: 1. Lackluster campaign: None of my friends have any desire to replay it, and
: we all agree its the first campaign we were bored playing through. It's
: the first Halo campaign that didn't have me playing it start to finish
: since H2 in a single sitting. There are many reasons why campaign is not
: good, but in the end no one I know wants to replay it.

: 2. Limited maps and game modes for arena. How many times do I want to play
: the same 4 gamemodes, on around 6 maps? Worse the maps nearly all play the
: same, there is little to no variance in them. Where is doubles? where is
: Multiteam? Where is social slayer? While H4's slayer may have been a flop
: I played more objective in H4 than any other game.

: 3. Warzone is mindless. Sorry, weapon variants, sporadic and unfun AI to
: fight along with the tedious REQ card system makes me not want to touch
: it.

: 4. We are old. Long gone are the days where all my friends who have been
: playing online since H2 can all come home from school or college and sit
: down and enjoy Xbox. We all have lives and responsibilities and it's hard
: to get the old gang together again, or even time to play constantly
: period. The franchise is old and the people who appreciate it, aren't the
: ones who have the time so much to play anymore. 13 year old little Jimmy
: doesn't want a game like the Halo we want, and trying to appeal to
: everyone is Halo's problem.

: 5. The convergence effect. I look at 343 Halo like I do MS's approach to
: windows. It has to appeal to everyone. Take the whole surface line. They
: are decent to use as laptops, they are decent to use as tablets. But they
: aren't the best laptops and they aren't the best tablets. The compromise
: of trying to appeal to so many people leaves no one satisfied. When I was
: at PAX I was showing the SPV3 project to a 343 employee, and talking to
: him all about what we've done with AI in Halo to make it more complex,
: less predictable and requiring the player to think. His response was
: "well thats cool, but that's not really what people seem to want
: these days in a game." To me that's insane. But maybe thats why my
: biggest complaint in why I can't enjoy H5 campaign is because of the
: enemies and the AI. 343 seems to have recognized that one shoe does not
: fit all, with Warzone and Arena. I think Arena is awesome and just wish
: more work was put into the maps and diversity in it. But Arena appeals to
: the classic players, Warzone to the casual and a more contemporary crowd.
: I mean I'd buy a classic smart halo campaign that tries to be as much like
: H1/H3 as possible, and I'd also be highly interested in seeing a new take
: of a campaign modeled after COD or Gears or even Destiny set in the Halo
: Universe. But stop taking what I love about Halo out of Halo to appeal to
: people who don't like Halo.

Also lets not forget that it is a new console generation and the XB1 has had a less than stellar reception and subsequent PR.