Halo: Reach Discussion

[Pooky]

Uh...ok

Reach doesn't feel like Halo 1. Halo 1 doesn't feel like Reach. They're two different games. From two different periods of gaming history.

And I say Halo 1, because everyone always ultimately ends up comparing every other Halo game to it. Learn to let things go people. If you really want to give in to your nostalgia, go back to playing Halo 1. Halo 3 is still pretty active, just as Halo 2 continued to stay active until last spring.

People are complaining like it's going to cause a magical patch to spawn over XBL which will make Reach the game that they think it should be. Microsoft will only make games which will sell. Bungie will only make games which they want to play. End of story.

tl;dr: Go play a different game if you don't like something about Reach. Still want to play Reach? Deal with it. A game, is a game, is a game. Play it or leave it.

The hell are you even on about KM? If you don't understand criticism, I don't understand people who get butt hurt when someone doesn't like their favorite game. There's no point to having a discussion thread just so everyone can go 'omg this gaem is so graet'.

I don't even have Reach anymore, I sold it because it was so bland and disappointing. Reach really doesn't have the "Halo" feel that every game in the series has had up until now, and I for one was thoroughly un-entertained. I didn't say anything about Halo 1 either, so you can drop the 'durr nostalgia' crap too.

tl;dr Don't make stupid assumptions because someone's criticizing a game in that game's discussion thread.

p.s.

I feel I should add, though I've said this before. Reach did do everything right in the features department. I'm not denying that. Unfortunately the one aspect which they missed, in my opinion, is the most important. The core gameplay mechanics in Halo Reach are to me, simply not as fun as any previous Halo game. As Warsaw said before, the whole thing feels over-engineered and overcomplicated. Halo 1 did, despite some people's idiotic comments about 'nostalgia', have a very well balanced and simple set of tools.

A game can have all the nice features in the world, but if the core gameplay sucks, people are going to lose interest. I have, and many people I know have sold their copies of Reach as well. In the future, I might come back to it, as Bungie have expressed a willingness to change and improve their games in the past. For now though, it's Black Ops for me.