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Subject: After what I've read Halo 2's campaign....

Man is born free but everywhere he is in chains.

Halo 2 is actually my favorite campaign.

It displayed the inner-workings of the Covenant. As a medium for story-telling, it did this part very well. We've been shooting-up elites for so long, but in the level Uprising, there's gotta be some sympathy for them when you're slicing through brute troopers.
Cortana and Chief's connection, and their separation, also adds to the game's mood.

So as for plot, I consider this the Empire Strikes Back of the Halo games.

And I actually found the Gravemind to be a fantastic idea (although "I am a monument to all your sins!" was a bit melodramatic).

The Flood were scary in Halo: CE in that they popped out at you and looked gross, but that lost it's flare after running through the campaign for the umpteenth time. The Flood of Halo 2 (with the Gravemind), is creepy. It's hard for a villain or bad guy to come back in a sequel and still have a significant effect on the audience. The Flood does this in the transition into Halo 2 because they've changed. They're not just "space zombies" (which was enough for them in Halo: CE) they're a dangerous, organized galactic parasite. And when they break containment on Delta Halo, there's a sense of fear, crisis, and urgency to be felt.

*****

I really don't care what IGN ever says. I occasionally use the site for trailers before they're on youtube. I wish the OP posted some of IGN's reasons for not liking Halo 2 (if they even did bother to formulate an argument), so I could address those points in this post.


Edit: is this the article that started all this?
That's like 4.5 vague sentences per game.

And they put Halo: CE at number 4? And Halo: Reach at number 1?
I'll agree with them that ODST should be up high, but Reach's characters were so bland. Every time I just started to like one, they would die. And Jun was just terrible, he had no personality, yet he lives! I like the gameplay of Reach, but number 1 in the category of overall campaign? I don't think so, and especially not with Halo 2 as number 5 of 5.

[Edited on 02.20.2011 9:25 AM PST]

  • 02.20.2011 9:14 AM PDT

Eric Mason, DivinePistol

Clearly OP has never played Halo 2...or he/she is trolling.

  • 02.20.2011 10:01 AM PDT

BAM said the lady

I thought it was great!

  • 02.20.2011 10:13 AM PDT


Posted by: DarkScienceLord
I don't think so.

I thought it was awesome...

  • 02.20.2011 10:28 AM PDT

Hanger one I just shredded with the SMGs until ammo was out and I just threw 'nades like a boss while BRing.

My experience playing Cairo Station on Legendary

This is actually funny. I prefer Halo 2's story over any of the other games. It had a good balance of being powerful, and near destruction. It shed light on the covenant, and it explored the most in any game.

  • 02.20.2011 10:29 AM PDT

RED BRICK STUDIOS!

Play Halo 2, and see for yourself.

  • 02.20.2011 11:37 AM PDT


Posted by: ajw34307
I generally like to form my own opinion instead of caring about what others think. Halo 2 was the best, it had the best story in the trilogy, something that IGNorant people cannot seem to comprehend with the underlaying themes Bungie included - it just washed over everyone's heads.

So -blam!- IGN, -blam!- anyone who dares to say "Halo 3 is better", and -blam!- you. :)


Damn Right

  • 02.20.2011 11:47 AM PDT

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A god who creates tools is still a god. It is not for us to impose qualifications upon the divine or presume to guess its intentions.

Posted by: xHotshotboy3x
Halo 2 had the best campaign in the series. Any Halo fan worth their salt knows this. Speaking as one who has been playing since the release of Halo CE all the way through Reach, playing and reading all other media along the way, Halo 2 takes the cake, hands down.

  • 02.20.2011 11:49 AM PDT

"Find where the liar hides, so that I may place my boot between his gums!" - Rtas 'Vadum

I am sorry but only Yahtzee can pull off a review from an uninformed standpoint and make it remotely funny. IGN is just...a waste of bandwidth.

I do wish they would raise the maturity level of the games; cut out all these retarded "Halo is a pretty cool guy; he kills aliens and doesn't afraid of anything" types who think that the Master Chief is the only character in Halo. John has a pretty good character in the novels, but unfortunately 90% of the "fanbase" have never picked up a book and so form these unfounded opinions.

People always berate 343i for killing the franchise; I think that it is the "fans". This thread shows it. A person who jumps on the bandwagon and lets the story, characterization and themes completely escape him and who cannot think for himself. It would be vastly different if you compared the various elements of the games and acknowledged it as your opinion instead of using the retarded argument from Authority.

  • 02.20.2011 12:01 PM PDT

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Posted by: ParagonRenegade
You were totally and absolutely correct in every way, I don't know why we were arguing, you're so amazing I should never have doubted you.

I loved Halo 2's campaign. I don't know where the hate comes from. I've enjoyed it more than what I've played of ODST, also. ODST Legendary is way too easy.

  • 02.20.2011 12:50 PM PDT

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Posted by: Lord Slade
I loved Halo 2's campaign. I don't know where the hate comes from. I've enjoyed it more than what I've played of ODST, also. ODST Legendary is way too easy.

The hate comes from the OP's trolling. He just wants to get a reaction. If you don't believe me, look at his post history. This guy's just a troll. He only talks about how much he hates Halo 2 and how hot he thinks Miranda Keyes is.

[Edited on 02.20.2011 12:55 PM PST]

  • 02.20.2011 12:54 PM PDT

I just like playing around in the campaign with glitches and easter eggs. Usually turns into an all day FFA brawl in the campaign with friends.

  • 02.20.2011 1:00 PM PDT

-blam!-. That. -blam!-.

Halo 2 was by far the best Halo game to date. Followed by 3 and CE in tied second place.

IF, enphisis on the IF part, Bungie said Halo 2 was terrible, and they like the Reach campaign as their "best" then thank god they've given up Halo to someone else. :C

And remember, "everyone" is not "everyone. It's just the loudest and most obnoxious fans. ;)

[Edited on 02.20.2011 1:18 PM PST]

  • 02.20.2011 1:18 PM PDT

I found Halo 2 to add the most in terms of plot and added online multiplayer.

I found that the gameplay itself was -blam!- compared to CE. As was Halo 3 and to a lesser extent Reach.

  • 02.20.2011 2:15 PM PDT

Posted by: cB4d93
Posted by: Silent Eli
you are a good translator
Idiot can be a hard language to learn, but once you get it down, everything becomes so clear! The whole world will make sense to you.

Halo 2 actually captured the sense of scale the Halo series needed.

In Halo: Reach, the battle of Reach looks like an absolute joke compared to the Battle of Earth.

  • 02.20.2011 2:19 PM PDT

Halo 2
halo 1
halo odst
halo 3
halo reach

but that opinion XD

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  • 02.20.2011 2:29 PM PDT

the only thing bad about halo 2 was starting with an SMG. It was the best game though

  • 02.20.2011 3:27 PM PDT
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Halo 3's campaign was worse than Halo 2's.

  • 02.20.2011 3:28 PM PDT

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Posted by: HipiO7
This man, this man right here put it so eloquently that I actually cancelled my own 2000+ word long post.
/slow clap for respect


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The person who said participating is important, not winning, obviously never won anything.

Posted by: Duardo
Halo 3's campaign was worse than Halo 2's.


True. But Halo 3's campaign had a more epic feeling that Halo 2. Way more.

  • 02.20.2011 3:49 PM PDT
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Posted by: CTN 0452 9
Please give sources (links, not just names).

Halo 2's campaign was the best in the series, and again, I'm not taking your word that that unquantifiable "pretty much everyone" who agrees with you. Sources or it didn't happen.


It was derided pretty heavily (after the OMGNEWGAME! fap wound down) for it's rushed feel, more linear design than CE, and a general lack of delivery on prerelease promises.

Also, the cliffhanger.

  • 02.20.2011 4:00 PM PDT
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This Soffish do not eat.

I personally quite enjoyed the Halo 2 Campaign, as I did for all Bungie's Halo games. Perhaps it wasn't my favourite of the lot, but it certainly was a fantastic Campaign!

  • 02.20.2011 4:11 PM PDT

By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

Posted by: FleetAdmiralBob
Posted by: CTN 0452 9
Please give sources (links, not just names).

Halo 2's campaign was the best in the series, and again, I'm not taking your word that that unquantifiable "pretty much everyone" who agrees with you. Sources or it didn't happen.


It was derided pretty heavily (after the OMGNEWGAME! fap wound down) for it's rushed feel, more linear design than CE, and a general lack of delivery on prerelease promises.

Also, the cliffhanger.


More linear, yes but nowhere near as repetitive as Halo CE. Halo 2 has no backtracking missions, half of Halo CE's campaign is going through the same mission backwards. I can say the same for Halo 3 too - Crows Nest, Floodgate and Cortana were dedicated to going to Point A then going back the same path to Point B.

  • 02.20.2011 4:17 PM PDT

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Posted by: Reptoid2011
True. But Halo 3's campaign had a more epic feeling that Halo 2. Way more.

This.


Wonderful, you just conceded that Halo 2 is better than Halo 3. Bravo.

  • 02.20.2011 4:38 PM PDT

prozeyic

Halo CE and Halo 2 had my most favorite campaigns, both story and gameplay wise.

  • 02.20.2011 4:43 PM PDT

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