I loved Reach, love Reach. A lot of people hate it as they prefer Trueskill ranking and not a progression system, Armour Lock and loadouts, Bungie did -blam!- up with the lore. I overlooked all this as I enjoyed every minute, Campaign, MP & firefight. Daily and weekly challenges had me coming back for more. Even those that hate Reach cannot deny it had the best customs and forge. -blam!- all the haters, Reach and Halo 4 are not as bad as D**** in hindsight and they had much lower budgets. [spoiler]Yes I know Bungie didn't make Halo 4.[/spoiler]

Player population is irrelevant to the problems the game had. Just because people don't play it anymore, doesn't mean it voids it of its flaws.

I never said that it did. Personally, all of these "issues" with the game really are minor. I don't think I'll ever understand just how angry armor lock makes people. The argument of "It slows down the game/people shouldn't have easy invincibility" kind of falls apart when you can ignore it, and there was easy invincibility in Halo 3 as well. Overshield constant charge up when you pick it up, if you got shot it just kept charging. How is that not something people bitched about? I also like how within minutes two different people posted similar responses to me.

Because you have to fight for overshields, and you have to wait for it to respawn on the map?

True. But it's worse than armor lock in a sense, as once you've picked it up, until it finishes charging, you're practically unkillable. And fully capable of shooting at and killing other players. Now I know trying to come up with examples of how unfair that is would be easily debunkable, so I won't bother, but you can see how that can cause problems right? What baffles me is how a much more tame version of that is bitched over, but not that.