Eurogamer: The original Halo Wars ends by putting itself in stasis, with the human warship Spirit of Fire coasting through void - its crew forced into cryosleep, its ultimate relation to the rest of the saga left open for debate.
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A former 343 developer has revealed that mountains of Halo pitches failed to be approved, including a return to ODSTs and a push for more intimate, dark themes.
Not really. 4, 5, MCC, and Infinite are only remembered for their shortcomings and failures when the franchise was purely known for being a system seller and an all-time great. There's a reason 1, 2, 3, and Reach are looked back on fondly, and it's not because of nostalgia.
I don't know of anyone that speaks fondly of the later Halo games, I would like to play 5, but I know it's not good, and I'm just waiting on Infinite to hit my strike price. I played MCC a lot later after it came out, so must of those bugs/issues were gone by the time I played it.
To say it dropped the massively is just not true. Many in the community hold H5 as the best mp mechanics in the entire series and say its what 4 should've been. Its campaign was trash but the MP is Fantastic and many faces of the community still play today and it only made 500mill in the matter of months but sure it dropped the ball massively. 4 was hated due to all the changes at once. And CoD like feature and rightful get hate but it's campaign story was liked by a majority of ppl. 343 hasn't nailed ot 100% but they get 1 thing perfect but F up in other places. Infinite had a good campaign and design but the story was a mess. The MP improves upon what Halo 3 was and is what many ppl wanted to go back to but it lacked content severely. So massively aint the word. Dropping the ball massively is when it's pure trash and unplay/unenjoyable. Most ppl blind by nostalgia so soon as 1 thing aint the same its hated cause Halo set the bar so high
FYI reach was not that good.
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Well written article. Part of it I agree with, haven't played Halo wars 2 yet so can't comment on that. But 343 did fuck up the story, they took one of the greatest stories in gaming and made it generic.
As far as multiplayer goes thought, they've justified everything they did wrong with the campaign. It is simply incredible, over a year after release and STILL gets free content every month. Not to mention the unlimited amount of fun custom games provide.
The story kept me around for over a decade and the co-op mode which complimented the fantastic campaigns.
Ever since 343 took over,the series lost its brilliance to me. I hoped Destiny would fill that sci ci FPS void but nope.
I stopped caring for the HALO Series a little bit after Halo 2
A few years ago I recently went back and replay the first two games and realized just how bad their single players actually were lol
I still enjoy the multiplayer in the first Halo and definitely like some of the close corridors like multiplayer in the second but for me it was sort of short lived
I believe the problem with the series might be it's bi yearly release I believe the frequency might be a little bit too high and maybe they need to hold off from releasing a Halo.
The not to compare Halo to Call of Duty or Assassin's Creed I believe the frequency of their releases might be a bit stagnating to the user base as to why they're starting to sell a little less, I think they need to work a little longer on that series and allow users to miss it a little bit.