Forget about the story and multiplayer

what made Halo 4 suck?

Story and Multiplayer

the entire series sucks

>DUDE LET'S MAKE PLAYERS ABLE TO SPAWN WITH SHOTGUN PISTOLS AND WEAPONS THAT MAKE VEHICLE COMBAT ENTIRELY WORTHLESS
>WTF WHY IS COMBAT SO TOTALLY BRAINLESS NOW?!!!

Loadouts aren't inherently bad but jesus christ 343 really fucked them up.

What made Halo 4 bad other than the story and multiplayer?

>forget about the story and multiplayer
So that leaves us with single player Forge, Spartan Ops and campaign gameplay.
Removing plasma rifle was stupid fighting covenant was dumb and the new enemies were ridiculous bullet sponges with an assload of 1 hit kill weapons. Especially in Spartan Ops. The amount of times I'd get 1 shot by a poorly telegraphed sniper blast that was completely undodgeable from a bullet sponge I couldn't kill or stagger in the 1 second of leeway it gave IN A SINGLE MISSION made me drop the whole thing.
It wasn't fun to fight Knights. At all. It fucking sucked ass.

Gameplay, while not entirely terrible, was bland and uninteresting compared to the previous entries in the series. The enemy and general character designs were also sorely lacking in comparison with its predecessors.

I'll bite.

- Some of if not the worst AI in the series
- very linear level design that unlike Halo 2 does a shitty job of masking it
- Tons of copy pasted repetitive corridors
- Promethean not being that fun to fight

The campaign missions are certainly the least flawed parts of 4, and by FPS standards it's actually a pretty decent one, but for Halo it's sub-par, i'd say tied with CE for the second worst in the series. It has many of the core, major flaws CE had, but CE came out like 11 years before Halo 4. It's pretty ridiculous that a game has a campaign only as good as it's 10 year old predecessor.

And then obviously the MP has issues with ordiance being shit, sprint not being balanced right, descope being removed, and loadouts being the default mode of play rather then it's own shits and giggles mode. Honestly 4's MP isn't nearly as terriblr to make it out to be, it's still enjoyable, especially in MCC with all the bullshit gone, but it's still easily the worst MP in the series

The story meanwhile is actually as awful as people make 4 as a whole out to be.

the worst part to me was not being able to use the guns you start on the level at the end of the mission

You run out of bullets and you'll have to use alien weapons

I agree with most of what you are saying, but

>Removing plasma rifle was stupid

Nah, the storm rifle is great, it's one of the few really good things 4 did alongside the scoreboard changes

>- Some of if not the worst AI in the series
agree
>- very linear level design that unlike Halo 2 does a shitty job of masking it
agree
>- Tons of copy pasted repetitive corridors
agree
>- Promethean not being that fun to fight
agree

First time I agree with someone on Sup Forums
Please mark this day.

>sprint
>fine tuning tool removed from forge and replaced with the garbage magnets
>forge canvases on release were shit
>cluttered and busy artsyle
>prometheans were boring enemies
>covenant no longer spoke english and were boring as fuck as a result
>shit AI
>QTEs, including the FINAL BOSS
>all the gun sounds changed from their iconic ones to sounds that were just awful
>that promethean grenade that was useless
>spartan ops, just everything about spartan ops, jesus christ
>terrible campaign levels
>descope replaced with flinch
>EGGHEADS

That's not even mentioning the dumpster fire that is the multiplayer, and the story for that matter.

what if Microsoft fucked up on purpose? What if they wanted the series to end and people only remember 1-3 ?

It felt like fanfiction, it played like fan fiction, and it was as hollow as fiction. It just wasn't fun

NO FORGE WORLD
JUST GIVE US BACK FORGE WORLD
PUT IN UNSC FLYING VEHICLES

It's stupid from a lore perspective and it looks dumb.
It's a solid case of if it ain't broke don't fix it

because 343 made it

gameplay was meh and it didn't feel like a halo game

>what made Halo 4 suck?
Bringing back MC.
Should of just left his ass floating in space. 343 had a fresh start to the Halo series, they could've put in any new main character they wanted but went back to chief.

>Remove falcon and hornet
>Shitty load outs
>No good multiplayer maps
>Loads of DLC
>Spartan ops were a repetitive fuck fest
>The entire fucking design/style was completely fucking ugly with all the enemies looking weird as fuck and armor looking like some gay leather suits mixed with lego

THE 343 ART DIRECTION

HOLYSHIT ITS FUCKING HORRID

the boxart?

not much left when you subtract both halves of the actual game.

>343
>making anything nearly as good bungie did

Sadly when bungie gave up the halo series it died with them. Anyone who refutes this point is probably not a big fan of halo.