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Subject: Why do people keep trying to act like Reach is good?
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Lost in translation

When did the new standard for Halo games become, "oh it's bad, but it's not that bad"?

Reach is a horrible game. There are very few redeeming qualities that this game has in default settings that would make anyone want to play it. 343i tried to save it and boost the population but it was too late. Granted, their work so far has been great. Classic playlists and MLG are fantastic, but everything else is still awful. 85% bloom is still dumb. Why not just take out the gameplay mechanic that vastly decreases the skill gap? Who knows...

If the game had released with 343i's settings and no bloom the game would probably have 3x as many average players as it does now. It's funny how it's all the bad players, new players, and fanboys that seem to eat this crap up.

/rant

Oh, and sales =/= good game

  • 12.17.2011 5:15 AM PDT
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Posted by: Opinion

  • 12.17.2011 5:17 AM PDT

Who are you? stop look at me.

lol Opinion


[Edited on 12.17.2011 5:17 AM PST]

  • 12.17.2011 5:17 AM PDT

Planet Express - Our crew is replaceable, your package isn't.

play Pac-man instead. it's great!

  • 12.17.2011 5:17 AM PDT

Posted by: Munitions lll
/rant
Thanks. I didn't read anything you said prior.

  • 12.17.2011 5:20 AM PDT

Posted by: grgur2004983
play Pac-man instead. it's great!


If you spawn trap the ghosts you're a noob though.

[Edited on 12.17.2011 5:23 AM PST]

  • 12.17.2011 5:22 AM PDT

Because reach IS a good game, it may not be the greatest HALO game but its still better then most titles.

The real question is why are threads like this still being made?

  • 12.17.2011 5:22 AM PDT
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Posted by: RoBiNmiamollyji
lol Opinion

Obviously they're opinions. Unfortunately I know that's the only post you can make in an attempt to avoid a debate you'll surely lose. Step away.

  • 12.17.2011 5:24 AM PDT
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Hey, uh, if you like vs threads, then check out this little group right here, if you have the time. It's pretty fun, just hop right in.

Why do you keep trying to act like it's a bad game?

  • 12.17.2011 5:26 AM PDT

Posted by: Timtaztix
yeah this reminds me of the time i got sent to jail for stealing crocs from target becozs i wanted all of the colors because i only got the green wons for my birthday and i wanted more ;)

Posted by: Ghosty Gh0st
Because reach IS a good game, it may not be the greatest HALO game but its still better than most titles.
The real question is why are threads like this still being made?

  • 12.17.2011 5:57 AM PDT

The Song Of Nephilim

Xenoblade <3

I like it.

  • 12.17.2011 6:00 AM PDT

there are two reasons why you think it sucks
1) you think its one shot one kill so you shoot once and stop and rage when they somehow kill you
2) you have no skill what so ever
so go back to call of duty

  • 12.17.2011 6:05 AM PDT

Planet Express - Our crew is replaceable, your package isn't.

why would you play a game if you think it's bad? there a bunch of other games,so knock youself out;);)

  • 12.17.2011 7:46 AM PDT

I think Reach is bad but I'll keep playing it. It's more entertaining to me than GoW3 and MW3.

  • 12.17.2011 9:07 AM PDT
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Infection in Halo 3 isn't zombie killing; it's ethnic cleansing. Have you ever noticed that these "zombies" are just black Spartans?

Sigh.

Why is it that whenever someone posts a, "Halo: Reach is a terrible game and I'm here to tell you how terrible it is because some of you have the audacity to like it!" thread always comes off as a, "I'm desperately trying to prove to myself that Halo: Reach is as bad as I wish it was so I'm posting about it on the Internet so that maybe someone will agree with me and I can justify crying about it some more" thread?

One of life's great mysteries, I guess.

Remember how you used to play games before every home in the modern world came equipped with an Internet connection and a personal computer as standard and when you didn't like the game you were playing, you just put it back in its box and forgot about it or traded it back in to the shop where you bought it and it never crossed your mind again? Why don't you try that?

(O'course, if you're young enough to not know what life before the Internet was like...)

  • 12.17.2011 9:49 AM PDT
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Come with me to the dark side of the force. I'll drop the world on your f****** head.

GT: I Galactis I

They should make the TU changes universal like most games do, none of this one or two playlist bull-blam!-. I guess you wouldn't call it a TU if it's not affecting the whole game.

  • 12.17.2011 10:01 AM PDT

Because it is in some people's opinions

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  • 12.17.2011 10:09 AM PDT
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Posted by: Mysten
Why is it that whenever someone posts a, "Halo: Reach is a terrible game and I'm here to tell you how terrible it is because some of you have the audacity to like it!" thread always comes off as a, "I'm desperately trying to prove to myself that Halo: Reach is as bad as I wish it was so I'm posting about it on the Internet so that maybe someone will agree with me and I can justify crying about it some more" thread?

You come off as extremely upset. I didn't even go into the full detail of what make Reach bad because anyone should be able to spot the obvious flaws. You act like I'm the only person in the world who dislikes the game. Are you completely ignoring the fact that most of the longtime fans left the game completely and the population is terrible? Or how about all of the negative critisicm of the game?

  • 12.17.2011 2:25 PM PDT

Halo hipster OP is hipster.

  • 12.17.2011 2:27 PM PDT

Fair play

Posted by: daleje28079
there are two reasons why you think it sucks
1) you think its one shot one kill so you shoot once and stop and rage when they somehow kill you
2) you have no skill what so ever
so go back to call of duty


Treyarch's COD take more skill and balance than any Halo game.

A skilled induvidual, will alway beat a team of scrubs ( not the case in any Halo game ).

And Treyarch's COD actually have a balanced FFA playlist. Can't say the same for any Halo game, since they all have objectives, lolinfection and power weapons in it, that make the playlist 90% luck based.

FFA Arena, was the only balanced FFA playlist in Reach.

  • 12.17.2011 3:34 PM PDT

R.I.P. Halo 2 <33333333
Do not play halo much anymore. Barely ever come on here.


Posted by: Xmark120

Treyarch's COD take more skill and balance than any Halo game.

A skilled induvidual, will alway beat a team of scrubs ( not the case in any Halo game ).

And Treyarch's COD actually have a balanced FFA playlist. Can't say the same for any Halo game, since they all have objectives, lolinfection and power weapons in it, that make the playlist 90% luck based.

FFA Arena, was the only balanced FFA playlist in Reach.
Did I just read this? Wow. GTFO halo please.

  • 12.17.2011 3:37 PM PDT

Connor Morris

Because that's their opinion on it, not yours. Dumbass. Nice linked GT, just proves you probably play Halo alot.

  • 12.17.2011 3:37 PM PDT

Posted by: Xmark120
Treyarch's COD take more skill and balance than any Halo game.
What?

  • 12.17.2011 3:37 PM PDT
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Gray socks are best socks. White is second, black third. Every other sock color is simply horrible.

Because it isn't good.

  • 12.17.2011 3:50 PM PDT
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Infection in Halo 3 isn't zombie killing; it's ethnic cleansing. Have you ever noticed that these "zombies" are just black Spartans?

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Posted by: Mysten
Why is it that whenever someone posts a, "Halo: Reach is a terrible game and I'm here to tell you how terrible it is because some of you have the audacity to like it!" thread always comes off as a, "I'm desperately trying to prove to myself that Halo: Reach is as bad as I wish it was so I'm posting about it on the Internet so that maybe someone will agree with me and I can justify crying about it some more" thread?

You come off as extremely upset. I didn't even go into the full detail of what make Reach bad because anyone should be able to spot the obvious flaws. You act like I'm the only person in the world who dislikes the game. Are you completely ignoring the fact that most of the longtime fans left the game completely and the population is terrible? Or how about all of the negative critisicm of the game?

How strange.

If the flaws are so obvious to everyone, why do you still feel the need to come to Bungie.net and point them out? Especially if you apparently don't need to, what with them being so obvious to everyone. I guess you couldn't possibly be attention seeking. That sounds like something that an attention seeker certainly would never do.

I can totally understand that you thought I was completely flabbergasted by the fact that anyone dislikes Halo: Reach (on the Internet no less!), I guess my post needed closed captioning just in case the frustrated sigh and general not this again... tone weren't enough.

Most of the long-time fans? I'm a long-time fan. Several of my friends are long-time fans. We're as long-time as you can possibly get and we still all regularly play and enjoy Halo: Reach. As far as the long-time fans I actually care about are concerned, Halo: Reach is holding strong. Neither I nor anyone else should care about what some anonymous self-declared 'long-time fan' on the Internet thinks, but apparently you do.

I hear Louis Wu is still playing Halo: Reach.

That terrible population is a real game-killer, right? You know times are hard when you see the same person in matchmaking for a second time - nine months after you first saw them! Those other several hundred thousand active players are obviously just not enough to sustain the game if I can bump into the same guy twice in a single yearly period. Once you're out of the millions, you're doomed forever, right? It must have been some kind of space magic that kept Red Faction: Guerilla going on less than one hundred active, regular players for months on end.

Wouldn't it be really weird if Halo: Reach was one of a dozen high profile games with overlapping populations all competing for the attention of their core demographic at the same time?

As for criticism: subjective personal opinion on the Internet. How full do you think my care cup is right now? Empty? Hurray. You were right.

In case you were wondering (after my last post, I thought it best to make this clear as I can): long-time fans' choice of game they wish to play, the opinions of people on the Internet (did you know critics - the people who get paid to critique these kinds of things - thought Halo: Reach deserved a rating of 'universal acclaim?') and Xbox LIVE population charts do not make a game bad. They do work pretty well as smokescreens to hide behind when you don't trust enough in your own opinion to simply state: I dislike Halo: Reach and know it is enough.

[Edited on 12.17.2011 3:57 PM PST]

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