Loadsa folk used to slag off Reach on here and on the old Bungie (Burn bright, Burn blue) forum.
Not so many nowadays - either they’ve all matured and now appreciate Reach for the brilliant game it is or, more likely, they migrated to the hell known as Halo4.
The Reach forum is now a much gentler and less aggressive place than it used to be and, in my opinion, more enjoyable too.
But anyway, back to the point - Reach will always be superior to Halo4!
There are many reasons for this including - FireFight, Forge, MM, Campaign etc.
You’ve heard them all before and you don’t need me laying them out.
But I’ll tell you the number one, the main, the Alpha reason Reach blitzes 4 -
Reach don’t have FOTUS!!!
What a godawful armor set!
Wear that and you look as if you’ve stepped out of a Roger Corman scifi ‘B’ movie.
I prefer soldiers to look like soldiers and that’s why I’ve been ODST from the moment I acquired it.
I’m nearly at the ‘Haunted Helmet’ level and my boy won’t even wear that - he’ll remain an ODST, known throughout the galaxy as a rootin’-tootin’ badass!
So according to you, the main reason Halo Reach is better than Halo 4 is because Reach doesn’t have a certain cosmetic in game aspect that adds absolutely nothing to how the game plays or the skill of the players?
Yeah, this is another pointless “I don’t like X in one game, so the other game is better” thread with no real discussion behind it.
No Phil, this post was done tongue-in-cheek after I saw the FOTUS screenshots and saw just how plug-ugly and stupid those spikey helmets looked.
But I do prefer Reach to H4, because of various things.
I enjoyed the Reach campaign a great deal more - the gameplay in Reach MM appeals to me more than H4, there’s no FF in the newer game etc.
Just about the only thing I would steal from H4 and stick into Reach is the unlimited sprint.
but everyone to their opinion…
unlimited sprint? halo should be halo so how about no sprint?
Then play Reach and not H4 and quit complaining about it including the armors. I may not like most of the armors and no Elites in H4 ither but you don’t see me whine about it. Plus if you like Reach more than H4 then why is your icon the H4 ODST? I wish I had the Fotus armor… ;w;
> Reach don’t have FOTUS!!!
Don’t it?
It do got them helmets what look like blue fire, though. Thems purdy silly.
I tells ya what it do got:
Armor lock and the inevitability that at least half of your team will quit if you start to lose, leaving you high & dry. That’s why I don’t get why people complain about Join In Progress. I just left a game in Reach because after 30 seconds, my team quit and I was just bullet-fodder for a bunch of tea-baggers who use armor lock more than their guns.
And what does a helmet that one may find particularly ridiculous have to do with the game or why another is better than it for having said helmet?
You also said “but everyone to their opinion…” after a extremely opinionated soapbox-post.
I like Reach a lot. I like Halo 4 more … “but everyone to their opinion…”
Pointless.
“The Reach forum is now a much gentler and less aggressive place”
I stand corrected…
> “The Reach forum is now a much gentler and less aggressive place”
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> I stand corrected…
Yeah … sorry.
I just don’t think it’s very productive to trash Halo games in a nonconstructive way. Not that I was being very productive or constructive in my post either.
As far as I’m concerned, there are good Halo games and there are great Halo games. The worst Halo is still better than most other titles out there right now.
Halo 4 is held to some pretty high standards, some of which it didn’t quite Reach [pun intended]. But in itself, it’s a great game.
So… What is this all about ?
I love all halo games, and Halo 4 is not at the end of my list.
Beautiful graphics, really cool soundtrack, and VERY good multiplayer.
I respect youur opinion, but you must say 343i did good job on H4.
> Loadsa folk used to slag off Reach on here and on the old Bungie (Burn bright, Burn blue) forum.
> Not so many nowadays - either they’ve all matured and now appreciate Reach for the brilliant game it is or, more likely, they migrated to the hell known as Halo4.
Most of the people hating on Reach have given up repeating the same thing over, over since the game has been out for a while and to be fair there’s really not much else anyone can. Reach is still one of the worst Halo games but most people just accepted it as an ok game because they realised that Halo 4 was worse. But like I said Reach is an ok game but it’s a terrible Halo game. Anyway I’m sure there’ll be similar topics when Halo 5 is shown but it really depends on if 343i listen this time.
Possibly the reason I like Reach so much is that it was my first Halo game - it came bundled with my 360.
I have played all the others, coincidentally in the chronological order the events depicted occurred, and I do like them - especially H3 MM (it was only when I played Valhalla that I realised Ragnarok wasn’t too great).
I do play Halo 4 on occasion, but each time I go back to it there is new armor or even more heavy weapons littering the maps.
This is what I dislike - I prefer to play as an infantryman, pure and simple. Seriously, I don’t care about massive killstreaks as long as I’ve got a Pistol or a DMR. Sure, I’ll skyjack a Banshee but more often than not I drop it back at base for someone else to use.
Anyway, back on topic:
I was half-joking about the FOTUS armor, I do think it looks ludicrous with the big pointy thing on top, and I like soldiers to look like soldiers.
Each to their own, though - and I’m expecting more flak when I say that my 2nd favorite Halo game is ODST (Infantry Troopers Rock!)
> Each to their own, though - and I’m expecting more flak when I say that my 2nd favorite Halo game is ODST (Infantry Troopers Rock!)
ODST is great! I used to play it at night with the lights out and some studio headphones on for some real immersive Halo.
I kinda envy that you got to play Reach first then the rest in order. I began with Combat Evolved, so Reach was a prequel with better graphics. I would have loved to have played Reach first and followed it with Anniversary as it would then feel like a proper sequel.
Every few months, I’ll play all the campaigns in order, beginning with Reach and ending with Spartan Ops in Halo 4. The best is switching from Halo 2 right after the Covenant carrier jumps from New Mombasa to Delta Halo, popping in ODST to play the aftermath of the jump, then back to Halo 2 to jump into the Arbiter’s shoes. It usually takes me about a week to complete but every time I hear or see something new, even the games I’ve been playing for a decade.
> > Each to their own, though - and I’m expecting more flak when I say that my 2nd favorite Halo game is ODST (Infantry Troopers Rock!)
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> ODST is great! I used to play it at night with the lights out and some studio headphones on for some real immersive Halo.
> I kinda envy that you got to play Reach first then the rest in order. I began with Combat Evolved, so Reach was a prequel with better graphics. I would have loved to have played Reach first and followed it with Anniversary as it would then feel like a proper sequel.
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> Every few months, I’ll play all the campaigns in order, beginning with Reach and ending with Spartan Ops in Halo 4. The best is switching from Halo 2 right after the Covenant carrier jumps from New Mombasa to Delta Halo, popping in ODST to play the aftermath of the jump, then back to Halo 2 to jump into the Arbiter’s shoes. It usually takes me about a week to complete but every time I hear or see something new, even the games I’ve been playing for a decade.
I can tell you are a huge Halo fan, so I’m just wondering, which do you prefer between Halo:Reach and Halo 4? I keep finding it harder and harder to decide myself.
> I can tell you are a huge Halo fan, so I’m just wondering, which do you prefer between Halo:Reach and Halo 4? I keep finding it harder and harder to decide myself.
They’re both great. The multiplayer for both is extremely fun but also extremely frustrating at times. Reach has more freedom what with play-as-elites and an offline firefight mode (as opposed to Spartan Ops requiring a Gold Membership and you have to be online to play it).
Halo 4 is my second favorite campaign after Combat Evolved and they share a lot of similarities, which was completely intentional.
The Reach campaign is brilliant, and has a lot of replay value, but the story of Halo 4 and the gameplay wins IMO.
What ruins the Reach multiplayer for me is that if my team gets slightly behind, people quit, they don’t fight harder to regain a lead, they just leave. There is no join-in-progress so whomever is left is toast. Plus there’s armor lock. I hate it passionately. Spartans don’t cower like little frightened turtles, they stand and fight.
But Halo 4, by a pretty sizable margin. In Reach, I’m still a Brigadier grade 1, but in Halo 4, I mastered everything in like 6 months (for one, the ranking system in 4 seemed “shorter” to climb and also my dedication to that game all last spring & summer). I just find it to be a more enjoyable game (most of the time). It’s not without faults, though.