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Subject: Why was Halo 2 so popular?

Poll: Why was Halo 2 so popular?  [closed]
Need to experience it to know:  22%
(7 Votes)
First one to have multiplayer over xbox:  25%
(8 Votes)
It was just fun :  41%
(13 Votes)
other(explain y):  12%
(4 Votes)
Total Votes: 32

ive always wanted to play halo 2 multiplayer but i dont have a computer (im 14 so i use my moms laptop) and i was late on getting xbox. so can u tell me y everyone thinks H2 is the best.

  • 12.15.2011 7:20 PM PDT

I guess it was *the best because it appealed to so many people. It's all opinions really, but if you're asking what aspects make it the best, then I have to say the great mission designs.



[Edited on 12.15.2011 7:32 PM PST]

  • 12.15.2011 7:31 PM PDT


Posted by: Zsnackattack
ive always wanted to play halo 2 multiplayer but i dont have a computer (im 14 so i use my moms laptop) and i was late on getting xbox. so can u tell me y everyone thinks H2 is the best.
Not everyone thinks it's great but a vast majority do imo. What come up a lot in the descriptions for H2 was feel, you can't really explain feel but it's there. Part of the feel was the speed at which you had to play and the larger hitboxes had some impact on that. Instead of just outgunning your opponents you had to adapt other tactics to survive...speed, cunning and tactics became paramount, especially the team tactics. If nubs could kill you, then you then had to resort to other ways of becoming dominant.

  • 12.15.2011 8:06 PM PDT
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I didn't play Halo 2 so much until I got to experience it. I had blindly held Halo 3 in high regard until I went to the Halo 2 forum where I realized there was a game with greater potential than both Halo 1 and Halo 3.

  • 12.15.2011 9:17 PM PDT


Posted by: Sliding Ghost
I didn't play Halo 2 so much until I got to experience it. I had blindly held Halo 3 in high regard until I went to the Halo 2 forum where I realized there was a game with greater potential than both Halo 1 and Halo 3.
Heh, potential is a fitting word. There's always something unexpected that happens in both CMP, now and Live, back in the day.

  • 12.15.2011 9:21 PM PDT


Posted by: Grumpy1

Posted by: Sliding Ghost
I didn't play Halo 2 so much until I got to experience it. I had blindly held Halo 3 in high regard until I went to the Halo 2 forum where I realized there was a game with greater potential than both Halo 1 and Halo 3.
Heh, potential is a fitting word. There's always something unexpected that happens in both CMP, now and Live, back in the day.

True that. Almost (if not every) every glitch I have found was on accident.

  • 12.15.2011 9:42 PM PDT
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R.I.P. Halo 2
11/9/04 - 4/15/10

- B( )B

Because it's Halo. It had a great campaign, it was great for LAN parties, and it was great for Xbox Live.

  • 12.15.2011 10:04 PM PDT
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Sometimes, I dream about cheese.

- the sequel to the greatest FPS game of 2001 - 2004
- arguably the greatest multiplayer from late 2004 to late 2006
- best XBOX game
- groundbreaking graphics
- amazing music for a game, the campaign was also a beauty

  • 12.15.2011 10:54 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: BOB570
Because it's Halo. It had a great campaign, it was great for LAN parties, and it was great for Xbox Live.


Good point, I might be wrong, but i really started liking the Halo games because they are the best series ever made, I first played Halo 2 MP, and that was the first of Halo i experienced. Later on when i played all the other games i played through halo 2 CMP and saw that there was more to this game than meats the eye.

  • 12.16.2011 8:47 AM PDT

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

It was Halo and it had XBL.

  • 12.16.2011 10:44 AM PDT
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Halo 2 wasn't the first Xbox Live game. Xbox Live had existed for about 2 years before Halo 2 even launched.

Posted by: path1k
- groundbreaking graphics
Not to belittle Halo 2 in any way, but Halo 2's graphics were not groundbreaking in the least. Compared to other games that were out at the time (Example: Half-Life 2) Halo 2's graphics looked average.

[Edited on 12.16.2011 10:50 AM PST]

  • 12.16.2011 10:45 AM PDT

The game was faster and it seemed to be more competitive for some reason. I also think that it was the fact the people could play ONLINE at the same time with kids from around the country/world. I remember when I first played online when I was in like 8th grade, my mind was blow away. The maps were the best out of any Halo in my opinion, for example LOCKOUT, beaver creek, warlock, headlong, zanzibar, etc. etc. the cqc actually required skill to win (no mutual beatdown crap). If you were good at bxr/bxb, then you ACTUALLY stood a chance if you had less health than the other guy. "What? no way?!?! I've never heard of such madness!" Yeah. Also the BR, it was the weapon of Halo, 'nuff said. 4 shots, double shots, quad shots...ahhhh the best.

Aside from all the matchmaking, competitive ranking, etc. I LOVED the aspect of glitching/superjumps. It was some of the most fun I've ever had playing a videogame. Trying to get out of maps, finding new places outside of headlong, doing that new superjump some random kid found, tank flips on coag...I could go ON and ON...

Simply put, this game provided me with the most fun I've ever had while playing a videogame. I played from the first day it came out until its end a few years back (still a mistake that they did that). Halo 2 will be my all time fav game online for sure.

  • 12.16.2011 11:57 AM PDT
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Sometimes, I dream about cheese.


Posted by: Dr Syx
Halo 2 wasn't the first Xbox Live game. Xbox Live had existed for about 2 years before Halo 2 even launched.

Posted by: path1k
- groundbreaking graphics
Not to belittle Halo 2 in any way, but Halo 2's graphics were not groundbreaking in the least. Compared to other games that were out at the time (Example: Half-Life 2) Halo 2's graphics looked average.
if you say so, scratch that last on my reply

  • 12.16.2011 1:17 PM PDT

It is not just the fact that it was first, but it was also a quality game.

  • 12.16.2011 6:56 PM PDT

HALO 2 IS ON THE XBOX AND HALO 1 IS ON PC AND XBOX I GOT ALL HALOS SO YA AND HALO 3 IS ON XBOX ONLY LIKE HALO 2 AND HAPPY NEW YEAR

  • 12.29.2011 8:59 PM PDT

Halo 2 > Halo 3 > Halo 3 ODST > Halo Reach > Halo CE

Based on campaigns.

Because it is the most fun Halo IMO

I love the campaign

  • 12.30.2011 7:36 AM PDT

I think it was because people all had so much fun, not just because it had XBL. It was basically just a great game.

  • 12.30.2011 8:07 AM PDT

"I'll tell you right now, if you ever see someone called ll wa1do ll... leave the game immediately. My friend knows him, I've been in his party a few times, do not mess with this guy. From what I've heard, he's the real deal. I also heard someone made a guy named Wa2do (similar to his name) and then he hacked that guy and boosted off his level." -From Minou on Bungie.net

The game had a high skill gap.

However I think some people's nostalgia blinds them and they only remember certain aspects of the game.

  • 12.30.2011 10:06 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.

It was fun to play with friends and mess around on the maps via its glitches. Game had more replay value then Halo Reach, ODST, or 3, thanks to it's easter eggs and other glitches/bugs.

And everyone loved the duel needlers and its pink rain of destruction.

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  • 12.30.2011 1:55 PM PDT


Posted by: JB 199
And everyone loved the duel needlers and its pink rain of destruction.
Lol, except the dead people.

  • 12.30.2011 5:00 PM PDT
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It would be impossible to have a precise answer to this, as the game reaches out to everyone in different ways. A basic reasoning perhaps, is because Halo to is such a well rounded game and although may not have as many features as other titles do, has unique undertones which carve the souls of men into sculptures of artists.

  • 12.30.2011 7:27 PM PDT


Posted by: CmdrScott1701
It would be impossible to have a precise answer to this, as the game reaches out to everyone in different ways. A basic reasoning perhaps, is because Halo to is such a well rounded game and although may not have as many features as other titles do, has unique undertones which carve the souls of men into sculptures of artists.
<3 to Scotty

  • 12.30.2011 7:41 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: Mark V guy
Because it is the most fun Halo IMO

I love the campaign


This.

  • 12.30.2011 7:55 PM PDT


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Simply put, this game provided me with the most fun I've ever had while playing a videogame. I played from the first day it came out until its end a few years back (still a mistake that they did that). Halo 2 will be my all time fav game online for sure.


YES!

  • 01.06.2012 11:16 PM PDT

Personally, I think it's because the game was just fun. I've had the most fun with the original Halo and Halo 2 back in the day. That said, Halo 2's multiplayer didn't take skill because of the large hitboxes and aim assist but it did have something that the other Halo's failed to capture in my opinion, fun.

  • 01.07.2012 9:17 AM PDT

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