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2/27/2016 10:41:14 PM
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Being bad at a good game

I mean, it's objectively possible. But I'm on the verge of ragequitting H5 (just did, coming back to typing this) 'cos the piece of shit is driving me mad. I've never been a top-tier Halo player. I can have good games, I can have good runs of good games, but I'm never consistently laying the smack, month after month. But I was half-decent at Halo 4. My first ever game was on Haven at the Eurogamer Expo, and I got at least one double kill and a killing spree, not medals I tend to earn in my average game. At least not back then; getting those medals surprised me, at the time. Maybe because it was a new game. Now H5 has ruined that. I'm just too twitchy, the aiming is too keen, and half my opponents bob and weave too much sometimes for me to kill them. Very frustrating. So I don't really enjoy H5 as a result, not the 'hardcore' multiplayer. I've had like one good game tonight, out of at least four. So I'm not really compelled to return to it as a result. That's fair, right? Objectively, if I'm not enjoying a game, no point in carrying on with it. Can I therefore call it a bad game? Probably unreasonably, sure. But I don't enjoy it as much as H4 and previous titles. So what would be a reasonable, objective stance on it, for me? I know that's a contradiction, but there's nothing ignoble about anyone trying to be objective. P.S. Where the hell is Fiesta? Or is it just not matchmade?

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  • I think it'd be pretty petty to call a game bad just because it doesn't jive with you, or you aren't good at it. I mean, I suck complete ass at Killer Instinct (and fighting games in general), but I don't think they're bad. In fact, I think they're quite good. Not saying you have to enjoy the game or like it (because you clearly don't). But basing a game as being inherently bad (as in badly designed) because you aren't able to learn its metas is silly. Truth be told, you're just not in 343i's target audience when it comes to matchmaking.

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