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Halo: CE > > Halo 3 > Halo: Reach = Halo 2
Posted by: Neveri
The more "dynamic" you make a game, the more skill you take out of it.
Grenades blowing you in different directions.
Grenades blowing up other grenades, or changing trajectory.
Bullets blowing up Grenades
Giving dead players and weapons laying on the ground collision.
Giving the battle rifle a realistic "spread"
Bullet lag (taking time to reach target)
Recoil (sniper kicking up)
All of these things take away from fundamental gameplay, and balance. It is impossible to balance something that is dynamic. Let me repeat that.
******It is IMPOSSIBLE to balance something that is handled dynamically by the game******
Making things more dynamic and complicated takes away certainty, which means players can't plan their next move accordingly. Yes, I know that it takes 4 bursts from the battle rifle to kill a player, ideally. But who knows if those shots will register, if they'll *spread*, or just not travel fast enough.
I'm actually surprised that they didn't give the bullets a random travel speed, seeing as somewhere along the lines Halo turned into this hyper realistic shooter. *rolls eyes*
Not to mention how they had to make all the multiplayer levels look next gen, by adding little cracks and crevices. Not stopping there they proceeded to do a "per polly collision" on the whole level. Every little nook will have an effect on the bounce of your grenades.
I'm trying really hard to like Halo 3. I love the features, I love all the things they've done with forge, and saving your gameplay clips, and fileshare, and watching replays. I love all of that, but when the fundamental gameplay isn't there, it's hard to keep coming back. It's kinda like Halo 3 is an extremely well polished piece of poo.
They could at least give the players the option to change something in the settings. An option like... "turn off dynamic gameplay" or something of the like, that would get rid of those things I listed above.
I know Bungie doesn't care, because they don't care about a minority like the MLG crowd. Not enough to spend money to develop an option for a more old school BR. But I think they should realize that Halo 3 can and *is* becoming more than just a game that 10 year olds play to jack around in. When your game is something as big as MLG's flagship title, I think you're obligated to recognize that, and reflect that when designing the multiplayer elements of a game.
I'm not even entirely sure why bungie created "The only BR thread", if they aren't even going to respond to people's comments about the BR, or take our comments/suggestions into consideration. Even in the Beta people were saying how the BR was broken, yet no fix, no adjustments. Just an adjustment that takes more skill out of melee's.
Well, they might as well go the whole 10 yards and make the following changes.
After a certain amount of running your spartan gets fatigued, and must sit to rest
Grenades will now always go a random distance
Grenades will now have a random explosion radius and explosion damage
Guns will now randomly jam
After being shot without a shield active, you will lose accuracy, movement speed, and focus.
Environments are now completely destructable
To fire the sniper you must go prone or mount it on a wall, and have another player spot for you.
Melee's will now do random damage, based on fatigue from running and shooting.
When you die, you won't respawn.
Dead players and weapons will no longer dissapear, instead they'll litter the ground till the end of the match.
You will now trip over dead bodies and weapons on the floor.
Jumps will now be a random height within maximum jumping height.
Flags must now be physically carried back to your base to return.
If the oddball falls off the edge, it will be a draw game.
If the oddball sustains enough damage, it will be destroyed and end in a draw.
etc etc etc.
I don't care about the campaign, go crazy, do everything you want in campaign. Make it required to eat, I don't care. But when it comes to multiplayer, please keep it balanced, and fundamental. You do not need to overcomplicate everything.
Thanks for reading.
hahaha!
Good stuff.