Edit: A week in and I I have changed my tune. Thanks to those that were positive.
I am very disappointed. Actually 10 hours in and I really HATE it. I mean like actually DESPISE it. This game doesn’t even resemble fun and it’s not close. I’m not saying it’s a poorly designed game, I’m just saying it isn’t fun to play right now. I am trying hard to like H5 like I have loved all the other Halo games. But I am just not having fun at all. Yes, I suck so enjoy pointing out my paltry k/d spread, but that has never been a problem before in Halo games.
I like games where I feel like the character I control is powerful. All the Spartans feel really weak, especially on legendary. You just have to slog through. We were dying to grunts and dogs, so it was cower back as far as you can and hope to pick one off and move up slightly. That is the only viable strategy, which is fine but it’s not all that fun. It’s just not fun when the enemies are 100x more powerful than you. I guess I could play an easier difficulty, but there is literally no incentive to.
Multiplayer is not better. It’s either 4 v 4 or 12 v 12. It’s either too small, or too big, and nothing in the middle. The TTK is either way too long or way too short, it never finds a fair balance. I hate warzone, I have always hated SWAT and FFA, and I am not even going to try Breakout because I would be watching way more than playing. There is nothing else. Nothing. The “robust” multiplayer is a load of crap. There are like 5 modes and they all suck for one reason or another.
The REQ system is not good either. All I get are Mongoose and Needlers which do nothing when the opponent has a fuckign tank. Someone with a higher level is always going to have an advantage and guess what, you can essentially BUY more levels with cash. I guess it’s kind of cool to have so many helmets and armor and gun skins, but that’s the problem. There are so many, none of them feel special like a raid helmet or recond from halo 3. Then it’s just cards and waiting to level up. Again, just not fun.
The grenades are out of control, and I know grenades are a huge part of Halo, but they are 90% of the game on smaller maps. I managed to kill someone and they literally dropped SIX grenades. I mean why even have a gun at that point? You can’t hide at all after you take damage (not to mention the insane amount of time it takes to recharge shields) because of hail of 12 grenades coming down on you. I like having 1 grenade every 45 seconds like in Destiny. And there are only 3 kinds of grenades. Not fun.
No co-op modes beyond campaign really sucks, too. I know this has been widely discussed, but I am not a consumer of video game media, Maybe if I could have fun shooting aliens with my friends I would enjoy it. But the campaign isn’t good enough, long enough or incentivized enough to make me want to play it more than once (and I really don’t even want to do that). The 1 min cool down on respawn in campaign sucks and that is literally the ONLY PVE. There were several times I respawned unfairly after waiting a minute and literally spent 2-3 minutes dead without getting to even fire my weapon. It is literally not fun.
I was so hyped for Halo 5, but 2 days in and I am feeling awful about it. I know I am not good, bad in fact, but I have sucked at plenty of games and had tons of fun sucking. This isn’t fun.
I would love for someone to tell me what I am missing.
TL;DR Your favorite game sucks.
