Yeah until I see some actual MP gameplay for Infinite I'm not convinced by anything 343 says.
Personally, I disagree. While it's not perfect, there's a reason why it's still very active on the multiplayer front. Great, if still somewhat flawed, mechanics and solid balancing have made it a fun and satisfying experience for many.
Semi related, but I'm wondering how/if Halo Infinite will reconcile it's design with keyboard and mouse controls. I'd make a thread if I knew a lick about Halo, but I know people have said there's things like, areas on multiplayer maps where you could camp multiple spawn points with a sniper rifle if not for the time it takes to aim. Honestly, that could be a good source of evolution.
We get it, you hate Reach. Anything relevant to add?
Ah yes I too remember Halo 4 being an incredible success casually and not almost tanking the franchise permanently
Blops2 ate it's playerbase. That's a fact
Nothing but the fucking truth
God I love this post
Yeah, they can make a solid game based off of the mechanics of 2 and 3, but the fact is that things need to change to be relevant. Halo used to lead the charge. Now, I'm not saying that it should just ape the mechanics of other shooters, but it needs to take advantage of modern tech and game design. Other series have died for lesser things. A good example of positive evolution isBreath of the Wild, which kept the core of the original games, but made it modern and changed open world game design. Doom did a similar thing with reviving itself in a modern way while still being true to its core. Halo needs to make the same leap.
It's because Counter-Strike isn't a series that keeps having new games made to sell new consoles.
And the correct reading of that isn't "Halo isn't casual enough" it's that Halo will never be able to capture the CoD audience as it stands.
1. That only proves my point that most of the audience is never coming back
Reach has a lot of problems and none of them are just because people don't like change
Reach just plain wasn't up to par. The fans aren't to blame for that. Gunplay was worse due to aim bloom. Movement speed and jump height were nerfed, and armor abilities and loadouts screwed up the game's balance. The setting wasn't even as good. You're stuck on one planet. Also, some of the most fun weapons and vehicles from Halo 3 vanished into thin air.
There are a group of people that continue to claim that Halo 4's multiplayer population decline had nothing to with it being negatively received by a lot of fans. Backlash occurred with previous games too, but this time the changes were much more noticeable.
