Why did they make halo reach so bad?

Answer 1

halo reach is not a bad game. it simply isn't what people expected after Halo 3. Reach was a huge letdown to many true halo fans for many reasons. one being that it is simply boring. Halo 3 could literally be played for days on end. the physics were amazing and the gameplay simply cannot be beat by any other fps. Reach however is significantly less fun. from my own experience this game cannot be played beyond 5 matches at a time. It is MUCH less fun than halo 3 and considering bungie made an amazing succession of games for their first three halo games, Reach came as a huge let down. there are barely any vehicle maps and even on the maps that do have them you can easily tell that something is "off" about them. I speculate that they seriously messed up the physics for the vehicles and made some shortcuts in their programming (simply compare the warthog in halo 3 to Reach and you'll see what I mean). One of the most annoying things is the reticle bloom as well. it simply detracts from the fun of the game and makes simple faceoffs incredibly frustrating especially for new players. This is most obvious for the DMR. honestly the BR was the best, most balanced and fun weapon in any game that still took skill to use. but bungie took it away and replaced it with the piece of filth that is the DMR. For me personally the worst thing about Reach is that is almost successfully ended halo 3's glory days where anybody could have fun playing it for hours. Since bungie seems to have made sure that Reach bashing videos and blogs aren't in the top Google hits, there arent many statistics i can use to prove why reach is so much worse than halo 3 other than 9 million people could easily be seen online during the day playing halo 3 while there's like 100 thousand people playing reach daily. that has got to say something. you dont have to agree with me on this one but im sure a lot of people feel that bungie has let them down on this one