DarthWeasel

My first impressions are that the game looks beautiful but has a plethora of issues. The new sound effects are jarringly different from what Halo sounds like. Most of the new weapon sounds belong in CoD and the plasma weapons are awfully quiet with no feel of impact. Also the timing for the melee sound effect is off. There is a distinctive pause between when melee impacts and you here the sound. Additionally melee sounds are so quiet you can't hear them over any other sound going on with this same issue for the warthog engine sounds. An option to turn Remastered sounds and music off without turning off the remastered graphics would be a great feature that hopefully will be added in by a patch. In halo 2 campaign there are a lot of missing objects in the campaign that were in the original. For example there are a massive amount of crates and other objects missing in the level Outskirts. Not sure why this is but it really stands out. Can't play the multiplier yet due to the server issues but the fact that there is only one Halo 2 classic playlist is so disappointing I don't even want to bother with it anymore. I can play halo 3 and 4 on my 360 with all the features they took away intact (such as armor customization). I bought this game mainly to play Halo CE and Halo 2 on xbox live and My options are so limited that there is no point. Armor customization has been largely removed and replaced with armor sets so you can't mix and match armor. since most of halo 4's armor permutations looked awful this isn't such a bad loss in that game but in halo 3 its sorely missed. Halo 4 is also missing the DLC armor and abilities as well as weapon skins. Most of the emblems from old games are back in however most of the old ones look goofy. Just look at the mark of shame for an example. The emblems color choices are not all that great as well. All in all the game is very unstable with far to many crash bugs. Literally my first mission in crashed. Halo MCC is a lot less than what it should have been. How it shipped with so many problems is beyond me. Edit: The halo 2 anniversary multiplayer weapons look more like the originals than the remastered weapons in the campaign and they look better too. It's almost like two different development teams worked on this project both with their own view of what halo should look like. Whats that all about?

Is there an option to turn the new sound effects off while still playing on the new graphics? I find the new sound effects sound jarringly out of place in halo with few exceptions. For example the pistol or SMG sounds sound like they belong in CoD not Halo and the plasma weapon sounds are really quiet and have no feel of impact. Same thing with the melee sounds which also have a noticeable pause between when you impact and when the sound is played.

Will we be able to get those pre order bonus skulls in game or as DLC after release?

i really want this game to be a dual release for xbox one and xbox 360. what i want in the game the specter is an amazing vehicle to play with. it was only in halo 2 and a more maneuverable warthog type vehicle for the covenant. dual wielding added tactical depth to halo's multiplayer and a way to more easily defeat power weapons by giving a re spawned player more power. plus the weapon combo's add much more variety in ways to fight. classic plasma rifle. for many reasons it feels more like halo with the plasma rifle than the other attempts. the flood needs a return. halo feel's less... scary? intense? challenging? it definitely feels less varied without them. a more melee and swarm based enemy adds variety.

Honestly halo 2 had it right with the multiplayer. by far the best halo game multiplayer wise. for those of you who didn't play it in its prime i feel sorry for you. but i think 343 should model halo 5 multiplayer directly from halo 2.

i agree. i would also like original sounds and music. the halo 4 music was terrible. it'd also be nice to have more detail oriented items in forge like bodies or destroyed vehicle chassis.

well then it looks like i'll never be playing it then. what a shame.

I've been searching all over the internet to find out if the next halo will be on xbox 360 or just the xbox one. Seeings how i will never buy an xbox one for the reasons many other people won't im kinda hoping that the next halo will be a dual release. Anyone have any info on that?

no backwards compatibility?

the droids are worse a character than than jar jar binks. a shallow enemy that acts about as intelligently as lucasarts business practice. i feel more sorry for the grunts. they're cute and say funny things.

i'd stop buying halo if i get disgusted with business practice or product. i stopped buying ea games for both reasons.

this will kill the used game market and renting a game will become a thing of the past. also if i buy a game i'd prefer to have the right to do with it whatever i please. im betting there will be a lot of people hacking the xbox one.

think they can do away with pre order bonuses as well? would be nice not to have to buy 5 copy's of a game from 5 different retailers just to get the full game.

it is obvious to me that you have never played halo 2 in its prime.

the hardest thing about being a spartan. there's no one to come back to.