I’ve only played the original trilogy, but I always hear people give Reach high praise, no?
When did Reach stop being hated?
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 2 days ago
nullspace@lemmy.world 2 days 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.
GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world 2 days 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.
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 2 days ago
When was Reach hated?
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 days 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.
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 2 days 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.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
If the hardcore fans aren’t going to watch then it’s going to leech into them not playing and others following suit.
GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world 2 days ago
When it came out and had armour abilities and weapon bloom.
Mearcfara@lemmy.ml 2 days 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.
omarfw@lemmy.world 2 days 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.