Bungie: Halo Has 'A Lot to Learn' from Call of Duty 4

If only Call of Duty 4 was fun to play...Seriousely, do we really need more and more ww2 shooter games? Halo is, at least, unique in its own way. The online play is spectacular compared to CoD:4....Call of Duty's multiplayer is infested with shitty 12-year-olds. Am I right? All people do in Call of Duty is camp in corners with sniper rifles and make the game boring as shit. The single player is completely scripted. Play the game once and there's no reason to play it again. Halo doesn't need to learn ANYTHING from CoD; if anything, CoD could take a hint from Halo and make a fun, UNIQUE game...Maybe with a storyline that hasn't been repeated in a million other games?

COD4 is like a Rollercoaster ride. Halo is like Bumper Cars. You can replay Halo and there's plenty of stuff you may have missed the first time. In COD4 you're stuck in one spot so much you'll pick up on everything that game is scripted to show you, however that makes the initial experience better. But the whole Wave after Wave of enemies until you move ten feet forward is really annoying. Sometimes if you move too fast they'll still be spawning but behind you.

I prefer the openness and freedom in a shooter. COD4 was fun but they really made you feel so lonely on most of the missions. I preferred the SAS missions because it felt like you were part of a team and they could have been the entire game by itself. The USMC missions you were like a groupie that does everything while everyone around you was confused and yelling for stuff to get done.

I thought Battlefield Bad Company was better than COD4, it was the right mix of scripted events and openness. More so on the open side but that's why it's Battlefield. Games like Crysis and even BioShock were more open than COD4.

not to be a dick, but i'd say Halo has a lot to learn from ANY game in general. about the only thing halo seems to be any good at is the multiplayer (that's what i hear anyway, never wasted the time myself).

the singleplayer/story portion of the 3 is pathetically abysmall at best, which is very disappointing knowing what bungie has been capable of in the past (that's BEFORE the halo junk for you kids).

I just didn't think that much of the game.

While some of it was pretty interesting, the whole "human wave" approach of magically appearing adversaries got really, really old. For a game that does so many things right, this part was just awful and ruined the game for me.

That and it was too damn short.

Almost every game ever has a lot to learn from Call of Duty 4.

"So from here on we shall copy call of duty!"

CoD 4 was good, but non-stop enemy waves sucked. I like clearing out an area from a distance and then moving in. The scripting was cool, but too many scripted events take away from the whole idea that im in world where random events can occur.
Leave Halo alone :(
it's an awesome game and doesn't need help :)

The original Call of Duty did so much right that I don't know that CoD4 deserves all the credit.

Halo had a lot to learn from seven years ago: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2001/11/28/

Call of Duty 4 is a fantastic modern counter-argument for "scripting is bad and terrible and unscripted games are infinitely better." It was an incredible experience that simply would not be possible without heavy scripting.

Call of Duty games have always had neat scripted events but Infinity Ward really honed the art in CoD 4. Several times during the game I thought I had screwed up and caused us to fail the mission, until the scripting stepped in to reveal that my failure was entirely planned. It was just so slick and seamless. I loved every scripted second. Yes, a staggering and downright silly number of soldiers could spill out of a single broom closet but this was required to keep the momentu; it was the best solution for the game.

I hope that this is him realizing that all 3 Halo games were nothing more than mediocre shooters except for the multiplayer.

The thing about CoD4 is that the storytelling is heaps more compelling than most games and its success there is based heavily on how guided the gamer is in the experience. It doesn't discount a more open play environment, but the results certainly captivate me more than one where I get to choose how to ultimately just shoot at pixels. By guiding the process they were better able to get a story across, simple as it was.

"I think Halo has always been an extremely simulation driven game," ....Umm..sure.

Yeah some of the scripted stuff in COD4 was excellent. Like crawling around in the sniper escape missions comes to mind. Sure, there was a bit of a case of "Deus-Ex-vision" with the enemies there, but it worked and made it a cool mission.

Ugh. Please God, no. The only thing a game needs to learn from Call of Duty 4 is how not to create endless firefights.

You mean people actually play single player in either of these? o_O

;)

The main thing that struck me about COD4 is sometimes it is like watching some intense piece of your favorite war/action movie in a loop, and choosing when to allow it to transition into another loop.. It's kind of funny, anyone who is into it can choose to stand in one spot and take it all in for as long as they want, like some interactive painting or photograph.

Man, CoD4 is a great storytelling game. I loved the gameplay also.

I still play online Hardcore Search and Destroy on PC. Once you master dodging grenades and noob tube spam, the game is great online.

Through the SP campaign I kept wishing I was participating in some of the marketing concepts instead of the confusing story. The diorama and bits where they talked to old soldiers, the idea of the hero that lead the charge felt more like a sci-fi Band of Brothers WWII heroes tale. You were shown these incredible moments in a story (such as the Chief holding a plasma grenade, pretending to be dead in the diorama) and got to play absolutely none of them. Sounds corny but it seems drawing from sources of past wars and past heroism but put into a sci-fi concepts of the defense of Earth it could have been a much more powerful campaign .