Poll: Forgot about Reach?

[Dxz5roxg]

It kind of lost popularity among my friends. Personally I overplayed it then got sucked up in Fable 3 and haven't paid much attention to it. I'm waiting for Black Ops cause I know I'll have a lot of fun with it but I'll be getting Assassin's Creed first. Halo just kind of got left behind for me. There's to much else out there. I'll be coming back to it though.

 

[latenightapplepie]

I'm still playing it. I think it's more of a slow burn game, to be honest. I mean, a large number of people were playing Halo 3 for more than two years. I suspect Reach will last even longer than that. Sure, many players will fall away, but a significant number will remain.

 

[MONSTERheart]

I'll probably go back to it once CoD degenerates into a campfest/glitchfest/FUCKING NOOBTUBEfest.

So after a few minutes?

 

[Asuka Soryu]

Eh, I'd rather play my Halo 2, then spend 60$ on a high-polished version.

But, I have to admit... I had started to forget Halo Reach even existed. xD

 

[Nunny]

Still play it for my online FPS needs, alongside Bad company 2.

The only real major thing that annoyed me is the promise of large maps, only for most to be small and getting that damn "10 seconds to return" whenever trying to go anywere.

 

[deonte9109]

Oddly enough I havent played it yet and I still want to. I actually ended up getting new vegas cuz of a gamestop deal but im gonna trade NV for reach with a friend once im done with it.

 

[Thunderhorse31]

I'm a long-time Halo fan and Reach will be the 360 game I played the least of.

It's old, boring, and more or less the same game I've been playing since Halo 2.

I heard there was 1 fun game mode. Thats it lol.

OT: 200 million in advertising? Are you sure you got that right?

No that number is way, way off. The advertising for Reach was more likely ~$10 million; Halo 3 had like $7 mill in advertising and Reach was supposedly more than that.

It was Kinect's advertising budget that is gigantic ($400 million), which is where my exaggeration came from. Still, I haven't seen a commercial for Reach is a long time, while I can't spend 20 minutes without seeing ads for New Vegas or Black Ops or Brotherhood or Goldeneye. It just seems like Reach is an afterthought as far as the general public is concerned.

 

[bfgmetalhead]

halo 3 was more fun as the custom games were better as party chat didd'nt exist for the first year of halo 3's life, it was the only way to communicate on mass so take reach's forge and halo3's weapons and no armor abilites and you get SUPAR HALO MASTAR CHIEF EXPLOSIN OF AWSOME 3

 

[Anton P. Nym]

I'm actually playing it right now. It is a tough sell considering how different it is from the others and all the competition it has. The other Halo games practically had an open year when they launched. They had nothing to compete with on the Xbox. Reach has to deal with New Vegas, Black Ops, Medal of Honor and several other games. Its just a bad time to launch.

Actually, games like Bioshock, Mass Effect, Modern Warfare, and Assassin's Creed all came out in the same season as Halo 3, so it's not like it was released in a vacuum. Even with that kind of competition it still seemed like Halo's popularity never took a hit, whereas this time most people I know have already started to ignore Reach entirely. I guess time will tell if that trend continues.

I've played pretty much daily for the past month*, and it's a slow period when the in-game counter shows fewer than a quarter-million players on. I'm not certain it's tapered off that drastically compared with H3... I won't compare it with H2, though; its popularity was ridiculous, because it really was the only of its kind at the time and it gained crazy loyalty because of that.

-- Steve

* Started playing on launch day, even had the day off work to burn off some unused vacation days. Alas, a week or so afterward I got an inner ear thing; vertigo + FPS = whoopsie, so I had to set it aside for a good two weeks. I begrudge that time...

 

[Discord]

Nah not really I mean I havent played it thanks to Fable, Fallout and soon comeing BlackOps. Too many good games have came out and my attention can only be in so many places.

 

[Catalyst6]

Well, it's been almost two months, and I haven't heard much about it lately. Everyone I know immediately moved on to New Vegas when that launched, and many are looking forward to Black Ops, leaving Reach as little more than an afterthought.

That's pretty much how games go, no matter how good or hyped they are.

Look at Starcraft 2, for example. It was hailed as the next coming of Jesus, but a month after it came out it was only talked about by people that play it a lot.

It's just in the gaming community's habit to move on.

 

[Armored Prayer]

Hell no, I still play it non stop.

After the cap was lifted I've been playing non stop for hours just trying to unlock new armor. And I'm still having a ton of fun playing it, even playing online by myself.

 

[RabbiiFrystofsk]

I couldn't stand playing Snipers on Pinnacle any longer, i'm the sort of person who prefers using a sniper the way it was meant to be used, not jumping up and down like a knob trying to conect the small reticule on somebody's body.
I did, however, enjoy going into armour lock on hemmorage and blowing up mongooses/ghosts.

 

[Axzarious]

They make good toothbrushes dont they?

 

[supagama]

I loved reach, but then i got left 4 dead 2, and have yet to play it agin

 

[Racthoh]

Few friends of mine had the other games and played them a lot so I figured I'd pick up Reach (despite having no interest in newer FPSs). Beat the campaign in two days together, haven't stuck in the disc in since as my friends don't seem to wanna do anything else with it. Probably the last time I buy a new game specifically to play with friends.

 

[imnot]

Well its pretty much the only game I've pllayed since it came out.

 

[William MacKay]

wtf is reach again?
oh yeah, the stuff bungie poured out by taking Halo 3, melting it and fixing forge, and changing the Elite AI to 'baddie mode' again.

 

[dirt_empire]

It's still the thing I'll play first off when I get a chance to play anymore. Reach is my favorite release so far, followed closely by Undead Nightmare. But what are the actual XBL numbers? What is getting the most playtime, or at least close to the top? Reach is stll up there, which should show that people remember it and love it. Hell, the Bungie forums should show you that.