for chronological order, have you ever tried playing ODST after halo 2’s metropolis, then back to halo 2 after beating odst? i’ve been meaning to try that when playing them in chronological order.
That would be interesting to try out, you just peeked my interest
Excellent question! If you want to go chronologically and get the gist of it all / complete them all games in a reasonable time, I highly recommend the following order on Normal difficulty first at least:
Halo Wars, Halo Reach, Halo CE, Halo 2, Halo 3 ODST, Halo 4, Halo 5, Halo Wars 2 + dlc Operation Spearbreaker then Awakening the Nightmare.
Supplemental if something peaks your interest in combo with the games. Halo Fall of Reach the book by Eric Nylund, I dont know what they changed in the rearelease/ updated, but try to get the oldest version which came out before Halo CE
Contact Harvest is nice addition to Halo Wars since Harvest is a planet that first got visited by the Covenant. Its written by Joseph Staten.
There so, SO much more you can feast on in expanded lore and canon.
Halopedia is a wikia thats all around informative. And the Halo Legends collection of cartoon/ anime/ animated can be found as DVD or youtube.
The two parter with Cortana telling some of the forerunners past with the flood is worth checking out.
Mona Lisa is a horror esque short film you can find on youtube aswell. Preferrably watch it after playing/ finishing Halo CE. You cand find most if not all kinds of expanded stuff on youtube, especiall content creators like Halo Canon, Covenant Canon Installation 00, Hidden Xperia and a few others etc
Also the book Shadows of Reach is set sometime before Halo Infinite so thats one thing you can check out later on.
Hope this helped, kickstarting your journey towards Halo Infinite
I suggest with the Original Trilogy of Halo that being:
Halo Combat Evolved
Halo 2
Halo 3
Halo 3 ODST (I recommend playing this one first 
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And Halo Reach
I would also recommend playing Halo Wars in between those
I would NOT star at Reach!!! Think of Reach as a prequel (and story wise a bad one). Start at Halo CE (which is halo 1) then just go in numerical order, 2,3,4,5 and soon to be infinite. Then if you like it and are a reader, I suggest you read the first few novels, Contact Harvest, The Fall of reach, First Strike, The Flood, then Ghosts Of Onyx. THEN go ahead and play Reach… because then you’ll see just how much better the story fall of reach is than the Game Reach.
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Honestly 343 is trash look at litteraly every game made by them. Micro transactions out the absolute @ss, horrible customization choices especially with the coloring. Even though they PROMISED to have nothing less than reach in customization. Lo and behold not only are there an absolutely pathetic ammount of variants for armors, but just about every single one is behind a pay wall and idiotic ammounts of grinding because their xp system sucks. and you don’t even have to compare them to bungie to tell they did it all for money. There was a clear jump from customizing your armor from reach-3 then it goes to pre made armors and a huge jump backwards in the multiplayer what with taking out split screen in 4 (another thing they promised and failed to deliver), then we got tumultuous amounts of stupid armor sets that you got repeatedly through rng in 5. So yea I did reply but only because I’m sick of hearing ppl say that the new halo is so amazing when the ones who are making it don’t actualy give a dam about it they just want your money. Ps bungie is garbage too they gave up a great game for nothing and made destiny
How long did it take you to type up this grammatically erroneous response? Let alone the fact that not every 343 Halo is ridden with microtransactions or a limited colour palette. This proves my point you are just either a) a Bungie fan who hasn’t played any 343 games except for trying Infinite, or b) haven’t ever played a Halo prior to this.
Please take your negative and factually incorrect comment elsewhere.
I would say Reddit but you probably contributed to it getting locked, which is why you are back here again.
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You can’t go wrong with CE…still number two on my list of greatest halo games ever made…currently halo3 holds the 1 spot but I gotta be honest infinite may take the number 2 spot soon, hell even 1….maaayyybbeee…I absolutely love infinites pvp and i hope they do something big with the campaign. The little melee and grenade issues aside, infinite pvp imho is incredible
Definitely start with Halo CE and work from there. Reach is a prequel but it assumes you’ve played the others and has a fair few plot spoilers as a result.
Just go with the release order imo. Not only will the games get gradually better as you go along but you’ll avoid spoiling stuff in the OG trilogy if you don’t play it in chronological order.
I’d also recommend playing the Halo Wars games even though they’re RTS and not shooters, as they have amazing campaigns.
- Halo 1 (Combat Evolved) - Classic Graphics and Audio only
- Halo 2 - Classic Graphics and Audio only
- Halo 3
- Halo 3: ODST
- Halo: Reach
- Halo 1 (CEA) - Anniversary and Classic Graphics at leisure
- Halo 2 (Anniversary) - Anniversary and Classic Graphics at leisure
- Halo 4
- Halo 4 - your choice of Spartan Ops missions, all Spartan Ops cutscenes
- Halo 5: Guardians
- Halo: Infinite
Bruh I’ve played litteraly every halo that’s why I feel so strongly about it and once again bungee is garbage too. I also don’t care how many grammatical errors there are. The fact of the matter is not only did they straight up lie about halo infinite. But after spending 5 years updating the mcc when they should have worked on 5. They go in and take out things that made halo interesting. Because now plasma pistols are useless, you don’t get your magnum back if you die in multiplayer and your selection of weapons throughout at least the first one becomes 1 of 3 needler, plasma rifle, and assault rifle. Only two of witch are actually useful on higher difficulty. Even though the plasma pistol used to be the strongest weapon in the game, but no that’s too much fire power to have against a litteral apocalyptic situation. Not only that but they increased the fall damage so now you can’t even traverse the map like you used to because you have to constantly walk arround any cliff or ledge higher than 10 feet. Totally realistic for a universe where that exact same person can take a fall from space. If you don’t like that example how about the friggate that master chief lands on hard enough to shake the whole ship in 2. Why weren’t his legs broken then? Simple he. Is. A. Spartan. Genetically artificial and superficially enhanced. But that of course means nothing to halo anymore.
If your going to say anything to me fully read the argument.
If you’re going to make an “argument” make it make sense. You aren’t arguing a point, you’re just rambling nonsense. Not only is your rambling nonsensical to any context, but your grammar is even more poor.
I’m not even going to waste my time replying anymore because it’s clear you don’t even know what you are arguing. The only point I’ve understood is 343 = bad, for whatever reason. I would know if you were clear and concise with your argument, but here we are.
But you did reply. And clearly you didn’t read the last sentence if any of them.
I don’t care for 343 because, A, They released an unfinished game. B, they needlessly changed mechanics in the originals, even though the originals are the very reason 343 is so successful. C they have progressively been adding more and more micro transactions since 4. And D their story directly conflicted with pre-existing lore (especially in 4) so much so they had to resort to making books to fill the gaps in the plot. I wouldn’t have a problem with 343 if they had actually tried to make those games better. But they didn’t they got complacent. they got greedy and no one cared. now were here, pay walls and grinding with no real reward. Denying that would be a blatant disregard to everything halo was.
That’s my point at least for promethian behavior. You said they were under the librarians controll until the daidact woke up. That is the very reason the promethians shouldn’t have attacked you until you woke him, but they do. If my memory serves me correctly in 4 the promethians side with covenant, while under the librarians influence. Which also makes no sense lorewise. I didn’t really have a problem with 4s story after the daidact woke, but everything leading up to that simply should have never happened. Case in point halo 1,2, and 3 every forunner machine you come across identifies chief as the reclaimer, and only attack if provoked. Covenant are seen as trespassers in the inner confines of halo if not the entirety of halo, as we on multiple occasions see forunner structures making efforts to destroy the covenant throughout 2 and into 3. Then 4 happens.
Halo CE then 2 then 3 then ODST/Reach then 4 then 5 then halo Wars and then HW2 then Infinite
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Of all the Halo Games I’ve played, of the main line games, I have always considered Halo 4 to have the worst campaign of the entire franchise. I played through the entire game not feeling any attachment to the story at all. It constantly tried to hard to have iconic scenes and quotes but the dialogue and worse yet the voice acting is atrocious to the point where there is an entirely serious line said by Captain Del Rio that actually made me laugh because it felt unnatural and ridiculous. In terms of Halo 5 I was absolutely fine with the game other than three points of note,
- The lootbox system makes warzone a mess since you have PTW players running about with over powered weapons in the same matches as people who are using the starting items.
- (I know I will get grief for complaining about this) The Spartan Locke fight with the Master Chief it doesn’t make any sense given that a fist fight between them would go one-sidedly in the Master Chiefs favour because although Spartan Locke has more advanced power armour he doesn’t have any genetic enhancements and the chief does increasing strength, speed and reaction times making several times stronger than Spartan Locke.
and 3. The fact that other Spartans in both Blue Team and Fireteam Osiris have very little character and don’t really have that much of an impact overall.
Overall though Halo 5 was a huge improvement on Halo 4 but, even though they aren’t perfect, I still think the original Bungie games are undeniably better in almost every way. I still haven’t finished Halo: Infinite but is an amazing game so far. I don’t dislike 343 or what they are bringing to Halo but there games still need work and I think they can do a lot with what they already have.
It isn’t that the Promethians are under the librarians control the prometians are just autonomous defences that simply defend requiem from any intrusions no matter who they are. Also the only reason the sentinels and the monitors know you are a reclaimer is because there were set up to help humanity in reclaiming the Halo rings. Meanwhile the Promethians were designed to be drones that had the single-minded purpose of protecting Forerunner Instillations after the original humans rebelled against the Forerunners at which point the didact who had the Promethians created had already disregarded the plan of the humans inheriting the Halo Array and saw no reason for them to know anything about the reclamation given that that plan was a failure in his eyes.
I think if you’re trying to understand Halo Infinite then you definitely need to play 4 and 5? I played them both and still had no idea what was happening for the longest time in the infinite campaign lol
But I would just go in release order and skip the RTS games and arcade games (if you aren’t into those genres) and personally, I never cared for Halo3:ODST.
I love Reach but definitely wouldn’t start with it cause going from that to Halo CE would be really jarring both mechanics wise and graphics wise.
The only problem with this is the number of people who skipped Halo Wars 2, causing them to have no idea who the Banished were in Halo Infinite. The Halo Wars games are part of the story, and they’re pretty damn fun too.