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Subject: Do you think Halo CE is the best halo

Halo 3 is better, but only due to Forge.

  • 11.08.2009 3:19 PM PDT

Halo 1>Halo 2>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>Halo 3

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  • 11.09.2009 7:43 AM PDT

“If we will disbelieve everything, because we cannot certainly know all things, we shall do much what as wisely as he who would not use his legs, but sit still and perish, because he had no wings to fly.” - John Locke

"How can anyone be enlightened? Truth after all is so poorly lit." - Rush

Halo CE by far has the best campaign, although being able to have 4-player online co-op in halo 3 is awesome.

Halo 3 by far has the best multiplayer, due to forge.

Such is why I still pull out my old copy of Halo CE every once in a while, Halo 3 remains the game I play with my friends, and my copy of Halo 2 is collecting dust.

  • 12.02.2009 9:42 AM PDT

Posted by: Locke357


Halo 3 by far has the best multiplayer, due to forge.


Are you kidding me? Forge does not make up for -blam!- gameplay.

H1 had the best multiplayer by far. I guarantee all the kids saying H3 have only played H1 campaign.

  • 12.02.2009 2:57 PM PDT

Keepin' my ammo dry and my eyes on the target.

sorry Ghostrider2121 i posted a topic kinda like this one before I saw yours my bad. But yea HaloCE is THE BEST!!!!!

  • 12.03.2009 1:16 PM PDT

Posted by: ღMidnight Hawk2ღ
Everyone is entitled to their own wrong opinion.


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We're a Bungie.net group that goes to our very own Bungie server. Most players are from the Halo community either off Bungie itself or through word to Halo friends.

Halo CE= Campaign

Halo 2 = Multiplayer

Halo 3 = forge

Halo ODST =...recon?

Halo CE and Halo2 are the same for me. they are both awesome games.

  • 12.07.2009 4:16 PM PDT

I agree that all presidents should serve 2 terms. 1 in office and 1 in prison

I dont think it is....I KNOW it is. it was actually fun to play with people, not constantly getting harrassed and degraded by people...thanks xbox live.

  • 12.15.2009 8:12 AM PDT

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Posted by: oscarstrok
dont hate me, but my fav halo game is halo 3, the reason why is i think its got more freedom and better obsticals like scarab tanks

BANG head shot
That doesn't really say much.

In Halo: CE, there were no invisible walls. If you could see it, you could potentially get to it.

Scarab tanks are boring after the first few. They're predictable and easy to avoid and kill. Not to mention essentially harmless.


Also more reasons why ce was so good

invincible warthogs
challenging enamy's
no just going in and killing covenant with out a fight

  • 01.04.2010 1:16 PM PDT

the mag is not as good in odst but some what simaler still CE mag is still the best To this day. to rap it up I have played halo 1,2,3,and ODST

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  • 01.04.2010 1:21 PM PDT

Halo: Combat Evolved absolutely has the best gameplay for multiple people of any shooter- ever.

Halo 3 would have come close if they had not put in stupid idiotic equipment, and had not weakened the pistol even more than it was in Halo 2. I know the individual shot is stronger, but it fires slower. I guess its actually about the same as a Halo 2 pistol but it feels weaker to me, and anyway they should have brought back the zoom on it, although with less range than the Halo CE pistol.

Here are my reasons Halo CE remains the best shooter:

1. Balanced weapons. They're mostly all powerful, but you have shields unlike most shooters, so powerful weapons are ok. You don't really die any faster. The weapons with the exception of the pistol shoot how they should. In other words a shotgun only shoots like ten to twenty feet in CoD Modern Warfare 2, Halo 2, and Halo 3, but shoots about the correct distance in Halo CE. The weapons just have the correct range and damage, again with the exception of the pistol.

2. Better maps. The maps show a better understanding of gameplay, so evidently the map designers of Halo CE were more talented than those of Halo 2 and 3. For example, in the Halo CE map Sidewinder, players would have no way to get to the other team's base on foot due to sniper rifles and vehicles killing them in the large open expanse. However, the map contains a side route that is short by using teleporters to instantly zap players long distances over the map. In Halo 3's Standoff, the only way to cross the map on foot is by your team dominating the other team. Adding in teleporters or even man cannons somehow in Standoff would have greatly improved gameplay on the map.

3. Vehicular gameplay (yes I made a new word up) seemed better to me for some reason in Halo CE. Sure the slightest bump killing you needed improving though, but for some reason it seemed like you would fight with vehicles in Halo CE where as on Halo 2 and 3 it seems like you fight with vehicles when the game begins, and then only one team has vehicles. I'm not sure what causes this difference, it could be vehicles being impossible to destroy in Halo CE. But that isn't great either, so if indestructeable vehicles made better gameplay in Halo CE with vehicles, that just means they should have instant respawns instead. I'm going to try it out sometime on Halo 3 and see if it brings back the feeling of Halo CE maps with vehicles.

4. Long range fighting. Halo 2 was ultimate close-up combat, like the super powered sword, and two foot ranged shotgun for example, and Halo 3 is still close-up to medium range fighting oriented. I personally enjoy long range fighting more in video games, so the change Halo took in that direction disapointed me. You could shoot most weapons and hit stuff at a longer distance in Halo CE. The pistol's range was too far though.

5. When you fall 50 feet gravity actually works. (you die)

6. Grenades are actually deadly, not just shield breakers.

Things I thought were mistakes in Halo CE:

1. Health meters and health packs. I just think health bars are not needed really. In my opinion once your shields are down it should be easy to die, just like in Modern Warfare 2. So if you survive, and regain shields, you will certainly die the next fight anyway. And having a health pack that can somehow patch a hole in your heart is cheesy to me lol. This WAS a big improvement Halo 2 brought that Halo 3 continued.

2. The Halo CE pistol was overpowered. The Battle Rifle needs the exact distance and power the Halo CE pistol had, and optional firing modes, single shot would shoot the same speed as the Halo CE pistol, 3 shot burst same speed as now but with no random spread junk, and a slow firing full auto mode that rises slightly about like SMG's in Halo 3 rise, that you can be zoomed in while using. The pistol should be exactly like the ODST pistol. They got it perfected now in my opinion. Its not too powerful to feel like its a pistol, it has the zoom that is fun for Halo despite unrealistic, and it can still get kills even though its not that powerful.

3. The assault rifle was not accurate enough. Halo 3 nearly perfected the assault rifle, but it still needs a bit more power, or either a bit more ammo. Personally I would go with a bit more power, not more ammo because that would make the gun easier to use. Less ammo means more aiming to get kills, but more power makes getting the kills a bit easier too.

Those three things are really all I can think of.

  • 01.06.2010 11:29 PM PDT

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For campaign yes but for Multiplayer no.

  • 01.06.2010 11:34 PM PDT

(Bungie > 343i)

Posted by: Verachi
For campaign yes but for Multiplayer no.
In fact lately I've been playing alot of the Campaign; it's so challenging on legendary.

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I miss those days in Chill Out, Prisoner, the original Hang Em High, and of course, Damnation. this was the greatest FPS ever created. when Halo 2 and 3 came out i was nothing but disappointed so now all i play is Modern Warfare 2. How do ya like that bungie? no game can compare to Halo CE, yet these phony versions of the original leave you guys open to competition where otherwise you would monopolize the FPS industry with Halo CE on XBOX LIVE.

  • 01.07.2010 11:07 AM PDT
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Verachi...you were probably one of those noobs that complained about people 3-tapping you with the pistol

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  • 01.07.2010 11:07 AM PDT
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I still enjoy it, but "best" is uncertain, perhaps in my opinion, I like them all equally.

  • 02.11.2010 11:35 AM PDT
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Posted by: Ancients
In fact lately I've been playing alot of the Campaign; it's so challenging on legendary.
Then you are playing it wrong...
For me it is quite equal between 1, 2 and 3.

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Halo 1 was first, with an awesome campaign, but the pistol is too overpowered in MP to the point where it can overpowered the shotgun at close range and out-snipe the sniper rifle. Yes, I was a pistolwhore, but it was just ridiculously unbalanced compared to the other weapons.

Halo 2 had a weaker story IMOH. It was too confusing at times (tested this on my sister. She understands the Halo 1 and 3 storyline, but Halo 2 is too confusing). The strong side here is MP and balanced weapons (the BR was not as overpowered as the pistol).

Halo 3 had an awesome campaign that was flexible (skulls), but it was way to short. Here the MP shines, along with saved films and Forge.

Halo 3: ODST is a far better game then the internet says. I am the kind of gamer that doesn't play online, because I hate Micro$oft too much (but I love Bungie more, so that's that...), and the feeling I get from sneaking around and actually fighting to survive. Firefight is the best thing that Bungie has made (in the Halo franchise) for social MP. My best Halo experience (apart from my first play-troughs of the games and the legendary ending in Halo 1) was playing Firefight for 10 hours in the middle of the weak (played to 6 a.m., had classes at 8 a.m., got out from the lectures at 6 p.m., and then right back to it. Firefight also gives them a sporting chance to survive while playing with me and I can still dominate, so for me, ODST is up there with Halo 1, but as I have yet to try Halo 3: Reach, I will keep my vote.

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  • 02.13.2010 10:33 AM PDT

Rose-tinted glasses: | [ON] OFF |

Halo: CE is (notice how I use present-tense) a great game, but let's try to be real here, people.

  • 02.13.2010 11:10 AM PDT

l;abhrfiodj!!

yah it was interesting complicated and took insane turns in plot. The plot of this game was awesome. You start with one group of adversaries then another group (flood) show up that totally attack in a new way, and finally a third group shows up and at first helps you and then turns on you.

If the plot isn't your thing it had music that really got the heart pumping!

I also loved the fact that some flood would randomly stand up!

oh and the multiplayer was a riot!

And finally was it just me or was the enemy AI better than all the others? I mean elites would like hide and flank you and one time I swear one jumped in front o a rocket to protect a tank...

[Edited on 02.15.2010 1:23 AM PST]

  • 02.15.2010 1:19 AM PDT

Time for my two cents. I read a few pages of your guys' opinions and I think most of you have valid points.

Halo CE: I definitely enjoyed the campaign more than the other Halos. Despite not owning an xbox at the time, I had loads of fun blasting through levels such as "The Library" with my buddy. I loved the pistol. I was a noob so I didn't realize how powerful it was. I just felt like a bad ass carrying it and thought the melee animation was the coolest thing. Local was fun too. For some reason we would always play on blood gulch, even though that map is pretty large for 4 players. I have played a bit of Halo CE online for pc. I am ashamed to say that I cannot play an fps with a mouse and keyboard to save my life, so although I don't like CE's multiplayer the best, I still respect it.

Halo 2: The campaign was fun, not as good as CE's in my opinion, but still new and exciting when it came out. I still did not have an xbox at this time, I had a PS2 :(. The multiplayer was a blast though. Duel wielding was a great addition as well, adding more depth to the multiplayer. There's nothing like a good local game on lockout (my favorite halo map ever). And I still have many fond memories of 4-player splitscreen online matchmaking for hours on end.

Halo 3: The campaign was fun back in the day, but now I've played through it so many times that I'm sick of it. 4 Player online coop was a great edition and the optional scoring mode was okay, but didn't quite catch on. I loved searching for the hidden skulls and unlocking new pieces of armor for my spartan and elite skins. Forge and theatre mode were brilliant additions, extended the replay value for me, especially when playing local with my friends and sharing clips with my online buddies. As far as weapons go, I still think Halo 3 is one of the most balanced shooters I've played IMO. On the other hand, duel wielding took a back seat. Its not as necessary to duel wield when you can use the AR or BR (which has superior range) and be able to throw grenades and melee. But all in all I think Halo 3 is the most complete, but not the best.

My vote: Halo CE

It's had the biggest wow factor than any other halo game and most games in general.


[Edited on 02.23.2010 9:50 PM PST]

  • 02.23.2010 9:49 PM PDT
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If I don't see you, good afternoon, good evening, and good nite.

Favorite Halo Game? Definitely CE. Close calls? ODST.

A lot of people cite that epic battles are what made CE amazing. I'd argue that the variation made CE terrific. Sometimes you'd have 5 enemies in a room and sometimes you'd have 10. Sometimes you fought on a bridge(AoTCR) and sometimes you fought on an island. The scenery changes coupled with the variation of enemies as well as amount of enemies really gave CE a whole feeling. ODST to an extent did this, but was best utilized when playing as the Rookie. The flashback missions were big and grand almost 100%, but picking off a few Grunts and Jackals at a time or sniping the one Brute before dispatching the remaining covenant was just fun and reminded me of CE. Also, knowing how much health you had was appreciated.

  • 02.24.2010 1:55 PM PDT

Posted by: SonOfTheShire
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hello my name is rien and i am a vegetarian and also a furry. i do not eat tofu or salad because that is dumb. meat looks gross but i realy like d1ck...........for breakfest i eat assorted birch bark for lunch i eat cat fur for dunner i eat pencils (ORANIC!!!!!!!!) i wish i could eat tree leefs but ive never seen a tree so i dont know if i coould lol

I have contributed for the good of the Halo:CE forum.
It is the best halo game.
I shall now take my leave to frolic in the Flood forum.

  • 02.24.2010 2:57 PM PDT

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Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

Posted by: CoreyHimself
"You either die a noob, or live long enough to see yourself become a try hard."

As far as gameplay, CE is the breadwinner. CE was great because it introduced everything, and since no one was too familiar with the Halo universe before it it had that air of mystery and exploration. However, I can't discredit the later two of the trilogy. I think they were good as far as their contributions to the story, and if I looked back now and Halo 2 and 3 were never developed... the story would seem to lack. The later two definite elaborated well on the original.

Vote goes to CE though.

  • 02.24.2010 5:41 PM PDT

Clearly because the desktop uses a 3 prong plug and a laptop uses a 2 prong plug, the microwave will fill your car with tostitos better

By far.

  • 02.28.2010 9:24 AM PDT

yea great caimpain great multiplayer

  • 03.04.2010 3:58 PM PDT

Pioneer and Enthusiast for Halo 3.

The original storyline is hard to beat. The maps that would never veto is hard to beat. The weapons we're damn near perfect, just as a Battle rifle and it'll be hard to beat.

  • 04.03.2010 8:23 PM PDT