Spyke
CTDummy
aussie.zone

And the “10 years” game gets the premature death it deserves. I was super psyched when this was announced only to then hear it was free to play. Released broken, with a fully functionally MTX store because of course. Campaign as an afterthought, no forge, no game mode selection (until backlash got it implemented). A shit show from start to finish.

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simplereply
piefed.social

I also played it for a few hours on release, it lacked any sort of content and i never got over how they sold armor colors. The most basic form of customization, not skins, but a different color of your armor were bring sold just so you can look slightly different from everybody else in the server. A complete mess.

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CarbonatedPastaSaucereply
lemmy.world

I don't give a shit about MTX because I ignore all of it, but I quit playing after the nth time I melee'd someone in the back and not get a kill... only to have someone else I'm staring at 20 feet away from me, FACING ME, melee ME in the back and get an instant kill. There's no excuse for Destiny-like Peer to Peer server garbage from a fucking Halo PvP game.

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Doc_Crankensteinreply
slrpnk.net

Yup, this right here is exactly what broke me out of the nostalgia haze.

Just the utter nickle-n-diming for the most basic things really rubbed me wrong.

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CTDummyreply
aussie.zone

Yeah same here i even came back when it was “getting good again” and had a resurgence but the selling shit that was literally free in other games, nah.

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Romkslrquszreply
lemmy.zip

I thought the campaign was fine for what it was, nothing’s ever going to live up to CE -> Reach and the semi-open world formula felt like it worked really well.

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Pycoraxreply
sh.itjust.works

As someone who didn't grow up with Halo and only played it when MCC came out on PC, I liked the campaign a lot and personally had way more fun with it than the previous games. It felt like Far Cry Halo which scratched an itch I didn't knew I had. That said I don't think Halo's core audience is anywhere remotely like me.

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CTDummyreply
aussie.zone

I wanted to and I agree, it being semi open wouldn’t have been an issue for me but too much goodwill was lost for me to do so unfortunately.

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Doc_Crankensteinreply
slrpnk.net

Game was fun for a week until the nostalgia high wore off and you just became more aware of how much shittier playing is now compared to the old days.

I remember customizing my armor and stuff for multiplayer back in the old days. Tried to do it after a week of playing Infinite, thinking I surely had some pieces unlocked to make a custom armor, to find EVERYTHING locked off and isolated, no free color palettes to use, no mix-n-matching sets. So, sure, I had a bunch of pieces unlocked, but they were all one or two for different sets.

This broke the rose color glasses for me. My next few games I started noticing the flaws in the gameplay, and just found myself wanting to play Halo 2 instead.

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Pycoraxreply
sh.itjust.works

You haven't seen the MW2 2022 UI have you? It's like these companies are trying their best to make the worst UI.

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Vikreply
lemmy.world

Right up there with the likes of destiny 2, pubg, 2019 era call of duty

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ohshit604reply
sh.itjust.works

Meanwhile Battleblock Theater and Castle Crashers are still receiving updates 10 years later. Goes to show how far a game can go if you put a little effort into it.

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marighostreply
piefed.social

Castle Crashers my beloved! Those games, plus games like No Man's Sky still receiving free updates 9 years later. Made by real humans with no shareholders to please who are passionate about the games they create.

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Ganbat
lemmy.dbzer0.com

And still they never fixed the weird GPU-specific graphics bug that baked into saves and prevented me from playing. Wonder if I could get this turd polished under Linux.

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Yots92
lemmy.world

These games all look the same.

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Grateful I have grown with the masterpieces of char design, amazing gameplay and super character design.

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