First of all, wall of text incoming.
I KNOW THIS IS THE BETA, BUT HALO 3's BETA ACTUALLY RESEMBLED THE GAME THAT CAME INTO STORES IN SEPTEMBER. AND IF THIS RESEMBLES REACH AT ALL, IM NOT GETTING IT. I'm a huge Halo fan, but when I see something wrong with this franchise I'm not going to kiss Bungies ass and tell them everything is fine and dandy when you all know it's not.
I would like to start off by saying, that I have been playing Halo since about 2006. On a older account I had about 4,000 games of Halo 2 played. While I wasn't real good at it, I enjoyed it. It was awesome. I have over 10,000 games of Halo 3 played (7,000 on this account and 3,000+ on the previous account I mentioned and other accounts I've had with fewer games.) I have every single Halo book, figures and statues etc. and every single Halo game (CE, 2, 3, Halo Wars, ODST) (I bought CE from games on demand a few months back and beat it.)
Now You can see by my Halo 3, and Halo 2 stats I am decent at the game. I have a 50 in doubles (H3) 1.12 ranked, and 1.17 social in Halo 3, The only Halo 2 games on this profile are from the last night of Halo 2, but I have 100+ more kills than deaths. So I'm not bad at Halo games... But then you look at my Reach stats. I HAVE 200+ more deaths than kills in this game. Why? Because this game is so noob friendly. It's not because it takes more skill. (Say Halo: Reach takes more skill to Halo 2 to anyone, and they will laugh.)
I mean really, Look at my Halo 3 stats, 21,000, TWENTY ONE THOUSAND BR kills, this is just one of a quite a few accounts. And how many kills do I have with the DMR and pistol? Under 50 in 50 games. The DMR, Pistol, and Reticule Bloom suck. Once you get someone down to no shield its all luck as to whos bullet will find the opponents head first. And you can't time your shot when now someone can just sprint away to cover. In Halo 3 the assault rifle, the gun that you spawned with was my 4th most used weapon behind BR, melee, and sniper. In Reach it's by far the 1st. That's saying something.
Armor abilities are so incredibly ridiculous and stupid, you cant run, you cant jump. This isn't a Halo game. No one should be able to fly around the entire map in a jetpack, no one should be invisible on command, no one should be invulnarable for 5 seconds, no one should sprint! WHY?!?! Seriously, what the hell was wrong with power ups? In Halo 3 the bubble shield, grav lift etc. were fine. Picking up the big red and blue balls for Overshield and Camo was fine! AA are soooo stupid. The spartans aren't spartans they are like ordinary men in suits with ridiculous powerups that you can use over and over and over and over. Reticule bloom is the worst Idea I've ever seen in a Halo game. Reticule bloom is fine for games where you actually die in realistic amount of time. But this is HALO!!!!! The DMR takes 5 headshots for a kill, that's nice except for the fact that 2 bullets actuall hit his head. And I can't pace my shots because the guy can now fly away in a jetpack, sprint off into cover, or just run off into these crowded maps.
What a pathetic game. I am shocked that this was in production for over 2 years.
This is actually really sad. The game franchise that I sold my PS2 for has turned inot this. I tried so hard to defend this game against people that said it looked stupid etc. But I honestly can't defend it anymore. I thought for sure that Bungie wouldn't put something like AA in if it greatly effected gameplay, boy was I wrong.
And once again, I know it's a beta. But a beta is to fix bugs, things like AA, and Reticule Bloom aren't bugs they were put in the game by Bungie as a thing to stay, and unfortantaly it probably will.
I really hope you guys delay this games release and actually make a Halo game. Because this is honestly a huge dissapointment.
And for you idiots that didn't read the whole thing or think I'm just flaming to flame you're wrong.. I loved Halo, sold my PS2 for Halo 2, midnight release for Halo 3, bought Halo Wars and ODST first thing in the morning because they didn't have a midnight release, and have spent 3/4 of my gaming life on this franchise. And this beta has REALLY turned me off of Reach.. I honestly don't know if I'm even going to get it anymore.. Extremely dissapointed Bungie.. Extremely..
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[Edited on 05.05.2010 11:25 PM PDT]