Why isn't Halo popular anymore?

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>The series lost its focus after 3.

Explain

How can it be if it doesn't even run without issues? There weren't any gameplay halting errors on the original releases the MCC dropped the ball and the ball popped. Everyone playing ball left the court and it's the jerk who ruined the ball's fault for that.

>Halo
>20 years after it was relevant
More like bye bye lul

O O F

Because instead of ending it, they kept it going under new people who shouldn't have been handed a franchise like Halo to begin with. This isn't exclusive to Halo as an IP theres countless others that reach the peak and then go to absolute shit.

Nobody wants to fucking end a franchise so then it tanks and everyone grows tired of it wondering when it'll all end.

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>Halo 1, 2, 3 and ODST have amazing campaigns and story. Also the multiplayer is decent
>Reach had a shit campaign. Multiplayer was decent, but forge and customs were the shit
>343i's halo 4 and 5 both have shit campaigns, multiplayer and forge are also shit
>MCC was botched from the start, never recovered from the awful launch

Halo is dead bois, it died at Halo ODST for me

The only thing that is dead is the English language. New Halo games are being made and they just released one like 3 days ago.

English will never be game over...!

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halo was popular because it was ahead of the curve when it came to network gaming (on consoles), its mechanics are dogshit otherwise. Once the competition caught up, there was nothing going for it. Of course it did continue to sell a bit after due to the enormous amount of marketing MS pushed, but that ship sailed years ago

It's not clear what Halo is even about now that the Covenant aren't the main bad guys anymore.

>new Halo game
>3 days ago

>Also the multiplayer is decent

You serious?

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343 that's why

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Call of Duty gained ground starting with Modern Warfare, and whipped out its big dick come Black Ops.

>It's not clear what Halo is even about now that the Covenant aren't the main bad guys anymore.

Why did they expect players to read a trilogy of books to understand Halo 4?

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Don't kid yourself. The screaming kids in Halo 2/3 on XBL were all zoomers. If they were born after 94, they were a zoomer.

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Mediocre campaign like most long running story based shooters. Gears has this problem bad.

Also the multiplayer doesn't do anything interesting. It's just more halo with a new wrapper. If you don't like how halo multiplayer works then you're still not going to like it.

Halo gets by because the dwindling fanbase has been jerking it to chief for almost 20 years. This is coming from someone who used to play a ton of halo with my friends. It's just not interesting anymore.

Isn't she a bad guy now or something?

She's just a retard by trying to be a hero but absolutely ruining shit.

Why won't you just let me have a big female elite as a supporting campaign character. Yes, it's infantile fap bait, and yes, it would genuinely save the series.

343.

Shhh... That's halo 7. Cortana goes all kinds of corrupt and gets into the robot "kill everyone and there can't be more violence" trope.

Pariah for the UNSC's sexual frustrations apropos Johnson's death.

The FPS genre isn't what it used to be. Kids don't want to play shooters that require effort, and the space for single player shooters is basically gone. Halo came around at the perfect time for it. Console shooters were barely getting started and Halo made them explode. Then 2&3 were right there for the online revolution. What could Halo follow up on now? Everything has been done. Kids just want "muh progression" and brain dead repetetive gameplay that you get from Overwatch and Fortnite.
Unless Halo somehow comes up with something new and amazing to shake things up again, it will never come back to being the juggernaut it was. And that's the truth of it.

>The Master Chief was a complete mystery. In fact, many people (names omitted here, so I'm not assassinated) wanted the Master Chief to remain a blank, faceless solider. Terminator-ish as it were. They weren't convinced any writer could portray him as tough as he is in the game and make him, for lack of a better word, "human," too.

>One complaint I hear a lot is that the novels aren't canon and do not mesh with the game. From the very beginning the novels were designed to be optional, but official, material. Bungie didn't want people to have to read the novels to follow the game. That would be silly. The novels are designed to be an official companion pieces, and if you read them you experience a richer back story and understanding of the Halo universe. This strategy, however, necessitated that references to the extra material be minimized in game so as to not confuse people who hadn't read the books.

>Just because the other Spartans (Fred, Kelly, Linda et.al.) are not in Halo 2 doesn't mean Bungie has rejected them. They're off doing something else...somewhere.

From Eric Nylund himself.

>I was always doing little tiny incremental things with development throughout, but where I really started working on things going directly into the game was Halo 3, when I worked with (engineer) Damian Isla on the terminals that explained the deeper lore. So I was doing more and more story as we got towards the end of it, and as we started Reach, I got the chance to actually write the script.

>Most of the books for the last two years have dealt with building backstory for Halo 4, rather than fixing canonical errors or mismatches. We've bought ourselves a little bit of latitude with the terminals in previous Halo games. We knew that the fiction was going to evolve when we were writing the terminals for Halo 3.

From Frank O'Connor.

>mcc reach still has audio issues
>mcc halo anniversary based on shitty gearbox port, missing transparency effects on classic mode
>no option for original ost or sfx

I expected this shit and I'm still let down

>Halo babby thinking he's any different than the Overwatch crowd
Kid, we use to mock you in the 2000's. Halo is NOT part of the FPS golden age, it was what practically ended it. It also pushed and mainstreamed matchmaking which destroyed the idea of community building on XBL while eventually making its way to PC.

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The updated graphics completely destroy 343 Guilty Sparks level design and atmosphere. Just played that part tonight and I couldnt believe how badly they fucked it up

>mcc halo anniversary based on shitty gearbox port
You can't blame them for that. It was what was used in the Halo Anniversary edition back in 2011 and from what I understand, the original source code was lost.

Bungie killed it with Reach

sure but if anyone had the chance to maybe fix it, I would assume it would be the aaa developer releasing the game

this. but also, you;re a faggot, saucy

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Because 343 killed it

Based. 2 or 1 are still the best designs

The devs released shit game after shit game, and then topped it off with multiple shit ports. Then when Infinite comes out, they are going to throw rotting flesh into the mix.

You have to sleep with a man to be gay!

I'm an incel, remember!

>CE, 2, and 3 took less skill than Fortnite and Overwatch
The "no competition" morons sound more retarded with every post. People used to talk shit about Tyson in the 80s for fighting bums when he was really fighting number one contenders.

When did I say any of that, stupid faggot? I'm probably older than your dumb ass. Nothing I said was incorrect, it is all fact. Halo is an arena shooter. Kids dont want arena shooters. They want team shit and random battle royales and nothing else. Halo thrived off of being the first one to really do console shooters properly, with good enough hardware. Halo was also the series that basically birthed online gaming for consoles and that was a HUGE part of its long term success in those days. For better or worse. You can cry about it and moan but those are the facts.

The Covenant is gone and the Flood are dead by the end of 3. Cue 4 with the Storm Covenant coming out of nowhere, and some angry alien guy with an army of neon skeletons wanting to kill everyone because reasons. To compound it, the handwave everyone tries to pull is “Oh if you read these three books then it will all make sense”. No one wants homework with their video games

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>newfag pretending to be an oldfag

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tl;dr spoilers

>cortana dies in 4 saving chief
>LOL NOPE SHE'S BACK IN 5 AND IS A SUPERVILLIAN
>She basically has the evil "haha I want to destroy the world" mentality
>She also is super lusting after chief and wants to lock him away with her
>Halo 5 ends with arby and chief meeting up again
>the end

It's shit I know.

Can someone please explain the lore to a complete lorelet like me, who never played Halo in his life up until now?
So, if I understand correctly, Cortana was first activated (created?) on Reach prior to its destruction. It seems that CE takes place immediately after Reach (at least that's what the cutscene suggests), so how the hell did she know Master Chief? They talk like they have a history, but this shit doesn't add up. Either I'm an idiot, there was a retcon I don't understand or somebody messed up the timeline.

Because its not a generic over-the-shoulder TPS.

Cortana has history with Chief because she's Halsey's clone. Halsey has known Chief since he was a child.

Holy shit what cock smoker you are. Halo players to this day can play any FPS and dominate people at their own game. Even 343's faggy Halos take more skill than anything that's out there. Meanwhile, none of you can legitimately transition to Halo.

Halo 3 finished the fight, everything afterwards was just trying to milk a dead cow

>To compound it, the handwave everyone tries to pull is “Oh if you read these three books then it will all make sense”. No one wants homework with their video games

Is it true that even if you read the six books (Kilo 5 and Forerunner Saga), it still doesn't make sense?

What we really need is a halo game where you kick it in covenant space and visit all the covvie homeworlds.

So...mommy???

There was a retcon in Reach in that it was Noble team that retrieved Cortana and got her to the Pillar of Autumn.
In the original Fall of Reach story, if I recall since its been literally close to two decades for me, Blue team were the ones that retrieved Cortana and Chief was the first one to put her in his helmet.

Halo is supposed to happen 16 days after the end of Reach. I liked the idea that Noble 6 linked up with still-active spartan teams and UNSC Army personnel and they made their last stand over the course of 16 days, but apparently Lone Wolf happened the same day the last level of Reach happened, so that's kind of sad.

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Chief and Cortana did training exercised together before the fall of reach. I think Halsey and Cortana were in the lab to put on the final touches/give Cortana knowledge that would be destroyed when reach fell. Cortana was also on the pillar of Autumn during it's design.

>we
found the doombabby. Reminder these people are an infestation, Halo was always good and was always maligned by jealous retards who missed out on it.

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Call of Duty became the new dudebro shooter and Halo became niche. The genre was casualized even further with Modern Warfare so everyone flocked to that series. That's all there is to it. Even if 343 didn't make shit Halo games, the series wouldn't be front and center like it was during the main trilogy.

I don't care if my favorite game is "front and center" as long as it's good, which Halo definitely isn't anymore.

Halo is still just fine. Fuck outta here.

I never played any Halo game but it just looks generic as fuck.

Is it always Doomfags? My first FPS was Goldeneye and then Turok but I always thought Doom was cool and Halo seemed alright up until Reach. Do Doomfags and Halofags really need to be at each others throats?

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Then what went wrong with 5?

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Yeah Call of Duty 4 basically killed Halo. There was a big resurge with Halo Reach which was the top Xbox live game for a while, but it never really went back to the pre Modern Gay fuck stupid days.

there's a fag in these threads that'll accuse you of being a doom/quake/unreal fag, really any major pre halo FPS series, if you don't like halo. They lives rent free in his head

It's mainly Quake/Doomfags pretending to be boomers for some reason. They don't just shit on Halo, but anything that shares the genre even slightly.

It's really this. The trilogy ended, most people moved on. The multiplayer got outshined by CoD4

my mind's telling me nooo
BUT MY BODEHH
MY BODEH'S TELLING ME YEEAAAHH

>The trilogy ended, most people moved on
not really, reach sold only a bit less than 3

Less emphasis on community, gameplay freedom and creative output and more on competitive gameplay and deep story that no one really gave a fuck about except for the niche MLG community who even had their own community and playlist so everything was fine. They could have kept updating Halo 3 forever if they had as many map templates and forge options that H5 has now in forge which is actually amazing on it's own. too bad nobody gives a fuck about H5. unironically a soulless series now

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Spotted the seething zoomer

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>competitive gameplay and deep story
meant to say
>deep story and competitive gameplay

>Halo is an Arena shooter
Lol ok zoomer

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Reach didn’t have the same legs 3 had, and basically spelt the end by trying to be more like the other FPS games out there instead of being what it was good at.

>IS A SUPERVILLIAN
Why didn't she, just, like, let 343 Guilty Spark trick Chief into launching Halo in Combat Evolved? Could have just wiped all life off the face of the universe. I think this was the end of the 6th mission?

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I don't see anything wrong in this picture. Kid is enjoying some fps. Meanwhile, 25-30 yr old manchildren here play some cringe weeb games with pedo characters and retarded stories. Now this is laughable.

>>She basically has the evil "haha I want to destroy the world" mentality
More like she wants to unify the universe by sheer force.

And yet here you are on said weeb site.

You can fake it all you want, doesnt make you not a zoomer.

Well I'm 30 and turning 31 in May, what about you?

dude its just a rocky patch, halo mcc on pc has made it a lot more popular, now that CE is on it the games population is way higher. and with no boosters the game is great. also why does it have to be popular?

there's nothing about the halo series that suggests it's an arena shooter aside from some of the map designs in the original game. The mechanics are far removed from arena shooters. The lead game designer of Halo CE himself called it "a party game with shooting mechanics"

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