H1>H3>H2|Best Halo thread|

This may come as a shock to some of you, but Halo was the best of the series. This is my opinion and is not a reason for all you haters (you know who you are) to start going off on how you love halo 2. You can however point out places where you dissagree and support your claim with evidence. EVIDENCE NOT HYPE.

Halo original was by far the best of the three. At that point Bungie was a fresh some what new game studio. That had a lot of good ideas and a lot of good people to make these ideas a reality. Those ideas came to birth as the single player. Undoubtedly if you are a fan of halo your most fond memories are of your first encounter with the flood or the great levels, such as The Silent Cartopagraher. Everything about this game made sense. The guns were quite balanced, the amount of health was good, the amout of auto aim was good. There were no MELEE LUNGES OF DOOM. Thats one of H1's more charming traits. The speed and grenade abilitys reflected that of a super soldier. And last but not least, the maps were exelently created. The spanws were vary balanced, unlike its next in kin. So why....why mess with the formula? Why make a great game and tweak it so? That question has bugged me for a long while. Heres my hypothesis; Bungie just coming off the high of sucess wanted to make a game that was more easy for people of less skill to kill others. Why, because bungie prolly sucked at their own game(maybe?). So they insead of keeping the long reach of Master Chief, as in h1, they incorperated melee lunges. A mystical force that propelled people into a melee like their mass = the earths or something. Then they took out the AR and replaced it with the BR. Then basicly removed the Pistols power.....You know what I'm just ranting now. discuss.

i think halo 3 is the best because it mastered online for the series

halo 1 - no live

halo2- started live like the original xbox good but needed improvements

halo 3- great imo like the 360 it evolved with moore features and depth

Halo 3 is the best overall game. While Halo at its time was the amazing and I sure do have some great memories of it you can't beat online multiplayer and online Co-op.

O, and the pistol is Halo 1 was way to powerful.

halo 1, I played it last, but liked it the most.

evidence: I liked it the most.

I think Halo 3 is the best. It's the complete package. Great single player, great multiplayer, forge, co-op, etc.HappyAppe

Agreed. I also like to add theater. Great to watch and laugh about those "WTF?!" moments with friends.

Halo: CE was best because it had the "epic" feel I felt the other two lacked. Halo 3 had its moments, but not all the way through. CE also made you feel most like a super soldier. It's hard to feel like the savior of the universe and super soldier when a generic marine can take 5x more bullets/plasma than you.

PS: of course CE didn't have live... LIVE WASN'T RUNNING WHEN IT LAUNCHED!!!

Halo CE. Halo 2's online was good, and Halo 3 sucks. They pretty much did everything wrong after Halo CE.

Want to fight about it?

I like Halo 3 the best.

halo 1- No online, brutal graphics

halo 2- good game overall but some things could have been changed and added

halo 3- almost perfect online with a nice ranking system

i cant say halo because it lacked online multiplayer. and i cant say halo 3 because the miltiplayer maps are so aweful. and im saying halo 2 solely because of the online multiplayer, very good clan support and some of the best MP maps ever created. Im really sad that so far halo 3 hasnt lived up to its predecessor, imo, i cant stand the halo 3 maps (most, there are some alright ones)chaoscougar1

The Halo 2 maps were not good. They were solely disigned around looking good not playing good. Halo 1 maps were crafted for fun and actions not just for good looks.

Overall - H3 > H2 > H1.

1. Halo 3 has the MP and an excellent SP, although not as 'epic' as Halo: CE's. Weapon balance is good, if not TOO balanced i.e some should be stronger than what they are. Theatre, online Co-op, also Forge add a lot of value. Slightly slow compared to Halo 2.
2. Halo 2 had great MP (incredible maps) and a good campaign. Many weapons were weak on their own due to the inclusion of dual wielding which I still feel should have been addressed differently in Halo 3 - stronger weapons and different placements on maps to make dual wielding a true asset to gameplay. Grenade throwing was poor which detracted from a main aspect of gameplay which I thoroughly enjoyed in Halo 1. This still detracts from the experience when I play. In Halo 3, it's a good half way balance between 1/2. Was the fastest of the trilogy regarding game mechanics/movement.
3. Halo 1 had the best SP but the weakest MP. No true online service, questionably overpowered weapons . Felt 'bulky' and not suited for a MP experience. Grenade throwing is AWESOME. Without the MP experience of the other 2 games, it automatically comes last coming from someone who greatly values the MP aspect of the game.
Gregoroth

honestly all halos weapons are unbalanced. If you make a gun that is so weak that no one goes for it, then why even put it in, in the first place? Case in point: all weapons besides, shotgun (both), sniper, rocket, and melee weapons.

halo 3- almost perfect online with a nice ranking system

Devoo55

Almost prefect, what about the 30FPS halo 3 runs at?

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halo 3- almost perfect online with a nice ranking system

Lord-Nerevar

Almost prefect, what about the 30FPS halo 3 runs at?

What about it? Seems fine to me. I don't know how bungie did it but it seems pretty smooth running at 30fps.

halo 1: best gameplay and single player of the series

halo 3: best multiplayer, but lacks good gameplay and single player

halo 2: this is the worst of the three, because halo 3 is halo 2 on steroids, and the single player was no fun

I like Halo 3 the best.

halo 1- No online, brutal graphics

halo 2- good game overall but some things could have been changed and added

halo 3- almost perfect online with a nice ranking system

Devoo55

Halo 3 isn't "almost perfect" what about the 30 foot lunges with beatdowns and the almost instant death with a sword and shotty? That's not perfect. It's too easy, plus the ranking system focuses on wins and nothing else. not being a hater, but I'm just saying.

Halo: CE = best single player and local play

Halo 2 = best online play

Halo 3 = best overall game when taking both into account.

My favourite is Halo 2 because I enjoy online multiplayer the most and Halo 2 was incredible. The maps were the best, it had awesome playlists, Bungie supported it with DLC even 3 years after release, and the clan feature was nice.

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I like Halo 3 the best.

halo 1- No online, brutal graphics

halo 2- good game overall but some things could have been changed and added

halo 3- almost perfect online with a nice ranking system

mohfrontline

Halo 3 isn't "almost perfect" what about the 30 foot lunges with beatdowns and the almost instant death with a sword and shotty? That's not perfect. It's too easy, plus the ranking system focuses on wins and nothing else. not being a hater, but I'm just saying.

The shotty is pretty weak 5 + yards aways. It should be instant kill up close. The sword is always instant kill. Seems about right to me.

HCE>H3>H2 Single Player

H3>HCE>H2 Multiplayer

Yes, H2 had online multiplayer over the Xbox's HCE, but we used to have big lan parties to play HCE's multiplayer, and it was a great deal more entertaining playing H2's multiplayer. And when HCE came out on the computer with online multiplayer, I was absolutely sold.

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halo 3- almost perfect online with a nice ranking system

RoslindaleOne

Almost prefect, what about the 30FPS halo 3 runs at?

What about it? Seems fine to me. I don't know how bungie did it but it seems pretty smooth running at 30fps.

Maybe if you consider, lagging out and choppy melee lunges "Smooth".

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halo 3- almost perfect online with a nice ranking system

Lord-Nerevar

Almost prefect, what about the 30FPS halo 3 runs at?

What about it? Seems fine to me. I don't know how bungie did it but it seems pretty smooth running at 30fps.

Maybe if you consider, lagging out and choppy melee lunges "Smooth".

Lagging out has nothing to do with FPS...

An almost kill with the sword and shotty is normal. I have no clue why you are bringing this in to the scenario. If YOU were shot in the chest with a shot gun 1 foot away and then hit with an elbow in the same spot you got shot, I am sure you would die in real life. Same with a sword (too bad they don't allow MC to be sliced in half or into pieces though)

Nerevar- I have NEVER lagged out of a Halo 3 game in my life. Yes, I admit some games seem to be laggier than others, but that is what should happen. Xbox LIVE does not have perfect servers fyi.

halo 2's online was way better then Halo 3s

An almost kill with the sword and shotty is normal. I have no clue why you are bringing this in to the scenario. If YOU were shot in the chest with a shot gun 1 foot away and then hit with an elbow in the same spot you got shot, I am sure you would die in real life. Same with a sword (too bad they don't allow MC to be sliced in half or into pieces though)

Nerevar- I have NEVER lagged out of a Halo 3 game in my life. Yes, I admit some games seem to be laggier than others, but that is what should happen. Xbox LIVE does not have perfect servers fyi.

Devoo55

you must have won the Halo lottery! I get...got lagged out a lot. Mostly beacuse halo, more specifically X-box Live does not have deticated hosting servers, they require a host. If the host has a bad connection you do.