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

[Mr Puggsly]

bananaking21 said:

honestly me either

- extremely short compaign.

- bad story

- false advertisment about the story

- no split screen

- no forge or big team mode

- dumb AI

- same boss for 6 times (WTF SERIOSULY?!). if this happened in any other game it would have been dumped on.

- Microtransactions seriously fucked the unlock system. its simply broken like this. 

- a weird desgin choice were aiming/moving horizontally is faster than vertically. 

 

it honestly feels this game just got its scores because its halo. with fanboy reviewers slapping it 10's, 9,5's and 9's. (5 reviews gave this game a 10, really?, and that IGN reviewer who said its the WORST halo 5 SP ever gave it a 9, LOL). 

people can hate on me if they want, but even reviewers dont seem to deny that these are all issues, yet seem to disregard them all when giving that final score. 

You can nit pick all of its flaws and you still get a product vastly superior than most games.

The campaign is short but and enjoyable and many will replay it. A short campaign is better than a long boring one.

The story is good and cutscenes fantastic, I get the impression people saying this aren't playing the games. Angry complained about story and clearly isn't following it, he didn't finish 4.

Agreed, on misleading advertising.

No split screen sucks but is common in most games. Its a plus for that have it, Halo 5 is only game losing points for not offering it.

Forge and big team are coming. Big team is coming very soon actually, like maybe days?

Dumb AI is something new in games? I've certainly seen worse.

That isn't really a boss battle per se, its just battle done in the game a few times. Not as many times as Angry Joe lead you to believe.

The unlock system always took a lot of time to unlock everything. There is more content in Halo 5 but you can't buy the exact items you want.

I'm not sure what the complaints about the aiming system are. It feels fine to me.

I think some critics are giving it a better score than it deserves and some are doing the opposite. A perfect score is ridiculous but a bad score like 55 is even more ridiculous. You want to beleive the game sucks though so you sdie with the negative scores.

This could have been a better game and it will be when more content comes, but its still my pick for best shooter of the year.