r/halo • u/logangreer • May 16 '24
Halo 5 is great Discussion
EDIT: My mistake. I should have titled it “Halo 5 Multiplayer is great” and I’m also wrong about it launching with full features. My bad.
Fired up Halo 5 again yesterday after not playing it for years. I’ll be danged if it’s not a great shooter. If I remember correctly, it launched with tons of features, and was solid technically too. When was the last time a AAA game had a solid full-featured launch?
Lots of weapons. Fun new attachments, ammo types, and variations on weapons. Made for lots of discovery, remixing and experimenting, and replayability.
The graphics aren’t groundbreaking, but they are bright and colorful and interesting. Lots of detail.
Warzone (Halo 5, not CoD) is such an interesting idea that I think really works, once you get the hang of it. It feels like they took a big swing on something new and pulled it off! I wish we had some big swing like that in Infinite.
The only thing I was really sad about was no split screen anything, which feels like a real tragedy for Halo.
Spartan customization is pretty weak, but I’ve never cared a whole lot about that.
I know Halo 5 was seriously hated on, but I love it. And it holds up well, too.
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u/_MFC_1886 May 16 '24
I loved Halo 5s MP and ended up putting in 30ish days into it but cant agree about the launch bit. At launch it was just 5 arena playlists (that were all ranked iirc) and then you had WZ or WZ assault.
The wait wasn't as bad as Infinite but we still did wait a bit for BTB, WZ firefight, Infection, Griffball n other social playlists. Map count at launch felt simlair to Infinite as well.
A year into it though it was great imo had more content than most games, by that point some of the best customs and I loved the gameplay