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Subject: Is any other halo even close to Halo 2?

Halo 2 for Life!

Poll: Is any other halo even close to Halo 2?  [closed]
CE:  27%
(9 Votes)
ODST :  3%
(1 Votes)
H3 :  15%
(5 Votes)
Hreach :  6%
(2 Votes)
Halo Wars :  3%
(1 Votes)
Nothing is like Halo 2 among other Halo games!:  12%
(4 Votes)
Nothing like Halo 2 among all video games!:  33%
(11 Votes)
COD, Gears copied Halo 2 so they are similar:  0%
(0 Votes)
Total Votes: 33

I dont think so.

If you ask me the remake for CE was reach.
Halo 3 was more like CE than halo 2 as well and it was very poorly done like the CE MP to me.

What do you guys think.

  • 03.07.2011 9:45 PM PDT
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Gears copied halo 2 how exactly.

  • 03.07.2011 11:36 PM PDT

I'm an avid Gears player. I've never even considered that it had any similarities with H2 except I can get off the maps.

  • 03.08.2011 12:02 AM PDT
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Halo 3 - only better. Gears is nothing like Halo 2 unless you mean how the MM failed at launch.

  • 03.08.2011 12:52 AM PDT

This is the average H2 Fanboy.
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50 in H2/H3? Great, but you still fail at this.

Everything is better then Halo 2.

  • 03.08.2011 6:26 AM PDT

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  • 03.08.2011 6:50 AM PDT
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halo 2 still the best game in the series. long live halo 2.

Dam, I miss the old days playing halo 2 with my old brothers in arms. Thank you my old friends for giving me this account, I shall continue our legacy.


Posted by: Grumpy1
I'm an avid Gears player. I've never even considered that it had any similarities with H2 except I can get off the maps.


Same here, I have never seen the connection between Halo 2 and Gears. I have to say Halo CE is as close to Halo 2 then any other game. All it needed was a live enabled multiplayer matchmaking system and it would have been on par with Halo 2.

  • 03.08.2011 9:06 AM PDT

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While no, i dont play gears a lot anymore, ive never seen any copying in CoD or Gears. All i no is that CoD has failed in 5 - 7 (for those of you who will flame, WaW, MW2, and Black ops were just repeats of MW1. the only difference is zombies which was again copied in black ops) Gears and Halo progress their games, so i like them much better. Halo 2 was personally my fav. (for its experience, again for those who will flame) and it will never compare to any other game whether halo or not.

[Edited on 03.08.2011 12:27 PM PST]

  • 03.08.2011 12:26 PM PDT
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In a way, it is unlike any other game because it is definitely original, however, contemporary online gaming system titles branched off from this game. So, it is like many games. But it was it's own reason for this.

  • 03.08.2011 12:50 PM PDT

Halo 2 for Life!

http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=56522802

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehMdjF-rnr4

http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=9206017&po stRepeater1-p=1

you could also get out of the map by accident on purpose plus alot more if I sat down and thought about it...

Even before gears was being built a thing called halo 2 rocked the gaming world to it's core. If it had no effect on the gears development I would have been extremely suprised.

I would even go as far to say they modelled their game after Halo 2 and than tweeked it to make it their own. If that is what people liked I see no reason they wouldn't
Posted by: Grumpy1
I'm an avid Gears player. I've never even considered that it had any similarities with H2 except I can get off the maps.


[Edited on 03.08.2011 6:22 PM PST]

  • 03.08.2011 6:18 PM PDT

Posted by: totallymassive
http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=56522802

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehMdjF-rnr4

http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=9206017&po stRepeater1-p=1

you could also get out of the map by accident on purpose plus alot more if I sat down and thought about it...

Even before gears was being built a thing called halo 2 rocked the gaming world to it's core. If it had no effect on the gears development I would have been extremely suprised.

I would even go as far to say they modelled their game after Halo 2 and than tweeked it to make it their own. If that is what people liked I see no reason they wouldn't
Posted by: Grumpy1
I'm an avid Gears player. I've never even considered that it had any similarities with H2 except I can get off the maps.
I see, you are talking MP and game development and I was talking about Campaign playability. The links you provided were not new plot ideas. Many movies and books have all the same elements so I've always thought there are no more original plots. Good (mankind) verses evil (anybody else) and doomsday devices are nothing new.

But I do think you are right, they did want to get those elements in Gears because H2 was so popular.

[Edited on 03.08.2011 6:35 PM PST]

  • 03.08.2011 6:27 PM PDT

Halo 2 for Life!

um... I never played the campaign for gears lol, only MP.

I find Campaign in the majority of shooters to be horrible, Halo was a bit different and halo 2 was a good campaign. Other game types have better stories I think like shining force, dragon force, etc.

  • 03.08.2011 6:31 PM PDT

Posted by: totallymassive
um... I never played the campaign for gears lol, only MP.

I find Campaign in the majority of shooters to be horrible, Halo was a bit different and halo 2 was a good campaign. Other game types have better stories I think like shining force, dragon force, etc.
I put an edit in too late above you. Yeah, try Gears 1 and 2 Insane mode, it gives your heart a workout.

Overall, H2 gets my vote over any game I've ever played except for maybe Metal Arms - Glitch in the System.

  • 03.08.2011 6:39 PM PDT

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Halo 3 more like CE? Pleeeease elaborate.

  • 03.08.2011 6:58 PM PDT

Halo 2 for Life!

Is any game close and than if you think more than one is choose the one that is more like halo 2.
Posted by: Spec OpsLeader1
Halo 3 more like CE? Pleeeease elaborate.

  • 03.08.2011 7:27 PM PDT

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Duh... I'm asking how you think Halo 3 is more like CE?

  • 03.08.2011 8:27 PM PDT

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CE type aim assist, vehicles feel more like CE (warthog specifically), lower hit boxes, sniper more like CE, shotgun more like CE, CE influenced H3 more than H2 did.

I almost forgot the floating, slip and slide physics on objects. It's like being on a flotation device and slamming on water, not like a warthog hitting the ground.
Posted by: Spec OpsLeader1
Duh... I'm asking how you think Halo 3 is more like CE?


[Edited on 03.08.2011 9:00 PM PST]

  • 03.08.2011 8:58 PM PDT

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CE had Aim assist? Have you seen the Halo 1 and 2 comparison video? Ce had virtually no Aim Assist or an Auto Lock on tracker for the reticule. Shotgun more like CE? If anything it was more like 2's since it was weaker in 3 and also had slower (I guess this word means time before you can fire again) recoil. Ce's shotgun had a long and more effective range unlike 3's. I'm not quite sure about the Warthog though. I'd say really CE influenced Halo Reach the most.



Halo 3 was practically a clone of Halo 2 only that it had more features like Forge, theater, upgraded graphics, and more gametypes. And let's not forget the bullet spread

[Edited on 03.08.2011 9:20 PM PST]

  • 03.08.2011 9:15 PM PDT

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lol, no not at all that was the problem it threw out auto assist like CE and H3 (I was saying CE and H3 have similar auto assist). H2 was the only halo with a good auto assist.

No shotgun was slow and very similar to CE.

Clone no. It had no auto assist or large hit boxes like H2, it's main thing the weapons worked almost exactly like CE not H2.


H2 was very very different than H3,

H3 and Ce were very similar.

I would agree that forge was bungies failed attempt at recreating what modders did successfully.

H3 and other halo's also didn't have modders like H2 nore the supposed glitches and out of the map features which were accidents done on purpose to me (as they were to well done to be true glitches).

Theater was a failed attempt at what montage makers were doing in Halo 2.
Posted by: Spec OpsLeader1
CE had Aim assist? Have you seen the Halo 1 and 2 comparison video? Ce had virtually no Aim Assist or an Auto Lock on tracker for the reticule. Shotgun more like CE? If anything it was more like 2's since it was weaker in 3 and also had slower (I guess this word means time before you can fire again) recoil. Ce's shotgun had a long and more effective range unlike 3's. I'm not quite sure about the Warthog though. I'd say really CE influenced Halo Reach the most.



Halo 3 was practically a clone of Halo 2 only that it had more features like Forge, theater, upgraded graphics, and more gametypes. And let's not forget the bullet spread


[Edited on 03.08.2011 9:32 PM PST]

  • 03.08.2011 9:26 PM PDT

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Halo 3's shotgun was slow. Yes. Was it similar to Halo 1's? No


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHyJpzuK_k8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdEpqW_Z4bA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShKEhdXN2p4
(2:38 and 4:37 areas)

Halo 2's shotgun was more like Halo 1's in terms of recoil/recovery time. What is it that's similar between Halo 3 and Halo 1's shotgun?

The one thing I do see that is similar between Halo 1 and 3 is that the Rocket Launchers didn't have lock on.

[Edited on 03.08.2011 10:17 PM PST]

  • 03.08.2011 10:14 PM PDT

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There is a devoted following of CE shotgun lovers but I'm not here to rip you from your shotgun, I'm here to get back Halo 2 or a game similar to it.

I'm not saying it's bad I'm just saying it was more like H3.

I feel if I call it slow one more time you might get more aggravated so I wont.

  • 03.08.2011 10:25 PM PDT

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Posted by: totallymassive
There is a devoted following of CE shotgun lovers but I'm not here to rip you from your shotgun, I'm here to get back Halo 2 or a game similar to it.

I'm not saying it's bad I'm just saying it was more like H3.

I feel if I call it slow one more time you might get more aggravated so I wont.



I actually favor Halo 2 the best out of all of them. I'd love to see it come back, but saying that devoted follower crap about the shotgun like that doesn't really help your argument. I know you're not saying it's bad but I'm asking how is it similar to Halo 1's? Proove to me that Halo 3's shotgun is similar to Halo 1's. To me the Halo 1 and Halo 2 videos show that Halo 3's is slow and Halo's 1 and 2 are fast and similar to eachother.


Unless you have a frame by frame video comparison of all the Shotguns being fired that would show that Halo 3's and Halo 1's actually are slow then I'd be inclined to believe you. But saying both are slow without proof does not help your case.

[Edited on 03.08.2011 10:42 PM PST]

  • 03.08.2011 10:29 PM PDT

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Proving something is futile. Unless your the designer of the games, one can only guess. Saying that I agree Halo 2 is the best.

I agree that prooving how I think of the three shotguns is true or fact or real is not easily seen by others because when I attempt to communicate how H3 and CE have similar shotguns I would be splitting hairs and this is hard to explain in words unless I created the shotguns. So I will tell you it's my perception and not actual fact.

I will say that I think they "fixed" the spread for H3 from H2 and that I thought was making it more like CE but going into detail is hard.

The other things I said are slightly easier to explain like the auto assist.

Basically if I could explain it to you in gory detail I would be a game designer lol.

[Edited on 03.08.2011 10:55 PM PST]

  • 03.08.2011 10:43 PM PDT

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Posted by: totallymassive
Proving something is futile. Unless your the designer of the games, one can only guess. Saying that I agree Halo 2 is the best.

I agree that prooving how I think of the three shotguns is true or fact or real is not easily seen by others because when I attempt to communicate how H3 and CE have similar shotguns I would be splitting hairs and this is hard to explain in words unless I created the shotguns. So I will tell you it's my perception and not actual fact.

I will say that I think they "fixed" the spread for H3 from H2 and that I thought was making it more like CE but going into detail is hard.

The other things I said are slightly easier to explain like the auto assist.


Not necissarily futile, just really hard to do. But ok.

But tell me what do you think exactly did Bungie try to make it more CE? Because to me if they wanted it to be more CEish, they would have had more maps similar to Halo 1 and wouldn't have kept dual wielding and other things.


Well here's an idea, how about we ask a certain Bungie Employee in a comparison of which shotguns were more similar?

[Edited on 03.08.2011 11:02 PM PST]

  • 03.08.2011 10:54 PM PDT

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I already did...

Hit boxes, auto assist with aiming are main parts of how I interact with objects in the environment. H3 and H1 have similar auto assist and interactions. Also floating and all that I already spoke about. It's all my perception, it's not perfect. For me to change your perception I would have to brain wash you lol. You see and feel what I say lol. Na just consider that I might have some intresting points that could show flaws in how H3 was constructed, etc.

  • 03.08.2011 11:05 PM PDT

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