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Subject: Why people think Halo CE is the best!

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I started with CE and worked up.

I prefer CE's AR/Pistol combo over anything else. It'll be nice to return to something similar like that in ODST.

  • 09.17.2009 4:02 PM PDT
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I like All of them, but I think a lot of people prefer Halo 1 because the weapons were more powerful, and thus made it super easy. (in my opinion), also, you didn't have hte skulls to modify difficulty, multiplayer was against people you knew very well, and so could pre empt.
Halo 2 campaign was a bit of a flatliner, but H3 fixed that issue again.
Aye, Halo 1 had great campaign, it was fun, but it was lef tbehind by other games, Bungie has to move with the times, or it will be left behind

  • 09.17.2009 4:04 PM PDT
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I think a lot of people like Halo: CE because you almost always have ammunition, so you can just pump the enemy with plasma or lead, and hte weapons are more powerful, so you don't have to worry about hiding, cause they are al dead by the end of it...

I enjoyed htem all combat wise, But myself, I think Halo 3 really balanced it all out, and hte environments changed quite a bit.

The vehicles changed, people complain about that, what is wrong with change? change is a good thing... get over it.
If All the games were the same as CE, would you still love them all? I wouldn't think so,y ou would complain it is always the same. People just can't seem to be happy with sharing out the games, I find that playing htem all was extremely fun,t hey are all great games. CE is a great relief after play legendary in Halo 2 or 3, cause the weapons can blitz through anything.

  • 09.17.2009 4:32 PM PDT
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Posted by: Spartan ODST 2
I think a lot of people like Halo: CE because you almost always have ammunition, so you can just pump the enemy with plasma or lead, and hte weapons are more powerful, so you don't have to worry about hiding, cause they are al dead by the end of it...

I enjoyed htem all combat wise, But myself, I think Halo 3 really balanced it all out, and hte environments changed quite a bit.

The vehicles changed, people complain about that, what is wrong with change? change is a good thing... get over it.
If All the games were the same as CE, would you still love them all? I wouldn't think so,y ou would complain it is always the same. People just can't seem to be happy with sharing out the games, I find that playing htem all was extremely fun,t hey are all great games. CE is a great relief after play legendary in Halo 2 or 3, cause the weapons can blitz through anything.

...Have you played Halo:CE?

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Yes, and I've never had an issue with Ammunition, or enemies, IT was legendarily Easy (lol), not LEgendarily Hard...
Oh and I found the sniper was as easy to use as in every other Halo game, but I don't care.

I'm not saying I don't like the game, I loved it in fact, the story was great, the gameplay was fun, innovative, something new from your usual FPS. If you did Hal CE again, slightly different perhaps, with graphics, with the new engines and speed like that of MC in H2 and H3, it would make you nearon invincible in a level.
At least in there, you couldn''t melee a flood form to death with an AR, unlike in H3 though

  • 09.17.2009 5:01 PM PDT

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i started on Halo ce i think it was the best in its time

  • 09.17.2009 5:04 PM PDT

Reasons why Combat Evolved is the best?

A lack of auto aim, this means you actually have skill when playing the game. If I have a sniper and miss your head no head shot. Made the game hard sometimes.

The Maps, these are some of the classic Halo Maps which all Halo maps should look too. 8 vs 8 CTF on Sidewinder, the battles on the outer horseshoe, the battles on the inner. Blood Gulch, THE Halo map, lots of blood, bodies and memories. Longest, walk down the shortest hall way, yeah shotgun CTF assault. Chill out, Prisoner, Damnation, Wizard Chirion TL34.

The Flood, I don't even need to touch this plot twist.

The Campign, epic moments everywhere, escaping POA, Landing in Halo, Rescuing Keyes(The first Engery Sword toting Elite FUUUU), first hunter Encounter. Opening Sequence of Silent Cartographer. The entire Assault on the Control room(yeah Tanks for the memories, possible first banshee flying level,sleeping grunts and scaling the pyrmid.) Of course 343 Gulity Sparks and The Library. Two Betrayal(You vs Covenant Forces vs Flood vs vs sentinels) Spec-Op commando forces on Keyes, The epic MAW RUN

The game had true balance

Pistol is equal to all power weapons

  • 09.17.2009 5:06 PM PDT

i played all halos in the order thye came out in and i like halo 2 the best, but i only play halo 3 now

  • 09.17.2009 5:07 PM PDT
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Posted by: Josephson
i started on Halo ce i think it was the best in its time


Exactly, In its time. If you updated it, it would become a favourite among the new age gamers... those only just ocming into FPS mor ehten likely... oh right, they don't exist do they? People have been playing FPS since they were born lol.

You know, the arguments between what game is better, is as bad as the COD is better hten Halo, which is kinda stupid, cause they are completely different, so you can't really compare and say one is better.

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Agreed, it was brilliant, sitll is. Oh and we do get copies of such maps
Blood Gulch >> Coagulation
Sidewinder >> Sort of Avalanche

But other classics came out too. Zanzibar and last resort.
Those who played halo 2 expansion, Containment, which was great for large games
Halo three, the maps like Valhalla, Sandtrap, Sandbox, foundry, they were brilliant.

  • 09.17.2009 5:11 PM PDT

I always prefer the first, because that's where the story opens up. All new things to do and see.

  • 09.17.2009 5:12 PM PDT

Actually I started playing Halo 3 it has the best multyplayer that I have ever seen on history: Matchmaking,Forge,Co-Op...Its a blast

However Halo CE had the best Campaigh and I dont mean The best Halo Campaigh..I mean the BEST campaigh in the Histoy of shooters

Also the weapons felt more powerfull thanks to lighting effects and Sounds

  • 09.17.2009 6:22 PM PDT

"Everything works itself out. The only thing that matters is whether you want it to or not."

Last Refuge - Operation Phoenix is in effect. From the ashes, we will rise.

I loved Halo 2. Hands down, my favorite Halo experience. Damn, I replayed that campaign hundreds of times. Loads of fun. Halo 3's definitely got the multiplayer down, best of all games. Halo CE has a unique blend of both amazing campaign and amazing multilpaer, so it's more like a balanced version of the two, at least in my eyes.

  • 09.17.2009 6:25 PM PDT

The BR ruined the game. Along with auto aim, and super lunge.

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  • 09.17.2009 6:36 PM PDT

"Everything works itself out. The only thing that matters is whether you want it to or not."

Last Refuge - Operation Phoenix is in effect. From the ashes, we will rise.

Posted by: TW InKoGnIto
The BR ruined the game. Along with auto aim, and super lunge.


Agreed. The BR is probably TOO capable in a variety of fields. Anyways, I never did figure out how to Super Lunge. Heh. :P

  • 09.17.2009 6:38 PM PDT
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Just get em all and play em all, for forge and that, get the pc versions of hte others

  • 09.17.2009 6:40 PM PDT

Reach MMO. Here's to hoping.

And the people that believe "the hardcore playlists would be more popular if the rules were strictly MLG" can come off it, now. If you're not willing to support something close to your own setup, there's no reason for us to believe that cloning our own lists and stripping the variety down will attract more people. -- Shishka, Bungie.net

Posted by: TW InKoGnIto
The BR ruined the game. Along with auto aim, and super lunge.


You do realize that if the BR, auto aim, and lunge had been in the HCE and then Halo 2 came out and it was dumbed down with no equipment, no BR, no auto aim, no lunge; that you would probably be complaining for the complete opposite reasons.

Everyone is just happier with the original that they fell in love with.

  • 09.18.2009 8:37 AM PDT

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Posted by: TW InKoGnIto
The BR ruined the game. Along with auto aim, and super lunge.


You do realize that if the BR, auto aim, and lunge had been in the HCE and then Halo 2 came out and it was dumbed down with no equipment, no BR, no auto aim, no lunge; that you would probably be complaining for the complete opposite reasons.

Everyone is just happier with the original that they fell in love with.


Okay, first of all, that's just wrong. People don't love a game because of it being the first time they played it. People liked Halo because it played in a way they enjoy. People kept on purchasing Halo in hopes of that type of play continuing. It didn't, people are upset. Nostalgia does factor in in this equation, and I'm sure some people overstate their love CE without even realizing it, but its not simply "you like it because you played it first". If that were true, people would be -blam!-ing about how CoD4 is terrible compared to the original, but we don't see that happening.

Secondly, if that stuff had been included in the first Halo, we would probably be at a different point in the evolution of Halo than we are now. Who knows what it would be like or how people would have first reacted to it.

Everyone is happier with the Halo game they fell in love with, because it plays in a way that they find more enjoyable than the others.

  • 09.18.2009 8:48 AM PDT
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Posted by: TW InKoGnIto
The BR ruined the game. Along with auto aim, and super lunge.


You do realize that if the BR, auto aim, and lunge had been in the HCE and then Halo 2 came out and it was dumbed down with no equipment, no BR, no auto aim, no lunge; that you would probably be complaining for the complete opposite reasons.

Everyone is just happier with the original that they fell in love with.


Okay, first of all, that's just wrong. People don't love a game because of it being the first time they played it. People liked Halo because it played in a way they enjoy. People kept on purchasing Halo in hopes of that type of play continuing. It didn't, people are upset. Nostalgia does factor in in this equation, and I'm sure some people overstate their love CE without even realizing it, but its not simply "you like it because you played it first". If that were true, people would be -blam!-ing about how CoD4 is terrible compared to the original, but we don't see that happening.

Secondly, if that stuff had been included in the first Halo, we would probably be at a different point in the evolution of Halo than we are now. Who knows what it would be like or how people would have first reacted to it.

Everyone is happier with the Halo game they fell in love with, because it plays in a way that they find more enjoyable than the others.

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  • 09.18.2009 8:58 AM PDT
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man i hope ur kidding.... how is the ai from halo ce gonna be bettter than the ai of halo 3? the campaign for halo 3 is easily the most fun because it doent have that annoying backtracking or places that feel like the exact same place u were...the story was better in halo ce because it was more concentrated ill giveya that they still speak a different language in halo 3 too.

  • 09.18.2009 9:25 AM PDT
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i started on Halo CE, but i think Halo 3 is better.

  • 09.18.2009 9:27 AM PDT

Reach MMO. Here's to hoping.

And the people that believe "the hardcore playlists would be more popular if the rules were strictly MLG" can come off it, now. If you're not willing to support something close to your own setup, there's no reason for us to believe that cloning our own lists and stripping the variety down will attract more people. -- Shishka, Bungie.net

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man i hope ur kidding.... how is the ai from halo ce gonna be bettter than the ai of halo 3? the campaign for halo 3 is easily the most fun because it doent have that annoying backtracking or places that feel like the exact same place u were...the story was better in halo ce because it was more concentrated ill giveya that they still speak a different language in halo 3 too.


I couldn't agree more. HCE's campaign was epic for its time, and at the time I thought it was the best thing I have ever played. But, I remember thinking after corridor after endless corridor, "Is this ever going to end?" And then you end up backtracking through the whole thing again. I got sooooo bored at some points.

I stand by the last level in HCE being the best/funnest level I have ever played. Still a knockout to this day.

  • 09.21.2009 6:59 AM PDT

I started with Halo: CE and I personally like each of the games at the same lvl as the others. Different times, different stories, different greatness es, and different faults.

Ex Halo 1, I hated having to switch over from fighting an alien race bent on my destruction to the flood. Halo 2, I hated having to switch over from playing as the John to playing as the arbiter. Halo 3, I hated not being able to follow the story. :P

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I stand by the last level in HCE being the best/funnest level I have ever played. Still a knockout to this day.

That and the last level in H3, both were awesome.
Mongoose can be a pain on the last level, I mean, the slightest bump from a sentinel beam and you get flipped >8(

  • 09.21.2009 2:44 PM PDT

Reach MMO. Here's to hoping.

And the people that believe "the hardcore playlists would be more popular if the rules were strictly MLG" can come off it, now. If you're not willing to support something close to your own setup, there's no reason for us to believe that cloning our own lists and stripping the variety down will attract more people. -- Shishka, Bungie.net

Posted by: Zeita 53
I started with Halo: CE and I personally like each of the games at the same lvl as the others. Different times, different stories, different greatness es, and different faults.

Ex Halo 1, I hated having to switch over from fighting an alien race bent on my destruction to the flood. Halo 2, I hated having to switch over from playing as the John to playing as the arbiter. Halo 3, I hated not being able to follow the story. :P


I'm not sure I agree with your synopsis, but at least you are trying to look at it objectively.

  • 09.22.2009 10:45 AM PDT