I played it yesterday for the first proper time in about a month and a half (as I've been replaying KOTOR and Fallout 3) and had an absolute blast. Multiplayer still keeps me playing, they've released some fantastic DLC maps (I swear, Landfall is one of the best in the series) and I'm currently going through Spops from Episode 1-10 solo which is a lot more fun than I remember it being but still has a lot of shortcomings in the first 5 Episodes. Ultimately, I still love the game, it's no different to the other Halos in how it has both positive and negative factors as well as some crushingly disappointing things. But the haters are always going to do their best to grab as much attention as they can get by breaking their disks and bitching about how "it's not the same so it can't be good". Much as I disagree with a number of the choices Bungie, 343 and every other developer of a game I've played have made, I still find myself coming back and enjoying what the game offers because (as much as the doomsayers would have you believe that there is NOTHING remotely good about the game) there's a lot to enjoy about it. I think the most hilarious thing I've heard about Halo 4 is that it's apparently so bad, all of Bungie's Halos ascend to the realm of perfection as a result. People REALLY need to draw the line between constructive criticism and infantile melodrama.