> Halo 4 was fun, the campaign was engaging and finally expanded the lore + the multiplayer kept me playing for a good month, with it’s progression system and i’m set to return for Spartan ops in January.
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> I am bored of the game for now, but I can respect the work 343 have done and they’ve done a great job with the game overall, I was kept playing for an amazing 4 weeks.
> which is more than enough especially for how <mark>repetitive multiplayer shooters are getting</mark>. I will be back from time to time and probably start getting back into it again once spartan ops returns but just remember this.
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> You cannot rely on 1 game/genre to entertain you, that is your faulty and you’re missing out on alot of great gaming experiences by doing so.
> I’m currently plowing through Far Cry 3 and have been doing so for the last 2 weeks, i haven’t even touched Halo. If you’re bored, play something else, there is an infinite amount of talented developers out there and you shouldn’t let their amazing work go to waste.
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> 343 have done a great job, <mark>you just have to accept that multiplayer shooters aren’t as fun as they used to be</mark>. When we first played them they were something new and exciting but since they’ve been around for a <mark>while now we’re slowly becoming tired of the same repetitive predictable experience</mark>, you’ve just got to accept it, and <mark>stop blaming 343’s faults on your nostalgia</mark>.
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> <mark>If Halo 2/3 was so great you wouldn’t be bored of them</mark>, both can still be played Halo 3 via xbox live and Halo 2 via xbox connect. If they were so faultless and fun then why did you leave them? Don’t blame it on the populations because getting into a game isn’t as hard as you all say it is. Yes we had good times on them, and they were so good because they were “first time experiences” you wont get that first time feel with a multiplayer fps again, so that’s probably why Reach and Halo 4 is such a disappointment for you.
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> Open to all discussion please don’t get heated about Halo 4 and its features can we please just keep it calm arguments on the internet will NEVER get resolved as nobody ever wants to admit their opinion is wrong.
There are some key sentances I want to point out here.
Gameplay is getting repetitive because the developers seem to copy more than they have to from each other. This makes different games play very similairly. Innovation and improvement is a driving force, copying isn’t, as something that works in one shooter may not work in another.
Fun is also subjective, I can have more fun later in a game’s lifetime than I have at the start because of updates making the game more playable and enjoyable.
Nostalgia is essentially a powerful memory twister, but we must not forget that there is a reason we remember the fun parts. Nostalgia won’t magically make a bad game good in anyone’s eyes if they didn’t have fun in it.
People on this forum like to compare Halo 4 to Halo 3 and 2, because in many aspects, those two games did something right, the competitiveness was there and custom game options was there for those who wanted to mess around. Unfortunatley it’s more or less turned around now.
Of course people get bored with good games as well, and want something fresh, but Halo 4 promised so much new and delivered instead used and broken. Then there’s the fact that the older games doesn’t have the support Halo 4 has, there are no updates, game longevity comes from updates, rolling out less popular stuff for new stuff players want, and keep doing that.
Halo 4 could have been an awesome game with a campaign full of replayability, a very competitive Multiplayer, old and new game modes as well as more custom game options than Halo 3 and Reach combined, theatre for Campaign, Multiplayer and SpOps, Forge with all old stuff intact as well as added tools and pieces.
Campaign is mediocre in the aspect of game play, I kind of liked the story but the gameplay elements are not just there for me to start the it again and have another go at it. The introduction of quick time events as well as too much button pushing just got repetitive. I think enemies provided to the staleness of it as well, the Prometheans are just not that fun to play against, and they added three types with a couple of classes each. The Covenant was more fun to fight and they aren’t even the main antagonists.
Multiplayer lacks everything that has to do with competitiveness. I don’t feel like I want to improve, I get rewarded for mediocre gameplay and sometimes punished while I’m doing really good. Balance is non-existant and the game feels more repetitive than previous games.
I was shocked when I saw a lot of the game modes removed only to have a few added, Extraction, Dominion and Grifball, one that used to be another game mode first. Extraction is fun, the little I got to play it, Dominion is also fun as well as griffball, but I don’t feel like they are fun enough to justify the removal of Assault, VIP, Race, Headhunter, Territories and Invasion, did I forget something? Then there’s only a small amount of options we do get to tweak.
Theatre only for MP, I found that to be a let down, so many times have I had moments I wanted to record in Campaign and SpOps that just can’t be replicated, or screenshots to take.
Forge felt good at first but it’s still something we’ve had before, with small changes. Why remove precision movement? Why not add even more standard pieces? Perhaps I did something wrong when I made a map but there are two standard pieces that are the same, I don’t remember which ones but I thought they were mirror pieces, and it turns out they are exactly the same, geometrically.
Perhaps I imagined too much and I have to blame myself for being letdown by Halo 4, maybe I thought i343 would improve and add rather than remove, restrict and simplify.
Still, a lot of people feel let down. Halo 4 could have had so much to make it last, to make it fun and full of variation, but here I’m sitting with a shooter, normal as every other shooter out there, a restricted game experience that could have been so rich, so full of color and variation.
Am I playing it? Now and then, do I think it is fun? Sometimes I do.
i343 really need to take what the vocal community is telling them seriously, the silent community that just plays will be fine with whatever decision is made, that’s why it’s a silent community.
Halo 5 better deliver everything that wasn’t delivered for Halo 4.
