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

[Zekkyou]

Ka-pi96 said:

Zekkyou said:

jlmurph2 said:
2 hours and 30 minutes into Legendary with 4 player co-op and we just finished the 2nd mission. Those reviewers are obviously playing on Easy.

I expect the majority of reviewers play on normal, which is perfectly reasonable. If it's balanced properly that's the difficulty setting that should give you the most organic idea of how much content a game has.

Don't Halo games usually say in the difficulty descriptions that Heroic is the difficulty the game is meant to be played on though?

I don't know about Halo 5, but Halo 4's labels were fairly standard stuff like 'for players with shooter experience' and 'for halo veterans'. 

As i mentioned though, what i said is on the assumption that 'Normal' is balanced properly (i.e. average). Lacking the ability to know how easy or hard a game is before actually playing it, 'Normal' is usually what i expect a reviewer will settle on (if there's a choice). If they think it's too easy for the average player, that's usually mentioned in the review. Gets brought up about R&C a lot :p