majormoe

" I will say this; there's been 5 Halo games with the same gameplay formula; There's been 2 Team Fortresses, each 10 years apart, and 2 SMG's. "

" @majormoe said:

" Every video game related forum user are saying Halo: Reach is "just da same game", and complaining how it lacks innovation for the franchise. HOWEVER, they always complain how Splinter Cell: Conviction strays too far aways from its roots. Also, Super Mario Galaxy 2 didn't innovate anything for the series and it was essentially an refined Super Mario Galaxy one, but I hear no one complaining about it. Hell, Team Fortress 2 isn't that much different from Team Fortress: Classic, apart with TF2's cartoony art style, but it's a great game none the less. Almost every video game sequel or prequel just stick to the formula that made it successful, but expand upon them and refine them. You know, make it feel familiar and yet fresh at the same time. Halo: Reach does the same thing, and it's the finest game in the series for it.  So am I the only one who is noticing the hypocrisy from all the people who backlash at Halo: Reach?  "

Well Splinter Cell is a game series, based on series of books, which is about a Covert Ops agent called Sam Fisher.  Its basic gameplay mechanic is stealth.  Once you subtract that it's no longer Splinter Cell in any context other than name, which is why people make the comment that Conviction 'strays too far from its roots'.  TF2 is leaps and bounds from Team Fortress, if you disagree with that then you either haven't played TF in a long time or at all.  On the subject of Super Mario Galaxy you're probably correct as it is basically a refined experience of the first game.
 
Now onto Halo : Reach.  It's a good game, let me get that out of the way.  However, what a lot of people are disappointed with is the fact that it didn't push into enough new ground for being the last Bungie made Halo.  That said, they did leave a great legacy in the much more capable engine it ships with so it's likely that future Halo (343 Industries made) games will be able to innovate in ways that Reach didn't.
 
Oh yes and opinions. "

" @majormoe said: 

@Axxol said:

" People's Opinions  Don't worry about it and enjoy the games you love.  The End "

Just because they have different opinions, doesn't mean they can be excused from criticism. "

I didn't say they should be excused from criticism. "

"  There's a big difference between Halo Reach and SMG2: some people actually craved more of Galaxy as soon as the credits rolled, whereas Halo had 4 iterations already.   In any case don't give it another thought. Any negative criticism tends to float above all the praise, it's only a small amount of people who are complaining. "

" People's Opinions  Don't worry about it and enjoy the games you love.  The End "

" Totally agree with you. I didn't enjoy SMG 2 too because they didn't change it enough. I could have just played the first one again instead of spending money on the sequel.  "

" I love how people bitch about how the hardest difficulty in a game is actually hard.  "

Every video game related forum user are saying Halo: Reach is "just da same game", and complaining how it lacks innovation for the franchise. HOWEVER, they always complain how Splinter Cell: Conviction strays too far aways from its roots. Also, Super Mario Galaxy 2 didn't innovate anything for the series and it was essentially an refined Super Mario Galaxy one, but I hear no one complaining about it. Hell, Team Fortress 2 isn't that much different from Team Fortress: Classic, apart with TF2's cartoony art style, but it's a great game none the less. Almost every video game sequel or prequel just stick to the formula that made it successful, but expand upon them and refine them. You know, make it feel familiar and yet fresh at the same time. Halo: Reach does the same thing, and it's the finest game in the series for it. 
 
So am I the only one who is noticing the hypocrisy from all the people who backlash at Halo: Reach? 

It's made the same developers of Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, so I am definitely as excited as you are.

When I constructed additional pylons.

It's definitely not going to be Half-Life: Episode 3, thats for sure.