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Re: With poor character writing, why not kill em o
By:MacGyver10
Date: 9/3/13 4:59 pm

: I believe Bungie understood what the campaign players craved the most. Halo
: CE started it all and I still play it because it's fun. Bungie stumbled
: somewhat with Halo 2 (in my opinion) but it had the most entertaining
: combat dialogue in the franchise. The Halo 3 campaign, to me, is the best
: of the Halo games because of the huge variety of fun levels to play.
: Interesting "boot on the ground" combat, massive vehicle battles
: and such. ODST is my second favorite. I thought the squadmates story and
: battles were comparable to Halo 3's, but the New Mombassa Streets was
: rather boring simply because there were so few enemies to fight.

I liked both the Bungie and 343I Halo campaigns, but to say what I was looking for is what other campaign players were looking for is quite subjective. I always pictured campaign as the 'story mode', a title some games actually label their campaigns with. In story mode, I want characters, plot devices, good versus evil and memorable moments. This is hard to accomplish in video games without quality gameplay and encounters, but the aforementioned are the priority to me.

This was one thing that I felt Bungie took a step in the right direction with firefight being the go-to for encounter and gameplay enthusiasts that 343I tried to expand upon with spartan ops. I don't feel spartan ops inclusion in Halo 4 warranted the drop of firefight, but it did some things well on it's own and would have been an amazing addition to Halo had firefight been continued as well. That said, I felt it's repetition in the first half of season one really soured those that were looking for firefight 3.0, and bored those that were looking for campaign-like side stories.

So while agree that gameplay and encounters are an essential part of campaign, I'd say that story, plot and characters are much more essential to the 'story mode' of any Halo game.

- MacGyver10


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*possible leak* Direction Halo 5 is taking SP(?)Revenant19888/30/13 5:51 pm
     Re: *possible leak* Direction Halo 5 is taking SP(Pkmnrulz2408/30/13 6:26 pm
           Re: *possible leak* Direction Halo 5 is taking SP(Revenant19888/30/13 6:32 pm
           Re: *possible leak* Direction Halo 5 is taking SP(Joe Duplessie (SNIPE 316)8/30/13 6:35 pm
                 Re: *possible leak* Direction Halo 5 is taking SP(Pkmnrulz2408/30/13 6:51 pm
                 Re: *possible leak* Direction Halo 5 is taking SP(ArteenEsben8/31/13 7:48 am
     Re: *possible leak* Direction Halo 5 is taking SP(rhubarb8/30/13 6:33 pm
     Re: *possible leak* Direction Halo 5 is taking SP(Anton17928/30/13 6:54 pm
           Re: *possible leak* Direction Halo 5 is taking SP(rhubarb8/30/13 7:40 pm
           Re: *possible leak* Direction Halo 5 is taking SP(serpx8/31/13 1:08 am
                 Really guys?gamerguy20028/31/13 2:19 am
                       AgreedRagashingo8/31/13 2:40 am
                       Re: Really guys?Stephen L. (SoundEffect)8/31/13 9:21 am
                             Re: Really guys?Cody Miller8/31/13 2:32 pm
                       Re: Really guys?Quirel8/31/13 3:12 pm
                       I'd agree with you ...serpx8/31/13 4:15 pm
     I Just posted a video on this...Mixmasterchief8/30/13 7:58 pm
           AND It's like 3 topics down :( *NM*Mixmasterchief8/30/13 7:59 pm
           Re: I Just posted a video on this...Revenant19888/30/13 8:19 pm
                 yeahhhhhhhRevenant19888/30/13 8:24 pm
                       Re: yeahhhhhhhMixmasterchief8/30/13 11:09 pm
     Re: *possible leak* Direction Halo 5 is taking SP(Chewbaccawakka8/30/13 8:53 pm
           Re: *possible leak* Direction Halo 5 is taking SP(Grizzlei8/30/13 10:07 pm
           Re: *possible leak* Direction Halo 5 is taking SP(Cody Miller8/31/13 2:29 pm
                 Re: *possible leak* Direction Halo 5 is taking SP(Grizzlei8/31/13 2:46 pm
     Can't wait!Grizzlei8/30/13 10:14 pm
           ThisiForge8/31/13 12:45 pm
           Re: Can't wait!Quirel8/31/13 4:15 pm
           YES *NM*thebruce09/3/13 12:39 pm
     With poor character writing, why not kill em off?Avateur8/31/13 12:08 am
           Re: With poor character writing, why not kill em oCaptain Spark8/31/13 12:45 pm
                 Re: With poor character writing, why not kill em oGravemind8/31/13 4:08 pm
                 Re: With poor character writing, why not kill em othebruce09/3/13 12:46 pm
                       Re: With poor character writing, why not kill em oKal9/3/13 1:20 pm
                             Re: With poor character writing, why not kill em oQuirel9/3/13 1:49 pm
                                   Re: With poor character writing, why not kill em oKal9/3/13 2:05 pm
                                         So, fan speculation.Quirel9/3/13 8:30 pm
                       Re: With poor character writing, why not kill em oCody Miller9/3/13 1:29 pm
                       Re: With poor character writing, why not kill em oCaptain Spark9/3/13 3:09 pm
                             Re: With poor character writing, why not kill em oMacGyver109/3/13 4:59 pm
                             Re: With poor character writing, why not kill em oCody Miller9/3/13 9:09 pm
                       Re: With poor character writing, why not kill em oQuirel9/4/13 5:19 pm
     Good.Azo 'Galvat8/31/13 10:46 am
     Wait, here is story line for Halo 5Captain Spark8/31/13 11:47 am
           What did I just read... *NM*iForge8/31/13 8:10 pm
     Re: *possible leak* Direction Halo 5 is taking SP(Asian Inferno9/1/13 11:00 pm

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