Halo 4: Will It Be Great?
If you’ve come across any of my previous articles you’ll know I have a long and somewhat loving relationship with the Halo franchise. The original Halo: Combat Evolved, was of course, my favorite FPS of all time. Halo 2 was one of my favorite mulitplayer games, however, the majority of the Halo 2 gaming community was rather ignorant. Too many times great games are over-run by an unwelcoming and annoying community of prepubescent (Sometimes adult) morons, who think because they managed to obtain a game that they are now entitled to ruin it for everyone. Which happens to be nearly every multiplayer game on the market whether it be for console or PC.
Regardless, that’s not my concern with Halo 4. Halo, for me, has gotten worse down the line. Although, I prefer Reach over Halo 3 when it comes to multiplayer. However, I’m always hoping the next game they pop out will change that. Personally, I’m excited for Halo 4, just as I was excited for every other Halo game including Halo Wars and ODST. My hopes for Halo 4 and my expectations definitely differ, though.
My hopes would be that Halo 4 has a more original Halo feel and play style. I could do without the classes that were introduced in Reach solely because it’s not like Halo to have such an option. While I enjoy jet-packing and throwing grenades simultaneously, I’d much rather go back to the good days where the pistol could take someone out from across the map if in the right hands. Nothing is more aggravating than lowering someones shield to near death, and watching them deploy armor lock, while their teammate assassinates you from behind. With previous halo games you’re only option was to run (not sprint) away as fast as you could or just give it your all. Previous Halo games had a much more competitive feel to them, and I’d like to see that again with Halo 4.
However, those are merely my hopes. My expectations are that of a revamped reach-style multiplayer which would honestly just piss a majority of true Halo fans off. I expect it to feel like Reach with new maps, and a new campaign. Hopefully that’s far from true, but in my experience as a gamer they usually just continue with the same old redundant crap after they ruin a perfectly enjoyable game.
Of course I’ll still be in line to purchase Halo 4 as soon as it’s available solely for the campaign if the beta multiplayer manages to disappoint.
What are you thoughts on Halo 4? Will 343 produce something better than what we’ve been given? Leave a comment below!
Havn’t played any Halo games since 3, plan on picking them up 1 of these days though. I’m looking for the next set of Halo games to continue into a new story, and at the same time carry on the original Halo legacy. It’ll be a tricky balance probably, but at the same time it’s hard to know what to expect. Multiplayer I havn’t played much of, but if I had a better internet connection and was more into it I’d play it more probably. Might dabble into it a little more this week on 3. Rock on and keep gameing.
i agree with this article 100%! i just wish our hopes are right, not our expectations
I wonder why she used a Halo 3 fake leak as a Halo 4 image. It isn’t Halo 4 because the Chief’s MJOLNIR is only Mark VI while in Halo 4 he uses Mark VII. Also, the battle rifle is different in Halo 4.
And how do you know halo 4 will feature the Chief in Mark VII?
Don’t forget the originals were all Bungie so lets hope 343, being as they were established specifically for halo, Can put the love we all feel for the series back into the gameplay
I have played every halo game made. Loved everyone single one, but I do not agree with this article. Yes halo reach was not best game in the entire world but, it wasn’t NEARLY the worst. EVERY halo game had its pros and cons but, that is no reason to go and hate it because of the bad things and not look at the good things in the game. I will play nearly any game put in front of me and like it unless it blows up my console. I trust what 343i will do with the game and already believe that the game will be like all the other halo games. Awesome. I have no complaints about the game as of now and probably won’t after it releases.
That’s the problem, people don’t want to move on. You don’t welcome change, while others do. Like me, I enjoy the new changes and loadouts and customization their going to bring to Halo. People keep wanting to go back to “classic” Halo, and frankly, now that I’ve gotten a taste of new Halo (Reach), I think classic down right stinks. If they continued Halo combat evolved’s multi-player throughout all of the Halo’s, no one would play it! It would be like buying a relatively short campaign every couple years for 80 dollars! You keep wanting classic Halo back, just go play one of the classic Halo games then! They title updated almost EVERYTHING in Halo: Reach so that the pistol can kill someone with three to four shots in the head (Which by the is the most aggrevating thing in the world, because everyone SPAWNS with one). so you can play Reach without a care in the world.
Now I don’t know what your fear is of classic Halo being forgotten, because frankly, I’m not sad it’s gone.
Oh yes, I also think that liking the new Halo multi-player doesn’t make you any less of a fan of Halo. As stated by you, ”
My expectations are that of a revamped reach-style multiplayer which would honestly just piss a majority of true Halo fans off.” A true halo fan is one that loves the story and the characters in it. Just because in your opinion Halo: CE’s milti-player was the BEST doesn’t make you a true Halo fan, it just makes you a Halo fan that rather enjoys that kind of Halo multi-player and not future Halo game’s multi-player. any one who hates the story, well, isn’t a fan of it.
Have you seen these new specializations? I hate to see such a great series like Halo becoming more like COD. We have a badass looking Spartan like the “Rogue,” and the special ability granted is “The Stability armor mod allows users to increase their aiming stability when being fired upon.” [sarcasm]WOW, THANKS! THAT’S SO COOL![/sarcasm] Now, I’m all for customizing my Spartan as much as possible, but some meagre upgrades don’t make me feel like a specialized Spartan. I know custom classes are a hard thing to balance, especially in highly dynamic physics game like Halo, but I still consider this a slap in the face. Wetwork, Pioneer, and Operator appear more useful. The armor appearance and abilities appear more talk and less walk. I contend that if your gonna add something so different to the Halo series, you should go all out and do it right! But I suppose it’s an experiment, and we’ll see it improved upon in the later games.
Rogue means if you’re shot you it won’t unzoom your weapon
And you sounded like a complete dumbass btw
I was welcome to the change in multiplayer, yes the old halo’s were great but I felt like they needed to break the barriers in that feild. And im so glad there is no more Armor Cock. that being said I am downright discusted with everything else the Industry has done to the beloved halo universe. some things dont need to be changed. I wish i knew why they spent their time in making the banshee which was prefected in my veiw in reach totally suck dick, or why the warthog just doesnt feel or sound like the warthog anymore YA CANT FUCK WITH THE WARTHOG! and while im on sounds please someone tell me why making all the laser guns not sound like laser guns makes the game more realistic. Your fighting alians.. their damn guns shouldn’t sound like my little brother is shooting his BBgun outside. Anyway as it goes for weaponry opposed their sounds im all for new guns but not when they are made to replace the old ones so every gun is all the fucking same. The plasma rifle as been in every halo game before. why replace it with something essentially the same in range and purpose just so it shoots as rapidly as the AR and the forruner squat fuck same AR copy? I dont get it. And goddamnit I miss my SMG’s haha i thought the saw or whatever its called would be the replacement of that buuut its not. really its just a beefed up AR so you can call it down for ordanance.. :/ oh and the new look of spartans just disapoints me, the new spartan armor options are either boring or just strait up retarded looking and it certainly doesn’t give you the abilities like they had said when making it. With such a larger budget than the last halo’s you think they’d be able to compleate what they said they were going to do.. it just seems like they just spent all that hyping up a shiny turd on what was once a great game. On top of these petty things is the real issue, the legacy, the campaign. As a fan of halo since i got it on my 8th birthday i think with my super andvanced black Xbox i have been devout to the game. Raised to take no shit from no man facing the ultimate menace, my older brother as he would repeatedly mash me into the dirt until a grew older and by Halo 3 i became more powerful then ever imagined slaying entire big team sniper games single handedly because the rest of my team sumhow would lose connection, and people would send me hatemail for days saying i was a hacker or some other bullshit but anyways what i was trying to get to is Halo was my late childhood and teens. John was the number one badass A fearless killing machine and Humanity’s only hope. That was already clear, but in Halo 4 they took it wayyyy to far when the dead forrunner lady gave him jesus powers and made him the chosen one impervious to there antagonist. And really tho.. who is this uber evil dude and why the hell does he exist? Knowing practically everything there is to know about halo without reading the books I still felt like through the entire campain i was trying to figure this out. if someone wants to explain it to me please do because what i understand of it now is shit lol 343 needed a bad guy so they made 1 up. Hes just a douche that lived through the ring activation because the other forruners put him in jail? for turning humans into Knight/robot things? did he turn their dogs into the lil critters u fight too? And last time i checked the covanent were gone at the end of halo 3 and the elites were on their way to their homeworld. If 343 really wanted to make the game new you shouldnt have brought back the same enemies we’ve been fighting since the first halo! without the brutes and buggers and skirmishers if i may add and fwi sheild jackels should have needlers ya dumbasses its just not right.. anyways the story just doesnt flow.. i thought this halo was going to be filled with bad ass forruner tech and flood but really the forruner teck is just like all the other weapons they standardized with a fancy transformer look and as for the flood… they didnt make an appearance What The Hell thats acutally an enemy that can never stop evolving and that can never be destroyed and you choose to bulshit the covanant back into the game instead?!?!?! The flood are scary and sooo fun to fight i just dont get why.. the entire time i was running around shoving crazy cortona into pedistal after pedistal just waiting for the flood to make there grand entrance and it never happened. I enjoyed how 343 went into the whole personal connection john and cortona had as true halo fans could see that she just wasnt the stupid AI guiding you through the game like in other games even if it was pretty tacky at the end.. and it was tacky, i rather not bother critisizing that part because by that point I had already accepted the fact that 343 took a steamy pile of shit on my game. Anyways this just goes to show how microsoft should have left the epic ending of Halo 3 just that. The ending of a great Trilogy and the ending of a great universe.. And instead spend their money on creating the next big game on a NEW great idea. I mean 343 said they were trying to make it a new game anywayy.