Tomakazi

Post your ages. Just curious. Ill start it off- 19

Why does this surprise people. Halo Reach was awful. Competitive gamers dont want to play Reach. Hence Halo Reach not on the competitive circuit. Yeah it's a damn shame but i mean they cant force people to want to play an awful game (no offense). Hopefully Halo 4 brings back the competitive gamers.

hayabusa was ugly as ****. No.

99% sure? Seems like a pretty bold prediction on something that I'm 99% you're wrong about.

.....theres literally 13 people saying the same exact thing on this thread. Do you really think that was necessary, or are you just trying to get your post count up..

Doubtful. And if they do theyll take away some of my favorite parts such as BXRing, double shots, superjumping, getting out of maps, ect. Itll never be the same.

ehh...not liking the idea.

General grade 2 i believe. 50 in Slayer, Doubles, and snipes. Soop soop

I honestly loved everything about Halo 2. Wouldn't change a thing. edit- nevermind just read the post before mine. I would agree, they should put the servers back up for Halo 2 multiplayer.

Just wanna say how I miss back when around H3 first came out and when me and all my friends would spend hours looking for all the skulls and stuff in campaign. Like all those easter eggs too and ish. Those were the days...

You're fat.

Crawlers. Taking the idea from crawlers from zombies in Cod. Nice work 343...

This may just be the dumbest thread of all time. Congrats.

Either way, you werent there for the prime. You never got to understand all the hype and thrill around it when Halo was in its prime. Halo was THE game back in the day, CoD honestly wasnt anywhere close in popularity

I read the OP, but didnt bother reading the rest. But I am just gonna say this to the original poster- you're saying that a "true diehard Halo player" should just stop complaining and live with the changes, but if you picked up the game at the Halo 3 stage, you can not consider yourself a "true hardcore, diehard, death to the grunts halo fan". You never got to see Halo in its prime and glory. You never got to understand why those of us who were there in the beginning loved the old ones so much better, and hate all the changes. That's just my 2 cents..

Yes. Sadly, 343 feels differently than you and I.

Well, it appears I won't be buying Halo 4, or any future Halo games for that matter. Oh well. Its been fun 1-3.. r.i.p Halo

are some of you guys serious? its cheating? I'm speechless. Yes, it should be in the next halo...

Halo 2. Halo 3 was way too easy to rank up. In Halo 2, I got a 37 and was damn proud of it. Anybody who was above like a 42(who got it legit) were extremely talented. Halo 3 on the other hand i got 50's in 4 playlists as well as being high 40's in the others..it was just too easy to rank up. As someone said before, some kids with 50's could be amazing while others could be awful.

The unicorn and wolf are obviously the emblems of the guys with the highest score...

Agreed. 343 is killing the competitive aspect of Halo

Joining games in progress? They are literally trying to become a sci-fi version of cod...are they kidding.

How on earth did you tear apart my argument? I stand by everything I said 100%, and your arguments are garbage and half of them don't make any sense... Thank you. Agreed 100%.

Points I'd like to make in response to your posts: - Sales doesn't have any connection to how to the success of the game, at least in the eyes of the consumer. I know plenty of people who bought the game, anticipating another as re-playable as the previous Halo's, yet they ended up either selling it or its currently collecting dust on the shelf. - Halo used to be THE game for Xbox. The first 2 games were immensely more popular than their Cod counterpart. Nowadays, Cod outshines Halo by a landslide. Many of those who were diehard Halo players during the Halo CE/2/3 era have now switched over to Cod since they were unhappy with Reach. - I understand that they need to change the game. CE to Halo 2 was much different, as well as Halo 2 to Halo 3. But what I angry about is that they are not changing things that need it (such as Armor abilities). - Look at MLG for an example of the decline of competitive Halo players. Halo went from being the main game for MLG and increasing in popularity by each event, into almost non-existant in the Reach days, with MLG even thinking about dropping Reach completely. - If there is a sufficient ranking system, such as in Halo 2 and 3, I will consider buying. If they do not have it, they are taking away the competitive nature of Halo, thus infuriating many Halo fans such as myself. I know I am not the only one disappointed with Reach

I'm just gonna post here to vent my frustrations. I used to love Halo. Me and my friends would literally play Halo 2 for hours and hours on end, either playing multiplayer, or just sitting around in customs messing around. Halo 3, although in my opinion was not as good as 2, also had a great "play again" aspect. Then, frankly, Reach was awful. I enjoyed the campaign, but honestly I playED Halo for the multiplayer. Everything was wrong about Reach. First, wasn't a fan of the DMR. I could deal with it, but wasn't a fan at all. What really pissed me off was the armor abilities. Armor abilities are a joke, the only one actually plays decent in a matchmaking game is sprint. But even that makes this not feel like Halo at all. The thing that angered me the most was the matchmaking system. No ranking system?!? What the hell was the point of playing? To get points so that my spartan looked different? It gave me zero incentive to play what was already a ****ty game. I do not care at all about becoming a major by playing X amount of games... all i want is to get my 50. It's amazing to look back and see how I spent hours on end playing Halo 2 and 3 with my friends, yet I've played Reach for maybe a week until I realized how awful it was and put it down for good. Honestly When I heard 343 was picking up the next Halo trilogy, I had a glimmer of hope. Especially after learning the my BR was back, I was convinced 343 would go back to the Halo 2/3 golden days. I saw that initial viddoc or whatever it was, and even then I was still convinced that they were reverting back to the old days, even though it was evident that sprinting would be back. But hey, i could deal with sprint. But then today I learned of everything else that Halo 4 was supposed to have... loadouts? Return of armor abilities? An ability to see through walls? Are you kidding? Literally EVERYONE I know considered Reach an utter failure, yet your bringing back the things that killed it? And then the point system they have gives us every indication that rankings will again be left out, and instead it is just a "play for the sake of playing" game. The reason me and so many people I knew played the first Halos was because of the competitive aspect of it. You wanted to be the best, you wanted to get the higher rank, you wanted to win. How could they not realize what made so many of us hate Reach; the fact that they add all this **** takes away the competitive aspect of the game, thus ruining the game for us. For me, Halo 4 would be a make or break game that determined whether or not I would even consider buying 5 and 6 in the future. Unfortunately, it appears that 4 will be another Reach, and therefore I will be done with the Halo games. I understand that they can't just make another Halo 2 or Halo 3, but they need to realize how unhappy a majority of their fan base was with Reach and then cater to what they want. Unfortunately, it seems as though Halo is going down the drain.