Halo 5 is growing on me (Destiny)

by cheapLEY , Saturday, October 31, 2015, 16:30 (3406 days ago) @ petetheduck

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.

I didn't really have that feeling, I guess. I do agree that Halo 5 isn't as immediately impressive as some games (even Destiny), but Halo never has been except for maybe the first one. It's never been top of the line as far as being amazed by the sheer detail. It's always been much more about being aesthetically beautiful and running smoothing with tons of things going on. Halo 5 excels at this more than any game I've ever played. It runs at a buttery smooth 60fps, and I didn't notice a single dropped frame throughout the entire game. Not one stutter, and there are absurd amounts of enemies on screen at once in Halo 5.

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

Yeah, obviously no comparison to Destiny. The vehicle segments of Halo 5 are fun, but probably the biggest disappointment of Halo 5 for me. They still just don't live up to all the great segments in Halo 3, or the level Halo.

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

It's definitely a breath of fresh air for me, and I'm loving it.