: I feel like 343 thinks I'm a tiny baby and is dangling keys in front of my
: face to try to get me interested. Halo has never needed that. I'm
: interested because it's an extremely simple sandbox from which complex,
: interesting scenarios arise. Frills don't add to the complexity. In a
: weird way, they restrict it. The complexity of a Halo 2 match is
: interesting because of how organic it is. The complexity of a Halo 4 match
: is not interesting because it feels engineered. It comes off as the
: developer trying to trick me into thinking what I'm playing is fun or
: interesting by just adding a bunch of crap to it.

: When it comes to Halo, less is so, so, so much more.

WELL SAID! I'm slow clapping. All this crazy stuff they're adding is over complicating a tried and true formula. I'm tired of people saying that shooters now have to be a certain way, or sprint is expected now, etc. There are many franchises who had a great formula and are now irrelevant because their developers tried to "update" them. Splinter Cell is just one that comes to mind, Pandora Tomorrow and Chaos Theory had hardcore fans, and everything went to shit after that when they drastically changed the formula.