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Subject: Halo 2 is the worst

I will admit I was not too fond of Halo 2 multiplayer back in the day and I do enjoy Halo 3 MM more but ...

in the end they all beat Reach by miles.

  • 08.02.2011 2:12 PM PDT

I like turtles.

Let me put in in a simple way that the Hitman would approve.
Halo 2 was the best there was
the best there is
and the best there will ever will be.

OP is just stupid.

  • 08.02.2011 5:06 PM PDT

"No Mission Too Difficult, No Sacrifice Too Great—Duty First!" - The fighting first's motto.

Losing internet 9/7/2012 until i don't know when. See you starside folks.


Fada beo Halo 2!


Posted by: shortD42 is aBK
so bad. why do you people want such a broken game to come back? It sucked six years ago and would suck today. Is it because you guys can't play the new one's and need your noob friendly game back. See in Halo 3 there is so much more than shooting into an ocean sized Hitbox. Jumping and Forging just destroy Halo 2. Halo Reach has AA which is just as broken as Halo 2. Also, Halo Reach has BXR and Double shot so if that's why you play halo 2 go play your new noob game Halo Reach. Halo Reach could have been good, but they took too many elements from Halo 2. They should have tried to make it like Halo 3.


*troll alert guys* Anyway, H2 was one of the most liked games of it's time, that is because Halo is the best game and whatever is the newest halo will be one of the most liked games. in theory it works that way. And in retrospect, i'm better at halo 3 than halo 2 anyway, it's only campaign and the energy sword battles for me. But especially the campaign rules! And i liked Halo 3 because it was the sequel to Halo 2. But I'm assuming that you're talking about gameplay, each game has it's own feeling of gameplay and if like Halo 3 the best then ok.

  • 08.02.2011 6:40 PM PDT
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Halo 2 had the best multilayer by far

  • 08.03.2011 4:24 PM PDT

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Posted by: iTz Hermione
I will admit I was not too fond of Halo 2 multiplayer back in the day and I do enjoy Halo 3 MM more but ...

in the end they all beat Reach by miles.
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Reach and Halo 2 both suck, but Reach is better.

  • 08.03.2011 4:41 PM PDT

Black Ops 2 I run two accounts warmup only at 1.97kdr...real is at 3.77. i'm in master division 4 league play. pm 4 clan inv...must have 2.5 kdr or better


Posted by: l bAlleRliCoius
Just because you're terribad at it doesn't mean the game itself is bad.


My KD in halo 2 was a lot higher than halo 3. My best account in halo 3 that reached 50 only has a kd of like 2.1:1 I had like a 3:1 kd in halo 2. Also, I was a 45 in like every halo 2 playlist, just never got a 50.

  • 08.03.2011 4:46 PM PDT

Precision is everything. Don't back down.

Posted by: shortD42 is aBK

Posted by: iTz Hermione
I will admit I was not too fond of Halo 2 multiplayer back in the day and I do enjoy Halo 3 MM more but ...

in the end they all beat Reach by miles.
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Reach and Halo 2 both suck, but Reach is better.


You are misinformed, but you have a right to your opinion.

  • 08.03.2011 6:10 PM PDT


Posted by: LoneWolf 070
Halo 2 is my personal favourite okay. I'm not going to start raging at you, I'm just going to say that I disagree. Halo 2 just gave me enjoyment that other Halo's never did. That is all.

  • 08.03.2011 9:30 PM PDT

Halo 2 was a console first, it took xbox live by storm,I had some amazing nights on that game. Halo 3 for me wasn't as good but still great fun, why I ask myself ? I would say the maps, the original maps shipped with Halo 2 were the best I have ever played (maybe only a few from counter strike come close). The halo 3 maps were very poor imo. With Reach the forge maps getting included in the hoppers make it fresh. Halo is great fun around, the most fun game to play there is, if ,you want something else , go play it. shamoan. but I will say this, Reach for me is the best so far, amazing game, amazing fun

  • 08.04.2011 1:02 PM PDT

i agree halo 2 is better than all of the halos

  • 08.04.2011 1:07 PM PDT


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Invalid Opinion

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  • 08.04.2011 1:13 PM PDT

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Posted by: shortD42 is aBK

Posted by: l bAlleRliCoius
Just because you're terribad at it doesn't mean the game itself is bad.


My KD in halo 2 was a lot higher than halo 3. My best account in halo 3 that reached 50 only has a kd of like 2.1:1 I had like a 3:1 kd in halo 2. Also, I was a 45 in like every halo 2 playlist, just never got a 50.

Proof kid?

  • 08.04.2011 1:43 PM PDT

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Ive been playing since CE, same account since before h3 release, played the game the right way, always had good technique on my teabag

halo 2 at a core level represents a pinnacle of multiplayer that was never achieved in halo 3 or halo reach

  • 08.04.2011 1:51 PM PDT
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Look, none of the Halo games have sucked, and Halo 2 was the best of the bunch. That's all I have to say. Search my post history if you want to know my reasons for liking Halo 2 the best, I've only posted them about a dozen times.

  • 08.04.2011 3:27 PM PDT

I felt betrayed by Bungie when I played H2. It was a series of disappointments and when I finally finished the game, I only played it a few more times before I jumped right back into H:CE and played that again and again and again.

I have not gotten over that feeling of Halo 2 being a piss poor excuse for a sequel and probably never will, but I have given it another try and it is not as bad as I thought it was. The campaign is alright even though the first time I thought it was an utter abomination. It is actually very fun if you want to sit down and smash out all the Halo games with a buddy, but by itself, its ok. Legendary is not that fun and borderline retarded with Jackal snipers.

I did not have Xbox live, and I think that is where most people fell in love with the game. But the campaign does not, can not carry the game like H:CE's campaign could. It is that nostalgic online experience alot of people are looking for and that is fair enough.

I rate H2 as the worst of the Halo games, but in retrospect, it still is a good game that has potential to be fun, and could be alot of fun with a serious co-op partner.

  • 08.04.2011 10:33 PM PDT


Posted by: King Bronn
I felt betrayed by Bungie when I played H2. It was a series of disappointments and when I finally finished the game, I only played it a few more times before I jumped right back into H:CE and played that again and again and again.

I have not gotten over that feeling of Halo 2 being a piss poor excuse for a sequel and probably never will, but I have given it another try and it is not as bad as I thought it was. The campaign is alright even though the first time I thought it was an utter abomination. It is actually very fun if you want to sit down and smash out all the Halo games with a buddy, but by itself, its ok. Legendary is not that fun and borderline retarded with Jackal snipers.

I did not have Xbox live, and I think that is where most people fell in love with the game. But the campaign does not, can not carry the game like H:CE's campaign could. It is that nostalgic online experience alot of people are looking for and that is fair enough.

I rate H2 as the worst of the Halo games, but in retrospect, it still is a good game that has potential to be fun, and could be alot of fun with a serious co-op partner.
Fair enough my friend. I have a few friends that went right back to CE, it's all relative to any given point of view.

  • 08.04.2011 11:46 PM PDT

What I think is that Halo 2 is where Bungie succeded and failed in so many ways. I personally liked it the MOST out of all the games.

Halo 2 was where Bungie took off with all its newfound manpower and money having just been a small-time independent developer, so of COURSE it wasn't anywhere near the perfect epic experience that everyone was expecting. Of COURSE Bungie failed in a lot of aspects.

But Bungie's biggest success in the game was scale. Everything was bigger. The environments became absolutely massive. No more of this cookie cutter room encounter that was so prominent in such levels as Assault on the Control Room. Nearly every room, every turn, every hallway was unique, and the outdoor battles were SO much bigger and better. Not even to mention the cinematics, which were so much grander in every respect. And the story arc was incredibly deep. For the first time we see why the humans are fighting the Covenant, and the religious deceptions and the internal conflict and eventually the Great Schism, which is a massive plot twist for the story. And the Arbiter, alien though he may be, is so incredibly hardcore. I think it was a good break for the gamers to finally have a protagonist who talked and had a face. Master Chief is fun and all, but sometimes you need a good character as well as a badass. And somehow Bungie took all this scope and scale and pulled it down to one person. In Halo 1, 3, and Reach, there's always a sense that there's a battle somewhere else that you're missing, like some crucial plot point could be going on without you. Somehow, even though it seems like it should, Halo 2 has never given me that.

Halo 2 did certainly have its downfalls. Grenades and melee being underpowered and the introduction of DWing meant that players were fairly restricted to their guns. The campaign swung wildly from simplistic to insane at some points. Legendary is im-blam!-ingpossible. The story arc was incredibly hard to follow, jumping from one point to another to another and never really resolving in the end, which was significantly less-than-climactic (The same can be said for Halo 3... Warthog run: been there, done that). And the flood levels result in more than one smashed controller. That's looking past the unsatisfactorily improved graphics that render while you're watching and the faces that don't move right. Sometimes the game really sucks, and I TOTALLY understand why y'all think this game is the worst out of the series.

But Halo 2 is still my favorite video game of all time because it's so raw. It's just a video game. Nothing more, nothing less. The other Halos are full on epic immersive experiences where the player is engaged to achieve maximum enjoyment. But Halo 2 is just a game, with bugs, glitches, exploits, and gameplay problems just like every other video game that came out at the time, and to about the same extent. You don't have that expectation in the game for every encounter to be perfectly tailored to the capabilites of the average player. It just plays. The best part IS the glitches, it IS the swinging story difficulty, it IS the cliffhanger ending. Without those, it would be a Halo 3, with a perfectly packaged and presented story that has a well-spaced beginning, climax, and end, with encounters in between that are specifically designed, tailored, tested, and overthought to provide a perfect playthrough for every player and a legendary difficulty that was meant to be beaten. But even though Halo 2 was so problematic, what made it my absolute favorite was that you could see exactly what Bungie was trying for, and achieved. You could see the epic space battle going on over Earth that couldn't quite be rendered properly. You can see that one point in Cairo Station where you're supposed to look out the window but probably didn't. You can feel that Bungie was trying to make the Scarab a walking, fearsome death machine, even though you know it's every step and shot were scripted. You can see that Bungie tried to stick the prophet holograms into your way so you can see the covenant motivation, even though you you're too busy to spare them a second glance. See, this is what I mean when I say the games is raw. One, it feels like an imperfect game, with massive room for improvement. And two, you can see the intent of the designers that wasn't quite realized in practice. But somehow that makes it all the more enjoyable to play. And that is why it's my favorite to play.

Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe nobody else sees what I'm saying. Maybe I'm looking back at this one with rose-tinted glasses (beer goggles?). There's still a special place in my heart for this one, a game I'll have nostalgia for for years and years to come. But again, I see what you mean when you say the game sucked. I guess one man's glitch can be another man's glory.

  • 08.05.2011 1:33 AM PDT

@ mrtyman - TL;RA

What do you mean us'all? This is the H2 forum and most of us love the game. The guy who made this thread is just one lonely troll, drifting from forum to forum aimlessly berating games so you are with brethren here. Welcome home

[Edited on 08.05.2011 2:17 AM PDT]

  • 08.05.2011 2:15 AM PDT

R.I.P. Halo 2 11/9/04-4/15/10
If you havn't played Halo 2 online than you are missing so much. Plus if you have played a good amount of Halo 2 online, I might have a better chance of listening to anything you say.

Posted by: shortD42 is aBK

Posted by: l bAlleRliCoius
Just because you're terribad at it doesn't mean the game itself is bad.


My KD in halo 2 was a lot higher than halo 3. My best account in halo 3 that reached 50 only has a kd of like 2.1:1 I had like a 3:1 kd in halo 2. Also, I was a 45 in like every halo 2 playlist, just never got a 50.

You have no Halo 2 games played, you are saying complete BS. Failed troll is failed.

[Edited on 08.05.2011 6:08 AM PDT]

  • 08.05.2011 6:06 AM PDT
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Why would someone dis Halo 2 in the Halo 2 forum? Isn't that a bit like ordering a whopper from Wendy's? Or something? Does anyone else know what I mean?

  • 08.05.2011 6:41 AM PDT


Posted by: nmuloc htneves
Why would someone dis Halo 2 in the Halo 2 forum? Isn't that a bit like ordering a whopper from Wendy's? Or something? Does anyone else know what I mean?
Lol even the troll knows what you mean but troll is what troll does.

  • 08.05.2011 9:22 AM PDT

PLAY MY FORGE MAPS!

Maps completed so far:
SKY SQUARE

I love Halo 2, mainly because of the glitches and unfinished levels. It was easy to run passed enemies. And the sword flying was brilliant. I'm proud to say that I have completed all the Halo's on Legendary, but Halo 2 was unbearably hard to do legitimately, Majority of the completion on Legendary was running past enemies. You could complete some levels by killing fewer than 5 enemies, and finish them in under 6 minutes. There was also a significant jump between the difficulties Heroic and Legendary, that was irritating to say the least.

  • 08.06.2011 2:27 PM PDT
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Posted by: Ikerzaz
There was also a significant jump between the difficulties Heroic and Legendary, that was irritating to say the least.
But that's tradition. It all started with Halo CE. Halo 2 upheld it. Same with Halo 3. They both featured major changes on Legendary.

But Reach -blam!- up Heroic difficulty and made the transition from Normal to Heroic absurd. And it's Legendary was abominable as well. I blame the Jackals, but I also hate the regulars (i.e. elite minors, elite majors, grunt minors, grunt majors). And if I weren't so fond of Reach's Ultra Elites, I would be calling them cheap.

[Edited on 08.06.2011 2:55 PM PDT]

  • 08.06.2011 2:53 PM PDT

I only found the retarded set pieces in Reach hard (Long Night, New Alexandria) and also the -blam!- hunters. But otherwise it is pretty simple to deal with elites, grunts and Jackals.

Halo 2 legendary was -blam!- retarded because of the Jackal snipers and also the various chokepoint set pieces.

  • 08.06.2011 10:24 PM PDT

Black Ops 2 I run two accounts warmup only at 1.97kdr...real is at 3.77. i'm in master division 4 league play. pm 4 clan inv...must have 2.5 kdr or better

Well, I see a few fanboys are a overreacting a bit. Calling me a troll for having an opinion. I like how people on these forums act like people stick with one gamertag their whole lives. A new console only gives you three fresh accounts after all.

  • 08.06.2011 11:20 PM PDT

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