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Subject: The actual reason why Halo 2 was the best Halo of all.

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In my personal opinion, the best Halo of them all, was Halo 2, Ironically i never got to play it online until the last 2 weeks it was on. But the reason I find it to be the best of all Halos, was because of its release, let's put it this way:

-Bungie releases Halo: Combat Evolved, everyone is crazy about it, because it's the first of its kind.

-Bungie releases Halo 2, for Xbox, with Online Multiplayer. The whole new concept of a console having Online multiplayer at that time, was inconceivable, because at that time, there was no such thing.

So, the jumps in game concepts were just enormous, first, there was no alike game at all, Halo is created, with Multiplayer for a computer, which was a classic thing, but Halo 2 was the first game for a console to have a massive multiplayer like it did, later on, Halo 3, was great, magnificent, but was the same concept. So, since Halo 2, the concept of the game didn't change at all, that's why people liked Halo and Halo 2 so much, the where brand new things to experience.

That's my opinion, discuss it, for the good ol' times...

  • 04.12.2011 5:42 PM PDT

Half of the time I'm dead serious.
The other half not so much.

The multiplayer was certainly a great feature, and it thankfully made up for the rather monotonous campaign, which I wasn't ever really fond of.

  • 04.12.2011 5:54 PM PDT

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

To sum it up, nostalgia, and the fact it was the first they played.

  • 04.12.2011 5:54 PM PDT

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For me the reason the Halo 2 is the best is that it had the best campaign and the best story, with the longer cutscenes and the parts as the Arbiter.

  • 04.12.2011 6:35 PM PDT

Posted by: UNSC 2009
Stuff

Your argument could perhaps use some fact-checking.

For instance, both the Xbox and the PS2 implimented official online service two years prior to Halo 2's launch. And the first console with built-in online capability was released six years prior (granted, it was only five years prior for North America).

Halo 2 arguably helped make console online gaming mainstream, and it had a great system for networking compared to most console game even today, but it was the better part of a decade away from being "first" console game to go online.

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Otherwise, though, I don't really have much to say, except that it confuses me that people defend their beloved games by the "it was good for its time" argument. All it accomplishes is devaluation of the game it and acknowledgement of the product inferiority that is being argued against.

This is particularly important in light of the fact that, when many people (myself included), say that something is the "best" of a group, they're comparing each thing to other things in group, not to each others relative standing in its own time period.

[Edited on 04.12.2011 8:05 PM PDT]

  • 04.12.2011 8:04 PM PDT

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I loved the old number rankings with the borders, Im kinda pissed they took number ranks out for reach, arena isn't the same.

  • 04.12.2011 8:36 PM PDT

You can fight and all of you will die, or you can not fight, in which case only most of you will die.

It had the best Campaign, and the best multiplayer by far.

  • 04.12.2011 11:43 PM PDT
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Posted by: JacobGRocks
Yeah, Hitboxing = fail. For example, a certan user from the maw who has never played Halo 2 Xbox online links to this halo 2 bash video (its much less exreme in acutial gameplay) which shows hitboxing, but it also exists in halo 3, which also has unbalanced weps and n00b armor (recon).


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Posted by: UNSC 2009
Stuff

Your argument could perhaps use some fact-checking.

For instance, both the Xbox and the PS2 implimented official online service two years prior to Halo 2's launch. And the first console with built-in online capability was released six years prior (granted, it was only five years prior for North America).

This. Check out the Dreamcast sometime.

  • 04.13.2011 3:33 PM PDT
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  • 04.13.2011 4:02 PM PDT

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


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Posted by: Tupolev
Posted by: UNSC 2009
Stuff

Your argument could perhaps use some fact-checking.

For instance, both the Xbox and the PS2 implimented official online service two years prior to Halo 2's launch. And the first console with built-in online capability was released six years prior (granted, it was only five years prior for North America).

This. Check out the Dreamcast sometime.


The Genesis had online before that, first with the Japan only Mega Modem then later on with Xband. And then the Saturn had a plug in netlink modem as well.

  • 04.13.2011 4:03 PM PDT
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Posted by: JacobGRocks
Yeah, Hitboxing = fail. For example, a certan user from the maw who has never played Halo 2 Xbox online links to this halo 2 bash video (its much less exreme in acutial gameplay) which shows hitboxing, but it also exists in halo 3, which also has unbalanced weps and n00b armor (recon).


Posted by: JacobGRocks

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Posted by: Tupolev
Posted by: UNSC 2009
Stuff

Your argument could perhaps use some fact-checking.

For instance, both the Xbox and the PS2 implimented official online service two years prior to Halo 2's launch. And the first console with built-in online capability was released six years prior (granted, it was only five years prior for North America).

This. Check out the Dreamcast sometime.


The Genesis had online before that, first with the Japan only Mega Modem then later on with Xband. And then the Saturn had a plug in netlink modem as well.

You're right, I forgot about that. There was also a primitive online service for the 2600/Intellivision way back in the day.

  • 04.14.2011 7:19 PM PDT