Posted by: ajw34307
Posted by: Sir Yancelot
no i am not.
Er... you are. You're saying that a specific group of people are superior and should have an absolute voice in the way the game should be made while segregating the others that disagree.
i understand that this is how games should be made. i have played soccer my entire life and i know how soccer should be played if it were played in a video game. i know i could make a more fluent soccer game than some ballerina. its called experience. these more competitive players have a good idea as to what system would create an overall good gaming environment.
This is the worst analogy ever. You assume that someone who spends their whole life dedicated to something means that they're right? Wake up and smell the bacon - people dedicate their whole lives to things like religion and particular beliefs. Does this make them right? No. Sir Fred Hoyle was a worldwide acclaimed scientist who formed the steady-state theory but was disproved by the evidence of the Big Bang Theory and yet remained fiercely impervious to the evidence up until his death.
My point is, just because someone or a group of people are experienced in a particular field, that does not make them right about everything concerning it. I don't know if you'd noticed but 343i is comprised of industry individuals from a wide range of other gaming studios and backgrounds, they're the EXPERTS because they're the ones that have been actually working on video games for years and years. Their vision evidently isn't aligned with yours, going by the logic you've presented this makes them right.
It doesn't. That's their vision of what they want the game to be like, there will always be an audience that enjoys it and an audience that doesn't.
you continue to try and flip everything i say on its head.. religion and science is a little more grey than the mechanics of the halo series..
--look at bloom. bad mechanic, slows gameplay, shortens skill gap, increases randomness.
--armor abilities. alters gameplay, distorts map control, increases randomness.
--movement speed slowed. well, slower gameplay.
--no skill based rank system, people quit without facing an actual punishment
clearly we arent going to see eye to eye on this one, just like the majority of the community out there. you are entitled to your own opinion as i am to my own.
i personally trust a professional halo player's ideas as to what would make halo a better game compared to some kid who sits around and plays living dead all day. there needs to be a balance between competitive and casual players.