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Posted by: Connor Kenway 99
Posted by: flamedude
Posted by: Connor Kenway 99
And its like I said(How many times have I posted this sentence?), even if it does that, you'll never have that awesome feeling you felt while playing halo 2 in its golden age. Why? Because nostalgia.
Hmmm..... I'm not wholly convinced by this. On one hand I found CEA to be an absolute farce, an absolute shameless money-grabbing joke by 343. On the other hand..... if a new Halo game were made that stripped the game back to its core Halo 1 roots then I would buy it and I would enjoy it. I imagine commercially doing something like this would be suicidal and I expect it to never happen.....
....but one can hope.
See what Im saying. If we're talking campaign only, CEA shouldve been great. They only touched up the graphics and didnt touch the classic gameplay it had. Dont like the new visuals or music? Then you can play with classic settings and graphics. But you didnt enjoy it as much as you did years ago did you?
I do see what you're saying yeah. Personally I loved playing CEA on the old settings........ but hated it intensely with the new bright super-happy-fun colour mode and the cutting of corners. My point was that I'd rather just go back to H1 and play it, there was no need for this horrid cash-in version. It just made me feel like an chump for forking out cash for a game I already own. If 343i re-release H2 under the same sort of standard as CEA then that would suck massively.
It's all about the execution I think. Shamelessly copying and selling it again just doesn't work for me, see Ragnarok and even Blackout, but at the same time I hate seeing Halo lose its focus and become..... blurred and full of gimmicks.
If a new Halo game was released with new graphics, a new storyline but with gameplay that was stripped of all the junk and pointless toys and gadgets and was brought back in line with H1 or even H2 then I would like it and I would be happy. I'm actually a graphic designer in real life and there is a basic design principle that I adhere to; Keep It Simple Stupid. KISS. That's what Halo was about when it was released and that's whats missing in H4.
Too much bloat, too much flashing lights and shiny things and no focus, no simple design.