Halo5 Multiplayer Talk

Appleslizer6 wrote:

343i tries to hard too please us. Bungie just did what they thought would fit right, and what they believed. Now all 343i is concerned about is pleasing players and bringing it back to the original Halo roots. The original games were great, but you cant take a game later on in the series and try to bring it back to its roots many many years ago. You need to evolve the game and keep progressing forward. In my opinion 343i is too afraid to take large risks with the campaign and multiplayer after Halo 4. Now they only care about past Halo experiences and only try to please the users, completely disregarding essential game mechanics and campaign. Games only get better because they change and progress. Imagine what Halo would be like with actual iron sights, looking down an actual BR, DMR, and AR, not just moving the same reticle into a bunch of glowing lines. Actually running through a battlefield with elites and what not (reference to Reach commercial) and fighting. They focus waaaay to much on pleasing the gamers rather than changing and progressing the actual game. On what was said earlier, they could do just that. They can always create new maps, add weapon skins, occasionally add a gun here or there, but what you ultimately get is the same thing. Halo Reach and Halo 3 were undoubtedly the most successful games because they implemented new features and progressed the game, not staying exactly to its roots. You look at games like assassins creed and COD, they are basically the same thing with a new campaign, which people complain about non-stop. Same thing here, 343i tries to change something, but ends up just boosting the saturation and adding 'iron sights' to the guns and calling it good. That's my two cents.

xCoDx Commander wrote:

Although I agree somewhat. I do like to see some new content and gameplay changes from time to time. If you really wanted updated textures for halo 1 and 2, they are on the Master Chief collection. I don't think the problem is adding new features. I think the problem is adding bad ones.

When 343 took over and devolved halo 4, they tried there hardest to change combat to a newer, faster paced and newbie friendly system. The armor abilities, the call of duty custom classes, the cheap unlimited sprint and really noob friendly auto aim simply scared off older halo vets. But to the new guys they ate that -Yoink- up. To be fair, they fixed a lot of those issues in Halo five. No more worrying about loosing a firefight because you don't have the right armor ability, everyone has the same ones now. No more people sprinting away from gunfights, because now their shields won't recharge. No more loadouts(At least in arena), and auto aim seems to have been nerfed.

I do want to see new features, and halo 5 is actually a step in the right direction. 343 listened to the community and acted accordingly. I think halo 5 is an attempt to appease the halo vets AND grab the attentions of the younger generation by merging the old and the new.

Sxpurb wrote:

I just want to put this out here and remember this is my opinion. Feel free to debate and discuss.
Why does Halo have to evolve in the way that it has?
Halo 1-3 multiplayer was amazing and Halo also had its competitive peak during these times;99% of people can agree those first three games had the best multiplayer experience. Another FPS out longer than Halo, Counter-Strike, has never completely changed the game and expected people to just adjust and make the best of it.
Counter-strike still has a huge audience, is still fun to play, and still updates to accommodate the community.However, I dont see sprint, abilities, any of this other garbage forced on players because other developers are doing it.... You get my point.
What I would like to see is a game like Halo 2/Halo 3 with updated gun models, player models, map textures,maps,you get my drift. I think its wrong to fix whats not broken..
343, dont forget KISS, Keep it Simple Stupid.
Thoughts?