- sam451
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Posted by: Tupolev
Posted by: sam451
Even if you aren't satisfied with how they are dealing with the multiplayer, I feel like there should be more enthusiasm than there is for the announcement. It can't perfectly please everybody, obviously, but it seems like this is as faithful a remake as they could have done. If it were anything else people would complain they changed, and thus ruined, the game.
Allow me to explain, from my personal dissatisfied standpoint.
I like Halo 1's current aesthetic. I have my oXbox still hooked up to a CRT mainly because the old games on that machine just look and play better that way. I think the new aesthetic looks like crap. And I couldn't care less about a Reach DLC consisting of Halo 1 map remakes; I've played similar ones with cleaner geometry made in forge, and they're okay, and the DLC pack doesn't look like a huge improvement.
The result? The only thing the remake really serves to offer me is online coop. Which is great, but the main reason I would want a remake in the first place is to have faithful online multiplayer, off a console, with good netcode. The one big thing I wanted in the remake, it doesn't have.
I don't know where you are coming from as far as your complaints about the aesthetic goes. But, addressing your multiplayer complaints, I think it makes sense to keep the maps in the Reach ecosystem. Reach's online community, while still huge in comparison to most games, is a lot smaller than 3's was, and further fracturing that community doesn't seem like fair treatment to a game thats multiplayer is still relatively young. For the vast majority of people, I think that adding the maps to reach is a better option.
I don't mind a few dissenting opinions, and your's seems like it has a basis (for you), but to see this kind of backlash from the whole community is disheartening to me.