Level 2.
>Enemy Banshees at the start will spot me regardless of what I do and won't go away until I kill one of them, which alerts all the other enemies so it's easier to just kill everybody from the get-go
>Banshees also bumble around and crash into trees, mountains, rocks and the ground while trying to attack me
>Kill aliens up the hill, run back to the drop pod for ammo, then go back up the hill holding W with nothing else to do in this giant empty map for several minutes
>Can't destroy those annoying Covenant dropship turrets
>Tree foliage (not the trunk) physically blocks grenade throws
>If I crouch, throw a grenade and let go of the crouch button, I can't stand back up until the throw animation ends
>Enemies somehow have more trouble hitting me when I'm strafing them in the open than when I'm actually taking cover
>Game autosaves checkpoints on a whim at the worst of times and the "Load Last Checkpoint" option loads the last checkpoint that the game autosaved, instead of the one I manually saved, so I have to quit to the main menu in order to load any checkpoint made before the most recent one
>Genetically-engineered supersoldier wearing a power suit jumping around with Moon gravity physics takes dies from a measly 10-foot drop
>Can't drive the Warthog in a traditional manner since steering is done with the mouse, so I can't drive and watch my surroundings independently, and maneuvering around objects at top speed requires me to jerk the mouse left and right like a retard

Level 3.
>Enemies don't get alerted when their friends get sniped a couple feet away from them
>Unalerted enemies don't see me if I stand behind their translucent purple shields, as if I were completely invisible to them
>Marine teammates don't know how to take cover and run in front of me when the fighting starts, begging to be shot in the back of the head
>Using any mounted turret zooms the camera out to third-person, so far behind me in fact that I have to lean forward to see what I'm aiming at
>Shooting the alien turret further obscures what I'm shooting at because of all the flashy purple glitter effects that don't let me see anything
>Aliens don't take cover or throw grenades at me when I'm sitting in a turret, instead just running into the open to die
>Two big alien dudes drop in, and I kill them just by holding mouse button 1 in the turret as they miss every single shot from their grenade launchers
>Enter ship, frag some enemies in a mandatory locked room sequence
>Big dudes show up again, and their melee attacks are countered by... walking backwards a little bit
>Thrown live grenades can detonate grenade item pickups on the ground, causing chain reactions that can randomly kill me
>Can't use flashlight when the invisible powerup is active
>Can't have the alien grenade launcher or the alien sword because that would be too fun for this game I guess

Level 4.
>The most common enemies in the game so far are weak cannon-fodder grunts called "goys" that are afraid of fighting, run for their lives and die crying because the devs are sadistic I guess
>MOTION tracker can't detect cloaked enemies that are moving around but can detect non-cloaked enemies when they're moving around behind walls, which is functionally the same thing (what does visual cloaking have to do with motion detection?)
>Big dudes forget I exist if I walk away from them
>Half the level is just hallways and more hallways that look the same

>>12762379
>2003 PC port
Why are you torturing yourself? Unless you installed a billion mods the graphics look like ass and the animations are capped to 30 FPS.

Level 5.
>Enemies can kill me while I'm inside a fucking tank simply by shooting at it, as if I'm the armor protecting the tank instead of the other way around
>Just like the Warthog, I can't move in one direction while looking in another direction, so I can't turn the turret independently while maneuvering the tank in combat
>"Groundbreaking" enemy AI runs out into the open, charges at my tank and gets run over
>"Groundbreaking" friendly AI runs out into the open, charges at my tank to hop onto it for a ride and also gets run over because we're in the middle of combat and I'm trying to dodge enemy fire
>More hallways and rooms copypasted over and over again

Level 6.
>Really cool concept at first, but ultimately squandered by the inclusion of zombies that with guns, which makes them less scary and far too similar to any other enemy in the game that has a gun
>Rechargable shield also greatly diminishes the horror aspect of the level
>Zombies have no concept of elevation, so they'll swipe at the air directly below me if I'm standing on a platform above them or vice-versa (is this the so-called threat to the entire galaxy?)
>Marine rifle finally becomes useful for something (clearing up the popcorn enemies), but quickly becomes useless again once I realize I can just walk past/through the popcorn swarms without getting hurt
>Finally got a shotgun... halfway through the game
>Can't have the flamethrower weapon because that would be too fun for this game I guess

Level 7.
>A good challenge, but unfortunately hampered by repetitive level design yet again
>Constantly running through the map would've been more interesting than having to wait around for doors to open
>End the fucking level already dude, the fourth floor is identical to the previous three
>Why didn't Guilty Spark just teleport me to the fourth floor to begin with?

>>12762390
>Why
To find out what the fuss was all about. I don't want to play this with a controller, to be honest.

Level 8.
>Expected a bossfight against Guilty Spark and his sentinel drones in the control room (which clearly looks like a bossfight room), but it's just four drones and then it's over
>Back to the same repetitive hallways from level 5, because it literally just reuses level 5
>Underground section forces me to go on foot to the last objective; just give me a fucking loading screen next time
>High-powered anti-materiel sniper rifle with scarce ammo and low magazine capacity that fires .57-cal APFSDS rounds deals no damage to alien tanks or rocket-launcher-wielding zombies - two targets it would be very useful against
>Human weapons are weak against Sentinels even when they have no shields, but alien weapons are still very effective, so what's the point of the whole "use certain weapons for certain situations" aspect of the gunplay?

Level 9.
>Half of it is just level 3 again
>Game replaces my weapons on every level so I don't even bother holding onto anything anymore
>Just letting the zombies and aliens duke it out at this point since the combat is boring
>Simplistic AI prioritizes shooting me, who's watching from afar, over an enemy that's current punching them in the face, if they somehow spot me while fighting
>Game spams explosive zombies because devs couldn't think of a better way to prevent me from just walking past most encounters
>Game spams zombies with guns because devs couldn't think of a way to make a zombie outbreak intimidating enough

Level 10.
>Exact same repetitive corridors as level 1, since it's just level 1 again
>The crashed ship could've had the last few remnants of the marines making a desperate last stand against the aliens, flood and sentinels but that would be too exciting for this game I guess, so it's just me here
>Come across an armory room full of weapons, the first actual instance of rewarding the player for exploring the map... wasn't this armory room completely empty in level 1?
>Ship's engine room straight up looks like an unfinished level
>No final boss at all, just shoot some rockets into four vents and leave
>Escape sequence is just another set of repetitive hallways, like 80% of this fucking game has been
>Get randomly instakilled at the very end of the level by a shotgun flood zombie glitch that happens when it shoots me at the exact moment it dies from being run over by the Warthog
>Do the fucking escape sequence from the start all over again
>Stick a plasma grenade to the face of the last Elite that's in the way as I walk to the final cutscene trigger
>The End
>Level select menu doesn't let me choose specific sections of levels, so I have to go through an entire level from the start just to get to the specific section I want to replay if I don't save an autosave of it

Plot (1/2).
>It's just a generic "aliens want to kill us" plot
>In fact, his game is the definition of generic sci-fi shooter, because everything about it looks bland and uninspired
>Humanity has been at war with the Covenant for 32 years and still hasn't developed more effective weapons against alien shields, like the weapons the aliens themselves have
>It boggles the mind that humanity is losing a war against cartoon characters that whiff grenade throws and run away at the first sign of trouble, or lose their patience when their shields go down and run out of cover straight into gunfire to die
>The original plan, according to the manual, was for humans to board a Covenant ship and find out where the alien homeworld is in order to turn the tide of the war
>And they do find themselves inside a Covenant ship in the actual game
>Cortana and Keyes have an entire conversation inside the ship's command center, and she even hacks the Covenant battle net, yet they don't extract this invaluable piece of information for some reason
>Keyes says that Cortana's data chip can't be captured otherwise the aliens will discover Earth's location, but then he himself gets captured by the aliens, and they don't datamine his neural implant chip to get that info for some reason
>The Flood novel says that the Covenant were on the human ship at the final level to find information on Earth, which is something they didn't think to until the very end of the game for some reason
>The fucking FLOOD has this very obvious idea when it infects Keyes and figures it out on its own
>The Covenant had several capital ships loitering above Halo but didn't support the ground troops for some reason; evading orbital bombardment from them in level 8 amidst all the chaos would've made things actually interesting

Plot (2/2).
>Keyes and Johnson, the supposed "war veterans", fall for the world's most obvious ambush, being too stupid and/or stubborn to retreat and close the door behind them when the Flood shows up so everyone dies (why is a high-ranking officer like Keyes personally leading this very dangerous mission instead of sending scouts? He's already been captured once)
>Cortana accuses Guilty Spark of "tricking" Chief into starting up the Halocauster 9000 by "hiding information"
>Guilty Spark, who's just doing his job, looks at Chief and Cortana like they're both retarded and rightfully asks "I thought you knew what the Halocauster 9000 you so desperately want to use actually does?"
>Cortana fucking knew and didn't tell Chief anything BEFORE sending him away to the Flood facility
>And Chief, despite admitting that he doesn't understand what's happening, didn't bother to ask what it actually does
>Guilty Spark threatens to kill Chief and take Cortana away when they give up on the Halocaust plan... and then he just leaves?
>But then Guilty Spark shows up in the wreckage of the human capital ship at the final level to prevent Chief from nuking Halo, not because he's trying to protect Halo from being nuked, but because he wants to categorize data about irrelevant shit instead of doing his job, so all that rushing to take down the pulse generators was pointless because Guilty Spark was already too distracted by his own autism to activate Halo
>Why is the Flood ON Halo to begin with if Halo exists to exterminate the Flood?
>Why does neither the Flood containment facility, nor Halo itself, have any self-destruct systems in case of an outbreak?
>Why didn't Chief and Cortana simply suggest to Guilty Spark that nuking Halo instead of the universe would be a far better solution to contain the Flood, since the outbreak happens ON Halo?
>Cool main menu song though, I wonder who was the lady that sang the middle part... oh it was actually a dude

4/10.

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>>12762408
>But what about [other game]
I didn't compare it to any other game in any of my posts, nor would I defend similar bullshit elsewhere.

>>12762408
Halo on Legendary is harder than some of my favorite FPSes because of checkpoint saving and it makes me wonder how many casual PC players who love garbage like Blood hate Halo because of that reason

Im not really reading all that but did u like the dogshit level when you first get the shotgun and walk thru the same copy n pasted corridor t0 times?

>>12762418
I'm currently trying out Legendary, and while it fixes some of the issues from Heroic, it's far more tedious. The game simply buffs enemy stats/spawns and nerfs your shields. The lift section that brings you into the alien ship on level 3 sent like 15 waves of enemies before the two big dudes showed up, and Elites take so long to die that I'm getting sick of hearing my own plasma pistol sounds. I sure hope escorting Keyes' NPC isn't the slog I'm expecting it to be...

>>12762402
>The Flood novel
you disliked the game but read a novel of it?

>>12762432
I didn't read it, but I decided to be fair and look the info up since the novel came out before this port, so there was some context available even if the game itself didn't explain it.

>>12762431
>sick of hearing my own plasma pistol sounds
Fast tapping the plasma rifle is way more effective at downing Elites.

>>12762428
I didn't mind the flood level as much as the others, funnily enough, since there's no objective besides running and gunning against unshielded enemies.
>>12762475
I'm aware, but since the pistol is so readily available and the charged shot removes their shields right away, I usually just follow up with a grenade to make sure they have no time to react, and at that point I don't waste time switching weapons to make sure they die before their shields can come back.

>>12762418
>screeching about blood out of nowhere
i swear man that game has a special gift of causing severe asspain. let me guess: you started the game on extra crispy and thought it was going to be a cakewalk?

You didn't beat the game

>muh ai
seriously, what is a shooter with what you consider good ai? it kind of has to be dumb, because realistic combat is not fun in a video game. that being said i feel like halo's was more than adequate for the style of game it was.

>>12762607
>what is a shooter with what you consider good ai?
You're asking for a comparison, which will inevitably lead to someone shifting the conversation towards the games you want me to compare Halo to. I'm judging the game's merit by 2001 standards that people claim it set for the genre.

>>12762403
>4/10.
doesnt mean anything. You have to present a list of about 100 relevant games and their ratings before I will even treat this number as anything but a worthless brain bubble. You need to provide context to your methodology and demonstrate consistency in your opinions if you want to be seen as a critic.

>>12762402
>>It's just a generic "aliens want to kill us" plot
it's actually way more than that if you pay attention to the story but you don't seem that interested in doing so

>>It boggles the mind that humanity is losing a war against cartoon characters
because you are a fucking super soldier bioengineered from a young age to be the ultimate weapon against the covenant. they call you "the demon". they are scared shitless of you. the rest of the military are not you.

>>Cortana fucking knew and didn't tell Chief anything BEFORE sending him away to the Flood facility
no she didn't. she was just as ignorant about the installation as chief when they got to the control room. she learned about its true mechanisms when she stayed behind.

>Guilty Spark was already too distracted by his own autism to activate Halo
he literally says he can't due to his protocol. why do you think he nudges chief so hard to do everything?

not reading anymore. you seem to be autistically dead set on finding something to hate about the game around every corner.

>>12762664
>It's actually way more than that if you pay attention to the story
Aliens want to kill us all for unexplained religious reasons. Aliens think Halo is a superweapon of their gods (Forerunners), while humans find out it's part of their ancient history, but at the end of the day there's no actual explanation in the game as to why they just decided to genocide humans.
>because you are a fucking super soldier
The last one, barely escaping with his life after the aliens attack Reach and kill almost everybody without issue. If anything, Chief lucked out, because the Covenant fucked themselves up by accidentally releasing the flood, creating the perfect distraction. If Halo wasn't there when they did the hyperspace jump, it was over.
>no she didn't
She did, the moment she was plugged into Halo's control room. She literally pauses mid-explanation about how "Halo is a weapon designed to..." (exterminate all sentient life to stop the Flood from spreading). If the way she talks isn't confirmation enough ("The Covenant must've known, there must've been signs") then I don't what you want from it.
>he literally says he can't due to his protocol
He says "kill him but save his head and helmet" to his laser drones in level 8, saying that he'll just find someone else to do it. That's his role to activate Halo, which he just stops working towards to fuck around in the ship's data banks.

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>>12762676
>Aliens want to kill us all for unexplained religious reasons. Aliens think Halo is a superweapon of their gods (Forerunners), while humans find out it's part of their ancient history, but at the end of the day there's no actual explanation in the game as to why they just decided to genocide humans.

If only there were a sequel that showed us the Covenant side...

Joe Staten himself stated that Halo CE is Chief's story and Halo 2 is Arbiter's story.

>>12762684
I know the sequels explain it, but having to play sequels for the original game to make sense just puts the writing into question to be honest. They could've at least made the cause of this 32-year war vague for the player to ask questions but the manual literally just says "we met the Covenant and they started attacking us". No failed diplomacy, no accidental first shot, no accidental trespass, no introduction to the aliens, not even a named alien antagonist leading the Covenant forces on Halo. It just doesn't stand out, that's why I called it generic.

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>>12762806
>No failed diplomacy, no accidental first shot, no accidental trespass, no introduction to the aliens, not even a named alien antagonist leading the Covenant forces on Halo. It just doesn't stand out, that's why I called it generic.

Something that Jason Jones, creator of Halo, wanted to avoid was bombarding the player with lore and cutscenes. If you want the backstory to Halo, you can read Nylund's books and Contact Harvest.

>Jason Jones: In a lot of ways, Halo 2 is just the extension of all the excitement we felt at the end of Halo 1 that we didn't get to express.

>Jason Jones: There's a lot of the story that we didn't get to tell. There are characters that we had conceived of and, in some cases, even modeled. And it's also the same group of people too, and they all still want to do what they're doing.

>Joseph Staten: This is the copy of the script, the cinematic script for Halo. This document needs to talk to programmers and artists and animators and everybody. This is 160 pages worth of cinematics. That's kind of crazy if you just think about it on its own, but when you look at a game which is 15 levels long, with a couple of protagonists and a fairly complex story arc—when you need to drive the player's experience for 20 hours of gameplay—say, 120 minutes of cinematics doesn't really seem that out of proportion. But just to look at it prima facie, it's pretty daunting. You think, "My God, you're making a feature film."

>Jason Jones: It's not about making it complex, and it's not about playing movies for you—two hours of movies between every five minutes of gameplay. But the more you can make somebody believe that they're in this cool place, that they're on Halo fighting the Covenant instead of sitting in their living room at two in the morning trying to finish some stupid video game...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q69Msy8ttM

>>12762809
Schizo faggot
>>12762819
>wanted to avoid bombarding the player with lore and cutscenes
Why is there so much focus on that in the campaign then? The cutscene that introduces the Flood takes like 5 entire minutes. Other cutscenes in the game also can't be skipped.
I get that they had a lot to tell but they should've locked down what little they put in the game. I was legitimately asking myself why Keyes ran off to some swamp to find a "weapons cache" on spotty intel without Chief helping him. Getting to Halo's control center was already too much for a stranded group of survivors of a crashed ship surrounded by aliens, and at first glance it just looks like things are going unexplained and people are dying off-screen. Cortana just casually mentions that Chief has been gone for 12 hours between the Flood facility and the Library.

>>12762379
Halo CE's original PC port is fucking busted and you can get the Master Chief Collection version for peanuts, idk why you're deliberately choosing to play the ugliest jankiest version of this gane

>>12762978
I figured later versions of the game would be easier or have reworked/removed features, mechanics etc. as it was seen back in 2003. God knows what excuses I'd hear if I played some non-kosher "fixed" version from a decade later that doesn't represent the actual game or dared disable aim assist to have a better first impression...

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>>12762995
>I figured later versions of the game would be easier or have reworked/removed features, mechanics etc. as it was seen back in 2003. God knows what excuses I'd hear if I played some non-kosher "fixed" version from a decade later that doesn't represent the actual game or dared disable aim assist to have a better first impression...

The best versions are the original Xbox version and Halo MCC Steam version. Halo Gearbox is a notoriously busted port

>>12762379
I won't comment on the weird control/aim issues you're experiencing, because most/all of them aren't present on Xbox. There are some other port issues in there that I won't comment on, either. I don't know a single person that played Halo predominantly on PC, but I've also never looked into how you'd play it nowadays if you didn't own an Xbox.

Level 1
The default assault rifle is famously bad, yes. Weapons were rebalanced in the sequel.
Medkit flashbang is also really annoying. HP regens like shields in the sequel.
>Rechargable shield mechanic slows the pace down to a crawl
... but is still faster than disengaging from combat entirely to look for medkits, like in a game without regenerating HP. It sounds like you're getting shot way too much, which is a skill issue, not part of the game mechanics.
Level design is not repetitive, but the aesthetics are to some degree. The actual level has various combat set pieces, like the one with the big stairway in the middle and the Covenant holding the high ground. It's also a spaceship, how many wall textures do you expect to see? They included those bits where you walk through the darkened access routes as well.

Level 2
The banshees do notice you easily. You can just run past them. It is funny that they crash into stuff if you stay to fight.
You can't destroy the dropships or their turrets, deal with it. It's a giant alien vehicle and you're wielding small arms.
Tree foliage has branches in it. Hide behind cover where you aren't exposed, or else it isn't "cover", is it?
The checkpoints are normally at decent spots. I've beaten the game on Legendary several times without any manual checkpoint save functionality. I've never had to restart a level because of a bad checkpoint, in any Halo, any year, ever.
The fall damage accumulates bizarrely quickly in CE, even if it's unrealistic. It's dropped in the sequel.

Your entire post is just bitching, I notice, with no positives noted. I won't bother replying further.

>>12763101
>no positives noted
There are some there, and some more here.
>Pretty good and surprisingly accurate shotgun
>Outside areas of Halo and Silent Cartographer look nice, and the whole game should've been like that
>Ambient Wonder is a great track
>Flood enemies are fun to fight
>Warthog is fun to drive
>Night skyboxes look great
>Landing plasma grenades on enemies is cool
But otherwise it's not special.

>but is still faster than disengaging from combat entirely to look for medkits
Disengaging to recharge shields lets Elites recover theirs, that's what slows it down. And they take cover very often. Having armor that goes down and doesn't recover would at least guarantee that the fight doesn't last several minutes.
>Level design is not repetitive
It fucking is. This is non-negotiable unless you have goldfish memory. There were moments where I was downright wondering if I was going around in circles on some levels because indoor areas repeated so often. And as it turned out, I wasn't going in circles. I even see people who praise the game saying this is a major downside. You can't look at the Pillar of Autumn or the Library and pretend otherwise.
>how many wall textures do you expect to see?
I expect to see standard semiotic since it has so many references to Ridley Scott's Alien movies, because I have wondered out loud how often the Pillar of Autumn's crew must've gotten lost in their own ship since there's barely any labels or signage or panels of any sort throughout most of the level.
>Invincible enemies, deal with it
Every other threat in the game can be dealt with but not this annoyance? And you just accept it?
>Tree foliage has branches in it
That look too flimsy to stop a grenade. You can shoot and walk through them, but if you throw a grenade it bounces back at you. It's idiotic.
>The checkpoints are normally at decent spots
It often saves when a new combat phase is about to start rather than right after a combat phase ends giving less time to restock.

>getting filtered by halo
Embarrassing

>>12763179
I only looked for positives in Level 1/2; didn't read further.

Elites recover, but the game is balanced for you to win. If there are nine enemies at the start, you should whittle them down to three or so before taking cover. One or two of the survivors might be elites that had taken damage, but with so few enemies left you should be able to clean them out on the next go. Having to handle the fights with precision and evasion is what makes it immersive, high-stakes, and highly impacted by skill. If you could weather every fight on one HP pool and then collect pick-ups to top it off afterward, you wouldn't be immediately incentivized to reduce incoming damage and take fights tactically. If things are taking that long, you're either being overly cautious and regenerating unnecessarily, or not evasive enough and taking too much damage.

I have excellent sense of direction, so I never felt lost or like I was going in circles, on Pillar of Autumn or the Library. The latter has abysmal visual variation, though, I'll agree with you there. I've played many games with greater visual repetition than Pillar of Autumn, so I just can't see what you're describing, personally.

The dropships are just that, an annoyance. The turrets do low damage and the projectiles travel slowly. Hide behind a rock for 10 seconds while it disgorges troops if you have to, and then go back at it. Total non-issue. The sequel makes them destructible though, you'll be happy to know.

OK, then maybe they should have been non-colliding, agreed. I don't recall ever encountering that issue, so it's exceedingly minor anyway.

If it checkpoints at a new combat phase for some reason, that means you already had the time to restock. Most levels have open layouts, so you can back up if you somehow have a completely unusable weapon combination for the next fight. You shouldn't be dying at every checkpoint anyway. I'm getting a strong feeling that you should have started with Normal.

>>12763227
>you should whittle them down to three or so before taking cover
It's very obvious that picking off unshielded enemies first is the main course of action, I didn't miss that, but it doesn't stop Elites from facetanking when it's their turn to die. In fact I would argue that the shield mechanic incentivizes slower combat as once your shields drop, you take permanent health damage, health kits are rather scarce, so it's often better to play safe than kill everyone quickly in exchange for some HP. It's not so difficult as it is a tedious process. Honestly, if they had implemented the energy sword into the campaign I might have had a better opinion because I like baiting them around corners killing them in melee.
>Total non-issue
It is still annoying, anon. I'd really rather just kill them as I have everything else since I'm often waiting around for Elites to come out so i can stick grenades on them before they get a chance.
>that means you already had time to restock
It's very noticeable in large areas with enemy corpses strewn about everywhere, unless you corall them into a single spot by waiting around, which then becomes the issue of fights taking too long again. By the way I'm on Legendary right now and I've just had a checkpoint save in the middle of the fight at the alien capital ship's hangar section on mission 3, surrounded by enemies that spawned immediately before it saved.
>getting a strong feeling that you should have started with Normal
Heroic wasn't difficult, it's just mostly boring.
>inb4 why play it then
To make a fair case so I won't dislike something I haven't played.

Also, why doesn't the UNSC have grenade launchers as standard equipment on their rifles in the year 2552? That would've been a fantastic Elite killer.

>>12763263
You do take permanent health damage, but you don't have to use a medkit each time. You can take minor damage from a few tougher fights each before you really need to look for one, and they're spaced more or less that often. Either way, the regenerating HP from the sequel onward removes the medkit hunting entirely, so they did "fix" that.
>capital ship's hangar section on mission 3
The big, three story hangar? I recall that as being the toughest fight on Legendary, so good luck.
>Heroic wasn't difficult, it's just mostly boring.
But that applies to most games. You can always squeeze through a game on an overly difficult setting by slowly grinding your way through, at the cost of time. That may not apply to you, but many of your observations suggest to me that you were playing on a slightly-too-high difficulty for your first time, without realizing it, and it was adding friction/slowdown to your experience. So it wouldn't have seemed difficult in the sense of "this is taking me many tries to succeed", but more that a tough fight that is balanced around 1-2 shield regens is taking you 3+ or forcing you to bait enemies to corners or something. I've played Halo enough that at this point I can breeze through it on Heroic with minimal resistance, and the sweet spot is somewhere in between those. No game is enjoyable when you have to tediously make your way through it.

I guess you must have somewhat enjoyed it because you're replaying it on Legendary, despite giving it a 4/10. I would never replay something I considered so lowly.

>>12762379
>Aim assist mechanic can't be turned off
Lies

>>12762395
>To find out what the fuss was all about. I don't want to play this with a controller, to be honest.
Anon is asking why you are playing the _2003_ PC port.

>>12763294
>I guess you must have somewhat enjoyed it because you're replaying it on Legendary
I'm expecting someone to try and discredit my findings for not playing on the highest difficulty or some bullshit like that but I'm pretty tired of it at this point. Cortana doesn't get off her ass to open a door until I satisfy her bloodlust by slogging through 10 waves, which veels very arbitrary.

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Halo 25th Anniversary pasta

>Halo PC - Extract and Go (extract and play)
http://vaporeon.io/hosted/halo/custom/Halo%20PC%20-%20Extract%20and%20Go.7z
http://vaporeon.io/hosted/halo/original_files/

>Chimera - An open source mod fixing the core issues of Halo PC and CE (as released by Gearbox), while providing additional features (extract to root folder)
https://github.com/SnowyMouse/chimera/releases

>Halo PC Restored - fix bugs that occurred during the Halo PC Gearbox porting process (extract to maps folder)
https://github.com/Aerocatia/halopc-restored/releases/download/r220/en-halopc-restored-retail-individual-r220.zip

>Halo Xbox NTSC-U - halo xbox 01.10.12.2276 Oct 12 2001 16:11:06 retail build (original xbox or xemu)
http://vaporeon.io/hosted/halo/original_files/xbox/halo_01.10.12.2276.7z

>Halo 2 Project Cartographer - Extract and Go (Halo 2 Vista: Fixed)
https://www.h2maps.net/Cartographer/Installer/h2pc_installer_2.1.zip

>Halo: The Master Chief Collection Steam
https://store.steampowered.com/app/976730/Halo_The_Master_Chief_Collection/

>Halo Books
https://files.lyberry.com/books/Halo%20Collection%20All%20Books/

>Halo Storyboards
https://dangerousonion.artstation.com/

>Halo Soundtracks
https://www.sittingonclouds.net/series/halo

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>>12763309
Halo 2 Vista is fucking dog shit even with mods.

>>12763309
Your Halo books link should also include the 2010 version of Fall of Reach; the 2001 version incorrectly states that the Chief's first encounter with Elites was during the Fall of Reach.

>plays through game, dislikes it, complains literally every step of the way
>plays through it again on a higher, more tedious difficulty made for fans who want a tough replay
OP, I think the problem is that you insist upon yourself. You don't know how to enjoy video games other than bashing your skull against it. Go play something you like.

>>12762391
>far too similar to any other enemy in the game that has a gun
I don't remember the part in Halo where 20 Covenant soldiers on-screen employed swarm tactics with zero self-preservation

>>12763327
Then you should play it again because they do exactly that if they see you retreating, or if they get angry when their shields go down, especially on Legendary.

>>12763350
20?

>>12763361
The point is about them all having guns, not how many of them there are.

>>12762391
>Finally got a shotgun... halfway through the game
>Can't have the flamethrower weapon because that would be too fun for this game I guess
This is beyond nitpicking. I don't see how these are even criticisms.
"le developer put a strong weapon....in the lategame. This is LE BAD!"
"le developer didn't put le arbitrary weapon into the game. This is LE BAD!"
>>12762395
>Game replaces my weapons on every level so I don't even bother holding onto anything anymore
What do you mean "bother holding onto anything anymore"? Was your preferred strategy to use the same 2 weapons the entire game??

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>>12762402
>It's just a generic "aliens want to kill us" plot
How many generic aliens in media kill you due to their religious beliefs, not knowing that the gods they worship are actually ancient humans?
>still hasn't developed more effective weapons against alien shields, like the weapons the aliens themselves have
Holy shit you have no media literacy! They made human weapons recognisably human to immediately communicate the vast technological gap between the factions instead of just giving humanity lasers and giving aliens Lasers But Better™.
>It boggles the mind that humanity is losing a war against cartoon characters that whiff grenade throws and run away at the first sign of trouble
What good is winning ground battles when the Covenant can just melt human planets from orbit with their superior fleets?
>and she even hacks the Covenant battle net, yet they don't extract this invaluable piece of information for some reason
She's reading the Fleet of Particular Justice's comms, and they obviously weren't telling each other "HEY, OUR HOME FLEET IS BASED IN HIGH CHARITY WHICH IS CURRENTLY LOCATED IN XYZ" on the radio 24/7
>they don't datamine his neural implant chip to get that info
Holy shit, the location of Earth is not part of his neural implants due to the Cole Protocol!
>which is something they didn't think to until the very end of the game for some reason
??????? They kidnapped Captain Keyes ON the Pillar of Autumn by the 2nd level.
>evading orbital bombardment from them in level 8 amidst all the chaos would've made things actually interesting
Why would the Covenant vandalise the sacred rings? It's literally the point of their religion.
>Why didn't Chief and Cortana simply suggest to Guilty Spark that nuking Halo instead of the universe would be a far better solution to contain the Flood
Because he's a robot following containment protocols, which necessarily involves keeping the Halo rings in existence so that the Flood don't consume the galaxy again.

>>12762412
>I didn't compare it to any other game in any of my posts
Ctrl + F "generic", you stupid cunt. How is "generic" not literally comparing it to dozens of other games?

>>12763374
This post gapes OP's halfwitted and pessimistic arguments

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>>12763314
Halo 2 definitely needs work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQMqU7pWiTU

>>12763372
The PC port adds weapons that you can't use in the campaign even though beta builds of Halo show that you were meant to have the shotgun on the very first level, and the flamethrower in the Flood level. It's not arbitrary.
>What do you mean "bother holding onto anything anymore"?
God forbid I save ammo from the fucking sniper rifle I carried throughout level 3 hoping to use it on level 4 where enemies can be seen from 50 miles away on open ground. Very fucking unreasonable on my part to want to keep a specific arsenal.
>>12763380
It generic in any media. "Aliens attacking humans" is as old as War of the Worlds, if not older.

>>12763409
>The PC port adds weapons that you can't use in the campaign

Because they were scrapped for a reason.

>even though beta builds of Halo show that you were meant to have the shotgun on the very first level, and the flamethrower in the Flood level. It's not arbitrary.

Shotgun was always intended for the flood. Flamethrower was intended for Level 9 Keyes.

>>12762379
The 2003 PC Port is a botched port.
You didn't play the game.

>>12763409
>The PC port adds weapons that you can't use in the campaign
Why is the campaign retroactively bad because a later version of Halo added some new guns to the deathmatch component? Would the Fuel Rod and Flamethrower in the campaign have saved the game for you? How would you rebalance every encounter around them?
>even though beta builds of Halo show that you were meant to have the shotgun on the very first level
And they wisely chose to move the Shotgun to the back half of the game. What do you hope to achieve by citing beta builds? What do you think an idea being scrapped proves other than that there was a good reason to dispense with it, thus undermining your own argument?
>>12763409
>It generic in any media
So the aliens in War of the Worlds worship ancient humans?

>>12763409
>God forbid I save ammo from the fucking sniper rifle I carried throughout level 3 hoping to use it on level 4 where enemies can be seen from 50 miles away on open ground. Very fucking unreasonable on my part to want to keep a specific arsenal.
Yes, it is unreasonable. Level 4 wouldn't be fun if you had a sniper rifle, and Level 3 gives you plenty of sniper ammo. Use your fucking guns instead of being anally retentive. Again, would your preferred strategy have been to just use the same 2 weapons the entire game??

>>12763421
>Flamethrower

If memory serves, the flamethrower was meant to be included in the "Keyes" mission because the original level design featured a segment where Chief had to locate a flamethrower to burn Captain Keyes' neural implant out of his partially-assimilated Flood head. This was cut when one of the Bungie employees responsible for designing the level art said that burned skulls look far took disturbing. Robert McLees had to search what a burned skull looked like and recreate it in the game

Gearbox actually had to make custom animations for the PC port of Halo because Bungie removed them from the retail release of Halo on the Xbox.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38b2kiGztOI

>>12763374
Homeworld, Planet of the Apes, Warhammer and everything it satirizes just to name a few with religious beliefs. A real unique concept would be Star Trek, which is a setting where wars are NOT fought over religion.
How are they going to board a Covenant ship to steal information from it with inferior weapons technology for their troops, you imbecile?
Fleet of Particular Justice's comms are unrelated to the Covenant not scouring the Autumn's data since they captured Keyes from there, and were stationed there during the entire game. They were chasing that ship through fucking hyperspace, it's at the very least an important objective. And yet it's Guilty Spark of all people who starts stealing info from it at the end of the game.
The Cole Protocol instructs fleets not to flee towards Earth, and that any ship or key personnel that gets captured needs to self-destruct to prevent that info from being found.
The Covenant has been desecrating Halo throughout the game going as far as deploying tanks, breaking into Flood facilities, tampering with Halo's technology and leaving Communication Nodes lying about everywhere.
Guilty Spark abandons protocol at the final level to datamine the Autumn. And there's no reason nuking Halo wouldn't be an option given the objective.
>media literacy
Back to r*ddit, retard.

>>12763440
>The Covenant has been desecrating Halo throughout the game going as far as deploying tanks
Because of the demon, dumbass. They're not going to orbital strike Halo because of whataboutism.

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>>12763440
>with religious beliefs
You didn't answer the question. How many generic aliens in media kill you due to their religious beliefs, not knowing that the gods they worship are actually ancient humans?
>Back to r*ddit, retard.
Reddit was founded on June 23, 2005.

>>12763421
>Why is the campaign retroactively bad because a later version of Halo added some new guns to the deathmatch component? Would the Fuel Rod and Flamethrower in the campaign have saved the game for you? How would you rebalance every encounter around them?
You're not seriously implying that a flamethrower would throw the entire game balancing out of whack, are you? The game where the plasma pistol exists?
>Citing beta builds
Because their content was added back to the fucking retail PC release?
>So the aliens in War of the Worlds
Show up and start killing humans en masse, yes.
>>12763427
>Would your preferred strategy have been to just use the same 2 weapons the entire game?
Yes. Player agency is good. What's your issue with it?

>>12763442
>Because of the demon
Sounds like a very good reason to do it, since they let the Autumn crash into Halo instead of nuking it in space so it wouldn't damage their so-called holy site.
>>12763443
>You didn't answer the question
I just pointed out three major examples of aliens warring against humans over religion. "The gods they worship" falls into that category as a detail of said religion and you're grasping at straws.
>R*ddit was founded on June 23, 2005
You sure know your history.

>>12763450
>you're grasping at straws
How is Halo being a poetically ironic story about the power of a lie grasping at straws, and how is this thematically identical to War of the Worlds or Planet of the Apes?
>You sure know your history.
?????
YOU'RE the one making the accusation. YOU should be the one who knows what you're fucking talking about.

>>12763446
>You're not seriously implying that a flamethrower would throw the entire game balancing out of whack, are you?
Adding literally anything to literally any game requires consideration, yes.
>Because their content was added back to the fucking retail PC release?
So a third-party ports the game to PC, adds 2 guns to the deathmatch mode, and this RETROACTIVELY makes the campaign bad? Despite the fact you're not even reviewing the fucking deathmatch component?
>Show up and start killing humans en masse, yes.
What's stopping you from collapsing every single action game in existence to "there are opponents who intend to defeat you" and decrying them for this generic premise?
>Yes. Player agency is good.
Then use your beloved Plasma Pistol, found in every level.

>>12762996
People who shit on MCC are retarded. Quite literally a flawless port.

>>12763440
>How are they going to board a Covenant ship to steal information from it with inferior weapons technology for their troops, you imbecile?
Better planning and/or better doctrine. How did Russia beat Germany with inferior weapons technology for their troops? Better planning and better doctrine. Like, the entire point of Halo CE is that you're fighting a guerilla campaign; there's never a point in the game where a frontline is being pushed and supply lines are being secured.
>Fleet of Particular Justice's comms are unrelated to the Covenant not scouring the Autumn's data since they captured Keyes from there, and were stationed there during the entire game
THE COLE PROTOCOL DICTATES THAT THE EARTH'S LOCATION SHALL NOT BE STORED ON A SHIP'S MAINFRAMES.
>The Cole Protocol instructs fleets not to flee towards Earth, and that any ship or key personnel that gets captured needs to self-destruct to prevent that info from being found
Any navigational data was stored on Cortana, and the ship was effectively destroyed in the crash landing. You could argue he bent the Cole Protocol by not detonating it in orbit, but Keyes wouldn't be the first nor the last person to. In my view, he already did everything he had to in the spirit of the Cole Protocol when the Autumn fled Reach and when Cortana evacuated from the ship, so at this point his objective was to ensure the survival of the human resistance.

>>12762402
Covenant chase the Great Journey, fire Halo without knowing it kills everything. Humans just stand in the way.
Did you even put attention on what was happening?

>>12763496
>Quite literally a flawless port
Halo 1 in MCC still has sound issues; I think there's a limited number of sound channels.

i just beat Halo 1 on the MCC on Xbox One yesterday...

Save system is pretty fucked, enemy AI is trash, at certain pooints the enemy spawn is absolutely ridiculous, but everytime ws manageable because i could understand its an early Xbox-PS2 gen release...

However, that final mission, where you have to drive the jeep to escape Halo... whoever decided that it was mandatory to play a driving evel with such absolute shit driving mechanics should have never ever work on videogame production again... i truly hope they got blacklisted and ridiculed.

>>12763471
>How is Halo being a poetically ironic story about the power of a lie grasping at straws
Because even Star Wars does that.
Also, the "lie" is only explained in a sequel that came out 3 years later. This is the Covenant summarized by CE until Halo 2.
>>12763479
>Adding literally anything to literally any game requires consideration
And after consideration, it was brought back either way. The flamethrower even has unique code that would make it work differently in the campaign version compared to the multiplayer version for balancing purposes as well.
>this RETROACTIVELY makes the campaign bad?
Would've made it more fun. It's a missed opportunity to leave out things exclusive to one gamemode. Don't tell me this never bothered you in any game ever.
>What's stopping you from collapsing every single action game in existence to "there are opponents who intend to defeat you" and decrying them for this generic premise?
Because that's as retarded as collaping every single action game in existence to "a fight happens", which is a false argument you're trying to create. In Halo, a fight happens because aliens suddenly showed up and started attacking. That's as far as it goes, and it's not a unique premise. It could've been aliens getting roped into the fight, or being forced to fight over something humanity also needs, but a war-inclined belief system is not unique.

>>12763506
>Because even Star Wars does that
What's the poetic irony in Star Wars?
>the "lie" is only explained in a sequel that came out 3 years later
???? It was obvious even in Halo 1 that the Forerunners were human.
>And after consideration, it was brought back either way
Into the multiplayer, which you aren't reviewing.
>Don't tell me this never bothered you in any game ever
I have never felt molested by the lack of a flamethrower in Halo.
>which is a false argument you're trying to create
You're making the false argument that Halo is simply "aliens suddenly showed up and started attacking".

>>12763524
>Into the multiplayer, which you aren't reviewing
By Gearbox, I might add; not Bungie.

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>>12763505
>However, that final mission, where you have to drive the jeep to escape Halo... whoever decided that it was mandatory to play a driving evel with such absolute shit driving mechanics should have never ever work on videogame production again... i truly hope they got blacklisted and ridiculed.

Tyson Green designed The Maw

>>12763501
>How did Russia beat Germany with inferior weapons technology for their troops?
American weapons, vehicles, tools, factories and knowhow (look it up). Also more bodies than the Germans had bullets. Also Germany losing the war to heavy snow.
>THE COLE PROTOCOL DICTATES THAT THE EARTH'S LOCATION SHALL NOT BE STORED ON A SHIP'S MAINFRAMES
Why does it need to be scuttled by the protocol, then?
>>12763524
>What's the poetic irony in Star Wars?
Don't blindly trust religious dogma because it might be only half of the full picture, as it will even be upheld with lies. That's the concept of the light and dark sides.
>Into the multiplayer
The point was that it could've been in singleplayer. By the way, pray tell how the balancing of a game's singleplayer mode is at stake by adding new weapons, but its MULTIPLAYER balancing isn't?
>You're making the false argument that Halo is simply "aliens suddenly showed up and started attacking".
You're telling me this didn't happen down to the letter in the game? I can read the manual for you if you'd like.

>>12762403
>Cortana fucking knew and didn't tell Chief anything BEFORE sending him away to the Flood facility
She did not. Stopped reading the rest of your post.

>>12763505
I agree. Fuck The Maw. I'd rather play The Library for 10 hours than do that shitty warthog run once. Awful level.

>>12763541
>American weapons, vehicles, tools, factories and knowhow (look it up).
How many of those came before the Germans were stalled during Barbarossa?
>Why does it need to be scuttled by the protocol, then?
Denying assets to the enemy
>Don't blindly trust religious dogma because it might be only half of the full picture, as it will even be upheld with lies. That's the concept of the light and dark sides.
Star Wars is basically the most obviously black and white story in cinema, lmao. The Sith are unambiguously the bad guys and total rejection of their doctrine is portrayed as the platonic ideal of righteousness. And how is that even remotely poetic irony?
>By the way, pray tell how the balancing of a game's singleplayer mode is at stake by adding new weapons, but its MULTIPLAYER balancing isn't?
Of course the multiplayer balancing is at stake; nobody said it wasn't.
>You're telling me this didn't happen down to the letter in the game?
Halo's story has the poetic irony of the Covenant unknowingly worshipping humans, it has really good worldbuilding that's very well thought out and distinct from other sci-fi, it also has the fucking Forerunners and Flood. So I do think there is a little bit more meat to Halo's story than "the Covenant are trying to kill you".

>>12763550
Yes she did.
>"The Forerunners built what they called a 'fortress world' in order to... no, that can't be."
She discovers what Halo really is.
>"Oh, those Covenant fools, they must have known, there must have been signs! The Covenant found something, buried in this ring, something horrible, and now... they're afraid. The Captain, we've got to stop the Captain!"
She discovers why Halo is a weapon.
Cortana: "The weapons cache he's looking for. It's not really- We can't let him get inside! There's no time. Get out of here, find Keyes, stop him! Before it's too late!"
She discovers information about the flood.

Do not imply that she didn't, because the Forerunners built this fucking ring to exterminate the entire galaxy as a means to stopping the Flood. This information would be readily available on Halo's goddamn control room.

>>12763570
Dumbass. She discovers a quarantine of Flood and that the Covenant and Keyes are both after this "weapons cache" that's actually the unlocking mechanism that lets the flood out.
She doesn't know, at this point, that the design of Halo is to actually eradicate all life in range of the rings.

>>12763570
Nope.
>>12763572
Dingding

>>12762379
>heroic

Come here to brag after you beat it solo on legendary

>>12763570
English comprehension final boss

>>12763560
>How many of those came before the Germans were stalled during Barbarossa?
You mean the one where the Russians only stopped the Germans by September 1941 when American gear was finally arriving?
>Denying assets to the enemy
Literally nothing the UNSC has is useful to the Covenant. They destroyed Reach in a single assault. Unless, of course, the ship has vital information aboard.
>it has really good worldbuilding
*found in the sequels and books
>>12763572
>>12763576
>>12763582
Autism so severe that you don't believe it unless it's spelled out to you by the game. "The details were always there" suddenly doesn't count eh, retards?

>>12763556
it completely ruined my experience of the game, it could be pretty much the worst final lever ive ever seen in a videogame, ive been thinking about it and theres no other ending i can remember that was such a piece of shit, and to end the game like that? i dont see how this game was so praised and made gen xers piss and shit their pants... unless that was solely because of the multiplayer.

Absolute horrible level, it caused my review of the game to drop from 3 out of 5 stars, to 1 out of 5 stars.

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>>12763587
Shhhhh.

>>12763592
Yes, run away. That's what you're good at.

>>12763587
>when American gear was finally arriving?
Do you honestly think Germany were suddenly stalled because of American guns (but managed to wage war for another 3.5 years), or because of logistics?
>Literally nothing the UNSC has is useful to the Covenant
If this is what you believe, then why are you condemning Keyes for not self-destructing the Autumn in orbit when any navigational data was already moved to Cortana?
>*found in the sequels and books
Nope. Halo 1 has plenty of worldbuilding.
>Autism so severe that you don't believe it unless it's spelled out to you by the game. "The details were always there" suddenly doesn't count eh, retards?
Wat. You are making a lot of assumptions, and calling us retarded for being able to acknowledge that these are assumptions.

>>12763505
same. goes on forever, too. what the fuck were they thinking

>>12763595
>Do you honestly think Germany were suddenly stalled because of American guns (but managed to wage war for another 3.5 years), or because of logistics?
Take a look at the casualties on both sides and tell me who had the tactics and who had the bodies. Mind you, one of the sides was fighting 3 other nations at the same time.
>then why are you condemning Keyes for not self-destructing the Autumn
He very much should have after he landed, because the Covenant were coming to get him.
>You are making a lot of assumptions
From paying attention to the dialogue? Should I wait for Cortana to explain what the Flood is in a musical for it to be confirmed? Jesus.

>>12763605
>Mind you, one of the sides was fighting 3 other nations at the same time
LMAO how many forces did Germany commit to Africa, the only other active theatre until the invasion of Sicily?
>because the Covenant were coming to get him
Him or the Autumn?
>From paying attention to the dialogue?
You had several other people paying attention to the dialog, explaining to you that what you are INFERRING about the timeline of Cortana's analysis is not evidence of a plothole, because these people have also inferred a completely reasonable timeline where it is not a plothole.

>>12763623
>LMAO how many forces did Germany commit to Africa, the only other active theatre until the invasion of Sicily?
...Are you pretending that the Western Front wasn't happening?
>Him or the Autumn?
Both.
>You had several other people
You and another guy, acting dumb in defense of shoddy writing.

>>12763645
Three guys called out your blatant retardation, and your doubling down is just proof that you're arguing in bad faith to pass time on a retro enthusiast's board so most of us are done humoring you

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>>12763645
>...Are you pretending that the Western Front wasn't happening?
Picrel
>>12763645
>acting dumb in defense of shoddy writing
Occam's Razor would tell you that the inference purported to be a plothole is likely to be an incorrect inference.

The worst part about halo is there was a TV show made of it and they made Captain Keyes a nigger.

I played the halo campaign on my OG Xbox. I set it to normal difficulty and basically just ran through. Nothing about the campaign really struck me as spectacular. I went back to my other xbox games and halo sat dormant for a while.
It wasnt until I started to play multiplayer with my friends who also had xbox that I began to understand the significance of halo CE. The game improves greatly when played with friends. Co-op was great. TDM and other game muliplater modes were fun. A couple times we even hooked up as 4-way xbox lan party. That was an impressive sight. We had time hump our heavy CRT TVs into our buddies living room and hooking all up. We didnt do this that often.
Later, if we only had one console, everyone i knew would want to play legendary co-op. We'd get shit faced drunk and attempt to play legendary. Good times.. the game is significant. Somehow halo 2 didnt get the same attention from us. We all still had it though. But then halo 3 on x360 came out. That was another big one. We did it all again. We'd get shitfaced again and play halo but this time also on our Xbox live accounts. By then we all began to have these newfangled flat panel TVs. This was the greatest time for halo.. its never been that good since. The later halo games never really hit as good as halo 3 and its predecessors. Also, later on many of us started to get older and didnt game together like we used to.

>>12762809
Meds. Now.

>>12763438
Love the way Chief just floats with the flamethrower like some goofy robot.

Best shooter of that generation

Thx

>>12764367
Yep this

>>12763314
cleaner visuals are better.

>>12762809
Stop nooticing

>>12763503
>that awful hum that constantly plays during the ending cutscene
absolutely pathetic they never fixed this after 12 years

>>12767887
Halo 2 co-op is still fucked too. Still desyncs randomly on specific levels.

OP is a faggot.

Why the fuck would anyone read and engage with this great wall of text from some scrub child who only just now played CE.

>>12762379
>Halo CE (2003 PC port)
I played that shit in 2000's too, as a kid.
However, at this point I just play MCC and with mods, something like Ruby's rebalanced, to give more life to the campaign.

>>12762395
>Human weapons are weak against Sentinels even when they have no shields, but alien weapons are still very effective, so what's the point of the whole "use certain weapons for certain situations" aspect of the gunplay?
You literally just described the whole "use certain weapons for certain situations" aspect of the gunplay
imagine getting filtered by Halo on Heroic

>>12763556
>>12763589
The final warthog run was one of my favorite parts of the campaign. It’s one of the few things I remember.

>>12762395
>don't want to play THE console FPS with a controller so you play the second worst way to play the game

Anon you genuinely retarded

>>12763496
the MCC versions are still inferior to the original releases

>>12762806
>he didn't play marathon before Halo CE
tsk tsk

>>12768952
There were far better games to play when it came out, and since it came out.

>>12769701
>use certain weapons for certain situations
Plasma guns for shields, lead guns when shields are gone, but plasma guns are good against everything.

>>12769901
Each weapon has a purpose, even if it's a gimmicky (fun) gun like the Needler. Plasma weapons are good for Shield stripping and also just have good DPS in general but require more shot leading than the Magnum or Sniper, and the Assault Rifle can stunlock weaker enemies for a good grenade throw.

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>I would add that the prerequisites for building a team like Halo-era Bungie (ie freedom to explore, risk of failure, lack of corporate interference, external demands on studio resources, stable leadership, merit-based hiring, etc) do NOT exist at MS and have not for a decade. Bill Gates did not have the understanding, interest or capacity to interfere with Halo’s development and we got away with a lot that would never be allowed now. So even if the team could somehow be recreated, it would immediately be crushed to death by the leviathan.

>MS had no part in the narrative, lore, gameplay, art direction, acting, music, multiplayer, or any other aspect of the game design. They demanded the Combat Evolved subtitle

>Honestly, the reason I moved on from the franchise after Halo 3 was because I had no idea where it should go next, either. The story was told. The gameplay was perfected. (As in completely realized, not flawless.) The concepts had been explored. Time to drift off into the sunset.

>I was the second person on Destiny after Jones. I did Pre-Pro for 4 years but apparently I wanted to make it too different from Halo…

>Zelda is a brand new game at least every generation. Total freedom from canon and convention. It’s awesome.

>Reach was a fun denouement, but not a template for a new trilogy. It was foolish to try to make Halo -the- tentpole game going forward.

>>just going off what Eric Trautmann has personally said. According to him he had to withhold his work on CE game dialogue he wrote in the 11th hour because Bungie tried to back out of an agreement to approve a book deal for Eric Nylund’s novel

>That’s genuinely insane. He wrote a handful of lines for the first few missions that we recorded and then I mostly didn’t use. I’m pretty sure “this is not a natural formation” was his.

>>12762428
343 Guilty Spark is like the only original level in the game

>>12762848
always thought it was cringe how the game sucks off chief right from the start along with the ZOG as fuck plot. marathon mogged it.

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>>12762848
>Other cutscenes in the game also can't be skipped

>>12770543
did we play a completely different game?

>>12763496
Lmao no, I just replayed on xbox after on MCC and the music, level triggers and enemy AI are so busted in MCC. The final run to the longsword is literally broken on the Maw on MCC. In CE the elites and flood fight each other as you run to it, in MCC they all aggro on you. Ruining the ending

>>12769894
What an insipid empty argument based on an emotional reaction to a 20 year old video game