I'm a Halo Heretic
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Hmm. In so far as the expanded universe works go, to hell with Karen Traviss. It's so nice how I can sometimes carry over sentiments from one universe to another. In so far as the games go, I loathed the original, liked 2/3/ODST, and haven't played 4.
I'm not a big shooter player as a matter of choice. Shooters as a genre almost has an inverse of the old fighting-game problem where you reach the point of having to play a ludicrous amount of time to get any better. Instead, they get too easy. Particularly COD (10 hours of MW/blopsii multiplayer especially and you can wreck shit with eyes half-closed and brain off- for some reason the original blops wasn't as easy, might've been pace), but it happens with Halo as well.
I'm not a big shooter player as a matter of choice. Shooters as a genre almost has an inverse of the old fighting-game problem where you reach the point of having to play a ludicrous amount of time to get any better. Instead, they get too easy. Particularly COD (10 hours of MW/blopsii multiplayer especially and you can wreck shit with eyes half-closed and brain off- for some reason the original blops wasn't as easy, might've been pace), but it happens with Halo as well.
edgy3asytarg3t said:
Given what's happened to Halo since the beginning of 2010 onwards, it's hard to believe that "Let's all pretend that Wars never happened" actually WAS a consensus among the fanbase (besides me in my lonely corner of one plus whoever I dragged onto Halo Wars with me).NinjaDeathSlap said:
A Halo heretic for having opinions I've never seen a Halo fan really disagree with for the most part?
Please. I've got you beat because I don't think any of those games are good. Unless you've never heard of a keyboard and mouse anyway. Then they're still beat in most respects by a little N64 game by the name of Perfect Dark.
Please. I've got you beat because I don't think any of those games are good. Unless you've never heard of a keyboard and mouse anyway. Then they're still beat in most respects by a little N64 game by the name of Perfect Dark.
Meh, you think that's heretical try saying that you like Halo 4's story or that the "Kilo Five" novel trilogy by Karren Traviss was okay....man I feel so lonely.
I'll admit halo 2 has some serious gameplay issues that prevent me from holding it up as the best.
The Flood- I didn't have a problem with them in CE or halo 3 but those fuckers were just relentless and soaked up so much damage in Halo 2 that it became a chore to fight them. This made most of the Arbiter's mission annoying.
The Brutes- Like the Flood these guys soaked up an unbelievable amount of damage and when you killed one the others go berserk and murder you unless you have a precision weapon to quickly put them down with a head shot. It didn't help that these guys became the primary enemy for the last few missions.
Weapons- I actually like the human weapons but I really disliked most of the Covenant weapons because they felt so under-powered. Now this would't have been so much of a problem if the human weapons weren't so scarce and had low ammo capacities. Even with the Master Chief missions I was forced to use Covenant Weapons because there wasn't enough ammo for human weapons scattered about which was never much of a problem in the other Halo games.
I don't have anything to say about multiplayer because I didn't have high speed internet during the time.
In terms of single player campaign, Halo 3 is my favorite because it improves upon what Halo 2 did right while fixing most of it's flaws, particularly the ones I mentioned.
Still, despite its gameplay flaws, I do think Halo 2's campaign had the best writing, despite that cliffhanger ending.
I'll admit halo 2 has some serious gameplay issues that prevent me from holding it up as the best.
The Flood- I didn't have a problem with them in CE or halo 3 but those fuckers were just relentless and soaked up so much damage in Halo 2 that it became a chore to fight them. This made most of the Arbiter's mission annoying.
The Brutes- Like the Flood these guys soaked up an unbelievable amount of damage and when you killed one the others go berserk and murder you unless you have a precision weapon to quickly put them down with a head shot. It didn't help that these guys became the primary enemy for the last few missions.
Weapons- I actually like the human weapons but I really disliked most of the Covenant weapons because they felt so under-powered. Now this would't have been so much of a problem if the human weapons weren't so scarce and had low ammo capacities. Even with the Master Chief missions I was forced to use Covenant Weapons because there wasn't enough ammo for human weapons scattered about which was never much of a problem in the other Halo games.
I don't have anything to say about multiplayer because I didn't have high speed internet during the time.
In terms of single player campaign, Halo 3 is my favorite because it improves upon what Halo 2 did right while fixing most of it's flaws, particularly the ones I mentioned.
Still, despite its gameplay flaws, I do think Halo 2's campaign had the best writing, despite that cliffhanger ending.
I thought Halo 2 had a really fun campaign but maybe that is just my sweet memories playing tricks on me. I loved the arbiter missions. The multiplayer was fun, but I had only played that with my brothers (again nostalgia).
Halo 3 had the best multiplayer for sure, the maps were really fun, the vehicles were fun to use. Equipment was actually a really good idea, they should have kept that for Reach as well. The campaign was equally fun to play minus the cortana mission and the gravemind/cortana slowmo breaks. I actually went back and played multiplayer in like 2013 and it was fantastic.
I would give Halo 3 the best Halo game award.
On that note, I felt Reach was bad. The campaign wasn't really fun, I can hardly remember it. The multiplayer just wasn't the same, it felt off. The loadouts were a bad idea, they should have kept the equipment, and not added abilities to cater to the COD fans.
I actually hated ODST, played it through once, was not impressed.
Halo 4 was very fun! The campaign that is. The multiplayer can go die. I mean the gameplay felt very good, it was just satisfying, the soundtrack was well done. It had a couple tracks that were very memorable. The mission where you have to fly through the gauntlet was very well done, much better than the shitty one they had in reach. The protheans were not to bad to fight, much better than fighting the flood in any case.
Halo 3 had the best multiplayer for sure, the maps were really fun, the vehicles were fun to use. Equipment was actually a really good idea, they should have kept that for Reach as well. The campaign was equally fun to play minus the cortana mission and the gravemind/cortana slowmo breaks. I actually went back and played multiplayer in like 2013 and it was fantastic.
I would give Halo 3 the best Halo game award.
On that note, I felt Reach was bad. The campaign wasn't really fun, I can hardly remember it. The multiplayer just wasn't the same, it felt off. The loadouts were a bad idea, they should have kept the equipment, and not added abilities to cater to the COD fans.
I actually hated ODST, played it through once, was not impressed.
Halo 4 was very fun! The campaign that is. The multiplayer can go die. I mean the gameplay felt very good, it was just satisfying, the soundtrack was well done. It had a couple tracks that were very memorable. The mission where you have to fly through the gauntlet was very well done, much better than the shitty one they had in reach. The protheans were not to bad to fight, much better than fighting the flood in any case.