Posted by: Will Nightagent
Halo 1, 2, and 3 are the best. I personally played 1, and 3 the most, but the trilogy is amazing. I never played Reach, I'm guessing it might be good considering it was made by Bungie, but I don't know. Halo 4 simply seems too fast paced, and COD like to me. Halo 1, 2, and 3 are pure Halo. That's what I freaking love about them. Halo will never be the same, but at least the trilogy will live on forever.
As far as features halo 4 is like cod, but the gameplay is very different. It feels different than any other halo game for sure, but I'd say it feels closest to Shadowrun (except without the one life thing). They even have an extraction gametype in shadowrun as well as abilities like health tree (regen field), glider (jetpack), and enhanced vision (promethean vision). Shadowrun has a limited amount of bloom and crouch to increase accuracy. Halo 4 is best described as a balanced Shadowrun with less emphasis on class. Everything that Halo 4 has done to change halo has went directly in the direction of games like Call of Duty, Shadowrun, and Crisis.
It's just pathetic that everyone said it feels just like Halo 2 and 3. Sure forerunner structures make it look more like those games, but it plays closest to Reach. The hit detection is worse than any call of duty game. I've been shot through walls after I was around them and the killcam was so broken it wouldn't even show them aiming at me. It would say their redicule is red, but they weren't on target and were shooting me after I walk past a wall. That's just horrid lag and it's impossible to tell connection because 343i hides it from the back button scoreboard. You can only see it at the beginning and end of game so I have no idea what is going on. No call of duty has ever played this inconsistent for me in terms of hit detection and that's saying something. Sprint is worse in here than in Reach and some of the escapes people pull off are flat our ridiculous. Bait and switch is abused like hell and sometimes your forced into situations you can't escape because of spawn on X. It's just like Reach in that power weapons determine most of the outcome, and even worse because Ordinance encourages camping. There is no map flow and most of the maps are bad making you play the same ones over and over again. I don't generally sell my games so I will likely just adapt to this broken gameplay.
343i didn't take the series in a new direction. They continued the direction that Reach went in and just put it on steroids. The truth is Halo will never be the same. Halo 4 is likely my last halo game. Long live Halo 3.
[Edited on 11.23.2012 3:56 PM PST]