…and I realized how amazingly awesome it is compared to Halo Reach.
It’s funny, I tried to go back and revisit Halo 2 about a year into Halo 3’s life. I couldn’t even finish 3 games before putting my Halo 3 disk back in. A couple days ago I decided to revisit Halo 3, and played about 20 games before I had to shut it off because of work.
What made Halo 3 so amazing compared to Reach?
Let’s see… Well Halo 3 provides an actual reason to play. Ive spent more hours in H3 Team Slayer then every playlist in Halo Reach combined, and that’s a long time! Constantly trying to build my highest skill is a fun challenge that provides hours of gameplay. The first mistake Bungie made with Reach was doing away with ranked playlists. All we get is stupid Arena that can’t even keep a population of 1000.
And please… Bring back the BR. It only makes sense. It would be lame if the master chief falls asleep with knowledge of the BR, only to wake up and find that the BR is now magically nonexistent and the DMR took its place after years of absence through Halo CE and Halo 2&3.
Annndddd bring back EXP. And no, not double exp. Exp gave an accurate figure of how much a player won compared to how much they played. And it’s a fairer way of ranking up compared to credits, which is because everyone has to win an equal amount of games to rank up. With credits it all depends on how much a player completes challenges and commendations, and cannot forget those lame credit jackpots.