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I remember jumping around Guardian in Halo 3. It's like the map was designed to allow you to fluidly move from place to place. When you add sprint, it takes that element out. If you don't know what I'm talking about, go jump around Guardian for a while. Or you see someone running in the distance and you throw the perfect nade, timing it so that they'll run right into it, but then-- they take off sprinting. The skill of your grenade tossing is going to be negated as more luck is going to be involved. Then there is the guy who is caught out of position that is able to sprint away. He should be dead. Tactical play is less valuable.

Yes. Put AA's in the same gametype as scorpions, banshees, people carrying around turrets, and warthogs. Then have all the other gametypes w/o it.

I'm referring to the fanbase. I really don't think you can blame the decrease of players on other games coming out. Games come out all the time, why would any game big hugely popular if games are always coming out? People were looking for a new game. As for change. I'm a proponent of don't fix what isn't broken. I didn't see a need for any significant change from Halo 3. Therefore when HUGE changes came, I wasn't happy. Wouldn't soccer fans be irrate if players were using decoys and hiding behind boulders, jumping off trampolines and so on? Yes they would. They would want soccer back. Sure, some people would be like, "This is hilarious, this game just got a whole lot more interesting." (I would be one of those guys, soccer is boring to me.) A lot of the reason you like Reach is not because of the matchmaking, which is all I really care about. That's where we differ and that's fine. 343i is aware of this and will find a way to make us both happy. (I hope)

You guys understand that Reach was a flop, right? Do you think Halo: Reach 2 would be a good idea? Expanding on an idea that works is what they need to do. That's why EVERYONE brings up Halo 2 and 3. I shouldn't have to "handle" change. It's their job to make me want and accept the change (which clearly worked for you guys.) That's where Reach failed for me.

First off, I don't know what bungie was thinking with Reach. I'll try to not get started on how BAD that game is. 343i knows this. They want Halo's fanbase back. So they're going back to it's bread and butter. Back to how Halo 2 and 3 was. But Reach created a problem. They're called armor abilities. Some people like them, some people don't. I for one, think they're stupid and ruin the flow of the game. But 343i is going to have to incorporate them, in some way, because they're after ALL Halo fans. This is about money, people. I get it and I can deal with this. There will be armor abilities. My hope is that they can implement it in a way that players can get that old Halo flow of things back. The BR is going to help with this. The jumping/gravity will help with this. I believe they're on the right track.