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3/28/2016 2:17:47 AM
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What happened to halo?
So many people have been asking this question, and i just recently found this video and i think it's a great explanation! Tbh i will always be a halo fan, just not as big of one as i was back when Bungie™ had it :3
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Nothing happened to Halo. It's still the best franchise ever imo and I'm not gonna spend all my time whining and complaining because "Halo is not how it used to be". Like your entitled to not like it but Jesus everyone in the Halo community needs to stop whining about stuff that will never happen. If you were a true fan of Halo you would love it for what it is and admire it's goods rather than its bads. Those kinds of people are the people that give the community a bad name. Yes I can admit 343 has its flaws but that's not to say that it's all bad. 343 has their bads just like how Bungie had theirs. My point is that fellow halo fans need to live it for what it is rather than complaining and being stuck in the past. Halo is evolving and trying new things. It's good to have something new for a change.
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2 RepliesEdited by SirBigWater: 3/28/2016 7:05:43 AMIt updated with the times. People hate change, yet they want it. People hate when a series stays the same, but they want it to be what it was when they first played it. I like each Halo Game (that Bungie and 343 have made), as it is different for each one and brings fun for each one. It is not like Call of duty. It changes some aspects, yet is more so the same game each year. The most similar halo games are 2 and 3. CE is good, the changesto 2 are good. The small amount of changes from 2 to 3 are good. The changes of 3 to ODST are good. 3 to Reach, Reach to 4, 4 to 5 changes are good.
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Halo 4's Multiplayer experience wasn't exactly special and MCC's first 3 months was handled like a sloppy taco bell-induced shit. The interest was already lost for a lot of players. Not to mention a broken/nonexistent file browser since 343 took over. The fact that Split Screen/LAN Multiplayer was sacrificed for high enemy count per scenario/60FPS is a further dampening effect. A slow release for Forge, a lack of gametypes and the Halo story direction is further reason for the reduced interest in Halo as a whole, on top of a botched advertising run from MS themselves. There is no shortage of reasons for the current state of Halo's MP, but the Forge and Multiplayer is still solid.
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Bungie dropped the ball bigtime with lolreach and the ship never totally righted itself. Numerous sandbox changes driving the game in different directions and detracting from the "golden triangle" did Multiplayer in. As far as campaign goes, they haven't been done half well since ODST. Reach... Well, there was so much wrong here i can take up another post entirely and still just graze the surface. Halo 4 made Chief feel like one of those br[ok]en tumblr idiots with at best cheesy dialogue shoehorned into every situation. Halo 5 was marginally better I'll admit, but we get dropped in without being told too much of what's happening in the world. 343i is basically requiring you to read the books to paint the picture of what's happening. Bungie's Halo used the books as addons to the story and lore, where you can just play the games and have a good idea what everyone's motivations are.
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3 Replies343i has dropped the ball on a lot of things, I remember with Bungies Halo games I bought them and would play them for dayz. When I got 343i's Halo games I would play the MP for a week, say "this is alright" then drop it after. Nothing seemed right anymore. Now were I think 343i really -blam!-ing dropped the ball was Halo 5, they could have turned the story into a metanarrative about the divide in the fanbase. Make the story about the old fans (Chief) vs the new fans (Locke) and have the Arbiter serve as the neutral ground. Though 343i -blam!-ed it up and made the story about some poor attempt at a "A.I's rise to power" cliche. Another problem 343 had was they hyped up Chief going AWOL to go against the UNSC but the real reason Chief goes AWOL is because "muh cortana." They're going to need to go all out with the advertising with 6, I mean even more the 3 if they want to see this series recover
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4 RepliesEdited by Vilhelmus II: 3/30/2016 12:56:55 AMAllow me to answer your question. Remove your nostalgia goggles. Disregard your irrational love for Bungie. See the world for what it is. Now, we move to the simple truth. The one factor you never saw despite it being quite evident. [spoiler]Halo never left. You did.[/spoiler]
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2 RepliesHalo didn't die when Bungie left nor when 343 picked it up.People are overreacting because they are a bunch of conservatives and need to forgot the past and move on with their lines.To me,it's still the game I love today even when it's different because I enjoyed the franchise for 15 years.
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1 ReplyPeople started getting recon
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5 RepliesTo me halo died when Bungie left
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1 ReplyI agree with that video 100%
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10 Replies343 Industries came, and -blam!-ed up one of my favorite game franchise series of all time and turned it into a generic modern game like CoD
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14 RepliesIt died. It can't even get into the top 10 most played games on xbl on a consistent basis. I remember when it used to trade the number 1 spot with COD 4 back in 2007/8, now it's a shell of its former self that fails to even compete with mediocre titles like The Division and Destiny. Hell it even gets beaten on a daily basis by some shitty dinosaur game.
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I can explain it in 13 characters: 343 industries
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If you really what the answer, just look at old yeller
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7 Replies343i finally managed to undo the horrors that Reach introduced.
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A lot has changed for Halo. Some of it can be attributed to it's new devs, and some of it can't.
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1 ReplyChange. That's what happened. Change.
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Edited by Tartan 118: 3/29/2016 11:33:04 AMCall of Duty became wildly popular in 2007, and that's a very big reason. Dudebros were able to enjoy vidyagaemz without seeming nerdy because it was MODERN WARFARE SRS BIZNISS instead of colourful scifi with aliens. Also the persistent online character customisation that game offered - in the form of pseudo-RPG elements like choosing killstreaks, perks, all that bullshit - helped players commit and engage on a level impossible with Halo, as well as providing a more varied gameplay experience. Personally, I thought it over-complicated things. I don't even remember CoD4 explaining what the -blam!- perks were, and it was only when bombing Japanese troops in World at War that the series actually explained them. Anyway, back to Halo itself, 343 has been struggling to keep up with the Joneses, essentially. One thing I disagree with about this video is his saying that Halo was unique as a scifi shooter in its heyday. If we're talking before the fell swoop of CoD, then no, scifi shooters were very commonplace in the fifth and sixth generation, especially on PC. Doom 3, Half-Life 2, Tribes, Quake III, Perfect Dark, even first-person RPGs like Deus Ex and System Shock 2 all launched during or before Halo's peak. What made Halo stand out from the crowd was that it offered a PC-like shooter experience on console, that worked [i]better[/i] on console (not to mention launching first on console).
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It evolved with the modern times, just like any other game would.
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I like every halo game in there own way (besides wars and ODST) but 343 really needs to step it up. They are going away from the original formula, but they need to make halo more relevant again. Especially since the futuristic setting is taking over most fps games now.
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They fremiumed the damn thing like every other game nowadays
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5 RepliesHalo is back. I don't care what anyone says
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343 needs to grow a pair and stick with the things they decide on and not keep back tracking. If they back track on making Cortana evil then they will be killing what chance the series had of surviving. The worst part is that they had set up a great story and it seems like someone internally decided they had to have Cortana in the game even though she was better left dead and so they put her the only place they could. In the place where the composed Didact was supposed to be. Now they're trying to pussy out on making her evil and it's just going to kill what was salvageable.
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The series needed to change to survive, the change that 343 made seems to be a hit or a miss with all Halo players.
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Everyone is just butthurt Bungie fanboys.
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*claps* Enlightening video!
