Hello, many of us “haters” and “complainers” would like to inform you on why we are criticizing Halo 4. Many of us couldn’t put it into words, but I want the text to speak for itself. This is from another thread on the forums, the one to write both of these responses (the underscore is the people he quoted) is Matt Grimes FTL,(please note that the names of the people he quoted are removed) someone who I believe hit the nail on the head:
How about: if you want to play a game that doesn’t play like Halo, YOU go play 1 of the hundreds of other FPS’s out there?
Halo is the heart and soul of gaming for many of us, and we don’t want it changed because it’s the only game that we like. “You guys” have hundreds of other games, yet you have to destroy the one thing that we poor vanilla Halo enthusiasts hold dearest to our hearts? And you call US jerks, lol. You guys are like the kid with 100 toys that you never play with, but if someone tries to take 1 away and give it to someone who has nothing and you throw a fit and call us selfish. Nice.
Also no one is saying no more changes. We just don’t want any detrimental gimmicky mechanics added that absolutely ruin what made Halo, Halo, saved the Xbox from bankruptcy, and is the sole instigator of the huge online console gaming scene that exists today (and that includes the CoD games). When adjusting for inflation, Halo Reach’s numbers are about half that of H3, clearly showing that many players were turned off. Yet CoD continues to grow and has actually surpassed H2 in it’s dominance of the market. It’s not like it’s impossible to have the dominance H2 had. Ask any of your friends who don’t play Halo anymore and they will tell you that Reach just didn’t feel enjoy like Halo, or whatever else. No one except those who loved Halo but sucked at previous games appreciate Reach and such changes as putting power weapons on random timers. If something as simple as that occurs, Halo will be destroyed.
I think it’s one thing to voice your concerns, but don’t you think people should wait until we have actually seen more?
Yeah lets wait until the game is completely done before we voice our concerns on it (even though it’s probably too late already).
If you see a car driving at you, you’re going to move out of the way. It may or may not have stopped, but on the slight chance that it didn’t, you’d want to make pretty certain that you were out of the way. That’s all we are doing. We have 1 game that we enjoy, and it was tarnished and destroyed with Reach, we would like for that not to happen again.
Let me put it to you like this, the people who are complaining are going to buy this game. It’s pretty much a fact. So why are they complaining? What’s the point? If they are going to be so whiny over a game, why buy it? That was what I was driving at.
And I don’t think MLG players don’t have a relevant opinion, I think they have an extremely biased opinion. Halo was Halo before MLG. MLG wasn’t anything until Halo. So why would MLG be allowed to influence a title that in essence was the starting reason for MLG to exhist in the first place? If MLG pulls Halo out of it’s gaming circuit, I like a lot of people will just simply shrug their shoulders and say “oh well”. The Pro’s will have to move on to different games or get out, and the enthusiasts will just have one more thing to complain about, but I don’t think it will affect the overall sales. MLG only represents a SMALL percentage of the population. You want to make money off of a Halo title, market and develop a game based off of the most played playlist. Gee…I wonder which one that is.
Yeah, probably. That doesn’t mean that we don’t want our concerns and voice to be heard so that the purchase can be worthwhile. Again, you do not understand the special place Halo has in our heart. Halo is like a drug addict teenager and we are it’s parents. You say “Well that’s just, your kids a drug addict, let him die”, yet we can’t, we do everything we can to help restore him to his former glory as a good person/son/whatever.
Obviously it’s not to that extent, but many of us care deeply for Halo and want it to thrive as it once did with amazing, balanced, competitive, skillful gameplay.
MLG was born from Halo. MLG was just a community for competitive Halo players to get together and hold tournaments and have fun. Halo changed, and MLG did their best to keep the skill gap that CE had to allow for equally competitive settings. Unfortunately this could only be achieved by removing many weapons, adding custom maps, and making many severe changes to the game. MLG shouldn’t dictate Halo, no one thinks that, but MLG isn’t evil or whatever you guys think it is. Yeah some of the players are jerks, but what do you expect from a community specifically tailored to competitive players? Most competitive players are jerks, it’s not like MLG made them jerks.
And the thing is that no one wants Halo to die competitively, we all want it to thrive, but if the devs keep adding all these negative aspects to competitive play there is really nothing left to do. There are at least 100,000 people who this will greatly upset. I know you want to “have fun” and “enjoy new things”, but for many of us, Halo is all there is; it’s the best FPS out there and the only game that we really love. Why things be changed for no other reason than because you’re bored of the way things are now? Many of us have been playing Vanilla Halo (or at least as close to it as we can get) for 10 years and are still far from bored. Maybe if you actually understood the depth that vanilla Halo has, you guys wouldn’t get bored so easily either.
WHY DOES HALO SO BORING???
Shoot, jump, grenade,Shoot, jump, grenade,Shoot, jump, melee, grenade
Further evidence that those who want Halo to change don’t even understand what Halo is really all about.
Unfortunately, you guys are the majority and will most likely get what you want; another -Yoink!- to use up and throw away.
Hope you enjoyed it. I take no credit for these. Hope this isn’t illegal also.
