343i, many of us see this company as Satan, they ruined Halo with their music, COD-gameplay, and button mashing sequences which seemingly saved the world. Everything about 343i and Halo right now is despicable compared to what Halo once was. Think back to those glory days of Halo 1,2,3 when you would sit with friends and play customs or have a LAN party, just laughing the day away with a drink in your hand and a slice of pizza between your teeth. Well then... Ok, so I started off ok with Halo 4, it was an ok game and had many fun moments, sure the campaign was lackluster compared to the previous games ("We have two scarabs, I repeat, two scarabs" *cue epic music*) and the replacement of firefight with Spartan Ops, a needless to say boring and less satisfying "successor?" Theater mode with the decimation of campaign recording was an annoyance, and the fact that they rid forge of many tools that helped the community create amazing game-types and maps that filled my week-ends with fun caused me to have no reason to play customs anymore. Sure, reading that the anger is building up inside you and you want to get a pitchfork and stab it up Frankie's behind so hard, Medieval style. These things (Although annoy the crap out of me) are not my main reason for hating 343i right now, instead it's the announcement of Halo 5, and what Halo 4 still lacks. Allow me to explain: [b]Halo 4[/b] Ok, so before Halo 4 was released 343 stated that along with its [i]Infinity Slayer[/i] it would feature a [i]classic playlist[/i] which would have game-play that felt like Halo 3's which is a great idea, Infinity slayer isn't bad, it just isn't good as the main, base game-type, we want classic Halo. However, 343 went bad on this and decided not to put the [i]Classic playlist[/i] in for whatever reason, time restrictions most likely. While i'm on the subject of playlists, lets talk playlists that are in Halo 4, 343 did a great job of separating CTF from other game-types and i'm extremely happy about that since i'm a huge CTF fan, however the other playlists just don't feel great and more often than not end up with a map and game-type that nobody wants to play because none of the options to vote for were any good to begin with. The amount of times i've played Team Slayer on Complex and listened to most of the players complain is ridiculous, why can't we have a voting system like Halo:Reach where we have the option of none of the above, sure it had faults (people changing their vote 24/7) but other than that it was perfect. Another bad thing about the playlists is that they have a weird want to take many of the playlists out of the game, a huge example of this is Oddball, a game-type and playlist most people loved and it had a large population of the people playing Halo 4 residing in it, however 343 decided to take the playlist out, put it into a bigger playlist that featured games such as king of the hill, and slayer and force people into these games that they never wanted to play in the first place. Why would they do this? Sure separating the playlists into lists such as: Oddball, CTF, King of the hill, etc would mean more playlists and many that would not have many players, but does that matter when people are still happy about the game type they are in? Another problem with game-types is (and i've said this before in other threads) 343's reason that taking many playlists/game-types out of Halo 4, they stated that the Race gametype would not be in Halo 4 matchmaking and they would not be making the game-type because it did not fit the whole story of the multiplayer which is to be a training simulator. The problem with this? First off that doesn't make any sense, Spartans would need training to become better drivers, to maneuver around obstacles, and COMPLETELY fits withing 343's story of multiplayer. If however, we pretend that race does not fit a training simulator, how does infection, mini slayer, binary slayer, etc fit at all? The logic behind this is bizarre and just shows that they just didn't want to put the effort in to create these game-types, their reasoning was BS. So, sure Halo 4 was not the greatest game, but who cares, 343 will learn from their mistakes and make Halo 5 a great game! Hahahahahaha *slowly cries* [b]Halo 5[/b] Obviously we can't say much about multiplayer other than the fact that I can bet you they don't change anything but instead further their failures, however with the campaign we have rumors released... Lets take a look at a major rumor: [i]"The Halo 5 plot details in the leak claim that, post-Cortana, Master Chief has "gone rogue" and taken control of his own ship. This gives him the freedom to visit 6-8 different planets, with each planet hosting a variety of regions, mainline quests and side missions. Say farewell to the familiar linear Halo playstyle, according to the anonymous insider, Halo 5 is going open world."[/i] Now I would call BS on this straight away if I had not seen the Halo 5 trailer, and seen that 343i were looking for, and hiring people "who had experience in MMO's and sandbox games" I'm sorry, but first people complained that Halo 4 did not feel like Halo and you lost countless players, why have they suddenly decided to change it up to open world? Another reason I feel like this rumor could be true is the trailer when the game was announced as just "Halo" their reasoning for the title was stupid, we know it would be Halo 5 so just add the 5 at the end of the damn title... unless they were trying to differentiate themselves from previous Halo games because their game wasn't similar to previous iterations. *Facepalm* 343 needs to set its priorities straight, they were hired to make Halo games, not their own games, we want Halo not COD, we want Halo not WOW.