Believe me, if there is something I don't like, I complain and whine about it... Reach--for instance--was accused of not being canon casue of how poorly it aligned with TFoR, and that it broke multiplayer with Armor Lock. I complained about of both those things, and a handful more. ODST was accused of being no more than an expansion, a lazy reskin of Halo 3. I complained about the gameplay being far to similar to Halo 3, enough so that I never could look past how similarily capable an ODST was to a Spartan. I pettily whined about how much potential Sadies story was wasted by not being interwoven with the main thread, and how lazily slapped on it felt no matter how good it was on its own, that it wasted its bare existance by not being connected to [b]Second Sunrise Over New Mombassa![/b] I went on and on about how boring and flat (literally) the open-world city was, and that I couldn't--for all that is holy--grasp why Bungie decieded to add half a dozen watered down [i]classic[/i], linear Halo levels into the narrative, after having decided that they didn't want to tell the story in a convetional way. At least allow the player to find the clues in any order, and that the way the story would supported it. I felt that the entire game was compromise; an incredibly promising game that contained everything needed to live up to its potential, yet barely managed to convay what it strived towards cause of how it was put together. I even -blamed!- about how unpolished the otherwise fantastic Halo 2 was. I cursed Bungie for replacing the e3 demo New Mombasa with -ugh!- Cried over how broken the lunge was in Halo 3, and that Big Team Battle in Matchmaking was allowed to be ruined by self-righteous, expoiting, boredoms that played to [i]dominate[/i]. [i]Adapt[/i].. *facepalm* The thing about Halo 4 though, is that not only have I got more to complain about than previously, [b]I find nearly nothing to praise[/b]. As for the consensus, it seems to be the same; lots and lots of different, game-covering complaints, and little to no praise (hell, I saw a lot more praise for FUD). But whatevs right? Some like it, some don't. [b]Let the praisers praise, and the haters hate![/b] Newton's Law... [Edited on 12.27.2012 2:43 PM PST]