Question about Halo series

Reach > Halo 1 > Halo 2 > Halo 3: ODST > Halo 3 > Halo 4 > Halo 5

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I'm a big Halo fan (CE is one of my favourite games of all time), but i wouldn't bother with Reach and ODST. Those are by far my least favourite games in the series. I have yet to play Halo 5, though.

If I recall correctly; you like me these days is far more interested in playing the campaigns and it hurts to say but you likely would feel disappointed in Halo 5 like I am. :(

That said, the MP online is Beastly and best in class.

Indeed, i'm mostly a singleplayer and coop gamer. I admit Halo multiplayer is alot of fun, but then again, i love those games mainly because of their campaigns and ability to play them in local and online coop.

That said, while i can not stand competitive fast paced multiplayer games like CoD, i do like large scale ones (Battlefield, Battlefront, Planetside 2, etc).

I would recommend spending the $10 to play Reach though bc, and the $5 to get ODST on the MCC.

Reach does not play the best (especially splitscreen), but it wasn't unplayable or awful just to go through the campaign. And ODST is average, but only $5.

There is nothing factual about predicting the future. You dont know whether Bungie will fall in quality or 343 rise. To each their own on everything else you said. I watched the Sprint, making of Halo 5 series and know from 343's own admission they are making this 3 game arc for the invested Halo fan who does read the books and extended universe. This seems to bother quite a few of you. Well, thats life. Not everything is for everyone.

decisions decisions thank for all the input again.

Whether it's a 3 game arc or a 30 game arc it's a videogame, not a book. If you have to read a book to understand WTF is going on in a videogame, the videogame is a MASSIVE fail. Do you like reading? I look forward to your opinion on the next book you were really looking forward to that makes absolutely no sense and tells you well you need to play the videogame first, I'm sure you'll be over the moon with this exciting new info.

Halo was never billed as a video game franchise though, that's what you're not understanding. The games cover things not in the books, the books cover things not in the games, it's multi-medium franchise and if you can't accept that and adopt the lore in the mediums in which they are presented because you don't like one of them, that's your problem.

Well...they could make Halo's campaign great again if they shit canned Bonnie Ross and Brian Reed.

Halo was never billed as a video game franchise? Did you really say that? What is it then some kind of celebrated novel series that happened to spill over into videogames? Do you know which game made the original Xbox a must have console? No wait was it a fucking book that everyone wanted and they all got mixed up somehow and bought a videogame?

Is there another major videogame franchise please name me ONE that tells you well the reason the game is completely shit and makes no sense is you haven't read the books? Witcher anyone? Witcher 3 (or any Witcher game) completely self contained that has a book series at its roots that is absolutely not required reading it is OPTIONAL it enhances the game.

Apart from anything else the 'storytelling' in Halo 5 is so fucking bad as to be absolutely hilarious. It is legendary in its awfulness, it's complete failure to explain one single character that you are bleating on about from some obscure book and its utter failure to weave a coherent story and finally SPOILER FOLLOWS its complete copout oh look it's the computer companion you have loved through the entire series who is the villain you don't know why we don't know why fucking NOBODY knows why hey go read some books and see if you can make some sense of this shit.

You are so far up Microsoft's ass your fucking head must be brown.

@blueinheaven: Over the moon? Yes or no but I will certainly give the game a look if the book interested me. Halo's books hooked me from Nylands "Fall of Reach" which was published 3 weeks before the Xbox or Halo CE even launched in 2001. This isn't anything new. The novels have been going longer than the games. You don't like it. Cool, it makes no difference to me nor has any bearing on my enjoyment of either medium.

Totally disagree about ODST... I really like it. It has a different vibe to the other Halos, so I guess you either like it or don't.

Reach is good, but I don't rate it as highly as a lot of others do. And you certainly don't need to play it to enjoy the others.

So I finished Halo 4 the other day, I really enjoyed the series. Glad I was able to experience Halo. I'm on a crazy budget (saving for house) so I didn't buy Reach or ODST but maybe one day. Going to wait a little while before jumping into 5.

ODST has a fantastic soundtrack and great atmosphere in the free roam part of the game..

I feel like I stepped into a time machine

I skipped ODST, but definitely play Reach. Halo 5s story is pretty weak to me, but the online is perfect. They even have a 12 person horde type mode, which is a great break from the PVP.

Agreed. Though to be fair, the OP necro'd his own thread.

I really like both Reach and ODST (especially Reach) so I think you should absolutely play them. ODST is the most different the series has ever been.

You can just play 1-5 of course. But playing ODST introduces you to Buck who is a character in 5. Also, ODST has been remastered to be downloaded and added into the MCC. I think its like $20. Reach is only playable through BC and it plays good now. I would play that for sure. Its a great game and interesting start to the journey as its a prequel.

If you have access to them, I would suggest watching some of the Halo videos/movies(Fall of Reach, Legends, Nightfall, Forward Unto Dawn). I'd also recommend going back and finding all of the terminals and watching the videos from them. There is a lot of context from those and the books that is referenced in the 2nd trilogy(Halo 4, 5, 6). Stuff about Cortana, Halsey and how they are related to each other, plus a lot of the backstory that would explain just what in the hell is going on in Halo 5.

It's $5.

https://store.xbox.com/en-US/Xbox-One/DLC/Halo-3-ODST/86c6765b-0a5f-49bf-8a7e-fa700c95a46b

Wait, and you liked KZSF? ODST is so fun trying to take down hunters especially since you cant take the punishment a Spartan did. Really adds a nice difference to it. We need to co op or something dude.

Coop Killzone SF? :D

That's an incredibly stupid way to alienate a large majority of your fanbase and actively damage the reputation of your series (see: declining scores, mostly criticizing the plot), but they can do that if they want to, I guess.

Characters spew a bunch of nonsense words (what, you don't read the novels? How are you going to understand the video game story delivered by the video game in your video game series if you don't read the novels?) that the game doesn't bother to explain.

About four levels in I threw up my hands. All hail the flying spaghetti monster!

Play Halo Reach and Halo ODST if you find out that you really like the Halo universe. These 2 games are side stories from the main Halo games. Halo's 1,2,3,4,5 feature Master Chief and his storyline. These other 2 games do not have Master Chief and give another point of view of the War between Covenant and Earth. They are not needed to play, Unless you are really discover you like the Halo universe, Then Even play Halo Wars since they are making Halo Wars 2.

But MCC and Halo 5 should do you for now. Then Halo Spin off games ODST and Reach may interest you, Even Halo Wars.

In the MCC collection there are terminals you can find. Each one will play an animated short that broadens the lore of the universe. It is a good idea to watch these before playing 5. If you cant find them all you can watch them on the Halo channel.

Sure. Might be the only way I can finish that sleeping pill. KZ Mercenary on the Vita dumps on SF

Ok but if we're going to bring up declining scores, then lets look at the Meta of Halo 4, 5 vs Destiny. Seems like 343 already is better than Bungie if we're going to bring in scores. Destiny is a 75/100, Taken King pulled them back up with an 89/100 while Halo 4 is 87/100 and 5 is 84/100.

I'll be on tonight if you want to play something.

So Bungie improved the next version of Destiny and 343 made the next Halo worse, by your argument. Okay. That doesn't help your argument. 343's games are declining. Bungie's went up, and the Taken King scored better than both new Halo games.

@Heil68: How late? I have a commitment then might be on like 10 pm my time

Both were decent. I enjoyed ODST for the campaign... Nathan Fillion always adds a couple points in my book.

The whole scoring thing with Halo is weird anyway. Dark is obviously talking about single player Halo with plot criticisms but both Gamespot and IGN slaughtered Halo 5 SP and said the MP was excellent so the scores appeared to ONLY relate to MP which is just bizarre. Particularly in GS's case... they slaughtered Halo MCC which had an amazing collection of SP games because they couldn't wait for the MP to be fixed.

The message to 343 appears to be drop single player completely and keep releasing new Halo games with multiplayer maps to be guaranteed reasonable scores. I can't get my head round any of it.

Helps my argument just fine. 343 is more consistent with their Halo games where as Destiny is a hit or miss. Still shows this idea that they wont ever be as good as Bungie is half baked feces.

@DarkLink77: @cainetao11: You guys are aware that this is a 4 month old thread right? I made my statement about 4 months ago. I was really surprise to find out that my post took it seriously.

Yeah and I was wondering why I'm getting this notification all of a sudden when enter this 4 month old thread.

I actually didn't check the date lol

Considering I didn't say that, I don't particularly care to refute it. The fact that their Halo games continue to drop lower and lower, and have never matched the acclaim of the earlier games, speaks for itself.

At least Bungie made Destiny better.

Eh. It was on the page.

Yes. Essential they are.

That's only 9 my time, so I'll be on till 1am your time. Just message me on here, ive been messing around with a PC im building.

ODST was half price at launch and came with the new map pack for Halo 3 so it was around the same price as a 1200 point arcade game. Anyway, ODST has a very enjoyable campaign and the best co-op mode in the series.

Continue to drop lol its a 3 point difference. With Destiny, who knows what we'll get next

It's a trend. As for Destiny... who knows? It's an okay game. Not super invested in it personally.

@DarkLink77: Fair enough. I like both but enjoy Halo much more

I think the two biggest pieces of the story that people missed so far is the relationship between Dr Halsey with both the Chief and Cortana, and the significance of 'the composer', which the forerunners used to convert themselves from physical form into digital.

Halo 5 is basically a bridge story between Cortana learning about the composer in Halo 4, and her trying to become human in Halo 6. She is basically a digital copy of Dr Halsey, personality and intelligence wise. While the composer is forerunner tech that was supposed to be able to convert the forerunners from physical form into digital and back, but the process of reanimation did not work. There are some bits and pieces of the forerunner plans in the Terminal videos from the Halo Anniversary, probably some in the Terminal videos from the other Halo games as well. Halo Infinity has a bit of backstory on Dr Halsey as well, such as how she lost her arm, and also met the Librarian while held captive by the Covenant.

I think the Halo 5 story could have been better, but what they're setting up for in Halo 6 seems pretty epic to me.

@Terrencec06: Holy mother of necroposts Batman.