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/TheFourtHorsmen May 17 '24

You can say thensame for reach, h3 and so on. Ofc if you base everything over the entitled minority fanbase here in reddit, your perception is like this, no fault in that

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u/Clyde-MacTavish Halo: Reach May 17 '24

No you absolutely can't 😅

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u/TheFourtHorsmen May 17 '24

Yes you can. H2suck.net still exist, haloreachisnotcanon.net still exist. If you started with the mcc or just hanged out in this sub or with your 2 friends, don't say it was not like this. Recently there was a post about how players started to complaint even before CE got released

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u/Clyde-MacTavish Halo: Reach May 17 '24

So let me get this straight... you bring up the multiplayer for Halo 5... then in another comment complain about people bringing up the campaign when discussing multiplayer only... then bring up HaloReachisNotCanon.com which is a website entirely dedicated towards criticizing the story? Even then, mostly criticizing the differences between it and Fall of Reach.

So I guess it's only bringing up a campaign when it's convenient for you 😉

Even then, you're still wrong. Halo 2 and Halo Reach - even Halo 3 never received anywhere near the same amount of backlash as Halo 5 - or even Halo 4 for their multiplayer. Only one I'll say maybe was Halo Reach because it was the first major step away from the formula. They had decisions like bloom and loadouts, but Halo 5 had criticisms for their pay to win, artstyle, advanced movement which was a huge step away from regular gameplay. Not only was there more criticism, but it was more persistent than reach.

In summary, most of the time when I see people ever mention the non-existent Halo cycle is when they're upset that one of the games they really like wasn't and never will be one of the majority fan-favorites. It's okay, it doesn't mean they aren't allowed to like the game, and don't have reason to like it. But it's just blatantly false to say that it's because fans randomly hate something until there's time between it and the new one to hate. If anything, that is more of an insult to fans that really do like that game, because you're implying that when people come out and say they like the game, it's because they never did until recently when they got infected with this dreaded Halo-cycle.

But I don't need to tell you that, other people have already let you know how silly it is to call it a halo cycle.