Ok where to start, where to start... Number one. -Do you think there might be a reason that everyone wants the classic Halo back? Because ITS BETTER. If you would've been a big enough player of Halo 1-3 you would've known that at times, there were several hundred-thousand people online at once. Constantly. Ever since Reach came out the highest I've seen was about 120,000, and that was incredibly high. That's because the gameplay was altered and messed with so much that not one fourth of as much people like it. The amount of people playing Call of Duty is still rising, and shows no sign of stopping. Used to, if you had an Xbox, YOU PLAYED HALO. Then with the release of big games like Call of Duty, etc, Halo had some competition. Bungie thought it would be A GREAT idea if they took stuff from Call of Duty and incorporated their ideas into Halo. "Hey. Call of Duty has a lot of people playing their games, and they have classes. Lets rename them and put them in our game.", "Hey, Call of Duty has lots of players. Lets take their ranking system and take our old one out. This will make the players that are bad, not seem so bad. No one complained about the old ranking system because it was so efficient, but Call of Duty's is good too, right??", "Hey, lets take out Bungie Favorites", "Hey lets lower jump height, that sounds fun", "Hey lets make you walk slower, that sounds fun. Anyways, we have cool new armor abilities like Sprint!". These were all bad decisions that changed Halo completely. It isn't the same game. It's an ok game. Not a good Halo game. LESS PEOPLE PLAY BECAUSE IT'S THIS WAY. IT ISN'T HALO.
Number two. Assassinations were a horrible addition. You never have enough time to assassinate someone in the middle of a game without anyone else trying to kill you. Any time you try to you either get killed, or shields so far down that you die afterwards because of it. Spartans wouldn't carry knives. They're 2-ton super-soldiers. Anything they cant punch through would probable just ruin a knife. Unrealistic, impractical, not a spartan.
Number three. I was the ' A**H**** ' that said it looks grungy and bulky because it is. You need to keep your profanity and flaming out of these forums. A lot of the people on this forum are apart of this site because they've been playing Halo for at least a decent amount of time, and would like to talk to others about.old school Halo-gamers. Not saying that you don't, (I don't know if you do) but most of us remember how awesome Halo used to be and how the community was. We want that back. Spartans aren't obese infantry, they're skilled super soldiers that are sleek and mobile. They don't need armor thats 4 inches thick. If they actually did wear 4 inch thick armor, #1 they wouldn't be able to move around very well at all, and #2 pretty much NOTHING would kill them making Reach even more unrealistic. I realize it's Halo and it doesn't have to be completely realistic, but stuff like that has had common sense in the past.Yours truly, @RANMAN10