The Halo 5: Guardians Metacritic/review thread - Currently at 84 Meta

[Machiavellian]

Goatseye said:

Ali_16x said:

Machiavellian said:

Not sure on that point.  I do not know any Halo players that will play on Normal.  I guess your average casual player will but then again it probably will take them longer than 5-6 hours.  Pretty much all Halo games are about 8 hours for your average joe COD player and since COD is pretty much the same lenght I doubt it will be an issue.

Well most of a games sales come from casuals and considering how most casuals play multiplayer games a shit ton and are pretty skilled it should also take them 5-6 hours. I've seen casuals play, they're just like us. I think you're just underestimating casuals. I think the only difference is the games we play.

Thos are not casuals. That would be the same as calling SP only players causuals, because they only like one game mode.

The thing is, I never hear casual players complain about 5 to 6 hour campaings in COD games or any other FPS game in particular.  Most experienced Halo players play on Heroic which will be the majority of the people who purchase the game.  This is not like the first game of the series so its not like people do not understand how the difficulty works in the series.  For any new Halo player, yes they will be starting on normal but then again they probably will not finish the game in 5 to 6 hours and if they do its not like you do not have a wealth of other things to do in the game to make your money worth the purchase.  

For FPS shooters like Halo, COD, Killzone, Battlefield ect that have extensive either MP, Co-op and other modes of play, your Normal always plays about 5 to 6 hours for experience FPS players and close to 8 to 10 on the more challenging difficulty.  This has been this way for a long time so not sure why people seem to act like its suddenly became this way just for this one game.