Halo 4 nearing completion

@DIGN "the fact that all the maps were direct rips from the campaign"

That's not quite accurate. The maps were created first for multiplayer, and then inserted into campaign levels. For example, Reflection, which is a remake of the Halo 2 map Ivory Tower, but is also a section of the New Alexandria level.

@MajahretDiviera Yeah I agree with you, but from what I've heard Bungie has been trying to expand to more platforms and Microsoft was restricting them, so they dropped it and I assume Activision gave them an offer that they couldn't refuse, but you never know Bungie might be that one light in the dark and still make good games.

I completely agree with you, CoD was destroyed by Activision, so I am also a little afraid of what might happen to Bungie, but I trust Bungie to do the right thing they probably wouldn't have agreed to the deal if they didn't have a plan of some sort.

And Reach-ways, there were only a few bad things, the fact that all the maps were direct rips from the campaign, they planned DLC maps pre-launch and sold them shortly after release. I think it's a full improvement from the other Halos, Halo 2 was my favorite(it felt 100% complete to me.) The Sprint mechanic adds a whole new dimension to the game. I didn't see many things wrong with it, most of the rants I heard were about the DMR replacing the BR and somehow it became broken because of that.

@Spartan_418 ahh, thanks for being one of the few to admit that. I agree with some of those, Armor Lock was an unbalanced ability considering all the exploits people found on it. I only used sprint so I wouldn't know much about the other ones, I like reache because sprint added a whole new dimension to the game and room for more strategy.

I too didn't like the fact that they removed the skill based MP Ranking, but they did implement something similar in the ARENA playlist.

ODST was the worst in my opinion.

@DIGN ill comment on your last point first. Activision will screw them over any way they can, since that seems to be the trending thing for them to do to the studios that rake in the money. im not one who cares for COD, but it was a shitty thing they did to the devs at infinity ward. not saying MS is any better, but that's like going from one evil to an even worst evil.

anywho, no didnt care much for the rifle or had any issues with it. things did seem promising for the game while it was still in development, but when the final product came about, i just didnt think that they improved enough things to warrant my purchase. that was all there was to it. sure they added new things, modified other things, but none of that was enough for me to bother with it, especially for how much of burn 3 was. 2 was still ok, but no where near as complete and great as 1. and ODST was just a joke to me. again these are all my personal opinions and reasons for not bothering to get those games. much like i can accept those who liked the game, i would expect the same them to accept my not liking them.

@DIGN

The main reasons people didn't like Reach were:

-reticule bloom, which added an element of randomness to gunfights, and made skill less important

-pretty much all of the Armor Abilities. People thought they were all unbalanced in one way or another, and "ruined" Halo's gameplay.

-lack of a skill-based ranking system

-small number of original maps, lots of remakes and Forge World maps

I don't actually agree with any of this, mind you. While bloom perhaps wasn't a great idea, I liked Armor Abilities and thought they added a layer of depth to the gameplay. None of the changes actually made it a "bad game" to the extent that the haters want you to believe.

@Landsharkk I've tried but with nor real success. I managed to play Rockband with her because she likes to sing but other than that... nope! She gets dizzy just watching FPS and she hates repetitive noises. She's really not a gamer. To bad... otherwise she would be the perfect woman :) (Just joking honey!)

@erix43 No, 343 isn't a division of Bungie. It's a division of Microsoft that happens to include a few ex-Bungie employees.