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Halo 5 Guardians : The Toxic Nature of the Halo Community


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First off, I'm not some 343i fanboy. I'm not one to ignore the painfully obvious flaws of the Halo series. I'm also not one to shy away from criticism where it is definitely needed.

 

Is that all cleared up? Good.

 

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Okay, so anyway, what I really want to talk about is the current state of the fanbase that ensconces Halo and all of it's bi-products. Halo has long been a household name for many gamers. The first two iterations of the first person shooter innovating and expanding an otherwise bland and stagnated genre at the time, as well as elevating the Xbox as a competitive platform against the heavyweights of Playstation and Nintendo at the time.

 

However, it's impossible to hide from the fact that Halo can never really reach that same peak again. Even before Bungie freed its grasp upon the series, there were signs of decay, signs of frailty; a sign that maybe the Chief ought to hang up his Assault Rifle and get a little hut on a beach someplace nice. But we all know that did not happen, with 343i continuing to parade Microsoft's flagship title across each generation of Xbox.

 

Even for those who liked Halo Reach, whether entirely or only some parts of it, it marked a point in the franchise where the community really began to change. We saw the divide, a line cut right through the middle of an otherwise unified body of gamers. The new loadouts, armour abilities like Sprint and Armour Lock, the shift in gameplay and focus...it was just that much different from previous Halo games that those who could not adapt, or did not welcome the change were left behind. Even when Halo 4 came around, it simply expanded on the foundations that Reach put in place; the seeds of the modern Halo game growing and flourishing year by year. This continued to increase the division, going over the line in a thick red paint to make it bold and obvious.

 

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And now we're here, with two distinct factions waging war within the small fanbase left: "The Halo Veterans" and "The 343 Fanboys". Neither name is really that pleasant, but that's the names that both sides give each other. You actually like Halo 5? You must be a 343 fanboy. There is no room for a middle-ground at this point, with fingers being pointed and arguments starting from nothing, like children in a playground arguing over a football someone found in the sandpit. And frankly, it's time for it all to just stop.

 

Halo 5 has issues; it was rushed quite a lot by Microsoft leading to a lack of content at launch. There are numerous small bugs that plague the engine, as the move to next-gen was harder than they imagined. And this list can increase depending on your point of view about things like the art style, or the REQ system, etc etc.

 

But it also has SO many good points too. Consistent, massive post-launch support. A deep relationship between the developers and the community to keep the game moving in the direction people want it to. It even, arguably, has the most balanced Halo multiplayer to date in terms of the sandbox.

 

But do you ever hear anyone talk about the good things? Of course not. It's just complaining, and complaining, and more complaining. 343i did something right? Better find something else to complain about. There is no such thing as PRAISE anymore, because people seem to think that praise is never due when it most certainly is.

 

When you compare Halo 5 to the other shooters it is competing with, it's almost laughable to think that the majority of Halo fans are disappointed with what we're getting. Monthly big content drops for free, a microtransaction system that is actually fair and you have no reason to pay money if you don't want to (Believe me, I haven't), and as I said before, the developers are constantly active with the community in any way they can be. I mean, can you imagine how Halo fans would react if Halo 5's post launch was similar to Black Ops 3? Ha.

 

So yeah, I think by this point, I'm splitting off from the majority of the Halo content creators that I used to enjoy. The constant negativity they try to incite in their viewers and the constant hatred towards 343 Industries is honestly damaging to the whole Halo 5 experience. It's the kind of attitude that ruins games, and they give no consideration to the people who actually enjoy the very things they harper on about to get removed.

 

Peace.

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Oh I can just imagine the response this would get on waypoint XD XD but I'll say this despite you not ever wanting to talk with me. Halo 5 is coming from an era of broaken and incomplete games so despite the few good things there is a lot of bad I could go on and on listing them but that just anger you and you are already mad with me for reason so lets not give you a real reason to be annoyed. But to a lot of people right now they only see the bad cause we are not in that golden age any more the problem is not the community it's the industry. As soon as the industry give us whole games that work and don't look like they were made in 2003 then people will stop complaining as much.

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I find that the vast majority of people who play on Xbox are not exactly a bunch I would want to hang out with.

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This is like Captain America: Civil War. Yeah, I had a good run with Halo but I preferred not to buy the Xbox One for reasons and with all this stuff happening, I'd rather stay away. 

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