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Posted by: Joris Kyker
Halo 4 was, without doubt, not only the worst halo game, but one of the worst games I've ever had my displeasure of playing. Nothing about this game reminds me of a halo game. You could swap all the main characters with generic ones slap a different name on it and call it Space Spartan 4 and watch the horrible reviews roll in. (If you had the time.)
I know some of you may disagree with me, but that is only because you have been fooled by the many reviews that tell you about the great story and epic engaging gameplay. I can assure you neither of these things exist in halo 4 and neither does any of the other things you've read.
Halo 4's reviews were bought. That may sound stupid to you but it is the only logical conclusion I can come to as to why this game has received such regard.
You may be thinking " no ive played halo 4 and it is not bad at all!" Well my dear friend its not your fault, but you are wrong; this is a bad game to its core.
Halo 4 is as if a a 6 year old boy described halo over the phone to a team of very talented artists and designers and these people were contractually obligated to put what ever this six hear old said in the game.
The Story: Plastic
The Graphics: Plastic
The Gameplay: Reach covered in plastic
There is a positive side to this piece of -blam!-: Never before has a game made me appriciate the amazing works of art that is the bungie made halo series and I cannot wait for Destiny and whatever else will be made by Bungie.
I could rant more but I'm too tired and no one really cares about my opinion anyway.
Your subject line is the reason I clicked on this post as I have to agree with you there.
However, I ain't going to as far as to say I hate Halo 4. Like most have said, it has been out only a week and I will continue to play, but my first impression was less than enthusiastic. It isn't one glaring issue or anything, but rather a lot of little things.
It started with the simply bootup screen. The Halo 4 emblem simply looked "cheap" (for a lack of better term).
I have yet to finish playing through the campaign, but as someone who hasn't read the books yet, the story is hard to follow. I have mostly played multiplayer and match making simply isn't as enjoyable.
I don't know how to describe it, but unless you are right on top of the person you are shooting it is almost impossible to tell where you are hitting them at. I call it "tunnel vision" as they seem to be far off when that isn't the case.
I am by no stretch of the imagination ready for MLG play, and it is way to easy for those caliber of players to kill me. I can hold my own against an average player, and that has been the case in all the halo games. It just seems I paired up with a better player/team more often. (I realize this could be a case of the game being "young" and the skill seperation hasn't worked iteself out yet.)
I don't think I really have to go into detail about the confusing menus and how to find things, as I haven't heard a lot of positive comments about that anyway.
So far spartan Ops hasn't impressed me.
As someone who prefers to snipe and shoot from a distance the slight delay on the zoon is annoying.
Without sprint it feels like a faced paced walk.
And the biggest complaint is that it feels like COD with a Halo label. There is a reason I don't prefer COD.
Again this may be a case of it's just new, but when spawning it takes longer to orient yourself on where you are with the map. I will say I do like how the "power weapons" spawn in differen locations so as to keep someone from camping the rocket spawn.
There is a new COD game just about every year. It seems they are more interested in rolling out more games. Quantity over Quality. I fear, as a subsidy of Microsoft, 343 will do that same as they are more concerned with the bottom line. I'd venture to guess that is why Bungie wanted to be independent again, as they could make/produce the games as they see fit. And they tend to put more spit and polish on it, in my opinion.
As most have said, it is all a mater of opinion. I plan to continue to play the game, but I think I was just expecting more from it. With that said, so far it has been a little underwhelming.