Halo 5 is growing on me (Destiny)

by petetheduck, Saturday, October 31, 2015, 15:06 (3406 days ago)
edited by petetheduck, Saturday, October 31, 2015, 15:15

The opening moments of Halo 5 are bad and I feel like they are the weakest of any Halo game so far. The game does NOT look like a AAA title when you first pick up the controller. It is a disservice, because the game actually begins to improve. I'm about half way through the campaign, and when you have a moment like arriving at Genesis, you wish that level of environmental quality was present when you first picked up the controller.

This is literally the first time I have played Halo 5 -- I skipped the beta and basically the entire marketing campaign, so this is all new to me. The new moment abilities -- climb, thrust, and even the ground pound -- all feel good. I was extremely skeptical of ground pound from the media, but having hands on with it, I'm good. Yes, I miss my Warlock jump, but Halo 5 has a much greater sense of gravity being a thing while still allowing you to defy it.

You can make a high jump in Destiny easily, but in Halo 5 you actually have to put some effort and thought into when to trigger your abilities, and it feels more rewarding to just reach that far ledge.

Vehicular combat is something Destiny just hasn't bothered with, and Halo has always excelled at. No comparison.

I'm still working through the campaign and I haven't touched multiplayer, but I think when Forge releases in December, Halo 5 custom games on Forge maps may triumph over Destiny, or at least deserve equal time.

Halo 5, I'm playing and I'm thinking about using this new vehicle in Forge, or maybe a Flaming Ninja Challenge map that uses thruster to make nearly impossible platforming challenges, and how cool it would be to play on the end result. Destiny, I'm thinking I played 11 games of Trials last night but never got the scout rifle because Bungie didn't make it clear you still got a weapon at 7 wins and I was just playing for bounties, and now I have to grind that out again just to get a freaking gun.

In other words, Halo 5 might just be the reminder to some of us that games can be played for fun.