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Subject: For those who played ONLY since Halo 3...

3's nostalgia has nothing on my halo CE PC days back in 2001.
It was like one huge drunk party, with she-noobs.
freakin' she-noobs.

  • 12.24.2011 9:36 PM PDT

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It's because you were younger. Everything is better when we were young playing with friends.

  • 12.24.2011 9:42 PM PDT


Posted by: WolfSpirit
It's because you were younger. Everything is better when we were young playing with friends.

Speak for yourself, my best memories were playing the Halo 2 level Delta Halo by myself.

  • 12.24.2011 9:44 PM PDT

Who's got AIDS?

I had more fun playing Halo 3. The custom games were the best. Sure it was easier to make things in Reach but the best gametypes and maps were in Halo 3.

  • 12.24.2011 10:17 PM PDT

I blame the ridiculously comprehensive stat-tracking.

  • 12.24.2011 10:30 PM PDT

I AR3 BK

Signed in for the first time in a while. This can turn into a wall of text, sorry if does.

Played Halo at a friend's house for the first time in 2007 because I was a playstation kid and never played xbox. Bought a used xbox 360 from amazon.com that same day, and a new copy of H3 from the local mom and pop video game shop when my console arrived from shipping. I played halo 3 and made at least 20 real life friendships with people in my area,mostly friends of friends, but people I probably would never had anything large enough in common to actually hang out with. We all played regularly and my finest moment wasn't getting a 50, it was getting a 42 in the ranked btb playlist with a full party of friends. I gladly played through h3's campaign dozens of times to help someone get a skull, or a score achievement. Spent an hour dicking around while trying to see the towel guy easter egg with three friends. Thought I was cool everytime I unlocked a new armor piece cause they were tied to tasks instead of credit. The community seemed to encourage all of this. I loved the bungie weekly updates, bungie favorites, the recon obsession. All of it was the most immersive gaming experience I'll ever experience.

I'm a little drunk. G'night friend.

Edit: forgot point of thread. All my friends and I bought Reach on release day, played for 2-3 weeks and then sold it because it was such a bad change for H3. I only play Reach now that HCE anniversary is out. HCEA has solid gameplay but the community is just dead in comparison to H3. Very few of my friends still play. I'm all sad face over it.

[Edited on 12.24.2011 10:48 PM PST]

  • 12.24.2011 10:38 PM PDT

to me h3 and reach are two totaly different games they dont feel the same at all.

ive only been playing online for 5 months and the two games i play the most are h3 and reach now when you look at my h3 and reach game history your gonna say "your just a reach noob with a k/d of .84% and your at general grade 3" well yes i am but thats becouse i was a offline fieldmarshal befor xbox live so i wanna get back up to that.

thats all but i havn't been playing h3 becouse its getting slow and it wont let me unlock some achievments anymore so to sum it up h3 and reach, if they didnt have the same charicters you would have never known they were related


[Edited on 12.24.2011 11:23 PM PST]

  • 12.24.2011 11:14 PM PDT

Incoming wall of text.

Played since the release of Halo:CE.

On the campaigns: With the exception of CE and Halo 2, which were fantastic, I found most of the campaigns to be decidedly mediocre, formulaic, and forgettable.

On multiplayer: There will probably never be a multiplayer experience better than Halo CE PC. No game has ever taken more technical skill, no community has ever been more full of people who just love the living crap out of the game until the bitter end. I still play it, even now when it peaks at 200-ish people online worldwide. I outshoot hardened, experienced players like they're standing still; ten years of play will get you to that point. It's kind of an interesting experience. It makes me feel like I speak a dead language perfectly, or practice a forgotten black art that few others know.

I skipped Halo 2's multiplayer because I was still playing Halo CE way too much.

Halo 3's multiplayer was definitely a good time. The gameplay was a step down in intensity from CE, definitely a more chill style. I basically bought it because my friends wanted to play it, and in that respect it did not disappoint: Perfect game to just sit back in the chair, talk with friends, and mess around. MLG was an entertaining scene, but my memories are definitely more about whooping ass with buddies in BTB, social slayer, rumble pit, doubles, custom games, etc. I don't necessarily think this is the best game in the series, but it's definitely given me more fond memories than any other 360 title.

Playing Reach compared to playing Halo 3 is like eating burgers with your buddies compared to eating alone at a fancy seafood place. I don't think Reach is a terrible game (although the gameplay does leave something to be desired), but it emits no feeling of kinship or friendliness like past titles have. I don't have too many memories of awesome things that happened on Reach. It's a sterile experience. The game, in my eyes, lacks life, plain and simple. It does not FEEL like a Halo game.

[Edited on 12.24.2011 11:29 PM PST]

  • 12.24.2011 11:26 PM PDT
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Community wise:
Halo 2 > Halo 3 > Halo Reach.

Halo 2 started the gathering of awesome community players, and they created so many great games, many of which shaped the future of matchmaking back then.

Halo 3 continued to have great works being made by the community, both gametypes and maps thanks to Forge's introduction, but I feel it wasn't as wide spread.

Halo Reach's community, to me, is too worried about getting achievements and finding Easter Eggs to bother making good games/maps anymore, though there are a few awesome community made things floating around.

  • 12.25.2011 1:37 AM PDT
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Posted by: FatM
For those who played ONLY since Halo 3...


:(

*Leaves*

  • 12.25.2011 5:24 AM PDT

I been playing Halo for about a year and half -Come at me- and it just seems to me Halo 3 was more social, like there was more friendly custom games going on than in Reach. I'm a great forger and have hardly anyone to play my maps with now :(

  • 12.25.2011 5:34 AM PDT

Delta. Alpha. November. Indigo. Echo. Lima.

I definitely remember Recon, and yes, the community was 10x better back then.

  • 12.25.2011 5:35 AM PDT

Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lube.

Halo 3 was nothing short of fantastic for me.

During my time in Halo 2, none of my cousins, or friends for that matter, had an Xbox with Xbox LIVE during those days, so I felt a little lonely, despite playing a few custom games with online friends.

When Halo 3 arrived, that changed everything. Most of my friends and cousins finally had Live, along with Halo 3. All we played were custom games, with Fat Kid, Ghostbusters, Jenga, and other gametypes.

Eventually, they all left to play CoD and NBA 2K when Reach came out...

Halo 3 was/is awesome, and it will always be my favourite Halo experience.

  • 12.25.2011 5:45 AM PDT

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H3 was soooo much fun. I can never forget all the great BTB games I had.

  • 12.25.2011 5:47 AM PDT

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Brutes aren't monkeys, Brutes are gorillas. Humans are monkeys, and Spartans are Orangutans.


Posted by: ozzz10
You know what? I signed in after six months to post in this thread. Halo 3 had awesome social experiences for me (95% of my friends list comes off of H3). Reach just doesn't cut that rope for me. Sure, the gameplay is nice and all, but Halo 3 had that social quality to it that made it so much more fun. Nowadays, we have Reach, and Reach feels dead. And you don't find people playing Halo 3 much more, either.

I mad.


And I say it isn't the fault of Reach. I think it's because XBL population is different. More selfish, anti-social -blam!-s online than ever.... in Halo3 times people thought online interacting was cool.

  • 12.25.2011 5:48 AM PDT

Posted by: Fos Tis Krisis
Brutes aren't monkeys, Brutes are gorillas. Humans are monkeys, and Spartans are Orangutans.


Posted by: Darknova24
Halo 3 commmunity was amazing. amazing custom games. people talked. people actually had fun, laughed, and had a good time playing.


Reach community are mute people who suck or dominate at a poorly made game. custom games are nothing but drive around in circles no scoping zombies with snipers on mongeese. garbage. no taste in custom games. online is silent. nobody talks, but you will get that small squaker kid once in a while.


You my friend are spot on.

  • 12.25.2011 5:51 AM PDT
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Member since 2001
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Maybe Im crazy but reach has the most players out of the halo games now, and to me the mp is also the best, there is not nearly as much bs in reach as the others. That said Ive been playing since halo 1 and played em all including the pc halos

  • 12.25.2011 8:38 AM PDT
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Member since 2001
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Maybe a lot of people who play reach grew out of all the -blam!- talking from halo 2 and 3 days. Im 25 and I kinda feel like I just grew out of giving a crap what the other halo players though of my performance.

  • 12.25.2011 8:40 AM PDT

Your presence here is quite unneeded. Begone you!!!

People that played since only Halo 3 have missed out on much better times. Played since Halo CE and Halo 2 Vista (note it's a nightmare to download) and missed those times. I did like Halo 3's multiplayer until it started to go downhill with boosted 50's and sold account galore to the point where I lost respect for the rankings in that game altogether.

  • 12.25.2011 8:51 AM PDT

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I've been playing Halo live since I got my 360 back in 2006 *i think*.

Back then, I was unable to drop H2 for a day, I always had to play at least 1 or more games.
H3 was the same thing.
Reach.... it could feed a fire for all I care.

  • 12.25.2011 9:05 AM PDT

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Posted by: InvasionImminent
I've been playing Halo since 2008, but not Halo 3. I felt Reach did good, but changed too many features. This upset a lot of people who wanted gameplay to stay similar to previous installments. However for me, I liked the changes, but some others such as crappy mission layout bother me.

As for nostalgic, not really. My best memories were in Halo 2. I played H3 for a while but never really looked back on it. I had some good times, but all in all, nothing sticks out.


same except for the last bit, I played halo 2 (not online) and many of my fond memories are with halo three, but that doesn't mean I don't have and fond memories with reach/halo 2 because I do.

  • 12.25.2011 9:07 AM PDT

I love Halo 3 and Reach but Halo 2 gave me the best online gaming time of my life. Just messing with friends in that game alone was priceless memories. 3 gave me great moments too with forge and the awesome and innovative maps. Reach is more or less just a game to have fun with alone or with one or two friends.

  • 12.25.2011 2:20 PM PDT
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All that is needed for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Yeah, I do think that Reach lacks a lot of the fun from H3. But I still think that Reach is a good game.


To make it easier to understand, I love H3, and really like HR.

[Edited on 12.25.2011 2:26 PM PST]

  • 12.25.2011 2:26 PM PDT

I had more friends playing Halo 3, but that doesn't make Reach a bad game.

I blame my friends.

  • 12.25.2011 2:29 PM PDT

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