Get those darn rocks out of my Blood Gulch : A game design thesis

Valhalla and blood gulch are 2 different maps you goof!

Valhalla was awesome shut your face!

you could do mongolian throat singing with that voice. it hits like 2 different frequencies

I don't know about you guys but I enjoyed this

(Valhalla was still a good map though, Just no Blood Gulch)

In modern Halo Games, the fear is that one player might get a tank or power weapon and dominate the other players. This means that the tank has to have a special spawn timer and a giant vulnerable spot, and the power weapons need to be carefully positioned for maximum balance. In Combat Evolved, the answer to one player getting a tank, was to make sure that each spawn base had 2 tanks, 4 lighter vehicles, a teleporter, and a pair of rocket launchers.

That is why Combat Evolved was fun. Its answer to fun overpowered shit was… more overpowered shit for everyone. We made it work, we had fun, and if needed to be changed you could just change the custom game settings to make it even more awesome. Can you honestly say you have more fun winning exactly 49% of the time in skills based matchmaking to grind out your battlepass to unlock rainbow kitty ears for your Spartan? Think of the FUN that was sacrificed in the name of "balance". Not worth it. Not every game needs to be hyper-competetive and tailored for E-sports level competition.

I never knew Valhalla was a successor to Blood Gulch. I've been living a lie since 2008. It was staring me In the face the whole time, my whole reality Is In question