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Subject: Cortana or The Library

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Poll: Cortana or The Library  [closed]
The Library (Halo CE):  57%
(35 Votes)
Cortana (Halo 3):  33%
(20 Votes)
Other:  10%
(6 Votes)
Total Votes: 61

Which one was horse?

I think it was THE LIBRARY. I remember on my first Heroic playthrough that I couldn't complete that -blam!- mission.

Choose other, if you think there's another worst Flood level

  • 02.26.2011 1:51 PM PDT

The Library, it was hard to navigate through, dark, and Spark kept on ditching me to fix the doors that just so happened to be broken. Also the Flood did not die as easily as they do in Halo 3.

  • 02.26.2011 1:58 PM PDT
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Cortana. It was so long and pointless, and I got lost the first playthrough.

On Halo CE, sure it was hard, but it was straight forward...

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  • 02.26.2011 1:59 PM PDT

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I would say that I liked Cortana better. At least it wasn't the same 4 hallways over and over again like in The Library.

Plus, in Cortana, there's the moment that the Arbiter comes back to help out Chief. A very "DAAWWW, they love each other!" moment.

  • 02.26.2011 1:59 PM PDT

Library. Actually got the impression Spark was secretly on the Flood's side, and I had already played Halo 2!

  • 02.26.2011 2:10 PM PDT

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The Library was hard and kinda boring.

  • 02.26.2011 2:15 PM PDT

personally, I think the Library was difficult but it was awesome and terrifying. Cortana was just meh, it was hard to beat but it wasn't really scary or new, and it was too bright for a level with only flood in it.

  • 02.26.2011 2:37 PM PDT

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The Library. It was much longer and you could not run through every encounter.

  • 02.26.2011 3:05 PM PDT

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Other. Quarintine zone had thousands of glicthes, but in my point of view it was IMPOSSIBLE on legendary. On other diffuclities, I'm saying cortana, beause teh whole freaking place is flood.

  • 02.26.2011 3:09 PM PDT

The Library was awesome, you guys just have horrible taste is level design mixed with game play.

/Troll

I hated The Library.

EDIT: The Gas Mine on Halo 2 was rather annoying....

[Edited on 02.26.2011 3:29 PM PST]

  • 02.26.2011 3:29 PM PDT

Library was ridiculously long and had the same flat rooms over and over again. Cortana isn't that long, all the rooms are different (before you start backtracking) and feature rather different gameplay.

  • 02.26.2011 3:31 PM PDT

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I think that the Library was the worst level, since it was incredibly long and repetitive.

Cortana was hard, but on legendary it felt like an accomplishment to beat it, and there were more ways to get creative, like bringing the flamethrower to burn the bodies to keep them from getting resurrected. On the Library it was just run, gun and die until it mercifully ended.

  • 02.26.2011 3:37 PM PDT

The Covenant is the worst flood level you have to fight not only the flood a little bit but theres Brute Chieftains, Scarabs, Hunters, Wraiths, Banshees, the list goes on.

  • 02.26.2011 3:42 PM PDT

Sangheili Major: "Brute ships. Staggered line! Shipmaster, they outnumber us, three-to-one!"

Rtas 'Vadum: "Then it is an even fight. All Cruisers, fire at will! Burn their mongrel hides!"

The Library was a pain in the ass. Guilty Spark ditches the player all the time, it's dark and Flood just randomly pop up in groups.

I much preferred Cortana. It was dark and a little hard to navigate through, but it wasn't nearly as difficult.

  • 02.26.2011 4:05 PM PDT


Posted by: knife dog15
The Covenant is the worst flood level you have to fight not only the flood a little bit but theres Brute Chieftains, Scarabs, Hunters, Wraiths, Banshees, the list goes on.
Every mission in Halo 3 should be like "The Covenant", most epic level in Halo 3, I actually felt I was finishing the fight. In the other levels... not so much.

As for the poll, I have to go with Cortana. I was able to complete both levels ALONE in Legendary, but the level Cortana was unbearable, in The Library, I enjoyed checking my radar, I felt like a Marine in Aliens.

  • 02.26.2011 4:05 PM PDT

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Posted by: ROBERTO jh
Library. Actually got the impression Spark was secretly on the Flood's side, and I had already played Halo 2!

Why anyone would think that the Monitor of a piece of the freaking Halo array would be a Flood sympathizer in the beginning of an outbreak is... Well... Stanky. :P They were coordinators of a last defense against the Flood under Mendicant Bias (ironically, later a Flood sympathizer xD), and would love nothing more than to be put to good use. AKA... Obliterate the Flood. They're sorta gun-ho in that aspect. So much so, that 343 Guilty Spark of Installation 04[A] is believed to have gone rampant just prior to Installation 04[B]'s premature firing because of that specific part of him, and the part wishing to preserve his Installation.

In an odd sort of way, he overlooked the Flood threat, and wanted to preserve Installation 00 and Installation 04[B] for full effectual firing radius (though, it wasn't really necessary). Lots of protocol contradictions with a firing of an unfinished Halo just above The Ark...

On-Topic: "The Library" struck me as a more Flood-atmospheric mission. Long, dark experiences (LOL) that just seemed to drag on (LOLOL). "Cortana" was more of a Flood-detailed mission, with the effects of a fully complete Gravemind's infestation. Come to think of it, the Gravemind was only on High Charity for maybe three days or so... He knows interior decoration inside and out!

[Edited on 02.26.2011 4:18 PM PST]

  • 02.26.2011 4:11 PM PDT

-blam!- Was that actually blammed out? Or did I just type it? You'll never know.

Cortana was far worse than the Library. The Library had some breathing room. If you needed to get away for a second, there was open space to. Inside High Charity, there was no where to go.

  • 02.26.2011 4:33 PM PDT

Posted by: dahuterschuter
Cortana was far worse than the Library. The Library had some breathing room. If you needed to get away for a second, there was open space to. Inside High Charity, there was no where to go.
This.

Also, even on Legendary in CE it took more than 5 shots to kill you.

  • 02.26.2011 4:38 PM PDT

The tide is turning, brothers! Let us take our kingdom back!

I first played through Halo CE as a kid. So the difficult of the Library was tenfold as to what it would be now. Bad experiences, man.

  • 02.26.2011 5:28 PM PDT

I've actually grown to like The Library. It's a very intimidating level to enter, but once you sink into it, it's quite mesmerizing.
It's also not really all that difficult, people. Here's a tip: Don't fight the Flood as if they were Covenant. Think of it more as a combination of dancing and "Doom".
In any case, though, it remains intense and upbeat. Full of action which, despite the repeated terrain, actually maintains a modest degree of variety due to the different ways in which fights are directionally and compositionally stage.
And while it's perhaps a little dark and low-contrast on many screens, it's also kind of beautiful in its own weird way. Its style is very much in-tune with the overall mood.


Cortana on the other hand, not so much. High flood damage and low flood health in Halo 3 means the best way to fight them is to hide somewhere and kill them instantly one-by-one as they get close. It's lethargic and not particularly satisfying.
And unlike The Library, it's stylistically poorly executed insofar as what it should do. What Cortana really needs, artistically, is a good view from an "outdoors" High Charity platform. Compare and contrast, see how things have changed, juxtapose it with Halo 2. Right now, it's just a big gooey mess that's hard to associate with anything aside from the obscured and limiting glimpses you get of various areas. Reminding us better of what the Covenant once was, right after destroying them, would have been a good touch. Ah, the level is full of missed opportunities.

  • 02.26.2011 5:39 PM PDT


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Posted by: ROBERTO jh
Library. Actually got the impression Spark was secretly on the Flood's side, and I had already played Halo 2!

Why anyone would think that the Monitor of a piece of the freaking Halo array would be a Flood sympathizer in the beginning of an outbreak is... Well... Stanky. :P They were coordinators of a last defense against the Flood under Mendicant Bias (ironically, later a Flood sympathizer xD), and would love nothing more than to be put to good use. AKA... Obliterate the Flood. They're sorta gun-ho in that aspect. So much so, that 343 Guilty Spark of Installation 04[A] is believed to have gone rampant just prior to Installation 04[B]'s premature firing because of that specific part of him, and the part wishing to preserve his Installation.

In an odd sort of way, he overlooked the Flood threat, and wanted to preserve Installation 00 and Installation 04[B] for full effectual firing radius (though, it wasn't really necessary). Lots of protocol contradictions with a firing of an unfinished Halo just above The Ark...

On-Topic: "The Library" struck me as a more Flood-atmospheric mission. Long, dark experiences (LOL) that just seemed to drag on (LOLOL). "Cortana" was more of a Flood-detailed mission, with the effects of a fully complete Gravemind's infestation. Come to think of it, the Gravemind was only on High Charity for maybe three days or so... He knows interior decoration inside and out!


It was a joke -_-

I meant to point out that every sigle time Spark would disappear, a whole legion of Flood would just pop up out of no where.

Besides, for those having no insight into the games prior to that level, and thus no insight into Spark, he could easily have come off as a potential traitor.

  • 02.26.2011 7:13 PM PDT

Vengeance only leads to an ongoing cycle of hatred.

The Library. Just an outright pain in the ass.

At least Cortana was a little fun.

  • 02.26.2011 8:29 PM PDT

The Library. Wide open spaces for floodies to come in at every angle.

  • 02.26.2011 8:50 PM PDT

I put the laughter in manslaughter

both sucked, but cortana... nothing says fun like jumping at the flood with an energy sword.

  • 02.26.2011 9:25 PM PDT

I would say The Library was the harder level, but I also like it more than Cortana.

I voted for other though, because I think High Charity deserves a spot. Halo 2 was my first Halo game, so that level scared the -blam!- out of me.

  • 02.26.2011 9:30 PM PDT

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