Poodlestrike
Banned
When people are passionate about something, it's frustrating to not see it live up its potential, especially if it's been falling short for 7 years. On a forum, this is how disappointment manifests itself.
I'll never get my fill of the guns-grenades-melee/ fair starts/ map control/ shield gameplay of the Halo franchise. Nothing will ever feel better than getting a reversal while one shot or solo capping a flag due to an overkill. It's second to none and sours me on most other FPS- most other games in general.
For me, that's why I don't just go do something else. Even though there are a lot of things I strongly dislike about this game, the core "haloisms" bring me back.
I agree. I can be a real asshat sometimes.
I'll try to better--I don't think what I did was right.
Trup touched on it, but I will have to say I'm not unaware of how dumb it looks. The thing is, Halo 5 has some really fun and satisfying things about it. Just the fact that I'm playing a Halo game and get to play it with friends is an exciting prospect. I just reconnected with an old High School friend and now we are running Doubles consistently. It's partly a character flaw for sure, but the game absolutely pisses me off in ways that other games (even harder games like CSGO) do not. Halo 5 is still a unique enough experience to me that I can only get with modern Halo, but it's not where I want it to be and it's frustrating.
Also, since this is a Halo enthusiast thread there is a level of expectation that someone here is probably interested in criticisms or discussion in these regards.
The HCS playlist, Team Doubles (in all of it's messiness), and the Extermination playlist and promises of a Classic playlist keep me coming back. I may think a lot of Halo 5 is rubbish, but I don't hate spending time with it.
I get coming back because there's a unique aspect to it, but still- regularly playing a game that you seems to just make you deeply unhappy can't be healthy, and while it's true that there's nothing else like Halo out there, there's stuff that can at least fill the gap until we get a good look at 6.
Since your referencing me. In all my video game playing time since 2000, I've spent a solid 50% of it on Halo. Also trying to make it in the streaming life and guess what most of my followers like/liked? I've been playing it forever, I'm good at it, I'm invested, people I'm around online like/liked it, I somehow still have hope in 343 to make a fantastic game (last chance in H6 beta tho). The game is actually decent, but 100 small issues that you never would guess would be plaguing a flagship title are killing it. Xbox in general has been pretty ass this gen.
Nah, not just you, or even you in specific really. Just the two most recent examples. I agree about the issues, but other than he follower stuff, I'm just not sure why someone who really really HATES the game (and, like, I get that it's just a pile of small issues, but they seem to dominate your thoughts on it) wouldn't just... move on. Wait for the next one.