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Subject: Halo 3
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I really didn't think Bungie could ruin the multiplayer gameplay anymore from Halo 2. What sad sad excuses for sequels they are compared to Halo CE.

[Edited on 10.08.2007 3:39 PM PDT]

  • 09.26.2007 2:34 PM PDT

I don't know if I would call them better or worse, just different. Everyone feels differently about the games, I like them all because they are not the same at all. It's all halo themed, even though all the games are very different. Halo CE, Halo 2, and Halo 3 will never die.

  • 09.26.2007 11:27 PM PDT
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If I don't see you, good afternoon, good evening, and good nite.

I was playing Truth and Reconciliation on Normal the night before Halo 3 came out and I died a couple of times. I forgot about the invisible sword elite.
I play through the whole first three levels of Halo 3 on Normal and don't die once. I eventually died in later levels, only because I was making very bold or very stupid moves.
I know that Bungie told most fans to start on Heroic, but Normal is the new easy practically. Halo 2 is impossible on Legendary and is too shiny. Halo 3 is shiny and easy, but Halo CE was gritty, real, and full as far as graphics go. It was also challenging on Normal, at least when I was beginning.

  • 09.27.2007 9:28 AM PDT
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Halo 3 didn't. Halo 3's multiplayer experience is much better than Halo 2's, I think.

  • 09.27.2007 2:00 PM PDT

Halo: CE > > Halo 3 > Halo: Reach = Halo 2

Halo 3's MP is very good. Much better then halo 2's. Bungie increased the FOV back to around 90 degrees with the final version of Halo 3. MP feels very much like Halo 1, now.

  • 09.27.2007 9:01 PM PDT
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Halo 3s MP is better than Halo 2, but that isn't really saying much. There are still too many WTF moments and BS inconsistent hit damage/shotgun damage, snipes etc. Film just makes it more apparent. I once got a double kill with a single snipe shot, when I review the film the sniper bullet went INBETWEEN both players and somehow killed them. What a joke. It's on my file share, check it out.

Anyways, its a shame Bungie thinks Halo CE was terrible. Its the only game in existence that was truly consistent, took skill, and everyone had a chance when you did pistol start.

My only hope is that they make Halo CE MP available for download via XBL Marketplace so we can play online. Assuming they don't get any stupid ideas and try to change anything it.

  • 09.29.2007 1:42 PM PDT
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Posted by: I Mr MASTERS I
Halo 3s MP is better than Halo 2, but that isn't really saying much. There are still too many WTF moments and BS inconsistent hit damage/shotgun damage, snipes etc. Film just makes it more apparent. I once got a double kill with a single snipe shot, when I review the film the sniper bullet went INBETWEEN both players and somehow killed them. What a joke. It's on my file share, check it out.

Anyways, its a shame Bungie thinks Halo CE was terrible. Its the only game in existence that was truly consistent, took skill, and everyone had a chance when you did pistol start.

My only hope is that they make Halo CE MP available for download via XBL Marketplace so we can play online. Assuming they don't get any stupid ideas and try to change anything it.


Told myself if Halo 3 didn't have certain things (like a game browser, hiding ranks so people play for fun, not ranks, ext), I wouldn't buy it. That also means I won't be buying an XBox 360. I would not only buy a 360 if they brought Halo CE to XBox Live, but pay good money for the 360 itself. Every game I've played since Halo CE, I've been left with a, "Well, it's no Halo" feeling. I still miss the days of my friends coming over and spending all day on XBConnect, and playing well into the night.

[Edited on 10.15.2007 6:20 PM PDT]

  • 09.30.2007 12:27 AM PDT
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Posted by: J19thewidowmaker
Halo 2 is impossible on Legendary and is too shiny. Halo 3 is shiny and easy, but Halo CE was gritty, real, and full as far as graphics go. It was also challenging on Normal, at least when I was beginning.


No, you are wrong. Halo 2 and 3 are not shiny that is why they suck. Halo CE is shiny that is why it rules. Seriously, look at the warthog, shiny. Look at the MC, shiny. Elites, Shiny. Plasma Rifle/Pistol, shiney as blam. Everything in Halo CE looked and felt like Cold hard Metal

Look at the warthog in 2 and 3, dull dark green. Look at the MC hes made of plastic. Look at his visor its bright orange and ugly. Everything in Halo 2/3 looks and feels fake, likes its made of Plastic.

  • 09.30.2007 6:20 AM PDT
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Told myself if Halo 3 didn't have certain things (like a game browser, hiding ranks so people play for fun, not ranks, ext), I wouldn't buy it. That also means I won't be buying an XBox 360. I would not only buy a 360 if they brought Halo CE to XBox Live, but pay good money for the Halo CE itself. Every game I've played since Halo CE, I've been left with a, "Well, it's no Halo" feeling. I still miss the days of my friends coming over and spending all day on XBConnect, and playing well into the night.


I agree halo 1 on live and in HDTV would be the best game ever... MAKE IT!!

I think bungie jsut tryed to chage a great game to much and ended up jsut makeing soemthing totally different then it should of been, the only reson I or 99% of people play it is beacuse it on live... LAME

  • 10.04.2007 11:30 AM PDT

fear gets you killed, anger keeps you alive

get with the times, halo 1 was the most unbalanced multilayer ever. it will never come to HD or live.

get over it

  • 10.05.2007 6:49 AM PDT
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Posted by: MiGleader
get with the times, halo 1 was the most unbalanced multilayer ever. it will never come to HD or live.

get over it


This was so intelligently posted I decided to create a New Topic for his reply. http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=13479123

  • 10.07.2007 4:52 PM PDT

Posted by: MiGleader
get with the times, halo 1 was the most unbalanced multilayer ever. it will never come to HD or live.

get over it

I put it to you that you don't know what balance is.

Halo 1 is better balanced than Halo 2. Halo 2 is ALL about weapon control. It is by necessity unbalanced. They designed the game to work that way.

  • 10.08.2007 8:58 AM PDT
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Halo 3's HDR is to die for, organic surfaces look unremarkably shiny, metallic surfaces make my eyes hurt/

PLus: Halo 3's campaign is a lot more fun than Halo 1's. Halo 1's was more about originality than actual fun. There no WOW moments in Hallo 1 like the scarab encounter in the Covenant. (Well, I could say that the last battle in two betrayals was sortta good) Really the only reason I play CE is it had that special "feeling" that the next 2 games didnt have. Even though 2 and 3 were a hella of a lot more fun than CE. Theres a word for this feeling, and thats called originality. If Halo came to 360 in HD you would hate it.

  • 10.08.2007 1:28 PM PDT
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Posted by: Zekleus
lol. I really didn't think Bungie could ruin the multiplayer gameplay anymore from Halo 2. What sad sad excuses for sequels they are compared to Halo CE.


Wow what a sad excuse for a OP you are, first and foremost you say Halo 3 is pitiful compared to Halo 1 without giving any backup opinions or proof saying why, right away targeting this pitiful excuse for a thread for a lockdown.

Second, Halo CE beat Halo 2 but got raped by Halo 3. PLain and simple: Halo 3 has a lot more WOW moments with a bit polished gameplay and multiplayer (other than lagg isues) Bungie has repeatedly said Halo 3 is what they wanted Halo to be all this time.
A:99% of the weapons and veichles they wanted in Halo CE are in Halo 3
B: The plot doesent just revolve around humans anymore which is great.

Halo 1 is dead now, Halo 3 is a lot more fun, go away.

  • 10.08.2007 1:34 PM PDT
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The only wow moments Halo 3 has is graphically and with the extra options and since it's on the next gen consoles something like that is expected. Halo 1's campaign is so much better than the other 2 games. The MP is much more fun and balanced imo...The AR in Halo 1 is a much better starting weapon than the new AR, and the melee is more balanced...there isn't lunge on it either. Grenades are so inconsistent in Halo 3. The WOW moments in Halo 3 are the ones where you are saying WTF..

  • 10.08.2007 2:26 PM PDT
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Posted by: von Steubem
The WOW moments in Halo 3 are the ones where you are saying WTF..


Haha, So true.

  • 10.08.2007 3:38 PM PDT
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So let me get this straight, a cruiser dropping off three tanks isnt a WOW moment? battle where you have to destroy 2 scarabs in hornets with a tank 3 warthogs and a full on air battle over your head isnt a WOW moment? (There are no WOW moments in multiplayer, just to get that straight)

  • 10.08.2007 6:47 PM PDT
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The campaign is so overrated. With 4 player co-op there should be massive open ground battles, at least the size of the Halo 1 campaign's. As it is now it's way way way too easy, especially with 4 players. What would have wowed me would be like 100 brutes, hunters, grunts, jackels, 15 banshees, turrents, several wraiths, choppers that you would have to deal with. AOTCR or To Betrayals like, but bigger. That's what I expected and what would have wowed me...

  • 10.08.2007 7:46 PM PDT

fear gets you killed, anger keeps you alive

halo 3 was so much more epic, than the boxed up canyons of halo 1.
easy my ass, ever heard of skulls? activate them, then see if its easy

WOW moment number 1, cruiser flying overhead in tsavo highway.
WOW moment number 2, anti air battery lobbing rounds in the distance on the storm.
WOW moment number 3, blowing up scarabs though out the games.

and it keeps going......
and i still believe halo 1 is the best game of all time, but don't go saying halo 3 was overrated, if anything halo 1 is overrated

  • 10.09.2007 1:41 AM PDT
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scarab killing...just dumb. they are also easy to take down. and yes I have played with some sculls on. and I will say Halo 3 is overrated because it is until they fix a few things.

  • 10.09.2007 10:13 AM PDT
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Posted by: MiGleader
get with the times, halo 1 was the most unbalanced multilayer ever. it will never come to HD or live.

get over it

I put it to you that you don't know what balance is.

Halo 1 is better balanced than Halo 2. Halo 2 is ALL about weapon control. It is by necessity unbalanced. They designed the game to work that way.

  • 10.09.2007 12:50 PM PDT