- Yuke mx
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I think what made Halo 2 shine was its maps, the ranking system (which eventually became a problem), the multiplayer experience (a first for many) and the basic fast-paced gameplay.
For that guy who said people past people 30 needed button glitches, he is completely retarded. I was a 34 in Team Slayer and I never, ever used button glitches, super jumps or any of those idiotic things.
What ruined Halo 2 for me and many others was the amount of cheating going on, from bridgers, modders to stand-byers, cheating was a huge issue before the last rank reset and not much could be done about it. The main reason to cheat? Well, it was actually the ranking system.
In Halo 2 it was hard to rank up past certain level, not because you needed a lot of "experience points", but because past that certain level players were good. I suppose competitive play started at level 28, at level 31 things really started to get tough and from 34 to 37-39 it was where most of the good players were.
The real 40's and above was inhabited by real hardcore players, or cheaters.
It was because of people wanting to rank up that many decided to cheat their way up, and boy did they cheat. It got to the point where me and my friends decided to stop playing as a party, because going in as a party in the 30's meant that you would end up paired with cheaters, continuously.
In Halo 3 and Reach you have a super slow gameplay, Spartans seem to be obese and weak, they throw grenades like girls and being honest, most of the maps are boring.
The main reason games have changed so much is actually the players. People nowadays only want to kill other players, when in Halo 2 Team Skirmish (or Team Objective for Halo 3 players) had a healthy population and the competitive play was stunning. The gametypes encouraged this competitive play at higher levels also, take as an example territories, which was ruined in Halo 3, yet in Halo 2 it was somewhat popular.
This is just my point of view, take this opinion from someone who started playing as a complete noob, became somewhat decent (wanting to win every game) and ended up playing just to have some fun, regardless of the game's outcome. I played Halo 2 from release day on my other account, and stopped playing when Halo 3 was released.
[Edited on 02.18.2011 12:45 PM PST]