It’s officially 10 years old, can we stop pretending it’s bad now? The multiplayer is easily the best in the series.
When is this coming to pc/MCC? it's dumb to pretend it doesn't exist
>>724850426>game was catered entirely to esports faggotry>trend chasing advanced movement bullshit >all of the maps are boring because they were all catered for competitive play >blatant P2W req system >atrocious armor design I’m so tired of the revisionism around this game. It only started to become ok towards the absolute end of the game’s lifecycle when they started to lean in to the more wacky forge gamemodes. Even then the core gameplay still sucks.
>>724850426It's shit.
>>724850426It's not on PC so I didn't play it. But judging from the walkthrough it had a stupid story.
>>724850426Halo 5 and Infinite are weird games to talk about. They're both actually pretty good but you always have to caveat with ten different qualifiers. For Halo 5 it's "oh yeah the art style is shit" and "oh yeah REQ packs are shit" etc
>>724850426It was a Halo game made by people who don’t like Halo. But if you like COD, you might just like Halo 5
>>724851770It doesn't feel like COD at all.
>>724851703>They're both actually pretty good but you always have to caveat with ten different qualifiers.I agree, see Halo 4 was a bad halo game, Infinite was okay at best just fucked by production pipeline and being too bland (not excusing 343 at all, but Infinite had a chance they just also fucked it), however from what I've seen about Halo 5 it looks good it's just also a complete misunderstanding of Halo. The insane thought I just had, is 343 might be one of Microsoft's best studios just by virtue of actually shipping multiple games.Idk how 343 have "fans", like they just keep changing direction dramatically after each title that it's fractured "the fandom" for a lack of better words. Classic fans are mostly united only with leftover complaints about Reach, Halo 4 fans think they're classic fans but have been left extremely high and dry as it's MP is ass and it's narrative went nowhere, Halo 5 seemingly plays great dispite being a misunderstanding as I said but it's style of gameplay will never be further explored by 343 and it's narrative once again went no where, Infinite got monumentally fucked by 343s inability to run a liver service talking about the fucking "feasibility" of a slayer playlist and leaving BTB unplayable for a month after launch alongside once again a story that went no where.343 should genuinely be moved to make a new IP, they could make a decent shooter I think.
>>724850426I just beat 4 and thought the ending was great, really enjoyed Master Chief and Cortana's story. Is it worth playing 5?
>>724850426>best in the seriesand? play better series
>>724852550I won't berate you for your taste, but I will say that all of 343's stories ignore the previous game's entirely, and mandate that you read whatever book to get the full context of what is now happening.So if you enjoyed 4's story, 5's is entirely different and takes back what you might have liked. The same goes for Infinite and 5.Would you believe me that the UNSC Infinity gets utterly destroyed off-screen by a random brute you have never heard of unless you played Halo Wars 2 which had a horrible story?
>>724852550For the campaign? Absolutely not. They butcher Cortana and Chief's story. 4 was the perfect ending for them. By comparison, Infinite's campaign is better than 5 but still not great like the original trilogy.
>>724852687>>724852736Guess I won't bother. 4 is the only one I've played, should I go back to the older games? Which ones have the best story since I'm not much of a multiplayer guy. I just like the lore and characters.
>>724852550Like the other guy I'm not going to mock you, but if you are wanting to continue because you liked that story 5 pretty much completely ignores it. If you liked the Didact by chance he was shelved in a comic between 4/5 and was then ignored until just last year in the books, but who the fucks reads 343 books
>>724852820>4 is the only one I've played, should I go back to the older games?Holy fucking shit anon.But yes, if you're interested go back and play through them all. Either do it on a chronological order, or by release. But as you do so, throw out the entire Forerunners as a separate species from humans. Because everything in the older games points to the opposite and it isn't subtle at all.
>>724852820If you are purely interested in story and characters then just do Halo CE, 2, and finish up with 3.Halo 2 has the absolute best story telling of the trilogy, while 3 is the weakest of them, but not terrible by any standard.
>>724852820>4 is the only one I've played, should I go back to the older gamesholy shit anon>Which ones have the best storyHalo 2>I just like the lore and characters343 has a huge retcon to the point it makes their games incompatible with Bungie games, go in with no thoughts about lore.
>>724852901>>724852903Okay I'll pick up MCC on sale when I can.>But as you do so, throw out the entire Forerunners as a separate species from humansI've heard about this. Did 343 make that connection? I did think it was stupid when they had the big speech from the ancestral race about humans being our successors blah blah blah. I wasn't too interested.>>724852958How do Reach and ODST fare? Back in the day I was a PS3/Wii owner so I never got to play them but I was always curious about the hype surrounding them.>>724852998Gotcha. Definitely looking forward to 2.
>>724852820You should definitely play the original trilogy then. They all have good stories, but 2 is the highlight for me. 2 really expands the lore by introducing the Arbiter, a playable Elite. His story is pretty compelling and you get to see the Covenant civil war from their perspective. If you've never read the Fall of Reach novel, then you might like Halo Reach's campaign. A lot of Halo vets hate the campaign because it retconned a lot of the Fall of Reach novel (which is like the Holy Bible for Halo lore enthusiasts). But if you've never read it then it probably won't bother you. Halo 3 ODST is atmospheric and moody and definitely worth at least one playthrough
>>724853028The way you describe ODST I almost feel like playing that one first. I'm a big fan of GitS/Jin-roh so I like those moody type of stories.
>>724853020>I've heard about this. Did 343 make that connection? I did think it was stupid when they had the big speech from the ancestral race about humans being our successors blah blah blah. I wasn't too interested.Yeah that was entirely made up by actually one fucking guy, Frank O'Conner. Until his meddling, all of Bungie's Halos had massively implied that humans were the descendants of the Foreunners. To the point where one of the Forerunner AIs literally says to Chief's face "YOU ARE FORERUNNER" and that isn't a joke. But instead you got that awful scene with the librarian in 4.>"You John Halo, are the master plan of millions of years. You, literally you and only you are the chosen one."Which is really fucking wack.>How do Reach and ODST fare?I enjoyed both but ODST is a side story between 2 and 3. Reach had some conversational changes like armor abilities and loadouts in multiplayer. But as a prequel to Halo CE its cool. It was neat to see your custom Spartan in the campaign.
>>724850426The MP well but was ruined by 343's awful map and playlist support
>>724853237I appreciate it anon.
>>724853296No problem anon. Just hope you enjoy it.
>>724850426>must consoom external media to understand what happened between 4-5>no lobbies>crappy armor customization>crappy emblem customization>req packs>the only good maps are made from forgersAnd I'm not even mentioning the problems it had at launch.
>>724853020>How do Reach and ODST fare? Back in the day I was a PS3/Wii owner so I never got to play them but I was always curious about the hype surrounding them.contractual obligations that are awesome.ODST was delivering on Halo 2s misleading marketing Reach was a testbed for DestinyBoth are more experimental but still fun/good
>>724853020>How do Reach and ODST fare? Back in the day I was a PS3/Wii owner so I never got to play them but I was always curious about the hype surrounding them.Excellent games, you could argue that they're even better than 2 in terms of their story, but they're both fairly short, especially ODST.Absolutely play every single game in the series in order. All of them are great, though CE is admittedly pretty dated but not bad at all.
>>724856312I mean, every Bungie game, you can skip the 343 ones.
>>724850426It was fucking horrible. t. had every achievement in the piece of shitWe can stop being contrarians. 4 and 5 were garbage, in fact, so was reach.
>>724850426It was shit, kill yourself contrarian revisionist
