[quote name='DukeEdwardI']I have no idea how all you guys are brushing off a heroic playthrough like it ain't no thang. I got stuck at so many checkpoints for what seemed like forever that I nearly lost my mind by the end of the campaign. Finally finishing the campaign was more of a relief than it was rewarding. I suppose it's my fault though as I've only played Halo1 (LONG time ago), never played Halo2, only did a Normal run on Halo3 and did Normal&Heroic runs on ODST (although Heroic there wasn't NEARLY as hard as it is in Reach). Still, it's super depressing to see everybody say how easily they breezed through Heroic where I had such difficulty.
About MP...it's tons of fun...but this is really my first time going online as I was too intimidated before (and also late to the party). I thought going online during the first week of the game wouldn't be too bad, and it hadn't been the first few days, but today was pretty bad. I only got to play for a couple hours, but I got thoroughly rocked. I even had the selected the option to look for similarly skilled players and that didn't work too well. I'm not sure if I was just up against really good players, or if I'm just that awful, but I ended my session today pretty bummed. Sure didn't help that some douche just came up and melee'd my dead body, or that there was at least one quitter per match, or that in the first second of an Elite Slayers match one of my teammates stuck me. Booted his ass, that's for sure. I was cranky enough without that happening.
Ah well, shit happens I suppose. Just gotta try again tomorrow I suppose. Get more practice.[/QUOTE]
Don't take it too personally, no one is amazing at these games online the first time they play. Hell I've played a lot of them in the past and I still count a good day as when I have a 1/1 kill/death ratio. Remember you can always play the maps solo in custom games to get a feel of how the maps are laid out and where the weapons are.
Personally I'm loving the abilities, especially the Hologram one. There's just nothing like fooling people into running after your hologram and then taking them down. I'm amazed at the variety really within the types of games like Invasion Slayer, racing, pro vs classic, etc. Considering what people where able to do with the previous Forge system I can't wait to see what people create now.