I made a whole post about this, so I'll just dump it here
If the game is so great, why are you here, downvoting criticism, instead of playing the game? I know when a great game comes out, I'm glued to it for at least a week. People getting bored of it are coming here to defend it because they want to feel their money wasn't wasted. But if two days in you find yourself on reddit more than the game, you wasted your money...
A friend of mine invited me over to try out Halo 5 today. I've been a fan since CE, but I wasn't really keeping up on 5 pre-release because I sold my Xbox One last year. When I came over ready to play some juicy co-op campaign I was devastated. No split-screen. Like, at all. After reading more about it, I understand that including split-screen simply wasn't possible once the engine was built. However, this does not excuse it's absence and it's probably the biggest disappointment in Halo history thus far.
Forge is also missing at launch, to be put in sometime in December (Is there no shame in shipping an incomplete game? They're not doing much to help the stigma) Since Forge is one of Halo's more unique draws, and 2 months can see a large player-base drop in a controversial/disappointing game (see Destiny, Halo 4, MCC), this is a huge letdown even if it is only temporary.
Classic game-modes like Juggernaut, Oddball, and Infection are missing. Granted most people don't even fuck with Juggernaut and VIP and such, but INFECTION? Come on, that's still one of the most popular gamemodes in Reach and 4. Really, 343? These game modes shouldn't be hard to put in, but I'm guessing development for this game was probably hellish considering it's shipping incomplete.
But most suprisingly to me of all the butchered features was the treatment of theater mode. Again, no campaign theater, which was to be expected I guess. I mean without friends to play campaign with, it's not really fun to watch again anyway. But NO SCREENSHOTS? What? How did this happen? Why even put theater in if you can't take screenshots? This blows my mind on so many levels. Also I didn't see a record button, so I'm not sure if you can make clips, but I have seen a few online so there's probably a way to do it, (albeit through some shitty tablet/app integration I bet) Little fuck-ups don't help either, like forcing the menu up anytime you rewind, starting the camera on another player, and the controls being blocky and over-sensitive. Overall, theater mode is a mess and my friend isn't happy about this considering he spends a lot of time in Halo games making clips and screenshots. So much for that.
I'm not here just to shit on the game. It's the best looking game on Xbox One at the moment, and Warzone mode is awesome. I'm just sick of recently released games being immune to criticism just cause people want to feel like their money wasn't wasted. If you are a Halo fan I don't understand how you can praise this game, let alone try to silence critique. Opinions are subjective, but we can't let companies release games where the list of features missing is bigger than the list of features included.