The fan base of Halo has gone from good to terrible since Halo 2 came out. 343i cannot win by doing anything, and people think Halo 4 was a [b]bad game.[/b] If Halo 4 is a bad game in your opinion, then you've only played a handful of games in your short lifetime as a gamer. I'd also put money on all those games having the words Halo or Call of Duty in the title...

I've been boycotting Halo 4 for months now. Make sure to play Halo 3 on the 7th and 8th as well.

Why is it that I'm the only one who hasn't a -blam!-ing clue why they chose a [i][B]MONDAY?![/B][/i] I'll be playing on the weekend. But school n' stuff? Whoever planned this isn't swift.

Yeah, waste our time on a different Halo game. That'll show 'em!

Why is it I'm the only person who doesn't have any problem with the game?

Send this message to all your friends: Message to all friends: April 7th is Halo 3 day. So Make sure to get on Halo 3 on Sunday. Also there is a boycott Halo 4 on April 8th. Feel free to play Halo 3 on that day as well. Send this to all your friends. Thanks.

The first 33 minutes are spot on. Holmes talks about the campaign, story and universe in a lot of detail and the inspiration in some of the writing becomes very apparent. At the time that Halo 4 was being written, Holmes' mother was suffering from dementia which he states was a really significant influence on how Cortana was handled and in truly emphasising the tragedy. There were apparently times during development where some of the writers wanted this particular aspect of the story with Cortana's rampancy taken out, but Holmes pushed for it because he was motivated by events happening to him in real life. To me, this adds even more of a humanising element to the story between John and Cortana. Another thing I was glad to see was that he acknowledged some of the things that fell short. For example, and perhaps most contentious to many players, the issue of connecting some of the additional fiction to the main game. While they did a stellar job of translating the depth, development and story of the novels to the game, they fell short in making it apparent to the player - more specifically, the 'average Joe' player who is unfamiliar with the expanded universe. The Terminals were apparently removed from the main game because of disk space issues which Holmes draws attention to, this was somewhat annoying to me and I'm glad that they recognised this as a big issue. So about 60% of the panel was great. Holmes did really well in articulating the challenge that 343 faced in making Halo 4's story and the inspiration behind it. But then, as has been discussed, when the topic of multiplayer came up everything fell to pieces... Their multiplayer team has gone bat-shit retarded. Binding the campaign and multiplayer audience has frankly been a step backwards for Halo. No longer can we play as Elites, a shot in the foot for themselves but an even worse shot in the foot for people who make machinimas. Do they not understand that the campaign essentially prepares you for the multiplayer? In campaign, you learn all the critical faculties of the game and historically the campaign audience has absolutely dominated the higher difficulties. Anyone who has passed Halo 2 on Heroic or Legendary is pretty much guarunteed to be an exceptionally good player online. There has never been a "steep learning curve" to Halo's multiplayer. Everyone starts equal, work as a team to secure vital areas of the map and cover choke points with the weapons provided, minimise your deaths, win the game. This is not a "steep learning curve", this is the formula that arena shooters have been using for decades. This seems like a justification for pandering to new audiences while alienating the old, they seem to think that Halo's multiplayer ISN'T accessible to people who play the campaign... I am an avid campaign player, it's what I play Halo for, and I like to think I'm pretty decent at Halo's multiplayer, even a pretty good one back in the Halo 2/3 days. Their mentality right now in making Halo "easier to succeed at" pretty much sums up my hatred for the direction the majority of the competitive FPS genre. I would link you to John Gibson, the President of Tripwire Active, who says that “Call of Duty has almost ruined a generation of shooter players”. This I can absolutely agree with because since 2007 when the first Modern Warfare came out as the first 'Halo-killer' title (as any game which competed with Halo was known back in the day) other shooters began emulating the COD 'arcade' gameplay formula while Halo stood vigilant at its roots. This has changed, the Halo multiplayer has embraced this new style of formula and it just doesn't fit the mould. Do I still enjoy playing Halo 4's multiplayer? Yes. I think it's still fun to play and can enjoy the experience it offers. Do I approve of the mentality of 343's multiplayer team and the direction they've taken? [i]Certainly -blam!-ing not.[/i]

Yeah, i´m angry that i bought the limited edition because i haven´t even download the new DLC´s and the fact that everything else in the LE was garbage make me sadface :(

I enjoy the game. Get mad.

Well that boycot sure is easy, count me in. Besides a couple of action sack games I haven't touched Halo 4 in a while. And I don't plan on touching it anytime soon. Edit: I say we all go play Halo 3 on that instead of Halo 4.