Halo 3's a great game, right? I know I played it for a long ass time. This isn't a rant about how much better another game is, just some of the things I was dissatisfied with in Halo 3. Overall I still like it as a game though, not just trying to bag on it.
-First thing, switching main enemies from elites to brutes. How could they just switch sides like that? Maybe if some of the elites switched and others stayed, or some fought both humanity and the brutes. That would've made for a more interesting story and campaign. Bungie talked about making them act more like elites anyways, so why not just stick with the elites at least partially?
-The Brute armor designs. They look all tribal and whatnot, not like vicious alien warriors that have come to kill us all. The elites looked sleek, dangerous. The brutes were basically space monkeys that threw tantrums when you shot them.
-The weapons...ahhh the weapons. I have a separate post talking about the H3 Ar, but mainly I felt the weapons were too much like toys. I know it's not supposed to be realistic, but some of it was just too much. The spiker, mauler, AR, laser, and many others I can't think of were just a joke. Ok, the laser was powerful but I mean it shoots a red beam....why not a crackly electric railgunny type death ray? Wouldn't that be so much cooler?
-The campaign seemed like something that was just tacked on after the multiplayer. The multiplayer seemed like the Halo 2 multiplayer with a new skin. I think at this point bungie thought that anybody was going to buy a halo game no matter what, so they could put as much or little work into it as they wanted to.
-The multiplayer armor. It looked really shiny, not at all gritty and detailed like reach or halo 2. The armor permutations didn't look good, the hayabusa and katana made no sense in addition to looking like something a 5 yr old would enjoy. It was just...not nice. People looked more like messed up gundams than militaristic spartans.
-The graphics.... yeah I went there. I know there were limitations at the time but it seems like they managed to make everything just look dry anyways. Halo 2 was juicy..reach is vibrant and poppy. Halo 3 was kind of like hollow cardboard...or sand.
-Flood pure forms. Why did they think these would be fun to fight? especially on legendary, these things just suck. Mainly the stalker and ranged forms. not so much the tank ones, those were all right.
-Cortana/gravemind moments. The worst thing you can do in a video game is put the player in a situation where he cannot play. These things annoyed the hell out of me. They weren't all that essential to the plot, mainly consisting of mush or just quotes from the books/other games. I think this is just evidence of bungie taking themselves a bit too seriously.
Well, that's all I can think of now. Once again, I'm not trying to insult bungie or halo 3, yeah I did play the game 'cause I love the series and bought it because it said Halo. There are plenty of things that I liked about it too, but what stuck out for me were these disappointments. Reach makes up for Halo 3 completely, but back in 07-08 I was pretty bummed. Comment if you agree or want to calmly, politely dispute. I really don't wanna hear personal attacks, people telling me I'm just bad at the game, etc. thanks.