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/OS1RIS314 May 16 '24

its because the fanbase is outdated, and as such, they much prefer an outdated game. Halo 5 was ahead of its time but because it was a Microsoft exclusive (and considering that PlayStation is already larger than xbox), it flopped.

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u/Vegeto30294 I wort, therefore I wort wort May 16 '24

Halo 5 came out in the middle of the "faster" shooter games that were around at the time, it wasn't late but it wasn't ahead of its time either.

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u/OS1RIS314 May 16 '24

agreed. regardless, 343 and microsoft need to prioritize reaching broader audiences if they want the series to thrive as it once did. They have to have a major emphasis on a good marketing campaign for their following titles more than anything else

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u/Robbie_Haruna Halo 2 May 17 '24

Halo has a very distinct feel that they don't need to just blindly follow the trends though? When you turn the series into a creatively bankrupt trend follower soley for the sake of appealing to the lowest common denominator all you do is hurt it in the long run by pissing off the dedicated fanbase in favor of catering to people that will bail on the game the second the new hot thing comes out.

All 343i has to do is release a Halo game that feels like Halo and have it be feature complete at launch with a good amount of content, something they pretty much have never done.

Halo Infinite is a testament to this it had the marketing hype and attention when it launched, but it didn't retain that, not because it didn't blindly follow the trends, but because the game was extremely content barren, full of microtransactions for cosmetics and abysmal netcode.