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Subject: Which game was a better Xbox game Halo: Combat Evolved or Halo 2?
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R.I.P. Halo 2
11/9/04 - 4/15/10

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I can't decide.

  • 03.13.2011 8:30 PM PDT

Posted by: Tupolev
The end result is that what determines whether you live or die has a heck of a lot more to do with whether or not the elite got lucky enough to squeeze a few more shots off on you than usual than it has to do with any actual player skill.

Fights in HCE are usually easier, but they're much less dependant on twitch-luck, and you have to fight to land your kills. It's a substantially more deterministic game.
I have no idea what twitch-luck means to you and I didn't understand the 'Elite got lucky' statement pertaining to a game. To me it's easy, AI are harder to kill and they shift tactics more in H2 so it takes more skill in my opinion. I just don't see luck involved.

  • 03.13.2011 9:14 PM PDT

"You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space." -Johnny Cash

Halo CE had the best campaign, but Halo 2 had so much more replay value with it's online multiplayer. I would say Halo 2.

  • 03.14.2011 8:57 AM PDT

I think they should bring halo2 back period it was the best game they said there wasnt anybody playng the game but there wass still a good ovr 1000 ppl playing it Halo reach was just a waste and so as halo wars but its microsofts decision

  • 03.14.2011 9:40 AM PDT

Halo2

  • 03.14.2011 9:42 AM PDT

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


Posted by: MeRKz iZ FrEsH
I think they should bring halo2 back period it was the best game they said there wasnt anybody playng the game but there wass still a good ovr 1000 ppl playing it Halo reach was just a waste and so as halo wars but its microsofts decision

1. Your typing is bad.
2. More like 500 people playing it.
3. Look at your avatar.

  • 03.14.2011 10:25 AM PDT
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Posted by: Dr Syx
Halo 2 had Xbox Live.


Halo 2 made Xbox live. At least what it is today.

  • 03.14.2011 11:36 AM PDT

Aspiring filmmaker

halo CE's campaign was legendary, and still is. but i have to say, theres nothing better in the world than sitting on a couch with 8 friends, system linked xboxs, halo 2, on a saturday night, screaming at each other for whoring the rockets, or energy sword. good times.

  • 03.14.2011 4:58 PM PDT
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One day... I am gonna grow wings... A chemical reaction... Hysterical and useless... hystecial and let down and hanging around... crushed like a bug in the ground.

Hard...

Halo: CE Single Player
Halo: 2 Multiplayer

  • 03.15.2011 1:38 AM PDT

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


Posted by: AngasBoy
N00bified...

Halo: 2 Multiplayer


I fixed it.

[Edited on 03.15.2011 6:25 AM PDT]

  • 03.15.2011 6:24 AM PDT

Posted by: HiredN00bs
Arrogant hyperbolic exclamations of woe? Seems like a normal day for Halo/Bungie.net.

Basically, you're defending aim assist and bullet magnetism (lol sniper, lol shotgun) by saying that it was a countermeasure to lag?

To be honest, this is totallyinvalid. There were plenty of other shooters with none of these features which worked just fine over friggin dial-up! UT1999 was a good example.

I'm not denying the fun Halo 2 was and still is, but you guys seriously need to stop defending this game so hard. Every Halo game had it's problems, e.g. CE's indestructable vehicles, H3's derp random BR and stupid melee and Reach's ruined vehicle combat.

Be honest with yourself, I could also justify the US' 2nd nuclear bomb on Japan in WW2 with Pearl Harbor although this would be less valid than Glenn Beck's "facts".

  • 03.15.2011 1:09 PM PDT
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When you have honest researched opinions, you get banned from Bnet alot...

TRUFAX

CE easily had the better multiplayer, but 2 wins in the Campaign.

  • 03.15.2011 3:05 PM PDT
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Never ague with an idiot, they will just drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.

Posted by: totallymassive
Halo CE is clunky online:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9b-0ikhKEo

That was because of his PC, not the game.

  • 03.15.2011 3:27 PM PDT


Posted by: Method Man NYC
I'm not denying the fun Halo 2 was and still is, but you guys seriously need to stop defending this game so hard. Every Halo game had it's problems, e.g. CE's indestructable vehicles, H3's derp random BR and stupid melee and Reach's ruined

This one gets brought up as a "flaw" a lot, and I remain baffled as to why. What's so bad about vehicle usage carrying the risk of the enemy capturing a healthy vehicle? And what's bad about a system that naturally dampens snowballing by making it impossible to kill unmanned enemy vehicles as they spawn, as often happens in modern Halo games?

I'm not saying it's not an issue, I would just really love to hear an explaination of why it is one.

  • 03.15.2011 6:01 PM PDT

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H1 > H2 >>>>>>>>> H3 >>> BLACKOPS >>> MW2 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>& gt;>>>>>>>>>>>>>>&g t;>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ;>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>& gt;>>>>>>>>>>>>>>&g t;>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ;>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>& gt;>>>>>>>>>>>>>>&g t;>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ;>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>& gt;>>>>>>>>>>>>>>&g t;> REACH

yea....its that bad

i rate them fairly equal. maybe a slight edge for halo2 because it had xbox live but ce started everything and lan gameplay was amazing (although i didnt play it as much as i should have)

  • 03.15.2011 10:16 PM PDT

I preferred the Halo CE Campaign, but Halo 2 was a superb game.

  • 03.15.2011 10:39 PM PDT

If you didn't Play Halo: CE or Halo 2 MP, your opinion about Halo means nada.

CE + H2 >>>>>>>>>>>>>> H3+Reach+H4


Posted by: Method Man NYC
Basically, you're defending aim assist and bullet magnetism (lol sniper, lol shotgun) by saying that it was a countermeasure to lag?

To be honest, this is totallyinvalid. There were plenty of other shooters with none of these features which worked just fine over friggin dial-up! UT1999 was a good example.

I'm not denying the fun Halo 2 was and still is, but you guys seriously need to stop defending this game so hard. Every Halo game had it's problems, e.g. CE's indestructable vehicles, H3's derp random BR and stupid melee and Reach's ruined vehicle combat.

Be honest with yourself, I could also justify the US' 2nd nuclear bomb on Japan in WW2 with Pearl Harbor although this would be less valid than Glenn Beck's "facts".

Only thing is it made the game FUN.

Halo 2 Had amazing arena style gameplay as well as BTB and the reason it was so fun was b/c of the amazing things you could pull off with the Sniper, BxR or w/e. the had heavy aim-assist but that doesnt matter.

Halo is and always will be an ARCADE shooter. the auto-aim isnt a huge deal b/c it takes a few seconds to kill someone generally, not like a military shooter where it takes a few bullets.

Halo 2 was NOT perfect, but then again NO game is. but what I can tell you I had more fun playing it online with my friends more than a million times more than Reach and H3 put together.Even just playing clan matches at night with friends from school was better than anything now days. and the ranking system visually alone were cooler than anything we got this gen.

The only thing you can really say plagued Halo 2 was the cheating in MM but even then custom games were fun as hell. whether it MLG, Tower of Power, Zombies or your own created gametypes it was always a blast. H3 and Reach have way more options yet are NO WHERE near as fun and thats because it comes down to gameplay.

Reach has stupid bloom, and H3 had retarded bullet spread esp. with the BR. That shouldnt be it Slows down kill times and gameplay, last I checked Halo wasnt a tactical shooter like Rainbow Six. What made CE and 2 so great were the weapons were deadly accurate and powerful like they should be and it kept the pace and tempo fast and furious. not to mention the first too games had amazing maps when compared to the crap in H3 and Reach.

and for the record I say all this having played every Halo game on consoles for more than my fair share and being pretty good at all of them.

  • 03.17.2011 10:11 PM PDT

Halo 2 for Life!

The campaign was best for h2 but MP makes H2 go head and shoulders above the rest.
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Posted by: HydroIysis
Tough decision...from a single-player standpoint I'm sure most everyone would agree that H:CE was far superior than any of the following Halo games (H2 had the weakest campaign; While H3 and Reach both had decent campaigns neither game compares to the level of sheer epicness that was H:CE)
I disagree, the H2 Campaign the is best. Legendary H3 and Reach are jokes and although CE was fun, it didn't take near the skill that Legendary H2 demands.

  • 03.22.2011 10:49 PM PDT

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