Jameseh

ODST should have been an add-on like the GTA IV ones were, 1600MSP download. Halo Wars was made by the people who made Age of Empires so they didn't exactly give it to novices, and I personally thought it was great. Reach I pretty much loathed, the Halo 3 engine is pretty much perfection for a FPS and the loadouts in Reach killed the game for me.

343 is mainly ex-Bungie staff who wanted to continue with Halo and other Microsoft Game Studios people so once again it hasn't been handed to novices. Can't wait for 4, providing they stick to the simplicity of 3 and don't try to 'CoD it up', hopefully dropping loadouts and credits.