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Subject: Why classes Won't be in Reach
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I'm not saying why I would dislike classes in Reach (though I would), I'm saying why Bungie/Microsoft won't do it.

Halo is the only game in its, dare I say it, class. You won't be able to find another game that is at all successful and even close to similar to it gameplay wise. There are older games, like Quake and Marathon, that are similar, but who plays either of those regularly nowadays? No one.

So, we've established that Halo is different. It also happens to be the most successful videogame series. Ever. Mario and friends can compete with it, but that's only because they've made so many dozens of games.

So Halo is different and the most successful.

However, there are many class-based games. CoD, BF: Bad Company, Battlefield 1943, Star Wars: Battlefront, etc, etc, and the list goes on. Individually, all of these games are less successful than Halo.

So why would Bungie and Microsoft, the latter of the two being a money-hungry entity, copy the games that there are already many of, and are all less successful? It makes absolutely no sense. The developers of CoD, among others, have had so much experience with Class-based games that they would dominate an attempt by Bungie, a company that excels at non-class based FPS.

If there ever is a class-based Halo, it probably won't be made by Bungie, and would be made by 343 studios as a spinoff game (like Halo Wars) once Bungie moves on to another IP.

So it would be foolish in every way for Bungie to make Reach a class-based game because they, and Microsoft, would make less money.

  • 08.17.2009 6:24 AM PDT
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No, you must be mistaken, you see, I'm correct and you're wrong. Simply put, if I'm arguing with you it's because you're so dumb I couldn't let you live another day without you realizing how retarded you really are... I wish I had a girlfriend =/

I didn't read what you said, but, I totally agree :D

  • 08.17.2009 6:45 AM PDT