UK: Halo 5 is the Lowest Selling Mainline Game in Franchise History

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ohmylanta1003 said:

Nate4Drake said:

Halo5 has also the worst metacritic of all main Halo : The franchise is going down and down.


Halo: Combat Evolved = 97, Halo2 = 95, Halo3 = 94, Halo Reach = 91, Halo4 = 87, Halo5 = 85.

Most metacritic scores this gen have been lower. It's not because the games are getting worse. Reviewers are just more critical and there are more in number.

I think you're right. By all accounts I've come across people are saying H5 is over all better than H4, yet H4 has a better metascore. So I feel like critics are more willing to use a wider score range for good games and generally not shoving every good game into the 85+ range. Albeit Halo 5 is still in the 85+ range, and the difference between 4 and 5 on metacritic is negligible.. But when you look at the metascores in sequence it has been one-way traffic downwards. Though this partly reflects the fact that it becomes progressively harder to make people feel like subsequent games in a franchise to feel fresh, so franchise fatigue sets in much quicker from a review perspective than from a gamer perspective.