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• omarfw@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There are haters for every Halo game aside from the original. What matters is the player counts and halo reach had plenty of players for a long time and still does on the MCC edition.

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• NikkiDimes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve only played the original trilogy, but I always hear people give Reach high praise, no?

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  • nullspace@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Reach had armor abilities and loadouts, which people hated. I thought it was a good spin on the multiplayer. Though at the time people were weary of the series continuing in that direction as opposed to being a one-off idea specific to Reach.

    The single-player campaign is absolute cinema. It ends in a very Rogue One -> A New Hope sort of way.

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  • GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Now, sure, but it was hated by a huge portion of the Halo community. Its player count was a gigantic flop compared to Halo 3.

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• PhoenixDog@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  When was Reach hated?

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  • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    When it came out, it basically killed the pro scene and forced MLG to pivot to LoL which took over it’s audience.

    No one liked the abilities.

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    • PhoenixDog@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So it only affected the pro league, and not the other 99% of the online playerbase?

      Poor MLG. I bet they were in tears over it. As someone who played professional Halo 3, I genuinely didn’t like the armour abilities in Reach but I certainly didn’t hate it (I was also aged out of pro play by then). But Reach was genuinely fun and the vast majority of fans loved it.

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      • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If the hardcore fans aren’t going to watch then it’s going to leech into them not playing and others following suit.

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  • GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    When it came out and had armour abilities and weapon bloom.

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    • Mearcfara@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And the choice to do some kind of rendition of the book, but in a semicanon way kinda. Not to mention the overly busy art style, a campaign that seemed to kind of echo ODST’s framework.

      I grew up on Halo 1-ODST, and I remember Reach was a hit with the little brothers after my friends and I had moved on, and it seemed very fitting.

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