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The community is far better than that of Halo 3's. No sexism, racism and just plane aggressiveness. Everybody on Halo 2 are friends :)

  • 10.12.2008 2:56 AM PDT
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Posted by: I Accendancy I
The community is far better than that of Halo 3's. No sexism, racism and just plane aggressiveness. Everybody on Halo 2 are friends :)
That's probably because they've probably moved onto Halo 3 because they stopped playing Halo 2. Halo 2 gave me some of the worst online experiences I've ever had and left me with a greater disrespect for mankind. I don't think I need to go into detail about all the racist, vulgar, homophobic, retarded jackasses I've met playing that game.

  • 10.12.2008 4:27 AM PDT
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Here's the thing:

Halo is very much the same as Super Smash Bros on very many degrees.

Now before everyone either replies without reading, or skips by this, hear me out. They have a lot more in common than both of them having 3 games in total. So let's go through each game one by one...

When Smash 64 and Halo:CE came out, it was kinda slow, easy to grasp, and everyone was at least "pretty good" at it...

When Halo 2 and Smash Melee came out, you almost had to completely change your fighting/shooting styles. The game got much faster and much more skill related. The skill, though, came nearly completely from your efficiency with a controller (bxr and bxb, etc for halo; wavedashing, L-cancel, teching, etc for Smash).

Smash Brawl and Halo 3...probably the most hated out of the three......on BOTH sides of the spectrum. Brawl and Halo 3 were too much of a change from their previous game. You can't lead targets in halo 3 anymore, it was easier to determine enemy health (not to mention the sniper glitch that is still lingering around). Smash Brawl was much slower and it tried to give a balance between all characters, while ridding itself of the "technical" moves, as did Halo 3 with ridding of bxr.

In short, I can say this: Halo 2 was more controller-skill based; fast fingers and faster reflexes are required to achieve greatness... Halo 3? That's anybody's game lol

  • 10.12.2008 11:04 AM PDT

One of the last 20 to play Halo 2 online. I am honored :)

I think the community for Halo 2 is kinder than the Halo 3 community because everyone shares a respect for the game. In H3, there are tons of trash talking noobs and MLG wanna-be's. In h2, the community is now so small that everyone kind of knows each other. I kept getting paired up with this one guy, Christ911, in matchmaking in almost every game for three days straight. Halo 2's community is just more packed together.

  • 10.13.2008 5:07 PM PDT

I just play it sometimes.
But I hate going online. The people are so annoying/mean!

  • 10.13.2008 7:52 PM PDT
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I prefered the community more for that reason and also because the gametype MLG makes everyone feel like they deserve to be pros in Major League Gaming.

The community on H2 was better, but the amount of people that cheated seemed like it was critically higher than in h3. I did have some personal friends though, that would john about other players knowing how to/being able to double shot, etc, but that's beside the point. That's just an edge that was omitted during h3. *looks back to my post*

Personally of the two, I prefer 3 simply because I like the features. Going solely on gameplay, I think it would be nearly unanimous that H2 is superior. Just like Smash Melee, lol...(even though I am horrible at both Melee and H2 compared to their sequels.

  • 10.14.2008 10:00 AM PDT

Fire.

Better community, no "squeakys," better, maps, better matchmaking playlists, better campaign. It's actually almost better than Halo 3. Halo 3 only has graphics, amount of people, ranks, custom games, forge, and theater that make it better.

  • 10.15.2008 4:56 AM PDT

All bark and no bite...
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Halo 2 was just annoying period...the campaign stunk, the BRs were so underpowered but you were given it every match, and theres so much more

  • 10.18.2008 8:19 PM PDT
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Posted by: StarShipTrooper7
Other: I play all of the series!

  • 10.25.2008 7:22 AM PDT
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I play halo3 most often now because of the faster matchmaking, and its what my friends play.


but damn, halo2 had such better maps. I remember complaining each time i got waterworks back in the day, but id love to play that on halo3 now.

  • 10.25.2008 9:05 AM PDT
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Halo 1 for the PC pwnes all Halo games

  • 10.25.2008 10:22 AM PDT

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