THATS MY COOL MAN I CAN'T TAKE IT OFF!
Posted by: P3P5I
What do you say when a publisher says Halo Reach broke sales records against all past halo games? What do you say when the publisher shows you the Xbox live charts showing 2 immensely casualized games as the most popular games on the Xbox? How do you reconcile that obviously safe and very profitable game development decision to cater to casuals?
Easy. I would say that Reach profited off the success of its predecessors. I would say there are a ton of people who bought the game assuming that Bungie could do no wrong and Reach would be just as much a Halo game as any other, and later let it collect dust on their shelves when it hit them that Bungie dropped the ball and threw away most of what made their franchise successful. I would say that 4/5 of a once-massive online population no longer plays Halo because of Reach. I would say that, right now, Halo 4's in trouble, thanks to Reach demolishing the Halo hype and 343 taking Reach's mistakes even further.
When people put a Halo game into their disc tray, they want to play Halo. They don't want to play a crappy Shadowrun knockoff, or a crappy CoD knockoff (which is what Halo 4's shaping up to be). I don't care how immensely casualized the top titles currently are, if Halo Reach was a properly made Halo game, it would be right there at the top.
[Edited on 03.12.2012 1:56 PM PDT]