Link is to a Google Forms survey. It's a little on the long side, and is divided into General Questions, Reach Specific Questions, Hypothetical Questions, and Competitive Questions.
Basically, I'm trying to discern at what point in time people felt that Halo started to stray away from what they would consider the core formula. I've already done some basic research, and it seems like people feel the following ways about the jump from Halo 2 to Halo 3:
* People preferred Halo 2 maps to Halo 3 maps
* People preferred Halo 2 hitscan UNSC weapons to Halo 3 projectile UNSC weapons
* People appreciated the button glitches in Halo 2 and how they raised the skill gap
* People preferred Halo 2's ranking system
As for the move from Halo 3 to Reach, it would seem that:
* People disliked the implementation of Bloom
* People disliked loadouts being a core feature outside of custom games and Invasion
* People disliked Armor Lock an extreme amount
* People disliked all players starting with Armor Abilities
* People disliked the Arena ranking system
Now what I'm trying to do is figure out how accurate these statements are in terms of the current population of Gaming, and also at what extent they are willing to leave the "Classic" Halo formula if the deviations are only for custom or social games, and do not affect ranked or competitive.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give me!
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A Halo game where equipment like Halo 3 had is in a map as well as armor abilities like Reach. [spoiler]Yes please.[/spoiler]
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*puts on "I voted* sticker.*
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This took me back... Thank you for that
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Reach was a lot of fun, but classic halo ended with halo 3.
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Reach is the best Halo.
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Longest title ever...
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All set! Halo mp(pvp) will always mean balanced start/arena shooter. This puts reach and h4 into cod country. H5 even with the addition of sprint, dash-boost, and clamber, it's still the most balanced PvP out there and a return to the h2,h3 formula.
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Halo 5 is one of the best pvp FPS games I’ve ever played. Balance is fair, connection is amazing, the abilities are awesome, and I like the maps. I never really liked halo that much, I’m also pretty bad at it, but halo 5 is easily my favorite pvp halo game. I’m really excited for 6
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I liked Halo Reach and Halo 4 better than Halo 3.
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Hopefully you're not looking for objectivity, because everybody's just going to answer Halo 2 for every question regardless of its glaring flaws. It's FF7 logic.
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Like this comment for me to do it tomorrow.
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Reach isn't an "original" halo to me, it's exactly what started the BS that halo is going through when it comes to "modernization" as some would like to think. I took the pool.
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I like surveys. I like Halo. I will do.
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I never preferred one Halo's maps over another's, I can't remember what weapons I used most or the ranking system since I never really liked 2 and 3's multiplayer. I didn't mind loadouts or armor abilities and I had worked out how to best counter/use armor lock.