- Tyguy101
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Reach MMO. Here's to hoping.
And the people that believe "the hardcore playlists would be more popular if the rules were strictly MLG" can come off it, now. If you're not willing to support something close to your own setup, there's no reason for us to believe that cloning our own lists and stripping the variety down will attract more people. -- Shishka, Bungie.net
Posted by: TheBigShow
Posted by: Tyguy101
By your simple logic, you would say that Halo CE is "far superior" than Halo 2 and 3. However, do you honestly think that if they added LIVE to Halo CE and even gave all the extra features that Halo 3 has that it would suddenly be more popular than Halo 3?!?! Use your common sense, there is no comparison in gameplay. Halo CE was great for its time, but it is not better.
People would not move back to HCE, because HCE is not better game. If it is "far superior" as you state, then 90%+ of the population would move to it, and that would just not happen, you would be lucky to get 5%.
Thats a completely asinine post. There is no way you can say with any certainty how many people would or would not move back. In my opinion, the people who played Halo CE a lot would all move back to it if Live was added. But like I said, theres no way we can say with any certaintly what those numbers would actually be. The fact that your argument rests on a completely made up number is indicitive of the quality of your argument overall.
The gameplay in Halo CE is more predictable, smoother, more player controlled, and better made in general. Sure, it doesn't have the features that Halo 3 has, but thats not what we're arguing.
You are right, without proof you can say that I have no idea what the numbers would be like. I'm not sure if the sun will rise tomorrow either, but it is a pretty good guess based on past experiences. Take the Halo 2 purests for example. Ya know, the group that swears by Halo 2 gameplay just like I would call you a HCE purest. There is still a community of Halo 2 fans, but the majority of players moved on to the better game H3.
However, you are taking me away from my original point. My main point is that there is a group of gamers that are trying to make Halo: Reach, from my observations, like the experiences they had in HCE. Most of them don't know why they loved HCE so much (like the post above mine), but they know they want that same HCE feeling to return.
So they ask for the CE pistol, and fall damage, and scarier covenant, and larger explosions, and no lunge, and etc. Everything they can think of that was possibly changed about the game they fell in love with, because they think that will bring that Halo "feeling" back again.
I consent that there are some HCE purests that would swear by HCE gameplay and truly think it is the best game by gameplay principles purely, but I don't think that the majority of people truly love HCE for those reasons alone.
If they want that Halo "feeling" to return it isn't going to come back by making a HCE clone, just like it doesn't really come back after playing 5 hours of HCE right now. The NEXT great Bungie game is what is going to bring that feeling.
[Edited on 09.16.2009 2:22 PM PDT]