There’s a lot of hype about Halo 5 and I’ll definitely try it because it seems like a vast improvement of Halo 4. However, I’m still in love with Halo 3 and Reach and it hurt me as a gamer when Halo 4 came out, causing multiplayer game modes in Halo 3 and Reach to decline drastically, especially FFA Rumble Pit. Halo 3 is a masterpiece requiring pure skill while Reach’s elevated game play with armor abilities (although frustrating at times) adds so much fun. Reach’s art style and graphics are just the most beautiful of any FPS I’ve ever seen. So as a friendly reminder, don’t let those games die because they’re the last legacy of Bungie. Please don’t hate me. Thanks.
I don’t hate you.
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> There’s a lot of hype about Halo 5 and I’ll definitely try it because it seems like a vast improvement of Halo 4. However, I’m still in love with Halo 3 and Reach and it hurt me as a gamer when Halo 4 came out, causing multiplayer game modes in Halo 3 and Reach to decline drastically, especially FFA Rumble Pit. Halo 3 is a masterpiece requiring pure skill while Reach’s elevated game play with armor abilities (although frustrating at times) adds so much fun. Reach’s art style and graphics are just the most beautiful of any FPS I’ve ever seen. So as a friendly reminder, don’t let those games die because they’re the last legacy of Bungie. Please don’t hate me. Thanks.
Halo 3 will always be my baby.
Double EXP Weekends,
Custom Games (Fat Kid, Predator, Ghostbusters, Jenga, etc)
Just… the addicting matchmaking.
And how can anyone forget about: Can I has reconz?
I’m eager to play Reach again with BC. Actually that’s the only thing I’m currently excited about regarding Halo.
I miss Reach too, it had some of the best MP maps, it had the best campaign imo… I wish 343 would remaster it too.
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> I miss Reach too, it had some of the best MP maps, it had the best campaign imo… I wish 343 would remaster it too.
A port of the campaign would be awesome indeed. Other features could however be found again by BC.
I can’t really play Reach in its current state anymore. Sometimes I try to go back but the 30 fps really feels dated.
Reach will be backwards compatible soon.
The Bungie days are truly over with the new engine ,platform, and servers. HALO 5 will be its own game.
You know, they are bringing Reach and Halo 3 to the Xbox One (not 100% on Halo 3 since it’s part of the MCC and they may not want to take away from that population), but they’re certainly bringing Reach. Which has a few implications:
1: you’ll be able to play with those who still play on the 360 creating a pretty healthy population (hopefully)
2: You get the entire multiplayer suite (instead of porting it to the MCC, which would be a DLC nightmare trying to implicate playlists … you’d only get like Slayer & BTB)
3: If folks are anything like me and love all the Halo games, they’ll be bouncing between Reach, CE, H2C, H2A, H3, H4, & H5 regularly. Sometimes all in one day. And that, my friends, will be a Halo fan’s dream come true right there.
> I can’t really play Reach in its current state anymore. Sometimes I try to go back but the 30 fps really feels dated
I literally can’t do it neither since I sold my 360, but it’s true that the 60fps -> 30fps transition would certainly be harsh for most people, myself included.
dam right OP reach is my favorite besides halo 4,halo 5 will be halo 4 as my favorite but when halo reach becomes backwards compatible ill be playing it ALOT
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> > I can’t really play Reach in its current state anymore. Sometimes I try to go back but the 30 fps really feels dated
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> I literally can’t do it neither since I sold my 360, but it’s true that the 60fps -> 30fps transition would certainly be harsh for most people, myself included.
Not really. I have Farcry 4 and Destiny on my Xbox One. Both of them run 30 fps and I bounce between those and the MCC all the time.
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> Not really. I have Farcry 4 and Destiny on my Xbox One. Both of them run 30 fps and I bounce between those and the MCC all the time.
I used a “would” because I guess that we are not all equally sensitive to this. I think the eye can get used to lower framerates, but it may be longer and harder for others. In my case, I don’t really know. I just tried a quick comparison with HCE on the MCC and on the 360 when I still had it, I only played a few minutes, but I remember it was really odd. It’s possible also that HCE did not even reach 30 fps (?).
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> I used a “would” because I guess that we are not all equally sensitive to this. I think the eye can get used to lower framerates, but it may be longer and harder for others. In my case, I don’t really know. I just tried a quick comparison with HCE on the MCC and on the 360 when I still had it, I only played a few minutes, but I remember it was really odd. It’s possible also that HCE did not even reach 30 fps (?).
I think it was 30 fps … I’m not sure.
I can tell the difference easily between 30 & 60, but it’s only really noticeable with Reach since it’s a Halo game and plays like one. The others all play differently, so there isn’t much to adjust to, it’s a different experience altogether.
The thing that gets me is that some people act as if playing at 30 fps is going to induce medical conditions or migraines or somethings when we’ve been comfortably playing at 30 fps for ages. I think they just really like 60 fps … but who doesn’t? Personally, I can live without it, though I’d rather not.
It could also be that I never stopped playing my 360. I still play Half-Life 2, Reach, Halo 4 (for the other playlists that aren’t in the MCC), Red Dead, Portal, etc. So I’ve never gone without it. In fact, I think that the MCC is the only 60fps game I have on the Xbox One, so maybe that’s why. I’m still more familiar with 30fps.
I play lots of old games, even newer ones that run at 30 fps, but I think fast paced shooters need to be 60fps, I just cant do it otherwise anymore. Reach gives me motion sickness on the 360. Destiny… well, Destiny gives me a heartache for other reasons.
The time keep going on bud and you have to keep going too, we did not forget it but come on those games came out a long time ago it is normal to no speak about them or just of a reminder of what we had.
I played again the campaign of those and ODST, CE, 2 almost once on a semester 
Even after Halo 4 came out I still played a lot of Reach. I had a lot of fun in H3 and Reach’s action sack and infection modes so I’ll likely go back to that every once in a while when backward compatibility comes to XB1.
Seems like there’s a decent amount of loyalty to the older Halo’s so far haha. I’m probably gonna bounce back and forth from new Halo’s to older Halo’s; keeps a gamer’s mind from staling. Mihael, you’d better get that motion sickness checked out haha.
I won’t forget about Halo 3, but I’ll pass on Halo: Reach. It was far from Bungie’s swansong to the Halo franchise. Its story was bland, its new mechanics weren’t implemented well, it lazily reused environments from the campaign for pvp maps, and I think it will forever be remembered as the game which began to change Halo’s identity for the worse.
Unfortunately 343 decided to build-off of one of Halo’s most mediocre games when developing Halo 4’s gameplay. But Halo 5 seems closer to the gameplay of Halo 2 and Halo 3 considering everybody is on equal grounds and has the same abilities at the start of map.
Halo 3 will always be the best Halo to me.