- Mai R0f1C0pt3r
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"What's up baby, how are you doin'? I hate the sound of my own voice and I been invited here to distract my self from the fact that I wrote all of this garbage."
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Posted by: Mai R0f1C0pt3r
"HEY GUYS I THINK THE GAME DIED BECAUSE ITS TOO CASUAL"
And this makes sense because Reach tried to steal it's target audience from the Call of Duty and other popular casual shooting franchises with loadouts, slower movement, and the general casualising of the game. In doing so, it completely alienated the fanbase of the competitive gameplay that Halo already had before.
Actually, competitive gamers are rapidly becoming irrelevant to the industry.
Here's November console sales. For the past few years, PS3 has focused on being the machine for gamers (who for some reason don't go play PC) while Xbox has tried to appeal to the casual market through Kinect and more Xbox Live apps.
The sales speak for themselves. For all the whining rants on gaming sites about "MICROSOFT HAS BETRAYED THE GAMING INDUSTRY", they won.
Bungie appeals to casuals and they get a bunch of happy little buyers sitting on the couch with their friends playing a Halo game. Bungie appeals to the hardcore gamers? It's not good enough. Be honest. Bungie could never satisfy hardcore gamers. No game company ever could. They're too whiny, fickle, and arrogant. They want their own individual game catered specifically to them, and because it's what they want that's what everyone must want.
But Bungie isn't a total sellout. They tried to meet their old fans halfway. And what happens? This miserable forum whines and the casual market going to Call of Duty. They tried to appease people who could never be appeased.
And if Bungie "alienated the fanbase" with Reach with its gameplay changes, why didn't they go play Halo 3? Xbox Live is still active for it, and according to this forum it is a golden gaming god. But the masses flocked to Call of Duty. Face it. They won and they've been winning for the past few years by appealing to more people.
[Edited on 12.25.2011 2:55 PM PST]