- Sanjeev
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Let me start off with a bit of introduction. Hi, I'm Sanjeev. I'm about 15 years old. My introduction to gaming happened when I was about 5, with the Gameboy. I remember my first 2 games being 'Buzz Lightyear of Star Command' and one of those weird, fake 200 games in 1 collections. And right from that point, I got hooked into gaming.
Then, something magical happened Early 2002. I had performed pretty darn well in my school examinations and my father decided to reward me with something: An Xbox. It was a bundle. I still have the box with me. In fact, I'm looking at it right now. One of the games was a 2 game set: Tetris and Star Wars: The Clone Wars. And the other?
Halo: Combat Evolved.
And the moment I entered the disc into my Xbox, I became a fan. Halo was all I played for a good long time. So, I've been playing Halo since pretty much from the beginning. Of course, Halo 2 was big for me. I stayed home sick on E3 2003 to watch the Halo 2 E3 Demo. And in 2007? Holy hell. I stayed home 'sick' multiple times to follow the 'Iris' ARG and to catch any possible news. One particular incident that stand out for me was an issue of EGM was going to come out. I had been told that a copy had been leaked and scans were going to come out the next day. Due to time zone differences, the info would come out when I was at school. At the time, the logical thing for me to do was to skip school.
You're probably wondering why this -blam!- is telling you all this. Well, I'm trying to tell you that I've been a long time Halo player. I've stayed with the series for such a long time.
And hence, what I'm about to tell you will, nay, should have greater depth and feel.
Let's get right down to it: I don't think Halo, as we know it, can survive.
Of course, the first logical response and example you'll counter with now is that Halo 3 is still amongst the Top 10 games on LIVE. Hell, Halo 2 is THE top LIVE Xbox Originals game, though frankly in terms of how Microsoft treated the Xbox after the 360 came out, its nothing much to be proud off.
Well yea, sure, Halo 3 is still up there. Dude, I play it all the time. Its a fine, fine game. But it struck me, a few days ago... A feeling that's been in me since the beginning of this year got evoked tenfold.
I had a little break from Halo 3, trying to finish up a bunch of other games. My true return back was with ODST, which had an amazing campaign, Firefight's pretty good. But, when I put in the Halo 3 Mythic Disc, something was different.
It just didn't feel right. I was going about, doing the things I had always done. For the last 2 years. BRing dudes, Grenading,all that fun stuff. But something was wrong... It was Halo 3.
I'm not phrasing it right at all. What I'm trying to say is, Halo 3 is getting old. Its still fun, but what really am I playing for? What really are we all playing for?
Soon after Halo 3's release, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare was released. It had its flaws and its Multiplayer was pretty unbalanced to say the least, but it introduced a concept that you are seeing in a lot of games now and its the reason why that game is so popular as well: Progression.
Motivation to keep on going. It gives you a reason to keep playing. Sure, Infinity Ward, I feel, did not implement it right and as a result the game got so damn unbalanced but other games, while not as high in quality and polish, have made innovations to that concept and prove that Progression is an essential concept in Modern games, specifically shooters.
So, I'm not going to tell you what I feel Halo should become. Throughout my time here, I think, if you've seen my forum topics and posts, you know where I stand. No, I want to try and get some intelligent responses. I've been seeing a lot of people saying 'NO!!!!' whenever someone tries to suggest a change in Halo.
I want you to come up here and tell me your stand. Should Bungie tweak their formula for Halo: Reach? And don't give me a 'Yes/No' answer. I want explanations and suggestions. I trust the B.Net Community is capable of at least that level of basic discussion.