Apparently it collects the special editions of the first four Halo games into one MASTER CHIEF collection and its even available for PC. Has anyone delved into whether it's worth a buy or if it's just a cash grabbing collection of bad ports and barely there remasters and the like?
Master Chief's long-awaited return comes frustratingly close to greatness.
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Well, all that's out so far is just Reach. The other games come later.
So far, I'm kind of split. It's nice to have Reach on the console, and I am looking forward to all the crazy shit the mod community is going to do with it. On the other hand, I'm really looking forward to modders making the game fun to play again.
Reach was built with a number of assumptions. Namely, it was built with the assumption that players would be sitting on a couch far away from the TV, and that they'd be using a controller with aim assist. The PC port completely defies those assumptions, so now the DMR is more broken than ever.
There's a big difficulty jump from Easy mode to Hard mode. Enemies become bullet sponges who laugh off automatic rifle fire. Movement is likewise spongey, and I don't get the same utility from armor abilities that I used to.
Visually, the game is still beautiful. There's some graphical artefacts and a missing texture on the backside of a building in
Sword Base, but everything is so much clearer now. It makes me appreciate what a shitty TV I was playing on back in the early 2010s.
Overall, the Master Chief Collection is well worth the price. When it released five years ago, it was a broken, buggy mess. Microsoft could have thrown up its hands and abandoned the game, but they didn't. Years of work and gigabytes of patches later, the Master Chief Collection is actually a pretty good port. I recommend buying it and seeing what comes next.