Why are even number Halo games a pain?

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Anyone else notice this pattern? Halo: CE was a blast to play on Legendary, Halo 2 gave me nightmares (200% reflex Jackal snipers, Cairo Station LOL) Halo 3 was too easy on Legendary, and Halo 4 was even worse than 2. I didn’t do the PP combo on a single enemy in Halo 4 campaign… It was really frustrating to see a Knight you just fought for 5 minutes get brought back to life lol. I used the PP combo on almost every unit in Spartan Ops, it was definitley easier but also very boring. If Spartan Ops didn’t consistently throw enemies at me I wouldn’t have overused that combo though lol.

What I conclude is that based on odd number Halo’s being funner on Legendary, and based on the hope that 343 will adjust the AI into Halo: CE or Halo 3 status, also coupled with all the negative feedback the forums are giving about the Promotheans, Halo 5 will probably be a less frustrating game to beat on Legendary than 2 or 4.

I of course could be totally wrong. Discuss :slight_smile:

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I disagree a bit. On a scale of one to ten (Ten being shooting your TV out of frustration and 1 finishing the campaign LASO while eating a snack)
Halo CE: 8
Halo 2: 13000
Halo 3: 7
Halo 4: 5
Thats my opinion anyway. I didn’t think Halo 4 was very hard compared to all the other Halo’s. But it all depends on your particular experience.

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I actually thought that Halo 3 was more difficult than CE, but that might just be me.

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Oddly enough, I think I may lean towards the even numbered games as my preference.

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On Legendary for me it’s (from hardest to easiest):
Halo 2
Halo CE
Halo 4
Halo 3

For comparison, on Easy/Normal it’s (same order):
Halo CE
Halo 4
Halo 3
Halo 2

Very interesting…

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OH MY GOSH PLEASE DON’T MAKE ME GO BACK TO HALO 2 PLEASE!!!

The rest were quite easy… Reach,Halo CE,and Halo 3 were a breeze… Halo 2… that was insane. Although I’m about half way though 4 and its rather easy as well.

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The only thing that was a severe pain to me on Legendary were the Knights. The covenant weren’t all that bad.

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For me, from most difficult to easiest:

Halo 2
Halo CE
Halo 4
Halo Reach
Halo 3
Halo 3: ODST

I think it’s quite funny that the only game where we’re not playing as a supersoldier is the easiest on Legendary.

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> The only part of Halo 3 that I can remember being a little difficult, is that terrible flood level, that should never be named.

Imagine doing that solo legendary for 2 hours. Constantly dying without any clue on which direction to move.

I still get nightmares from that mission man.

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It’s hard to decide for the hardest, it’s either CE or 2.

In CE you often had to be very aggressive and head-on to win.

In 2 you had more room to take enemies on one by one, but you can barely take hits.

I’m leaning towards 2, since I’m used to playing aggressively anyway.

The next games to follow in difficulty would be 4, Reach, 3, then ODST.

4 is a lot easier with good timing. Get those knights while they’re still teleporting in.

3 would of been harder if you couldn’t one-hit kill flood with melee.

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Easiest to hardest

Halo 4

Halo 3

Halo Reach

Halo CE

Halo 3: ODST

Halo 2

Halo 4 was definitely the easiest lollll, I only died more than twice at the last mission where there is 5 or 6 knights.

Halo 3 was also easy with brutes due to the fact that they had no shields.

Halo Reach was only really difficult for tip of the spear and Pillar of Autumn.

CE is just hard especially on flood missions.

ODST is only hard because Odst’s are weaker than Spartans and takes like 3 or 4 hits to kill a brute.

Halo 2 is as hard as Halo 4 legendary on heroic. lol. dem Jackals.

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Halo 2
Halo Wars
Halo Reach
Halo CE
Halo 4
Halo 3 ODST
Halo 3

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> For me, from most difficult to easiest:
>
> Halo 2
> Halo CE
> Halo 4
> Halo Reach
> Halo 3
> Halo 3: ODST
>
> I think it’s quite funny that the only game where we’re not playing as a supersoldier is the easiest on Legendary.

They probably dumbed down the enemy HP to balance out the fact that you are not a spartan. I noticed Brutes and drones were a lot easier to kill.

Of course I played mostly firefight, so maybe they are different in that.

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Hardest to easiest:

Halo 2
Halo 3
Halo CE
Halo 4
ODST
Reach

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To be quite honest halo 4 wasn’t hard the only hard ones were ce and 2.