Halo 2 was a great game back then, considering it revolutionized xbox multiplayer in terms of its service and gameplay, but if it was released in todays industry, it would be mediocre at best.
You cant list reasons like ‘top spin and dead or alive sucked’, or ‘we all knew halo 3 would come after this’, that doesn’t determine a games ranking. We all know a new call of duty will come after the previous one, yet those games are terrible.
thank god halo 5 plays the way it does, as its refreshing, and extremely fun to play without losing its ‘core’. halo 2 was amazing, but its time to move on to new and better things.
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> Halo 2 was a great game back then, considering it revolutionized xbox multiplayer in terms of its service and gameplay, but if it was released in todays industry, it would be mediocre at best.
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> You cant list reasons like ‘top spin and dead or alive sucked’, or ‘we all knew halo 3 would come after this’, that doesn’t determine a games ranking. We all know a new call of duty will come after the previous one, yet those games are terrible.
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> thank god halo 5 plays the way it does, as its refreshing, and extremely fun to play without losing its ‘core’. halo 2 was amazing, but its time to move on to new and better things.
Halo 5 doesn’t lose its “core”? Lol that’s a good joke. The halo core is grenades, melee, and shooting with an emphasis on aiming ability over movement. Grenades and melee are essentially removed with sprint and thruster. Now the emphasis is on movement, not shooting ability.
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> > Halo 2 was a great game back then, considering it revolutionized xbox multiplayer in terms of its service and gameplay, but if it was released in todays industry, it would be mediocre at best.
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> > You cant list reasons like ‘top spin and dead or alive sucked’, or ‘we all knew halo 3 would come after this’, that doesn’t determine a games ranking. We all know a new call of duty will come after the previous one, yet those games are terrible.
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> > thank god halo 5 plays the way it does, as its refreshing, and extremely fun to play without losing its ‘core’. halo 2 was amazing, but its time to move on to new and better things.
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> Halo 5 doesn’t lose its “core”? Lol that’s a good joke. The halo core is grenades, melee, and shooting with an emphasis on aiming ability over movement. Grenades and melee are essentially removed with sprint and thruster. Now the emphasis is on movement, not shooting ability.
Grenades and Melee were removed from Halo 2 and 3 also with the ability to dual wield which in turn made over half the weapons sandbox useless. Halo has always been mostly about movement above all else.
OP I couldn’t agree more. Halo 2 was, is, and always will be the best halo game and the best FPS in console history. It had a magical spark to it that is hard to explain to others who didn’t truly experience it. Even playing it in the MCC doesn’t do it justice. Halo CE also had this magical spark but it wasn’t as prominent as Halo 2. To the guy that said if Halo 2 was released today it would be mediocre at best, I have to disagree. I think if the game were released today it would still be just as amazing and compared to the cluster yoink that games are today, it would be “refeshing”. Where is this set of rules that say if a game doesn’t have sprint and or multiple classes and a 100 different weapons to choose from that a game is mediocre? You can’t find a game with as smooth and simple of gameplay as Halo 2. Not to mention the maps were a work of art and true masterpieces. You also cant find a game that has as smooth and as simple of an interface either. The ranking system was one of a kind and had never been done before and brought true competition to online gaming as a whole. The only other game that I know of that has copied this formula is Counter Strike Global Offensive, which is the most popular FPS today and very competitive. The ranking emblems were also really cool and had really nice color combinations with the last 7 levels being symbols. Genius.
Halo reach is the best cause I wasn’t playing video games back in 2004 cause I was 4 or 5 years old so I started late after halo 3 came out and just went in random order after that and when I got halo mcc and played halo 2 I started out horrible but on certain maps I’m good at but overall halo 3, reach, 4 and 5 are the best in my opinion
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> > > Halo 2 was a great game back then, considering it revolutionized xbox multiplayer in terms of its service and gameplay, but if it was released in todays industry, it would be mediocre at best.
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> > > You cant list reasons like ‘top spin and dead or alive sucked’, or ‘we all knew halo 3 would come after this’, that doesn’t determine a games ranking. We all know a new call of duty will come after the previous one, yet those games are terrible.
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> > > thank god halo 5 plays the way it does, as its refreshing, and extremely fun to play without losing its ‘core’. halo 2 was amazing, but its time to move on to new and better things.
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> > Halo 5 doesn’t lose its “core”? Lol that’s a good joke. The halo core is grenades, melee, and shooting with an emphasis on aiming ability over movement. Grenades and melee are essentially removed with sprint and thruster. Now the emphasis is on movement, not shooting ability.
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> Grenades and Melee were removed from Halo 2 and 3 also with the ability to dual wield which in turn made over half the weapons sandbox useless. Halo has always been mostly about movement above all else.
What?
dual weilding itself was useless. It didn’t nullify the rest of the triangle as much as the crap in H5 does.
Whatever. I, like many others, enjoyed halo 5 and will be getting it day one. There is a reason why it is the most pre ordered game rn. If you guys think that halo 5 isnt gunna succeed as much as halo 2 did then ur wrong. It will do better.
All horrible reasons and mostly opinions. My opinion is halo 2 is the worst in the series. It destroyed the formula that made CE so much fun and competitve.
Someone else said if it were released today it would be mediocre. Totally agree. Guess what it was released again in november, i doubt it’s attracted many new players if any. Most people that play it now we’re people that played it then. Game is garbage and still is.
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> All horrible reasons and mostly opinions. My opinion is halo 2 is the worst in the series. It destroyed the formula that made CE so much fun and competitve.
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> Someone else said if it were released today it would be mediocre. Totally agree. Guess what it was released again in november, i doubt it’s attracted many new players if any. Most people that play it now we’re people that played it then. Game is garbage and still is.
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> All horrible reasons and mostly opinions. My opinion is halo 2 is the worst in the series. It destroyed the formula that made CE so much fun and competitve.
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> Someone else said if it were released today it would be mediocre. Totally agree. Guess what it was released again in november, i doubt it’s attracted many new players if any. Most people that play it now we’re people that played it then. Game is garbage and still is.
Lol… I know it’s not right to call an opinion wrong… but I’m struggling here…
H2 is the best because even with no shield, if I am BETTER than the other guy, I can still kill him consistently. You have the most fluid freely controllable masterchied in H2 classic. I feel limited in the other Halo’s because you can barely do anything cool or amazing to outplay multiple people at once.
Example: I’m no shield around a corner. Dude turns the corner and I can BxR his -Yoink- before he hits me.(he can predict this so theres counter play). Try that in Halo 3? He just punches you and thats it you’re dead. There is no bxb or dodging his punches.
Example 2: No shield and enemy is running at you but you have some cover. You poke out and quickly RRX, duck for cover during the YY and pop back out for the RRX again. hes dead without touching you and you have no shield. But heres the thing. Only skilled players could pull that off. Try that in Halo 3 and you just die instantly.
**Just using H3 as an example I enjoy all the Halo games.
As far as the feel of the game (i.e. how it feels to aim, and the speed of movement, etc), Halo 2 was excellent back then, but now… I don’t know, I prefer playing ANY of the other games to it, it feels too sluggish, even with the 60 FPS. Halo 4 and then the Halo 5 beta were peaks in that regard, I think the final H5 game will feel the best. As far as gameplay elements goes, I don’t really feel like getting into to in-depth right now, suffice to say, I had a blast with the beta, and am very much looking forward to the final game.
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> H2 is the best because even with no shield, if I am BETTER than the other guy, I can still kill him consistently. You have the most fluid freely controllable masterchied in H2 classic. I feel limited in the other Halo’s because you can barely do anything cool or amazing to outplay multiple people at once.
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> Example: I’m no shield around a corner. Dude turns the corner and I can BxR his -Yoink- before he hits me.(he can predict this so theres counter play). Try that in Halo 3? He just punches you and thats it you’re dead. There is no bxb or dodging his punches.
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> Example 2: No shield and enemy is running at you but you have some cover. You poke out and quickly RRX, duck for cover during the YY and pop back out for the RRX again. hes dead without touching you and you have no shield. But heres the thing. Only skilled players could pull that off. Try that in Halo 3 and you just die instantly.
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> **Just using H3 as an example I enjoy all the Halo games.
Maybe I wasn’t “l33t” enough back then, but I never encountered button combos so regularly that I would factor them into the way I played. I never used them myself either. I’m glad they are gone though. Regardless of whether they became accepted by the general community or not, anyone who thinks that they were put there on purpose to cover those scenarios you described, are deluding themselves.
Good for you for being so good with them, though! no sarcasm
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> Whatever. I, like many others, enjoyed halo 5 and will be getting it day one. There is a reason why it is the most pre ordered game rn. If you guys think that halo 5 isnt gunna succeed as much as halo 2 did then ur wrong. It will do better.
It will succeed. It is set up to succeed… Because of where Bungie put the Halo Universe. To me, 343 has done nothing to better the Halo franchise.
Halo 4 is the worst Halo game among the series (ratings / numbers to prove it). Same developer, similar amount of development timeframe- people expect to see the same thing.
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> Halo 2 was a great game back then, considering it revolutionized xbox multiplayer in terms of its service and gameplay, but if it was released in todays industry, it would be mediocre at best.
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> You cant list reasons like ‘top spin and dead or alive sucked’, or ‘we all knew halo 3 would come after this’, that doesn’t determine a games ranking. We all know a new call of duty will come after the previous one, yet those games are terrible.
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> thank god halo 5 plays the way it does, as its refreshing, and extremely fun to play without losing its ‘core’. halo 2 was amazing, but its time to move on to new and better things.
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> Now this will undoubtedly become a hot debate amongst the older gen gamers and the new freshmen but nonetheless here goes.
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> Massive Halo Fan.
You forgot the most important and most innovative feature of Halo 2…The introduction of Trueskill matchmaking. THAT feature is how I got hooked on Halo 2.
