Microsoft may have been responsible for Halo MCC and Halo 5's mess.

[barneystinson69]

Mr Puggsly said:

barneystinson69 said:

I can hardly agree with the last point. Halo 2 Anniversary is damn good, but the rest of it isn't in good shape. Halo CE Anniversary and Halo 4 had FPS problems, and Halo 4 had so many wrong button prompts, it wasnt even funny.  And as for Halo 5's campaign, its confusing and goes nowhere. We hunt the chief for a couple of hours, have a non-interactive boss fight, and realize he's the good guy? Sorry, but I felt it was pretty bad. The gameplay and level design was good, but the story was still awful.

Halo:CE and Halo 4 has some frame dips, but still a HUGE improvement over the 360 releases.

Halo Anniversary on 360 was sub-HD and had significant frame dips below 30 fps. On X1, its 1080p, the frame rate usually stays north of 50fps (better than sub 30), and has more visual polish. Halo 4 is the same thing. Much better frame rate, more visual polished, simply a better way to experience Halo 4 even with its dumb issues like the button prompts. Also, the online experinece is pretty significant to what makes Halo:MCC great, can't say that about other remasters.

The Chief was never the bad guy, he was being hunted for going AWOL while trying to find Cortana. It was believed Cortana may have been corrupted so they wanted to stop MC. That comes to a conclusion leading to Halo 6. That's literally Halo 5's story in a nutshell. The marketing was misleading, just ignore that.

I think action focused FPS games are generally not great. Even the previous Halo campaigns have boring missions. I'll just say this, Halo 5 was still one of the most overall satisfying FPS games I've played in years. I say that as a person that plays/tries pretty much all the major shooters. And I hope they raise the bar in Halo 6.

I'm not disagreeing with the point that Halo 5 was a great FPS, but its story was executed poorly. Yes, I don't see a problem with it, but it was just so poorly executed! We see osiris being shoved into the game without knowing anything about them! The characters are boring and have no backgrouund (except for buck). Blue team has a good chance of showing its colours, but I just didn't care for the characters. Why didn't we see more interaction with them?! Such a blown opportunity! And if we're trying to find chief, wouldnt it be better to execute it like ODST, in which we generally piece together what is going on, have flashbacks with the MC on his missions, and come to a conclusion? That would've been a great idea, and many early leaks did inticate it was going to be that way. The campaign was such a missed opportunity, and I hope this is changed in Halo 6. 

As for the MCC collection, I'd hope for frame rates better than the 360. Its 8 times more powerful than the Xbox 360, so bumping it to 1080p and locking at 60fps should be easy. Still, it wasn't that great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k_RI2HPp3A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOnAv-Xko54