What went so incredibly right?
Everything except the color palette
>>283892474
the final playable section
>you WILL die
>take as many of these alien fucks with me as I can
>visor cracks
>oh shit
>cant see much
>keep fighting
>finally succumb
>you tried, anon, you tried
>>283892474
What didn't go wrong, rather.
As far as Halo is a shitty series past 2, Reach was kind of okay. It was a shitty console shootan but it was probably the best consoles could get.
>mfw all those scrubs with armor lock
>just waiting for them to disable it to pop them in their dumb fucking heads
>mfw NOBODY fucking strafes or jumps around
Console people are funny. It's like they're incapable of more than 2 actions at once.
>>283892932
This is Crisis Core all over again
>>283893096
>playing Vanilla Reach
>Armor Lock seems cool let's check out what it can do
>Oh wow the EMP on Armor Lock is the same as a fully charged green gun
>Rush people and go into armor lock for a split second to drop their shields so I can punch them to death
Vanilla Reach was the shit
>>283892474
The gameplay, and even the whole game really could have been near high tier.
The problem was absolutely murdering a lot of the story, and pulling shit out of nowhere.
If there was one Halo only, or this was the first made, it would have been fucking amazing.
The armor and weapon design was God-tier.
>>283892474
That was the greatest video game except for a meal that little bitch I hate him
Reach was garbage.
>>283894197
>a meal
Despite all the shit it gets, Reach was the bomb, and probably had the best campaign out of any Halo game. MP wasn't perfect and I feel like the armor abilities kind of detracted from the classic, bare gameplay.
The fact that this is what Bungie left the Halo series on made me really excited for Destiny too. And then Destiny came out. Hopefully it was just one bad egg and isn't indicative of the future of the studio.
It got loadouts right. It got MP maps wrong just for the fact that a lot were just made in forge. I don't recall a single thing about the campaign other than the ending and the girl spartan getting sniped, which was dumb.
Didn't like the look of it compared to Halo 3's beautiful pastel colours. Still had tons of fun with it. 10x better than 4.
>>283894632
>Intelligence chick gets shot in the head
>Demolitions guy detonates a Covenant cruiser and dies in the blast
>Close quarters guy gets killed by a sword
>You don't see the sniper die
>Leader of Noble Team goes down with the ship
>Lone wolf dies alone
Surely you picked up on this dude, it wasn't exactly subtle.
>>283892474
>tfw 360 kicked the bucket last week
>tfw can no longer play Halo the one time I feel like playing it
>>283894804
Jun isnt dead yet.
Fucking 343I shoehorned him into the new story arc
It had a fuck ton of content.
>SP (with MM)
>firefight with MM
>normal multiplayer
>fucking 300% improved forge
>huge amount of custom game options
>invasion
>>283894197
>you know realize if Emile wasnt retarded and actually turned around quick enough like Spartans actually fucking should, he could have blasted that Zealot and continued using the MAC and Six could get off-world
Emile was the most incompetant member of Noble Team, but to be fair, they were allrushed as fuck, just like the rest of the gameso no meaningful badassery that we were promised from ALL members of the team ever happened.
>Jorge died too fast and we were just getting to be bros with him
>Kat, annoying radio lady, gets shot in the head and doesn't do anything meaningful besides being the only grill on the team, had A LOT of potential
>Carter was the shit, but we never saw him do anything because we always got paired up with Kat. RIP you magnificent asshole
>Emile see above
>Jun you fucking faggot, you created an entire generation of knock-off spartans that completely negated the supremacy of the previous generations, fuck you you stupid chinkRemember when Bungie promised that Reach would be a "global battle", rather than either some open wastleland exploration that they were trying to pay homage to Halo 1 but failed miserably or some dumb corridor backtracking shit?
Seriously, Reach was a decent game, but thats it, DECENT.
This was Bungie's last Halo game and instead of a bang they went out with a whimper.
Should have given it more development time Microsoft, you dumb fucks.And fuck Bungie for sowing the seeds of turning Halo into CoD in space, FUCKING WHY
IM MAD
>>283894905
Never said he died.
>>283894987
>You dont see the sniper die
the only fun thing about it was Invasion and all the custom games in creative forge maps
>>283895087Because he's not dead you fucking gooberatleast not until the Didact possesses him in Halo 5
>>283894947
>Kat, annoying radio lady, gets shot in the head
I still find this hilarious that a fucking spartan, a murder machine with shields and tank-thick armor manages to get taken down by a shitty headshot. Not even the antitank caliber.
>>283895087
It still doesn't say that he dies anon.
All that ass.
>>283894804
I was 16 and playing it co-op, so I wasn't caring/paying attention about the characters knowing that they all die anyway.
1. It looked way better than previous halos
2. It brought back the health pack + shield system, adding some depth
3. Forge was improved a ton
4. Halo wasn't stale as fuck at that point
5. Invasion was fun as hell
6. There was overall a lot of content
Don't get me wrong. I didn't play the hell out of it or anything, but it was clearly the last good halo game.
>>283895178
WHERE THE FUCK WERE HER SHIELDS.
It was a needle rifle too.
That whole scene was fucking dumb but I guess whenBungie cuts out the level where Kat was SUPPOSED to dieyou gotta rush it out.
Fucks sake.
Halo is an Assassin's Creed Call of Duty tier franchise.
>>283894947
Yeah, the storyline really peeved me off.
The campaign seemed to be written by people that never read a Halo book.
For a while, I assumed noble team were Spartan 2s because that was the only explanation why Halsey knew about them... then I was disapointed when i found out they were Spartan 3s.
>>283895298
The energy beam that nearly hit them "took out her shields".
Fucking retarded if you ask me.
>>283895326There was a time when this couldn't be anymore falseBut that time has passed us by
>>283892474
Armors , the ones from Halo 4 look like faggy tights
>>283895376
>mfw finding out they were Spartan 3's
I thought this would explain why they were so much weaker (grenade damage greater, slower in general, felt smaller, etc)
But holy fuck why.Imagine playing a version of Halo Reach where you play as a Spartan-IIAnd the timeline is strictly by the book, as in based off the FUCKING BOOK
>>283895541
While I loved the artstyle of Halo Reach there was something about all the fucking attachments and stacking shit all over your armor.I like to believe that the reason everything was so tacticool in Reach was because it was a guerilla war, which we never really saw either but it helps me sleep at night
>>283895541
The armor is the best
I wish elites got more customization
>>283895862
OFFICER MASTER RACE
>>283896035
>not ranger
you're okay
I just beat the MCC yesterday, Halo 1 is still one of the worst FPS I've played but 2, 3 and 4 were fantastic.I'm sorry for shitposting in your threads in the past
Any word on when ODST will come to Xboner? We're not going to get Reach, are we? I'm not buying a dead console for one game.
>>283895658
>Doing training missions from the early days of Spartans
>Having human enemies (rebels)
>Game gives the big reveal of the Covenant
Might b gud
>>283896245
>hates 1
>loves 4
What the fuck is wrong with you
I was so excited for this game. I played it for two days and sold it. I have 400 hours in Reach, 700 in Halo 3.
>>283896336
4 has some personality, it's not trying (and failing) to copy Unreal every step of the way.
>>283896515
It's still so beautiful...
>>283895541
Halo 5's armors look alot better than 4's. Sort of reminds me of Reach's armors with more fidelity.
>>283896245
ODST is coming sometime in the spring.
>>283896515
BANSHEES FAST AND LOW
>>283895210
What they did to the fem spartans ass in halo 4 was a holocaust.
After all of these years I still have Halo 1-3 burnt into my skull from playing it over and over.
For some reason I thought it'd be fun to play Halo 3 with all of the skulls over and over.
>>283892474
Objective: survive
Excellent campaign
Excellent music and sound design
Excellent art and effects
Jorge
Firefight
Mother fucking forgeworld
>>283895210I fapped to the female spartan asses quite a few times
>You are fighting a losing fight. sense of despair
>Player character customization
>Good weapon balance
>good companions
>BACK STAB ANIMATIONS
>>283896708
https://youtube.com/watch?v=weuRNxpDLUE
https://youtube.com/watch?v=dydfehQBaGE
>>283895272
>Invasion was fun as hell
Easily the best game mode. But fucking plebs were playing team slayer instead.
>>283896934
Invasion sucked, and was a weird attempt at objective-based gameplay that Battlefield was doing so well at the time.
I always wanted to get the Legendary Edition but I couldn't afford it.
>>283896934
Who the hell played team slayer over btb
>>283896515
>mfw the graphics haven't aged a single bit
How did they get the visuals so spot on?
Why did they remove action sack
It was the best game mode
>>283896992
>not enjoying fucking elites vs spartans only
You have shit taste m8
>>283896790
I will never forget Halo's controls. Ever. Decades from now when we're playing video games directly with your brains, I'll still be able to tell you which button did what in which game.
The armor customization and armor designs in Halo Reach are the best in the series, imo, despite how ridiculous some of it looks.
Halo 4 armor is just ugly shit. Fuck off 343 you suck at designing stuff.
>>283897050
Bungie insisted on a lower resolution for better lighting
halo.bungie.net/news/content.aspx?cid=12821
>>283896035
Ranger/Spec Ops or bust
>>283892474
nothing
>ruined canon by confusing players between Fall of Reach and this
>MP wasn't elo based
>armor lock
>armor abilities
>loadouts
>everything
only good thing was the OST, which halo kicks ass for
>>283897178
>One item making the interwebs rounds this week was the scandalous revelation that Halo 3 runs at “640p” which isn’t even technically a resolution. However, the interweb detectives did notice that Halo 3’s vertical resolution, when captured from a frame buffer, is indeed 640 pixels. So what gives? Did we short change you 80 pixels?
>Naturally it’s more complicated than that. In fact, you could argue we gave you 1280 pixels of vertical resolution, since Halo 3 uses not one, but two frame buffers – both of which render at 1152x640 pixels. The reason we chose this slightly unorthodox resolution and this very complex use of two buffers is simple enough to see – lighting. We wanted to preserve as much dynamic range as possible – so we use one for the high dynamic range and one for the low dynamic range values. Both are combined to create the finished on screen image.
>This ability to display a full range of HDR, combined with our advanced lighting, material and postprocessing engine, gives our scenes, large and small, a compelling, convincing and ultimately “real” feeling, and at a steady and smooth frame rate, which in the end was far more important to us than the ability to display a few extra pixels. Making this decision simpler still is the fact that the 360 scales the
“almost-720p” image effortlessly all the way up to 1080p if you so desire.
>In fact, if you do a comparison shot between the native 1152x640 image and the scaled 1280x720, it’s practically impossible to discern the difference. We would ignore it entirely were it not for the internet’s propensity for drama where none exists. In fact the reason we haven’t mentioned this before in weekly updates, is the simple fact that it would have distracted conversation away from more important aspects of the game, and given tinfoil hats some new gristle to chew on as they catalogued their toenail clippings.
>>283895156
>implying the didact will do shit
>>283897263
It never ceases to amaze me how people claim reach broke the lore when if they cared about the lore they'd know 90% of the incositncies were explained in the journal that came with the limited edition and the remaining 10% was explained later on via data drops on 343's site.
>>283895156
343 Industries canon
I almost threw up in my mouth. Yuck.
>>283897120
I played it often. It was alright. It lacked the scale and frenetic nature of an epic round of Rush in, say, BC2, or Conquest Large in BF2/3.
Good for them for trying new things, though.
>>283897364
He won't because he is dead
Its in the canon comics
>>283897263
>armor lock
>armor abilities
>loadouts
>anything but good
>>283897516
>armor lock
>armor abilities
>loadouts
>anything but good
I guarantee you bitched ad nauseum about 4.
Fuck I want to legendary bro-op the halo 3 campaign again.
Thanks a lot.
>>283896850
I went to a Lan party where I played reach for the first time and spent every game trying to assassinate people.
Why were assassinations so PERFECT?
>>283896515
>early X360 game
>still better looking than The Order
suck it sonyggers
>>283897574
No, I was done with the series once 343 took over. Plus I'm not getting an xbone
>tfw coming home to install the open multiplayer beta
>took something like 5 hours to install
>just sat there talking with friends in a party waiting for it to finish
>tfw it didnt even work on the first day
>Team DMRs on Powerhouse
>Infection on The Cage
>Capture the Flag on Countdown
CHOSE ONE
>>283897516
>casualising halo
>a good thing
faggot
>>283896632
If only this was in some higher resolution 16:9. This would make for a great wallpaper.
I don't have an Xbox One or want one. How shitty was the MCC? I heard it was absolutely riddled with bugs.
>>283897724
>implying it wasn't already casualized from day one
>>283897801
Broyles was in the Wire?
>>283897108
This is pretty much what irritated me the most. I reached Captain in Halo 3 and was content with that rank and then just fucked off to play non-ranked matches, and Action Sack was the shit. Also, why were the maps made by the community in Halo 3 so much better than in Reach, even though Forge was much more primitive?
>>283892474
halo 1-3 will always be the best
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHqvzih_bgg
>>283897801
MM was fucked for the first month or 2 but there was still like 200$ worth of SP shit there.
Works fine for me now, it's pretty glorious.
>>283897850
>skill ceiling and skill ranking
>as casual as CoD
of course
>>283897716
DMR's
Dependable and fun
>>283897724
>casualising halo
>by adding more options
>>283897801
MM is barely working.
SP is fucking amazing.
playlists are fun with a buddy
forge is gr8, customs are brilliant
it's alright/10
>>283897987
you call them options as though people have a choice whether or not to use them
spoiler:they don't
>>283895178
I remember getting one shotted all the time in Halo 2 legi
>>283898045
They do, it's called custom games.
MM is a service, it's not actually a part of the game.
>>283898142
>having friends
>2015
>>283897967
>glacial-as-fuck movement
>needler and energy pistol rounds that track players
>shields
>bullet magnetism on top of auto-aim
>>283898247
>movement in halo
>a bad thing
>it's a feature
>shields are there so you won't die in 1 shot
>a console game
>without auto aim
>>283898247
this screams "I suck at Halo"
or maybe its just not the game for you. Sounds like you would enjoy CoD tbh.
>>283898325
>ignoring magnetism
Auto aim is mildly bearable without that shit
>>283898445
i only noticed magnetism in 4, there's reverse magnetism in halo 1 and 2 in MCC
>>283898045
>you call them options as though people have a choice whether or not to use them
You can actually just not use them if it bothers you so much, the abilities did add a lot to the game though.
>>283895272
>last good halo game
the truth hurts anon, I wanted to hope halo 4 would be as fun as reach, but it wasn'tfor me at least
anyone else really enjoy odst? i played for hours on end.
>>283898247
Big maps where you feel slow from their scale are filled with man cannons and vehicles.
If you want Sanic fast why are you playing halo?
>>283898427
I think hes more spelling out that anyone who thinks Halo wasn't THE casual console shooter is deluded.
I love the game, but fucking everyone played it and its really easy to get into.
MLG fags were always the worst people in Halo then and now.
>FIX YOUR GAME BUNGIE
>HALO 3 SUCKS WE WANT MORE H2
>H4 IS JUST LIKE IT USED TO BE GUYS
>HALO IS A COMPETITIVE SPORT MLGMLGMLGMLGMLG
>>283898539
but if you don't use them, and other people are, you're at a disadvantage (e.g. jet pack)
>>283898707
>then and now
they don't exist
besides, competitive fags go where the money is, that's why you see so many former halo players rushing to CoD and CS:GO
>>283898690
ah that makes more sense.
I was a filthy casual during halo 1-3 so theres that i guess.
>>283897801
Multiplayer was and still is borked, and the music was entirely ruined.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odRxe91p9PM
>>283898427
Level 47 in Halo 3 reporting in. My skills are not in question, nor is my dedication to the series.
I enjoy both Halo and Call of Duty, tbh. It is possible to enjoy more than one game series, you know.
Still, pretending that Halo isn't casualized for broader appeal won't get you anywhere, though. Sure, there's a high skill ceiling, but there's also a lot of handholding.
>>283898515
Magnetism was put into the series starting with Halo 2. Halo CE never had it, which is one of many reasons why it had the best multiplayer.
>>283898651
>If you want Sanic fast why are you playing halo?
I just play a lot ofHalo 4, the only acceptably paced Halo.
>>283898924
>implying in amber clad's remix wasn't good
steve vai's shit was terrible, i had to change back to classic mode for Quarantine Zone.
>there are people who like Reach more than ODST
Consider suicide.
>>283899045
> likes halo 4 because it's Cod in space
Opinion discarded.
>>283899045
Yeah sorry, didn't realize you were talking about it being casual. I thought you were just shit-talking the game in general. My fault.
>>283898718
Well yeah, each of the abilities gives you some utility that you otherwise wouldn't have. You have to adapt to new situations because of them right?
That goes directly against the idea that abilities casualize Halo, I think they added some nice depth to the game.
>>283899128
>ODST
>Not wasted potential
>It could have been perfect
Settle down m8, it's only a game
So does anyone still play Halo 3, Reach, 4 on 360 as apposed to Xbone?
I don't own the Xbone, but I heard MCC is still broken.
>>283899159
it gives you that utility, but for what purpose should we have it? >muh mobility >muh variety
>>283899240
No, I haven't turned on my Xbox in years. It's in the box and I only keep it because of nostalgia.
>>283899128I've never played ODSTIs it worth digging out my 360 out of storage and buying a copy to play it?
>>283899149
I like it because it's got a decent movement speed and everyone has sprint.
>>283899240
occasionaly play some halo 3
>>283899240
If I had gold I probably would. Don't want to buy the membership though.
>>283899306
You bet your fucking boots it is. God tier atmosphere and OST, and feels really different from everything else in the franchise.
You'll either love or hate it.
>>283899124
Yeah, I'll give ya that. I liked it.
>>283899306
The story isn't very interesting and the characters are bland. However, it's beautiful (except the faces, which for some reason went downhill really badly since Halo 3), and has a bit of an "open world" element (you travel around the city at your leisure).
>>283899297
What? I don't understand. Are you saying that abilities were pointless additions?
>>283899128
>>283899173
ODST was good, but it was an overpriced expansion. If they put the same amount of work they did with a full-fledged game, it could've been the best Halo game yet. That pseudo-open world was cool to explore, and you rarely have open world FPS in an urban environment.
>>283899306
If you can get it for $20 or less, then yes.Dutch>Johnson=Buck>Mickey>Romeo>Dare
>>283897398
You shouldn't have to read a journal that was released in the limited edition to what's inconsistent about in game lore.
>>283899505
Can't you make the same argument about the books?
>>283899440
The missions weren't memorable and the HUB system didn't have much thought put into it.
It definitely had the best setting and concept behind all of the games though.
W-will they remaster Reach?
I hope they do, and make it stand alone and not associated with the mess that is the collection.
>>283899550
Yes. Anything that isn't included in the actual game shouldn't be required to know.
It's like what World of Warcraft recently did. In-game there's like NO explanation for what happened to Garrosh, why he's leading the Iron Horde, etc. You have to read the fucking book.
I really liked the armor customization. I didn't get very far, but I never saw a single thing that looked bad.
It didn't feel like a halo game but it wasn't a bad game by any means.
>>283899586
ODST is being added to the collection. Don't know about Reach.
>>283899505
To some extent, but if something is necessary to understand what is and isn't correct about parts of the lore, then it shouldn't be in a journal, it should be in the game itself.
