Posted by: Azrael203
its like this with any game you play that has multiplayer or any game in general for that matter. not every one will be happy with the way a game is made. there will always be someone that hates something about a game.
The difference is that with Halo 2 or Halo 3, most people disliked very few aspects of the game, and those aspects people didn't like were usually very minor and easy to put up with, while in Halo Reach most people seem to dislike very many aspects of the game, and they're a lot harder to deal with and a lot more frustrating.
Posted by: Azrael203
as people have posted before me, its like COD or even better Madden. they release the same game every year with hardly any changes. and people still buy the game cuz they go onto the forums and complain about how they want this removed or that to be nerfed or add something to the game. and they get their expectations too high cuz they think that their 1 post is going to make a difference and when they get the game and see that hardly anything changed especially the way they wanted it, they complain even more about it.
its a never ending cycle because these same people keep on buying the next installment with this delusion that "hey they might have put it in this one" or they buy the next game and keep it hoping that their suggestion might make it in the game via DLC or TU.
The difference is that while CoD and Madden might not be making much progress (or maybe any progress at all), they aren't digressing in progress like Halo Reach digressed from the progress of the other Halo games. In Halo Reach, bungie didn't just add in terrible changes, they took out things that made Halo great and replaced them with crap, particularly in the multiplayer. I can only write from experience, but I don't think anybody really expects CoD to change; I know none of my friends or I do. And there's a lot of easier ways to find out if a game has changed, one is called YouTube. The reason people keep buying it is because it's the newest Call of Duty, everybody's gonna be playing it, and most people enjoy playing it. Generally I enjoy playing Halo Reach, but I don't enjoy it nearly as much as I enjoyed playing Halo 2 or even 3, and that seems to be the consensus.
Posted by: Azrael203
fact of the matter is, no one will ever be happy with a game no matter what it is. all we have to do is just tough it out and learn how to adapt to whatever changed and if not, take it back and go to another game.
Wrong. I was happy with Halo 2. I had so much fun with that game. I'd even be good with Halo 3. The only reasons I don't play those over Reach is because 2 can't be played online anymore and none of my friends have 3 anymore, but they do have and play Reach, so I have adapted. Humans adapt, but they also change things for their own good. You have internet; I'm assuming you live in a house or apartment or something, right? I seriously doubt you hunt or grow everything you eat. That's because humans got tired of adapting, they decided they wanted to change the world they lived in and make a better, easier life for themselves. Welcome to civilization. Now all I want is a great, fun video game like Halo 2 to waste my time on. If you can't honestly see why saying "adapt" isn't a valid argument under these circumstances, then you're not intelligent enough to debate with.