Forgo Forge
I started watching some old Bungie viDocs and I can't tell you how tiresome it was listening to the guys brag about Forge and Forgeworld. Please don't bog down the game with a bunch of Forge crap. It's like the rap stars that tell the audience to say 'Ho!'. I didn't pay money to say Ho, you're the entertainer, not me. Say Ho your damned self. Build the worlds, dude. Or just open source the whole damned engine, because we don't want amateur hour, we want professional design. If you don't want to design the world, give up all your tools to another studio.
That said, if you build a map that sucks, nuke it. We're talking a 10 year game lifespan. Nukes happen.
If you do a top ten of all the greatest Halo maps, you will get 20 consistent answers. So there was a time that I hoped to see a best of map pack. I'd love to play The Pit or Zanzibar or any number of the old school maps in Halo. It's kind of what I expected when the Anniversary Edition came out and Bungie showed they could repupose old content. Based on that theory alone, Destiny could be astounding.
Right now however, on any given day all the great maps on Halo 4 are getting play only during Big Team Battles. On a hot weekend, you see maybe 7500-11000 players. I know there's competition with Gears of War right now, but that's the best maps. New DLC is getting no play, and those are great maps too. So please don't bog down the new Sol System with bootleg factories for crowdsourcing maps. You'll rue the day. Halo isn't a god game, it's a shooter. Destiny had better not be a god game.
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Most people want the ability to create their own maps and game types. Without forge, we likely would never have seen one of, if not the most popular "mod", Griffball. It's not lazy of Bungie to provide players with the tools to build things beyond what they thought of, it's empowering. It would be one thing if Bungie [u]only[/u] made a forge world. But Bungie has never done that. They've always provided us with both professionally created and meticulously designed maps, in addition to some blank canvases on which people can create a wide array of new and fun maps.