Hype!!!
That’s it plane and simple! Before the beta and through it everyone loved AA, bloom, etc.! But there was to much hype around things like Bloom, AA, maps, etc. Everything that people complain about is something they thought (from the hype around it) was going to be perfect and it ended up not being like they wanted! I came to the realization last week playing Reach then Halo 3 (due to Reach’s servers crashing) that I like Reach just like Halo 3. In fact more than. Going back and playing Halo 3 I was getting killing sprees like nothing. I was an unstoppable juggernaunt! And I missed having to work for my kill like in Reach. The only thing I liked better in my short time back on Halo 3 was the team I got with 1 flag. They/we were totally working together and talking, communicating. I haven’t had a team like that in Reach yet. All in all, I prefer Reach. I actually think we all might deep down. It’s just that there was too much hype about every little thing! I know I rage about every BS death I get in Reach just about as much as I did in Halo 3. It’s not that it’s AL’s fault. I know if they took out AL I’d be pissed and I don’t even use it! All I want from the future of Reach is awesome maps! Like in Halo CE & 2!
The reason i sometimes get annoyed with Reach is the slow kill times and the awkward mid range combat due to no shield bleed through. Bloom isn’t terrible, its just that along with no shield bleed through and a 5 shot kill ratio. It just screams GET A POWER WEAPON. Again, i’m fine with that. But it does alter what halo has been, and what i miss.
I like Reach overall, but not its Campaign. Yes its true, hype was to blame. A 10 year hype that started with the Fall of Reach. The story in the video game disappointed me.
First off, there are the glitches the need fixing, as detailed on the Reach Glitch thread.
Then several suggested changes to gameplay, such as the tweaking of bloom and balancing of AL.
Then updates that would be nice, like addition of classic old weapons and vehicles - e.g. the Chopper and a balanced BR.
And, of course, a few quality map packs.
Then Reach would have met its potential in Matchmaking. The Campaign, unfortunately, is beyond repair.
I don’t think the problem with anything can be hype. Marketers do their best to sell their products, you can’t blame them for doing a good job.
reach is not a bad game, but its multiplayer is the worst out of all the halo games. The game has good strafing, i like how the vehicles are not invincible again, and the power weapons are brought back to halo 1’s level. My only beef is with the long kill times of the non-power weapons caused by reticule bloom. It makes the short range duels quite random and the long range duels are hardly worth fighting because its too easy to sprint away because pacing your shots for ranged fighting results in unbearably long kill times. The mid-ranged battles are the worst because spamming your shots beats pacing way too many times.
There was redemption in the needle rifle which severely punished spammers, but in the end, its much weaker than the DMR with its 7 shot kill. If only there was a custom option to alter individual weapon damage.
In the next halo, please remove bloom or make it customizable so that it can be removed in custom settings. Please give players as much power in the custom game settings as possible so we can all play how we like.
Did I play social on Halo 3 when the servers were down?
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I don’t notice glitches, lag, trouble with Armor lock, slow non-power weapon fights. I like the shields better than 3 for the most part. Having shields left and a bash killing me was more annoying in 3 than someone with their shields down sprinting at me to double bash me. At least I could kill them. I remember lag, damage bleeding through the shields, and BR lag spreading in 3. And bad maps, no cooperative teammates, OP frags, and lack of 3’s ranking system in Reach. Everything is a let down from the time of the beta that they were hyping everything up. Sure it’s still awesome but to a lesser degree than what they said. I plainly like Reach more than 3 and I loved 3. Really, I just hope for great maps and that 343i (though I believe in them) doesn’t screw it up. Which I think for the most part the “people” complaining about Reach is the little kids that got their mommies and daddies to but it for them raging about what they can’t overcome.