Well, your opinion can't really stand up to the fact that H4 is the successor to Reach and not H3.. The interview? He acknowledged that there was a mistake with the game. Generally, he would have to be stupid to say something about nudge without anyone approaching him asking to fix it.
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Yeah, I would love for an official version of both. Don't see why they removed variants of a game mode that stayed in the game.