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I think 343 has been doing a good job with halo because of waypoint and anniversary, they seem dedicated enough to make halo 4 great.

Would't it be cool to have a currency system in firefight? something you can use to call in AI support and weapons? or maybe even the ability to forge firefight maps!? i think these ideas will add a good deal of replay value into firefight since it got kinda boring in reach.

I agree halo needs to go back way it was, not identical to H3 but very similar. Halo 3 felt unique, there is honestly nothing like it and that makes it good. Halo reach on the other hand felt similar to other successful FPS's and that takes away variety from the gaming world. i think 343 is on the right track though, they said they are "rebooting" the series and the main series does not include reach, ODST, or halo wars, those are spinoffs.

as long as the ranking system drives people to win and is rewarding i dont really care about how the system works with XP.

well reach was really off from the books and 343 actually tries to tie their story with the books so......... i don't think Jun will be returning.

well we really don't know if AA's are going to be implemented or not, i don't think 343 is going to add them in because half the community hates them more than the other half likes them. Halo 3 had something similar to AA's called equipment, you didn't spawn with equipment and you can only use it once. I loved the idea because it made objective games more strategic and i would love to see equipment brought back to Halo 4. I think that's what 343 is doing since they said they are "rebooting" the series. Halo reach, ODST and Halo Wars are not a part of the main series, they are spinoffs. Because of this i don't that many gameplay mechanics will be taken from reach.

were the hell did you find this?

you need to pay attention to the vidoc a little more before you bust out a rage like this at 343, we almost know nothing of the game yet. Only one video of gameplay, do you really think thats enough to decide whether or not the game is going to fail? I agree with your opinions on gameplay, but not with your accusations of 343 doing a bad job.

ya the grenade launcher was awesome, it was the only skillful thing they added into reach and i hope 343 brings it back. The reason i think so many people quit in reach compared to H3 is because most of the community is composed of casual gamers who come from a mainstream game called call of duty, and when they play a game with someone like me they rage quit because they can't kill anything. Reach is just so much more frustrating than the other games because it's more complicated, that makes people quickly get demoralized and fall into a epic game of rape when they play against a better team. As for assassinations Ive never really cared for them either, i don't see any point in keeping them out because a lot of people like them. But for me halo is a game for competition i don't really care how pretty it looks when it comes to animations and graphics, i just want to feel comfortable playing it.

true that, dont fix what isn't broken.

well luck is a part of every not only every halo game but all games period. The reason why the luck factor went up in reach is because the gameplay got a whole lot more complicated(bloom, AA's, loadouts). Just three of the AA's you found that cause a problem are like more than half the commonly used AA's in standard playlists, so i would say you are more in disfavor of AA's than in favor.

Custom loadouts should only be available through custom games and special playlists, if they are implemented into the standard game it will cause more bad than good because it's makes it too similar to other games that aren't halo. Games developers need to stop changing there games with ideas that are not unique, if i wanted loadouts i would play battlefield or cod. The only good things can see coming out of loadouts is player made gametypes in custom games.

Exactly

well they want H2 and H3 back because they were still fun when they died, H3 was near perfect and unique and bungie fixed a lot that wasn't broken. Halo is a unique game and needs to stay that way, additions and changes need to added of course but not ones that change the game to much. Halo 3 was a simple, skillful competitive, creative game and how many other console games are like that? NONE, without halo at it's original gameplay the old fan base has no where to go Thats why halo needs to go back and stay the same. if you want a different game go play a different game, if you can't find any, well go buy a good desktop and start playing one of the 900 3rd party games on steam you'll enjoy it.

Again the ranking system is for competitive players not noobs and casuals, if you want to effortlessly rank up go play cod. If you didn't understand the H3 ranking system you shouldn't be complaining about it.

the whole point of ranking is to make you work for it, it takes no effort to rank up if you dont have a penalty of losing and that will make the game just as uncompetitive as reach. If you dont like playing competitively take the ranking system out of your concern, it's best purpose can only be driving the competitive community. Also lone wolves was like impossible to get a 50 in for most people, you shouldn't of tried. I could of gotten FFA 50 if i tried to because i played like 50 games and got my 44 lol, but i didn't even bother with it cause it would only mean that i was a dirty kill thieve.

Halo reach was not a financial failure no, thats not what the op was referring to, it was referring to failing the fan base. Which it did fail the fan base if half the forum hates the game. If a game called halo reach two were to come out it would sell a lot less copies than H3, H2 and CE because so many fans hated reach.

i think sprint should only be implemented into certain joke around playlists, campaign, and customs. Otherwise it only makes the game to unpredictable to be a good competitive game. But i dont think AA's will be brought back from reach, i heard somewhere that 343 doesn't like them. I think equipment will be brought back instead, thats what the thruster pack is i think. Halo is very adjustable game and should be left vanilla H3 for standard playlists, and all the new ideas that made reach and other halo games can be added in special playlist's and customs, if 343 does this almost everyone will enjoy the game. Halo does need to progress yes but there is not that much you can change when the core gameplay is so perfect.

I think the voice over flag could easily be fixed if they just make it to were the voice doesn't say anything when the flag is spammed.

it isn't a glitch.............. if it was a glitch it would of been fixed because it's kinda obvious you can do it and bungie would of easily noticed, but it wasn't an official mechanic of the game either. And i dont think your getting my point about the need for juggling, i want it back because it made running the flag take skill and strategy which makes flag a lot more fun.

well thats why you juggle when you know you can get away with it, you can announce to the other team where you are when they are too far away or can see you. Use your head and play smart, dynamic gameplay up to H3 standards can make flag a lot better because it allows more strategy for OBJ.

I have always loved halo CTF, it makes you and your team work as team more than any other playlist. I always felt so amazing to skillfully juggle a flag around corners and dodge my attackers, and sometimes even drop the flag and kill my attacker with a power weapon. Flag juggling brought skill into flag running and made it more interesting, it needs to be brought back. Some people only wined about it because the voice actor who said"flag dropped" and "flag taken" wouldn't shut up and he annoyed the crap out of them. Ranked Team objective needs to be brought back as well, IDK why bungie took out that amazing playlist but it really pissed me off when they did, it was one of my high 40's. I honestly see no good reason not do bring this stuff back so 343 please be reasonable.

343 said nothing of adding armor abilities into the game, that actually dislike them.

even though bungie screwed up the story halo reach it does prequel halo CE story yes, but is it similar to halo CE gameplay? NO it isn't, halo reach is a spin off of the series i see very little similarities of reach and 1,2, and 3. So when you make a completely new game it's bound to have problems, and it did.

this is about sprint not AA's, and i agree AA's have their weaknesses but my argument against them is that they affect gameplay to much and make things unpredictable. That's not unique gameplay.