Favorite Halo main menu?

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What’s your favorite main menu throughout all the Halo games?

My personal favorite is Halo 3’s. The orange on blue is a really great eye-catcher and is just so appealing!

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I will always be a sucker for the Halo CE menu, just seeing that ring go by as you scroll through is always a classic.

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Both the Halo CE and Halo 3 main menus are the best, in my opinion. Halo CE has a nice background while Halo 3 has nostalgic music.

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Good post, the art of the UI was absolutely incredible. Reach was ahead of it’s time.

I’d love for Infinite to have unlockable menu backgrounds for your spartan/s to hang out in.

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Gotta go with Reach for UI and experience. Everything you could want or need was easily accesible and the art/music was :ok_hand:
I still want that right hand pane where you could see the stats and Spartans of matchmade people in every upcoming Halo game.

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My fav is Halo 5’s. It felt futuristic like Halo is.

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When I just need something in the background, I often go to halome.nu

Halo 2 is usually my go to!

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Halo 3 has the best one.

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I really like the first 3 but Halo 3 has a special place in my heart. It just hits that special spot I don’t really know how to explain it.

For overall layout, ease of use and features though, I’d have to say Reach had the best layout. I always liked the fact you could just go o er someones name and see their Spartan without having to click anything.

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I still regard Reach as sort of a benchmark for UI design. It’s simple and clean, yet beautiful. The background art is great, and it really being drawn art and not some renders gives it that extra bit of beauty and elegance. The music is maybe not my favorite menu music, but visually it’s fantastic.

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Halo 2. It’s where it all started for me, and the build up into the menu always gives me chills.

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Here‘s my ranking (in categories) :slight_smile:

UI Design: Halo 3

UI (simplicity, placement, features…): Halo Reach

Nostalgia: Halo 2 (my first Halo)

What’s behind the UI?: Halo CE

Easter Eggs: Halo 5 (I once saw a flying grunt)

Music: Halo 2

Infinite

I didn’t count Halo Infinite because it’s not finished yet.

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I’m a fan of Halo Reach and Halo 4’s main menus for their user interface, but I loved Halo CE and Halo 2’s menus. I thought they were awesome!

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My favorite without a doubt is Halo 4, the way to integrate things with the Infinity seemed like the right way to go to make things immersive. Too bad it got lost.

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Hey, me too!!! :100: :100: :muscle:

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Halo Reach, but I loved Halo 3’s too especially seeing the connected world in the matchmaking menu, and for nostalgia reasons Halo CE.

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For me, it has to be Halo 3, the simplicity of it all is the biggest draw aesthetically.
I can definitely reminisce ‘lobby sitting’ in the menus just to talk with the boys, having our hard-earned ranks clearly on display.
Also, If I’m remembering correctly, it is the menu that allows you to go between Matchmaking, Campaign, Forge, Theater and Custom games within the quickest time.

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I actually love the layout of reach’s menu! I just wish the color choices were closer to Halo 3 in a way. Although I was not a fan of the perspective warp applied to some of the options.

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Yeah dude! I love that website! I wonder if they’ll make the menus functional as a bonus.
(but that might pass copyright boundaries…)

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Reach, but I did likes 5’s vibe.

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