This game isn't bad

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But it’s definitely not Halo.

Please don’t misinterpret what I’m saying as “The game is bad” because that’s not the case at all. The game is good, superb in fact. But it is not Halo. And please don’t think I’m attacking the community because I’m not doing that either. I’m simply giving my opinion.

I’m not going to turn this into some long list of things that I don’t like or want nerfed or buffed or taken out entirely.

I’m simply going to express my disappointment in how 343 did the things they did. Not what they did or why they did; but how they did.

The main purpose of this game was not to make people happy, it wasn’t to win awards, and it wasn’t because someone thought it would be fun, though I don’t doubt the designers had a lot of passion for what they were doing.

This game was made to make money. Plain and simple, it was money. 343 biggest goal with this game was how could they appeal to the largest market of people possible. It was pretty simple really. Look at which games had the biggest following and go from there. It doesn’t take a genius to look at numbers and see where that audience is coming from. To make sure this new audience would stick around, things needed to be changed. Ordinance drops, loadouts, and other things were added to appeal to an audience that would otherwise never have given Halo a second glance.

This is not why I am disappointed with 343. These are the kinds of things games need to do to compete in an ever evolving market of triple A titles. They need to change so that people feel like they’re experiencing something new, something better than last time around. 343 has done this and they’ve done it very well.

What I AM disappointed in is the way they did it. Rather than find their own path and innovate Halo they instead imitated the formulas from other games. This has taken the unique feel that Halo had and replaced it with the same generic feel that comes with most other games. It feels like the multiplayer has lost its focus. I always used to think of Halo as a strategic, team based shooter. Halo 4 feels like a run and gun cluster–Yoink- that only rewards those who can find their way back into the meat-grinder fastest.

This isn’t a bad game. It does what it was intended to do very well and if this were any other franchise I’m sure I’d enjoy it more. But that’s not the way it is. It feels like 343 has thrown Halo’s oldest fans under the bus. Rather than breath life into this franchise they turned Halo into a generic shooter.

I’m not mad at 343 for running their business in the most profitable way possible. I’m not mad as the community who is going to enjoy this game regardless and in fact, I’m happy for them. I’m just disappointed because it feels like Halo has lost its identity. It feels like 343 changed Halo to make it more appealing at the cost of its oldest fans.

I know there are a lot of people who have been around since the beginning who love the game and I’m not trying to make them feel any less important than me. But I also know that I’m not the only one who feels like this.

This game isn’t bad, but its just not Halo.

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Agreed! they should have let sleeping dogs lye

I was vary suprised to see all 343 did was like you said take two of the best fps ever made and literaly smash them to gether if anybody says that 343 did a good job and made an amazing game well they didn’t bungie and infinityward did!!!
as far as campaign goes well its hard for me to say because im far from done right now but what the hell did they do to the halo univers man they took it in a pretty wierd direction they realy should have left foreruner alone (an eir of mystery that tantalizid the imagination well has just been riped from the halo universe)i don’t see why they couldnt have just done sometthing new and different as oposed to suck the remaining awsomeness from a story already depleted from 7 previous games!
and i realy have to say 10 maps and expensive dlc before anyone even owned the game can you say money grab they realy peed me off with that. Thats something i would expect from lionhead studios,“hear buy the game and then buy the other half of the game when you get home” thats a low blow. I’m like cr 20 or whatever and i’m already tired of the multie player a theres a massive lack of interesting playlist theres a massive lack of good maps or any maps for that matter, and well it’s the 8th halo game and considering they stole alot from the cod series(witch we have all played alot of to) i think im alittle played out with this game already I gota say replay value in the pooper!!!

man alot of people were skeptical and they were right in a wierdway 343 kind of reminds me of trayarch with the cod series …let me explain
activion has cod an awsome seriesw made by infinityward but they want more money so they give a second contract to trayarch they then recieve an awsome already made and established platform,and proven engine and with a loyal fanbase. so now instead of pumping out a cod game every two years they pump one out ever year, now poor infinity ward has thier own strugles but now they have someone riping off there awsomness. so they series gets a mucked up to fast! now trayarch makes nazie zombie and the world finds out that they suck at making other peoples games but realy good at making there own games so doo they hell no! instead they keep pumping out map packs and games with nazie zombies mixed with cod maps opposed to just selling them sepret or even making thier own owsome game. now if you tink black opps, waw and black ops 2 sucks crap your right they do but nazie zombies are awsome so you buy the crap mp maps u will never play for that single small zombie map or buy the whole crap game its self just for the zombies. now trayarch thinks that every body luvs ther game because there campagn or mp well think again that original awsome zombie stuuf is the only reason people buy your crap if they sold it all sepreat you would never hear of black opps 2… now how does that relate??? it doesnt realy but it is crap just like what 343 is doing as we speake and atleast 2 more games on the way OH god please let them be tittled halo wars 2 and 3… oh and 343 you got alot to trump if your going to even compare to bungies online support and service you have alot to live up to just in the way of that (i’m not realy sure they new what they were trying to live up to)!!!