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  • Poll [26 votes]: Should the BR come back in Halo 4?
Subject: Should the BR come back in Halo 4?

Poll: Should the BR come back in Halo 4?  [closed]
Yes:  73%
(19 Votes)
No:  27%
(7 Votes)
Total Votes: 26

Listen, i know that you probably don't want to hear some 15 year old (me!) give you advice on how to make a game but please give me some of your time, and don't write this off as some stupid kid ranting. I've been an avid Halo player as long as i can remember, and I've been at all of the school lunch discussions about Halo. I know a lot about Halo, and for some reason, I hated Reach.
I really don't want this to become some rant about Reach, I just don't have a good time playing it. Every time I pick up a controller and play Halo 3, I get a great feeling of Friends and good times, but when I play Reach, that same feeling isn't there. I don't mean to be rude, but feelings of Frustration and anger flood my mind while I'm playing a seemingly broken multiplayer. Now, again, I don't want this to be about Reach. This is about Halo 4.
I still play Halo 3 online very often. In fact, when all of my friends play Halo, they either play Reach by themselves, or Halo 3 with me. Not because I make them, but because we all just have a better time playing 3. Again, this doesn't apply to all people, (i'm sure) but please remember where your core fanbase was. All the time my friends and I would crowd around a small computer screen and watch MLG Halo 3 tournaments were great times. I haven't even heard of a single MLG Reach tournament since the game came out.
Reach seemed (and again i'm not trying to Reach-bash) to suck out all of the fun me and my friends would have when we played Halo competitively. Maybe that was the problem, we always played Halo to win. It seems like Halo Reach was made to play just to have fun. Although i can understand where you're coming from, the Halo series seems to me like a franchise that Advocates playing to win, and not to just play to Have Fun. This step in the direction was (i guess) one that boosted the Franchise, seeing as I thought Halo Reach would Fail within weeks, but now has multiple DLC packs!
Listen, All I'm saying, is that maybe with Halo 4, putting a little competitiveness back In the game, would be a good choice! In Halo 3, everyone started every life equal, no Jetpacks to launch you to advantage-giving upper ground, no Inevitable Death Delayers, and no god forsaken chameleon-skin! If you won a match in Halo 3, It meant that you were Genuinely better than the other players. In Halo Reach, I could lose a game 1-100, play a 1v1 against anybody on their team, and beat them easily!
Halo 3 wasn't a guessing game that If maybe they were a hologram, Halo 3 was a guessing game whether or not they ere holding a shotgun in that bubble shield!

Oh and please, Give back my Baby!

<3 BR <3


[Edited on 06.11.2011 12:50 PM PDT]

  • 06.10.2011 3:02 PM PDT

China called, they want their wall back. I agree though, I miss the BR, but it would be better if a similar weapon replaced it (not DMR).

[Edited on 06.10.2011 3:05 PM PDT]

  • 06.10.2011 3:03 PM PDT

YES!!! I would effing love the BR to make a return.


I'm a casual player, by the way.

  • 06.10.2011 3:03 PM PDT

Vengeance only leads to an ongoing cycle of hatred.

Yes. I miss the Battle Rifle and the Carbine.

  • 06.10.2011 4:25 PM PDT

Turkey

ehh, I honestly don't mind. I was never crazy for it in Halo 2 and 3, and it's a tad bit overpowered.

I would rather have a new single-shot weapon, like the DMR, only less turkeyish with bloom.

  • 06.10.2011 4:28 PM PDT

Ha ha, yeah this is just something that I've been thinking of for a while now, and I felt like I needed to get it off of my chest. At least maybe make a 3 round burst weapon a 4 shot kill to the head. Nothing is more satisfying than a 4 shot on a guy looking the other way. ;)

  • 06.10.2011 4:31 PM PDT

They're called Paragraphs.

Use them.

OT: I would like to see the BR return.

  • 06.10.2011 4:58 PM PDT

BONK! - TF2 Scout

yes. period. BR > DMR

  • 06.10.2011 5:01 PM PDT

BONK! - TF2 Scout


Posted by: SEAL Sniper 9
Yes. I miss the Battle Rifle and the Carbine.


BR, yes.
Carbine, not so much.

  • 06.10.2011 5:02 PM PDT

I feel like if the DMR was to be put against the BR and the carbine, it would lose 4/5 times. Maybe if the DMR was a 4 shot all to the head, and shot just as fast as the BR. The DMR seemed to be bungie's attempt at down-powering the BR.

  • 06.10.2011 5:02 PM PDT
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NOT INTO THE LONG GRASS!

BR with a secondary fire mode that would fire single shots?

I'm in.

  • 06.10.2011 5:02 PM PDT

Had a hard time reading your post because of your lack of brai... paragraphs. First things first:

- You pretty much said that the main reason people like Reach is because it's a game made only for people to have fun, while the games that included the BR are for competitive purposes. While I agree with this, that's the main reason I hate MLG players, they exploit the game, it's no longer fun.

- No, I wouldn't be happy if the BR returned because that weapon was made just to overpower every other weapon in the game. What's the purpose of dual-wielding or using a different weapon when it's obvious that the player who holds the BR will have an advantage? I have a lot of fun with the current weapons, more diversity.

- It's rated M for a reason (nahhh, just being a dick with this last reason :P)

  • 06.10.2011 5:10 PM PDT

Thats where I totally disagree with you. My whole point of view, is that I LOVE LOVE LOVE competitive gaming. I think competitzive gaming is the reason the Halo franchise is so great! One of the reasons I didn't like Reach, is because it failed to separate the competitive and the casual.


[Edited on 06.10.2011 6:37 PM PDT]

  • 06.10.2011 6:22 PM PDT


Posted by: Juan Teran
Had a hard time reading your post because of your lack of brai... paragraphs. First things first:

- You pretty much said that the main reason people like Reach is because it's a game made only for people to have fun, while the games that included the BR are for competitive purposes. While I agree with this, that's the main reason I hate MLG players, they exploit the game, it's no longer fun.

- No, I wouldn't be happy if the BR returned because that weapon was made just to overpower every other weapon in the game. What's the purpose of dual-wielding or using a different weapon when it's obvious that the player who holds the BR will have an advantage? I have a lot of fun with the current weapons, more diversity.

- It's rated M for a reason (nahhh, just being a dick with this last reason :P)

I liked the BR over the DMR. But in Halo 3 i found that the pistol if used effectively in single and dual weild will beat anything fast

  • 06.10.2011 6:30 PM PDT
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Yes I'm fairly young. No, that doesn't mean I'm automatically dumber than you or have less life experience, thats just generally the case. I am not your general case.


Posted by: SEAL Sniper 9
Yes. I miss the Battle Rifle and the Carbine.

This.

  • 06.10.2011 7:01 PM PDT