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[Ainem Enamas]

Bought it last year on Black Friday sale, now got a new 85 inch QLED TV and decided to play it. It's my first Halo game, I remember watching Infinite walkthrough on YouTube years back. It's developed by 343, such bad critiques they are having for these newer Halo games. The game is great, the visuals are so beautiful, gameplay is snappy and thought-out. Why are they having these bad critiques for handling Halo games? If this how Halo Infinite plays then the game us superb
What, we now hate MS related things because it's cool...?

...thinking ...now I've bought many games even from 360 era during this year's Black Friday sale, also the old Tomb Rider games...gaming is so awesome - actually the definition of what a 'game' is, I remember way back, playing real-life hide-and-seek, playing 'tag' by riding bycicles...and now we got games in video format. I'm glad there's so huge backlog of games that it literally would last until the World's end... because that Mark of the Beast is coming (that's written in God's Book)...

 

[adamsapple]

Guardians's game play wasn't the main critique, it was the story and how it handled the Chief vs Locke 'conflict' so poorly after marketing it as an epic 1 v 1 thing through the trailers.

But, yes, the game is extremely snappy and feels good to play even today.

 

[Dacvak]

It just doesn’t hit the highs that some of the previous games do, but it’s a great game. Especially on a mechanical level. So is Infinite, in my opinion.

I sort of felt the same way about Call of Duty. I’d never played a CoD game before, but I randomly decided to play MWII (the newer one) this year, and I thought it was a fine game. Excellent gun play, so the rest doesn’t matter too much to me. That’s how I feel about the modern Halo games, too.

That being said, there’s no question that the Bungie-developed Halo games are certainly better.

 

[Banjo64]

Guardians's game play wasn't the main critique, it was the story and how it handled the Chief vs Locke 'conflict' so poorly after marketing it as an epic 1 v 1 thing through the trailers.

But, yes, the game is extremely snappy and feels good to play even today.

A lot of MP die hards hated the gameplay. Clamber was targeted particularly. Personally thought it was miles better than 4 and even Infinite. Firefight was fantastic.

 

[ozz ex machina]

A lot of MP die hards hated the gameplay. Clamber was targeted particularly. Personally thought it was miles better than 4 and even Infinite. Firefight was fantastic.

It;'s funny because now I think a lot of the hardcore players really miss halo 5 multiplayer. But yeah it took a lot of shit at the time, it was always much better than 4 though which is by far the worst halo game in the series.

 

[ResilientBanana]

Halo is funny, people always like the newest version eventually, but only when they look back on it. Infinite has fantastic gameplay, as did Halo 5. The problem with Halo 5 for me was the aesthetics. I hated the look, but liked the gameplay.

 

[Ainem Enamas]

Halo is funny, people always like the newest version eventually, but only when they look back on it. Infinite has fantastic gameplay, as did Halo 5. The problem with Halo 5 for me was the aesthetics. I hated the look, but liked the gameplay.

I really like the visuals, the way it's combined to hold it all together

 

[Black_Stride]

Gameplay was never Halo 5s problem.
In fact I would argue it has the best MP of all the Halo games.

But the campaign was really really weak, even weaker than Halo Infinite.

 

[IFireflyl]

As others have said, the story was the biggest issue for Halo 5 (ignoring multiplayer since I really only play Halo for the campaign).

Having said that, being able to be revived in the campaign after you are incapacitated really rubbed me the wrong way. My AI teammates shouldn't be able to help me cheese Legendary by being able to revive me. Yes, I know I can just restart checkpoint myself, but no other Halo did this (and Halo Infinite wisely did not do this), and I hated that functionality. I never replayed Halo 5 with the Iron Skull on (which disables being able to revive or being able to be revived).

 

[Sony]

Halo 4 and 5 were and are fantastic games that were shackled by the Halo mainline expectations. If they were spinoffs, they would have been received and remembered much better.

 

[Black_Stride]

As others have said, the story was the biggest issue for Halo 5 (ignoring multiplayer since I really only play Halo for the campaign).

Having said that, being able to be revived in the campaign after you are incapacitated really rubbed me the wrong way. My AI teammates shouldn't be able to help me cheese Legendary by being able to revive me. Yes, I know I can just restart checkpoint myself, but no other Halo did this (and Halo Infinite wisely did not do this), and I hated that functionality. I never replayed Halo 5 with the Iron Skull on (which disables being able to revive or being able to be revived).

The game also has the Warden Eternal.
Playing Solo even with said teammates was straight up shit, I honestly dont know how they didnt playtest those fights and realize that this isnt fun at all.

 

[Rockondevil]

I enjoyed the gameplay, but the campaign can fuck off.

 

[SHA]

Yeah, it's great.

 

[BigLee74]

Halo 5 was great. The MP especially. A little late to the party, but glad you’re enjoying it!

 

[King Dazzar]

I enjoyed the campaign the first time. But when I last tried again recently, I just couldn't get into fighting the shitty Prometheans again. Once and done for me unfortunately. But I'm also tired of Halo MCC now too.

Halo needs a defibrillator.

Fingers crossed for the Halo CE remake.

 

[cireza]

Played it once, never played it again.

 

[onnextflix5]

Hopefully this was a miss type and he meant halo 4, halo 5 and infinite are horrible.

 

[TheShocker]

Game play was great. MP levels were great. Weapon selection was great. I didn’t even mind the story. But the problem there in lies with 343i and their inability to stick anything with the franchise. 4,5, and now infinite were all reboots, but somehow poorly continued on plot lines from the previous games.

 

[vaibhavpisal]

Halo is criticised mainly by its fanbase.

Who play it for 500-1000 hrs.

Console warriors lap it up like gospel cause its own fanbase is criticising it. Impossible to convince them otherwise.

Also one more thing, Halo Infinite plays even better. Halo 5 is no slouch but Infinite just feels closer to a GOAT shooter in terms of gameplay.

 

[sainraja]

It is the only Halo game I have finished. I found it to be just OK. The gameplay was fine, not broken but I wanted it to play more like Destiny so it is a "me" issue. The Halo game I was really enjoying prior to this, but didn't finish (can't remember why now) is Halo Reach.

Never played the original outside of Halo 2 MP (have tried them for a bit now) because was never really into FPS games at that time.

 

[Nickolaidas]

Why didn't this one ever made it to PC?

 

[Three]

Halo is funny, people always like the newest version eventually, but only when they look back on it.

I believe because it has got worse with each iteration since Reach so they always look back on the previous iteration fondly.

 

[MakeMudosGreatAgain]

It's the only Halo I refuse to play again.
Ill-advised shambles of a game.

Enjoy.

 

[RCX]

 

[mrqs]

Back when I got my Series X, I played through every Halo game, from Combat Evolved to Reach.

Then I got to 4, and it just didn't click well. I left 4 and 5 for a later date but never got around to it.

Halo 2 was easily the pinnacle for me.

 

[BennyBlanco]

Never played 4 or 5. 4 is on PC. Worth it?

 

[Mister Wolf]

Never played 4 or 5. 4 is on PC. Worth it?

I enjoyed it.

 

[CuteFaceJay]

Why didn't this one ever made it to PC?

yeah i think at the time they released the MP only for PC because they tried to make the ESL halo thing happen.

 

[RCX]

Never played 4 or 5. 4 is on PC. Worth it?

No. 4 is ass.

Stop at Reach. There's no need to go any further. It's all rehashes after that.

 

[adamsapple]

Never played 4 or 5. 4 is on PC. Worth it?

Yeah, I actually liked 4 more than the other X360 era Halo games, which I know I'm in the minority.

 

[T-0800]

Game play is really good and I even finished it on Legendary by myself. Halo 4 has a better story but the game play is awful.

 

[ZehDon]

 

[MarkMe2525]

Game play is really good and I even finished it on Legendary by myself. Halo 4 has a better story but the game play is awful.

I thought Halo 4 had the best story telling... by far. Yes the bad guy was lame, but everything else hit the right notes.

 

[Ceadeus]

It IS a very good game. Fun and exhilarating from start to finish.