I feel like they could have kept the weapon properties from CE all the way up to 3 and beyond, especially the Plasma stun and the overcharged shot chipping away health.
This gets posted in every Halo thread, and it's just as moronic every time. If you think Halo is "baby's first FPS" in the year of our lord 2024, when Fortnite has been out for 7 years now, you're just plain sub-70 IQ.
You're clearly missing the point, it's posted in modern parlance to dispel the notion that Halo was ever some hardcore FPS that got ruined by its sequels when it has always been seen as casual shit.
It's an fps for people who aren't gun autists and militards. It has more gameplay variety than any fps you've ever played, barring Garry's Mod for obvious reasons. The huge custom game lobbies you'd get invited to back in the day were absolute peak online multiplayer. Sorry you missed out, buddy.
Half are zoom zooms that were too young to experience it, so they flame it.
They other half were too busy playing Kingdom Hearts on their Gaystation, so they missed out.
>People who play the game I don't like are... LE REDDITORS!!
Of all the games I've played, Halo probably has some of the least toxic players. They make fun as frick custom games, and some good BTB and infection lobbies. League easily has a playerbase that's 1000x more AIDS. COD is much worse, just within FPSs.
And the funny thing is they're still seething about it despite the series' death and the revival of said arena shooters in the form of boomer shooters.
It's good. It's not poorly disguised anime porn.
Also 343 Halo is garbage and Infinite can barely keep its face above the water because Firefight and AI in Forge are the only things supporting it.
Casual console game that ultimately dumbed down the genre. Just like CoD. This board looking at it favorably much less people genuinely thinking it's one of the greatest FPS games is a clear sign of Ganker's decline like Naruto threads on Ganker.
Feels like playing an FPS in slow motion if you played anything before it. Aside from a couple good ones most of the level design is copy paste filler.
Overrated series that's only popular because it was a lot of peoples first game/first multiplayer game.
Halo 4 is a buggy pos the audio started cutting out on important cutscenes and the entire ground textures disappeared in this one level making it unplayable. They should've stopped at 3.
Halo 2 is more fun than 3.
Droppable items, or whatever the frick they were called, just made the game less fun because now every interaction with an opponent was determined by whether they happened to have an invisible get-out-of-jail-free card in their pocket.
No, I don't give a shit about whether 3 was more balanced either. If you were talking about balance in a console shooter in 2007 you would have just been called a homosexual for not playing CS.
I didn't like 2 multi all that much because of how OP the fricking br was, ce was better because the weapon you started with wasn't better than anything you could pick up barring power weapons (and those only barely)
Maybe once every 6-8 months I'll play match of Infinite, because I'm waxing nostalgic for the feeling of playing the "current" Halo game.
I play that one match, am reminded how shit the game and whole progression system is, lament how such a beloved franchise could fall so far, then exit the game.
that's me but last year. I genuinely stopped playing it completely now. I don't even load up mcc for a match of h3/reach btb anymore because the only people left playing are hyper sweat teams and it just feels unfun... rip
I've actually been able to find a lot of good H3 BTB matches lately, the people playing aren't even super sweaty. Had few games of big team heavies on Valhalla that felt vaguely reminiscent of the glory days.
I actually genuinely thought Halo 3 was kind of a weak conclusion to the original trilogy, but I have to say that scene with Arby and the Chief was the most hype thing ever and I'm disappointed it's so difficult for other games to pull that shit off.
All that money and it still looks worse than the H2A cutscenes.
That entire area they're fighting in and around is in the environmental equivalent of the uncanny valley as well. It looks so ass. Like they filmed it on someone's yard, added a few props, and then rotoscoped some generic landscape in the background.
Alright there's a lot to complain about the show, but 117 always talked. He was a man of few words, and not one to constantly quip during gameplay, but he did talk. He talks too much in the show though. Basically not even the same character.
It's not a coincidence that the flood levels are considered the worst. I enjoy them a lot but they can't carry a level by themselves. They are at their best when they are thrown in as a third of fourth faction. 343 Guilty spark is the only level i consider to be great because of the flood. That and Floodgate if it wasn't for the ranged forms.
Kino, spent alot of time when I was younger playing through the campaign and messing around with my brothers on forge. Shame I missed out on the online
can't you only carry 2 guns in these games?
I played one a few years back and some army guy called me 'Big Green' and I cringed so hard I turned it off. gayest fricking thing I've played in a long time
Kek I love how hard they tried to retcon that shit for nuHalo. Cortana definitely isn't naked because a bunch of nerds were horny in 1999 when they designed her model.
>Standing literal inches away from an energy sword fight, not flinching or acknowledging anything that's happening
Very cool and not suspension-of-disbelief breaking.
It actually is too. Like, nothing is close. No, reach didn't hit that same high note. Customizable, so easy to socialize, super competitive, super fun with custom games, in game chat lobbies that are uncensored, community events, physics engine that can do all sorts of creative stuff. Complete quality. Shareable pictures and videos and stuff too. Absolute gem.
Man, everything that was made before Halo Wars 2 was released was beyond stupid.
People are never going to forgive Black Team's write off and much less The Rookie's send off. >It's realistic
Yeah, but a grand sacrifice of final effort against some stupidly larger odd would have sold more, instead New Blood is seen as the book that "as long as I don't read it, the Rookie is still alive/retired".
Killing the player's mute self-insert in a literal who book is a crime that can't be fully forgiven and needs to be retconned. Halo stands zero chance until this is rectified because it's the one thing that would show true humility from 343.
I believe the Rookie could have definitely worked out better had he died in Halo 4 or 5, especially at the end of 5.
Would have made much more sense that he would have been the one stopping Cortana kidnapping Blue Team forever but at the expense of his life. Bonus points if instead of just destroying "a ball that was important" for the jump, The Rookie instead destroyed the ball, messing the portal coords and slipspaced himself to stop the Cryptum slipspace jump of Blue Team. Effectively going "feet first into hell" (slipspace itself) one last time.
Or he could have perfectly taken the place of Horvath in INFINITE.
The one that was actually disposable is Dutch's wife, she should have died against the rebels. It was weird that Dutch got so depressed seeing the Rookie die considering many more of his actual well known companions died on Mombasa when the drop failed (the ones that landed in the carrier) but for some reason the Rookie actually hit him like a truck, which makes me think he got swapped for Gretchel last-second in that story in order to silently off him because 343i back then was even more moronic than now (less moronic).
Think about it, Gretchel dying explains even better a complete team fallout than just the Rookie dying. Suddenly Mickey's failure killed his fellow soldier's wife, Dare and Buck see a marriage fall apart instantly and Romeo the womanizer who never settled down and feels invincible sees two people who were actually well established be irreparably separated by life, the complete divison of the team makes more sense that way other than "welp, the mute died, we sad, we split, and Mickey somehow is finallly going to question why he is doing everything even more so than he did now".
Because he was the lowest class most recent addition to their corps they had on-board, dude was forced to go into ODST training after he ran uphill and then down the opposite side of a mountain nonstop to avoid a nuke and effectively became the only survivor there. Command practically told him to go into ODST training or get fricked by regular frontline duty so he accepted and finished just in time to be added into the ODST compartment of the UNSC Say My Name, a Marathon class cruiser, which is just an inferior PoA.
So the dude was a Rookie compared to everyone else who had been into the corps for a few years already doing drops and equally challenging ops often.
And yet, he outlived almost everyone in the compartment by blending into the darkness, which is intended because the guy was born in Luna (the moon), cue his theme, Deference for Darkness, a liking for the obscure and the shadows which is how canonically his open-progression segments go.
Also, kinda weird that they have not used the excuse of him suffering from that trauma that turns soldiers mute excuse for his borderline no noise attitude, you would think they would burn that token for brownie points and to make more sense of why he's mute. Instead he's just mute because Dutch told him to be the strong silent type, not bad advice.
If you think getting jackal sniper'd to frick and back, shitty boss fights, and that awful cliffhanger ending was better than the masterclass that was H3 I diagnose you with sub-70 IQ.
Reach is better because it has no flood. Frick the flood nobody likes that shit. L4D understood that to make zombies interesting you need exceptionally strong unique zombies with different abilities among the horde of mindless zombies. The flood are just mindless zombies without any points of interest.
Bladed weapons had a weird token or tag for extra frick you damage against Flood. Against anything else it did between 5 to 15 extra points of damage which is nothing and doesn't make a real difference.
Also, every single Pure form took massive amounts of damage if you shot or meleed's their mouths.
This is why sometimes Tank Forms survive SPNKr hits directly to the center mass but if you hit their mouths, they kneel and die or get sent flying away.
You can even kill them with Assault Rifles ez as long as you targe the mouth, it even stuns them which can give window for a melee albeit risky in heroic and legendary because their melee can oneshot (certain death in Legendary) at that difficulty sometimes.
Why couldn't i run in Halo when i could in DOOM?
that was always stupid
Lmao, consolehomosexuals were playing slow motion automated matchmaking homosexualry while everyone with a good PC was playing normal (read: BETTER) arena shooters.
You will never experience the joy of 4-player couch co-op, or playing garbage man or fat kid with a group of friends in a weekend night custom lobby. I'd be mad too.
>Literally who cares?
You do apparently. I'm sure the millions of people playing did too. >Still had better shooters with better servers and better multiplayer.
Negative. >Even Halo doesn’t give a frick about couch co op
He thinks 343 nuHalo = Halo 3. Cute.
I did experience exactly that, i just hate that the original trilogy didn't let me move fast.
WHICH, i do want a genuine answer as to why they did that
People b***hed endlessly, and continue to b***h to this very day, that they added sprint to Halo.
I always thought sprint was gay because it just allows people a get-out-of-jail-free for bad positioning, and makes rushing power weapons/positions even more sweaty and annoying.
I like more the original approach Infinite had with it. Before the movement tuning. >There's a 10% increase of speed when sprinting >It's entirely plausible to play the game without moving like a spaz >However, sprinting gives you access to the mobility options with sliding. >At the beginning of the game, it was 100% possible to use either of both playstyles or a mix of both >Now sprint speed has been slightly increased and sliding has been buffed, mind you, because of gameplay flow it is still possible to go the usual no running way and still be good. >Main problem?, clambering being pushed in every single map, jumping into other areas is practically dead because they increased the height of new maps so clambering is needed, that means sacrificing momentum for elevation and positioning.
Sprint ruins map design (elongation everywhere), weapon sandbox/balancing (everything needs more range and accuracy. This also reduces close quarters effectiveness), and gameplay pacing (running away, stop/start gameplay that doesn't feel smooth).
Ruin your entire game just so you can appease CoD kids who will just go back to playing CoD after playing Halo for a week after release at most.
I still believe it can work but with the aforementioned only 10% speed increase and not particularly extended slide, clambering is OK, people always complained about missing their jumps.
It's just that the options don't need to dictate the game, they should be there for compensating innate flaws of mobility, not become THE mobility.
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Anonymous
I'd only accept it if there's no sprint button at all and moving forward is a tiny bit faster than moving in other directions. I'm pretty sure CE is like this. Despite its flaws, I really do appreciate that game more as time goes on.
1 month ago
Anonymous
Hm... Yeah, the quake way of mobility ramping up could work in Halo albeit not so turbo charged because otherwise the game would look like Reach's 400% speed sniper customs.
I agree. It completely fricks map design. Can you imagine playing a map like Chillout/Cold Storage or Lockout with everyone having sprint?
Also makes them have to buff precision weapon and melee weapons considerably. Hence the gravity hammer's killbox practically doubling from H3 to H5.
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Anonymous
There's video of that.
Back when Halo Online and then ElDewrito was a thing that was a reality.
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Anonymous
It's also why strafe acceleration is on crack in Infinite, and then that bleeds into aim assist and why it was such a huge problem for more than a year before it was fixed. It totally breaks Halo and I hope whoever forced it loses every that cent Halo made them.
If I remember right, aim assist is still jank because it's tied directly to framerate or something like that.
Because the core gameplay was designed for normalgays on controllers playing at 30fps max with vsync hooked up to a shitty TV. Like, did you really need this explained to you?
Lmao, consolehomosexuals were playing slow motion automated matchmaking homosexualry while everyone with a good PC was playing normal (read: BETTER) arena shooters.
3 had shit writing but everything else was pure KINO.
The only game that dethroned it was Reach (by mutual destruction) and not even 3 CoD games straight could take it down.
The gameplay for 3 was great so i could overlook it, but, you only really feel like something is happening when you get to the Ark. The first four levels are just getting to an AA gun and destroying it. The ark and the covenant are the best levels in the series IMO, it's a shame they cut that guardian map in the woods where you release the sentinels to join the space battle. Would have been kino.
I have always like Doom. I have always liked Quake. I have always like CS. I have always like HL. I have always liked COD. I have always liked Halo. etc etc.
If you have a specific dislike of Halo, you are probably not a true FPS enjoyer.
Considering Halo is an amalgam of and improvement on every FPS that came before if, yeah you're probably not a true fan of the genre if you have a hate boner for it. A contrarian quakegay at best.
i used to be a "baby's first fps" gay before I played halo1 and 2 on pc and I understood what genuinely good game they are
really just pc games that happened to come out on consoles for money reasons
They could just have said that the Arbiter couldn't return to Sanghelios for some other weird reason and have him come back indefinitely but nah, they had to play the Star Wars comics route and try to expand the universe at the expense of the most well known part of the IP, the videogames.
I bet Requiem would have kicked extra ass with Elite frens helping against Sentinels (cut) and Prometheans.
Instead... suddenly, it was like the end of Halo 3 was almost for naught.
At least there's hope that even if they aren't playable, Halo 7 might have friendly ex-Covie species on our side.
That's what... the extended lore implies is going to happen.
Halo 7 might be beyond screwed.
I keep thinking about how huge Forge AI would have been if It was in Halo 3. How many custom game types and variants have we missed out on? I understand the 360 wasn't powerful enough for it, but the "what if" has been nagging me a bit lately.
It probably would have sucked ass. Generative AI can only barely make serviceable text blurbs or 2D images. It is woefully unprepared to make something like complex 3D maps and games modes, with the objective of being fun for countless people to play on. That is better left to human hands.
I'm talking about the AI you can place and script in Forge in Infinite. People have already made decent, but short amateur campaign levels. I can't wrap my head around it Halo 5/Infinite Forge and I'm not creative at all so I haven't made anything substantial myself.
I've been playing some mobile game shooters that don't have health regen and very poor aim assist among other tweaks and I gotta say it's a very interesting experience, nothing is free anymore.
halo 1 and 2 are better tho
Halo 3 had better everything. Campaign, co-op, multiplayer, custom games, file share, theater, forge, yada, yada.
>halo 1
No.
>halo 2
Maybe.
CE, absolutely. 2? Frick no.
any halo game with the flood cant be above a 8/10
and thats a fact
if you reply you are coping and seething.
if you end your post with a logical fallacy, your opinion is extremely weak
thanks for proving my point 🙂
enjoy your 8/10 games anon 🙂
>t. 343 dev
2 was improved upon in every way with 3.
I feel like they could have kept the weapon properties from CE all the way up to 3 and beyond, especially the Plasma stun and the overcharged shot chipping away health.
Most based OP on this board. This was the peak of video gaming
you'd think the best first-person shooter of all time would be better than the game it's a sequel to. Huh.
Halo 1 and 2 where third person shooters
What is it about Halo that makes Ganker seethe?
Halo 3 is a video game
Ganker hates video games
Some of us are over the age of 21.
This gets posted in every Halo thread, and it's just as moronic every time. If you think Halo is "baby's first FPS" in the year of our lord 2024, when Fortnite has been out for 7 years now, you're just plain sub-70 IQ.
You're clearly missing the point, it's posted in modern parlance to dispel the notion that Halo was ever some hardcore FPS that got ruined by its sequels when it has always been seen as casual shit.
I have never once seen this image used in that context.
Why on Earth would someone post a CE image to critique modern Halo?
>people who were 12 when ce came out are 35 now
>Spending hours on the Halo PC port just playing demolition derby and no shield CTF snipes on Blood Gulch
Halo 3 is closer to its 20 year anniversary than it's 10-year anniversary
Halo 4 has been out for over a decade
It's an fps for people who aren't gun autists and militards. It has more gameplay variety than any fps you've ever played, barring Garry's Mod for obvious reasons. The huge custom game lobbies you'd get invited to back in the day were absolute peak online multiplayer. Sorry you missed out, buddy.
>It has more gameplay variety than any fps you've ever played
Half are zoom zooms that were too young to experience it, so they flame it.
They other half were too busy playing Kingdom Hearts on their Gaystation, so they missed out.
organically popular, actually good, no pedo subtext. it's a lot, really.
Halo fans are an insufferable mix of gaylennial redditors who still think RvB is funny and military boomers who talk about chief like he's real.
>People who play the game I don't like are... LE REDDITORS!!
Of all the games I've played, Halo probably has some of the least toxic players. They make fun as frick custom games, and some good BTB and infection lobbies. League easily has a playerbase that's 1000x more AIDS. COD is much worse, just within FPSs.
The mlg homosexuals were easily the most venomous people online at the time
They really weren't though. And you got the exact same shit in COD with Faze and Optic homosexuals. They permeated all the FPS games of the time.
Seething
I mean the franchise is pretty much dead so
That has nothing to do with anything discussed in this thread
chief is real
There's no troony ragebait or deluge of anime porn being made about it, thus they hate it. It's also popular so you get a touch of contrarianism too.
Arena Shooter gays got their knickers in a twist over the fact that normalgays didn't care about their antiquated genre anymore.
Halo has also become part of its own antiquated genre as normalgays, as usual, have moved on.
And the funny thing is they're still seething about it despite the series' death and the revival of said arena shooters in the form of boomer shooters.
boomer shooters are rising up again, quake will SHAKE gaming come 2027
screencap this fricking post, homosexuals
It's good. It's not poorly disguised anime porn.
Also 343 Halo is garbage and Infinite can barely keep its face above the water because Firefight and AI in Forge are the only things supporting it.
It's literally just schizoid Gen X DOOM babies.
Casual console game that ultimately dumbed down the genre. Just like CoD. This board looking at it favorably much less people genuinely thinking it's one of the greatest FPS games is a clear sign of Ganker's decline like Naruto threads on Ganker.
Feels like playing an FPS in slow motion if you played anything before it. Aside from a couple good ones most of the level design is copy paste filler.
Overrated series that's only popular because it was a lot of peoples first game/first multiplayer game.
Halo 3 was the first Debra Wilson game.
Huh?
Halo 4 is a buggy pos the audio started cutting out on important cutscenes and the entire ground textures disappeared in this one level making it unplayable. They should've stopped at 3.
Halo 2 is more fun than 3.
Droppable items, or whatever the frick they were called, just made the game less fun because now every interaction with an opponent was determined by whether they happened to have an invisible get-out-of-jail-free card in their pocket.
No, I don't give a shit about whether 3 was more balanced either. If you were talking about balance in a console shooter in 2007 you would have just been called a homosexual for not playing CS.
I didn't like 2 multi all that much because of how OP the fricking br was, ce was better because the weapon you started with wasn't better than anything you could pick up barring power weapons (and those only barely)
Wake me...when you need me.
I question anyone's sanity if they legitimately do not enjoy the halo franchise. I question their sanity even more if they enjoy 4, 5 and infinite.
Maybe once every 6-8 months I'll play match of Infinite, because I'm waxing nostalgic for the feeling of playing the "current" Halo game.
I play that one match, am reminded how shit the game and whole progression system is, lament how such a beloved franchise could fall so far, then exit the game.
that's me but last year. I genuinely stopped playing it completely now. I don't even load up mcc for a match of h3/reach btb anymore because the only people left playing are hyper sweat teams and it just feels unfun... rip
I've actually been able to find a lot of good H3 BTB matches lately, the people playing aren't even super sweaty. Had few games of big team heavies on Valhalla that felt vaguely reminiscent of the glory days.
I should try it again soon then
I actually genuinely thought Halo 3 was kind of a weak conclusion to the original trilogy, but I have to say that scene with Arby and the Chief was the most hype thing ever and I'm disappointed it's so difficult for other games to pull that shit off.
You forgot original DooM my friend, buy I like Quake 1 + Voodoo card back then anyway
sex with elites
Post some paramount kino.
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What did I just watch? Why is 117 even talking?
that's not John-117
that's Mister Cheeks
you can tell the difference because John-117 always keeps his helmet (and pants) on
You're watching what Bungie wanted Halo to be.
Lmao why does this look like theyre fighting in someone's lake house backyard
>picks up weaker opponent and throws them instead of breaking their neck
I hate this shit so much, takes me out of any fight scene
All that money and it still looks worse than the H2A cutscenes.
That entire area they're fighting in and around is in the environmental equivalent of the uncanny valley as well. It looks so ass. Like they filmed it on someone's yard, added a few props, and then rotoscoped some generic landscape in the background.
Alright there's a lot to complain about the show, but 117 always talked. He was a man of few words, and not one to constantly quip during gameplay, but he did talk. He talks too much in the show though. Basically not even the same character.
He isn't a cool super soldier anymore he is a weak manchild just like you. Please clap.
I liked Reach
Reach was good, but not as good as H3. Anyone who acts like Invasion on Spire wasn't one of the most fun official game modes is a lying homosexual.
I liked Reach more than the Master Chief trilogy because there's no Flood levels
Halo 3 flood was cool though. Only annoying bits were the ranged forms and Cortana.
I hated every single Flood stage
Then I pity you. Floodgate was a good level and it was implemented with in The Covenant.
small brain
no ridges on your brain
Flying up the spire in a full falcon was fricking fun
Was always fun to see the Banshees and Falcons duke it out when the spire opened up in phase 2.
1 > 2 > 3 >>> Reach
3's writing and story sucks dick and the campaign itself felt unambitious and underwhelming outside of the scarab fights
wort
What Halo 3 mods are worth playing nowadays?
It's not a coincidence that the flood levels are considered the worst. I enjoy them a lot but they can't carry a level by themselves. They are at their best when they are thrown in as a third of fourth faction. 343 Guilty spark is the only level i consider to be great because of the flood. That and Floodgate if it wasn't for the ranged forms.
Halo 3 is peak gaming.
Nothing will ever top it.
That's Halo 1 thoughever
The start of something great.
Kino, spent alot of time when I was younger playing through the campaign and messing around with my brothers on forge. Shame I missed out on the online
Impregnating a Halo 5 Spartan.
is this from the front or the back
can't fricking tell with how noisy some of the armor designs are
You'd know if it was the back.
It's gaudy, bulbous, and greeblized.
An accurate physical description of the average artist 343 hires.
can't you only carry 2 guns in these games?
I played one a few years back and some army guy called me 'Big Green' and I cringed so hard I turned it off. gayest fricking thing I've played in a long time
Halogays are awfully quiet on this
>can't you only carry 2 guns in these games?
That makes you cringe?
Me, inside your head. Now.
Halo 4 Cortana model and Halo 5 spartan ass is thankfully the closest the series has ever gotten to coomer territory.
>4/5 were actually the horniest games in the series
Maybe we were too hard on them.
Kek I love how hard they tried to retcon that shit for nuHalo. Cortana definitely isn't naked because a bunch of nerds were horny in 1999 when they designed her model.
One word. Kino.
>Standing literal inches away from an energy sword fight, not flinching or acknowledging anything that's happening
Very cool and not suspension-of-disbelief breaking.
I miss monty oum =(
Bungie could NEVER.
Why didn't he just shoot him with a shotgun and press B?
do we ever get to see zoom ins on alien feet yet
>W-Why didn't he-
BOOM, b***h.
I'm never watching this trash.
I thought this was set during Reach. Didn't the previous Arbiter die pre-Reach?
It actually is too. Like, nothing is close. No, reach didn't hit that same high note. Customizable, so easy to socialize, super competitive, super fun with custom games, in game chat lobbies that are uncensored, community events, physics engine that can do all sorts of creative stuff. Complete quality. Shareable pictures and videos and stuff too. Absolute gem.
can you please move Fall of Reach and Halo 2 wars to the good side?
that IS the good side
now that the dust has settled. who was the worst halo youtuber?
If you read Halo novels you're a homosexual and if you like The Act Man you're also a homosexual. Marty is cool though so frick off.
>ActJew
God I hate this contradicting paid shill
swap fall of reach with reddit halo
The Nylund books were the perfect accompaniment to the games and they never overstepped their boundaries
FTFY. Every Halo book after Contact Harvest is gay nu-lore slop.
Man, everything that was made before Halo Wars 2 was released was beyond stupid.
People are never going to forgive Black Team's write off and much less The Rookie's send off.
>It's realistic
Yeah, but a grand sacrifice of final effort against some stupidly larger odd would have sold more, instead New Blood is seen as the book that "as long as I don't read it, the Rookie is still alive/retired".
Killing the player's mute self-insert in a literal who book is a crime that can't be fully forgiven and needs to be retconned. Halo stands zero chance until this is rectified because it's the one thing that would show true humility from 343.
I believe the Rookie could have definitely worked out better had he died in Halo 4 or 5, especially at the end of 5.
Would have made much more sense that he would have been the one stopping Cortana kidnapping Blue Team forever but at the expense of his life. Bonus points if instead of just destroying "a ball that was important" for the jump, The Rookie instead destroyed the ball, messing the portal coords and slipspaced himself to stop the Cryptum slipspace jump of Blue Team. Effectively going "feet first into hell" (slipspace itself) one last time.
Or he could have perfectly taken the place of Horvath in INFINITE.
The one that was actually disposable is Dutch's wife, she should have died against the rebels. It was weird that Dutch got so depressed seeing the Rookie die considering many more of his actual well known companions died on Mombasa when the drop failed (the ones that landed in the carrier) but for some reason the Rookie actually hit him like a truck, which makes me think he got swapped for Gretchel last-second in that story in order to silently off him because 343i back then was even more moronic than now (less moronic).
Think about it, Gretchel dying explains even better a complete team fallout than just the Rookie dying. Suddenly Mickey's failure killed his fellow soldier's wife, Dare and Buck see a marriage fall apart instantly and Romeo the womanizer who never settled down and feels invincible sees two people who were actually well established be irreparably separated by life, the complete divison of the team makes more sense that way other than "welp, the mute died, we sad, we split, and Mickey somehow is finallly going to question why he is doing everything even more so than he did now".
Why was he called The Rookie when he was no longer a rookie? Major plot hole.
Because he was the lowest class most recent addition to their corps they had on-board, dude was forced to go into ODST training after he ran uphill and then down the opposite side of a mountain nonstop to avoid a nuke and effectively became the only survivor there. Command practically told him to go into ODST training or get fricked by regular frontline duty so he accepted and finished just in time to be added into the ODST compartment of the UNSC Say My Name, a Marathon class cruiser, which is just an inferior PoA.
So the dude was a Rookie compared to everyone else who had been into the corps for a few years already doing drops and equally challenging ops often.
And yet, he outlived almost everyone in the compartment by blending into the darkness, which is intended because the guy was born in Luna (the moon), cue his theme, Deference for Darkness, a liking for the obscure and the shadows which is how canonically his open-progression segments go.
Also, kinda weird that they have not used the excuse of him suffering from that trauma that turns soldiers mute excuse for his borderline no noise attitude, you would think they would burn that token for brownie points and to make more sense of why he's mute. Instead he's just mute because Dutch told him to be the strong silent type, not bad advice.
Multiplayer:
2 > 3 > 5 > CE > Infinite > Reach > 4
Campaign:
2 > 3 > CE > ODST > Reach > Infinite > 5 > 4
Story:
CE > 2 > Reach > ODST > 3 > 4 > Infinite > 5
>Campaign: 2 > 3
You now have my permission to have a nice day.
2nd place is still good
If you think getting jackal sniper'd to frick and back, shitty boss fights, and that awful cliffhanger ending was better than the masterclass that was H3 I diagnose you with sub-70 IQ.
He is unrefuted
>pngtuber
That's all the refuting you need
Reach is better because it has no flood. Frick the flood nobody likes that shit. L4D understood that to make zombies interesting you need exceptionally strong unique zombies with different abilities among the horde of mindless zombies. The flood are just mindless zombies without any points of interest.
So what you're saying is that you haven't played Halo 3?
>you need exceptionally strong unique zombies with different abilities among the horde of mindless zombies.
Just like how it is in Halo 3
>one brute shot melee kills it
Huh?
>Tanks multiple rockets and hit from other power weapons
Huh?
Bladed weapons had a weird token or tag for extra frick you damage against Flood. Against anything else it did between 5 to 15 extra points of damage which is nothing and doesn't make a real difference.
Also, every single Pure form took massive amounts of damage if you shot or meleed's their mouths.
This is why sometimes Tank Forms survive SPNKr hits directly to the center mass but if you hit their mouths, they kneel and die or get sent flying away.
You can even kill them with Assault Rifles ez as long as you targe the mouth, it even stuns them which can give window for a melee albeit risky in heroic and legendary because their melee can oneshot (certain death in Legendary) at that difficulty sometimes.
Post the REAL flood.
That's not the Flood, that's the Monsoon.
casualized moviegame consoleslop. multiplayer fps was solved 25 years ago
You will never experience the joy of 4-player couch co-op, or playing garbage man or fat kid with a group of friends in a weekend night custom lobby. I'd be mad too.
Literally who cares? Still had better shooters with better servers and better multiplayer. Even Halo doesn’t give a frick about couch co op.
>Literally who cares?
You do apparently. I'm sure the millions of people playing did too.
>Still had better shooters with better servers and better multiplayer.
Negative.
>Even Halo doesn’t give a frick about couch co op
He thinks 343 nuHalo = Halo 3. Cute.
I did experience exactly that, i just hate that the original trilogy didn't let me move fast.
WHICH, i do want a genuine answer as to why they did that
People b***hed endlessly, and continue to b***h to this very day, that they added sprint to Halo.
I always thought sprint was gay because it just allows people a get-out-of-jail-free for bad positioning, and makes rushing power weapons/positions even more sweaty and annoying.
I like more the original approach Infinite had with it. Before the movement tuning.
>There's a 10% increase of speed when sprinting
>It's entirely plausible to play the game without moving like a spaz
>However, sprinting gives you access to the mobility options with sliding.
>At the beginning of the game, it was 100% possible to use either of both playstyles or a mix of both
>Now sprint speed has been slightly increased and sliding has been buffed, mind you, because of gameplay flow it is still possible to go the usual no running way and still be good.
>Main problem?, clambering being pushed in every single map, jumping into other areas is practically dead because they increased the height of new maps so clambering is needed, that means sacrificing momentum for elevation and positioning.
Sprint ruins map design (elongation everywhere), weapon sandbox/balancing (everything needs more range and accuracy. This also reduces close quarters effectiveness), and gameplay pacing (running away, stop/start gameplay that doesn't feel smooth).
Ruin your entire game just so you can appease CoD kids who will just go back to playing CoD after playing Halo for a week after release at most.
I still believe it can work but with the aforementioned only 10% speed increase and not particularly extended slide, clambering is OK, people always complained about missing their jumps.
It's just that the options don't need to dictate the game, they should be there for compensating innate flaws of mobility, not become THE mobility.
I'd only accept it if there's no sprint button at all and moving forward is a tiny bit faster than moving in other directions. I'm pretty sure CE is like this. Despite its flaws, I really do appreciate that game more as time goes on.
Hm... Yeah, the quake way of mobility ramping up could work in Halo albeit not so turbo charged because otherwise the game would look like Reach's 400% speed sniper customs.
I agree. It completely fricks map design. Can you imagine playing a map like Chillout/Cold Storage or Lockout with everyone having sprint?
Also makes them have to buff precision weapon and melee weapons considerably. Hence the gravity hammer's killbox practically doubling from H3 to H5.
There's video of that.
Back when Halo Online and then ElDewrito was a thing that was a reality.
It's also why strafe acceleration is on crack in Infinite, and then that bleeds into aim assist and why it was such a huge problem for more than a year before it was fixed. It totally breaks Halo and I hope whoever forced it loses every that cent Halo made them.
If I remember right, aim assist is still jank because it's tied directly to framerate or something like that.
Because the core gameplay was designed for normalgays on controllers playing at 30fps max with vsync hooked up to a shitty TV. Like, did you really need this explained to you?
Why couldn't i run in Halo when i could in DOOM?
that was always stupid
Lmao, consolehomosexuals were playing slow motion automated matchmaking homosexualry while everyone with a good PC was playing normal (read: BETTER) arena shooters.
/hg/ sends its regards.
CE had best campaign, worst multiplayer
2 had best multiplayer, worst campaign
3 was a good middle balance
3 had shit writing but everything else was pure KINO.
The only game that dethroned it was Reach (by mutual destruction) and not even 3 CoD games straight could take it down.
3 is also shorter than what it should have been. If 3 was 3 missions longer, I think a lot more people would have it as their favorite.
The gameplay for 3 was great so i could overlook it, but, you only really feel like something is happening when you get to the Ark. The first four levels are just getting to an AA gun and destroying it. The ark and the covenant are the best levels in the series IMO, it's a shame they cut that guardian map in the woods where you release the sentinels to join the space battle. Would have been kino.
All of the missions its missing should take place on The Ark and Installation 4's replacement.
Agreed.
Wasn't there supposed to be another mission on the I04 replacement, or am I imagining that.
halo 3 invented fps
I have always like Doom. I have always liked Quake. I have always like CS. I have always like HL. I have always liked COD. I have always liked Halo. etc etc.
If you have a specific dislike of Halo, you are probably not a true FPS enjoyer.
>If you dislike one franchise then you probably don't enjoy the entire genre
What a moronic post.
Who are you quoting?
Considering Halo is an amalgam of and improvement on every FPS that came before if, yeah you're probably not a true fan of the genre if you have a hate boner for it. A contrarian quakegay at best.
>Considering Halo is an amalgam of and improvement on every FPS that came before if
lol
be less obvious next time
i used to be a "baby's first fps" gay before I played halo1 and 2 on pc and I understood what genuinely good game they are
really just pc games that happened to come out on consoles for money reasons
They could just have said that the Arbiter couldn't return to Sanghelios for some other weird reason and have him come back indefinitely but nah, they had to play the Star Wars comics route and try to expand the universe at the expense of the most well known part of the IP, the videogames.
I bet Requiem would have kicked extra ass with Elite frens helping against Sentinels (cut) and Prometheans.
Instead... suddenly, it was like the end of Halo 3 was almost for naught.
At least there's hope that even if they aren't playable, Halo 7 might have friendly ex-Covie species on our side.
That's what... the extended lore implies is going to happen.
Halo 7 might be beyond screwed.
How I miss the glory days.
I keep thinking about how huge Forge AI would have been if It was in Halo 3. How many custom game types and variants have we missed out on? I understand the 360 wasn't powerful enough for it, but the "what if" has been nagging me a bit lately.
It probably would have sucked ass. Generative AI can only barely make serviceable text blurbs or 2D images. It is woefully unprepared to make something like complex 3D maps and games modes, with the objective of being fun for countless people to play on. That is better left to human hands.
I'm talking about the AI you can place and script in Forge in Infinite. People have already made decent, but short amateur campaign levels. I can't wrap my head around it Halo 5/Infinite Forge and I'm not creative at all so I haven't made anything substantial myself.
I was one of those dots
I enjoyed Bungie's Halo games, but I'll never forgive them for popularizing aim assist and regenerating health.
I've been playing some mobile game shooters that don't have health regen and very poor aim assist among other tweaks and I gotta say it's a very interesting experience, nothing is free anymore.
>I’ll never forgive Halo for being such a good game that everyone spent the next 10 years copying it
Uh okay then.
Doesn't this same logic also apply for CoD and Fortnite?
Yes? You think those are hailed as the epitome of what fpses should be or something?
False, that would be Halo 2. And not the shitty 343 remake version.