Take me back
>>12677995i cant decide which i prefer.. 2 or 3...sometimes i think 2 may have a lead because of vais tracks though
>>126780592 was my favorite. i found 3 very disappointing.
>>12677995no one gets to go home.
>>126780592 has the stronger campaign whereas 3 has the stronger multiplayer. But it's nominal really. Both really are fun, great games.
Always felt it was such a downgrade compared to Halo 1 (the campaign). Like yeah, it doesn't suffer from the repetitiveness at times of CE but at the same time doesn't have those highs. Still a better game than 3 though.
>>12677995the days
Most elite drivers begin karting by the age of 4I began racing hypercars at the age of 4.
>>12679342I disagree, I think they sorted out the repetitive environments issue of the first game and created additional novelty with the narrative (which is still REALLY good!) and even used it to justify new gameplay scenarios.I feel they did a good job of doing their own thing with Halo 2. The variety of environments meant there was a lot of opportunity for new gameplay and encounter setups and they largely succeeded.You don't think just doing Halo CE: redux would have cheapened both games?
>>12679342It's probably not objective but I remember really getting tired of the king of the hill segments in 2, more so than 1's repeating hallways ever bothered me.
>pay for game tipsdo boomers really?
>>126780591 was the only good one.
>>12679367I cant even pass the braking license tests lmao fml
Blow me away.It’s crazy how short the levels in Halo 2 are. I always remembered them being a lot longer.
>>12679342>Still a better game than 3 though.Every single Halo has a better campaign than 3.
>>12679367That intro track was kino>Im losing my favorite game
>>12678063>>12679342>>12680996Elaborate. Why do people hate 3?
>>12682131People hated Halo 2 because:>No AR>No 3sk pistol>Cut levels (Covenant Ship, Forerunner Tank, Earth Ark)>Downgrades across the board to get the game to run on OG Xbox>Dual wielding>Arbiter being playable >Cliffhanger ending>Bungie cut the 3rd acthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lL6RYrYc4U>NOOBIFIEDhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocyYwLCDyCUPeople hated Halo 3 because:>AR returns but is a total joke>BR to Win: The Game>melee lunge>Arbiter was shafted >Truth is a completely different character>Marty killing Miranda and Johnson made no sense>Downgraded multiplayer compared to the high skill Halo 2 BXR >Floodgate and Cortana are some of the worst levels in the franchise>Worse maps than Halo 2>Paying Xbox Live Gold to utilize P2P communications, which means that players are actually providing much of the heavy infrastructure ("game servers")>Reticle not centered >Low FOV>Bungie Pro SubscriptionsPeople hated Reach because:>Story retconned The Fall of Reach book>No Blue Team and Chief>Armor Abilities>Armor Lock>Reticle bloom>Motion blur>Multiplayer maps were campaign maps>Forge World maps were laggy and lazy>No BR>MLG hated it>No Ranking from 1 to 50>22fps at times>TU Update and Anniversary PlaylistPeople hated Halo 4 because:>Doubled down on Reach's gameplay (everyone wanted Halo 3-2)>Chief and Cortana romance>Humans are no longer Forerunner>Retcons>Short campaign>CoD clone>Spartan Ops>Less features than Reach despite releasing 2 years later>Ugly lighting engine
>>126821313 is technically retro since it released before December 2007 and there's a bootleg Windows XP port.Anyway:>3 has some of the worst weapon balancing in the series (only 2's and 4's are worse)>the Brutes aren't nearly as fun to fight as the Elites, the latter of whom aren't even in the Covenant anymore by this point>the Flood are now made of paper>you fight Scarabs too many times>there's no really good vehicle sections outside of Tsavo Highway>most of the levels are complete filler storywise because Bungie had to stretch Halo 2's cut finale into a full-length game>soundtrack has very few original pieces as most of it is retakes of 1 and 2's musicIt's still a good game and I doubt the consensus will ever be that people hate Halo 3.
>>12682140>Floodgate and Cortana are some of the worst levels in the franchisewdym, Floodgate is one of Halo 3's only truly kino levels despite how weak the Flood are in 3
Halo 2 was too ambitious. It was like two generations too early for the tech it was trying to push. Even if they did manage to ship stencil shadows, the resolution/performance would have been too low. pic-related is only simulated/approximated btw, it's not even the real deal that could have been with pixel perfect shadows and dynamic lights.Xbox had a high end PC-level GPU coupled with a low-tier Pentium III 733 CPU with a crippled cache. The system has Direct X 8.1, shader model 1.1, vertex shader 1.1 and two Vertex Shader units, while the Geforce 3's only had one. The Xbox GPU was quite powerful. Halo 2's Legendary E3 Level Will Finally Be Playable After 21 Yearshttps://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3360515088Halo 2 Developer Commentary Remasteredhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAW2F6oPYMc
>>12678063Opposite, I found 2 disappointing and 3 a return to form.
