Halo: Reach Discussion

[DEElekgolo]

Hey guys, I came here to say that I am enjoying this video game and am having no problems with its gameplay or ranking system.

[Pooky]

Good job, enjoy your purchase.

Despite everything I'm saying here, I don't hate Reach, Bungie, or any of you. I find Reach to be a very enjoyable game for the most part, it just needs some relatively minor tweaks to really perfect the gameplay.

[Timo]

Annoyances aside i'm finding Reach pretty enjoyable overall, provided i'm playing with mates. It's nice when you win 75% of your games :]

[ejburke]

There's so much bullshit you have to know to be good at a Halo game these days. I really don't want to have to understand the game on such a trivial level. I'd just rather not play with the people who have the spawn times memorized or know exactly how their frag grenade is going to bounce.

[Rentafence]

Whenever you go into a non cooperative multiplayer game, like it or not, you are competing with the other players. Whether you go into the game just trying to have fun, or determined to win, the experience is still fundamentally competitive.

If you're getting matched up against people who completely outclass you, the solution is to get better. The entire point of the matchmaking system is to prevent lopsided matches, but they're still going to happen regardless.

Right now, none of that matters. If you can camp with heavy weapons and double melee, you can win at small team infantry games on Reach. There's no incentive to improve, and so competitive multiplayer on these maps is largely pointless. Big team multiplayer does have much better gameplay, but it's still heavily flawed.

Well, ya of course going into a non cooperative game is competitive. Team red vs team blue is competitive because they're fighting against each other. That doesn't necessarily mean the game itself is competitive as in "HOPPY SHIT THIS GAME IS ALL BOUT HARDCORE TOURNAMENT"

It's a fucking game brosef. I play it to have fun and waste time. I don't want to "improve". I don't give a fuck if people camp or double melee. The game itself is pointless. It's a tv screen.

I play for fun. I've already won.

[p0lar_bear]

Well, ya of course going into a non cooperative game is competitive. Team red vs team blue is competitive because they're fighting against each other. That doesn't necessarily mean the game itself is competitive as in "HOPPY SHIT THIS GAME IS ALL BOUT HARDCORE TOURNAMENT"

It's a fucking game brosef. I play it to have fun and waste time. I don't want to "improve". I don't give a fuck if people camp or double melee. The game itself is pointless. It's a tv screen.

I play for fun. I've already won.

We too, play for fun. However, the game ain't really fun when your enemies repeatedly abuse cheapshit tactics to kill you faster than you can realize what's going on and/or do anything about it. "It's not about whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game," and to be frank, everyone's playing it like a bunch of profags. Why are there sprint-double-melee abusers, countless jetpack fanboys, teabaggers, and people strafing back and forth constantly while spamming the crouch button with a DMR in the non-arena playlists with my psych profile set to "good time?" I still swear I encounter less MLGprowannabe jerkoffs in the Arena when I go in there alone.

[Rentafence]

So do the same shit back. Gosh.

[annihilation]

Unfortunately, video games never work in our favor.

[Ifafudafi]

The danger of opening up a game to everybody on the planet is that you end up with a bunch of kids and MLG wannabes and such, and there's really no online system in the world that can properly screen those faggots out while still preserving the core game, Halo or otherwise. Even trueskill doesn't work well, at least for me: I'll play a game and wreck some shit, causing me to get bumped up with a bunch of MLGwb fags; I then get my shit royally wrecked and end up back with some loser kids, and so on and so forth. I still haven't found the happy medium.

Halo's never been balanced, despite what anybody may tell you; the heavies, tanks, 2-melees, and such are what make it so popular and so accessible. The fact that any kid can get 4+ easy kills with the RL is by design, and "cheap" tactics and weapons have defined Halo's MP since the Pistol in H1. That's why, personally, I think Reach Halo works best when you're playing with people you know, whether it's just making a party in MM or doing some Custom Games. Since the game can't screen idiots, doing so yourself is really the best way of avoiding all of that, and an unbalanced partyfest becomes much more fun and much more tolerable when you take that "I'm competing with strangers" edge off of it.

The danger of opening up a game to everybody on the planet is that you end up with a bunch of kids and MLG wannabes and such, and there's really no online system in the world that can properly screen those faggots out while still preserving the core game. Even trueskill doesn't work well, at least for me: I'll play a game and wreck some shit, causing me to get bumped up with a bunch of MLG fags; I then get my shit royally wrecked and end up back with some loser kids, and so on and so forth. I still haven't found the happy medium.

That's if you just want to have fun, though; if you want Credits, then you better be ready to spend a lot of time in Score Attack

[DarkHalo003]

I hate teabagging-enemies. It was funny at first (I mean like, Halo3 Beta), but now it's just arrogant and stupid. Now if they Special Assassinate me, it's okay mainly because it's fair game and just looks badass.