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Subject: Which game do you prefer on legendary: Halo CE or Halo 2?
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Poll: Which game do you prefer to play on legendary: Halo CE or Halo 2?  [closed]
Halo CE:  75%
(36 Votes)
Halo 2:  12%
(6 Votes)
Either. They are equal.:  4%
(2 Votes)
I don't play on legendary difficulty.:  8%
(4 Votes)
Total Votes: 48

Which game has a better legendary difficulty? I played Halo CE on legendary with a friend recently, and I enjoy legendary more on Halo CE. What do you think?

  • 06.04.2007 8:59 AM PDT

1.Arkham Asylum, 2.Mass Effect, 3.Halo CE, 4.Mass Effect 2, 5.Halo 2, 6.Splinter Cell Double Agent, 7.Gears of War 2, 8.Medievil, 9.Oblivion, 10.Crash Team Racing

How many thread there is about this. Overall i think Halo2 is better, in campaign and multiplayer, but i played both games on Legendary a while ago and thought that HaloCE is fun and challenging, but Halo2 especially beginning with Elite enemies is just stupid, just huge amount of stupid standing ultraweapon turrets. In Halo you can win against 2 Elites in open area, Halo2 is just getting killed, killed, killed, needlers, greanades or noobcombo, i dont know how i beat it before i knew about combo. Giving enemies so much more powerful weapons is just the cheapest possibility, make them more intelligent, active, teamworking, higherranked and talented (accuracy, more durable, etc.) in Halo3

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  • 06.04.2007 9:11 AM PDT

Good Luck.Dont die.

I'd like prefer Halo CE Legendary its harder.

  • 06.04.2007 11:09 AM PDT
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Much definitely the first game. The second game on the harder difficulties is no longer fun or challenging, it just becomes a tedious, boring, seemingly-impossible experience where enemies out-number, out-gun, and out-shoot you. It's seriously not fun. At least in Halo, it was a challenge and you could tackle enemies head-on if you were good enough and the game rewarded you for it.

  • 06.04.2007 2:04 PM PDT
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Halo 2, at points, seemed impossible the first time. But now I have beaten it 4 times, but still hard as heck with the ultra Elites and stupid Jackel Snipers. Halo: Combat Evolved legendary just seem more fun and in my opinionit was easier.

  • 06.04.2007 2:59 PM PDT
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well halo 2 is harder i beatin it b4 but i like it on ce much better its more fun {dgk}


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  • 06.05.2007 12:53 PM PDT
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Sorry CE diehards; the H2 campaign on Legendary is harder. Even with the noob combo. I actually forgot for a moment that I was playing CE on Legendary once; then I entered an area I knew was too tough for Heroic (the lull was pretty damn long though). Every corner you take in H2 you have this constant fear. It's really a long process. I love it. Even after three years I still don't let anyone touch my MasterChief profile. That is for me to complete and me only (note: I have not been working on it for three years; only about a half and I do it bit by bit).

  • 06.05.2007 10:01 PM PDT

1.Arkham Asylum, 2.Mass Effect, 3.Halo CE, 4.Mass Effect 2, 5.Halo 2, 6.Splinter Cell Double Agent, 7.Gears of War 2, 8.Medievil, 9.Oblivion, 10.Crash Team Racing

Halo2 is harder but in a wrong way. Id rather play HaloCE with one life than play Halo2 with unlimited lives or id rather play against 10 elites in HaloCE than 2 in Halo2. Also enemy intelligence is just stupid in Halo2, mostly they just stand and dont chase, if they would chase you game would be impossible, they have huge man and weaponpower. I thought Spartans and Elites are equal but in Halo2 it isnt true unless normal difficulty really means normal, but the fact that difficulties in HaloCE and 2 dont match annoys me (A GRUNT can easily kill you in Halo2 if he doesnt get scared ot you dont get headshot). Is Normal supposed to mean Spartans and Elites are equal, if it is then im fine with Legendary difficulty, but giving so much more powerful weapons to enemies is just not fun, you can never really attack against enemies 4 shots from plasmarifle kills you but enemy dies from 40 and there is usually many so you cant approach.
Later however when Elites are no longer enemies game gets so much easier, i played few levels and thought i can never complete this but when it was just Flood, Brutes and Me moving on and enjoying it was possible.
Who can say the second hangar in Cairo is fun? 10 Elites, usually white, hiding behind boxes, you show your face and get one shot and your being shot by blue endless waves, the one Elite you hit goes behind a box while others cover him and soon he gets his shield full again. Grenades dont kill, human weapons are crap, having dual needlers or plasmarifles gives a small chance (I didnt know about noob combo then). And thinking if they would act smart and see its 10 against 1 and start to chase me its mission impossible. Last Brute fighting levels made me forgot those horrible memories and i quite enjoyed it.

In Halo3 we likely have Elites AND Spartans with us so i think game will be pretty easy compared to Halo2, But luckily there are serious manpower in Covenant and Flood

  • 06.06.2007 3:17 AM PDT
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Halo 2's campaign was more of a challenge hands down.

  • 06.06.2007 3:38 AM PDT

Halo CE's campaign on legendary is so much better than halo 2's it's not even funny. For a start, the campaign overall is a much superior gameplay experience regardless of difficulty. Secondly, the difficulty is much better implemented. In halo 1 legendary you can rely on skills alone. In halo 2 legendary, you have to rely on memorising each enemies' spawn, and using cynical and restrictive weapon combinations too much, and enforced vehicle sections, ultimately leaving you with little choice as to how you play the game. Halo 1 legendary is fun and halo 2 legendary is kind of boring by comparison, it just becomes a joyless grind.

How difficult they are has no effect on how enjoyable they are.

  • 06.06.2007 4:31 AM PDT
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The problem with Halo 1's campaign on Legendary was that it was almost laughable how easy one could walk through it.

  • 06.07.2007 3:36 AM PDT
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Halo CE is still fun. Halo 2...bleh.

  • 06.07.2007 6:48 AM PDT
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I always thought that H2 was an improvement in practically every aspect. Sure there were subtle nuances lost in H2 (twinkling stars, nade skipping, etc.) but as far as graphics, weapons, multiplayer, and campaign it was just the same Halo with more stuff (albeit wrapped up in a shorter campaign).

  • 06.08.2007 8:31 PM PDT
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Posted by: Sangeili Warrior
I always thought that H2 was an improvement in practically every aspect. Sure there were subtle nuances lost in H2 (twinkling stars, nade skipping, etc.) but as far as graphics, weapons, multiplayer, and campaign it was just the same Halo with more stuff (albeit wrapped up in a shorter campaign).
Right, right, along with the auto-aim, the imbalanced power weapons, superbouncing, more button glitches...

  • 06.09.2007 3:28 AM PDT
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me sucky i no play legendary still heroic (almost there)

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  • 06.09.2007 8:09 AM PDT

I like Call of Duty and Gears of War, AND Halo. Why must everyone else like only one or the other?

Halo for sure. At least I can play legendary in CE without feeling like throwing the controller at the TV. Halo2 legendary is insane. A challange can be fun once in a while but Halo2 legendary is just next to impossible. (I've only beaten the entire game in legendary 2 or 3 times) What with jackel snipers that one shot, one kill you when you pop your head out for a fifth of a second or Elites with two plasma rifles that kill you in 3 or 4 hits.

  • 06.09.2007 11:10 AM PDT

Halo CE for sure. Halo 2 is just a pain. Anybody else play it on co-op? Halo 2 when a buddy dies on legendary you both have to restart from the last checkpoint. Where in Halo CE all you had to do was run backwards or push on to get that respawn.

  • 06.09.2007 11:47 AM PDT
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Posted by: Sangeili Warrior
I always thought that H2 was an improvement in practically every aspect. Sure there were subtle nuances lost in H2 (twinkling stars, nade skipping, etc.) but as far as graphics, weapons, multiplayer, and campaign it was just the same Halo with more stuff (albeit wrapped up in a shorter campaign).
Right, right, along with the auto-aim, the imbalanced power weapons, superbouncing, more button glitches...


... And nuances gained as well. I like superbouncing as well as the weapons and I couldn't feel anymore neutral to auto-aim than I am right now. Button glitches are about the only thing you mentioned that I didn't like. Of course you'll respond trying to tell me how my opinion is wrong and that a game should be balance... I don't care. I've heard every arguement there is and through it all I just don't care. You can't argue an opinion; you're wasting your time. Good day.

  • 06.09.2007 2:37 PM PDT
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Actually I thought respawns in both games are just a pain. But I'm with you; the restart in H2 did suck.

  • 06.09.2007 2:40 PM PDT