Now before I begin I know many of you are still playing happily and I’m happy for you this is just my personal opinion on why staggered content released doesn’t work for me.
My problem is that when Halo 5 was released it barely had any content and only a few gamemodes this meant that I played it a lot because I liked the game but then I got burned out because it was the same gamemodes on repeat every time.
Now I am bored of Halo 5, something that never really happened to me with any other Halo before…
And while the content updates are looking great I’m already sick of the game itself which means for me anyway I get bored of it after just a match or two meaning for me personally the updates don’t make me enjoy the game.
If this content hand been in at launch I wouldn’t have gotten bored as quickly with the game because I would have had variaty but instead j got stale fast and now I don’t enjoy it.
Again this is just my opinion but I usually have a high attention span for games and if I find it got stale fast doesn’t mean anyone else did but I’m sure I’m not the only one.
This is not really a rant more just me voicing something that has been bothering me for a while now. I really want to enjoy the new content but I download the update and start the game only to turn it off a few games in.
No-one can really help change your mindset, but if you are getting bored, form a xbox party, download 20 maps and game types and just have a custom game night. They always get me out of the repetitive cycle
I think 343 has put themselves in a tough position by doing this. Not only for the reasons you mentioned, but also because now since these content drops come every month, there isn’t a whole lot in them. Sure we will get a new map that will be weighted heavily in Arena some months, and a Grifball, but since these are things we all expected from the start, there isn’t a whole lot of “new” to it. Its at the point now where I’m more excited about the anticipation of a new update than I am about actually exploring the content in the new update, since the content isn’t all that much to begin with.
> 2535455905503287;2:
> No-one can really help change your mindset, but if you are getting bored, form a xbox party, download 20 maps and game types and just have a custom game night. They always get me out of the repetitive cycle
Thanks for the advice but iv tried this many times now and I just haven’t been able to get back into it. I think no matter what’s added to this game won’t make much difference because iv already burned out.
I have got burned out on a number of games in the past (including past halos) so i would just take a month or so off, play some other games. I would then return and love the game all over again.
> 2533274989334266;5:
> I have got burned out on a number of games in the past (including past halos) so i would just take a month or so off, play some other games. I would then return and love the game all over again.
Very much this. I’ve got a nasty habit of playing one game at a time continuously. I’ll play Skyrim for months, then get bored and move onto Forza Horizon 2 for a fortnight, then get burned out and start playing Portal again…
And so it goes on. Fallout 4 is my favourite game at the moment, but having played it since launch I’m sick of it. It’s actually why I bothered booting my Xbox One back up and giving Halo 5 a blast; boy am I glad I did. This game is really fun, and I’m super excited by the updates that are coming, but I know in a few weeks I’ll be burned out and onto something else. I’ll come back again though, I always do.
I’m kinda bummed that they didn’t give an option of negative scoring for holding the ball, making a hot potato assault variant would have been fun, but it’s not something enough people will talk about to get it to change
> 2533274803693454;6:
> > 2533274989334266;5:
> > I have got burned out on a number of games in the past (including past halos) so i would just take a month or so off, play some other games. I would then return and love the game all over again.
>
>
> Very much this. I’ve got a nasty habit of playing one game at a time continuously. I’ll play Skyrim for months, then get bored and move onto Forza Horizon 2 for a fortnight, then get burned out and start playing Portal again…
>
> And so it goes on. Fallout 4 is my favourite game at the moment, but having played it since launch I’m sick of it. It’s actually why I bothered booting my Xbox One back up and giving Halo 5 a blast; boy am I glad I did. This game is really fun, and I’m super excited by the updates that are coming, but I know in a few weeks I’ll be burned out and onto something else. I’ll come back again though, I always do.
Iv done this as well I haven’t played for ages and I tried coming back at this update and didn’t last more than 3 games.
> 2533274856909864;8:
> I’m kinda bummed that they didn’t give an option of negative scoring for holding the ball, making a hot potato assault variant would have been fun, but it’s not something enough people will talk about to get it to change
Well, you could use the honor system and whoever has the least amount of points “wins”. Like golf.
I agree, The Reach, Hog and Firefight updates look almost catered towards me (at least what can be inferred based on names and themes of the updates).
But I haven’t seen Halo 5 on the top ten most played (or even on the top 12 that usually shows on the xbox one) and the daily grind to unlock pointless items is grinding on me. With The Division I found things seemingly lost in the new Halo games. Like a feeling of something different (it really does feel like every other shooter now), a real sense of progression, and enjoyment (both casual and tense) with my party members. And with The Division releasing before the rest of the Halo 5 content comes out there’s nothing to keep me on Halo 5 beyond the next few weeks.
The Warzone attitudes, the lack of variety in Arena and the whole way REQs are set up are just the complete opposite of fun. Me and my Fiancee have been trying to boot up Halo 5 on a daily basis, but it can be a struggle knowing there is a really good chance we’ll be kill farmed in Warzone and not get our daily wins for REQ points for an armour we already own, or will never wear but just has a different skin. You really do question why you are bothering after each match. The way she responded to “Do you want to play Halo?” and “Do you want to play The Division?” were night and day. A clean and simple way of knowing which is the better kind of gaming experience.
> 2535455905503287;2:
> No-one can really help change your mindset, but if you are getting bored, form a xbox party, download 20 maps and game types and just have a custom game night. They always get me out of the repetitive cycle
This. My mate and I created a basketball griffball custom game, and had fun just testing it with other friends. Form a party and play matchmaking griffball, that is fun too. This update really improved the game in terms of variety.