Wrong, Halo reach is the worst halo.

When Cortana got all life size and touched chief. After that she says "I've always wanted to do that" that right there ruined the entire series for me. Just awful

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The frame rates drop like I'm running DayZ maxed on a 2001 toshiba. The graphics might look better, which they absolutely don't (aliasing, do you have eyes?), but it's like nobody has heard of optimization. One grenade goes off and you're down to 3-5 FPS. Oh, and their forge improvements were amazing, but light generation times killed it, and various factors somehow sapped the game of the fun... Ever try to play custom lobbies in H4? It's God awful. Edit: Let's not forget the terrible net-code... Online experience was 9 times out of 10 disconnect/reconnect in a game, and co-op was unplayable. Just such a shit game, it makes me cringe. Campaign was good, though. Oh, except for the cookie-cutter good guy/bad guy military characters... My god, Rio was such a -blam!-ing JOKE. Nobody like that ends up at the helm of the largest -blam!-ing military ship to date. So stupid. OH, and what about that worthless final mission that could have been such a badass boss fight like H2, but ended up being a stupid cut scene LOL.

Ok, I'm going to give you the run-down of why I do not like it. It is mostly just my opinion, but you did ask: [quote]Why is Halo 4 the "worst Halo?"[/quote] So I'll do my best to answer. Campaign: I have always been a huge fan of Halo's campaign, so let's start here. Many have said that Halo 4's campaign was better than the previous ones, for various reasons, but most say that it is because it has a better story. Did it really have a "better story"? Not to me it didn't. Good stories have good characters to drive them. Halo 4's characters were annoying. John uncharacteristically talked more than usual, but it paled in comparison to how much Cortana droned on and on. You see, if you want your story to grip people, you need the audience to care about the characters involved. I did not care about Cortana. I did not care that she died. I did not care about their relationship. It was creepy, and over-done. And how about those supporting characters? They were some of the most cookie-cutter cliches I have ever seen. The old salty captain is a jerk because he's a jerk. He acts in a way that no rational person would act, simply because the script says he must. Then there is Lasky and Palmer. They are so stereotypical, that it is laughable. They are like little angels. The story gave me no reason to root for the good guys. They were the good guys because they were the good guys. That brings us, of course, to the antagonist, the Diadact. He's just as uninspired as the supporting characters. He is tall, and dark, and edgy, and boring as heck. The overall plot was decent, I suppose. It didn't really suck me in all that much though. I must say, too, the Halo 4 campaign looks terrible. The Forerunner structures look over-polished, and the Elites and Grunts look like ridiculous plump lizards. The Promethean enemies look impractical. But how does the campaign actually play out? Well, to me, it's extremely boring. The older games, especially Halo 3, were a blast to just load up a level and play it through for fun. Halo 4 felt like a chore. It was a drag to shoot the enemies, especially the Prometheans. The new weapons looked cute and shiny, but it didn't make up for the lackluster gameplay. And no duel-wielding to boot. Some of my peeves are: How impractical the Prometheans are; the excessive button pushing; the ability to sprint but only for a short distance; bloom; the lack of open space; and of course, the terrible sound effects. Seriously. Whoever did the sound effects should be fired. Same goes for Halo CE Anniversary. Everything is [i]clickity clack, clackity click, click click bzzzzzzzzzzzzzt[/i]. So much clicking. And the Warthogs, too. They sound like they're in the wrong gear or something. Now, I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, [i]Wow, nitpick much?[/i] My point is, none of these things by themselves make the game bad, but when they are all combined, it starts to wear on you. For me, the Halo 4 campaign was not an enjoyable experience. I played it on Normal with my bro on split-screen the first run-through, then Legendary with two other people to get the multiplayer armor. Both times, after I was finished, I said, "I'm never playing [i]that[/i] again." I did however, hope that maybe it would be more fun if I just played by myself. So I played it one last time by myself, and immediately regretted the waste of time. It was not fun. It was unoriginal, and a chore to beat each level. Multiplayer: Halo 4's multiplayer is where it really shines as the worst Halo game. Very quickly, I realized that the only fun gamemode was SWAT, and even that wasn't very fun. Why? 1. Sprint. This one aspect completely ruins everything that Halo had going for it. It completely changes what once was an arena shooter into an ADHD fest where every player runs to the center of the map. 2. Ordnance. This was arguably an even worse addition than sprint, but I put it at #2 instead of #1 because at least it wasn't in [i]every single gamemode[/i]. Halo used to be about controlling choke points and controlling high ground. Ordnance changed everything. You could get the best weapons in the game by sitting in the spawn with a DMR. Camping was out the roof in Halo 4. 3. Loadouts. This was such a bad idea. I have no idea who authorized it. At least they settled the age-old argument of whether Halo or CoD was better by just flat out saying, "We're copying CoD, because it's clearly superior." Shut up, 343, CoD is not better than Halo. Those are the biggest reasons. Some others are: Weak vehicles (made even weaker by the fact that you could spawn with a plasma pistol) Bloom (again) Flinch Awful maps (especially the forge maps, the framerate on those got as low as 12-15 sometimes. eesh) Less grenades Armor abilities Perks (yet another CoD rip-off) And lastly, I think it is worth mentioning that the armor is ugly. Seriously ugly. Who designed those atrocities? Blech. Custom games and forge: Custom games and forge suffer from some of the same problems that plague online multiplayer, so I won't regurgitate them. There are, however some things that make forge an enormous headache. But first, while I'm here, let me tell you the few things that I do like about Halo 4's customs over Halo Reach. 1. New forge tools. Magnets is one of the biggest, those are really helpful when creating maps. Duplication is amazing as well. 2. Some new pieces are really neat. Pipes, dominion pieces, and some other stuff. 3. The railgun and sticky detonator make for some awesome minigames. I guess that's about it. They took a step forward in Halo 4, but then took two steps back. For example, they took away precision editing and the vanilla forge maps were puny. To be fair though, they did add Forge Island later, which was nice and roomy. Some have said that the dynamic lighting was a neat feature, and that the detailed pieces are too; and I used to think the same thing. Soon I realized, however, that Halo 4's forge has serious framerate issues, and those cute graphical "enhancements" do not help. Then of course, there are the problems with custom games themselves. The biggest problem, of course, is the lack of game options. Infection was removed, and replaced with Flood, which means that a lot of great classics were instantly out of the question. You could not remove sprint, which was frustrating. Custom powerups were gone. The list goes on and on. There were just less options. Also, a side effect of loadouts and ordnance made every weapon less situational, and less varied. All weapons now fit into one of three categories: useless sidearm, primary, or insanely overpowered. Also, forge was unbelievably buggy. I lost no less than five maps I had made due to a save overwrite glitch. Spartan Ops: As a replacement for the excellent firefight, we got Spartan Ops. Spartan Ops was a joke. I never beat all the levels. I was bored out of my mind. You couldn't lose! And the dialogue was terrible. "Eggheadseggheadseggheadseggheadseggheadseggheads..." I knew that Palmer was an annoying character just from playing the campaign, but [i]wow[/i] did I hate her guts in Spartan Ops. Her vendetta against Halsey was just ridiculous. Okay. That's all I have to say. You can post "That's just your opinion, man!" or "Holy wall of text, Batman!" or whatever you want. You did ask an honest question, though, and I answered as honestly as I could. It's all just my opinion. Oh, one last thing though. The soundtrack sucks.

Cuz 343 breaks canoes that Bungie worked so hard to make.