Myself and our group went back to Halo: Reach because we have fun playing it. It is as simple as that. Halo 4 is not fun. It’s hard to pinpoint exactly what it is about Halo 4 that makes it this way. I think it’s the ridiculous loadouts combined with the lack of skill required to play the game.
When playing Halo: Reach, there is a real strategy and skill required to do well. It’s fun to apply it all and try to play a good game. Little things go a long way, like the Concussion Rifle for example. In Reach, it’s not an easy gun to use, but it has some massive benefits, namely stopping power (sword and hammer wielding enemies fear this gun). In Halo 4 the Concussion Rifle is a total joke.
Go back and play a few games of Big Team in Halo: Reach. You must have forgotten what it meant to be able to use vehicles in MM. In Halo 4 vehicles have been made into a joke. When players can choose to spawn with plasma pistols and grenades, and use active camo and sprint together, it takes absolutely no skill whatsoever to stop a vehicle.
Bullets fly into peoples heads in Halo 4 whether you are aiming there or not. That sucks for those of us that actually want to feel like there is some human skill involved in what we’re playing.
343 clearly, clearly does not understand Action Sack.
PUT IT BACK IN HALO: REACH. Whoever decided it should be removed should have been fired that same day.
Halo 4’s Action Sack (which I was extremely excited for btw) just falls flat. Rockets and Rails is fun, but other than that it’s very stale. Once the novelty of the first few games in any given gametype wears off, it’s just boring again.
I found myself playing Halo 4 and just not even caring if we win or lose a match. My KD sucks in Halo 4 in my opinion, and it’s simply because when I played I was so bored I just kinda laughed at each match.
SO! We put Halo: Reach back into the Xbox and it’s a total blast. BUT WE NEED ACTION SACK BACK IN REACH.
Spartan Ops sucks big time. Sorry, it blows.
I really hope that Halo 4 is intentionally portraying Spartan 4’s as total -Yoink!- I have a feeling it’s intentional by the way Halsey tells Spartan Palmer that “First, we taught them to be silent”. God I hope that that comment is foreshadowing pointing towards how limited Spartan 4’s are. Listening to Spartans in this games (Halo 4) is like listening to a script written by a bunch of 16 year olds in IT class. It is so ridiculously off base from what Spartans are, that I gotta believe it’s intentional and I think maybe that’ll be part of the story later, but I dunno.
One last rant before I stop this novel. 343 are complete sell outs to the idea that a company can take a popular IP and just blatantly USE it to squeeze every nickel from our pockets. From the day 1 DLC to this joke that is Spartan Assault, to a new DLC Armor Mod that ejects us from vehicles? recharges shields faster? Joke. You know why they have given the ability to be ejected from a vehicle? Because unless you are playing with a preschool class, you won’t last more than 30 seconds in that thing regardless, so here, at least with this you might not die as the vehicle gets stickied. Although you will still be Auto aim DMRd from all angles of the map, so whatever. Lol. Put in Halo: Reach.
Every aspect of this game and the direction that 343 has taken shows me that the #1 goal is to milk us for as much cash as possible. It’s so bloody obvious and it really sucks. Rather than taking some man hours and allowing us to play Action Sack in Halo: Reach (a fan favorite. Requested by many FANS. FAN FAVORITE) they spent those man hours building Spartan Assault. Made sure that it can ONLY be played on a Microsoft product, and made sure that in order to purchase certain weapons you will pay real life money for it (as far as I understand that’s the case. I refuse to do it, what a joke, so I haven’t tested this).
One last thing. The armory in Halo: Reach is unlocked by ranking. This is excellent. I despise the fact that I will never unlock the entire armory in Halo 4 because A) Some commendations are now barely even possible (slick move guys. More proof of competency), and B) Even if I DID attempt some of these commendations, they would require that I play a LOT of certain game modes, and I won’t waste my time with that.
It’s bad that I have spent more time with this post than I have with the game in 3 months. And what’s worse is that nobody cares about this post anyway lol. Oh well whatever I needed something to do while drinking my morning coffee.
