Quote Originally Posted by Pooky View Post
I don't know about you guys, but I'm sick to death of every new FPS having overpowered melee attacks with massive lunge (looking at you, call of duty). It was a terrible idea to start with, and it's terrible now.
Long range melee insta-kills are fucking retarded. I'm not denying this. (unless it's an entire weapon slot taken for it, aka - Energy Sword)
Quote Originally Posted by Warsaw View Post
So you are the type of player I mercilessly gunned down and blew up with grenades in Halo 1 for being a retard trying to get into melee range all of the time?
If you're suggesting I ran straight at people and didn't fire my gun on the way in, you just went full retard.

There's a reason it's not a very efficient play style in the first game. lol It's evident in the way melee works in the first game that it was supposed to be a finisher. It doesn't do enough damage to bring down all of a player's health in a single blow, to say nothing of depleting shields. Jump + Whack more or less drops shields and it's fun to do! The fact that it lacked lunge meant you had to actually consider when it was appropriate to use it and when it wasn't. Appropriate situations are assassinations, weakening moves, and finishing moves. Hence the focus on using it to finish people or better yet, make them backpedal into a delicious nade-friendly corner By itself, it's nearly worthless. Now all you have to do is get within 10 metres and smash "B". Yeah. That takes skill. Halo isn't about skill silly! It also makes it NOT fun for those who don't like the button-masher melee play style. Your type is not the only playstyle, hth. No but it's the one favoured by increased melee range so of course I'm going to have a positive subjective opinion about it

Lets say for sake of argument that I was instead a DMR whore (and in fact this is true for any open area I find myself in where there's no practical way to abuse melee). I'm going to 1- Believe having long range precision fire weapons (dohoho console controllers) is a good thing and 2 - Want to use this tactic in a setting which favours it over other styles. If you want it to work in all settings then apparently you're incapable of adapting and you must be some kind of baddy D:

It isn't legitimate unless they were within 1.5 metres. You can't dash 4-5 metres in a blink of an eye and clobber me in real life, and since certain games (such as Halo) are supposed to be roughly analogous of reality, why should it work there? Bullshit. I don't know about you but I'm not a brain washed augmented super soldier in a state of the art performance enhancing suit built 500 years in the future! You want to play as a melee-type, then you can be crafty in your movements and actually put some effort into playing. As it is , you are basically spoon-fed your kills.