana. Let’s disregard that Locke was painted to be this almost soulless bounty hunter who doesn’t care about the titles of arbiter and master chief. and just goes in and kills. Because screw any interesting character development lets just make him a nice guy. Let’s disregard the fact that ALL the advertisements for the game talk about how Halo 5 is the beginning of this great hunt in gaming history but then you play the game and the hunt lasts… LITERALLY ONE LEVEL!!. Let’s disregard the completely rushed -Yoink- reason that chief was being “Hunted for in the first place” while at the same time ignoring what a great story this would have been had Cortana stayed a vision and we let chief lose himself mentally. Let’s disregard all that. But for the love of god!! We cannot disregard this poor excuse of a multiplayer experience. This bull -Yoink- they keep telling me is evolving the franchise. when it’s simply doing nothing but making it worse by taking out things that made it good in the first place. God forbid there is any rhyme or reason behind weapon balancing. There is no longer a rock paper scissors in terms of weapon balance. I.e. in Halo 3 Mauler would usually beat pistol and close range, but wouldn’t beat shotgun. In Halo 5 Let’s just make everything over powered so that it’s no longer based off of the choice of weapon you make on the battlefield. but simply who’s over powered gun is lucky enough to make the kill faster.
To end this I’d like to say. I do happen to enjoy things about this game. This is in no way meant to offend or upset anybody. But this game is far, far from perfect . Let’s keep in mind that this is the same company that gave us a game last year. That still DOES NOT WORK! You owe them and the Halo franchise nothing for not liking everything. Stop being scarred to voice your opinions because the real die hards of the series are the people who do disagree with decisions made to it. Not the people who conform in every decision made. I make the same argument for this that I make for the prequel star wars trilogy. George Lucas has it in his head that “well they’re my movies so I make them how I want” I say correction Mr. Lucas they may be your movies… You may have created them. But WE’RE the ones who are going to watch them a hundred times in our lives… The same goes with Halo. We put our money down so this game is just as much ours as it is theirs. It’s not about what’s good for their longevity. It’s about our enjoyment of the product they’ve created. Because we’re the ones who are going to put time into this game when they have already forgotten about it.
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> Boo -Yoinking!- hoo
Ugh!!! Why did you necro this? How does one even necro something this old? How do you scroll that long before saying oh I will comment on this?! Hahaha 
I stopped reading at unskillful
No Aim Assist? My reticle sticks on enemies all the time.
EDIT- Why the heck did you necro this?
Didn’t even read it once I saw the date.
“the most unskillful” game is what I hear people say in Arena after my team makes a comeback.
Not only is this thread old, but it’s also completely backwards in so many ways.
Not sure how this thread got revived after so long, but I guess I will give my thoughts on it since it’s here now
I’ve felt this way since I first got the game. The game is far too inconsistent and random to be a Halo game. I have a friend who I am much better than at Halo and we played together a bunch before he moved onto other games. If this had been any past Halo, he would have gotten stomped by me, but when we would do 1v1s for fun in this game, despite me being a much better and smarter Halo player, he could almost keep up with me on kills. Again, this would not be possible on any other Halo but this one. Halo 5 isn’t just a game where the better players and teams win. A lot of fights end up with a random winner and loser, no matter the skill level of both players
Outside of skill no longer playing as much of a factor in a fight as it did before, I see inconsistent weapon damage every single match. How can an AR beat an SMG from only a few feet away with near perfect accuracy? How can the AR beat the Storm Rifle from the same distance? How does the Scattershot not kill someone in Tower Two on The Rig in two shots (they’re only a few feet from each other), but can then one shot someone from a further distance away? How does one sniper headshot count, then the next gives a body shot when it clearly a headshot, then the third misses entirely? How does the BR lose to the Magnum? And speaking of the Magnum, like OP said, Magnum fights are almost completely random from my experience. It feels like no gun fights are guaranteed wins unless you have something like the Rocket Launcher
I still try incredibly hard to enjoy this game, but seriously, go back and play older Halos, then come back to this game and see just how inconsistent fights can be on here
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> Halo 5 is way too loose for it’s own good. Not to mention the fact that there is an abundance of movement in Halo 5. considering Sprint, Ground pound, thruster, Spartan charge. So much fast movement. You’d think this would be the one game where you’d want aim assist,considering players are basically flying around the map. You can argue against this with me all you want. But I’m sorry I’ve played so much halo in my life and you all think"oh so have I yada yada yada". NO! Literally I know every single aspect of these games Halo is the first thing I ever fell in love with and I’m telling you people this game is a joke. if someone as experienced as me can see the issues with this game so clearly there needs to be a change. Let’s disregard that they COMPLETELY LIED TO US ABOUT THE STORY LINE. You know that amazing -Yoinking!- story we were promised in hunt the truth about chief killing civilians and unfolding this conspiracy about who chief is and even his flash clone and so on. Let’s disregard the god awful writing and treatment of these characters because this company is too scarred to take any risks with the storyline and has to ONCE AGAIN go back to using Cortana. Let’s disregard that Locke was painted to be this almost soulless bounty hunter who doesn’t care about the titles of arbiter and master chief. and just goes in and kills. Because screw any interesting character development lets just make him a nice guy. Let’s disregard the fact that ALL the advertisements for the game talk about how Halo 5 is the beginning of this great hunt in gaming history but then you play the game and the hunt lasts… LITERALLY ONE LEVEL!!. Let’s disregard the completely rushed -Yoink- reason that chief was being “Hunted for in the first place” while at the same time ignoring what a great story this would have been had Cortana stayed a vision and we let chief lose himself mentally. Let’s disregard all that. But for the love of god!! We cannot disregard this poor excuse of a multiplayer experience. This bull -Yoink- they keep telling me is evolving the franchise. when it’s simply doing nothing but making it worse by taking out things that made it good in the first place. God forbid there is any rhyme or reason behind weapon balancing. There is no longer a rock paper scissors in terms of weapon balance. I.e. in Halo 3 Mauler would usually beat pistol and close range, but wouldn’t beat shotgun. In Halo 5 Let’s just make everything over powered so that it’s no longer based off of the choice of weapon you make on the battlefield. but simply who’s over powered gun is lucky enough to make the kill faster.
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> To end this I’d like to say. I do happen to enjoy things about this game. This is in no way meant to offend or upset anybody. But this game is far, far from perfect . Let’s keep in mind that this is the same company that gave us a game last year. That still DOES NOT WORK! You owe them and the Halo franchise nothing for not liking everything. Stop being scarred to voice your opinions because the real die hards of the series are the people who do disagree with decisions made to it. Not the people who conform in every decision made. I make the same argument for this that I make for the prequel star wars trilogy. George Lucas has it in his head that “well they’re my movies so I make them how I want” I say correction Mr. Lucas they may be your movies… You may have created them. But WE’RE the ones who are going to watch them a hundred times in our lives… The same goes with Halo. We put our money down so this game is just as much ours as it is theirs. It’s not about what’s good for their longevity. It’s about our enjoyment of the product they’ve created. Because we’re the ones who are going to put time into this game when they have already forgotten about it.
wow. amen.
you are mad over losing some games obviously and raging on the forums its ok.