re: Declining Interest in Halo Series

I actually think most Halos are pretty bland, and even playing them all, I always preferred PC FPSs to the Halo games. However, 5 looks alright, if not a little too much like Destiny.

I probably wouldn't have gotten anyways but after the MCC clusterfrick (idc whose fault it was) I won't be purchasing it unless something changes drastically

Also, part of the reason is that I REALLY don't like halo 4s campaign and the multiplayer wasn't much better

The bottom line is the master chief story should've ended after 3 and if they wanted to keep making games to make money then they should've created another story about a different Spartan or whatever, not milk the same character dry

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This thread only having 1.5 pages of responses before dying is indicative of the slow death Halo is undergoing. It's swiftly going from the greatest game franchise ever developed, to a laughing stock.

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Halo 2 was one of the most fun, if not the most fun game I've ever played. Campaign and Multiplayer were both just fantastic.

Very disappointed with all the unnecessary add ons they've put into it. Just doesn't feel like Halo anymore

Halo taught me 2 things:

-an 8 year old kid can dominate me
-verbal insults

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the greatest game franchise ever developed

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I say that mainly based on 2 things:

A) Multiplayer Gameplay

B) Multiplayer Matchmaking System.

They completely revolutionized the gaming industry in both of those respects. What's crazy is the entire system and gameplay setup was basically the brainchild of one guy.

The algorithm they built to handle matchmaking was unlike anything ever seen before. With MCC coming out a decade later, you would think it could work better. We saw how that worked out. H2 worked from day one flawlessly. They revolutionized the industry. Nothing else was even close. CoD4 didn't come out till 2007, and it was the only franchise that could even slightly compete from a multi player standpoint in that decade.

I have truly enjoyed many games. Fallout 3/NV, Oblivion, Mario 64, Goldeneye, Rogue Squadron, Cod 4(Zee best cuz Ghillie), Mass Effect, Skyrim, GoW, WoW, Fable 123, the list goes on and on.....and on and on.....and on and on....you get the idea.

I have played hundreds, maybe thousands of games.

Nothing captured me like Halo 2. If you took every game I just listed, and added up my total playing time. It would be less than H2 by itself. Well, it might be tied.

I got goosebumps the other day when I played the campaign on MCC for the first time. It literally felt like coming home. My experience is not unique. I know dozens of guys, just among my circle of friends, who feel the same way. I have friends who I have never met in person, but I almost invited to my wedding in 2008, who I met on H2. I even remember the map I met the first guy, Ivory Tower in the summer of 2005.

H2 wasn't just a game, it was truly special. It was my Star Wars, E.T., and Jurrasic Park.

The guys who don't understand that either:

Never played it, and are basing their opinion off the crappy games that followed H3.

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They sucked so completely hard they couldn't make it to lvl 15.

It was the greatest game on the planet, and now it's on life support.

The matchmaking system that Bungie developed for Halo was a huge game changer in the video game industry. It became the backbone of Xbox Live.

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It became the backbone of Xbox Live.

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Yes it did, there were a lot of people at the time who thought Xbox live would have taken 5-7 years longer to really get rolling without H2.

H2 was the model for everything that came after it, and it was basically designed by one man in a very short period of time.

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Yeah you didn't touch the Halo 5 beta did you?

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Nope.


I read the exacting description of gameplay from your link, and I've seen video of multiplayer matches.

Until they get rid of firing "bloom" in weapons like the sniper and br, and do away with Sprint and other similar "extra" features. I will not believe anything other than they are attempting to equalize the playing field. There was no precedent to suddenly add anything like either of those things. For another example look back at what I said about the new in game callout system. It's literally having the game do the work.

Instead of using an extra to enhance a game. For example, I find Advanced Warfare's exo movement system extremely intuitive, and I am enjoying it more than any CoD since 4. They are using extras simply for the sake of extras. Outside of wanting a Sprint option on the bigger maps, I never heard one decent player mention wanting anything beyond the basic movement in the first 3 games.

My whole point is that while it may sell well, it has a rapidly declining fan base. I don't think you can disagree with that. It will continue to decline until they can reproduce the old magic. Something I think can only come from following the first three games. If my wife didn't absolutely loathe video games, the only thing that would make me want to buy an Xbone is the MCC, or if they had made multiplayer in H5 like H2/3's. Well, mayyyybe Fallout 4. I haz my pc for that though.


Bungie ahould have done what the innernets thoughts they were going to do. Not made Reach, and turned Masterchief into Marathon. Instead they made H:Wars(why?) and Reach, then sold their baby when both games flopped. So they could go make Destiny, another game that didn't reach the hype.

They focused more on MP than they did SP. I still wanted the quantity and quality of Halo.