big flub with multiplayer

#1 Posted by manhunter1000 (25 posts) - 1 year, 6 months ago

I was really excited to see this game, but not having the original multiplayer was really stupid. Halo Reach has enough maps, plus, it has maps that resemble combat evolved maps. Why couldn't they give the same treatment to the multiplayer that they did with the single player.

#2 Edited by Zacagawea (1326 posts) - 1 year, 6 months ago

Because money/time/work

#3 Posted by manhunter1000 (25 posts) - 1 year, 6 months ago

then why do it at all? Multiplayer was a huge part of Combat Evolved.

#4 Edited by Mordi (548 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

I wish they had released the multiplayer in the first one with online play as well. I never played a lot of the first one, other than with three other friends once in a while. We first got into Xbox-LANs when Halo 2 had already been out for a while.

@Zacagawea said:

Because money/time/work

Because splitting the matchmaking playerbase further is not a good idea, and introducing old Halo-fans to the latest Halo-game makes sense business-wise.

#5 Posted by Goboard (100 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

They most likely didn't include it because they did not want to split the halo player base.

#6 Posted by big_jon (5101 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

I'm good with this.

#7 Posted by Irvandus (2276 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

@Zacagawea said:

Because money/time/work

#8 Posted by Aus_azn (2223 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

I just found it to be total crap that they have a pathetic number of maps and didn't even include Blood Gulch.

#9 Posted by Brendan (6763 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

If they created and implemented multiplayer it probably would have been a $60 game, and it probably would have been very poorly received because of it. They have most likely profited more from taking the road that they did.

#10 Posted by SamFo (1491 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

I think this game is probably one of the best HD port jobs ever made, and it cops a fair bit of flak.
The multiplayer component included in this game is an extremely smart idea.
Compare it to the GOW or ICO & Shadow of the Colossus ports.
They have lovingly recrafted the singleplayer grpahics in this game, as opposed to up ressing them to look decent on modern resolutions.

#11 Posted by InfiniteGeass (2004 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

It's either implement the multiplayer into Reach or split the playerbase. They chose the former of the two.

#12 Posted by SLUSHiNaToR (156 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

What I don't understand is why they don't give you all the dlc maps for reach like they did with ODST and halo 3.. I was really bummed to hear you just get the anniversary map pack.

#13 Posted by adoggz (1878 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

@Aus_azn said:

I just found it to be total crap that they have a pathetic number of maps and didn't even include Blood Gulch.

yeah because its not like blood gulch isnt already in reach...

#14 Posted by davidinwrofy (71 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

I am very glad the multiplayer is a chunky DLC for Reach (which desperately needed new maps) rather than a re-boot of a decade-old multiplayer, which, far more than the CE single-player, would have showed its age badly. Splitting the player base would have been a very bad idea. I agree that the first two DLCs for Reach weren't managed very well: I didn't get nearly enough playtime out of those maps because few playlists required players to purchase them and they rarely appeared in the rotation.

#15 Edited by MideonNViscera (1795 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

@adoggz said:

@Aus_azn said:
I just found it to be total crap that they have a pathetic number of maps and didn't even include Blood Gulch.
yeah because its not like blood gulch isnt already in reach...

Not to mention it sucks ass in Reach due to tinfoil vehicles and DMRs.

EDIT: Also it's the worst map for sniper betrayals I find.

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