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Subject: Halo 2 vs Halo 3...

...it's all fun and games until someone loses an eye..

What are your pro's and cons for each game?

  • 07.16.2009 2:18 PM PDT

No. Shut up. 50% of all threads in this forum are Halo 3 vs. Halo 2. If Halo 2 sided people are so confidant Halo 2 is better, they should just stop saying it. Because if not, it shows a sense of insecurity if Halo 2 is actually better then Halo 3.

  • 07.16.2009 3:38 PM PDT

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halo 2 has a better story line

  • 07.16.2009 11:23 PM PDT
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halo 2 still the best game in the series. long live halo 2.

Dam, I miss the old days playing halo 2 with my old brothers in arms. Thank you my old friends for giving me this account, I shall continue our legacy.

halo 2 has a better story line, better ranking system, and super bounces.

  • 07.17.2009 12:03 AM PDT
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Halo 2 feels original and 'good' and Halo 3 is depressing ~Cm

  • 07.19.2009 4:33 PM PDT
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Do you know about time travel?

Halo 2 was a fun experince for the campaign and online interactions, but Halo 3 has a slight more better multiplayer experince because it has more fun and exciting playlists. So I am going to say Halo 2.

  • 07.22.2009 10:44 AM PDT

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halo 3 w/o a doubt

  • 07.22.2009 3:13 PM PDT
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For me, it's like comparing one's kids. There is no "winner." They are all loved enormously. They will all be counted as equal when it comes to "importance." But, we all know there are favorites among parents. Is plain to see. H-2 just happens to be the child I will hope to end up with when I'm old. Substance...clarity...bravado...Yep. It's "The one." But I love them all. Can't say a thing against any of them.

  • 07.23.2009 9:01 PM PDT
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nesteggfailer's comment is the best comment by far. how could we chose a favorite halo out of halo? they are all great, halo 2 has more story, but halo 3 the designers focused more on the multiplayer system. you can't have one without the other, so all the halo's are great!

choosing a favorite halo is kinda like saying, which do you like more? breathing to stay alive, or eating to stay alive. you need both of them in order to stay alive so why choose?

  • 07.24.2009 1:43 PM PDT

Hi, I am in charge of the clan AK folk. Folk is about playing games together over on XBL, mostly Halo 2 and 3. Also folk has weekly gaming gettogethers (hosted by one of the leaders) were anyone from the clan is allowed to partake in. These ''gettogethers" include playing certain games for fun, competition, etc. Also members are allowed to host there own "gettogethers" anytime. HOW TO JOIN: Easy, just simply contact me in a message on Bungie.net. After I will reply telling you what to do.

Halo 2 had an ok campaign but its online community and online gameplay where awesome.

Halo 3 has a better campaign but its online community is horrible because all people do is try to rank up. Still like both games though.

  • 08.13.2009 4:40 AM PDT

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Halo 2 beats Halo 3 on campaign but Halo 3 beats Halo 2 Online (MM).

  • 08.16.2009 1:25 AM PDT
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Posted by: Verachi
Halo 2 beats Halo 3 on campaign but Halo 3 beats Halo 2 Online (MM).
I disagree.
I think Halo 2 wins in both areas.

  • 08.16.2009 2:19 AM PDT

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Posted by: urk
Then there are the people who poop in the mash potatoes. Those people get launched out on their asses.

To me both games are different. H2 campaign was good, but all that arbiter crap was filler. H3 was the more complete storyline for me (as was CE) but still left much to be desired.

H2 multi was amazing. But H3's is as well. H2 had duel wield, and the revolutionary XBL. Not to mention the amazing party system. H3 has all that and more!! Saved films Forge etc. I still think that I prefer the majority of H2's maps over H3's.

  • 08.16.2009 9:15 AM PDT

You say tomato; I say potato.

I find it difficult to compare the two campaigns as they are the same story.

  • 08.16.2009 9:45 AM PDT

This is the average H2 Fanboy.
Xfire: JacobGRocks.
50 in H2/H3? Great, but you still fail at this.

Halo 2. Because it has better campagin, better online, and you get to play as covenant single player.

  • 08.16.2009 12:55 PM PDT

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my bunny will kill you.

probably the only thing better about halo3 is forge halo2 beats halo3 in weapons maps and online community

  • 08.16.2009 5:06 PM PDT
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Noxscope.

Blackout
Zanzibar
Head long
water works
blood gulch
tombstone
Ivory tower
HALO 2 WINS

  • 08.16.2009 5:24 PM PDT
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Posted by: borrowedchief
To me both games are different. H2 campaign was good, but all that arbiter crap was filler.

This is a well supported sentiment.
Am I the only person (ever) that thought Arbiter was really cool and compelling ?
While Chief is the perfect postmodern hero (does what he does because he must), Arby is like a tragic hero (blind devotion=flaw...and the circumstantial need to rebel against the system that taught him everything...to uphold everything he's been taught...) I thought the levels were interesting/challenging and the active cammo made for a whole new experience. Bungie took a creative risk and made something really different. I loved it. But I guess I'm pretty much alone here.


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  • 08.16.2009 5:35 PM PDT

I'm 23, I have a house, dog, girlfriend, job and I have no interest in any fanboyism so if you're thinking about sending me a childish PM, don't be surprised when I don't call back.

Posted by: BXKILLA180
Blackout
Zanzibar
Head long
water works
blood gulch
tombstone
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HALO 2 WINS


Blackout eh? don't remember that in halo 2.....

  • 08.16.2009 5:35 PM PDT
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Posted by: BXKILLA180
Lockout*
Zanzibar
Head long
water works
blood gulch
tombstone
Ivory tower
This. Halo 2 maps were the best of the series.
Who cares if they were pretty or not, they flowed and they worked.

  • 08.16.2009 6:14 PM PDT

OMG
Master Chief w/o his Helmet!


Stosh <3's me vicariously... at least someone does...

Halo 2 had big effin maps. Halo 3's feel like they're built for schizophrenic 12 year olds who can't handle being out of a gun fight for 5 seconds.

Halo 2's story felt like it was going somewhere, and somewhere effing amazing, the whole way through. The first time I felt that Halo 3 had even acknowledged this amazing story was as the chief flew up to high charity. Plus, we get to go to the ark but not find out anything about it other than the basics? Bull -blam!-. Tying up loose ends my ass.

I must give Halo 3 save films and the like, truly a feature I would like to see implemented in more games.

Halo 2 had semantic moments such as glitching with a room full of friends, that you can't really expect to ever be replicated again on purpose.

Again on the story, the first half of Halo 3 builds up to the revealation of what the Ark is. Then once we're there, the story just kind of shuts off. "Go to point B, find directions to point C, hit a switch at point C" is basically the entire plot for 2 hours of the game. Unfortunately, while the last two levels did a great job of telling the stories they told, they don't lend any details to the amazing environments around them. I thought it was bad enough when the humans in the Halo stories never remarked about the ramifications of what they'd seen (not ONE -blam!- person remarked about the giant -blam!- teleporter on Earth), but now it seems they're just plain blind as soon as they reach the ark.

Also, as far as endings go, the fact that Halo 3's ending was decided by comittee at the last moment is a thing of shame.

Ultimately, I'm still waiting for the sequel to Halo 2, but I don't think it will ever come.

  • 08.16.2009 6:50 PM PDT
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Posted by: Silentone2
Halo 2 had semantic moments such as glitching with a room full of friends, that you can't really expect to ever be replicated again on purpose.
True that, I'm sorry to say. But they could give us back Sputnik and leave barriers down so we could explore. They did let us do that in H2 because they left easter eggs and such.

  • 08.16.2009 8:10 PM PDT

halo 2 multiplayer maps -blam!- all over h3 multiplayer maps but h3 has better gametypes and new weapons, vehicles etc.

  • 08.18.2009 3:38 AM PDT
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Posted by: BXKILLA180
Blackout
Zanzibar
Head long
water works
blood gulch
tombstone
Ivory tower
HALO 2 WINS


So true. The Halo 3 maps feel so....disorganized and cramped.

  • 08.21.2009 7:03 AM PDT

­"You have to aim above the head, but then a little lower so you actually get it."

-John Mayer

The biggest difference is the skill gap. If the same two teams face off in both games, default settings:

In Halo 2, one will win 50-16

In Halo 3, one will win 50-46

Halo 3 definitely plays as a game created so anyone can win. Not that I think that's terrible, anyone should be able to pick it up and have fun. But as someone who has been playing the Halo series for over seven years, it saddens me that I can get on Halo 3 and lose to people who have only been playing a few months and are far below my skill level, simply because Halo 3 is so random and chaotic.

The main starting weapon has considerable spread and is terribly inconsistent at anything but close range, in which all it takes is half a second of holding the trigger and a beatdown to destroy someone. The Battle Rifle, which should be the weapon that allows the skilled to shine, has been given an enormous spread and lowered rate-of-fire to allow the lesser-skilled players a chance to defeat the more skilled. It's a completely backwards concept that is only explained by the game's intent to put EVERYONE on an equal playing field. Which sounds nice and friendly, but shouldn't those with more skill be allowed to prove it?

Halo 3 - "Have you only put 50 hours into playing Halo? Don't worry, you're on the same playing field as someone who has put in 5,000."

Halo 2 will always be the golden age of competitive Halo, Halo 3 just doesn't work for me. It's a great game, but no one will ever shine in it the way they could in Halo 2.

  • 08.21.2009 12:26 PM PDT

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