blue_phazon
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I'm sorry, but this is utter nonsense. The idea that halo had reached its potential is just a defeatist argument. There are always ways to improve.
Ofcourse Halo could have done things to maintain its popularity- but the changes made for Reach and Halo 4 were not it.
Sure, ADS, loadouts and sprint are 'modern'- but that's because games with other mechanics failed to deliver desirable systems around their own mechanics- not because those mechanics are inferior or out of style. You are making the mistake of assuming correlation equals causation.
COD 2 had sprint and ADS and Loadouts. The 'improvements' between then and Blops2 were in the overall package, not the mechanics themselves.
It's absolutely ridiculous to suggest that halo couldn't include compelling innovations without straying from its core formula. H2s matchmaking was such an innovation. Forge was such an innovation. Firefight was such an innovation.
From Reach onward, halo developers stopped innovating and started following. Meanwhile halo's competitors made their existing formulas more palletable.
In 2010-2012 A destiny-styled co-op RPG mode to accompany the standard Halo campaign and pvp suite would have been a massive success w/o requiring the dev to sacrifice the core gameplay. It would have been an innovation. Instead they released games that simple changed to less desirable formulas for Halo.
Yup. Halo could have innovated in creative game modes, or even changing the structure of the campaign.
What if the campaign had interconnected online elements? What if it was a metroid-esque game where you gradually gain the Spartan abilities to explore areas you couldn't get to yet, and there was an emphasis on huge boss battles with actual mechanics instead of "shoot the thing in the back until it dies"
Okay truth be told I just want a new metroid prime game, but STILL.
I think the biggest innovation Halo 5 made was warzone, since I haven't seen a gamemode that combined pve with pvp which was cool. The issue is that Halo 5 had a million other problems and bad press, that people didn't really notice or care.