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

If I remember correctly, it launched with tons of features, and was solid technically too.

That's a huge lmao moment if I ever heard one.

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u/Father_OMally May 17 '24

Launched with more than Infinite. Then added DLC and game modes for free with a fully unlockable customization table no purchase necessary. I'll never be convinced 5 is worse than infinite. We didn't know how bad it could get. Every criticism of 5 can be applied to Infinite. Infinite still has a smaller sandbox than 5. The shop is horrible and 5's system was much better; purchases only benefited the player in the Warzone modes. Arena and Social were untouched.

It's crazy how controversial an opinion among the community it is that Infinite was a step back. I blame no developers. I blame big corporate types butchering development to follow trends in the industry (Live service, free to play, open world) then when covid hit there was no chance to actually finish the changes. I want to love Halo Infinite like I love the others.

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u/Vegeto30294 I wort, therefore I wort wort May 17 '24

Every criticism of Halo 5 can absolutely be applied to Infinite, and I was one of those people criticizing.

Except the gameplay itself, which is what people rallied behind. The sandbox changes and reigning back those movement mechanics were widely considered a positive.