All jokes aside, why would anyone pay $50 for an 8 hour single player experience?

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Uh oh, stinky! Just buy the master chief collection and play the originals

>>744204828
Nintendo fans just recently paid $50 for a 2 hour experience (Star Fox remake)
>>744204869
How is playercount the same as quality?

>>744204869
>At least 20k people paid for early access on steam alone
Thats better than expected.

The fuck is going on with the audio in this game?
It's as if the game cannot comprehend my headphone set or something, because the second it logs into the game, all audio gets mufftled and low quality.
This shit sucks.

>>744204756
>What if I just want to reexperience the original Halo?
then you dig up your xbox or play MCC

>>744205129
Yeah way too much but def not enough for the remake of the first game in a franchise that sold two entire console generations, i hope the pajeet CEO shitcans the entire studio

I'm playing Halo 2 for the first time on MCC and it's surprisingly hard to see what the fuck I'm shooting at. It feels like the hit sparks for when my shots hit enemies take up the entire middle of the screen and I have to stop shooting to tell if they're dead or not

>>744205370
Yeah, she should can all of 343/HS and just give Halo to id and see what they can do with it.

>>744205505
damn you’ve been gimped by relying too much on hitmarkers

>>744205505
I’m having a hard time understanding what the fuck you’re trying to say.

>>744205695
The effects on stuff like the plasma rifle shooting a target is so big I can't see the thing I'm aiming at

Game is good, people just make mountains out of molehills

>>744206012
343i's peak was Halo 4, and that's more like a ditch than a peak. They have failed to remaster Combat Evolved- TWICE.

>no multi-player

Lmao what's the fucking point

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>>744206012
>make a worse coporate slop version of a game you could buy right now on steam for 10$
> you could get reach, ODST, and halo 1-3 (4 is slop) for 5$ less than this slop
You have got to be an indian trying to save his job

>>744206012
>SAAR STOP MAKEENG MOUNTENZ OUT OF DEE MOLEHEELZ SAAR
Shut up subhuman

After beating it I don't think remix and the skulls are worth putting up with this game's garbage to play it over the original. MCC remains king for my playthroughs

>>744204756
Just play the original. If you want something kind of new SPV3 mod is pretty decent.

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>>744204869
This game costed them millions lol

>>744204756
they added crabs to halo bro that was the big addition by rebranded 343. kill the franchise its dead

>>744205927
Is it a “remaster” graphics thing. I don’t remember ever having that issue

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>Play Halo 2 MCC
>cutscenes are borked

It would have been a pretty remake if only the ai wasn't fucked, the elites' mobility wasn't nerfed, they didn't fuck with the original level design by added new weapons you're not supposed to have, and removed all the wahmen and nignog soldiers

>>744205631
Yeah give halo to the id after she gutted them kek

Why do all the guns in the game feel like Nerf guns? I think even Quake had meatier weapons than this. Not to mention shit like nu-DOOM.
Is this what the Xbox kiddies masturbate to?

Is there any reason to play this over the original? I'm fine with playing a remix of the original, I'm not a purist, but if the gameplay is an inherit downgrade then I'm not interested.

>>744207105
huh?

>>744206340
Just say youre poor and cant afford it

>>744209730
>poorfag larping as a richfag with poor financial decisions

>>744209635
No? The original looks like shit now.

>>744210384
lol
lmao

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>>744210404
how is that lol lmao, the original is 25 year old, it looks bad and I played it day one.

This would actually be the one time I’d just want to play it on game pass

>>744206493
No way this is real.

>>744210539
anon....

Thinking about picking the ps5 physical as it might become a collectors item down the line. Will probably be a relatively low print too

I get they probably don't wanna split the playerbase more than it already is with mcc and infinite but they should've remade the multiplayer too. Its only 13 maps. They could've made it local or invite only if they didn't want to create a matchmaking system

If you're expecting something polished on the level of id software nudoom game then you're going to be disappointed in halo demake. It's a mid tier 30-40 dollar game, not 50. Imagine paying 70 for the retard edition

>>744210539
Oh it israel, alright

>>744204756
>What if I just want to reexperience the original Halo?
You'd play the original release over a poor remake trying to replace it.

>>744204956
>$50 for a 2 hour experience (Star Fox remake)

its called replay value dumbass

>>744205505
are you playing on original or anniversary graphics

>>744213872
Whatever the default was, I haven't touched the graphics settings

>343 still won't have Halo taken from them after this

>>744214343
well then it's probably anniversary graphics and it's no wonder you can't see shit. Anniversary graphics have all the shitty effects turned up to 11 so it looks good in promo screenshots while also being dogshit to play. Plasma weapons in particular have a very strong screen darkening effect every time they fire

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unironically who is buying this slop?
are there really this many diehard Halo fans that'll lap up any slop 343i releases?

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>>744204756
thanks for beta testing Halo 25 years ago xbros, we get the definitive edition.

>>744215419
No. It's another Concordian flop that will justify the dissolving of another studio so the up can rest in peace.

>>744215541
I am genuinely sorry you have to experience it like this

>>744210453
It was the best looking game of 2001 you lying nigger.

Halo 1-3, ODST, and Reach will forever be the only Halo games that matter

>bisexual lighting

>>744214554
That's crazy if true. I'll change it when I get home and see how different it is.

>>744215695
Nigga really said this in the same year that gave us Silent Hill 2 and Final Fantasy X.

>>744204756
>Is Halo Campaign Evolved really that bad? What if I just want to reexperience the original Halo?
Get it on MCC, it's far closer to the originals.
The new one's a mess of visual styles and gameplay mechanics that don't really fit, mixed in with bugs and performance issues.

>>744216423
Yeah halo looks better than games with a render distance of 5 feet

>>744216423
Silent hill 2 is a great game but its not more visually impressive than halo. Ffx might be buts its using a lot more tricks to get there

Did they weaken the shield? I'm constantly running out of shield way faster than I do on mcc. This is on heroic

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>>744204869
>finally open to the general public today
>doesn't even hit the previous peak from the early access date
>rating back below 70%
So, what's their excuse for keeping 343 alive this time?

>>744217493
Most sales are on ps5 steamie, PC fags can not run UE5

>>744215541
>playstation finally gets gears and halo
>both are worse versions than their 20+ year old originals
If xbox game studios wasn't so consistently incompetent I'd think they did it on purpose

>>744214467
343/halo studios doesn't really exist. The turnover is so high that halo 4,5, and infinite were made by completely different dev teams. Halo infinite and this remake are also outsourced indian h1b contractor projects.

got it free on goypass so im not too bummed but it feels exactly like a game made in 2026
that is to say, made for 'modern audiences'
>pop up hint telling you about your shield when you take damage
>ui covered in elements pointing to every weapon/grenade on the floor
>added a screen on the back of the needler showing how much ammo you have, despite the guns design literally showing it with how many needles are sticking out
>chief goes from mostly silent badass to quippy capeshit hero
>added sprint and zoom to all guns now
just feels like its made for babbies and not for actual halo fans

>>744217882
forget to mention they added weapon skins / mjolnir suit skins that look completely out of place
im not talking hayabusa armor neither. just the ugliest skins youve seen
i havent played halo past reach so maybe this is just what halo is now but i dont like it

>>744204756
then you would need to play the original game. they added shit from the later games into this one so it is definitely not the original experience

>>744205129
Half of them were mint blitz, so it doesn’t count

>>744218038
>i havent played halo past reach so maybe this is just what halo is now but i dont like it
it's been this way since 2015 brother

I didnt like 5, infinite, the tv series or this new game but they keep making them.
I dunno if its just post bungie skepticism that 343 cant live up to or 343 really just being shit but i'm suprised microsoft still has faith in halo at this point

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ay31oj8CrHs&pp=ygUaSGFsbyBjYW1wYWlnbiBldmlsZWUgc3Vja3M%3D&ra=m

Yes it’s unironically that bad. Do not pay $60 for this. It is a complete rip off. Microsoft does not deserve your money. It is morally acceptable to pirate this game if you desperately want to play it, but you’re honestly better off just playing any other halo game.

>>744204756
It's a very fun gamepass game. It's also proof that ce would have been 10x better with waypoints. Only nerds who played ce when they were 10 are gonna care about what they changed

>>744220829

Who else would play this game if not halo fans though? BIPOCs and lgbts ?

>>744220954
>Who else would play this game if not halo fans though?
Not even them

>Barely hits top 10 most played games on Xbox
>Top 6 at release
The absolute state of Halo post 343i

>>744220954
It's for people like me that played ce as an adult and realized its mid as hell and doesn't hold up. Dogshit level design, dogshit weapon and enemy variety, every level is 3x longer than in needs to be, etc. If you go on x you'll notice aside from the part with arrows above the invisible enemies, there is zero talk of actual gameplay. 99% of critic is "wah this line I like is gone, I played this as an infant and thought it was deep"

>>744221397
>Dogshit level design, dogshit weapon and enemy variety, every level is 3x longer than in needs to be, etc.
Thats all the same still, tho... I don't think its for you.

>>744204756
I pirated this game and while the original campaign is alright, the new missions with the fucking shit talking dike are abysmal. What's hilarious is that for as much shit as she talks, the friendly ai is absolutely terrible so she fucking sucks at fighting. Huh, actually maybe they were going for realism.

>>744215541
you got the soulless demake retard

>>744204756
>Is Halo Campaign Evolved really that bad?
I had an okay time because I got it for zero dollars but nobody should spend a dime on it.

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>>744218721
>implying he liked 4
ishygddt

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Do you think they'll ever bring Halo 5 and Wars 2 to pc proper? I know 5 sucks but I'd still like to try it.

>>744210384
>muh graphics
People get what they deserve

>>744204756
It's still fun especially on co-op but it's definitely not the best way to experience CE. Grunts and Jackals act like they should but for some reason Elites are always just standing in place barely doing anything, and they're even more pathetic with how much higher the ttk is. Elites in the original.were constantly.strafing, taking over, or rushing you down. In this remake you're lucky if they decide you run at you in a straight line. Other than that its ok but the new Cortana lines really are as bad as people say, the term MCU dialogue is thrown around a lot but it really does apply here. It's really obnoxious how adorkable she tries to sound

The throngs of redditors and Youtubers unironically glazing this shit gives me no hope for the future of gaming. Microsoft literally does not have to try, these trogs will buys literally anything with the Halo brand slapped onto it, it's fucking over. Nothing will ever get better.

>>744204756
I just reached the library.
So far, it's Halo CE with a nice current gen graphics. I've encountered a few graphical bugs, like the waterfall LOD changing when I move the camera up and down in the "Halo" mission and white lines around my character model when I take the elevator down and look down in the "343 Guilty Spark" mission. Also, I had fall damage once, but I haven't been able to recreate it, so maybe it was a bug.-
Gotta say I like the improved assault rifle. In almost every other Halo game, I would dump that gun the moment I could, but now, I actually like to use the gun a lot. What I don't like is the nerfed jump. The old moon jump is now gone in favor of a meek jump. Also, I barely use the sprint function, MC moves fast as it is, so I only use it between fights if I can be arsed to use it.

>>744206326
there are zero halo games with good multiplayer.

>>744204756
>What if I just want to reexperience the original Halo?

play halo VR

>>744218038
HAYABUSA is still the best armor in the series besides ODST, fight me

>>744218328
Only half?
A shocking level of restraint.

>>744204828
I thought it was longer than the original, and the original with it's huge maps was way longer than 8 hours.

>>744234052
>Also, I had fall damage once
That's just Halo CE.

>>744206012
it's literally inferior in every way to MCC except poly count

>>744213218
>its called replay value dumbass

Halo CE is very replayable too.

>>744204756
Do people really need remakes in order to "reexperience" games? I don't understand this. Just play the original game again instead of going with remakes, which are always inferior.

>>744209730
You can buy $60 premium cow dung from Uttar Pradesh too.

>>744234728
Maybe if it has a VS multiplayer mode.
Also, Star Fox has no replay value since it's a shit game and shit games shouldnt even be finished, let alone replayed.

>>744204756
If re-experiencing is your goal, better dust off that ancient Xbox. Do not get this shit, please save your money.

>>744220268
>27:20
oh my god what is that fucking sprint lmao

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>>744237063
Elite: SWIGITY SWOOGITY

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>>744206493
made by you know who
>>744207105
if you're talking about the cutscenes being the ones made by bluepoint you can swap them for the orginal also by pressing tab

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>>744237063
WE WUZ GANGSTERS N SHIEEET

>>744237170
christ this is worst than the fucking tv show

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>>744204828
The three extra missions, crap story or not, the remix mode that adds more replay value, co-op, and frankly, the mods. I got gifted it because I'm the Halo Guy™ of the family, performance is about as rough as I'd expect but surprisingly playable at 1440p for an RTX 2080 Ti. But it's pissing me off entirely because the game refuses to 100% close after I exit it, so I gotta restart Steam every time if I want to play it again.

>>744207518
No, this is remaster slop.
The original game had great guns. Base pistol was a sniper gun. Sniper gun had 2x/10x zoom and night vision and left railgun trials. Rocket Launcher was as good as a rocket launcher can be. Shotgun was the 2nd best vidya shotgun right behind the Doom 2 Super Shotgun. Plasma pistol could 1 hit kill shields on Elites. Needler was a free homing grenade. Plasma grenades are sticky.

basically except for the machine gun and the plasma rifle, every weapon kicked ass... and those two still worked well against Flood.

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>>744210539
dude.

>>744220268
>5:15
>cortana actually unironically tells the player "it's risky, but if you get close, you can hijack that covenant vehicle"
jesus christ that is so fucking terrible

>>744237549
HE'S TOO FAST!

>>744237549
NANI!? HE'S FAST!!

>>744237549
holy movementGOD

>>744237549
nigga is playing invasion mode and ended up in someone's campaign evolved level

>>744237549
LMFAO that's actually hilarious

>>744204756
okay guys I watched some of this being played
I have a burning fucking question so I came to the first halo thread I could find
WHY did they include the SMG if there is NO DUEL WIELDING
it's just a smaller shittier assault rifle

why are there all these halo 2 weapons in this?
what the fuck
isn't this like seriously messing with the "rock, paper, scissors" flow of the firefights and combat and potentially seriously unbalance certain parts of the game
plasma swords on truth and reconcilliation?
fuck off seriously
surely a bigger nerd than me knows a lore-relevant reason for why this is pissing me off

what did they fucking do to it lmfao

>>744237549
whaaaat
legendary difficulty not fucking around this time

>>744239975
because 343 are masters at sandbox redundancy.
Keep in mind halo 4 had 3 versions of the BR and at any point in the game's lifespan there was only 1 out of the 3 that was viable. Same for ARs

>>744204756
Then get MCC for like 9 dollars?

>>744204756
all the fun you can have from the remake you can also have on the original, said original having better cutscenes and line delivery, which is also part of a game collection so you get far more out of your money for it

>>744229119
probably not, I have mixed feeling since one one hand from what I have seen from 5 its a shitshow especially the campaign and the pay to win aspect of it, that being said warzone looks like a novel enough idea for me wanting to try it

>>744237549
>an ancient evil awakens

>>744237549
You may not like it, but this is what forerunning looks like

>>744204756
Just play the MCC version and turn on the old graphics

>>744237063
No wonder Truth wanted to replace Elites

>>744204756
>What if I just want to reexperience the original Halo?
Then play the original Halo.

This is actually a great remake except for the redo's of the voice overs and cinematics being something out of a mod

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>>744237549
>someone paid 70 bucks for this
lmao

>>744204756
>What if I just want to reexperience the original Halo?
Then play the original halo

I haven't played it yet but like 80% of the whining I see on twitter are clearly from grifters who don't know what they're talking about

>whining about women/black marines when Foehammer was in CE
>complaining about the ODST lady being smart mouthed with chief when ODST's have always resented Spartans
>Claiming Miranda in H2A was made ugly on purpose when Miranda in OG 2 also looked fugly, with some people even getting H2A mixed up with campaign evolved

etc. I'm sure that 343i did something to make the game have a catch, or worse, because they always do, but it's impossible to seperate legit criticism from people just saying shit at this point.

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>>744216195
Honestly I really like H2A's anniversary graphics, but yeah, if you're having issues with figuring out if your shots are landing, switching back to classic might help. Keep in mind you can swap back and forth in real time with the back button/tab key, or whatever you have it binded to

>>744240262
>because 343 are masters at sandbox redundancy.
Infinite did an amazing job making each weapon distinct while still having a ton of them, and making sure they were almost all useful. Easily the best sandbox in the series and it drives me nuts people shit on it just because muh carbine/beam rifle/plasma rifle/spiker aren't in

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>>744246832
Infinite is missing the shotgun. Unforgivable. Plasma pistol didn't disable vehicles. Weapon spawns were random. Map design rail roaded vehicles. No collision when running into other players. I can't be arsed to type out everything wrong with it, but the game was 343s best effort to date but still deeply flawed. Evidenced by the lack of people playing it.

>>744204869
MCC is not "the originals"
They remade all the assets for some reason, even the classic mode one. And they look like SHIT compared to the original vision

I'm gonna be honest I don't get what people are so upset about. This shit just feels like Halo. You move slow, you carry two guns, you have regen health, enemies take forever to die and all the guns feel like shit. I honestly could not make a meaningful distinction between this and the original other than the visual changes.

>>744204756
The MCC is on Steam for $40. Or you can just buy CE separately for $10

>>744247558
>Infinite is missing the shotgun
I honestly don't think this was a huge issue to begin with, the Bulldog may have lack the 1hko potential of the old shotty, but within melee range you can do an instant followup melee (and the old shotgun in 2/3 required you to basically be in melee distance to kill in one shot anyways), while the bulldog also fired faster and had far more range to it

Also they added the mutilator post launch which has all the features you could want from the classic shotgun with more unique gimmicks on top of that (a gravity hammer melee and two modes of fire, for one vs two barrels)

>Plasma pistol didn't disable vehicles.

It didn't in CE and 2 either, and CE was the game that balanced it best. I don't see this as an inherent negative, the issue is just that they gave too many things anti-vehicle properties (especially combined with how poorly designed the BTB maps are for vehicle pathing) so the separation of EMP into shock ended up hurting more then it helped, arguably

>Map design rail roaded vehicles.
You're 100% correct here but this isn't a weapon sandbox issue

>No collision when running into other players.
Nor is this

How do Halo fans survive so many humiliation rituals?

>>744249039
I'm still a fan of 1/2/3 and Reach. But the decline started with Reach and the franchise has been on its arse for too long now. I've just stopped buying.
>>744248517
I'll add that sprint ruins the balance of the grav hammer and sword. Commando is a useless weapon that makes you sigh everytime it's available. No dual welding so no smg/plasma/magnum combos. No spartan laser, so you have to lean on the shitty spike cannon for anti air. It's all good to say it has good weapons, but who cares if the game around it is festering shit. Endless ugly skins, terrible maps with no real support post release. No assault or one flag. No Invasion mode from Reach. It's a lazy ass game.

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>>744204869
>Just buy the master chief collection

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It's okay. Like, Combat Evolved is a game that's got a very specific appeal to a very specific subset of the fanbase versus the rest of the games, and then this is a hammer trying to reshape it into being like the later games with UE5 awkwardly slathered over top. The story scenes and voice direction are wonky dick and the use of Reach as its spinal structure for all the gameplay wasn't a good idea for a CE remake, but it's inoffensively alright. Until you crank up the difficulty and then everything is hilariously going from easy point and click shooter to a nightmare.

Why should I play this game if I already own Master Chief collection? Just for some slightly better visuals? I don't see any changes to the gameplay, levels or the game structure. It even retains the same copy-pasted corridors.

I swear to god, Halo is only popular, because it was the Xbox kids' first FPS game. PC fags only treat Halo as a curiosity, because at the time they had Quake, Doom, Unreal, Half-Life and many, many more and PSfags don't play FPS games anyway.

>>744249752
Halo 1 on PC was extremely popular tf u on about
>>744249663
This was my thinking too I already have mcc and halo ce anniversary so what do I need this for

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>>744249752
>the games I played when I was a kid are better than the games YOU played when you were a kid.

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>>744248073
OP is a Snoy he does not have PC

>>744217493
bold of you to think they need an excuse anon

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>>744237170
jesus christ this game looks like a toy commercial. why is everything so glossy and shiny? do people actually think UE5 slop looks good?

>>744204869
That kinda proves the point. Why should the PC fags bother with this remake, if they already have MCC that even visually isn't all that different.

>>744250405
"Everything looks like a toy commercial" has been Halo's artstyle since day one.

Halo 1 aged terribly anyway coz half the game is a glorified tech demo

Halo 2 is where the series became peak

>>744250445
you're plain wrong anon. i keep expecting the hotwheels logo to show up in these webms

>>744237063
I hate post-Halo 3 Elites so fucking much. They had a perfect, sleek design yet in every iteration after that, they're fat fucks.

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>>744234354
>it's huge maps was way longer than 8 hours.
no, maybe if it's your first time but I recently replayed it after like 20 yrs and it was short as fuck

>>744249594
there is just something wrong with everything being highly detailed and chucked full of stuff like trees and vegetation
forerunner architecture not being that stone-concrete looking thing is so off to me as well

>>744204756
>re-experience
Yeah absolutely, why not? I wouldn't pay money for it, but do what you want. I don't like many of the changes in the game though. I hate the fact that in the ending, the Longsword is so different. There's something comfy about how in the original, you run into the Longsword through a ramp and walk into the cockpit. It's like a massive space bomber aircraft. In the remake, the craft has no interior and it's much smaller overall. The cockpit just opens up and you jump into it like it's a fighter jet. Something ultra iconic like that, just thrown away to be replaced with genericness.

>>744249663
>I don't see any changes to the gameplay, levels or the game structure. It even retains the same copy-pasted corridors.
Then you aren't checking reviews or looking all that closely. They used Reach as the game code basis so everything plays more like that including the AI, later weapons slip in every so often like the SMG or Beam Rifle, try tried to tune it a little more like Infinite, and the levels eventually start using less repetitive layouts by changing how they're structured or the paths you take. It's not like a world of difference, Halo is still Halo, but anyone that played the OG would find this thing borderline alien at times.

>>744237484
did they really?
plasma pistol doesn't take shield off elites?
>this is enough to cancel gamepass over

>>744250863
artists have no imagination and can only design realistic graphics. they can't visualize an apple in their heads so how are they going to create a science fiction setting?

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>>744204756
Just buy fucking MCC if you don't already have it retard, you get the entire original trilogy + it's remasters that don't look and run like UE5 dogshit + Reach + 4 (which sucks but still) all for less than what you'd pay for this piece of shit and it often goes on sale. This should be a no-brainer decision if you have never played Halo and want to experience it.

I played through Halo 1-3 a number of times and I still don't understand what the story is all about. I always felt like the writers were coming up with shit on the fly.

>>744250991
And ODST.
I don't like ODST. Way too many bullet sponge enemies.

>>744250863
>forerunner architecture not being that stone-concrete looking thing is so off to me as well
This annoys me too. It feels like a fundamental misunderstanding of what Forerunner architecture is supposed to look like. Not every single surface has to look like a modular access panel. I always interpreted them as being made of a mineral, not metal. This is supported by the fact that there are abandoned forerunner ruins in Halo 2 that look like they're made out of stone. Even though in later Halo games, it looks more like metal, the details are flush to the surface. In the remake, the metal panel details create massive elevation changes in the surfaces, making everything look like it would catch a ton of dirt and debris and make maintenance a nightmare.

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>>744251462
I think the "intention" beyond 343's Forerunner lore being godawful to begin with was to make all that metal and material shiny like the Covenant's, since the Covenant tech is largely stolen and repurposed stuff from all over between both their various species and the Forerunner stuff they've scavenged before, so "all that space tech is consistent" I guess. But it's also pretty clear in TSC that some of the structures were simply made in a blanket sweep design matter without actually caring for consistency, like the lid that pops open to go into the next mission no longer making physical sense so they simply don't ever open it on-screen and skip past the problem.
A lot of this remake was made to look pretty, and the UNSC stuff is actually not bad in my opinion; Pillar of Autumn looks more consistent with stuff like Cairo Station in 2, while Covenant stuff is basically taking Infinite Banished and Reach shit and mashing it together like playdoh, but they just can't comprehend the Forerunner stuff and their artists practically act like they've got zero context for how that was in the original.

I can say the same for cutscene direction, all effects and awkward motion capture, zero understanding of the original scenes in favor of their new direction. Sticking point for me is Cortana's data chip that is a signature icon for the series, but every time it's pulled out in this game, it's a side view with zero emphasis, meaning the cutscene cinematography folks outright missed the point. Game doesn't show the Alpha Halo in the campagn itself until the end of the first mission for dramatic reveal, but when Keyes talks about landing on it, they don't even properly show the characters looking at it on-camera, they largely stare off-screen with it out of focus on the terminal shit. Never mind all the awkward hanging moments and poor music usage. It's amateur direction.

>>744228431
halo 4 kinda sucked but it still felt like halo to me
also the ending cutscene was kino: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWW_kmycw6c
and it had a few standout ost picks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUrsOQanozo

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>>744204828
People pay 60 bucks for demakes. They pay 50 bucks to have pajeet mongrels deliver food to them that they can pick up themselves or make.

>>744253974
>stop enjoying what I can't run

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>>744204756
>Doom died for this

>>744204756
I just beat Campaign Evolved. It was fun.
I don't get why /v/ is trying so hard to hate on it, feels forced, like >>744253925.
It is much better than Anniversary and if this is the art style for the next Halo game, much like how Anniversary was the prototype art style for 4 and 5, I'm in for more Halo.
Still, for a full priced game, I think what the game offers is lean. The lack of versus or coop with randos multiplayer is a real big omission. It would have been a perfect testing ground for whether there is an audience for classic Halo multiplayer.
>>744229119
>try it
You can stream it via Gamepass.

>>744246832
They replaced the audio engineer from CE with some sheboon in the opening cutscene and people hate the ODST because she’s fucking annoying and badly written. The ODST rivalry is South Park tier with how they present it.

>>744251004
>1
Has a story in the manual. The fortress world of reach fell two weeks ago. The ship, Pillar of Autumn made a blind jump and stumbled upon a strange ancient ring world the evil covenant call Halo.

The artificial world is made by an ancient race known only as the Forerunner. During the battle the covenant violate and open a containment zone for studying an ancient parasite called the Flood, which immediately goes out of control and threatens to steal warships and eradicate and assimilate all life in the galaxy. It is revealed by the AI caretaker of Halo (officially Installation 04) that the ancient race was humanity, who reset the galaxy to 0 to stop the Flood since it had infected most of the galaxy and Halo is a weapon that eradicates multicellular organic life in multiple thousands of light years, and there are 7 total installations. In the end 04 is destroyed, also destroying the Flood on the Ring and everyone except master chief, Cortana, and Johnson survive.

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>>744256286
Halo 2

Back on earth the covenant stumble upon it. The plot reveals that the covenant believe humanity are an affront to their gods, the forerunners, and are at earth because they believe there is some ancient forerunner artifact there that will allow them to begin the Great Journey and ascend to godhood. Meanwhile chief and friends go find out that the covenant has found another Halo ring, while the arbiter finds out that their ancient religion is built on a lie and the entire human covenant war is a conspiracy by the prophets to cover up the fact humans are forerunner and retain power. They plan to activate the rings and eradicate all life in the galaxy except for them and useful idiots using the Rings and the ancient artifact on earth to survive this.

Halo 3
The relic on earth is a portal to the Ark. A giant mega structure outside the galaxy which is safe from the Halo rings. Halo 3 got the most rewriting and where the new blood in Bungie started trying to change the lore. So that’s why it all feels disconnected. Originally the Ark was supposed to be a building on earth which the forerunners used to hide from the Rings. Anyways. Guilty spark tells you you are forerunner then you do the warthog run and the series ended forever after that.

The whole point of the story was a tragic space opera where the covenant are killing their own gods because of space Jews wanting to retain their monopoly on power.

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>>744237549
This is pure SOVL though

>>744220829
CE had objective way points. Luckily most of them would only activate if you couldn't find where you were meant to go and stumbled around for too long.

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>>744256565
Thank you for the recap. I do find that plot point of "ancient dead race are actually humans" odd, but whatever.

>>744250414
>even visually isn't all that different.
What

>>744237170
Why is he "taking cover" AFTER he's seen the shot go by him? Why does he not dodge the second shot and basically just ignore it by turning and firing normally?
This feels like a movie scene where the actors were never in the same room together and did the scene separately

>>744204956
>furries wasted their money
Shocking.

>>744251004
They kind of were. At the end of Halo 1 Bungie didn't even know if MC was meant to be a cyborg or a guy in a suit yet, and the covenant were basically space muslims. It wasn't until Halo 2 that they had to sit down and really flesh the universe out.