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Subject: 2 More Months Until Reach Dies


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Posted by: OMARRCHR
How will Halo Reach die when Halo 4 comes out? I don't see how the simple release of another game will automatically make the whole online population of Halo Reach disappear over night. Anyway, I don't have anything that I want to complete/accomplish before then.


Well, when you look at a game like Halo 3, the day Halo Reach released, the population was only around 10K. You have to consider that Halo 3 was a much more popular game than Reach.

The reason why some still play Halo 3 today is due to the fact that Reach was a disappointment to many.
what I want to know is why is reach so bad
nothing wrong with the maps or the gameplay

The gameplay is boring and repetitive, the maps are ripped straight from the campaign, and most of all the stupid bloom reticule. Also the drab,desaturated,and "gray" art style of Reach doesn't make it much to look at either. None of this was a problem in Halo 3. Bungie was really tired of Halo by the time Reach came around and you can tell.
Reach never reached (no pun intended) the popularity Halo 3 achieved. Also some times I go on Halo 3 for old times sake, and when I ask people why they are playing 3 is because they don't like Reach.

I don't mean to sound like a Halo 3 fanboy but it's the honest truth. I have high hopes for Halo 4.
I think reticule bloom is better than shooting and your aim goes all over the place like in cod

  • 09.13.2012 4:54 PM PDT
Subject: 3 More Months Until Reach Dies
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i agree,reach will never die...i like cod but i'm not a major fanboy and it will be just like mw3 and black ops people will still play both when cod bo 2 comes out.

  • 10.02.2012 6:50 PM PDT

Posted by: AC3overlord
i agree,reach will never die...i like cod but i'm not a major fanboy and it will be just like mw3 and black ops people will still play both when cod bo 2 comes out.

maybe not die ... but the number drop and the games keep getting more laggy. The better/more popular games dont suffer from this ... so even if you are a major reach fan, at some point the lag takes over and/or all your friends have moved on.

Death of a game happens way before MM players == 0.

  • 10.03.2012 6:07 AM PDT
Subject: 2 More Months Until Reach Dies

Posted by: AngryBrute1
Oh yeah, since somebody does not believe what YOU believe; that makes us vapid...
I cannot grasp that what you call "Something happened to nothing, and that nothing became something, and it was smaller than than a period."

It's two months later.
Reach is still alive as far as I see.

  • 10.03.2012 7:11 AM PDT

I intend to live forever, or die trying,

so far, so good.

After the release of Halo 4,

Hopefully 343 will overhaul REACH's Playlist.

As the popultaion will drop alot as most players will jump to Halo 4, like me.

But I still like to be able to jump on REACH from time to time, and Be able to get into a game quickly, like you still can with Halo 3.

  • 10.03.2012 4:57 PM PDT
Subject: 3 More Months Until Reach Dies

You got stuck by FalconStickr


Posted by: a Brutal Hunter
How can you kill what is already dead?

No Halo is dead my friend. I still play Halo 2 online and Halo CE and 3 is still going strong. I always go back to play the old games, mix it up a bit.

  • 10.03.2012 7:54 PM PDT

Herroh. U have reached teh BOOGIE LAND

1 more month!

  • 10.03.2012 7:59 PM PDT


Posted by: ChemicalEnvy
1 more month!


And you care why?

People said H3 was gonna die out with Reach.. It didn't.
It won't for Reach when H4 is out,

  • 10.03.2012 8:27 PM PDT
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1 more month until Reach is buried.

Good riddance!

  • 10.04.2012 12:51 AM PDT
Subject: 1 More Month Until Reach Dies

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1 More Month Until Reach Dies

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  • 10.04.2012 6:52 AM PDT

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They way I see it:

Upon Halo 4's release an influx of new players will be introduced to the Halo cannon and fiction, if the campaign is compelling enough, newer players will want to play through the past halo's to become 'up to speed'... so my guess is that in the short time after Halo 4's release we'll see a slight influx of players inhabiting Halo 3's and Reach's lobbies even if momentarily.

As for me... I would like to at least reach the rank of Reclaimer which will require me playing Reach sometime AFTER Halo 4 is out for some time.

  • 10.04.2012 7:08 AM PDT

Posted by: Carthurlane
They way I see it:

Upon Halo 4's release an influx of new players will be introduced to the Halo cannon and fiction, if the campaign is compelling enough, newer players will want to play through the past halo's to become 'up to speed'... so my guess is that in the short time after Halo 4's release we'll see a slight influx of players inhabiting Halo 3's and Reach's lobbies even if momentarily.


So they can get to know about the central character?
... who doesnt even appear in reach ?!?

Or because bungie skipped the cannon with reach?
... even had to release books rather than fix the game?!?

Hopefully people will go back through the actual halo games, the true games of the series. Mind you, given that you can now buy a trade-and-save version of reach for less than Halo 3 ... the poor saps may just be done in by their own cheapness.

Expect the reach online number to drop in a major way.
Wouldnt be shocked to see reach fall below H3 once H4 comes out.

  • 10.05.2012 3:35 AM PDT

Who are these people deciding what a true Halo game is they need a slap. Ive been killing the Halo games since the first, dont care about the books etc just the games themself.

Seems people in the forums think thier opinion of Halo turning into a CoD is true, when in fact is total BS. This game will be nothing like CoD, absolutely nothing like it. No matter what armor mods and other things chucked in this game will be wholely original, its took a successful idea and placed it on top of a already kick ass game, which in my opinion will only make it better.

Those crying at the way Halo is going are standing in the way of progress, they are the same people that -blam!- about EVERYTHING and ANYTHING just because they can, trying to fill the weak minded with truths that are not.

  • 10.05.2012 6:07 AM PDT
Subject: 3 More Months Until Reach Dies

win or lose your still # 1

I agree mixing it up is the best thing to do now a days. Dont get me wrong Reach is good but its Halo 3, 2 And Ce that really defined the franchise. I always been a dedicated halo guy and i always will be

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  • 10.05.2012 10:25 AM PDT
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If Reach is dead, then Halo 3 must be decomposed into dust.

  • 10.05.2012 6:23 PM PDT
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Posted by: a Brutal Hunter
How can you kill what is already dead?

  • 10.05.2012 6:53 PM PDT
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The tongue is like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.

I'm a mythic right now, probably not going to make it to inheritor...(when halo 4 comes out) but im still going to play halo reach.

  • 10.06.2012 6:50 AM PDT

I will probably still play Reach and 3 when Halo 4 comes out.

  • 10.06.2012 7:25 AM PDT
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I'm new to competitive Halo and Halo itself (Reach being my first video game ever actually). Message me if you want to play;

Reach: MLG, Arena, Doubles, BTB and customs.
Halo 3: Ranked MM and customs.

Also I have every Halo title and all of its DLC on the Xbox 360.
-Umpa

Get better. Always.

  • 10.06.2012 7:55 AM PDT
Subject: 3 More Months Until Reach Dies

I doubt they are going to make any huge changes since the E3 build.

  • 10.09.2012 4:29 PM PDT

Halo 3 isn't dead yet. I'm pretty sure people will cling on to reach for a while after 4 comes out either cause they want to tie up some loose ends, or think halo 4 is too "COD like".

  • 10.09.2012 4:33 PM PDT
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I'm new to competitive Halo and Halo itself (Reach being my first video game ever actually). Message me if you want to play;

Reach: MLG, Arena, Doubles, BTB and customs.
Halo 3: Ranked MM and customs.

Also I have every Halo title and all of its DLC on the Xbox 360.
-Umpa


Posted by: hellraiser5671
I doubt they are going to make any huge changes since the E3 build.


I would say they did.

  • 10.09.2012 5:31 PM PDT
Subject: 1 More Month Until Reach Dies

Don't worry, you're still your mom's favorite Bnet member.

>Assuming Reach is alive

  • 10.09.2012 5:52 PM PDT

Bungie hasn't done anything good since 2004

I just hope it's a LOT more like Halo 2. By far my favorite MP of them all and IMO their best effort. Halo 3 and Reach had terrible framerate issues and that motion blur... and were not crisp and responsive like Halo 2 was. Also the balancing and overall feel of Halo 2 was AAA and hasn't been reproduced since.

From the looks of it, 343 understood a lot of this and from what I've seen and heard, it is more like Halo 2 than any of the 360 games have been.

... and no MOTION BLUR OR CRAPPY FRAME RATE WOOOOOT!

  • 10.09.2012 9:03 PM PDT