its a shame it took them until like Reach to say "this is the intended version" because I think most people default to Normal because it says Normal.
Do you mean in terms of default settings for mission selection? Maybe I’m being misremembering, but I swear that all the way back in the original CE, the description for Heroic said “Halo the way it’s meant to be played.”
Looking it up, it was in Halo 3 they added it in. Beforehand Heroic just said "Survival is not Guaranteed." And then starting with 5 they changed it again to "only for Veteran players." So it was only in 3/ODST/Reach/4 that they admitted it was the intended version.
I think it might start the cursor there, but I think its basic human assumption to think "Normal" is the default difficulty regardless. So that little blurb about being the intended is important here.
Do you mean in terms of default settings for mission selection? Maybe I’m being misremembering, but I swear that all the way back in the original CE, the description for Heroic said “Halo the way it’s meant to be played.”
Looking it up, it was in Halo 3 they added it in. Beforehand Heroic just said "Survival is not Guaranteed." And then starting with 5 they changed it again to "only for Veteran players." So it was only in 3/ODST/Reach/4 that they admitted it was the intended version.
I think it might start the cursor there, but I think its basic human assumption to think "Normal" is the default difficulty regardless. So that little blurb about being the intended is important here.