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CoD is a good game, even if the Halo series are better in some aspects. Anyone who insults either is just bad in that game. Grow up.
Posted by: CoconutOctopus
I don't mean any disrespect by that. I just personally don't see what is so wrong with it.
At the end of Reach, I felt like it had been a really fun go. I felt like it had been the end of a really good game because I felt nostalgic about the other games as well as glad I bought this game.
The Halo: CE, Halo 2, and Halo 3 games were such good ones. You are so right.
Sure it wasn't pure poetic genius worthy of Shakespeare-like reverence for the centuries to come, but I felt it really did the title justice. I think once again they evolved the combat. It's not just another Halo game where you do the same thing with better graphics. They went for more dynamics. They went for more strategies and ways to play the game. It wasn't all sunshine and wins, but they didn't totally fail like you let on I don't think. I liked it.
The things that went wrong with Reach starts with Bungie's attitude towards its story. The very fact that they easily broke previously constructed canon was already asking for faith from halo fans, and yet, what they presented us with is simply sub-par from everything they led us to believe.
Aside from the canon breaks, the story was only good, not great. A lot of stuff seem underwhelming. As the OP stated, it was a waste of the potential that the all-epic Reach had to offer. This is why Reach fails its title. It should have been named Halo: Noble Team instead, and the story should have been told in a graphic novel, because that was not THE story of Reach.
We're talking about the battle of Reach here. The largest and second most important human-covenant conflict in the entire known halo story, and yet what they presented us with simply did not showcase the importance of the conflict. We also never see all the signature things we know about the battle; no giant orbital or land engagements, no SMACs, and no glassing. Not to mention, if you were to think about it, it seems both the UNSC and the covenant suddenly became incompetent morons for the duration of the battle. In other words, Reach was hollywoodized, and became all the worse because of it. Reach should have been epic, not insignificant, and the way Bungie handled the story just reeks of carelessness and inflated egos.
That's my 2 cents about the story of Reach.