I don’t go to any MLG events but I do like to watch MLG gameplay and play in the MLG playlist (especially in Halo: Reach). But why does most of the community hate MLG? Why do you hate MLG?
I don’t hate MLG and I’ve never heard of anyone hating it.
I dont.
> I don’t hate MLG and I’ve never heard of anyone hating it.
Ever since people started posting about how MLG dropped Halo 4 I’ve seen countless people bashing MLG and people who play it.
> > I don’t hate MLG and I’ve never heard of anyone hating it.
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> Ever since people started posting about how MLG dropped Halo 4 I’ve seen countless people bashing MLG and people who play it.
Could just be damage control from fanboys trying to paint a picture of everything being sunshine and rainbows in the universe of Halo.
I don’t like MLG, I don’t hate them. So I could care less if there’s no Halo 4 MLG, makes absolutely no difference to me.
It is just a stereotype but…
Name a day when there wasn’t a Halo 4 sucks/needed changes/has no competitive/has no MLG support/copies COD/is laggy/has no skill/should be like Halo 3/is worse than COD/has killed Halo/is the beginning of the end/Spartan Ops sucks/is imbalanced/etc.
And now you know.
They hate what they do not truly comprehend.
MLG Halo was my football. It’s probably the only sport I’ve ever watched for entertainment.
MLG’s philosophy of cutting away the gimmicks and randomness and getting back to the skill was something I appreciated in Halo, even if I didn’t compete or play the MLG playlist.
I love MLG. But i don’t think it makes any difference whether its in Halo or not. Especially the die-hards that think that Halo needs MLG to be playable.
I like casually playing MLG settings. They’re usually better. Sometimes they’re too stripped down, but often times the core gameplay is bad and MLG does its best to fix it.
In Halo 3 I liked MLG movement speed and BR spawns but I still liked having weapons and vehicles scattered around the map. In Halo Reach, I enjoyed playing without Armor Lock, Camo, and DMR spawns etc. and playing the map roster they selected. Also, MLG mixes objective types in their playlists. Other games do Slayer better than Halo IMO, but the strength of Halo is that it had a variety of classic gametypes. Flag, KOTH, Ball, Territories, etc.
Nvr really had a reason to like them… now why all the love for them? Posting all these threads about MLG dropping Halo for another game, almost like you want ppl to just sides…why?
Some guys like to say their MLG, or have MLG in their screen names and turn out to be massive -Yoinks!-. Often with a false sense of superiority.
At least, that i’ve come across. I don’t hate MLG, but I do hate some of their players. (Or supposed.)
The one thing I don’t like about MLG is how sterile it attempts to make gameplay. MLG tries to take all the fun out of games to make them as stiff and repetitive as possible in the name of creating ‘balance.’
I don’t hate them, I just don’t care for them.
> The one thing I don’t like about MLG is how sterile it attempts to make gameplay. MLG tries to take all the fun out of games to make them as stiff and repetitive as possible in the name of creating ‘balance.’
Sterile? I don’t know man.
MLG certainly isn’t 343 Infinity Fiesta Slayer where one person gets a needler and the other person gets an incineration cannon, but I wouldn’t say their ruleset is sterile. They’ve got 3 of the AAs in play, all of the precision weapons, all of the grenades, all of the side arms, and the majority of the power weapons. The only weapons not in MLG right now are the CQC weapons (sword, hammer, both shottys), the redundant power weapons like the incineration cannon, fuel rod, binary rifle, and beam rifle, and the other two automatic weapons. You don’t really need the CQC weapons when you’ve got the boltshot though, and everything else eliminated were redundant.
There’s definitely a lot of MLG hate. If you’ve never heard of it I don’t think you’ve been around long enough. Anyway, I think it stems from the days of Halo 2 and Halo 3 when every 13 year old would put MLG in their name and call anyone who used any weapon that wasn’t the BR or Sniper a “Bad Kid” or “garbage” or something else uncreative. There was a lot of backlash to that in the Halo 2/3 days and now that’s what a lot of people associate MLG with.
> > The one thing I don’t like about MLG is how sterile it attempts to make gameplay. MLG tries to take all the fun out of games to make them as stiff and repetitive as possible in the name of creating ‘balance.’
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> Sterile? I don’t know man.
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> MLG certainly isn’t 343 Infinity Fiesta Slayer where one person gets a needler and the other person gets an incineration cannon, but I wouldn’t say their ruleset is sterile. They’ve got 3 of the AAs in play, all of the precision weapons, all of the grenades, all of the side arms, and the majority of the power weapons. The only weapons not in MLG right now are the CQC weapons (sword, hammer, both shottys), the redundant power weapons like the incineration cannon, fuel rod, binary rifle, and beam rifle, and the other two automatic weapons. You don’t really need the CQC weapons when you’ve got the boltshot though, and everything else eliminated were redundant.
The best thing about Halo is the vehicle gameplay. MLG has none. MLG is Halo: neutered to me.
> > > The one thing I don’t like about MLG is how sterile it attempts to make gameplay. MLG tries to take all the fun out of games to make them as stiff and repetitive as possible in the name of creating ‘balance.’
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> > Sterile? I don’t know man.
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> > MLG certainly isn’t 343 Infinity Fiesta Slayer where one person gets a needler and the other person gets an incineration cannon, but I wouldn’t say their ruleset is sterile. They’ve got 3 of the AAs in play, all of the precision weapons, all of the grenades, all of the side arms, and the majority of the power weapons. The only weapons not in MLG right now are the CQC weapons (sword, hammer, both shottys), the redundant power weapons like the incineration cannon, fuel rod, binary rifle, and beam rifle, and the other two automatic weapons. You don’t really need the CQC weapons when you’ve got the boltshot though, and everything else eliminated were redundant.
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> The best thing about Halo is the vehicle gameplay. MLG has none. MLG is Halo: neutered to me.
I think the exact opposite, the only way ive been able to enjoy halo 4 is with the mlg settings, Vanilla is terrible.
I dont know why there is so much hate directed at mlg, to me it is kind of symbolic. I may not have been a big fan of them but the mlg settings were the only way i could enjoy this game.
> The best thing about Halo is the vehicle gameplay. MLG has none. MLG is Halo: neutered to me.
Vehicles are easy to use and difficult to kill. They are too effective in low player counts, which is where competitive gaming in general is mostly at. Low player counts mean more strategy and less chaos.
It would be hard to make competitive gametypes centered around vehicles.
At least in this iteration of Halo they are a lot harder to use due to them being weaker in general.
MLG does not remove things just for the sake of removing things. They remove items that are imbalanced or redundant for the sake of balance and simplicity.
If they removed things just for the sake of removing things, all loadouts would be DMR’s only and there would only be rockets on the map, but this simply isn’t the case. v1 has several different loadouts, along with multiple weapons and powerups across the maps.
> There was a lot of backlash to that in the Halo 2/3 days and now that’s what a lot of people associate MLG with.
I blame the people who got offended and not the kids themselves.
How stupid do players have to be to think a 13 year old with MLG in their name is actually from MLG?
Yet I would see people fall for it all the time…just…wow…