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Reach is the best actual campaign.

2 is my GOAT

 

when I'm rating Halos, I am only rating the campaign.

Infinite, Reach and 5 are tied for me when it comes to competitive, MP, but 3 was the most fun.

 

I tried escaping Halo discussions only to find more of it here. It seems there is no escape. lol

Infinite is good. In fact, it plays better than nearly all the other Halo games and is, imo, the first 343 game to have both a good campaign and a good MP. It just failed as a live service. Partly because they had to spend all their resources finishing co-op and forge. The game should have been delayed another year but oh well.

343's tenure has been a weird one to say the least. They made a game with the actual best aiming in the entire franchise(H4) while simultaneously making it play like CoD for some god forsaken reason. H5's multiplayer is probably the most skill based of all the games other than CE but it also doesn't really play like Halo either. Plus, its campaign isn't good. MCC was garbage for years until they decided it wasn't going to be. Also, they're the ones that fixed Reach. Just a bizarre company.

 

ODST was a lot of fun

 

Halo Wars

 

I’m a Halo Wars addict

 

This is it really. It’s not that it wasn’t good, it’s that it wasn’t nearly as well executed as a service game as its competitors are. People expect better from Halo in that regard.

 

PlayStation just needs to bring back Haze now that Halo is dead.

 

One of the reasons I bought an Xbox was to try halo for the first time. Infinite just felt mid. I know the running joke of all the delays, but it needed more time so it could have had more options at launch. Multiplayer gameplay was fun but without nostalgia and no incentive to keep playing, I just stopped. There’s too many live service fighting for my time.

The campaign and the world just felt so hollow.

 

The best thing about this game is that they got Korn to promote it with an original song and music video.

 

Every halo game has a great campaign but the multiplayer has fallen off hard since reach

 

Exactly, the gameplay has never been the problem, that's always been good. It's everything else

 

It is interesting to see the success of Gears 5 MP amongst all the live service games. I play it almost daily and it’s still very active despite them moving on to 6.

 

I distinctly remember playing that game when it launched and one time when I was trying to snipe enemies the bullets would just disappear/hit an invisible wall or drop off or something. I have no idea what happened. It just wasn't good.

This little piece from Free Radical is interesting about what went wrong:

"We were transitioning new consoles and we wanted to do something that would make good use of all of the power those machines would bring," explains former-Free Radical director Steve Ellis, attempting to reconstruct what went wrong with Haze. A new generation property on new hardware seemed like "an appropriate time" for Free Radical to ditch its aging internal engine, which was originally crafted for TimeSplitters.

"Pretty much everything turned out to be harder than we expected, Ellis admits. "The AI system, although great in theory, wasn't living up to our hopes, and creating the new engine required a lot more time and effort than we had in the schedule. The problem was that by the time we realised this we'd already signed a contract to deliver a particular game at a particular point in time."

"We didn't have the luxury of developing the new engine and tools chain to completion before rolling them out for the development team," continues Derek Littlewood, Creative Director on Haze. "We had an aggressive early schedule for Haze – all of which meant that development had to start in earnest using still-immature technology.

"We knew we had these issues to resolve and so wanted a chunk of extra time to be able to polish and refine the game."

These setbacks caused Free Radical's relationship with Ubisoft, Haze's publisher, to suffer. The team got the extra time it needed – Haze went through a number of small delays – but the underlying problems with the game were hardly addressed. Instead, Ubisoft wanted more features, more 'content.' With the dev team's efforts spent on making Haze bigger rather than better, morale at Free Radical started to run low.

"Rather than actually working on the things that the delay was originally intended to give us time to solve, much of the extra time was either used talking about potentially delaying the game further or implementing extra features," says Littlewood.

 

Just a reminder that Haze was made by the TimeSplitters people

 

Exoprimal is a fun game, been playing a couple hours of it and I think it could be a hit honestly.

 

Basically the exact opposite of what I’ve heard about this game so far. Glad you like it though. I still plan on checking it out too

 

It’s still so crazy how they are releasing monthly updates for the halo collection tho

 

Jim Ryan fumbling all those other IPs strictly for CoD is insane

 

READY TO BE A REAL GAMER AGAIN

 

COD probably makes more money than all the other Activision IPs combined so I don't think Jim Ryan is all too sad. I'm pretty pissed that Crash and Spyro will likely not be on Playstation anymore

 

Yeah, that’s a huge loss.

 

Nuketown map truly peak gaming

 

I like everything about exoprimal except for the dinosaur stuff lol they were so close

 

sometimes I wish we could get live streams of people trying to find easter eggs because sometimes I see absurd Easter eggs and I’m like how did they find this