[Tokyo Rude]

Hey dudes. I once made a thread On an old forum about Halo. I felt like shooting some stuff and found that a copy of the Legendary Halo 1 and 2 Pack for 1000 yen. So now I'm sitting here at the exact same part I quit last time, playing Halo.

It's not bad.

Please discuss Peter Moore's life in this thread.

[another coma]

I hate Peter Moore is Boreing?
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[Chuplayer]

I actually found that sniper level to be one of the better parts of Halo 1. It was a breath of fresh air, at least until it degenerated into a shootout where your squad of space marines dies out quickly and you're left to fight alone.

I hated that about Halo. Sometimes you start with these big squads of soldiers, and all of a sudden it's just you. I liked the chatter between the troops a lot, and the solo action just lacks personality.

[Mr. Mechanical]

Brotip your squad mates don't die as often if you fire on the same targets that they're firing on.
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[Chuplayer]

[Judge Ito]

[Chuplayer]

[Dracko]

No it isn't.
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[Max Cola]

LOOK EVERYONE IT'S DRACKO WITH ANOTHER AMAAAAAAAAAZING COUNTER-ARGUMENT
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Everybody hurts sometimes

[BEIGE]

Hit 'em, marines! Go, go, go! The Corps ain't payin' us by the hour!

[dessgeega]

[boojiboy7]

play it on the highest or second highest difficulty co-op with someone dess. this is really how it should be played.

[Chuplayer]

[Greng]

I enjoyed the library level most... don't think ANYONE liked that bit but me. Relentless waves of flood; good times.
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[Mr. Apol]

[Dracko]

[Slonie]

The Library was plenty of fun with the hammer-of-god shotgun from Halo 1.
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-Slonie

[wasted potential]

does youtube have a vid of Captain Keyes turning into the flood
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[SuperWes]

Halo 1 definitely has the best single player of the series, but (and I'm going to be crucified for this) the multiplayer is unbalanced and far too focused on gunfights over strategy. Halo 2 has the worst single player of the series for sure, but it's got great multiplayer. Halo 3 is probably the best in the series overall simply because it has a pretty good single player and online multiplayer that does pretty much everything imaginable. Being able to modify maps is superb, and with the update that's due out in a week or so it'll be even more versatile!

Uhh, if you play Halo 3 online at all check my fileshare for a few funky maps.

-Wes
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[Marshmallow]

The Halo 2 multiplayer was broken as all hell. I'd rather play the first game multiplayer than that mess!

I'm not sure if I think Halo 1 or 3 is the best in the series... I guess Halo 3 gets bonus points for the sheer amount of cotent, but I feel the original game is more refined. Halo 2 is quite rubbish and it's a shame Halo 3 had to deal with all the bullshit it brought to the table.

[Daphaknee]

dude dess lets play co-op halo when you get here that game is fun

ADD IT TO THE HUGE PILE OF THINGS TO DO
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[Intentionally Wrong]

[Family Computer]

I was thinking about this game earlier actually. I was thinking about how repetitive the level designs are and how it had to have been a design choice made by Bungie on purpose. The Library and the levels in which you go through previous levels backwards, almost seem like commentaries on this, taking the repetition to it's extreme.

I can't figure out why they would have wanted to do things like that.

Maybe they just ran out of time instead.
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[Marshmallow]

what the fuck are you talking about. halo 2 was exploitable as all hell, that's why it was broken! halo 1 was unbalanced, sure, but it wasn't nearly as exploitable as halo 2.

[Harveyjames]

[Marshmallow]

I'd argue that it is.

[dessgeega]

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[WarpZone]

[SuperWes]

[Maztorre]

It's kind of sad that Silent Cartographer is still the peak of the series in terms of level design and overall game structure. There's quite a straightforward formula to that section in terms of pacing and flow that Bungie abandoned in Halo 2 and didn't quite reach again in Halo 3. Gears of War, for example, is far better constructed around its central gameplay hook compared to Halo. Gears 2 looks like the opposite of what happened to the Halo sequels: it remains confident in the strength of its core gameplay and builds new game modes and adds to/balances the weaponry around that central hook. What Bungie did with their game mechanics in Halo 2/3 is ridiculous in hindsight.

The Halo series would probably have been a lot better had it launched on PC with decent mod tools. For one, they probably would have been hiring actual level designers from the community instead of 1Up writers onto their staff.

[boojiboy7]

I thought 3 had a few levels that got close to Silent Cartographer. The Ark and the Covenant were both really well done and paced, building up to nice fights at the end. The one before the flood crash also really plays on Halo's strengths, having big open areas and letting the AI do it's thing so that the fight plays out in its own way each time.

[Harveyjames]

[Maztorre]

[boojiboy7]

I thought the centerpiece fights with the giant walker things in 3 were really a highlight of the Halo style though. The one where you fight two at once in Covenant is perfect for this, because you can get the AI to do some wonderful things there. That level also had some good transitions between the up close, hall battles, and the big outdoor warzones that made SC such a fun level for me.

I guess I didn't sense as much scripting as you did. There were some scripted events, but a lot of it was just letting shit fly in the way Halo does. The most scripting I saw was usually in service of starting the fight, and the game just letting you fill in the rest.

[Dracko]

[The New Ska]

[Dark Age Iron Savior]

Guys tell me about co-op with the PC version.
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[SuperWes]

[notext]

The sheer amount of stuff in Halo 3 kind of works against it in a way, just because there are so many things that feel underdeveloped. Hunters don't get nearly enough playtime, neither does the spartan laser, the covenant go out with a whimper rather than a bang and I never thought I'd say this but there wasn't nearly enough of the flood. (That is, not enough of them in the confined spaces they belong in, and no real three-way battle situations going on). Part of this could be uncharitably (not unreasonably) put down to the design, but I really think there just wasn't room for all the cool stuff to come into play.

Basically what I'm saying is that if Bungie did a few big single-player levels as well as the multiplayer ones they keep spewing out I'd be a very happy boy.

(And yeah, the game still had plenty of Halo 2 bullshit, although somehow they arranged it so you weren't tripping over energy swords and shotguns and other instant-kill weapons every two seconds. Which is probably why the spartan laser doesn't get more play. Still, would've been nice!)

(Halo 2 was a good game, despite everything. My main problem being the great big sucking hole in the middle where Bungie actually decided they should do the Library again, only bigger and less interesting. And the prominence of power weapons that made all the Elites into wusses. Still good times to be had!)
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[The New Ska]

[Greng]

I liked driving the warthog as far down the silent cartographers complex as I could. Not as far as I'd hoped but it was good times anyway.

I love that level name.
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