Poll: Forgot about Reach?

[mikekearn]

I'm still playing Reach almost every day, trying to get the Daily and Weekly challenges done for the extra credits. I'm in love with Fallout: New Vegas at the moment, so I'm not playing Reach much more than whatever is needed to do the challenges. Once I finally beat New Vegas I will probably dedicate all my game time back to Reach.

There are plenty of other games I'd love to try out, but my gaming budget is thin, so those are the only two new games I've had in a while.

 

[Atmos Duality]

It's hard to remain optimistic about the future of games when a company can blow record-setting amounts of cash on marketing for a title they already released.

First Halo Reach did it (essentially being Halo 3 with jet packs and Firefight), now Call of Duty 4 is going to do it again with Black Ops.

I'm wondering how many times these companies are going to sell the same fucking mega-game until people realize what they are paying for.

 

[SnakeCL]

It's hard to remain optimistic about the future of games when a company can blow record-setting amounts of cash on marketing for a title they already released.

First Halo Reach did it (essentially being Halo 3 with jet packs and Firefight), now Call of Duty 4 is going to do it again with Black Ops.

I'm wondering how many times these companies are going to sell the same fucking mega-game until people realize what they are paying for.

Ask Nintendo, I'm sure they'll have some figures for you. LOL

 

[Atmos Duality]

Ask Nintendo, I'm sure they'll have some figures for you. LOL

I'd rather get the figures straight from the horse's ass as it were. Perhaps someone at Activision or Micro$oft can set the record straight for me.

At least there were noticeable improvements and interesting variations of the Nintendo Trinity (Excluding Pokemon. That IS the same exact game remade over and over.) up until the PS2/Gamecube/Xbox era.

It's reselling the same exact game with the same exact elements plus or minus maybe one different thing that bothers me.
An old example comes to mind: When Raven Software took Doom and tried to convince us that it was a totally different game by re-skinning it and reselling it as Heretic.
Sure it looked cool, but I didn't really have fun playing Heretic because, well, I ALREADY OWNED DOOM BY THEN.

 

[SnakeCL]

From my experience actually, Halo 3 and Reach play pretty differently. Namely, Reach is a heckuva lot more tactically oriented, and you can't plow through things as easily as you can in Halo 3. The story is different (of course), as well as the general vibe of the game.

I feel like your simplifying things a bit too much here.

I don't think you can really fault an FPS for a general lack of originality over the years, since everything from Quake 2 onward has been more or less similar in the gameplay department, including Half-Life 2.

 

[aakibar]

its great when you have live, there are only so many times you can play the campaign before you throw it away it pick up something like new vegas which has a much higher replay value

 

[MetallicaRulez0]

I'd have been much more interested in Reach if it was just Halo 2 that worked with Xbox Live again. Seriously. Do it microsoft.

 

[mega48man]

nope :3

i'm gonna start campaign on heroic when my live expires soon so i can get the CQB helmet. soon, i will look like mudkipz.

 

[Tarakos]

Haha, I completely forgot I have this on my shelf.

I was never a big Halo fan, and only picked it up because my friends were, and I needed something to play for a few months. Even they, big Halo fans themselves, have stopped playing.

I guess Reach is just more of the same and some people have moved on since IMO, it's been the same game all these years.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

I hear it being mentioned, but the number of people speaking about Fable, Fallout, and of course Call of Duty outnumbers them

For a PS3 owner, remembering it's hard.

 

[Infinatex]

It been outclassed and overshadowed by more popular franchises. With the Black Ops launch tonight (fuck yeah finally!!!) and then with Cataclysm in a month, it has just been pushed aside. Also only being on one system does not help!

 

[rockingnic]

Well I've played it every day except 2 since launch and I'm a Lt. Col. G3 at the moment, more than 1/2 way to commander and I love it, especially invasion (invasion slayer sucks, especially on hemorrhage), headhunter and stockpile. I've already completed 115 challenges total and 45% through my commendations with 2 onyx commendations, both in firefight. I also have ALL achievements and can't wait for the Noble map pack, I hope those maps are more balanced than the maps that they made in Forge World. Cage blows, asylum is only decent with certain game modes, hemorrhage needs to be updated with more weapon placements on the map, it sucks running for 2 mins just to find a weapon other than the load out weapons, and pinnacle sucks except for modes like oddball and king of the hill. I'd admit there needs to be more power in some weapons and less in others, I could go on a killing spree with an assault rifle but with the plasma repeater, lets just say it's easier to get a kill by killing someone with a plasma pistol, it just seems there's no purpose to use the repeater over the pistol is all.

 

[RatRace123]

I still haven't gotten it.
I want it, but not enough that I can't wait for the holidays.

 

[T8B95]

I'm still playing it, and this comes from the hype-killer (don't believe me--look at the hate-storm that came from me saying that Black Ops wouldn't be worth my money.)

Reach is probably the best in the series since the first one.

It's also the last game I'm buying until TES V comes out (WHY, BETHESDA? WHHHYYY RELEASE ANOTHER FALLOUT BEFORE TES V?!)

Altgough, I might take a look at Brotherhood after all...

 

[Elesar]

What's Reach? Is that a new game?

 

[Digikid]

Reach is a great game....but Halo 3 is still better IMHO.

 

[T8B95]

The hype about Brotherhood seems to have died as well.

 

[Seatownstriker]

I still play it a ton. And don't get me started on New Vegas. Not impressed with a company that thinks it can release a broken game, then come out with patches later. Thats like turning in a school project 3/4 of the way done. Then telling the teacher, oh yeah I'll get the rest in later?

 

[Not-here-anymore]

It's just not getting so much attention now because it's actually been released.
Most of the games that get massive amounts of post-release attention here are the ones with choice systems of some kind; the ones where people will have had very different experiences, and so can discuss them at length. Alternatively, the ones with a depth that really wasn't expected of them (see Red Dead Redemption)
Reach is fun, sure, but not particularly worthy of discussion. Few shooters are. Now excuse me whilst I go play Invasion mode some more.

 

[FlyAwayAutumn]

I play MP when I get the chance but I'm mostly busy trying to finish other games

here's my recently played games

Fable 3
Castlevania: LoS
Fallout: NV
StarWars: TFU 2
Dead Rising 2

I play Reach in between. At least once a day to finish the daily challenges.