abohemian

My pertinent background: Born in the late 80's, as I grew and matured games increased in accessibility and complexity Played and LOVED the original Halo and was absolutely legendary among my peers Now that I'm in my mid-20s I have a healthy disposable income and look for ways to spend it on good games Feedback on Halo 4: First off, I acknowledge making a video game is a tremendous ordeal and is a great accomplishment in itself. Contriving an interesting and interactive story is a monumental feat. That said, the campaigns in the Halo franchise had been progressively deteriorating until Halo 4, which was only a slight improvement over feces. Halo 4 campaign is extremely linear and lame. The multiplayer is exciting and smooth, however there are horrendous hosting issues, problems with team balance, and no way of dealing with mischievous gamers disinterested in playing the objectives. New Halo coming to XBox One!?: The trailer made me laugh - it provoked a strong physical response and gave me the motivation to sign up on your site to give you my (likely unheard) feedback, so good job there. It looks ridiculous and lacks any good sense of story. My hopes aren't high for the game AND, most importantly for Microsoft, the trailer doesn't entice me to spend money on XBox One. Final statement: I get the sense that 343 doesn't care about creating a novel, sublime, and personal experience. Like the previous Halo iterations, I feel 343 is only concerned with exploiting my fondness for the Halo universe. I don't care if that's all 343 cares about, except that I don't want to spend more money on feces (or one step up)! So long as the Halo series continues to stumble into absurdity I will not be casting my capitalist vote on 343's incarnations of Halo. I hope that changes, because the Halo universe is a wonderful and exciting place to be. One that I would happily pay again and again to visit in fresh and faithful interpretations.