Why do people say that halo reach sucked?

Question

I'm serious with this question and I'm not trolling anyone. I love the halo franchise and I've followed bungie since marathon. To me halo reach was what everyone wanted for the series. It had a great story, solid game play with new features like assassinations and the ability to finally sprint. The multiplayer is solid and the community is one of the best around. Forge and theater mode let players create new worlds and new stories. Did people turn it down because of the bullet bloom, or the fact that you felt like you could die in the game like you did in halo 1 since your health doesn't recharge, or was it too different than halo 3 for the fans that only played 3 and went to cod? Is it the fact that the weapons require more skill to use? Was it armor abilities (Armor lock should have never ever been introduced)? Was it because the DMR isn't a BR (halo 3's br sucked for me but I loved halo 2's :D )? Is it bacause the stories are in depth, original, and not drowned out by explosins and swearing. I would like well thought out answers and not answers like CODs the best.

Answer 1

Armor lock slows down gameplay and are for noobs that need their teammates to save their sorry azz from dying. And it has no counter.



Jet packs break maps apart, they can get you from any angle because their up so high they also gernade spam.



Active camo, seriously you need to be invicible to get a kill? GTFO



hologram is pointless the only people that get fooled by that are BK's and guests.



And bloom doesn't work right since it's so random that's why 343 is going to fix bloom come September.



As far as the story it was pretty stupid how the noble members died. I busted out laughing when kat died. Carters death was so predictable. Emilie's death was because he was ignorant. Jorge and noble 6 where probably the only epic deaths. Plus during the whole game it felt like I was chasing after the covenant. It didn't feel like they were invading us.



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Answer 2

Personally, i hated the game. i think there was a lot of reasons for this tho, one being Halo 3 was the first xbox game i had ever played, and i enjoyed it enough to make my own live account and start playing for myself. it was so fun, i loved the multiplayer, and the custom games were great. i was never really into forge, i made a few maps, but it didn't matter cuz my friends made tons and we would custom games on they're maps. i had tried other games like modern warfare 2 when it came out a few months later, but halo was always my favorite. then about a year or two later when i heard that halo reach would be coming out, you could imagine my excitement..... until i got the game and found out what it was all about.



when getting halo reach i assumed it would be a great improvement from halo 3, but instead it was just a huge letdown. it wasnt anything like the game i loved before, it just felt very repeatative. now keep in mind i never played the campaign in either of the games (i prefer the social aspects of games like these) so i really cant judge on that. but what i really didnt like about reach, was mainly the maps. i thought most of the maps were just awful, and alot of them like some of the ones on living dead were the same maps just designed differently in different places on the map. also, i really hated the abilities. the reason i loved halo 3 so much is because it was simple. everyone started with the same armor, and same weapon, therefore no one had an advantage. on some maps it would be a race to the rocket launcher, or the energy sword but that was what i liked about it. if you wanted that special weapon everyone else wanted, you had to battle for it. it was simple, the maps were all very different, and everyone started out equal. also i thought the custom games were far better in halo 3 then reach. the maps were tinier and the games were more enjoyable, rather then on reach where apparently the forge was easier.i never played any fun custom games on reach, whereas in halo 3 everyone had fun doing the custom games.



so really, i hated reach becuase halo 3 was far better, and there were alot more games out there that were just more fun then reach was.

Answer 3

Halo Reach, for what it is, is a very good game. It fills its niche and does so well.

However, there are people who look at games like Call of Duty and Halo and see their popularity and see other game developers release games that try to match CoD's and Halo's gameplay so that they can ride on their coattails and make the mad cash Bungie and Activision are... And these people disgusted because nearly every modern FPS is a Halo or CoD 4 clone. And these people are sick of it. And I am too.

Answer 4

Probably because they didn't like it. Personally I loved it and had some fun, but if you'd played Halo before then it was nothing new really. Maybe they don't like how samey it is, maybe it's the lack or realism, maybe it's because of how popular it is or maybe because it's only an average shooter which has been polished to perfection. Regardless it really doesn't matter. We like it, they don't; there's not much else to it.

Answer 5

CoD is da best. Me and Me troll friends play only CoD. Halo is for girls.

Answer 6

lol, comeon, because halo reach is a bad game, we used to buy halo to fight with aliens in forest, not to fight aliens in super militar bunkers, this halo wasnt good enough......

Answer 7

both CoD & Halo are overrated, end of discussion.

Answer 8

Halo sucks. PERIOD.