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Subject: The Good ol Days

My heart is my team, My soul is Halo, My goal is Pro, and BUNGIE is my stepping stone.

Can anyone recall a time where playing Halo was a fun activity with your friends? I'm having difficulty remembering such times! I love Halo from the bottom of my heart, I do. As a matter of fact it has been my dream to work on a Halo game since it first came out in 2001. But now I'm concerned for the series I love so much.

Recently Halo has been rubbed in the dirt in my opinion. In Halo 1, 2, and 3 I felt like an awesome super soldier that could handle anything. Now whenever I put in Halo Reach it makes me want to cry seeing a "Spartan" that can barley throw a grenade 5 feet in front of him and with his "enhanced" legs barley getting him 3 feet off the ground! Basically the Spartan 3's are the Halo 2 pistol: weaker and a cheap knock off of the original.

And no I am not ripping on it because I suck. It just isn't Halo to me. What makes Halo? The story is the correct answer. They can't throw a group of Spartans in the middle of a war give them some lines and occasionally show their face and expect us to care about them. Don't get me wrong parts of the story really pulled me in. Like when Jorge sacrificed himself for the sake of the planet. I thought to myself "That's what a Spartan would do".

But that's not what upsets me the most. No not the story or the crappy Spartans. It's the gameplay, I'm sick of getting armor locked the crap out of. Or a jetpack NooB stealing all of the power weapons. And has anyone else noticed that Halo is getting disturbingly like Call of Duty? All of the equipment that is used by players is the same as the equipment in Call of Duty. Think I'm wrong? Look around. Active Camo=Scrambler, Armor lock=Blast sheild, Hologram=Decoy. From what I hear Halo 4 will be even more like Call of Duty. With sprint being integrated into the controls and with loadouts being like custom classes and Spartan ops is really just Spec ops. Whats next, aim down sights?! I fear our beloved series is going in the wrong direction (Gameplay wise, I won't have a comment about Halo 4's story until I play it. I'm at least that fair.) Halo doesn't need to be "like" any other game. Halo just needs to stay Halo, that's why we fell in love with it in the first place. I don't want a Halo similar to Crysis, or Ghost Recon, and certainly not Call of Duty! Does anyone agree with me?

  • 05.31.2012 3:37 PM PDT

Posted by: IrIsHmAn04
no its legit, i used coordinates, set weapon timers the works.

Living in the past gets you nowhere bud. The devs have moved on, why can't you? Play Halo the new way or go play something else.

Harsh I know, but it's true.

[Edited on 05.31.2012 3:38 PM PDT]

  • 05.31.2012 3:38 PM PDT

While Halo is becoming more and more like Call of Duty, I would say that it's still head and shoulders above that franchise in terms of gameplay. It still has map control, a need for consistent, good aim, and the gameplay allows for the ability to pretty consistently outplay people who are worse than you.

CoD starts people off will all kinds of different guns, all sorts of different perks, people die extremely quickly, aim isn't really rewarded since there's so much bloom/spread/lag, killstreaks add randomness, and there really isn't need for map control so much as there is for camping one little area.

As different as Halo is now (in Reach), I still regularly have fun in it. I just hope its next 3 games keep that up...

  • 05.31.2012 3:59 PM PDT

Posted by: BarerSpartan134
I fear our beloved series is going in the wrong direction (Gameplay wise, I won't have a comment about Halo 4's story until I play it. I'm at least that fair.)
Speculation obscures perception; there has been too much hype for every Halo game, and it is never as expected. The guesses made by the community about each sequel have been misleading at best, so I have decided to withhold judgement until I have played it.

I don't know if it is possible for another game to match the magic of CE. The series has been going downhill since.

  • 05.31.2012 4:15 PM PDT