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So I finished Halo 4 and well, I enjoyed it. Kinda. It's a surprisingly fun mess and I know some of you may wish to behead me for saying that but hear me out lads, Halo 4 thoughts thread:
The good: Story, level design. I ignored most cutscenes and still felt sad at the end, Chief speaking was jarring but necessary and I don't mind the change, the levels were smaller than normal but felt balanced and gave me some tight encounters which were super fun
Although energy weapons are utterly brutalised in this game, the gunplay was the super smooth Halo norm and I liked most of the style changes, bar the battle rifle (fucking sneeze of a gun sound). Precision weapons felt better than ever too with the little hitmarkers
The light rifle in particular was a favourite of mine, excellent anti-everything precision rifle, highly recommend if you're having trouble with difficulty. Nonetheless regarding weapons there is a chronic shortage of UNSC guns, which sucks, 70% alien guns throughout is not ideal
The Eh: Prometheans; I don't hate them but good God they make this game VERY same-y at times and although the Halo gameplay formula saves them a bit, it can't entirely redeem the somewhat static, methodical nature of progression. Also the knights aren't that bad git gud
The bad: sprint: I'll be honest they could remove it and my experience wouldn't have changed, I forgot it existed half the time lol and I got along just fine. nonetheless it is a get out of jail free card when used though, so I can see why people can't stand it.
Watchers. I still hate these things, you know how I said pronetheans weren't terrible and the guns were fun? Well these fuckers break all of that, but once they're gone it returns gameplay to the state of my previous comment. Someone make a mod which removes these shits please
The SAW: fuck me man I didn't want to dedicate an entire segment to this but this thing makes me so sad. A giant fuckoff machine gun that plays like an smg, my heart broke when this thing struggled to kill grunts at mid range. To think it's treated like a power weapon smh.
In conclusion, I give it 6.8/10. It's more than enjoyable if you take your time and play carefully
