Valkrae Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 This is my favorite series of media of all time. I adore the story behind it, and I love the games. Anyone else played any of the games, at least? I've played every single game that's come out. Quote Link to comment
Rusty Shackleford Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 I played Halo 1 and liked it somewhat. I also played a bit of Halo: Reach firefight on my younger cousin's Xbox when I visited his family last year. I read the Fall of Reach novel at some point. I also have a heavily modded version of Halo Custom Edition, which is basically Halo 1 but free, courtesy of http://hce.halomaps.org/. H:CE has a surprisingly large amount of people on the multiplayer servers. Quote Link to comment
Hackie Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 Meh, I own Reach, I've played Halo 1, 2, 3, and I rented ODST. It was pretty okay, there are a lot better PC games tbh. Quote Link to comment
Chaznoodles Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 Own all of them, loved the majority, Reach was meh, 4 was downright awful. Fun fact: Alan Tudyk, Nathan Fillion and Adam Baldwin do the voiceovers for Buck, Mickey and Dutch in ODST. Quote Link to comment
Carver Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 Combat Evolved is best, 2 is great, 3 is good, ODST is decent, Reach is sorta decent, 4 is garbage, remakes are garbage. Quote Link to comment
Valkrae Posted March 19, 2015 Author Share Posted March 19, 2015 Four is a step in a different direction for the series, that I'm actually interested to see it go too. I didn't like the multiplayer of four as much as I had the previous. Quote Link to comment
Gollee Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 I don't really multiplayer, apart from Coop. Though I do know a guy who got to Inheritor rank in Reach only playing the campaign. No online games. Quote Link to comment
Valkrae Posted March 19, 2015 Author Share Posted March 19, 2015 What. Is that guy literally a robot. Quote Link to comment
VoltageHero Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 I never wanted to play Halo, but a while back Gold members got Halo 3 for free. Never beat it, but bought Reach soon after. Thought the characters really cool, and beat the game. Bought Halo 4 when it went on sale, along with Spartan Assault. Didn't care for the last two very much. I thought Reach was pretty cool. Quote Link to comment
Gollee Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 What. Is that guy literally a robot. Â Don't know, all I knew was to get the hell in cover if he got a rifle. Quote Link to comment
GlamourChariot Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 I liked Reach a lot more than other people seem to. 4 was straight garbo, though. It would have maybe been redeemable if literally all the new Spartans weren't god awful. Multiplayer was hilariously bad/easy, even more get sniper -> win game than Halo 2, and I actually thought Halo 2 was the best one, lmao. Quote Link to comment
Valkrae Posted March 27, 2015 Author Share Posted March 27, 2015 Reach was my baby. I played that game so much, that I'm ashamed to admit it. Quote Link to comment
Carver Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 I had never touched Reach till around my birthday last year, when I visited family who owned a 360/xbox and a handful of older games. Firefight's fun as fuck in coop for killing time, but dear lord were the characters uninteresting and the Campaign uneventful (aside from the few missions where you're given aircraft). Which is a shame because the game itself has aged relatively well, controls and visuals-wise. Quote Link to comment
monkeysfist101 Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 Combat evolved and Halo 2 were by far the best. Solid gameplay as well as the fact that CE actually followed the source novels to the letter. The story in 2 was superb in that you get to see the fate of the unseen enemy commander whom you defeated in the first title. ODST is a gem in itself, albeit a short one. 3 is fun but has less replay value. Reach is okay, but is ruined if you've read the books (lore contradictions and whatnot.) Halo Wars is fun and simple, but there won't be a sequel so don't look forward to finding what happens after the cliffhanger ending. 4 is trash. They traded mechanics dating back to the first game such as the fact that bodies have never disappeared for slightly better graphics. I'm still playing through Spartan Assault, but it's nice to see that they've brought back some of the vehicles from Halo Wars. Quote Link to comment
Valkrae Posted March 31, 2015 Author Share Posted March 31, 2015 I had never touched Reach till around my birthday last year, when I visited family who owned a 360/xbox and a handful of older games. Firefight's fun as fuck in coop for killing time, but dear lord were the characters uninteresting and the Campaign uneventful (aside from the few missions where you're given aircraft). Which is a shame because the game itself has aged relatively well, controls and visuals-wise. Â You have to admit, they characterize supersoldiers stolen as children to be trained into hyper-lethal killing machines. They did what they could. Quote Link to comment
Prospekt Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 As much as I didn't really like what the new devs did to halo 4, they took a big step in making halo 5 really fucking good. I mean it looks amazing and plays amazing. I really enjoyed the multiplayer beta for halo 5. Quote Link to comment
Carver Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 You have to admit, they characterize supersoldiers stolen as children to be trained into hyper-lethal killing machines. They did what they could. Up until the point someone gets shot out of nowhere and you just go "Oh, eh. They're dead.", without so much as a shrug. Though to be fair I always valued the gameplay and coop over the story, as long as things seemed coherent enough. Halo always seemed to have went for the corny sci-fi action movie vibe, with the macho marines and their big guns, and the super soldier himself tearing through alien after alien. I will admit that the creepy-ass Flood levels in Halo CE certainly nailed the horror elements, though. Those are still among my favourites. Quote Link to comment
Rusty Shackleford Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 The thing about Halo is that the main characters are two dimensional cardboard stands with extremely predictable character arcs (if they even have character arcs). They shoot things good, they punch things good, but that's about it. They're not interesting in any way, really. Quote Link to comment
Valkrae Posted September 1, 2020 Author Share Posted September 1, 2020 Like a Necromancer, I bring this post back to life. With Halo out on the PC, who would be interested in playing through the Campaign, or doing some Multiplayer? Quote Link to comment
Guest Menown Posted September 4, 2020 Share Posted September 4, 2020 >five year old necroposting Quote Link to comment
Mofo1995 Posted September 4, 2020 Share Posted September 4, 2020 Halo rocks haha Quote Link to comment
Mofo1995 Posted September 4, 2020 Share Posted September 4, 2020 Four is my second all time favorite for multiplayer behind only two. Don't @ me, shit was great and 3 SUCKS. Quote Link to comment
DeadLantern Posted September 4, 2020 Share Posted September 4, 2020 Two is obviously the greatest, simply for the custom games. Quote Link to comment
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