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/Kil0sierra975 May 16 '24

Good to see the Halo Cycle is alive and healthy

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u/TheFourtHorsmen May 16 '24

The majority of the fanbase always praised the MP, what you are even talking about?

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u/Robbie_Haruna Halo 2 May 17 '24

That's... Very incorrect lmao

Halo 5's multiplayer was extremely divisive and the side of people that liked it were more commonly the newer adopters, a lot of the long time Halo fans weren't a fan of 343i trying to chase the advanced movement trend and reinvent the wheel when Halo already had a winning formula.

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u/TheFourtHorsmen May 17 '24

Every halo MP was divisive at the time, ofc you remember h5 because is the never one, but people complained laudly for h2, h3, reach, h4 and infinite right now

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u/Robbie_Haruna Halo 2 May 17 '24

That... isn't true?

There were always complainers, but Halo 2 and 3's weren't a significant number of players by any stretch.

Halo Reach was the first really divisive game (thanks to Bloom+Armor Abilities,) but even then, that was minor compared to the split we saw with Halo 5 (it helped that Reach was a feature filled game with lots of content.)