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Subject: Why Halo 1 is better than Halo 2
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okay grimz halo wrecks halo 2 in all forms save the xbox live,the maps were better,the guns,the gameplay, for a reason beyond me if you try to throw a suidcide grenade so after you die it kills whoever killed you the grenade will just dissapear and grenades in halo 2 suck and dont try to say anything like you have to get it next to them because even if you put it at their feet they wont die, its a friggin grenade you know boom shratnel hurts and explosions do to,then theirs the shotgun which you can shoot someone point blank and half the time they wont die,its supposed to be an 8 gauge magnum shotgun,meaning its friggin powerful but noo they can whip around and kill you i know i am -blam!-ing but really dual weilding isnt that great of a feature it makes gameplay unbalanced in halo their was just he one big bullet hose called the assualt rifle and it was good and then their is the rocket launcher which you can shoot into someones face at pointblank and they will die but no you wont And you all know this to be true dont deny it,and i dont really care about the pistol its not that bad going againts people who have it if you get one and dont suck with it.

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  • 03.13.2005 8:17 AM PDT
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There wasn't even supposed to be a sequel. It was supposed to be just Halo: CE and that was it. Bungie didn't expect it to be so popular, although they hoped it would. They even said they weren't planning on making a sequel, but after seeing how much they made off of halo 1 they decided to make Halo 2, even if it didn't really compare to the first one. So, stop ragging on Halo 2, in fact why don't you just keep on playing halo 1 til' you puke, because the storyline in Halo 2 is much better than Halo 1. Now i'm not saying that Halo 2 has better game play, but i am saying that it made me want to play to get to the cinematechs.

  • 03.13.2005 8:54 AM PDT
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Halo2 is better or the reason of online play

  • 03.13.2005 6:20 PM PDT
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Posted by: EAGLES5
the story is better in H1. The missions seem to be more important to human survival. Like rescuing the marines all the time and captain keyes, MORE military based missions


Agreed. While Halo 2s story is more complex, it isn't told as well. Not to mention, returning to Halo...I remember the first time I played Halo 2, and finding us returning to Halo. I threw my controller down, turned off my Xbox and walked away.
I also disliked the Arbiter missions. I would play through them in a hurry just so I could play as MasterChief again. I mean, these guys are supposed to be bloodthursty aliens, trying to destroy the human race. Why should I care about them, or, more importantly, play half the game as one of them?
But mostly, Halo 2 wasn't as dark or scary or suspenceful as the original. Every mission in Halo 1, I was either excited, frightined, amazed. Halo 1 made Halo seem more like a sci fi novel, making it seem so mysterious and wonderful.
I remember storming the beach on Silent Cartogropher, and thinking 'this really feels like I'm actually part of a fighting team, a group of marines.' Halo 2 lacks that feeling.
And also because Halo 2 takes you back to Halo, there are a lot of 'yawn' moments. Example: The Flood. Been there, done that. Destoryed them already. I sure a lot of people remember the satisfaction of destorying the Flood once and for all in Halo 1, only to fight them again in Halo 2.
I think that if Halo 2 had been what it was meant to be, the fight for Earth, and only Earth, against the entire Convenant, and win in the end, it could have been better. Obviously, Microsoft wanted Halo 3. Easy. It didn't require Bungie to recraft the entire story, the clifhanger could have taken place in a Earth Battle. Maybe in Halo 3, MasterChief would have discovered the main Covenant Homeworld, and end the war. Instead, the focus returns to those ringworlds. I think by returning to Halo it kind of ruined the experience.

  • 03.14.2005 4:57 AM PDT
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-halo 1 was balanced...
-not a big weapon hunt like halo 2,in halo 2 if u have superior weapons and can use them decently, u win.. simple as that..
but in halo 1 u SPAWNED with a great weapon.. the pistol.. therefore is someone has rocket or sniper u can kill them unlike halo 2 where rocket and sniper should just be renamed to invincibility
so all the peopel that say they took out the pistol because it was unbalanced(u just suck to say that ne ways) your 100% wrong, in the 3rd book ( i forgot the name) it says they took the magnum becasue it was heavier.. and they liked the feel better.
-Dual welding is a waste of time.. first u have to hunt for the second weapon u want (saposeing the first is smg) and if its gone ur screwed cause the next nearest decent combo is almost always on the other side of the map.. also if someone else has taken the combo and meets u along ur patch to it your screwed also..

Halo 2 is too easy to play!
bungie just wanted to make money.. and theres more bad players then good players... so y not apear to the larger croud?
- well nobody who was good at halo1 will buy halo 3 (assumeing there will be one) without renting it or playing it at a friends because nobody trusts bungie anymore. the only reason halo 2 was to big is because all the halo 1 players made it so big.. even if they did make more money they wont in the long run.. if they had kept the game the same as halo 1 with some added weapons and a few changes the people who loved halo 1 would be extremely happy and they would continue buying halo for however long it continues..

but if they change halo 3 back like halo 1 they will disapoint all the halo 2 players.. the only way they can solve this imho is to creat halo 3 with and option for halo1 gameplay or halo 2 gameplay and online there would be 2 completely different communitys for each... so no halo 2 players could mix with halo 1 players..

  • 03.14.2005 12:58 PM PDT
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i think you all forget that the default weapon in halo 1 was technically the plasma pistol. In slayer, that was what you started with. try playing halo 1. First person to get the pistol in Halo 1 equals the winner. Play with battle rifles. Or magnums. Two magnums is arguably the best dual combo.

  • 03.14.2005 1:20 PM PDT

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