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I disagree with you that halo 4 is the worst one, but picking the worst halo for me is like picking my least favorite color of M&M. But I’m glad you defend halo 5 on the basis of multiplayer at least. Too bad purists can’t see its value
Ok that's a fair point. Halo 5s multiplayer was good but it's campaign was the worst. Meanwhile Halo 4s campaign was just OK. While the multiplayer was garbage.
There is a downfall in Halo 4 you run out of ammo quickly in the campaign with UNSC and Covenant weapons that your only options are to use promethion weapons
The covenant in this game are “storm covenant” I understand why you don’t know that, it’s a throwaway line and a lazy explanation to fight the covenant. Their whole backstory is that they are former covenant who banned together after the fall and are still religious towards forerunner artifacts. They aren’t explored any further except in spartan ops which no-one played. Kinda shitty IMO and very clearly there so you have an excuse to fight covenant.
This is one of the few times i disagree with Jarek. Don’t get me wrong, Halo 4 was a HUGE disappointment. However, i have an enormous grudge against Halo 5... campaign sucked and the microtransactions were so fucking invasive. I absolutely hate that game. Either way, Jarek has some very strong points against Halo 4, don’t blame him at all for thinking it’s the worst in the franchise.
@@forrestrichard6820 In 2013 , I remembered purchasing the Xbox 360 250GB Bundle that came with Tomb Raider Reboot download code . Diving into the first two or three levels of campaign, it deterred my interest. Still won't comprehend what was all the hype for Halo 4 ; the campaign bore me. Immediately, I hopped into multiplayer, and it was way soulless than Reach . Map design was garbage. Weapon sounds were "better", but were terrible to play with. As Jarek said, every worse idea taken from Reach was brought back to Halo 4. I also recalled that 343 were trying to compete with Black Ops II in 2012. Forge plus custom games were not worth participating in Halo 4 . Now that I recall, this game was the rise of the division of people not wanting to continue the Halo franchise. The divide started with Reach, but Reach was "passable" since it was made by Bungie. With 343 being involved in this entry, Halo 4 is what caused most fps fans, halo fans,players - who supported Bungie Halo games - to move on to other games. Because they saw that this is where the downfall of Halo begin.
Halo 5 didn't have invasive microtransactions. I'll assume you're just repeating what angry joe said. You got so many REQ packs for free that you never even felt compelled to buy any thing. The only thing in the REQ packs were cosmetics that don't affect the game and REQ gun variants for a specific mode that no one really cared about, warzone. The core halo modes were not affected in any way. The money that went into the microtransactions gave us A TON of new free content and also put money into the Halo Championship pot bonuses. At the end of the day, the REQ system was WAY better than traditional dlc.
@@Jarekthegamingdragon When you said the battle rifle is 4 round burst,I thought that it's 3 round not 4 round burst. Keep up the great work and happy new year.
Big agree on a lot of your points for the multiplayer. Thankfully, there are standard gametypes now that turn off the loadouts. With them off, the multiplayer is so different. The gunplay is actually really solid outside of the lack of descoping.
@@nickm5419 weapon balance bro, de scoping someone using a sniper or a precision weapon could drastically change how a fight can play out compared to using weapon flinch.
Even as someone who really liked the Bungie-era Halo novels, I've always hated the exclusion of story elements in the games in favor of putting it in novels. This made parts of Halo 4 and 5 really confusing for people who hadn't read the novels, to the point that it even bugged me; someone who knew what was going on. Halo 2 and Reach also had their issues (with Reach also completely retconning at least two of the novels), but with 4 and 5 it got worse. But the multiplayer...God, I hate 4's multiplayer. The loadout unlock and the "killstreak" systems absolutely borked 4's multiplayer. Halo has always been a series where its weapons have individual purposes and roles, and that doesn't change in 4, but the game wants to treat them more like a Call of Duty or Battlefield arsenal; a lot of different options for a smaller number of roles. Smashing those two systems together creates serious power gaps between players depending on their unlock levels, and also throws out the old arena idea of "spawning resets you to basic".
As chaotic as the multiplayer is in halo 4, I feel it is best enjoyed playing Big Team Battle. Most of the maps catered to BTB and it feels like halo + battlefield lite.
Honestly the captain in this game shitting on Chief is like the equivalent of a fresh Lieutenant in the armed forces trying to pull rank on a Warrant Officer that's been in for 10 years.
Yeah, when I played Halo 4 I realised right from the getgo that it felt really odd. It had some good parts but it felt so estranged. Crazy how much an art style can change the way a game feels
Jerek, I picked up Homefront The Revolution, and all its DLC, over the weekend because of your reviews. It's a solid game, the closest we will get to a Freedom Fighters sequel. Thanks for the content and have a good year.
Still think to this day that they should’ve focused on making this Reclaimer trilogy more focused around the Forerunners Make the Prometheans more varied and better to fight, less reliance on the covenant, and have the Didact as the big bad
Hate to disappoint you, but I just played Halo 4 on MCC Steam for the first time last week, and I really liked it. What I appreciate in the game: the overall presentation including levels, story, graphics. Seriously, after reading and watching so many reviewers hating it to the bone, I expected the levels, weapons and overall experience to be utter crap. I found that not to be the case. What I think could have been improved: over-reliance on neon lights in the Promethean/Requiem art design. It's as if Forerunners were really into nightclubs and discos.
The funny thing is that the multiplayer isn't the reason I personally dislike a huge part of Halo 4, it's actually the Prometheans. I loudly sighed whenever I had to fight them, and their weapons were also not that interesting. I actually found Halo 5's prometheans a lot more fun to fight, the promethean only levels were a chore to get trough in Halo 4.
That, along with the lack of UNSC ammo throughout the entire game, made the levels Dawn and Composer the only ones I truly enjoyed from a purely gameplay perspective.
I spent 27 hours on this game when it dropped on pc still love it , played this one first over the other halos so they just don’t feel the same to me and I can’t get into them
The thing about 343's Battle Rifle sound is that it seems they layered the shots on top of each other, so you only hear the beginning of the sound during the burst entire burst.
You may want to hold that thought because a lot of people likely more than you think didn't like Reach not because of the story (thought it did play a part of it) but it was also the abilities that really drove the nail into it especially the armor lock ability that made you immune to all kinds of damage while active.
@@cursedhawkins1305 yes believe it or not I do know the mechanics of reach but thank you for explaining them lol I like the game and so do other people, but the joke is literally just because Jarek rips on it so much
Reach had a really weak weapon sandbox where half the guns weren't worth picking up, it introduced sprinting to the franchise, was a sign of the times with mandatory film grain and desaturated colours... But it was by Bungie not 343 so it may as well be a holy artifact as far as gamer opinions go.
Nah, Halo’s AA is the strongest I’ve ever seen in a PC game. Halo 4 is doable since you can spawn with literally anything, but using KB&M in the other titles is a chore while controller players barely have to sweat.
343 had a lot to live up to in all fairness. But I think it would have been better to leave Master Chief alone and bring in new stories like ODST and Reach did. I would have enjoyed that more tbh. Both Halo 4 and 5 are unnecessary.
In my opinion, 343 should've left aside the Halo Franchise and make a new IP. Halo 4 saw the rise of many people,not wanting to support nor play their upcoming games. Not cause its made by 343; but because 343 brought back every idea that Reach had. Halo 4 was just a let down and it was what made me lost interest in the franchise .
@@Nicomanism 343 was created to only be in charge of & develop Halo games & the franchise full stop. they cannot make new IP's, that defeats their purpose entirely
Everyones complaint with this game was the story; I just didnt like how they changed everything for the sake of changing it. Most of the guns & stuff were basically the same from H1-3 cause it worked.
I liked 343s AR way better than Bungies, but I cant let go the classoc BR sound, specifically H2. H5s actually sounds cool to me, as well as the SMG and DMR.
When the game came out in the 360 the multiplayer was a shell of what halo 3 and halo reach was. Allmost no games modes. No king of the hill no swat no team snipers no griff ball nearly nothing. And the fact that 343 had to make a voting poll just to see if we wanted those game modes back indicated how disconected 343 was with the fan base.
*At least i'm not bald!* *Just kidding, excellent video Jarek, you were quite fair to me, although i disagree with some things.* *You have gained a subscriber, happy new year!*
I know they should have address this in the game, but the Covenant break into sectors which warlords ruling some, and the rest break into Western Roman vs Eastern Roman BS. That Elite is either just a Mercenaries now, as in the comic, many former Covenant works as Mercs for hires, or he is among the extremist factions, still believes in the big lies of those prophets. Make sense, cause when those Blue lizard dude realizes they are trains from birth to be weapons of wars, many of them start questioning the concept of wars, honors ETC after they have the liberty to thinks about it, of course, some realize the contradiction and just choose to works for whomever paid them the most, which in most case are Humans Elite from the Corporates worlds in the comic.
I have such conflicted feelings about Halo 5. I also used to play halo very competitively and have a lot of crazy clips from Halo 5. But all that said, even though i have way more hours in multiplayer than campaign, i value halos campaign way more. And its a shame, cause i liked halo 4s campaign despite its problems, and i honestly think Halo 5 has the best multiplayer I've ever played in a halo game, but god did the campaign suck, and it just drags it down my tier list. It could've been my favorite halo if its campaign didnt leave such a stale taste in my mouth. For every positive halo 5 has it has a huge negative. It has the best forge in the series, but no playable elites or fall damage which limits what you can make in it. It has an amazing, deep multiplayer but the theater mode is the worst I've ever seen in a game and doesnt even work in campaign. That game was so all over the place, and the shame is that i know most people hated it so the good things that it did won't be carried over
The multiplayer and overall gameplay of halo 5 is phenomenal. Especially if you know all the advanced movement stuff (thrust slide, spring jumps etc) It's such a shame that hardcore fans are so blind.
I spend most of my time playing campaign or firefight, so I hold both Halo 4 and 5 in extremely low regard. I’ve played hundreds of missions from CE to Reach, but I rarely play 4 and almost never replay 5.
Halo 4 made m le lose interest in the franchise. I still remember trying to play multiplayer, and just how much friends and I were not having fun, even if we won. It's a sour chapter for me I really feel like it's the worse case scenario for a franchise killer, not being fun.
I remember a halo 4 match where i got a shotgun power weapon, picked up a saw, and then earned the speed boost and dispite being a really low level the enemy players actively avoided me because id just dash in the direction i was taking fire from and blast them in the face with the shotgun
Honestly, I liked the artstyles of halo 4 and 5. I was kind of sad that they didn't manage to blend their artstyle with the classic bungie artstyle for Infinite but ehh
Halo 4 is my favorite story in a campaign despite its short comings, because of Chief and Cortana's development and the themes it explores. Other than that, I think H4 is one of the weakest games in the franchise. P.s. Chief's new armor is the one thing I actually prefered in the newer art style, and I think Infinite's armor is the best of both styles and it's my favorite.
I played Halo 4's campaign after launch (i borrowed it from a friend). For some reason last year i wanted to play it again and i loved it. I don't know, i just had so much fun.
I remember playing this game in xbox back when it released and in pc last year, and my experience is that I literally forget that sprint was integrated into the base mechanics, and was playing the whole game, from campaign to spartan ops, without sprint, and oh man...I swear that there were many moments that I could’ve survived if I had sprint away. I only found out about sprint when I was in a loading screen in the final few seasons of Spartan Ops, and the hints were showing, and I was like: “wHat The fUCk, thERe WERE spRint ThiS eNtire tiME?” So I went to check in key bindings, because even the hints doesn’t show you the button to sprint, and it was default “c”, and my finally thought about this game is that, “Who...the fuck...thought that this is a good idea...to default sprint to “c” instead of “shift”, which is an industry standard at this point. I would rather swap it around and have “shift” as sprint, and “c” is armour ability, which was default to “shift”. Fucking potatoes, man...
I remember the reason behind the AR sound in Halo 3 was: Bungie wanted Marty O’Donnells music to be front and center and not be overpowered by a loud weapon. Personally I love that tidbit of info and it makes me really appreciate the H3 AR sound. 343 weapons all sound too mechanical imo, and play into that effect of not being able to hear the quieter H4 music. The H3 audio was all purposeful, while H4 felt much more inconsequential
I found the objectives in the Halo 4 campaign to be extremely repetitive. “Go deactivate these 3 points” over and over again. It’s not a bad game by any means, but I agree it is the worst Halo. 5’s story was a complete mess but gameplay was a lot of fun
This is the only Halo game that I've beaten on Legendary, solo at that. I was... I think 12 or 13? It was quite hellish, but I was SO happy to beat it.
Forerunners in halo 1-3: we can create weapons that can destroy all life in the galaxy in a moments notice. Forerunners in 4 and 5: our ground personnel are outfitted with weapons on par with primitive Human and Covenant weapons, and we don't know why we lost to the flood. Idk, the forerunners just seemed stronger before, and now I don't know how they were the power houses of the ancient world if any group can come together and take down armies of Forerunner machines. Tell me if I'm missing something.
It's mostly due to ingame balance. Canonically most Covenant weapons suck against mjolnir. The magnum and BR cant dent it. The only thing that can crack it is a heavy AT rifle or an entire squad focus firing.
One thing about the Halo franchise that I find odd is how each game has different art designs/sounds for the guns etc particularly the spartan armour looking different even if there would not have been a chance to get an upgrade in between games (H3 > H4 for example).
Say what you will about Halo 4 but they did create the thickest most attractive Cortana design and that couldn't have been accidental and must go down as a positive Oh yeah and I share the opinion that the 360 controller really made Halo 4 tougher because even playing with an Xbox One controller is so much easier than with the 360. And if I remember there was a playlist later on that removed loadouts and reqs which was really nice, they also had really cool game modes like dominion and ricochet -neither of which ever came back which sucks because ricochet was really fun
@@Jarekthegamingdragon Xbone compared 360 feels better in my hand for sure but at least for me the sticks feel way less responsive then again my 360 controller is older than my Xbone one so there's that. But I can imagine doing it on m&k would be super buttery
@@Jarekthegamingdragon Yeah it would be better if the place your thumb rests on the xbone controller was bigger. It also feels like the material for their sticks is just better, my thumbs don't feel like they slip as much on them as they did on the 360 - which is super subjective admittedly
Cortana definitely looked her best here, and her animations were incredible (I know they were merely motion-captured, but the actress really allowed the Cortana model to shine to its potential), not to mention Jen Taylor's best work in the franchise. The intro cutscene for Shutdown is my favourite as a result.
All I remember from the campaign is exchanging weapons and never being able to find the one I dropped again. As soon as you walked a few feet away the game would delete it.
Everyone has an opinion but I loved the campaign and spartan ops. If you didn't that's understandable. I heard the music the whole time while playing on 360.
I really rather like Halo4 despite it's flaws and play it still a fair bit. It's far from being a bad game but a little more time in the oven regarding how the Prometheans fight sometimes would have benefited. That and the issue of running out of ammo a lot of the time. It's a rather good game though I feel despite these quibbles
on legendary this was halo no ammo. i ran dry almost ever five minutes and would have to back track to find anything that could shoot and that was the main difficulty of the game
I see your view on the multiplayer part, your definitely right, it's not real halo. However if you looked past it and took it as its own thing it was damn fun. It really was cod halo edition. The randomness made one take it less seriously and just have fun.
it has always confused me why they changed the assault rifle sound from halo 1, that thing was beastly, also popping a shield with a plasma weapon and then hosing them down with the assault rifle felt great, the 3 assault rifle was just garbage
I'm so conflicted because half the levels are really fun, but the metal structure levels and especially the penultimate ship level are horrible and kill the fun.
Speaking as someone who only played the campaign, I found it thoroughly bland and forgettable. The combat is serviceable and the visuals (at least on pc) are gorgeous, but the story is convoluted and the cutscenes are dull. There are a couple of great moments in the story, though (cortana’s farewell and the opening level).
I liked the story. It was more personal, reminded fans that chief is a person and has a strong connection to cortana (I know they did that beat in 3). But after 4 years and everything changing he wakes up and realizes that the only thing he still has from his time is now in danger.
I would have loved if at the start when you're on the Dawn if the UNSC weapons were the same ones in Halo 3 then we get the updated weapons later in the game
Aside from the brightness and the forerunner enemies I actually quite liked Halo 4's campaign. It is a nice sequel and it finalises the romance that has been developing with Master Chief and Cortana. It humanises the Chief so instead of him just being this unstoppable stoic soldier he is still as badass as ever but it is unambiguous about the fact that there is a human being in that armour who has felt every loss - every Marine killed because you were a little sloppy with how you turned the tank or your warthog at the wrong time, Captain Keyes, Commander Keyes, Sergeant Johnson and he's kind of afraid that if he steps out of his armour he'll fall to pieces. But he still gets the job done. I also liked Captain Del Rio - he's what commanding officers and a lot of bosses are like. Technically competent, but missing key things when they give you orders - and they're often not very reasonable or flexible.
I remembered attending the Halo 4 midnight launch, and then trying to relive some Halo Midnight gaming. But after playing maybe 6h of multiplayer, I gave up. To only pick up the game again with the aim of playing through the story. the game multiplayer felt like a strange mixure of cod, Reach and Halo 3.
Notice how this game let's cutscenes have a chance to breath? They allow them to be long than just a minute unlike Halo 5 that seems to afraid to do that. You had awkward fade out cuts in the middle of conversations and events. Makes me hate 5 even more.
I didn't find the Promethians being that bad in the MCC on Series X either (do remember them being a little annoying from what little I played of it back on 360 🤷♂️) and for Music I do remember hearing parts of 117 throughout the game (especially towards the end of the game) and then it plays during the "Flying Run" at the start of the Final Mission, makes sense since it's Master Chiefs Theme (honestly one of my favourite Halo Tracks ever)
Idk why but when I first got halo 4 it ran pretty well, I had an original base 360 too, yet the only time my game would slow down was during spartan ops because of all the shit happening probably
I mean I prefer campaign over the multiplayer so in my opinion I'm sticking with Halo 5 being the worst, though I will say Halo 5's multiplayer is much better than 4s, but for me i don't really like 4 or 5's multiplayer. This has nothing to do with the video topic, but I played Halo in a weird ass order, my first game was REACH, then I played Halo CE Anniversary, then 4, then 5, and this year finally playing 2, 3, and 3 ODST. Ranking for campaigns worst to best in my opinion 5, 4, ODST, REACH, 3, 2 (Though not my favorite because of a certain difficulty, but writing is the best), and CE Ranking for Halo multiplayer from worst to best in my opinion: 4, 5, REACH, CE, 3, and then 2 Was just saying my opinion sorry for the long comment, nice video mate and keep dishing them out
Well at my local game store, my dudes just call me and a few other of their favorite customers when a new game arrives. That's ussually the day before release. I just buy a copy then. Yeah... It means I'm halfway done with the campaign when the game is released. But I kinda wanted to experience one of these midnight releases myself, you know. Just to feel the excitment and the general vibes of being surrounded with likeminded guys who are excited about the same thing.
The last halo game I played in a multiplayer aspect (console wise) was Halo reach, multiplayer for halo 4 was on a disk, but I did get a glimpse of some of hte maps, such as forge world or forge island, which is far more boring than halo reach. Though some writing set ups felt strange, like the admiral who exist just to be an ass hole felt like who suffers from a sydrome in some movies where "an important character ignore the weight of their situation", every halo game before this even in Halo wars, a frigate or atleast a small fleet looks at their current situation and say "if we go back home, we are ignoring this problem, its either now or death"
I could not tell you a single thing that happened in Halo 4's campaign and while the multiplayer modes aren't great, I think that 5's multiplayer is the worst for one reason and one reason only: The cards The cards where an excuse to add in lootboxes I hated them at launch and I still hate them now
Its worth mentioning they added Battle rifle start modes in Halo 4 with weapon pick ups, and most modes dont use that killstreak garbo you mentioned, atleast in MCC In fact with all those changes id put Halo 4's MP above Halo 1 and Halo Reach, atleast when it comes to big team battles which is what i mostly play That being said this one time i was thrown into a match with killstreaks and no weapon pickups and it was as bad as you mentioned it, a boring slog of a match
I can't believe that 2012 was the year I played a COD game substantially more than a Halo game. Even years later with the disappointment tempered, I still can't really enjoy it. And believe me, I tried really hard.
in my anger on one of your old halo 5 videos like a year or 2 ago i left a rude comment about the req packs but i've since been enlightened and can safely say id take req packs over 4 any day
In terms of competitive h4s multiplayer sucks but i think in terms of casual btb i think it might be the most fun. They also had modes that toned back some of the annoying aspects but yeah base vanilla multiplayer before slayer pro and that kind of stuff sucked imo
"There needs to be more reason, than this guy is mean" I mean, not really. That's enough reason for me, and I'm sure many others, to hate someone even in real life, no extra motivation necessary.
The only problem i had with halo 4 and 5 is the time to kill (maybe reach suffer the same thing but it's fun and the detail you are loosing the war makes you to feel it) and i am talking about the campaing is literally... You fought the convenant in every halo and but like the halo 2 or 3 and the CE and One shot to the head and means a kill but in halo 4 and 5 when you fought the forerrunner race (i forgot the name) it's feels weird xd 5 or 9 shots to the head but if they shoot to you it's an one shot You know i am playing halo i want to move and shot, but not to still in cover for 5 minutes shooting to a tanking enemy that can one shot me (and that happens same with 5 that the spartan it's a little fragile)
Halo 5 IS NOT the worst Halo, multiplayer matters! Thanks to every one that joined me over on twitch! If you want to hang out and talk in the future, consider giving a follow! www.twitch.tv/jarek4gamingdragon
I 100% agree
Also happy new year
@@NewLifeFromTheWayofTruth dude I LOOOOOOOOOVEEEEE HALO 5 arena.
Unbielivably underrated fps.
I disagree with you that halo 4 is the worst one, but picking the worst halo for me is like picking my least favorite color of M&M. But I’m glad you defend halo 5 on the basis of multiplayer at least. Too bad purists can’t see its value
It would be interesting to see a video like this one about Halo 5.
Ok that's a fair point.
Halo 5s multiplayer was good but it's campaign was the worst.
Meanwhile Halo 4s campaign was just OK. While the multiplayer was garbage.
Fun fact:The assault rifle's sound in Halo 4 is directly taken from the SCAR 17.
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Thats pretty fun
i remember hearing they combined sounds from the ak47 with the m16 for the halo 4 assault rifle but i could be wrong
It was made for it
@@revolverswitch That sniper rifle crack is amazing.
There is a downfall in Halo 4 you run out of ammo quickly in the campaign with UNSC and Covenant weapons that your only options are to use promethion weapons
While I’ll agree the guns sound better in halo 4, idk the sounds and animations in 3 just have a charm to them that I love so much.
"....cant have a video without the hat.."
Heisenburg: "You're god damned right!"
The covenant in this game are “storm covenant” I understand why you don’t know that, it’s a throwaway line and a lazy explanation to fight the covenant. Their whole backstory is that they are former covenant who banned together after the fall and are still religious towards forerunner artifacts. They aren’t explored any further except in spartan ops which no-one played. Kinda shitty IMO and very clearly there so you have an excuse to fight covenant.
That’s why I like the banished.
That is a case of the Mandela effect, right there. As in, they were never called the Covenant "Storm" at all.
God they feel so out of place in this game and the sequel in general
I played the spartan ops lmao.
Spartan ops is Canon though; Halsey doesnt have her arm in Halo 5 because Spartan Palmer tried to assassinate her
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This is one of the few times i disagree with Jarek. Don’t get me wrong, Halo 4 was a HUGE disappointment. However, i have an enormous grudge against Halo 5... campaign sucked and the microtransactions were so fucking invasive. I absolutely hate that game.
Either way, Jarek has some very strong points against Halo 4, don’t blame him at all for thinking it’s the worst in the franchise.
@@forrestrichard6820 In 2013 , I remembered purchasing the Xbox 360 250GB Bundle that came with Tomb Raider Reboot download code . Diving into the first two or three levels of campaign, it deterred my interest. Still won't comprehend what was all the hype for Halo 4 ; the campaign bore me. Immediately, I hopped into multiplayer, and it was way soulless than Reach . Map design was garbage. Weapon sounds were "better", but were terrible to play with. As Jarek said, every worse idea taken from Reach was brought back to Halo 4. I also recalled that 343 were trying to compete with Black Ops II in 2012. Forge plus custom games were not worth participating in Halo 4 . Now that I recall, this game was the rise of the division of people not wanting to continue the Halo franchise. The divide started with Reach, but Reach was "passable" since it was made by Bungie. With 343 being involved in this entry, Halo 4 is what caused most fps fans, halo fans,players - who supported Bungie Halo games - to move on to other games. Because they saw that this is where the downfall of Halo begin.
Halo 5 didn't have invasive microtransactions. I'll assume you're just repeating what angry joe said. You got so many REQ packs for free that you never even felt compelled to buy any thing. The only thing in the REQ packs were cosmetics that don't affect the game and REQ gun variants for a specific mode that no one really cared about, warzone. The core halo modes were not affected in any way. The money that went into the microtransactions gave us A TON of new free content and also put money into the Halo Championship pot bonuses. At the end of the day, the REQ system was WAY better than traditional dlc.
@@Jarekthegamingdragon When you said the battle rifle is 4 round burst,I thought that it's 3 round not 4 round burst. Keep up the great work and happy new year.
@@kristiecornell5723 I'm saying the BR is a 4 burst, as it it takes 4 bursts to kill, not that it's a 4 round burst.
@@Jarekthegamingdragon Oh,I understand. My bad
Big agree on a lot of your points for the multiplayer. Thankfully, there are standard gametypes now that turn off the loadouts. With them off, the multiplayer is so different. The gunplay is actually really solid outside of the lack of descoping.
why would it descope? they're not using the scope on the gun, the Smart Link scope built into their helmets zooms in like Binoculars from MGS 1
@@nickm5419 because weapon balance
@@nickm5419 weapon balance bro, de scoping someone using a sniper or a precision weapon could drastically change how a fight can play out compared to using weapon flinch.
Vengeful Vadam!!!
It's hard to deny that the art style and the graphics looked great for it at least
Just wish the campaign was fun to play it felt so damn boring
@@Cameron088 it was too but the campaign was way more fun to play in that game than h4
Graphics looked great for the time but the artstyle held it down in my opinion
The art style is terrible, at least as far as the Covenant and UNSC go anyway.
Halo 4 Elite design is terrible.
Even as someone who really liked the Bungie-era Halo novels, I've always hated the exclusion of story elements in the games in favor of putting it in novels. This made parts of Halo 4 and 5 really confusing for people who hadn't read the novels, to the point that it even bugged me; someone who knew what was going on. Halo 2 and Reach also had their issues (with Reach also completely retconning at least two of the novels), but with 4 and 5 it got worse.
But the multiplayer...God, I hate 4's multiplayer. The loadout unlock and the "killstreak" systems absolutely borked 4's multiplayer. Halo has always been a series where its weapons have individual purposes and roles, and that doesn't change in 4, but the game wants to treat them more like a Call of Duty or Battlefield arsenal; a lot of different options for a smaller number of roles. Smashing those two systems together creates serious power gaps between players depending on their unlock levels, and also throws out the old arena idea of "spawning resets you to basic".
As chaotic as the multiplayer is in halo 4, I feel it is best enjoyed playing Big Team Battle. Most of the maps catered to BTB and it feels like halo + battlefield lite.
BTB was actually really fun in Halo 4, but that was about it lol
Honestly the captain in this game shitting on Chief is like the equivalent of a fresh Lieutenant in the armed forces trying to pull rank on a Warrant Officer that's been in for 10 years.
Yeah, when I played Halo 4 I realised right from the getgo that it felt really odd. It had some good parts but it felt so estranged. Crazy how much an art style can change the way a game feels
Jerek, I picked up Homefront The Revolution, and all its DLC, over the weekend because of your reviews. It's a solid game, the closest we will get to a Freedom Fighters sequel. Thanks for the content and have a good year.
There may be hope for a Freedom Fighters sequel because IO was speaking of other projects that they're working on after Hitman 3
Still think to this day that they should’ve focused on making this Reclaimer trilogy more focused around the Forerunners
Make the Prometheans more varied and better to fight, less reliance on the covenant, and have the Didact as the big bad
This may be just me, but Del Rio looks kinda like Ric Flair. Maybe that's why he's such an OTT heel.
Hate to disappoint you, but I just played Halo 4 on MCC Steam for the first time last week, and I really liked it.
What I appreciate in the game: the overall presentation including levels, story, graphics. Seriously, after reading and watching so many reviewers hating it to the bone, I expected the levels, weapons and overall experience to be utter crap. I found that not to be the case.
What I think could have been improved: over-reliance on neon lights in the Promethean/Requiem art design. It's as if Forerunners were really into nightclubs and discos.
The funny thing is that the multiplayer isn't the reason I personally dislike a huge part of Halo 4, it's actually the Prometheans. I loudly sighed whenever I had to fight them, and their weapons were also not that interesting. I actually found Halo 5's prometheans a lot more fun to fight, the promethean only levels were a chore to get trough in Halo 4.
That, along with the lack of UNSC ammo throughout the entire game, made the levels Dawn and Composer the only ones I truly enjoyed from a purely gameplay perspective.
Halo 4 has a lot of nostalgia for me but damn this game doesn’t even slightly hold up
i rememberd it having really good graphics and then saw it and it was so muddy :(
I remember getting it Christmas 2012. I wanted to like it but I kept playing reach and 3 more
I spent 27 hours on this game when it dropped on pc still love it , played this one first over the other halos so they just don’t feel the same to me and I can’t get into them
@@matteoziegler7632 yeah halo 2 so how looks more smoother at parts
The thing about 343's Battle Rifle sound is that it seems they layered the shots on top of each other, so you only hear the beginning of the sound during the burst entire burst.
I read that the sounds for H3 was slightly muted so so Marty's music was more hearable, or maybe for other reasons
Glad to see it’s not Reach lmao at least we Reach fans have that
What? Reach has always been incredibly overrated and over praised
You may want to hold that thought because a lot of people likely more than you think didn't like Reach not because of the story (thought it did play a part of it) but it was also the abilities that really drove the nail into it especially the armor lock ability that made you immune to all kinds of damage while active.
@@cursedhawkins1305 yes believe it or not I do know the mechanics of reach but thank you for explaining them lol I like the game and so do other people, but the joke is literally just because Jarek rips on it so much
PREACH
Reach had a really weak weapon sandbox where half the guns weren't worth picking up, it introduced sprinting to the franchise, was a sign of the times with mandatory film grain and desaturated colours... But it was by Bungie not 343 so it may as well be a holy artifact as far as gamer opinions go.
Playing any FPS game on mouse and keyboard makes it easier.
You say that but halo on pc has the issue that the controllers autoaim is so aggressive its an advantage
@@KingsNJenssons didn’t he just say it’s easier to aim on Mnk?
@@KingsNJenssons ahhhhhh, i found the "I'm a trash pc player and its aim assist fault" guy.
Nah, Halo’s AA is the strongest I’ve ever seen in a PC game. Halo 4 is doable since you can spawn with literally anything, but using KB&M in the other titles is a chore while controller players barely have to sweat.
It's easier for the campaign, the person replying to you is talking about Multiplayer which is completely irrelevant to what I was talking about.
343 had a lot to live up to in all fairness. But I think it would have been better to leave Master Chief alone and bring in new stories like ODST and Reach did. I would have enjoyed that more tbh. Both Halo 4 and 5 are unnecessary.
In my opinion, 343 should've left aside the Halo Franchise and make a new IP. Halo 4 saw the rise of many people,not wanting to support nor play their upcoming games. Not cause its made by 343; but because 343 brought back every idea that Reach had. Halo 4 was just a let down and it was what made me lost interest in the franchise .
@@Nicomanism 343 was created to only be in charge of & develop Halo games & the franchise full stop. they cannot make new IP's, that defeats their purpose entirely
@@Nicomanism Make another IP? 343's only purpose, their sole reason for existing as a company, is to make Halo. They can't just make another IP.
Even a game about Johnson and the start of the war would've been badass
Everyones complaint with this game was the story; I just didnt like how they changed everything for the sake of changing it. Most of the guns & stuff were basically the same from H1-3 cause it worked.
That's my problem too. Everything is different from the guns all the way to the artstyle.
I liked 343s AR way better than Bungies, but I cant let go the classoc BR sound, specifically H2. H5s actually sounds cool to me, as well as the SMG and DMR.
When the game came out in the 360 the multiplayer was a shell of what halo 3 and halo reach was. Allmost no games modes. No king of the hill no swat no team snipers no griff ball nearly nothing. And the fact that 343 had to make a voting poll just to see if we wanted those game modes back indicated how disconected 343 was with the fan base.
Personal opinion Halo 4: good story, shit multiplayer Halo 5: shit story, good multiplayer
*At least i'm not bald!*
*Just kidding, excellent video Jarek, you were quite fair to me, although i disagree with some things.*
*You have gained a subscriber, happy new year!*
I just realized that Del Rio is the Karen of Halo
del rio? more like of the river
I love the fact that a Naval officer calls Master Chief, a enlisted sailor, a soldier... mad disrespect considering Chief is the MCPON
I know they should have address this in the game, but the Covenant break into sectors which warlords ruling some, and the rest break into Western Roman vs Eastern Roman BS. That Elite is either just a Mercenaries now, as in the comic, many former Covenant works as Mercs for hires, or he is among the extremist factions, still believes in the big lies of those prophets.
Make sense, cause when those Blue lizard dude realizes they are trains from birth to be weapons of wars, many of them start questioning the concept of wars, honors ETC after they have the liberty to thinks about it, of course, some realize the contradiction and just choose to works for whomever paid them the most, which in most case are Humans Elite from the Corporates worlds in the comic.
I have such conflicted feelings about Halo 5. I also used to play halo very competitively and have a lot of crazy clips from Halo 5. But all that said, even though i have way more hours in multiplayer than campaign, i value halos campaign way more. And its a shame, cause i liked halo 4s campaign despite its problems, and i honestly think Halo 5 has the best multiplayer I've ever played in a halo game, but god did the campaign suck, and it just drags it down my tier list. It could've been my favorite halo if its campaign didnt leave such a stale taste in my mouth. For every positive halo 5 has it has a huge negative. It has the best forge in the series, but no playable elites or fall damage which limits what you can make in it. It has an amazing, deep multiplayer but the theater mode is the worst I've ever seen in a game and doesnt even work in campaign. That game was so all over the place, and the shame is that i know most people hated it so the good things that it did won't be carried over
The multiplayer and overall gameplay of halo 5 is phenomenal. Especially if you know all the advanced movement stuff (thrust slide, spring jumps etc) It's such a shame that hardcore fans are so blind.
I spend most of my time playing campaign or firefight, so I hold both Halo 4 and 5 in extremely low regard. I’ve played hundreds of missions from CE to Reach, but I rarely play 4 and almost never replay 5.
Halo 4 made m le lose interest in the franchise. I still remember trying to play multiplayer, and just how much friends and I were not having fun, even if we won. It's a sour chapter for me I really feel like it's the worse case scenario for a franchise killer, not being fun.
I remember a halo 4 match where i got a shotgun power weapon, picked up a saw, and then earned the speed boost and dispite being a really low level the enemy players actively avoided me because id just dash in the direction i was taking fire from and blast them in the face with the shotgun
Honestly, I liked the artstyles of halo 4 and 5. I was kind of sad that they didn't manage to blend their artstyle with the classic bungie artstyle for Infinite but ehh
Loadouts and ordenants were removed from quite a lot of playlists on MCC and more classic and it’s enjoyable
Halo 4 is my favorite story in a campaign despite its short comings, because of Chief and Cortana's development and the themes it explores.
Other than that, I think H4 is one of the weakest games in the franchise.
P.s. Chief's new armor is the one thing I actually prefered in the newer art style, and I think Infinite's armor is the best of both styles and it's my favorite.
I played Halo 4's campaign after launch (i borrowed it from a friend). For some reason last year i wanted to play it again and i loved it. I don't know, i just had so much fun.
I remember playing this game in xbox back when it released and in pc last year, and my experience is that I literally forget that sprint was integrated into the base mechanics, and was playing the whole game, from campaign to spartan ops, without sprint, and oh man...I swear that there were many moments that I could’ve survived if I had sprint away. I only found out about sprint when I was in a loading screen in the final few seasons of Spartan Ops, and the hints were showing, and I was like: “wHat The fUCk, thERe WERE spRint ThiS eNtire tiME?” So I went to check in key bindings, because even the hints doesn’t show you the button to sprint, and it was default “c”, and my finally thought about this game is that, “Who...the fuck...thought that this is a good idea...to default sprint to “c” instead of “shift”, which is an industry standard at this point. I would rather swap it around and have “shift” as sprint, and “c” is armour ability, which was default to “shift”. Fucking potatoes, man...
I remember the reason behind the AR sound in Halo 3 was: Bungie wanted Marty O’Donnells music to be front and center and not be overpowered by a loud weapon.
Personally I love that tidbit of info and it makes me really appreciate the H3 AR sound.
343 weapons all sound too mechanical imo, and play into that effect of not being able to hear the quieter H4 music.
The H3 audio was all purposeful, while H4 felt much more inconsequential
I found the objectives in the Halo 4 campaign to be extremely repetitive. “Go deactivate these 3 points” over and over again. It’s not a bad game by any means, but I agree it is the worst Halo. 5’s story was a complete mess but gameplay was a lot of fun
This is the only Halo game that I've beaten on Legendary, solo at that. I was... I think 12 or 13? It was quite hellish, but I was SO happy to beat it.
I love this game and have a lot of nostalgia because I didn't play the multiplayer, I'd just fuck around on the forge Anvils with split screen.
Forerunners in halo 1-3: we can create weapons that can destroy all life in the galaxy in a moments notice.
Forerunners in 4 and 5: our ground personnel are outfitted with weapons on par with primitive Human and Covenant weapons, and we don't know why we lost to the flood.
Idk, the forerunners just seemed stronger before, and now I don't know how they were the power houses of the ancient world if any group can come together and take down armies of Forerunner machines.
Tell me if I'm missing something.
It's mostly due to ingame balance. Canonically most Covenant weapons suck against mjolnir. The magnum and BR cant dent it. The only thing that can crack it is a heavy AT rifle or an entire squad focus firing.
I was still a kid (not teen) when this came out and it didn't feel like halo in fact I totally forgot it was a halo game when meeting Lasky
One thing about the Halo franchise that I find odd is how each game has different art designs/sounds for the guns etc particularly the spartan armour looking different even if there would not have been a chance to get an upgrade in between games (H3 > H4 for example).
I feel like just how much the weapons sandbox and role of each weapon was destroyed with this game was not talked about enough.
I think it was because of "balance" so every weapon felt the same
Say what you will about Halo 4 but they did create the thickest most attractive Cortana design and that couldn't have been accidental and must go down as a positive
Oh yeah and I share the opinion that the 360 controller really made Halo 4 tougher because even playing with an Xbox One controller is so much easier than with the 360. And if I remember there was a playlist later on that removed loadouts and reqs which was really nice, they also had really cool game modes like dominion and ricochet -neither of which ever came back which sucks because ricochet was really fun
I hard disagree. I hate the Xbone controller compared to the 360 controller. I was purely talking about how much easier M&K is in general.
@@Jarekthegamingdragon Xbone compared 360 feels better in my hand for sure but at least for me the sticks feel way less responsive then again my 360 controller is older than my Xbone one so there's that. But I can imagine doing it on m&k would be super buttery
Funny enough the problem I have with the Xbone controller is that the analog sticks are too sensitive and small.
@@Jarekthegamingdragon Yeah it would be better if the place your thumb rests on the xbone controller was bigger. It also feels like the material for their sticks is just better, my thumbs don't feel like they slip as much on them as they did on the 360 - which is super subjective admittedly
Cortana definitely looked her best here, and her animations were incredible (I know they were merely motion-captured, but the actress really allowed the Cortana model to shine to its potential), not to mention Jen Taylor's best work in the franchise. The intro cutscene for Shutdown is my favourite as a result.
Any chance of reviewing the Marathon Trilogy one day?
"Two words: Thicc Cortana"
-the developer probably
All I remember from the campaign is exchanging weapons and never being able to find the one I dropped again. As soon as you walked a few feet away the game would delete it.
They still haven't fixed that in MCC.
Everyone has an opinion but I loved the campaign and spartan ops. If you didn't that's understandable. I heard the music the whole time while playing on 360.
I really rather like Halo4 despite it's flaws and play it still a fair bit. It's far from being a bad game but a little more time in the oven regarding how the Prometheans fight sometimes would have benefited. That and the issue of running out of ammo a lot of the time. It's a rather good game though I feel despite these quibbles
For some reason, shutdown is one of my favorite levels in all halo campaigns.
on legendary this was halo no ammo. i ran dry almost ever five minutes and would have to back track to find anything that could shoot and that was the main difficulty of the game
My first Halo
Take that back right now.
I forgot everything about Halo 4 except snippets of the campaign and the Mantis
I see your view on the multiplayer part, your definitely right, it's not real halo. However if you looked past it and took it as its own thing it was damn fun. It really was cod halo edition. The randomness made one take it less seriously and just have fun.
it has always confused me why they changed the assault rifle sound from halo 1, that thing was beastly, also popping a shield with a plasma weapon and then hosing them down with the assault rifle felt great, the 3 assault rifle was just garbage
Just beat this game with my lil bro a couple hours ago and man, is that ending just horrible. The last level is just a confused, repetitive bore.
You’re insane
I'm so conflicted because half the levels are really fun, but the metal structure levels and especially the penultimate ship level are horrible and kill the fun.
Speaking as someone who only played the campaign, I found it thoroughly bland and forgettable. The combat is serviceable and the visuals (at least on pc) are gorgeous, but the story is convoluted and the cutscenes are dull. There are a couple of great moments in the story, though (cortana’s farewell and the opening level).
Are you talking about the wood village GameStop/Walmart? Been going there pretty much my whole life.
Eastport Plaza Gamestop
I liked the story. It was more personal, reminded fans that chief is a person and has a strong connection to cortana (I know they did that beat in 3). But after 4 years and everything changing he wakes up and realizes that the only thing he still has from his time is now in danger.
Sure. The relationship between master cheif and cortana are great. But everything else was okay to just bad. So it kinda balances out
Halo 4's music has just one problem, and it isn't one anyone can fixe: it isn't made by Marty O'Donnell or Michael Salvatori.
Fun fact: The lighting is broken in halo 4 MCC on both Xbox 1 and PC
I would have loved if at the start when you're on the Dawn if the UNSC weapons were the same ones in Halo 3 then we get the updated weapons later in the game
Since Halo will have it's 20th anniversary this year, will you rank the campaigns from worst to best?
Unpopular opinion, but I actually really like a lot of the new enemy designs, but I understand why people don't like it
“Give me that chip”
“But it has codes for Halo INFINITE”
Halo Reach is the worst. The bloom was absolute cancer.
Aside from the brightness and the forerunner enemies I actually quite liked Halo 4's campaign. It is a nice sequel and it finalises the romance that has been developing with Master Chief and Cortana. It humanises the Chief so instead of him just being this unstoppable stoic soldier he is still as badass as ever but it is unambiguous about the fact that there is a human being in that armour who has felt every loss - every Marine killed because you were a little sloppy with how you turned the tank or your warthog at the wrong time, Captain Keyes, Commander Keyes, Sergeant Johnson and he's kind of afraid that if he steps out of his armour he'll fall to pieces. But he still gets the job done. I also liked Captain Del Rio - he's what commanding officers and a lot of bosses are like. Technically competent, but missing key things when they give you orders - and they're often not very reasonable or flexible.
I remembered attending the Halo 4 midnight launch, and then trying to relive some Halo Midnight gaming.
But after playing maybe 6h of multiplayer, I gave up. To only pick up the game again with the aim of playing through the story.
the game multiplayer felt like a strange mixure of cod, Reach and Halo 3.
Notice how this game let's cutscenes have a chance to breath? They allow them to be long than just a minute unlike Halo 5 that seems to afraid to do that. You had awkward fade out cuts in the middle of conversations and events. Makes me hate 5 even more.
Happy new year Jarek
I didn't find the Promethians being that bad in the MCC on Series X either (do remember them being a little annoying from what little I played of it back on 360 🤷♂️) and for Music I do remember hearing parts of 117 throughout the game (especially towards the end of the game) and then it plays during the "Flying Run" at the start of the Final Mission, makes sense since it's Master Chiefs Theme (honestly one of my favourite Halo Tracks ever)
halo 4: good campaign, bad multiplayer.
halo 5: trash campaign, great multiplayer.
I just want halo 5 in it's entirety on PC .
Idk why but when I first got halo 4 it ran pretty well, I had an original base 360 too, yet the only time my game would slow down was during spartan ops because of all the shit happening probably
I never play halo 4, but it looks impressive for a 360 game.
I mean I prefer campaign over the multiplayer so in my opinion I'm sticking with Halo 5 being the worst, though I will say Halo 5's multiplayer is much better than 4s, but for me i don't really like 4 or 5's multiplayer. This has nothing to do with the video topic, but I played Halo in a weird ass order, my first game was REACH, then I played Halo CE Anniversary, then 4, then 5, and this year finally playing 2, 3, and 3 ODST.
Ranking for campaigns worst to best in my opinion 5, 4, ODST, REACH, 3, 2 (Though not my favorite because of a certain difficulty, but writing is the best), and CE
Ranking for Halo multiplayer from worst to best in my opinion: 4, 5, REACH, CE, 3, and then 2
Was just saying my opinion sorry for the long comment, nice video mate and keep dishing them out
Well at my local game store, my dudes just call me and a few other of their favorite customers when a new game arrives. That's ussually the day before release. I just buy a copy then.
Yeah... It means I'm halfway done with the campaign when the game is released.
But I kinda wanted to experience one of these midnight releases myself, you know. Just to feel the excitment and the general vibes of being surrounded with likeminded guys who are excited about the same thing.
If you only play Halo for its multiplayer then Halo 4s the worst
If you only play Halo for the campaign then Halo 5s the worst
The last halo game I played in a multiplayer aspect (console wise) was Halo reach, multiplayer for halo 4 was on a disk, but I did get a glimpse of some of hte maps, such as forge world or forge island, which is far more boring than halo reach.
Though some writing set ups felt strange, like the admiral who exist just to be an ass hole felt like who suffers from a sydrome in some movies where "an important character ignore the weight of their situation", every halo game before this even in Halo wars, a frigate or atleast a small fleet looks at their current situation and say "if we go back home, we are ignoring this problem, its either now or death"
343 please release halo 5 for PC!!
I could not tell you a single thing that happened in Halo 4's campaign
and while the multiplayer modes aren't great, I think that 5's multiplayer is the worst for one reason and one reason only:
The cards
The cards where an excuse to add in lootboxes
I hated them at launch and I still hate them now
REQ packs literally have no impact on any core Halo 5 MP mode. That's not a valid reason to dislike Halo 5 MP.
Its worth mentioning they added Battle rifle start modes in Halo 4 with weapon pick ups, and most modes dont use that killstreak garbo you mentioned, atleast in MCC
In fact with all those changes id put Halo 4's MP above Halo 1 and Halo Reach, atleast when it comes to big team battles which is what i mostly play
That being said this one time i was thrown into a match with killstreaks and no weapon pickups and it was as bad as you mentioned it, a boring slog of a match
Ngl 6:50 the voice acting from the captain is really good
I can't believe that 2012 was the year I played a COD game substantially more than a Halo game. Even years later with the disappointment tempered, I still can't really enjoy it. And believe me, I tried really hard.
To be fair, black ops 2 is arguably the best COD game in the entire franchise. I miss it.
Happy New Year 2021 Jarek and thanks for the content in 2020! (^__^)_____/
in my anger on one of your old halo 5 videos like a year or 2 ago i left a rude comment about the req packs but i've since been enlightened and can safely say id take req packs over 4 any day
But Halo 4 is good and fun even the multiplayer
In terms of competitive h4s multiplayer sucks but i think in terms of casual btb i think it might be the most fun. They also had modes that toned back some of the annoying aspects but yeah base vanilla multiplayer before slayer pro and that kind of stuff sucked imo
"There needs to be more reason, than this guy is mean" I mean, not really. That's enough reason for me, and I'm sure many others, to hate someone even in real life, no extra motivation necessary.
Del Rio: ARREST THAT MAN
Palmer: *Bitch, I want to live.*
I don't know why But I Liked halo 4. I know I'm inhuman
The only problem i had with halo 4 and 5 is the time to kill (maybe reach suffer the same thing but it's fun and the detail you are loosing the war makes you to feel it) and i am talking about the campaing is literally... You fought the convenant in every halo and but like the halo 2 or 3 and the CE and One shot to the head and means a kill but in halo 4 and 5 when you fought the forerrunner race (i forgot the name) it's feels weird xd 5 or 9 shots to the head but if they shoot to you it's an one shot
You know i am playing halo i want to move and shot, but not to still in cover for 5 minutes shooting to a tanking enemy that can one shot me (and that happens same with 5 that the spartan it's a little fragile)
12:46 4 Burst........4....Burst.....Did I slip into an alternate dimension where the BR fires 4 shots instead of 3?
4 burst, not 4 round burst. Those are two different things. 4 burst meaning 4 bursts to kill.