I’ve always thought that Halo 3 was the pinnacle of Halo – at least the original formula that Bungie had envisioned. Reach was the first game to introduce abilities and other things that really started dividing people. Halo 4 expanded on those and people were even further divided. But like was the case in the first three games, Halo 5: Guardians will be the third game with these newer abilities/additions and… based on the beta, it’s looking like another Halo 3 in that they got it right. Balancing sprint with shields, clamber with thruster (which makes you feel like you’re doing parkour as a Spartan), and giving EVERYONE these abilities really balances things well. It’s not that the new features were “bad” as every game must evolve slightly, it was more that they didn’t balance. Now that everyone has them, competitive Halo looks to be more exciting. The beta feels like regular Halo on steroids. Now, H5G doesn’t look to surpass H3 in my mind just yet, but it’s looking like the idea of “third time’s the charm” really does apply here (and many 343i employees were from Budgie which is how I can include Reach, even though H5G is only their second fully in-house Halo). Thoughts?
They are balanced with each other. But by introducing mechanics stolen from other games, halo 5 has in my eyes removed the original mechanics that made halo fun in the first place. And before people ask me to explain go read the 343s incompetence is killing halo he puts my feelings and thoughts beautify.
Halo 3 was “perfected” because it was bungies’ third game with the same mechanics. They swapped around weapons and added equipment between 2 and 3, but at the time people were stunned how similar 3 was to 2. Bungie took that gameplay and really tried to refine it.
343i aren’t refining the gameplay from their previous game. They are building something new.
and you can stop using evolve and everyone has them as justification for the new features. Dual wield was new, and everyone had it, but that got took out because, as Bungie said, “it changed the game”.
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> They are balanced with each other. But by introducing mechanics stolen from other games, halo 5 has in my eyes removed the original mechanics that made halo fun in the first place. And before people ask me to explain go read the 343s incompetence is killing halo he puts my feelings and thoughts beautify.
When has anything been original.
I wish halo 3 would just get relaunched. I loved that game. O wait, it did but no one can play it