Quote (swift_clan @ Sep 19 2010 08:26pm)
Thank you Bungie for bringing us a new game.
I see the potential in this game and all but i am going to list some things that need to be changed. I know people have already started threads like this one but i am going to address certain things that haven't been mentioned.
1) Bad Spawns
-I know you have probably said " What kind of spawn was that!?!?! "(with a few other bleeped out words within that sentence) during your halo career but come on... In this game every spawn is horrible for either you or your opponent. I noticed this right away when i played the remake of ascension. I'm not really a fan of knowing that the other team is going to get rockets with no effort. This leads me into my next topic.
2) Man Cannons
-Ok lets say i do pick up rockets off the spawn. Should i go through the portal or the man cannon? No way am i going to go through the man cannon... when in most cases i will be getting shot at which may or may not take off my shields but that's irrelevant. I am still going to get all my shields knocked off plus go down into the yellow health. Yeah, i could land on the structure in the center and take no damage and yeah, i know this game is all about taking fall damage but why? who wants fall damage, honestly? and if you are going to keep it make it so if you go through a lift/cannon of any sort you take no fall damage.
3) Theater
-Yeah, Halo 3's theater was a little flawed. there was about a 99% chance a film clip would not load with another friend being in your party. So people were smart enough if they did something awesome that they wanted to show to their friends they would save the whole film and just fast forward to that specific scene. You know what that was bearable. What's not bearable is Halo Reaches theater. I can say i haven't done anything too insane yet but it is so hard to play this game and play serious. But in this case let's say you(the reader) just pulled off the sicked overkill exterm and you wanted to show me...Nope, you can't sorry but Hey! You can save it put it in your file share and then i will download it and watch it and tell you how cool it was. A lot of teams go over films to critique their teammates...Nope can't do that anymore, sorry.
4) Ranked Pre-game Lobbies
-You know how you supposedly have no idea who you are playing until the game starts. Have you guys ever thought of going to recent players and seeing them all show up in there? Oh and did you also know you can get to their stats/record from there too? So what is the point of not allowing us to see who we are playing? We have been able to see our opponents name show up for ever other halo online so why stop now?
5) Bad Maps
-This topic has been brought up many times within these forums but i will state it again. It is pretty sad when the forged maps(Remakes) are the best maps you created. The only halfway decent map is countdown and maybe zealot why? they're somewhat symmetrical . but all the lifts and different levels (like the space zone on zealot) makes them horrible in my eyes. I had the great idea to forge on one of the maps. Possibly block off some lifts maybe add a wall...Nope can't do that either. They left out the structure tab all together except on their precious map(Forge world)they spent so much time on that one map they lost all focus on the others
6) Armor Abilities
-sprinting is probably, of all of them, the most tolerable but yeah i am a straight male(rare i know) and i don't like listening to a guy go ugh ugh ugh ugh nonstop. maybe copy call of duty a little more and make is so your footsteps are loud. All the other armor abilities are lame. Just say the words jet pack and halo...those 3 words do not go well together.
7) Jumping
-bungie tried to make this game more like Halo CE but personally i don't like jumping like i do in this game and this game is nothing like CE... Halo Reach is bad Halo combat evolved is good...that's the difference and I know there were no jet packs in the first halo or the 2nd one or the 3rd one...that's weird. I think the Master Chief stopped going to the gym and lost all of his jumping abilities
8. Ranking System
-to be honest i like the new rating system but i think they should have kept the old one so winning would still matter in matchmaking... i see people quit all the time. you quit twice and they ban you for 15 minutes which you probably saved that much time in quitting so it's all good.
So that's it for now i may add more if i feel like raging a little more
if you read it all the way through...congrats you just read 866 words plus this last sentence.
Hold up, let me call up my contact at Bungie and direct him to this link.