I have played halo since halo:ce and i must say the last to installments in the series are not very good. One thing that made halo:ce through halo 3 very good to play was the fact that the gameplay was basically the same in all 3 games. Yes i know there were changes made to each game to improve it in some way, although all changes were not good and didnt work. the fact is that the game still played the same. The reason call of duty does so well is that the gameplay is excatly the same each time a new one comes out. yes there are new features added to each game but there isn’t a complete overhaul of the gameplay itself. this is where i think you(343i) should look at what made halo so popular through a decade and try to get the gameplay to feel more like a halo game.
Many of the people i use to play with that loved halo have now put down there sticks and have moved on to other games. The reason they all give me is that the game doesnt feel or play like halo. I’m not a game designer nor do i claim to know everything that goes in to making a game. All i can do is purchase a game and play it to see if its good or not. This game has potential but it lacks in so many ways it makes the game hard to play.
The game needs serious help in many ways:
*kill cams are horriable because they never work
*need more maps for 4v4 slayer 5 maps are not enough to keep any player coming back
*loadouts need to be changed so that it is balanced. everyone has the same weapons, granades, etc. at the start of a match
*maps that have weapons on them in specific spots the whole game instead of the randomness. this would make map control matter because now its just run and gun without any team work get a randow powerup and back to run and gun
*playsist that people actually want to play. instead of the crappy choices that we are stuck with at the present time.
*ranked and casual playlist. dont really know why these have been taken out in favor of just a bunch of casual playlist???
*etc, etc, etc
and thats just all i feel like typing but there are many more fixes that could be done to make this game much better. i just dont want to see a franchise game that ive enjoyed for over ten years go down the drain and become a copy cat of what other games are doing.
TO BECOME A GREAT GAME YOU MUST ADVANCE THE GAME WHILE KEEPING TRUE TO WHAT MADE THE GAME GREAT FROM THE START.
and by the looks of it halo is now heading down the path of an ok game that will be played but not played to the potential that everyone had hoped for