I missed out on Halo because Bungie decided to ditch their loyal fan base to move to an exclusive platform I wasn't going to buy for Halo alone.
When I finally got to play Halo earlier this year (2-4 and the others, I had Halo: CE on my Mac), I was pretty underwhelmed. Given what I saw in the original concept demo and all the hype over the years, it was basically the same as the other sci-fi shooters out there. I'm sure it didn't help that they were starting to look pretty dated by 2013.
Granted, Bungie has always had a beautiful polish to their games that put them a step above. I didn't really care for the story, especially the covenant side of things and I was already jaded by thinking Marathon was their greatest triumph.
One thing that bugs me about Destiny and Halo is that they're very Spartan (no pun intended). You get a limited supply of weapon types, you spend most of the game shooting stuff and occasionally throwing a grenade or two. The vehicle missions were awesome in Halo, where as the vehicles in Destiny make me want to get off ASAP. For whatever reason, I feel like other games (especially Bungie's own Oni) had more going for them in the gameplay department. The whole fps genre (with no 3rd person at all and generic melee attacks) is starting to feel like a relic of the 90s and early 2000s.
All that aside, I group of us got together and played Halo 3&4 multiplayer a week ago. It just felt outdated. I'm sure the graphics didn't help, but the gameplay felt clunky, the hit detection was weird, the jet packs in 4 sucked and the weapons felt really unbalanced. Which is kinda funny since people often complain about weapon balance in Destiny.
My final caveat, I've never been into multiplayer/pvp. So I have to go with Destiny and its grindy replay value. Even games that I've sunk more hours into don't quite hold up (other than mmos). Fallout 3/NV is a good example, I love those games, but after I beat them, all there was to do was reroll and try to beat it a different way. Which was fun for a while, but I knew where I needed to go and what I needed to do. There was nothing to discover or explore and no reason to keep playing once I had finished the story and the expansions.
In a way, I'm saying grindy is good. If you get into that. If you hate grinding, you probably should walk far far away from games like Destiny. Which seems to be a lot of the complainers in the forums.
Oh my god... I doth ramble a lot.
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