SunBroDave
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A Rambo style experience built on using whatever you find on the battlefield to progress. Also amazing co-op, in both campaign and in firefight.
It's actually too hard to pin down, because Halo is a very very specific thing for me. Unfortunately 343 hasn't really nailed it, aside from a few great levels in Halo 4/5 with a few fun weapons.
My bullet list:
-Marty style music (I think he has established his own brand by now)
-High skill gap, but with an appealing simple core
-Tight controls (not overly complicated)
-Not super fast, but responsive and great combat pacing
-A beautiful art style with a minimalistic alien architecture style (forerunner)
-A simple, but balanced sandbox of weapons that play off each other well
-Great utility weapon to fall back on (halo 1 pistol, halo 2/3 BR)
-A mixture of space epic adventure with high stakes tension sprinkled in with horror elements at times (very important imo)
-A fun campy sense of humor appropriately mixed in with serious contexts
I could go on and on...
Honestly, the original trilogy just established such a great blend of things that you would think are contradictory, but made it work. For example, grunts are charming and hilarious (even cute) in the original trilogy, but they can be dangerous, yet easily taken out. On paper, that doesn't make much sense, but it works so well and feels alien as a result.
My bullet list:
-Marty style music (I think he has established his own brand by now)
-High skill gap, but with an appealing simple core
-Tight controls (not overly complicated)
-Not super fast, but responsive and great combat pacing
-A beautiful art style with a minimalistic alien architecture style (forerunner)
-A simple, but balanced sandbox of weapons that play off each other well
-Great utility weapon to fall back on (halo 1 pistol, halo 2/3 BR)
-A mixture of space epic adventure with high stakes tension sprinkled in with horror elements at times (very important imo)
-A fun campy sense of humor appropriately mixed in with serious contexts
I don't believe you! H3 BR sucks ass
A franchise that lost it's charm after Halo 3.
Dead.
Loved the original trilogy and ODST though.
Love that, it really is a description of how the brands identity was and still is the perfect storm
A mediocre and laughably self-serious FPS franchise.
Not intended as bait, just opinion.
This.Huge open vistas, incredible music, fun vehicular combat, smart and challenging gunplay/AI.
And Chief and Cortana.
I guess some people like to play online with it.
The enemies and weapons are just too dumb to consider an adult fps.
A series that got worse after Halo 3 (which itself was pretty bad) and finally got better with Halo 5.
Talking just multiplayer.
It's actually too hard to pin down, because Halo is a very very specific thing for me. Unfortunately 343 hasn't really nailed it, aside from a few great levels in Halo 4/5 with a few fun weapons.
My bullet list:
-Marty style music (I think he has established his own brand by now)
-High skill gap, but with an appealing simple core
-Tight controls (not overly complicated)
-Not super fast, but responsive and great combat pacing
-A beautiful art style with a minimalistic alien architecture style (forerunner)
-A simple, but balanced sandbox of weapons that play off each other well
-Great utility weapon to fall back on (halo 1 pistol, halo 2/3 BR)
-A mixture of space epic adventure with high stakes tension sprinkled in with horror elements at times (very important imo)
-A fun campy sense of humor appropriately mixed in with serious contexts
I could go on and on...
Honestly, the original trilogy just established such a great blend of things that you would think are contradictory, but made it work. For example, grunts are charming and hilarious (even cute) in the original trilogy, but they can be dangerous, yet easily taken out. On paper, that doesn't make much sense, but it works so well and feels alien as a result.
Is there anyway that people can work at 343 who are really passionate about the game, even if its for a wal mart salary? obviously they seem to have their own click and probably would ignore people anyways I guess
Self-serious. Uh huh. How to spot someone who has never played a Bungie Halo in one easy step.A mediocre and laughably self-serious FPS franchise.
Not intended as bait, just opinion.
A mediocre and laughably self-serious post.Thanks enemies and weapons are just too dumb to consider an adult fps.
Also just want to add that there are very few social gaming experiences as fun as blasting through the Halo Legendary campaigns in split-screen co-op with friends. That's also a large part of what Halo is to me.
Made this quite a while back to show how they can't get the game looking right and has been this way on everything 343 touched.
bloom, fog, shiny or unreal like textures and bad maps, broken sight lines, bad movement and yeah if you like Halo 5 eh... then you don't like Halo imo