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Subject: Should i buy Halo 2 or Halo ODST?

Yeah guys what do you think which one is better ? Which one would you choose if you could get it for free? Hard choice both good games..

[Edited on 05.22.2011 5:47 PM PDT]

  • 05.22.2011 5:46 PM PDT

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

ODST, you also get all H3 maps. Plus, H3 takes more skill then H2.

  • 05.22.2011 5:51 PM PDT

RIP Halo 2: November 9, 2004-May 10, 2010
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Halo 2. Better campaign. Halo 2 has online (XBC), all ODST has is firefight, which no one plays. I'm also a Halo 2 fanboy, so this is pretty biased.

  • 05.22.2011 5:56 PM PDT

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Halo 3 ODST has a great soundtrack and story but Halo 2 has the greatest multiplayer of all time.

  • 05.22.2011 6:03 PM PDT

What? ODST does have Multiplayer , Wait does it? What i mean is that there is no Player vs player combat? Only Firefight mode with friends?

[Edited on 05.22.2011 6:15 PM PDT]

  • 05.22.2011 6:10 PM PDT

The Seventh, The Heavenly,The Chosen One.

Halo 2, everything about it makes it the best Halo, Best story, best soundtrack, its amazing. ODST is also awesome brilliant story, but Halo 2 is King

  • 05.22.2011 6:36 PM PDT
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Halo 2, for me, offers a really good storyline and gameplay as far as the campaign is concerned; however, it no longer has Multiplayer via Xbox Live. Halo 3: ODST, on the other hand, still offers a solid campaign, Firefight mode, and Halo 3's multiplayer, including a few other maps that weren't standard when Halo 3 came out. If you already have Halo 3, though, ODST has less to offer. If you also have Reach, it offers even less since Reach has Firefight, though there are actually some who prefer ODST's Firefight over Reach's.

Hope this helps.

And don't be holding your breath that Halo 2's Xbox Live Multiplayer will come back, it probably has a 0.01% chance of returning.

[Edited on 05.22.2011 7:30 PM PDT]

  • 05.22.2011 7:27 PM PDT

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


Posted by: joe campbell
Halo 2. Better campaign. Halo 2 has online (XBC), all ODST has is firefight, which no one plays. I'm also a Halo 2 fanboy, so this is pretty biased.

XBC is dead too, while ODST comes with a H3 MP disc.

BTW, Ask this in the ODST forum too. I bet you would get far different answers, due to forum bias.

  • 05.22.2011 7:28 PM PDT

Posted by: JacobGRocks
BTW, Ask this in the ODST forum too. I bet you would get far different answers, due to forum bias.
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  • 05.22.2011 7:34 PM 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.

Compared to Halo 2, ODST had a very short campaign. It had a lackluster campaign storyline compared to Halo 2. I say go for Halo 2.

  • 05.22.2011 7:55 PM PDT

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Halo 2 had such a wonderful campaign. It was times like those back when multiplayer wasn't everything, and Halo 2 broke all the conventions by introducing an amazing Campaign experience AND an incredible multiplayer.

  • 05.22.2011 8:22 PM PDT

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In the battle of the titans of Halo you cannot go wrong. They both have outstanding stories, great gameplay and epic soundtracks.

In the end I would have to say Halo 2. Its story is still the best, with the story of the Arbiter. It has the best environments of any Halo game, vacations and scarab guns.

  • 05.22.2011 9:16 PM PDT

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Achronos: And what's this about a "design team" I've been hearing? Apparently stosh is so awesome he's now considered a "team".

Im going to say both because I am biased to both.

  • 05.22.2011 10:46 PM PDT

Halo 2 for Life!

I played ODST for about 5 hours.

I'm still playing halo 2.

  • 05.22.2011 11:01 PM PDT

Gamers Anon

Achronos: And what's this about a "design team" I've been hearing? Apparently stosh is so awesome he's now considered a "team".


Posted by: totallymassive
I played ODST for about 5 hours.

I'm still playing halo 2.

I still play both every once in a while.

I just find it sad that people dismissed ODST as a bad game so fast. As a tricker ODST had a lot of potential for tricking people just gave up though.

  • 05.23.2011 12:29 AM PDT

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if you have halo 3 you should go with halo 2. If you don't have halo 3 then go with ODST. You would get all of halo 3 multi player, and multi player is kinda fun. I would say get halo 2 if the servers were still up.

As for game-play/story I would say it depends on what you like.

If you are into glitching (with maps full of more holes than a sponge) and want a story line that is beyond epic then go with halo 2.

If you like a more personal story with more of a feeling of struggle, and game-play that has been really refined and is almost glitch free (because of halo 3) then go for ODST

  • 05.23.2011 12:41 AM PDT

i am myself

halo 2 any body who would choose odst over 2 is a noob

  • 05.23.2011 9:49 AM PDT

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Posted by: JacobGRocks
H3 takes more skill then H2.


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Melee tiebreaks
Melee simplicity
ARs
Laser
Beam rifle ammo dynamics removed
Equipment
Brute weapons on vehicles
Chopper
Banshee bomb
Plasma Pistol on vehicles
Mancannons everywhere
Shield doors
Sword clashing
Hammer smashing
No hitscan
The needler
The mauler
The shotgun
Random spread
Blood shots
Detachable turrets
Invincible dino-swat hump of immortality
Map turrets
Inconsistent oddball damage


And these were just off the top of my head.

  • 05.23.2011 11:30 AM PDT
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Imagine a triangle. It's perfect, but a little plain. You take a chisel, and carve a small decorative symbol into it to make it a little more interesting. People like it, but it could use a little more.

So you then take a sledgehammer..

Halo 3 ODST if you like multiplayer, and Halo 2 if you prefer campaign.

  • 05.23.2011 11:34 AM PDT

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

Thanks LOL NEUXYZ and your butt buddies for making me this. In fact, I saw randoms who knew who I was the last time I played H3.

Oh yeah, here is a 3 min video showing my points.


Hitboxes the size of superman.
Many of the same problems ^ Posted.
Homing plasma pistol.
Superman Melees.
Infinite Swords
Super Lunges
Button Glitches
The Shotgun
n00b combos


Buy CE, Kids. Only on PC for just $20. I could think of more if I wanted to. Now let's wait for HWSNBN to refute these with an essay. We all know who HE is, too.

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  • 05.23.2011 12:34 PM PDT
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Interests outside of Halo - Soccer, Philosophy, Movies, Politics, Natural Science, Space, Animation, Gym Freak.

It depends on whether or not you have all the H3 maps.

If not, ODST.

If you do, Halo 2.

  • 05.23.2011 1:27 PM PDT

This is a Reach account that I created the day they announced his name in a bnet weekly update. Any stats regarding ODST or Halo 3 are irrelevant. Also, Halo CE master race. Halo 1 > other halo games > other games.

Account Status: Silver :(

ODST if you want a better campaign. All this talk makes me want to play it again. Can't say I feel the same for Halo 2. Halo ODST has the best graphics in the series (In my opinion). It's Halo 3 style, but refined and crisp. It's not as blocky as Reach or Halo 2. The story is amazing. Not to mention on the other disc you get Halo 3 maps. Definitely ODST.

  • 05.23.2011 4:48 PM PDT

Pronounced "Nay-uss"

That video, as you very well know, compares CE to Halo 2. Yes, CE takes more skill than Halo 2. We're talking about Halo 2 in comparison to Halo 3.


Hitboxes the size of superman.
Many of the same problems ^ Posted.
Homing plasma pistol.
Superman Melees.
Infinite Swords
Super Lunges
Button Glitches
The Shotgun
n00b combos



1. Hitboxes were too big. Though Spartans are bigger than Superman.
2. I posted those because they were to do with Halo 3, not Halo 2, so no.
3. Plasma pistol has always homed, though I will say the homing in H2 is ridiculous
4. Melee damage depended on weapon and movement, like in CE. Halo 3 introduced the base melee damage regardless of these factors.
5. The sword was a dumb idea, made worse in H3 with clashing.
6. Button glitches were not a design choice, and if you found them to be such a problem, you probably sucked.
7. Large clip size makes up for host-gun.
8. Noob combo will always exist as long as the Plasma Pistol is in the game. So I assume you're making the same point as #3.


CE > H2 > H3 > Reach.

Each successive game takes the faults of its predecessors and adds in more garbage.

  • 05.24.2011 5:02 AM PDT
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I liked both campaigns, although Halo 2 was better imo. ODST was too dark, and too many invisible walls.
ODST does have the benefit of having all the Halo 3 maps, including midship, but Halo 2 have the best multiplayer, and in general the best maps.

Im going with Halo 2, even though i probaly wont be playing any of the multiplayer. Except maybe when Halo 2 gets remade.

  • 05.24.2011 6:38 AM PDT

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Fada beo Halo 2!

Posted by: UndeadMiltonius
Yeah guys what do you think which one is better ? Which one would you choose if you could get it for free? Hard choice both good games..


If it's free, ODST. It comes with a map pack with lot's of good maps for H3. But Halo 2 is better, well, ODST is right bellow CE in my list.

  • 05.24.2011 8:07 AM PDT

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