5 Things Halo Reach Needs To Change
The Halo series is loved by millions, but with recent iterations like ODST and Halo Wars the series has lost some of its credibility. This is TheGamersHub list of what needs to be done to stop it from losing any more cred in Halo Reach.
5.) Health Regen Balancing- The game needs a perfect balance between Halo 3′s health system and ODST’s without the health packs. Bungie should take a cue from Activision regarding the latest Call Of Duty series and its health system. Make everyone a ton happier online and offline.
4.) Longer Single Player- Every Halo game seems to have a short single player life span. It needs to be longer and have a better story, the story in Halo seems to be lacking but Halo Reach shows a lot of promise due to the fact its based on the book of the same name. Let’s hope Reach will be a good and meaty 12 hour game.
3.) New Enemies- The series has basically used the same enemies since the first game, why not add some new enemies or even a new planet with new inhabitants. It’s really lazy of Bungie to reuse the same character models over and over again.
2.) Co-op Galore- Games need co-op to stay alive these days. Co-op campaign in Halo 3 was a great start but they can add more. It’s the Halo-verse, heck even if you put in old levels from the first Halo and made them Co-op fans would go CRAZY over it. Think about it.
1.) Deeper Online- Since we are playing a Marine now why don’t they make it so the game takes another cue from Call Of Duty and have unlocks at certain ranks and new guns. The series needs new guns and customizable guns would be the icing on the cake for any Halo fan.
Tell us what you think Bungie needs to change if anything in the Halo series to reinvigorate its life, in the comments and forums.
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Halo reach is set before the original halo, therefore you would have the rechargeable shields and health system because thats the type of armour the spartains would be wearing, instead of the mark VI in halo 2 and 3 the player will be wearing the mark V MJOLNIR armour.
secondly you can’t add new enemies easily into a game where its set as a prequel. They have mentioned that they are going to put in some different looking armour for grunts and elites etc etc just because of developments will be less advanced etc, and there is a Jackal like creature in the game that takes a different role from the original Jackals but standard Jackals seem to be out. Also the mention of Brutes seems to be hush as again you only meet them in halo 2 so why would they be around before halo but not in halo and then in halo 2? Bungie do actually want to create some sense of continuity here.
None of the Halo games have had overly long single players, but name me a decent FPS that ever has? None of the CoD games really last beyond 6 hours, and GoW clocks in around the same sort of length. and FYI its not based on the book at all, its a sideline to it as the book revolves around Spartan 117 and the team fighting and getting off Reach, in this one you are a completely different set of Spartans, and the game could be longer as it is objective based across a large open map, or so I have heard.
Co-Op has been an intergral part of Halo and heck it prettymuch started the Co-Op craze on consoles anyway so you can’t criticise it for not doing enough, not even CoD has a decent Co-Op its just random special-Ops missions. If Bungie put something like that in along with it, I’d agree it would be more interesting but still not overly needed, you can make and set your own challenges in a level instead of being bookended by the developer, look at how successful forge was.
and finally you dont play a marine you play a Spartan III so a CoD style multiplayer along the lines of being a marine would be highly pointless, and Halo is thankfully one of the few multiplayer games where they haven’t found a need to go licking CoD ass and copy every single aspect of its multiplayer just because its successful.
Anyway I sound like I’m just a Halo bummer now, but Halo games may not be the best thing out there I’ll agree with that, however they have shaped a new generation of how people play FPS games, it’s only recently CoD has taken the limelight and every time a halo game comes out people wet themselves, which just goes to show its popularity. I think you should do some more in depth reading about Halo: Reach before you start talking about it.
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No offense kid, but you’re obviously a COD fanboi who just wants to make Halo just like Cod, i’m suprised i didnt see, holding left trigger to zoom in on the list. Halo just needs better graphics and a storyline as entertaining as the first game, remember what game you’re talking about, Halo was the genre defining fps that practically sold the xbox and secured its place in the console wars, halo is what created all the generic fps’s we see all too much of nowadays, it spawned machinima, and so much more, halo is bigger than how you make it to be in this article. You clearly know nothing about the game, as you seem to think you play a marine in this game (wtf)… As for game length, it really doesn’t matter, I couldn’t care less if a game is long or not, slong as the long or short ride is a good one. MGS, one of my favourite games of all time can be done in 2 and a half hours easily, and MGS4 can be done in about the same. go loook the game up and then re-do this article. gawd.
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Come on man, you don’t know anything about what your talking about. Halo was genre defining game. You have no idea about the design of games, if your writing an article criticizing a game, know your shit.
I kinda agree with some of your ideas, like the health system, campaign length and multiplayer depth, but most of these things were done exceptionally in Halo. Halo has the most diverse amount of game modes including the game type customization. Also, Halo invented the shooter regeneration health system, and if you haven’t noticed it has served it very very well.
What really made me think that you don’t know about game design is your idea about bringing back the original halo levels with co-op. Why would they update whole Halo 1 levels, when they could instead add levels to the main story.
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People in Halo thought that we couldn’t
have speacal wepones.They actlly thought
that (HALO) was one.But it’s true it;s not it’s
the {RING)See you!:)
-Masterchief 2012,
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Dude, you’re just too obsessed with CoD. For example what you said about customizable guns is just stupid. Yea, casual gamers might get a kick out of it, but unless everyone starts with the same gun, there’s no way to ensure that every encounter isn’t biased because someone happened to be in the right place at the right time with the right gun.
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Halo lost the hearts of it’s core fans when Bungie removed the clan feature. Remake Halo 2 for the 360 with clans before it’s too late. Reach without clans will be the end of the magic. Dont be surprised if Bungie remove one or more of your favourite game types either.Halo 3 didn’t even have Team Snipers for months on end, not that removing clans was a big enough kick in the nuts for the Halo community
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You’re an idiot, well and true. Not only do you show a complete lack of understanding for the Halo universe, but you have the nerve to criticize on facts you do not understand.
5. Don’t talk for everyone. I like it how it is.
4. Although it is true that they can be a little short, you are an absolute dunce to call the Halo story “bad.” I know people have a tendency to dislike what they don’t understand, so I won’t even argue with you.
3. They’re not being lazy- they’re being smart. Introducing new enemies to a PREQUEL would be a huge mistake. I’m slightly mad about the Skirmisher as it is.
2. I don’t see what’s wrong with it how it is, but I’ll accept your opinion.
1. Oh, sweet god, no! CoD is known to take no skill, and I don’t want Halo to be anything like it! And you DON’T play as a marine, you play army-developed SPARTAN-III… Gawd, you newb.
You are obviously, as other people have said, just a CoD fanboy who wants to destroy this game making it as skill-lacking as possible.
You don’t DESERVE to serve on a game review site.
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Halo pretty much invented the FPS co-op genre with Halo: Combat Evolved. The game has one of the deepest and most compelling stories that have ever come out of gaming and is one of the reasons why it’s immortalized in the face of gaming way better story than Call of Duty MW 1 and 2. Halo innovated FPS on the consoles and made the genre truly great. Even COD used many of Halo’s controls schemes along with Half-Life.
These are the personal opinions of the author not the opinions of the entire site staff.
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The only thing I would like to see them change is to put in a few more guns on the multiplayer, like bring back the SMG and stuff. But customizable Halo guns would be just stupid, They’re sci-fi guns putting a scope or stuff like that on it would be dumb.
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