A) Despite those times I say "Halo 4 is a great game" and praise its mechanics and core gameplay? Despite saying to take the multiplayer impressions with a grain of salt because I was playing solo in a prerelease environment?
You must have missed most of the section on the campaign gameplay, or how much fun the game is despite the small issues I take with portions of it. Should I have had a section on what makes the movement and shooting fantastic? How do you describe what makes that kind of thing good without resorting to worthless adjectives like "punchy,", the FPS equivalent of the shitty tech buzzword, "snappy." I'm not misrepresenting my own opinion here, I promise. The problems I had, that I enumerated, are largely disparate structural elements that can be adjusted. The core gameplay, which is dramatically more important, needs no defense. If I wasn't fully clear, the part where you shoot internet cyborg men, which you'll be doing 95% of the time in this game, is great. How much more explanation do you require?
Might also be worth keeping in mind that I played just one coop game, since the population of a given Spartan Ops mission is so low that it would have taken another 20 minutes to find a match. It could have just been luck of the draw. I felt it was better to relay my experience than to be wishy-washy about it, though that may have been a mistake in hindsight.
See my edit above. Core gameplay is hard to describe without resorting to ultimately meaningless generalities. I realize that criticism takes up a lot more text space than praise, but the amount of text it takes to describe a given low or high point is not proportional to their importance to the package as a whole.
Hard to say off the top of my head with any specifics. I would wager that there is much less aim acceleration, since you can really whip that reticule around if you want to. Magnetism and aim assist are harder to judge, but I never found myself thinking I hit a shot that I should have missed, which happens every once in a while with Reach.
Yeah, I saw that. Very flattering, I've been a big urk fan since he created the greatest NeoGAF thread in history.
Same for Western Tennessee, a bunch of squares.
All I see is an abundance of power weapons. Booo!!!!!!
Something I noticed but forgot to mention is that in Dominion matches, the different maps appear to have different resupply "palettes." On Vortex, when a base resupplies, mostly Promethean power weapons drop, so you get Scattershots, Suppressors, Incineration Cannons, and Binary Rifles. Longbow used the human power weapon set. So it seems like they do have the ability, on some level, to tailor the ordnance spawns. It's possible that it was just chance that I got the weapons I did, I suppose.
