matdan said:Bioshock 2, Halo 4 and Judgment weren't horrible games though. All had great stories attached to questionable MP elements which dragged them down (Revelations and Wolfenstein 2009 as-well) considerably.
I will say Halo 4 MP is a heck of a lot better then Halo 5 in some ways like BTB and Infection.
If you want examples of sequels fumbling the ball look at Ace Combat Assault Horizon, Battlefield Hardline, Borderlands Pre-Sequel, Advanced Warfare, Conflict Denied Ops (Yes it is a sequel to a vastly better series), Operation Flashpoint Dragon Rising, Resident Evil 6, Soldier of Fortune Payback and so forth.
Point being the examples aren't exactly bad games, the games mentioned above are awful sequels that were handed off to other devs.
I totally agree with you on this one! Operation Flashpoint: Red River and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel were really bad compared to the other games in the series and just not a good game themselves (I've played them both on PC). Especially Operation Flashpoint, don't get me started on that crap game!
The examples given in this article are maybe less compared to other games in the series, but they're still good games on their own.
More targetted to the subject of the article:
The grudge some Halo fans have against 343 Industries is because of the bitterness the Master Chief Collection left behind. Even now, I still encounter bugs in the game's menu's, with playlists resetting etc. But if you just look at the story of Halo 4 objectively, it's a good one and still fits well inside the Halo universe. I've been with the series since 2001 but the series can't stay the same forever. Otherwise you get the same comments people give on the Assassin's Creed series. And Ubisoft ultimately decided to pauze the publishing for a year in their series.