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Subject: Who here likes Halo 3 better than Reach?

Please, no hurt! Me like Elites. Brutes stinky bad bad. Me stay here, make sure no Brutes come behind mighty Arbiter. Heh, heh... Eh?


Posted by: NeiI

Posted by: Surplex

Posted by: NeiI
Reach will always be the best.

Halo 3 is for people who can't adapt.


You are a moron
H3>Reach
No

Halo 3 is all about who pulled host. Halo Reach takes much more skill.


i think you are going to get flamed for saying that
x)

  • 09.13.2011 9:56 AM PDT

Agree.... -blam!- Reach! it sux balls

  • 09.15.2011 10:13 PM PDT


Posted by: Lynk120

Posted by: NeiI

Posted by: Surplex

Posted by: NeiI
Reach will always be the best.

Halo 3 is for people who can't adapt.


You are a moron
H3>Reach
No

Halo 3 is all about who pulled host. Halo Reach takes much more skill.


i think you are going to get flamed for saying that
x)


r u freaking kidding me?! Reach requires more skill?
BAHAHAHA

  • 09.16.2011 12:52 AM PDT

Halo Reach just suck it isn't like a halo game
Bungie maked it noob friendly for people who where wanking about the hard gameplay.
Dmr with blooming wtf noo Skill needed for this game plz
Remove all the cod perk -blam!- like jetpacks to lame i can cry about iT.
Reach just -blam!- up the whole halo game exp...

343 PLZ REBORN HALO AGAIN NO DMR PLOXXXX

  • 09.16.2011 1:20 AM PDT
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Halo 3 is better. I just played Reach for 4 hours and I lost my enjoyment 1-2 hours ago. I'm done with it. But I did get enough footage which I'll be uploading soon.

  • 09.16.2011 6:13 AM PDT

I like the mechanics of halo 3 multiplayer better but what really irks me about reach multiplayer is the LACK OF MAPS. I hate seeing forge world map after forge world map and that is supposed to be a sad excuse for a real map. Also, the DLC's have been offering a pretty skimpy amount of maps. Hoping halo CEA makes reach multiplayer more lasting.

  • 09.16.2011 8:24 AM PDT

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Halo 3 is my favourite then Halo: Reach.

  • 09.16.2011 8:29 AM PDT
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Another thing about Reach. I just spent 2 hours (starting at 7:16 AM. right now it's 9:04 am) playing LNoS on Legendary and studying the AI extensively. My conclusion is that everything in it's campaign is unfair, even on Easy difficulty but especially on Legendary. My verdict:

On Easy, the Covies have quite a lot of damage resistance and the Elites are fast. And they have this uncanny ability to know where you are, kinda like in MoH Airborne. No big deal right? Wrong. It's a sign that this campaign is -blam!- messed up.

On Normal, an Elite major can take 1-2 melees after losing his shield without flinching. This is also when Jackals start getting resistant to frag grenade explosions and where a supposedly highly trained team of troopers blow themselves up to kingdom come when there are 4-5 rocket launcher guys. This is also when Jackals start doing their cheap overcharged bolt + plasma pistol bolts combo.

On Heroic, say goodbye to your frags. They're near useless. And this is when the AI start "spotting you" like when you stick your head out, their attention is on you. They can see you from some distance but if they can't see you, they just stand there. Their AI is so horrific that they don't even notice their fallen. The key here is to shoot from long range. It works. The reason why it doesn't work when you're on ground is because you're in their view. There's like a 270 degrees camera embedded in their heads. This is also when friendly betrayals get really annoying. The troopers have absurd health. It's no wonder why Reach fell, that bastard planet. Even worse is the fact that Noble team AI one shot kill you when you've betrayed enough. At least I could kill Arbiter in H3.

On Legendary, kiss your ass goodbye. This is when everything is way too fast. It's not that concussion rifle wielding Elites shoot their rifles faster. It's the obvious highly noticeable fact that the damn projectile is unnaturally faster than it's supposed to be. The only strategies that works here is speedrunning, glitches, plasma pistol bolts, shooting from afar. This is not even Legendary. This is Halo 3's Mythic! Yeah, you could try to avoid the concussion rifle projectile. It's possible. I've done it before. You could try to get assassinations. It's the only reason why I'm even playing Reach. I got some good ones in my initial play. But they're both -blam!- hard to achieve when there's so much support from those cheap Jackals!! And then there's Elite majors. I'm not even going to bother mentioning their cheapness.

So I say:

Reach sucks ass. Halo 3 is better. It's more realistic, enjoyable on all difficulties, has better glitches, doesn't give me cold hands or throbbing fingers, and a lot other reasons.

Of course Halo 2 gives me warm hands, but at least it's ENJOYABLE! Reach is NOT fun.

/rant

Edit:

Hmm, maybe I might have been trying too hard. I did play all night long. I just played 3 hours of LNoS on Legendary except I didn't bother with the blockades. I just did my assassination attempts. And it went well!

Edit (hopefully final):

I take that back. In Reach, everything's against you. I'm ok starting out with the AR but giving me that near useless magnum instead of the DMR... horrible! The bloom, the damage, no automatic fire, small clip size, small magazine. This is hardly reminiscent of CE! The Reach pistol is horrendous!!

Finally, the fall stun. I don't care about taking fall damage but fall stun being in a Halo game with armor abilities. Ridiculous! It was suitable for CE, because it didn't have any of that. But it's not suitable for a game with armor abilities.

[Edited on 09.16.2011 12:30 PM PDT]

  • 09.16.2011 9:08 AM PDT

why do some people say reach is better every aspect of halo 3 is better(except the level "Cortana" which sucks horribly"

  • 09.16.2011 1:36 PM PDT

Halo 3 is WAY better than reach

  • 09.16.2011 9:50 PM PDT
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The charm of halo ce. If you haven't played it, then you're missing out.

After playing the beta for reach I had the best hopes for it. Unfortunately, I strongly feel that bungie left some of their best things behind, such as double xp playlists, skill to level up, achievements for armor, and 7vs7 on the seventh. At the same time, a lot of things were added to reach at once that I feel overwhelmed players. Maybe I just think this because halo 3 was really the peak of the halo series, but that doesn't change the fact that I had and still have more fun on it.

  • 09.16.2011 10:12 PM PDT
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Come with me to the dark side of the force. I'll drop the world on your f****** head.

GT: I Galactis I

They're both good games, but I'd prefer Reach.

  • 09.17.2011 10:45 AM PDT

I'm better than you :P

Halo 3 is much easier.

  • 09.17.2011 10:47 AM PDT

Magik Mike


Posted by: Sepratist Unggoy
Halo 3 ftw


Agreed

  • 09.19.2011 11:28 AM PDT

derp

Honestly, if Halo 3 was still the "main" Halo title, I would probably play it quite a bit. The only thing that makes me not want to play is the fact that it's not very active anymore.

Reach just isn't that good.

  • 09.19.2011 2:46 PM PDT

hell yes

  • 09.19.2011 2:59 PM PDT

i enjoy both,reach for me edges it because halo 3 is so laggy at the moment and a lot of people are hacking and cheating

  • 09.20.2011 10:50 AM PDT
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Posted by: Frasier Crane
I'm not making excuses. I never claimed to be good. I have never played any colonel better than me though.


Top 1% Overall Player for H3 on Halocharts
50 Team Slayer Gen and BTB 5 Star


Posted by: camel2oe
a lot of people are hacking and cheating


You've never been cheated before.

  • 09.20.2011 3:04 PM PDT

In my expert opinion after just playing through the Reach and Halo 3 campaigns:

Halo 3's campaign is a work of art, Reach is a incoherent mess. None of it is consistent within the game or within the Halo universe. Specifically, the headshot on Kat. Since when does a single sniper shot kill a spartan? Did they just need an excuse to kill her off? The whole episode felt extremely forced, especially for what was happening around them. It goes from "Oh -blam!-, planet is being glassed" to a sad moment of Kat's death; very emotionally confusing.

Also, I agree with whoever posted above about the AI. It amounts to 1. Stand a long distance away 2. Shoot repeatedly in the head until dead 3. Repeat. Although the Halo 3 AI isn't much better, a game created ~2 years later should be able to do better than that. I also feel the graphics in Halo 3 are fastly superior. They may not be as detailed as Reach's graphics, but there is something about them that feels more "real". This may have to do with the lighting.

Multiplayer wise, Reach's system and style is superior. The addition of the Reverant (?) is an added bonus as well as some minor tweaks to the existing vehicles (minus the OP banshee and under powered ghost). Also, the rocket hog, WTF. Halo 3 wins out on the maps front and thus overall playability. The maps in Reach are either remakes or garbage. They don't fit the style of play Reach is hoping for. Too many wide open areas. Halo 3 on the other hand has a variety of maps, indoor and outdoor. The most important part of the Halo 3 maps though is that they have character. Each map has a distinct artistic style and design to facilitate the need for different tactics on different maps.

TL;DR
Campaign: Halo 3 >>> Reach
Multiplayer: Reach > Halo 3

[Edited on 09.20.2011 7:41 PM PDT]

  • 09.20.2011 7:40 PM PDT

I do.

  • 09.20.2011 8:27 PM PDT


Posted by: WjB456

Posted by: camel2oe
a lot of people are hacking and cheating


You've never been cheated before.


People who play alot of Halo 3 games will lose to cheating in some of their games because cheating isn't that uncommon in Halo 3. If you think cheating doesn't occur you don't know anything about Halo 3 matchmaking.

[Edited on 09.20.2011 8:30 PM PDT]

  • 09.20.2011 8:30 PM PDT
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Posted by: Frasier Crane
I'm not making excuses. I never claimed to be good. I have never played any colonel better than me though.


Top 1% Overall Player for H3 on Halocharts
50 Team Slayer Gen and BTB 5 Star


Posted by: MofearReloaded

Posted by: WjB456

Posted by: camel2oe
a lot of people are hacking and cheating


You've never been cheated before.


People who play alot of Halo 3 games will lose to cheating in some of their games because cheating isn't that uncommon in Halo 3. If you think cheating doesn't occur you don't know anything about Halo 3 matchmaking.


He is a Force Colonel. I can almost guarantee he's never been cheated before. And where in my post did I give you the impression I don't think anyone cheats in Halo 3? I've been cheated plenty of times, all of which have been running 50 high, not 40 high.

  • 09.20.2011 8:42 PM PDT
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HALO 3 IS DEFINITELY, TOTALLY BETTER THAN REACH!!! I'm playing halo 3 right now and it's MORE COMPETITIVE!!!! Reach and its "ARMOR ABILITIES" totally Sucks!!! AND DON'T FORGET TO PARTICIPATE AT HALO 3 DAY ON 25TH OF SEPTEMBER...WE'LL KEEP THE COMMUNITY ALIVE!! for more informations, visit the official thread on Bungie.net

  • 09.21.2011 12:19 PM PDT

Magik Mike


Posted by: RougeSpartan357
why do some people say reach is better every aspect of halo 3 is better(except the level "Cortana" which sucks horribly"


I'd take "Cortana" over Reach any day

  • 09.21.2011 1:02 PM PDT