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Re: Let's Talk Halo 4
Posted By: IbeechuDate: 11/16/12 2:47 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Let's Talk Halo 4 (Schooly D)


You know, I think you hit the nail on the head on why I haven't been enjoying the multiplayer. So far, the most fun (and about the only fun) I've had in it was that, like, 7-hour-long CTF game on Valhalla that you we did for classic customs. Hearing you talk about how unrestrained Halo has always been when it comes to the sandbox and mechanics, that really drove home why.

I make fun of my girlfriend for calling first-person shooters "shoot 'em ups" since that's a phrase that I don't think anyone has used since the '80s. But you know what? Halo 4 really is a shoot 'em up. In most matches, my eyes glaze over and I completely lose interest in what I'm doing. I'm just shooting enemies, and they're shooting back. Variation is limited, and even with all the armor-abilities and whatnot, the encounters all feel the same. Shoot the guy, get shot at, one of us dies, repeat.

Recently (because of Halo 4) I've been hyper-nostalgic for Halo 2. How the hell was that so fun? How did I spend hundreds of hours playing thousands of matches in Halo 2 for 3 years? How was I still in love with Halo after that? Enough that I continued to play Halo 3 for hundreds of matches, and then Reach for hundreds of matches? Why, suddenly, does going into MM in Halo 4 feel like grinding work? I think you're totally right, Schooly.

Halo 2 (and 3 (and even Reach)) had such minimalist mechanics. But matches were so unpredictable. Funny fucking shit happened all the time. Was that in spite of the minimalist mechanics? Nah, I think it was because of them.

Instead of having a built-in solution to every scenario, you had to mix and match a couple of separate solutions to make your own.

Fucking





GENIUS





Welp, guess I can look forward to Halo 5. Maybe it'll be so good that it'll take me back to my Halo 2 days. or maybe it'll be so CoDified that it takes me back to playing CoD the few times that I've played it.

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Replies:

Let's Talk Halo 4Cody Miller 11/16/12 1:12 a.m.
     Re: Let's Talk Halo 4Flynn J Taggart 11/16/12 2:06 a.m.
     Re: Let's Talk Halo 4JDQuackers 11/16/12 6:29 a.m.
     Re: Let's Talk Halo 4Architechnid 11/16/12 7:03 a.m.
           Re: Let's Talk Halo 4thebruce0 11/19/12 3:27 p.m.
     Re: Let's Talk Halo 4Kermit 11/16/12 8:13 a.m.
     The graphics are too good. For shame, 343. *NM*mr_mcmurder 11/16/12 8:25 a.m.
           Don't conflate two distinct thingsscarab 11/16/12 8:47 a.m.
                 Re: Don't conflate two distinct thingsmr_mcmurder 11/16/12 6:04 p.m.
                       Re: Don't conflate two distinct thingskapowaz 11/16/12 8:19 p.m.
                       Re: Don't conflate two distinct thingsuberfoop 11/16/12 8:38 p.m.
     Re: Let's Talk Halo 4kapowaz 11/16/12 8:28 a.m.
           Re: Let's Talk Halo 4scarab 11/16/12 8:44 a.m.
                 Re: Let's Talk Halo 4kapowaz 11/16/12 8:54 a.m.
     Re: Let's Talk Halo 4Nash 11/16/12 9:45 a.m.
     Re: Let's Talk Halo 4Schooly D 11/16/12 10:22 a.m.
           Re: Let's Talk Halo 4kapowaz 11/16/12 11:36 a.m.
           Re: Let's Talk Halo 4Ibeechu 11/16/12 2:47 p.m.
           Agreed.Bones 11/16/12 4:16 p.m.
     Re: Let's Talk Halo 4Azo 'Galvat 11/16/12 10:44 a.m.
           Re: Let's Talk Halo 4SonGoharotto 11/16/12 11:44 a.m.
     Re: Let's Talk Halo 4kidtsunami 11/16/12 3:17 p.m.
           Sorrykidtsunami 11/16/12 5:18 p.m.
     Great post. Two thumbs up.Gravemind 11/16/12 3:34 p.m.
     Re: Let's Talk Halo 4Avateur 11/16/12 11:11 p.m.



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