: Previous Halo games rewarded outwitting your opponent, to a certain degree.
: Halo 4, and now Halo 5, both feel way too much like Call of Duty games,
: which reward whoever gets the first shot off, and have very little
: "down time" between player interactions. I couldn't go five
: seconds from spawning without running into an enemy in the few games of
: Halo 5 I played. Does the target demographic for these games have such
: severe ADD anymore that we can't go more than 5 seconds without being able
: to shoot something?

: (And one other thought -- dear GOD we need to be able to remap controls. I
: tried numerous H5 control schemes - nothing is intuitive. Please let us
: map controls, 343. Please.)

I agree...

Here's an example I just remembered:
Those times in Halo 1 when you're chasing someone and emptying clips, running and gunning, hoping you get them down to the kill in time, and your grip gets tenser because you know they're right on the edge - but they round a corner and you've lost them. Noooooooo! (just as the other player is palms sweating Yesssssssssssssss as they find shelter and safety to recharge)
Perhaps that still happens, but that's an example of the longer, drawn out style of tense encounter that seem to be growing rarer with each Halo iteration.
I'm not sure if "speed" is the property metric, or complexity of the encounter (now there are so many weapons to choose from, a wider variety of strategies to utilize, etc - things which aren't themselves bad things, just different). Again for me it's hard to put a finger on the gameplay issue. It's just the general experience, distinguishing the 'old' from the 'new'. *shrug*