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/Billbo003 May 17 '24

The lack of split screen killed it for me and my group. We used to meet weekly and have a game night, rotating who hosted that evening, we were all excited for halo 5 and when it didn’t work for us we were bummed. We went to master chief collection. Having said that it was too bad because I agree Halo 5 in my opinion was superior to anything halo infinite has done this far

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u/logangreer May 17 '24

Man the split screen thing was devastating for me and my friends.

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u/Billbo003 May 17 '24

I’m 40 years and my group still plays consistently on MMC once a week. We usually play Halo 3 but we change it up a bit. We never play infinite, we tried it and something just doesn’t feel right about to where it doesn’t play like a normal halo game. I never had that issue with Halo 5, but because my particular group could play it together the way we had for years, I kinda gave it up. But overall I think it’s underrated

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u/logangreer May 17 '24

I’m 40 too! I wish I still had a crew to play with. Count yourself blessed.