Current Events > Playing Halo 4 for the first time... I dunno, man

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Playing it on PC.

Visually, I actually think it's quite pretty and the art style is striking, but the actual gameplay doesn't feel right.

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It was boring as hell :(
I really wanted to like it but god damn did it feel so boring.

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For as much hate as Halo 5 gets, personally I think it played better than this.

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DarkRoast posted...

For as much hate as Halo 5 gets, personally I think it played better than this.

I couldn;t play 5 cause no XBone but Halo 4 really soured me on the franchise.
I was the biggest Halo fan ever. Like I read the books, comics, movies, shows, read up on lore, etc etc etc. It was nuts.
And then I played Halo 4 and now I do not give a single shit about the direction of the story. It should have ended at 3.

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I remember very little of it except the story being very confusing and hard to follow.

When you remember that Locke is shorter than master chief

I didn't mind the Halo 4 story too much, definitely flawed and worse than the other Halo games, but it had some good moments.

Halo 5 was just a terrible mess when it came to story. Sounds like Halo Infinite had the same problems and when they brought in a one of the original storytellers from Bungie to lead the project, he realized what a cluster fuck the plot was and put a massive delay on it.

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ApherosyLove posted...

I couldn;t play 5 cause no XBone but Halo 4 really soured me on the franchise.
I was the biggest Halo fan ever. Like I read the books, comics, movies, shows, read up on lore, etc etc etc. It was nuts.
And then I played Halo 4 and now I do not give a single shit about the direction of the story. It should have ended at 3.

The crazy thing is, I got Halo 3 at launch and it was basically billed as the conclusion of the franchise. And, hell, it basically was.

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AngelsNAirwav3s posted...

I didn't mind the Halo 4 story too much, definitely flawed and worse than the other Halo games, but it had some good moments.

Halo 5 was just a terrible mess when it came to story. Sounds like Halo Infinite had the same problems and when they brought in a one of the original storytellers from Bungie to lead the project, he realized what a cluster fuck the plot was and put a massive delay on it.

Something tells me there's a lot more wrong with it than just the plot.

Choosing to make it compatible all the way back to the original Xbox One from launch was a bad decision.

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i think they all played worse and worse as they went on. both halo and gears used to be my circle of friends' go to games, now they're just... the same thing over and over but without the mountain dew game fuel nostalgia

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DarkRoast posted...

Something tells me there's a lot more wrong with it than just the plot.

Choosing to make it compatible all the way back to the original Xbox One from launch was a bad decision.

I don't remember having too much issue with the gameplay besides being packed with quick time events and being a little more clunky than the originals, but I haven't played it in a few years.

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viewmaster_pi posted...

i think they all played worse and worse as they went on. both halo and gears used to be my circle of friends' go to games, now they're just... the same thing over and over but without the mountain dew game fuel nostalgia

Gears of War 1 and Halo 3 with high school friends were truly the good old days.

I recently went on a binge playthrough of the whole MCC collection + Halo 5. Im in the minority for sure, but I actually really liked the direction they went with gameplay wise with both 4 and 5. Its different in a good way, not better than the OG trilogy but its jut a different gameplay experience which was really fun on its own IMO. Kept things fresh.

Loved the first 3, some of my favorite games growing up. 4 sucked imo.

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I like Halo 4a gameplay but only in Big Team Battle. It feels like they designed it specifically for BTB (iirc in the original game you could hit max level and pick a class youd get special armor and some extra perks with, and there were 8 of them...perfect for 8v8). The big maps are fun and well designed but I hated the small ones.

5 however is one of my favorite multiplayers in the franchise. Its a damn shame it probably wont ever come to PC.

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I liked Halo 4's MP for what it was but I don't remember much of anything in the campaign resonating with me. And obviously MP still wasn't as nostalgic as the older ones.

I got the MCC recently but haven't really touched it much, I want to go through at least 1-3's campaigns though.

Halo 4's biggest multiplayer issue was bringing back Valhalla without nerfing the DMR.

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Halo 4's campaign looked nice, but I wasn't a fan of the direction they took the story in. The actual gameplay is decent enough but still not up to par with the other Halo games. The severe lack of ammo is the primary frustration of the campaign on Legendary. And fighting Promethean Knights is not very enjoyable.

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Everything after 3 in the franchise felt wrong imo.

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Also the line: "These Covenant seem more fanatical that the ones we fought before." in the first level lol i still lmao when i think of it

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Cortana is mai waifu

4 overall was pretty forgettable. The new enemies and weapons were not very compelling to fight or use.

5, while the campaign is hated, I though was a lot of fun to play, despite the story being nonsense from what I remember. And the multiplayer was the best it had been in years.

5 sucked most for not having splitscreen, though. Like seriously, wtf?

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4 was hated right away for attempt to try to turn into another call of duty, f*** that game

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i liked halo 4's character interaction. the enemy was crap, but the plot with chief and cortana was the primary reason i finished the game.

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Chief and Cortana plot was great

Lasky is a cool character (wish they had found some way to incorporate the Forward Unto Dawn live action short - if you dont know Master Chief saves Lasky when he's a cadet, Lasky grows up to be Lasky, meets Chief again on Requiem

The rest, I'm iffy on

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TendoDRM posted...

4 overall was pretty forgettable. The new enemies and weapons were not very compelling to fight or use.

5, while the campaign is hated, I though was a lot of fun to play, despite the story being nonsense from what I remember. And the multiplayer was the best it had been in years.

5 sucked most for not having splitscreen, though. Like seriously, wtf?

I think Halo 5 has the worst campaign in the series, but it's not because the product was falsely advertised. I just don't like the squad based gameplay. Being isolated or surrounded only with a squad of Marines who can die at any moment is a defining aspect of Halo's campaign to me. You don't get that when you're in a squad with three unkillable Spartans who are with you at almost every moment of the campaign.

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halo should have been put on ice indefinitely after reach

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