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What is halo to all of you?

I’ve never been able to because my household has always been PlayStation. But I am interested in how halo is for you people who is able to play it. All the people I’ve seen that have played halo say it was amazing and fun! I’m interested in how people found the game and if it’s worth getting an Xbox just to play it.
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    That’s an interesting question. I think at this point, trying to describe what Halo means to me is kinda like trying to introduce someone to a band you loved twenty years ago to someone in their teens and twenties today. Everything has evolved to a point where all the things that made it truly special are so commonplace that newer generations won’t be able to completely “get it”. #GunsOnMapGang #ScrewLoadouts

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  • I grew up on Halo 2, played that for years on my classic Xbox, I really loved the multiplayer even though for me it was just splitscreen due to a lack of internet, I miss having fun games that could be played without internet, good times. [spoiler]Awhile later I ended up getting a not so new Xbox 360, they had been out for years and now I finally had one, my first game for it was Halo Reach which I poured a lot of time and hours into, I think I ended with the Mjolnir Mk. V armor. I think at some point it was around a good 10-12 years ago I went to my local game exchange shop and bought the original Halo. I have to say I kinda liked the classic Halo above the other games, I really loved that campaign, the Flood reviving after you killed the same one like three times now thats some zombie level crap right there. Halo 3, yup, I played its campaign once, never touched it since, definitely not my go to. Give me Akimbo magnums darn it Halo 2 baby!.. Halo 3 ODST, I love it, its sneaky special forces time, this game felt fun and challenging since you don't have shields and seem to move slower than a Spartan. Good times, really love that campaign. Halo 4, not a real Halo, benchmark degraded (but now I have internet finally.) Halo 5, why is this a thing. Halo Infinite, they went with a new story and leave 4-5 just hanging there, oh well I ain't buying it, I played the free to play multiplayer and got some Samurai armor. Halo tv series, never saw it, never will. (I know its not a game or 343.) In summary Bungie Halo's are dope, 343 is just crap... [/spoiler]

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  • Edited by SLy: 8/1/2022 7:33:56 AM
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    Please don't listen to any of the salty Destiny players telling you it's trash, if it were I wouldn't even think about the game today, much like I don't think about CoD or even Destiny 2 anymore. [spoiler] It's been one of the giants in gaming for a reason, it's just been dying in 343s hands though. If you're interested in the trilogy's gameplay, I'd get into it now, no telling how much longer the community can keep itself on life support. It's gotten to the point where even many veterans I know consider it too much of a headache to play online. You can now circumvent getting wrecked as a noobie though with server browsers. If you have a PC, you can probably run MCC, give it a try when it goes on sale, but don't expect it to play like any other FPS you've played. That's why people play it and call it trash. They go in. They try to play it like CoD. They get wrecked. They throw a fit and blame the game rather than their own lack of knowledge, skill and experience. I've seen it time and time again. Also, don't listen to 343 fans, even if I'm someone who despite growing up on bungie, liked 4, 343 fans are just wrong, always, [b]every time.[/b] [/spoiler]

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  • Edited by Cobravert: 7/29/2022 4:59:34 PM
    Pull up a chair, this is gonna take a while. For me the original Halo (CE) was great because of the gun mechanics and story line. The music, the story telling, the character interactions all made it special and somewhat endearing. Halo 2 took it to a new level, and so on with each version - but I'll get to the rest of that in a minute. Halo 3 was my first endeavor into online matchmaking, and to me, had the best campaign still of any of the series. The dialogue and fun from hearing the Covenant comedic banter amplified the campaign experience to it's highest point of the series. It's when I discovered B.net, the forums, the Halo Community, and my eventual online "family" of friends in The WorkPLace Halo group. All of these things made the game that much better and more fun, for the participation with others on a regular basis, as well as the introduction of custom game nights and maps made by our own members, as well as the rest that were available by other Halo 3 players. We had literally 2 solid years of just Halo 3 game time together. What made this better was Bungie was WAY more interactive with the community then, on B.net forums as well as actually playing with them from time to time in the game. They even included some player made maps into the regular rotation. Halo 3 ODST came out to huge fanfare, huge expectations, but was essentially just filler content. There was no matchmaking, just buggy host based campaign and firefight mode with friends. I know for some, this is their pinnacle Halo, but for me it was a let down. I was use to being this elite super spartan, not the back up. So it was my first experience with online game prerelease hype, only to see the real world of "is this all it really is" afterwards. Don't get me wrong - it was a good game, and I still play levels of it on MCC every now and then, but it just wasn't what I was expecting then. Then Reach happened. Best Forge map and game making experience, though not something I personally did, but confusing campaign for me as well. I know it was the new, most modern version game, but being a prequel in story it seemed broken because we had all these "armor abilities" and new weapons, the most horrible Warthog in all the series, that just seemed like it was all out of order. The Covenant no longer was understandable with what they were saying and essentially removed much of what made the earlier Halos so endearing to play - the comedic dialogue. Yeah I know Reach was not suppose to be a "fun" story, but this in itself was a major step backward to me as well. The online competitive games were very different than Halo 3 with the armor abilities and new weapons, that it never felt right, and was the beginning of the end of my Halo matchmaking days. All of this was also Bungie's swan song for Halo for we all knew that they had already decreed that they were leaving Microsoft to be independent. Yeah, how'd that turn out? 343 Industries steps in as the new Halo developers. They are responsible for Halo CE Anniversary and Halo 2 Anniversary, which brought both more up to date graphically, and arguably cut scene wise better, but that's just visual. They didn't affect the original gameplay. But, Halo 4 took the entire Halo universe in a new, unexpected, and dare I say unwanted direction. The cutscene visuals are awesome. Like Halo Reach, the the comedic aspects of the Covenant dialogue is absent, which is weird because of timeline, but in doing so it continued to leave a large hole in the overall feel of what Halo used to be. The change in protagonists made sense to the story line, but just never felt right. The matchmaking was not fun at all and ended my Halo online for good in a very short amount of time. Our clan began to fragment at that time due to those who liked the game and those who didn't. Halo 5 was a better story and gameplay than 4, but still ultimately forgettable. The main protagonist was a PITA to kill, and they essentially destroyed one of the main characters with the contrived story. I don't ever replay this one, for I have no desire to. Infinite was hopefully going to be a Fallout-esque version of Halo, but it wasn't. The campaign is better than 4 or 5, I liked the story but it still leaves me cold, for the replay ability just isn't there. It's the only Halo I have not beaten on Legendary, yet, but I will eventually because that's just me. I have 0 interest in the matchmaking of it, or how it is handled. There is only a small fraction of our original clan who play it. I'm hopeful for the next edition of the campaign solely because I'm invested in the story, but I don't have any desire nor interest in returning to the competitive play. To me Destiny and the newer versions of Halo somewhat mirror each other in the online mm aspect. Too much overpowered, everything, all the time. I hate that. Games were far better with static loadouts, and power weapon drops. Map control, perk, power weapon, in some cases vehicles, and teamwork meant winning or losing. Not it's all the most overpowered weapons are available to everyone, baseline weapons are useless, and have no reason to be on the field. And as you can probably tell, if you're still reading this, is that a lot of Halo love is steeped in nostalgia. The one that you started playing and sucked you in will always be the best one. MCC is probably one of the best games I have installed because it gives me so many different iterations of the games to replay and relive. But those games meant something to me. New games rarely ever get my attention like those did.

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    • I don't think I can properly put my thoughts into words regarding the Halo series. Those games were a major part of my growing up. Not to mention my first experience with online multiplayer. There's no doubt that those experiences shaped the kinds of games I play now and how I play them. Though for me Halo wasn't just about playing the game, it was about the community surrounding it. That's how I ended up finding this place and why I'm still here. I am completely incapable of describing my feelings on that matter but I will at least say being apart of that community shaped me into who I am today. I miss those days terribly and if given a choice I would do it all over again.

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    • Edited by Stark: 7/31/2022 3:37:15 AM
      Halo was a lot of my childhood, from elementary school all the way through high school. I never cared for many other first-person shooter games beyond Halo. Aside from the old Rainbow Six games on the N64 and the Vegas ones. It remains one of the few games that is consistently fun whenever I have a friend who wants to play it, which doesn't happen often anymore. I avoid matchmaking these days, I just play a custom game with whoever wants to get online. I do not play Halo: Infinite anymore, though, nor will I ever give it another shot. I prefer to play the old Halo's, from Combat Evolved to Reach only. Everything past that doesn't exist to me.

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    • Overrated

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    • Edited by Paz Vizla: 7/31/2022 4:27:40 PM
      Long hours of Forge World, also the movie maker in Reach where I would go back through gameplay and find funny moments to screenshot and title!

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    • The Master Chief collection is such a wonderful way yo experience the series, especially on PC that I totally recommend playing them. Now that it's been a while it can be on sale where the bundle is like what 20€ so it's a steal for a good fifty to hundred hours of gameplay or more. Reach is my favorite, though I'd recommend saving it for last (don't play Halo 4) so you'll get into the natural evolution of the series from 1, 2, 3 ODST into Reach.

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    • Edited by Breaking_08: 7/29/2022 2:21:56 PM
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      I’m that one 5’3” guy you all know - old

      It’s a classic and respected and also respectfully convoluted. But I’m an Xbox player so bite me. Infinite is pretty good I can’t lie.

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      • [quote]I’ve never been able to because my household has always been PlayStation. But I am interested in how halo is for you people who is able to play it. All the people I’ve seen that have played halo say it was amazing and fun! I’m interested in how people found the game and if it’s worth getting an Xbox just to play it.[/quote] The only reason I considered getting an xbox instead of my PlayStation back in the day was because of halo

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        I gotta agree with Cult. Don’t go out of your way for it. A large part of what made them so memorable was multiplayer, and the multiplayer experience now is not the same as it was back then. The campaigns were great, too, but keep in mind that the last real Halo came out over a decade ago. They probably feel a bit dated to a new player.

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      • Not worth it at all

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        answer me... - old

        I've never been able to play it either. My household has always PlayStation as well.

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      • It’s one of the few FPS franchises that have a good campaign mode, and furthermore one of the few that doesn’t call much on CoD for inspiration. As someone who; A. Primarily plays single player games B. Doesn’t like the “CoD feel” of guns Halo is pretty snazzy. At least, 1-4 are. 5 isn’t quite as good as the others because of their dumb fireteam mechanic, and I don’t care for Infinite.

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      • [b] [/b]

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        ol azo
        ol azo

        you are lower than pond scum - old

        trash start to finish

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        • Edited by Cultmeister: 7/29/2022 8:23:33 AM
          I wouldn’t buy a new Xbox just to play them, but if you can find a cheap xbone somewhere by all means check out the Master Chief Collection, a collection/remaster of in most people’s views the best halo games. The second and third in particular are superb

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        • Edited by Swat: 7/30/2022 9:19:46 AM
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          Here since 2008. @Hi_Im_Swat Twitter. - old

          The new Halo games (4 - Infinite)? Nah, not worth it at all. Every game developed by 343inds has been a total disaster. The games made by Bungie were and still are amazing. I used to play those games 24/7.

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