Halo 3’s story is not the best in the series. Why? Plot holes galore, some death felt unemotional (Miranda), Gulty spark is easily the worst boss in Halo (and Halo has a history with bad boss fights) because it’s just a disrespect to an AMAZING character, it’s not as epic as the trailers (especially that cinematic trailer with the kids), and I keep putting myself in a mindeset that Halo 4 doesn’t exist and this was the last main halo game and it doesn’t work. I’ve played the game two times and I have come to the conclusion that Halo 3 is my least favorite Halo story. Don’t know why people like it when there are problems with it, but when Halo 5 has problems people attack it.
Short answer: Nostalgia.
long answer: Halo 5 is what those who played Halo 3 hate in all forms. It’s basically CoD: Halo Edition. Halo 4 was in mists opinion a trainwreck, and 3 is the last good memory of Halo they had, except maybe Reach. So they’re holding onto that.
I see where you are coming from. Reach was my favorite story and Halo 2 is a close second. Halo 3 was a good way to end the trilogy I feel however. Everyone has their own personal favorite/least favorite.
Thank you for your subjective opinion.
Halo 3 was supposed to end the series. Bungie even said so, Microsoft didn’t want it to be killed off because of how much money they can make. So, 343i came along and continued. That’s why Bungie made a prequel to the series Halo Reach.
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> Thank you for your subjective opinion.
You’re welcome
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> Halo 3 was supposed to end the series. Bungie even said so, Microsoft didn’t want it to be killed off because of how much money they can make. So, 343i came along and continued. That’s why Bungie made a prequel to the series Halo Reach.
That’s not my problem, I have stated why Halo 3’s story has problems and nobody sees it
When i first completed halo 3 i thought it was a great way to end the series and then i completed it on legendary and then i was like not more game surely the war is over the last covernant profit is dead there is is nothing more to be made well apart form a halo wars 2. 4 years later halo 4 comes out 
Can you list the plot holes. I know some but I wonder if your’s are different.
Yes, Halo 3 didn’t have the most shocking story, it was pretty predictable and unemotional, buuutttt, doing the comparison to Halo 5 here like the person I am, Halo 3 tied up the main plot points from the rest of the trilogy and books as well as being one of the most entertaining campaigns in the history of the franchise.
Meanwhile over at Halo 5, the game ditched some very Intresting plot points brought up by previous games which would’ve been an amazing revive to the series. What should’ve been civil war between Jul and SoS, chief going rogue to deal with mental truma as well as a rivalry to another Spartan team turned into ending all plot from previous game and making the cliché evil robot story with a campaign with two enjoyable levels.
TL;DR: OP stated that he doesn’t understand why people attack H5 for story yet not H3. I replied by saying H3 tied up events well and was an actual continuation of the franchise (as well as having a generally more fun campaign)
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> Short answer: Nostalgia.
> long answer: Halo 5 is what those who played Halo 3 hate in all forms. It’s basically CoD: Halo Edition. Halo 4 was in mists opinion a trainwreck, and 3 is the last good memory of Halo they had, except maybe Reach. So they’re holding onto that.
Reach grew on me after a while. I stuck to the playlists that didn’t have armor abilities like CEA and SWAT. Halo 3 was fantastic. It’s hard for new age players to understand because Halo 3, when it originally came out in 2007, was one of the biggest games for it’s time. It was right when Call of Duty and Gears of War were starting to take off but you could log onto Halo 3 and there’d be millions of players online. It was a blast to play
angry fans incoming*
Its the worst Halo story from Bungie, but still leagues better than the crap 343 has been releasing.
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> Its the worst Halo story from Bungie, but still leagues better than the crap 343 has been releasing.
Everything Bungie released will always be better than what 343 is releasing. I’m not sure about the Halo 3 story being the “worst” though
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> Short answer: Nostalgia.
> long answer: Halo 5 is what those who played Halo 3 hate in all forms. It’s basically CoD: Halo Edition. Halo 4 was in mists opinion a trainwreck, and 3 is the last good memory of Halo they had, except maybe Reach. So they’re holding onto that.
Can we please stop comparing CoD and Halo? They’re both FPS games, yes!
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> Halo 3 was supposed to end the series. Bungie even said so, Microsoft didn’t want it to be killed off because of how much money they can make. So, 343i came along and continued. That’s why Bungie made a prequel to the series Halo Reach.
Right, that’s why the legendary ending of Halo 3 shows the Forward Unto Dawn drifting towards Requiem. Okay.
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> Its the worst Halo story from Bungie, but still leagues better than the crap 343 has been releasing.
Here comes someone who may and may not understand 343 and MS problems.(cough cough LNG’s reveal about issues with MS 343)Also H3 has better story than cough coughCODcough.
I think they could have stoped at Halo 3 but i will still play the halo games
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> Halo 3 was supposed to end the series. Bungie even said so, Microsoft didn’t want it to be killed off because of how much money they can make. So, 343i came along and continued. That’s why Bungie made a prequel to the series Halo Reach.
Wasn’t chief supposed to die and the arbiter died when the war on his planet started? I think that was bungies way of ending it
I have only one big problem with halo 3 story and thats they killed off SGT Johnson