First I have to explain somethings about Halo Reach (don’t turn away yet, I’m going somewhere with this)
One of the reason’s why I think Halo Reach wasn’t as good as it should be was that we already knew what happened. We knew how it was going to end before we even started.
With Halo 4, it’s a new story, we don’t know a lot about what happens in the campaign besides the chief is on Requiem fighting new aliens and Cortana is going rampant. That’s the mystery behind it, we have no idea what’s happening so we are more interested in finding out. With Halo Reach we already knew how it ended.
When Bungie created Halo Reach, I felt that they didn’t put a lot of effort into it so it turned out not as good as it should have. I think part of that was because they were getting a little tired of creating the same game over and over again. (It’s like going on the same roller coaster or playing the same game over and over again, you will eventually get bored of it eventually)
Halo 4 is being created by a new developer, they are halo fans so they know how what to do. When creating something new (especially for me) I feel more interested in making it. I would pay more attention to the details. That’s what 343i is doing. They are new and they are ambitious and they can create a good game.
I agree. I also think that the mystery and scale of the Chief’s adventures attract and interest a lot of players and Reach’s campaign just didn’t achieve that mystery.
I am very excited for halo 4 and i think it will do well. However I am still open to the possibility that something bad could happen and i would hate the game. Overall, I think we need to be patient before we say this game is great/the worst. Just take a look at Bioware’s mmo: swtor, everyone thought it would be great and then problems arouse and a lot of people hate it now. Don’t get me wrong in terms of sales halo 4 will do very well but sales means nothing in the longrun. I don’t want to play a game like reach a year after its release where the population is dwindling.
I agree, OP. I think Halo 4 will learn a lot from Reach. It will be everything Reach should have been, and even more.
I think you’re spot on saying that Reach wasn’t it’s all because Bungie didn’t really have it in them to make it. Halo: CE-3 were so good because Bungie WANTED to make them. The rest of the games weren’t largely considered up to snuff because Bungie didn’t reallt want to do them.
> I agree. I also think that the mystery and scale of the Chief’s adventures attract and interest a lot of players and Reach’s campaign just didn’t achieve that mystery.
> I am very excited for halo 4 and i think it will do well. However I am still open to the possibility that something bad could happen and i would hate the game. Overall, I think we need to be patient before we say this game is great/the worst. Just take a look at Bioware’s mmo: swtor, everyone thought it would be great and then problems arouse and a lot of people hate it now. Don’t get me wrong in terms of sales halo 4 will do very well but sales means nothing in the longrun. I don’t want to play a game like reach a year after its release where the population is dwindling.
Well no game is perfect and halo 4 will have it’s gaffes, but overall it will be good
Setting the multiplayer aside, I think the single player will be fantastic. I’m interested in seeing where they take the story and what happens with Chief and Cortana. It’s also nice to see them tie the games in with the books.
I just felt that the story, the characters and even some of the level design in Reach just wasn’t that great. A lot of articles I read were also more focused on the graphics than anything. I feel like the game could have been way better in almost every aspect, except I think they did the voting and stat screens a bit better. I liked have multiple voting options).
I agree with you and think that Bungie was just really ready to move on and that’s fine with me. Having a company work on a game that they don’t want to work on, will only result in an average to bad game. Who knows, maybe their next series will be just as good or even better than Halo.
343 seems like they’re really excited and happy to be working on Halo 4 and I believe they’re trying their hardest. I can’t wait to see the final product.
I too completely agree. If Bungie still wanted to make Halo: Reach could have been amazing. I watched some footage of testing they did on Halo 3 before 2012 and it looked like Reach could have been the best Halo game ever. But I agree, Reach lacked the sense of mystery all the other Halo titles had. Halo CE was full of mystery and wonder and I feel Halo 4 will have even more mystery than ever before. Im excited.
> I too completely agree. If Bungie still wanted to make Halo: Reach could have been amazing. I watched some footage of testing they did on Halo 3 before 2012 and it looked like Reach could have been the best Halo game ever. But I agree, Reach lacked the sense of mystery all the other Halo titles had. Halo CE was full of mystery and wonder and I feel Halo 4 will have even more mystery than ever before. Im excited.
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exactly because we have no idea what this ANCIENT EVIL is!!
I think the Ancient Evil will be like the Flood in Combat Evolved, at first we didn’t really understand it. But as we went deeper into the game, we understood it, and found out how to kill it easily.
> I think the Ancient Evil will be like the Flood in Combat Evolved, at first we didn’t really understand it. But as we went deeper into the game, we understood it, and found out how to kill it easily.
i don’t think it’s the flood because i think we killed them all on the ark