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If copying rivals doesn't work, play on nostalgia
By:RC Master
Date: 8/14/14 1:56 pm

I feel pretty jaded and my interest in Halo is at an all-time low.

343i tries copying mechanics from other games. Does so poorly. Tries to introduce own modes at the exclusion of beloved ones. They're hardly played. Player activity drops off a cliff and never recovers.

What to do? Stick to your guns and improve the implementation? Go in a totally new direction?

Or ditch it all and try to re-create 'the glory days', instead? Yep, that's the one. Go with that.

The stripped out, early Beta, that is suddenly so vitally important (but wasn't for Halo 4). The back-to-basics approach. Navel gazing at an era of 'Arena FPS' that is perhaps 10+ years in the past and, to me, best typified by Quake and Unreal. It all says to me that 343i don't really know what they're doing with Halo. I'm not sure they ever did.

Now, Halo 5 won't be a bad game. It can't be if it's built on Halo and has had 10s of millions of dollars thrown at it. It'll look shiny and seem polished and entertain for a bit...

Though, I don't see any point in paying any attention to it. It's the only Xbox exclusive I have any interest in at all but, with a PS4 already in my possession I can't justify another console for literally 1 game (and some ports of old games I already have). I probably won't be playing any new Halo.

If Halo were multi-platform it'd still be on the radar. Alas, it's a victim of the corporate game we call the 'console wars.' Always has been, I suppose.

Feel a bit sad.

:(

Messages In This Thread

If copying rivals doesn't work, play on nostalgiaRC Master8/14/14 1:56 pm
     Re: If copying rivals doesn't work, play on nostalMacGyver108/14/14 2:30 pm
     Re: If copying rivals doesn't work, play on nostalUrban Reflex8/14/14 2:34 pm
           Re: If copying rivals doesn't work, play on nostalscarab8/14/14 3:56 pm
                 Re: If copying rivals doesn't work, play on nostalscarab8/14/14 4:00 pm
                 +1 *NM*Quirel8/14/14 4:51 pm
                 Re: If copying rivals doesn't work, play on nostalyakaman8/14/14 6:16 pm
                       Re: If copying rivals doesn't work, play on nostaluberfoop8/14/14 7:53 pm
                             Re: If copying rivals doesn't work, play on nostalyakaman8/15/14 8:34 am
                                   Re: If copying rivals doesn't work, play on nostalAvateur8/15/14 3:35 pm
                                   Re: If copying rivals doesn't work, play on nostalBanditORR8/17/14 7:29 pm
                       Re: If copying rivals doesn't work, play on nostalAvateur8/14/14 9:03 pm
                             Re: If copying rivals doesn't work, play on nostaldavidfuchs8/15/14 9:15 am
                                   Re: If copying rivals doesn't work, play on nostalAvateur8/15/14 3:38 pm
           Re: If copying rivals doesn't work, play on nostalQuirel8/14/14 5:54 pm
     Re: If copying rivals doesn't work, play on nostalCody Miller8/14/14 3:12 pm
           Re: If copying rivals doesn't work, play on nostalRC Master8/14/14 4:10 pm
                 Re: If copying rivals doesn't work, play on nostalAvateur8/14/14 9:08 pm
                       Re: If copying rivals doesn't work, play on nostalCody Miller8/14/14 9:23 pm
                       You don't think Halo was an arena shooter?MacGyver108/15/14 4:06 pm
                             Re: You don't think Halo was an arena shooter?Avateur8/15/14 4:10 pm
                                   Re: You don't think Halo was an arena shooter?MacGyver108/15/14 4:43 pm
                                         Re: You don't think Halo was an arena shooter?Avateur8/15/14 5:15 pm
     I don't understand these postsRevenant19888/14/14 3:36 pm
           Agreeddavidfuchs8/14/14 3:43 pm
           The feels, manRC Master8/14/14 4:05 pm
                 Re: The feels, manRevenant19888/14/14 4:30 pm
     I look for a Pearl of Wisdom in these posts,DEEP NNN8/14/14 4:12 pm
     Re: If copying rivals doesn't work, play on nostalscarab8/14/14 4:25 pm
     Re: If copying rivals doesn't work, play on nostalBosticman8/14/14 4:37 pm
     Re: If copying rivals doesn't work, play on nostalChris101b8/14/14 5:14 pm
     Re: If copying rivals doesn't work, play on nostalQuirel8/14/14 6:05 pm
     Re: If copying rivals doesn't work, play on nostalGravemind8/14/14 8:27 pm
     Re: If copying rivals doesn't work, play on nostalthebruce08/14/14 11:25 pm

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