ADS - I don't get the fuss over it, especially since it apparently doesn't slow down your movement and you don't have to have it on a trigger, it's just a different presentation of zooming in

automatic chatter - still sorting out how I feel; it's definitely overdone as it is

medals for everything - this already happened in Reach and more so in Halo 4, they're just continuing it-- I don't have a problem with it except for a generic kill medal in the game itself and not knowing what any of the new ones are

dudebro spartans - what, because of the pose at the end? someone commented elsewhere about them high-fiving like it was an affront to everything good about Halo; I don't get this attitude

: It's a very ugly game, and a lot of it won't be fixed by finalized graphics.
: I'm sure that the first-person hands will look better when it ships, but
: the weapons just look ugly and generic. Could've come from Advanced
: Warfare just as easily as a Halo game.

I'm not crazy about how it looks either, but at the end of the day I care more about how it plays, and I don't really have any suggestions that aren't "make it look how it used to", which a) sounds backward, b) isn't a lot to go on, and c) probably won't happen. I will say though that while I think the pistol being black worked in Halo 2 and ODST it doesn't look so good here, and the iron sight or whatever it is on the BR looks dumb and they could change it a lot of ways without going to an older look and I'd like it better.

: Also, it's nice to see that the Battle Rifle is hyperburst, but what
: distinguishes it from the DMR now?

hyperburst?