@jonny_anonymous: Good question, I think the answer has to do with perceived notions becoming axioms in culture. Like how very English-sounding-English is norm for every intelligent and aristocratic fantasy character.
This makes no sense at all, Halo's legacy was all about having Halo nights with a bunch of friends, H4 even had those co-op episodes you could play.
I'm with you, it's sad to see them remove it as it was how I played the last few Halo's. But at some point it just doesn't work out. Rendering two cameras like that, at some point it doesn't become feasible if you want the game to have even 30fps. We expect games to move forward graphically and with locked hardware there comes a point where it just can't be done.
I remember Assassin's Creed III being pretty brutal already, as I specifically rolled around with a huge logger axe because you could plant it in people's foreheads and it would stick until you ripped it from their corpse. Which I thought looked pretty bad ass at the time.
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