I'm sure you have seen that kind of attitude though, even on Giant Bomb. I see it all the time - posts where people say things like that. "Yeah the last game was broken but I love Sonic so I preordered/am buying it day one regardless." It blows my mind.

@mb: Definitely. I can understand why you thought that; it does happens quite often, and attitudes similar. It is seen less often on Giant Bomb though, at least from what I see.

I... what...? Obviously it wasn't "intended." Doesn't make it any less messed up. I love Destiny, so I thought I would go back and and play through all of Bungie's previous games back to back and maybe I'll end up liking Halo, but this whole thing really soured me. Unless they release a new disc version with all the updates and patches on the disc itself, I'm not going to go and buy MCC and then download another trillion gigabytes of patches.

If reports come out and declare it to be functional (beforehand) then yes.

Most likely. As with MCC if it's broke i'll just play campaigns first.

Not saying it isn't possible, but obviously MCC had special circumstances.

If your just going to play the single player which is sounds like from your post you can without any patches. The SP always worked fine, it was just the MP matchmaking that was slow.

Also the patches they put out aren't that large, like a couple gigs each. Beside the day one patch, which was downloading the MP component.

I think not. I haven't bought a Halo game on release day since Halo 3, since that left me regretting my purchase. I hardly ever purchase games on release day anyway, because if you look hard enough, within about a week you'll find the game for $45 instead of $60 (which will definitely happen with Halo as they'll want to bump sales after fixing the numerous bugs that will surely present themselves upon release).

Nah. I'll buy Halo 5, but since I'm more of a campaign-first kind of player, I don't have any need to try and keep up with the Joneses, so to speak. I'll probably wait until the game is a little cheaper than retail price. No need for me to rush out and drop sixty dollars on what'll end up being an eight-hour singleplayer experience.

I honestly don't know. I didn't have a Xbone or MCC when it launched as a hot mess, so I didn't personally feel any wrong doing, but I know all about it. I feel there are two ways of looking at it. 1) they've fucked up before so they could fuck up again, so I'm just going to wait and see. 2) their last fuck up was so bad they know they can't fuck up so I have nothing to worry about. I kind of feel like 2 is more probable.

I'll probably decide if it's a day one buy for me closer to launch, based upon what my library is like then. MGS V may still be all I need around that time.

I was already losing interest in Halo, but I still got sucked in to buying an Xbone and MCC due to nostalgia. That launch was unfortunate and basically the last nail in Halo's coffin for me personally.

I want to run through the campaign, but I don't see myself playing much multiplayer, so I'm still undecided if I'll be there at launch.

Yeah I mean, I'm a huge Halo fanboy so yes, but really, the Beta was awesome, and 1 game that was not primarily developed by 343 that has 4 different games inside of it is not enough to convince me the Halo 5 will be broken, a main line Halo has never really been broken, so I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.

I can't wait for October.

Them getting rid of local split-screen multiplayer has cemented the fact that I'm not going to get an Xbox One at all now.

I'm not sure I would call it a risk... so yes I guess

Yikes. ultra-multi-necro-thread

I'm in for week 1. I have a wedding to attend that will happen around the games launch.

It was a miracle that the MCC was able to work at all. They had to get four different games originally released on two different consoles to communicated with each other and over the internet. And remember that one of those games has never had matchmaking and only had online play on the PC version - and if they ported the PC version, that makes four different games on three different platforms. That's a hell of an undertaking.

If I own an Xbox One by the time Halo 5 launches then yes, I will purchase it.

I am to far invested into Halo and to much of a fan to just not get it day one. I have not beat halo 4 or read all the books but I am still sticking with the series through the thick and thin.

I really enjoy Halo, have loved its multiplayer, but after seeing and hearing about how awfully Master Chief Collection has been handled I'm definitely going to hold off and see how it goes and what the reaction is like. I hope 343 nail it and we get a fantastic game, but I don't have enough faith to pre-order the game/buy it on release (and usually when I'm interested in a game I'll pre-order for release day delivery).

it's unfortunate, but i think, "risk buying at launch" is applicable to all games now.