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Halo 1>Halo 2>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>Halo 3
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Posted by: General Heed
Halo PC is virtually the same as Halo 1 on the console except that it lacks splitscreen multiplayer and co-op. But it does have online multiplayer and some new weapons and vehicles. That's about the only difference.
Now Halo 3 does have the ability to tweak some physics like speed and gravity so you can make it similar to Halo 1. Same with the shield and health system. You can make all that similar to Halo 1. Now, while weapons do shoot at longer ranges in Halo 1 which is totally ridiculous for some weapons, you do walk a bit slower than you do in Halo 2 and Halo 3. Your run speed is faster in the later Halo games (except for ODST). Same with jumping. I believe Halo 2 has the highest jumps and Halo 1 has the lowest. But if you count ODST, then that game has the lowest jumps.
For gameplay, Halo 3 really does have more gameplay options. For this point, I don't mean extra features like Forge, but the actual gameplay. Halo 3 has so much more vehicular gameplay than Halo 1 does. Also, in Halo 3 gameplay, you have new features such as equipment and support weapons like detachable turrets. You also have tons of new weapons and vehicles in Halo 3. Plus, for multiplayer, you have soooo many more gametypes than you did in Halo 1 or Halo 2. A good example of a fun gametype would be Infection (zombies). The concept was started in Halo 2 but wasn't made an official gametype until Halo 3. It is considered one of the most popular gametypes. Also, some gameplay features from Halo 2 are what makes the newer games better. These features include hijacking vehicles, dual-wielding weapons, and locking on to vehicle with rockets. All those features enhance the overall gameplay experience of the later Halo games. With ODST, some gameplay features like dual-wielding were taken out, but newer ones were added like the VISR mode which changes the gameplay a bit. Halo 1 has a standard, basic gameplay with limited gameplay options. The multiplayer gameplay is fairly limited as well. It doesn't have that many gametypes and most people only play Slayer or CTF in Halo 1. But in Halo 3, people have a larger variety of gametypes and Slayer/CTF are not the dominant gametypes anymore.
You'd think Halo 1 didn't need any extra features, but that's because back then, some features in Halo 3 couldn't be included on console games because of limited resources. So it wouldn't matter either way. Now if you were a PC gamers, you'd realize how limited Halo 1 really is. A feature that's really important to PC gamers is the map editor. Without it, PC games tend to become less popular. That is why Halo 1 & 2 for PC included a map editor. Now if you take the PC games out of the equation, then Halo 3 is the only Halo game with a map editor, albeit a limited one. That means to a dedicated PC gamer who would have to chose between the 3 console games, they are more likely to pick the one with more features. Sure gameplay is important to PC gamers too. But they're not going to keep playing the campaign over and over again. They're going to want to mod and make completely new maps which brings me to my next point. Halo 1 always forces you to play on the same old maps over and over again. It's just like driving around your neighborhood over and over game everyday for the next 10 years. It's going to get boring. Halo 2 and Halo 3 have new DLC maps to keep the games fresh. And in Halo 3 with the Forge map editor, it keeps the gameplay new and fresh. Now if you bring the PC versions back into the equations, then their map editors would be the best but also the most complicated. But the PC versions don't count since this is a console versions argument. So it depends on the audience playing the games. Don't underestimate the PC community. If you ran a poll in the Halo PC forums about whether Halo PC or Halo Xbox is better, you'll get a huge landslide towards Halo PC. The point that I'm trying to make here is that graphics, features, and online multiplayer are extremely important. Especially to PC gamers. And it's not like PC gamers only play the PC. Their are tons of PC gamers that play both the PC and the 360 as I've learned from the Halo PC forums. Gameplay isn't everything. There are tons of games out there that have good gameplay but are terrible games either because the graphics are unbearable, there's nothing else to do after you're done the story, or there's no online multiplayer.
And I would much rather buy the laptop with a lot of memory, louder speakers, and a better keyboard. Why? Well it will last a lot longer like Halo 3's popularity. The complex keyboard won't take long to get used to like Halo 3's new controls. And the louder speakers allow me to play music or watch videos without the need of headphones and I can listen to those music/videos with other people too like sharing maps and gametypes in Halo 3. And the extra memory, if by memory you mean RAM, then the more memory you have, the faster and more efficient your computer will be as long as you have a good CPU. If for memory you mean the hard drive, then that's better because you can install more games and store more videos or programs without having to worry about your hard drive running out of space.
So more is good and new is better.
Halo 3 can have all the extra gametypes, vehicles and weapons it wants. When you break it down, the actual control physics of your player make the game feel more crisp. The way weapons worked in Halo 1 made the gameplay more fast paced and crisp.
The control physics in Halo 3 make the gameplay slow paced and boring. The weapons being weak, ineffective and inconsistent make the gameplay slow paced. Extra features, different gametypes, more weapons and custom game options do not fix this. I've said that about 10 times now, and as I warned earlier, have puked my balls out of my mouth.
It doesn't matter what gametype, map, vehicle or weapon you use, gameplay is still slow and choppy. In Halo 1, it was fast and crisp. I guess this is the part of the debate where opinions play a role because one who likes a choppy, slow paced game that is very noob-friendly, your going to prefer Halo 3. One who likes a crisp, fast paced game with a large skill gap and weapon balance is going to prefer Halo 1.
Regarding your comment on the popularity of the games, here's something to consider. There are still people today that LAN Halo 1. How many people LAN Halo 2? I can almost garuntee that if a Halo 4 were to be released (or if Reach will have a similar multiplayer to previous Halo's) everyone will forget about Halo 3, but people will still LAN Halo 1.