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3/5/2013 8:39:38 PM
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Let's Discuss Halo 4's Failure
Now, I know this isn't Halo Waypoint, so I'm trusting you guys to let me speak my mind. I don't want this thread to be "YEAHH DOWN WITH HALO 4, DOWN WITH FRANKIE" or anything like that, I'd rather it be a place that we can just discuss this game, the good, the bad, the ugly.
Halo 4 sucks. It sucks hard, to me. Okay, maybe I'm being a bit callous, but they're is a lot missing, and almost as many things that were added to the game that didn't need to be, and were forced down the playerbase's (what's left of it) collective throats, without even putting in the option to play without these new features. I'd make a list of these particular issues but it's been done time and time again, and you probably already know it.
Why can't Halo 4 maintain a stable, large and healthy population? Why is it that, evidently, only 1/10th of the people who bought Halo 4 still play it today? Or as best we can guess, nobody plays it every day and there are unknowns such as people who don't have XBL.
No doubt Call of Duty plays into the low population a bit, the shooter genre is dominated by three categories now:
A) The big name title, CoD coming out every year
B) Other companies trying to imitate the game's success and steal it's audience (which never works) and
C) the occasional good and original FPS that is released, only to be crushed or at least crippled by CoD's success, with some rare exceptions
I have a feeling 343i's mishandling of some elements of it's post launch support also helped, and maybe even some of the things that have been in the game since launch that are still irritating fans. Either way, I'm still baffled.
Why did Halo 4 fail? What do you guys think?
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2 RepliesEdited by omg a bannana: 3/6/2013 1:02:43 PM>Shitty campaign >Shitty campaign gameplay >Stupid new enemies which are just teleporting bullet sponges >Basically doing the same thing over and over in campaign >Random stupid drama with Cortana to make the story seem more personal >Forerunner General killed by quicktime event >Forerunners look stupid as shit >Spartan Ops >Forge having maps that look pretty but suck for editing >Spartan Ops >Forge's maps combined are smaller than Forgeworld from Reach >At least Reach was trying to be an arena shooter but mixing up the formula so it wouldn't be stale, while Halo 4 is Halo of Duty giving the most retarded of players the ability to be good. >Ordinance system >Map not even spawning power weapons anymore besides at like the start of the map WHAT THE -blam!- >Able to spawn with a shotgun as a secondary >Everyone has sprint so as soon as they're in trouble they run away, but when you run after them you can't shoot while you're running so it's basically cat and mouse for a minute >Terrible playlists >They somehow managed to have LESS custom games than previous games! >Ranking system which doesn't involve skill at all just how much you play the game. >New ranking system that you can only see on Waypoint LOL >5 months to get the file system up and running >Valhalla >Ghost is stupid as shit now, people will run me over by lightly tapping my butt but when I ran them full force they just go 3 feet to the left >The connections >Mantis doesn't even belong in Halo, it feels like it's just there so fanboys wouldn't whine to 343 about no new vehicles. >Loadouts >Broken killcams >JIP >Instant Respawn >Flag Carrier can shoot and can't drop flag. Also fanboys will of course be saying "omg u can't handle change what would obama do", "halo charts is not a good source even though it shows a steady rate of people leaving over time so i don't even"
