I put in my halo 3 disc and it was refreshing because the game actually felt like halo. Yes… the networking was bad, boosters were still everywhere, and the game looked choppy. But, instantly I could tell how much better the gameplay was. It was extremely depressing. I don’t know if there is anyone else out there but halo reach never played like a halo game. It doesn’t have to do with bloom, AA’s, melee issues, or any of that. Don’t get me wrong though. Bloomless title update halo is superior to default reach. But, it doesn’t have that classic halo feel to it. I’m all for changes from title to title. But, changes can’t be made just for the sake of making changes. I think reach had alot of good ideas. But it is like they threw those ideas into the game without perfecting any of them. For example, AA’s were a great idea but they were just implemented wrong. They should have made the game faster but that didn’t happen. I don’t know if playing halo 3 made me realize how great of a game it was or how bad halo reach was.
I agree. I don’t feel like a spartan in REACH.
Feel human.
Human doesn’t feel good.
Halo 3’s online gameplay sucked competitively. The only thing it did right was the ranking/mm system.
I honestly prefer no bloom halo reach over halo 3.
I recently did the same thing and was blown away at how much I still love Halo 3.
To be honest the only thing I missed was the Radar, Bullet Registration, Medals and Easier Sniping (lol I was so bad).
But with the numbers so low in most playlist I’ve had to begrudgingly come back to Reach “sigh” were I know Evade ruins the one playlist I love Team Objective and were I only ever play 2 maps in Team Snipers…
All hopes are pinned on Halo 4 Beta or Im most likely going to jack Halo of completely.
Halo 3 was my favorite, i clocked 3 years into that game, every achievement, every multiplayer medal on bungie.net, 4 star general (never got around to getting a 5 star i am close though)
i hate Reach because it caters to less skilled players and boosters, ranks mean absolutely nothing now, but mostly i hate it because it turned all my friends away from Halo to CoD
Halo 3… i was so good at that game 
I’ve been playing Halo 3 the last two days and had more fun than I ever had with Reach.
3-bar host Halo 3 over Reach IMO.
I recently went back to Halo 3 just to see what a difference it would make,
But the connection was terrible, made me think surly it wasn’t always this bad? Was it?
Anyways i soon switched back to Reach as i like the ranking system.
Playing a great game and being let down by your team to receive 0 XP isn’t my idea of fun.
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> Playing a great game and being let down by your team to receive 0 XP isn’t my idea of fun.
Maybe so but does XP in Halo 3 mean anything? Whats it do and therefore why is it important?
Halo needs something worth winning for or there is always going to be the element of not caring about games. “Dam dude I went -14 but hey look I got 2000Cr hey yeah I just ranked up!” Do we really want that?
I would rather Halo give the people who Win/Draw Ranks/Credits/XP any day of the week then have someone betray and weapon steal all game.
I go on Halo 3 from time to time, the biggest thing I miss is the vibrant colors. Reach just feels like an eyesore to me.
> I go on Halo 3 from time to time, the biggest thing I miss is the vibrant colors. Reach just feels like an eyesore to me.
Chalk it up to Bungie creating a sober atomsphere for the games setting. Halo 3 graphic wise is inferior but much more colorful and vibrant (which oddly, is much more pleasing to the eye). I would love to see Halo 4 return the form.
> Yes… the networking was bad, boosters were still everywhere, and the game looked choppy. But, instantly I could tell how much better the gameplay was.
Through my beliefs and understanding, these 2 sentences are like matter and anti-matter.
Completely opposite and annihilate one another.
If I am to understand playing Halo is about the nostalgia of bad networking, rank boosters and choppy frame-rates of Halo2, then that may explain why Halo2 and Halo3 are not held in as high regard with myself as CE or Reach are for their MP (campaign completely aside).
> I go on Halo 3 from time to time, the biggest thing I miss is the vibrant colors. Reach just feels like an eyesore to me.
The opposite for me. I am a mutant, I have a 4th cone, the colours in Halo3 are over-saturated when at a distance, way too bright up close.
Reach’s problem for the seemingly lack of colour IMO, too much industrial and natural rock formation, not enough jungle and city formation. Though, for me, not a problem, I love the lighting, textures and architecture. But I started with Wolfensteing, Doom, Heretec, through the gens, etc.
Nightfall didn’t show off the greens as it was dark, but the corvette did show off the purple and blue.
Exodus was bright, but white. The green was sparse, as was the blue sky. Surprising, a lot of industrial moments.
New Alexandria, not much colour, but the lighting display… WOW. That is the level of tech-awesomeness that unfortunately never brought all that extra stuff as close together as it should’ve. Instead of a cruiser coming in to glass the background, it’s come to glass US!!! 
Looking to the MP and FF maps, one should tend to notice that a lot of the time, the lack of bright colours has to do with the environmental lighting combined with better lighting. Not many full-on day maps in areas that reflect brightly.
> > Yes… the networking was bad, boosters were still everywhere, and the game looked choppy. But, instantly I could tell how much better the gameplay was.
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> Through my beliefs and understanding, these 2 sentences are like matter and anti-matter.
> Completely opposite and annihilate one another.
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> If I am to understand playing Halo is about the nostalgia of bad networking, rank boosters and choppy frame-rates of Halo2, then that may explain why Halo2 and Halo3 are not held in as high regard with myself as CE or Reach are for their MP (campaign completely aside).
They do, lol. I was starting to thing he was trolling. If you don’t like reach go back and don’t touch reach and let the people who like reach work together to come up with good ideas to make what they think is better.
> Halo 3’s online gameplay sucked competitively. The only thing it did right was the ranking/mm system.
So H2 hostfest was better?
> > Halo 3’s online gameplay sucked competitively. The only thing it did right was the ranking/mm system.
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> So H2 hostfest was better?
Bad Halo 3 hosts were still pretty common, I encountered far less actual cheating (bridging and standbying) in Halo 3.
I wen’t back to the Halo Reach forums and I was amazed… At the amount of crybabies on it. People were crying about how Halo 3 sucked and 2 was amazing, now it’s repeating again. If you guys want to be really cool start complaining about how good Reach was and how bad Halo 4 is. You will be trend setters and imortalised on the internet.
I sometimes go back on Halo 3 to immerse myself in what happened in the past 3-4 Years Ago. I dislike Halo 3’s Matchmaking System but I loved the culture and the fun times that I had on Halo 3 like I have had with all Halo Games.
I sometimes just slowly walk around Valhalla or Last Resort and remember all the greatest moments that I had online. Sometimes going back and remembering those times really helps me feel happy.
For me, Reach is the better game.
Although, I still like going into Halo 3 with a new gametag and going +30. It reminds me of all the progress I have made in skill level. It just makes me laugh when an opponent runs straight at me AR blazing! I did enjoy driving the hog more in Halo 3.
Yeah 343 should look at reach as a learning experience and bring Halo 4 back to the classic experience that kept people playing years and years after release. Reach isn’t a bad game it just doesn’t feel like halo.
> Halo 3’s online gameplay sucked competitively. The only thing it did right was the ranking/mm system.
this.
when I get on halo 3, (about once or twice a month), its purely for nostalgia.
I loved that game and whenever we play we play customs and social BTB just for yoinks and giggles but the BR’s spread will get me either into halo 3 customs or back on reach within 3 games.
Im not quite sure why people dont like reach, I guess its the bandwagon express of a few MLG kids and Semi-pro kids like igoturpistola saying the game sucks.
IMO reach is the best halo since halo 2 and while 3 was an awesome game that still deserves respect, I cant play halo 3 competitively because the BR seems as if it was made without online gameplay in mind.