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Posted by: Sliding Ghost
Right now I have 260 ms points and I'll have 460-560 very soon.

You may want to check some of this stuff out in that case.

Link.

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Posted by: Sliding Ghost
Right now I have 260 ms points and I'll have 460-560 very soon.

You may want to check some of this stuff out in that case.

Link.
Sadly, Xbox Live Rewards is more for people who have Gold accounts. I prefer Bing Rewards. Right now, I can get 800 ms points.

  • 04.08.2012 8:01 PM PDT


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Posted by: InvasionImminent

Posted by: Sliding Ghost
Right now I have 260 ms points and I'll have 460-560 very soon.

You may want to check some of this stuff out in that case.

Link.
Sadly, Xbox Live Rewards is more for people who have Gold accounts. I prefer Bing Rewards. Right now, I can get 800 ms points.

Doesn't your CEA come with a 2-day trial though? Also if you ever need any points just ask me. My brother works at gamestop part time, so I get point cards pretty often.

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Posted by: InvasionImminent

Doesn't your CEA come with a 2-day trial though?

Also if you ever need any points just ask me. My brother works at gamestop part time, so I get point cards pretty often.
I don't believe it will upgrade my account to Gold. Just give me online access. Plus, doing all that is overkill. I don't even use YT that much.

If you want to, sure why not. I'll be getting a 16 GB usb drive in a few weeks so I can install Anniversary, leaving me enough room for 1 more game (and it's not going to be H3).

Btw, is there a faster, legitimate way to get the Elite armor? Having played Firefight while signed into Xbox Live, I now have a Cr cap of 50. Or should I just make an offline profile?

[Edited on 04.08.2012 11:57 PM PDT]

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Posted by: Sliding Ghost

Btw, is there a faster, legitimate way to get the Elite armor? Having played Firefight while signed into Xbox Live, I now have a Cr cap of 50. Or should I just make an offline profile?

Do the challenges. A lot of days they'll have challenges like "kill 200 enemies in any game mode". These give fast cR. Also you can create your own custom challenges.

Here is a good example of a Custom Challenge.
Challenge name: (doesn't matter)
Challenge Type: Custom
Goals: Kills
Target: 1,000
Time limit: 10 Hours

Final payout: 2,000 cR. Pretty easy stuff. Also local firefight and custom MP games both count under the "Custom" category.

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But don't I have to be connected into Xbox Live the whole time to do that? I'd hate to lose my internet connection (I only got 1 internet box and I don't have a wireless adapter for the Xbox 360).

  • 04.09.2012 2:32 PM PDT

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Posted by: NOBLE SlX
Good luck at getting Halo 2 multiplayer back...or any Halo multiplayer back for that matter


If that is indeed legit, then I'm utterly dissapointed at the multiplayer already. It's just a more CoD-like version of Halo: Reach. They brought back armor abilities... And now the system for aquiring weapons is the same as Modern Warfare 3 and Black Ops...

Guess the good'ol days of Halo multiplayer will be gone once Halo 4 comes out. I hope Halo 3 multiplayer will be kept online even after Halo 4 comes out.

As for the campaign, it does seem interesting. I am very curious to find out why the Covenant are attacking Master Chief again. The only reason I can think of is that Master Chief traveled back in time before the end of Halo 3. That's the only thing that would canonically make sense. Unless the Reapers indoctrinated the Covenant...

Anyways, all my dissapointments and interests only apply if that article turns out to be true. For the sake of Halo's legacy, I hope that article is just moslty speculation and rumor.

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Posted by: General Heed
Anyways, all my dissapointments and interests only apply if that article turns out to be true. For the sake of Halo's legacy, I hope that article is just moslty speculation and rumor.
This is what you get for not reading into it at all.

The article is real. I don't see how, in any way, that this could be "speculation". They were shown the game by 343 Industries in depth. That's where they got all their information.

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Posted by: vBRUTALITYv
Cause Halo 2 was created by Bungie and not giving the torch by someone else.
I doubt that Halo 4 will be as bad as Halo 2. Halo 2 was the worst game in the series so I would hope they would try to use it as a learning tool and not make another mistake like it again. As much hate that Halo 3 fans give Reach, there was just as much if not more disappointment for Halo 2 from CE fans. The game just took all of the great elements of balance and skill out of the multiplayer. The maps were poorly constructed and they even managed to fail with several CE remakes, Coagulation, Tombstone, ect. It was most likely the sandbox that effected the poor map play, but still they weren't up to par with Halo CE or as good as future halo titles.

On top of that, the campaign was the worst in the series. I've always felt that campaign is what games should focus on, and this is where I am most critical of Halo 2. It lacked good gameplay, story, and worst of all, atmosphere. The game felt unpolished, sloppy, and the plot line was hardly compelling. I would be hard pressed to see any reason that Halo 2 should influence any future halo game.

  • 04.10.2012 11:46 AM PDT

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Posted by: General Heed
Anyways, all my dissapointments and interests only apply if that article turns out to be true. For the sake of Halo's legacy, I hope that article is just moslty speculation and rumor.
This is what you get for not reading into it at all.

The article is real. I don't see how, in any way, that this could be "speculation". They were shown the game by 343 Industries in depth. That's where they got all their information.


It was a leaked article... Sometimes leaks aren't always accurate. There were tons of Halo 3 and Halo: Reach leaks but only some of the leaks were accurate.

Anyways, if that's the case, then I feel Halo 4 ruins the legacy that the main series left behind. Based on the multiplayer aspect, it's already very different from traditional Halo multiplayer, even different than Halo: Reach's multiplayer.

Maybe this direction could turn out to be a good thing, but 343 would have to execute this new multiplayer style very carefully and would have to revolutionize Xbox Live multiplayer like Halo 2 & Halo 3 (to a certain extent) did.

I still do have high hopes for the campaign though. The information available so far suggests a very interesting campaign. Will this new series have a story comparable to the entire Mass Effect series? I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

Basically at this point, I'm only buying Halo 4 for the campaign. I got my hopes up when you or someone else said Halo 4 would be close to Halo 2 style multiplayer. But that's clearly not the case anymore. The multiplayer information from that article points to a cross between Halo: Reach and CoD: Modern Warfare 3.

343 also claimed that Halo 4's upgraded Reach Engine pushes the Xbox 360 to its maximum limits. But Bungie has been making that claim since Halo 3. In fact, Bungie said they had to sacrifice resolution in Halo 3 in order to improve other aspects due to the Xbox 360's limited hardware. So back then, I thought Halo 3's graphics were as good as any game would ever get. But then Mass Effect 2 & 3 came out, as well as Crysis 1 & 2. I do wonder how much more power you can squeeze out of the Xbox 360.

If games can be optimized this much on the Xbox 360's hardware, imagine what the next generation Xbox could achieve with the same level of optimization. I don't want to jump to any conclusions, but perhaps, with extreme optimization, that Samaritan Demo, the one that required 3 GTX 590's, could run on next generation Xbox's without too much compromise. However, I do doubt that next-gen Xbox's will have the raw graphical power of 3 GTX 590's.

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Posted by: Romeo the ODST
The game felt unpolished, sloppy
H2's campaign was unpolished, sure. But that's due to time constraints and indecisiveness. It's actually a good thing since redundancy could be counteracted by glitching. Sword cancelling allowed for some of the fastest Halo speedruns on the planet. Anyways, sloppy?

No, that's CEA. CEA's campaign was unpolished and sloppy. CE's campaign was great but the remake has a lot of inconsistency because the new graphics overlay isn't a perfect fit... and a lot of things that were possible in CE are now -blam!- up. And there's way too many distractions. Also, the lag from crossing loading points is quite prevalent.

[Edited on 04.10.2012 6:05 PM PDT]

  • 04.10.2012 6:04 PM PDT

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Posted by: vBRUTALITYv
Cause Halo 2 was created by Bungie and not giving the torch by someone else.
I doubt that Halo 4 will be as bad as Halo 2. Halo 2 was the worst game in the series so I would hope they would try to use it as a learning tool and not make another mistake like it again. As much hate that Halo 3 fans give Reach, there was just as much if not more disappointment for Halo 2 from CE fans. The game just took all of the great elements of balance and skill out of the multiplayer. The maps were poorly constructed and they even managed to fail with several CE remakes, Coagulation, Tombstone, ect. It was most likely the sandbox that effected the poor map play, but still they weren't up to par with Halo CE or as good as future halo titles.

On top of that, the campaign was the worst in the series. I've always felt that campaign is what games should focus on, and this is where I am most critical of Halo 2. It lacked good gameplay, story, and worst of all, atmosphere. The game felt unpolished, sloppy, and the plot line was hardly compelling. I would be hard pressed to see any reason that Halo 2 should influence any future halo game.


On the contrary, fans were very excited about Halo 2 & Halo 3. They were also very satisfied. Yes, there were a small group of people that considered people who played the newer games to be "noobs", I remember Halo 2 players considered Halo 3 players to be noobs. However, the level of hatred towards the newer games never got as bad as Halo: Reach. In terms of Halo: Reach, it seems a large portion of the veteran Halo fan base united against Reach and set aside their differences about Halo 1, 2, and 3 competition. In all the forums for the original games on Bungie, the posts hating on older Halo games have mostly settled and the newer posts are all about how "(Insert old Halo game here) is better than Reach".

I'd like to remind you that Halo 2 is also the 2nd highest rated game in the entire series with Halo 3 in 3rd. Reach is at the bottom of Bungie's full fledged Halo games. And don't forget that Reach only managed to stay #1 on the Xbox Live Activity list for 1 week while Halo 3 stayed on that list for almost 4 years and Halo 2 even longer (for original xbox games). In fact, Halo 2 was THE most popular Xbox Live game until Halo 3. The entire main series Halo games (1, 2, and 3) were the #1 most popular Xbox games (excluding Halo 1 since it lacked Live). Halo: Reach lost the momentum. In fact, the popularity of the Halo series peaked out at Halo 3.

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Posted by: General Heed
It was a leaked article... Sometimes leaks aren't always accurate. There were tons of Halo 3 and Halo: Reach leaks but only some of the leaks were accurate.
You are so ignorant... I swear...

I have the Game Informer magazine with the story in my hands right now. Everything was 100% real. Every bit of information they gained was from exclusive sits with 343 and getting to play the game themselves with 343i staff. Again, could you please stop talking out of your ass?

  • 04.10.2012 8:35 PM PDT

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Posted by: General Heed
It was a leaked article... Sometimes leaks aren't always accurate. There were tons of Halo 3 and Halo: Reach leaks but only some of the leaks were accurate.
You are so ignorant... I swear...

I have the Game Informer magazine with the story in my hands right now. Everything was 100% real. Every bit of information they gained was from exclusive sits with 343 and getting to play the game themselves with 343i staff. Again, could you please stop talking out of your ass?


I feel like all you do is just antogonize people in these forums. You always rush to conclusions too. You need to learn to calm down.

The video that talked about the article (link posted by someone else above), was considered leaked content at the time it was released. Therefore, at the time, there was reasonable doubt to the validity of it.

And you know very well there were tons of pre-release leaks of Halo 3 and Halo: Reach with some of them being fake or speculative. Therefore, it's reasonable for someone to doubt the validity of a Halo 4 leak. But now that you've received the actual issue, we can set aside all doubts.

It's not that hard to control your temper. All you had to do was mention that the article turned out to be real after all and not just a fake leak of the article. While I wasn't always around during your debates with Ben a year ago, I am starting to sympathize with him and I can see where he's coming from. Now that you've learned your lesson, back to the original discussion.

So now that the "originally leaked" information turned out to be true, Halo 4 most likely won't be anymore successful than Halo: Reach. However, it's fully possible that the campaign of Halo 4 could be really successful and the Halo series becomes something like Mass Effect where it has a really strong campaign mode but a really weak multiplayer offering.

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You keep referring to leaks from Halo 3 and Reach. These leaks are not comparable to what was going on with the GI article. It was confirmed to be real at the time that we were discussing it. You were ignorant on the manner, you didn't research it enough to know the entire story, and now you won't admit you were wrong about it.

That's what annoys me about you. You can never admit you were wrong about something no matter how much evidence is put against your point. This goes back to every single debate you've been in on these forums recently. You bring out points that are completely absurd then when someone gives you evidence to say otherwise you completely ignore it.

All you had to do was mention that the article turned out to be real after all and not just a fake leak of the articleI did say that but you seemingly just ignored it. Here's where I said it

The article is real. I don't see how, in any way, that this could be "speculation". They were shown the game by 343 Industries in depth. That's where they got all their information.
That's what gets my temper up when I'm arguing with you. Your absolute ignorance with opinions that are completely baseless. It gets under my skin when people have strong opinions when they have absolutely no idea what they're talking about. You've shown this through the UE3 bulky model debate, Halo 2 Vista being #1 then not showing up on the top list anymore, and now this. It's constant with you and it's been extremely annoying for me and a few other people to have these debates when you're not even open to researching this stuff.

Also, in the case of Ben, you've shown your ignorance towards these situations again. The person that was on the opposing side in those debates was DusK. In fact, I was supporting Halo 2 in some aspects in those debates. He even said one time that I was the closest to an unbias opinion the Halo PC forum ever had.

Edit:

I just want to say I am sorry for losing my temper with you. As I've said throughout this post, it just gets under my skin when people won't give in after their stance on a debate has been proven to be false. Since you've been doing that with just about every debate you've been in recently, it's gotten to me. I'll try to be better about that but I'd also like to ask you to start researching stuff before you make arguments about it.

[Edited on 04.10.2012 10:11 PM PDT]

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You keep referring to leaks from Halo 3 and Reach. These leaks are not comparable to what was going on with the GI article. It was confirmed to be real at the time that we were discussing it. You were ignorant on the manner, you didn't research it enough to know the entire story, and now you won't admit you were wrong about it.

That's what annoys me about you. You can never admit you were wrong about something no matter how much evidence is put against your point. This goes back to every single debate you've been in on these forums recently. You bring out points that are completely absurd then when someone gives you evidence to say otherwise you completely ignore it.

All you had to do was mention that the article turned out to be real after all and not just a fake leak of the articleI did say that but you seemingly just ignored it. Here's where I said it

The article is real. I don't see how, in any way, that this could be "speculation". They were shown the game by 343 Industries in depth. That's where they got all their information.
That's what gets my temper up when I'm arguing with you. Your absolute ignorance with opinions that are completely baseless. It gets under my skin when people have strong opinions when they have absolutely no idea what they're talking about. You've shown this through the UE3 bulky model debate, Halo 2 Vista being #1 then not showing up on the top list anymore, and now this. It's constant with you and it's been extremely annoying for me and a few other people to have these debates when you're not even open to researching this stuff.

Also, in the case of Ben, you've shown your ignorance towards these situations again. The person that was on the opposing side in those debates was DusK. In fact, I was supporting Halo 2 in some aspects in those debates. He even said one time that I was the closest to an unbias opinion the Halo PC forum ever had.


Ok, with Ben, I wasn't around much during those debates. My opinion on that situation was based on the little information he provided in another thread.

This will be my final statement about the Unreal Engine debate (refer to edit below later), I can continue to list more games that I've missed that have the EXACT same style of bulkiness as the Unreal games made by Epic Games. The debate originally ended with you telling me that most of the games I listed share the same bulky style because they were made by the same game studio using the same assets. However, outside of Epic Games, there are other games from other studios that still have the same style of bulkiness.

In addition to Army of Two, the game Section 8: Prejudice and its prequels have the same style of bulkiness. The bulkiness in this game is closer to that of Unreal Tournament with the non-armored characters. And this isn't limited to Unreal Engine 3, the bulky character models go back to Unreal Engine 1. Black Light Tango Down also has the same bulky character models. My main point is that when different games from different studios using the same engine produce character models with the same bulky shapes, it's more than just a coincedence. When you compare the Halo Engine with CryEngine and Source Engine, you find very little in common with character models. If you try to recreate the same character model from scratch in each of those 3 engines (Master Chief for example), you can easily tell the difference between each of the engines. But with Unreal Engine, if you were to create Master Chief in Unreal Engine, he'd look the same in any Unreal Engine game (because it's the same engine and you can important the same model). That proves games running on the same engine will no doubt have similarities. And my argument is that one of those similarities is a "tendency" towards bulky character models unless the developers take extra steps to change it. I've done my research and I can say with certainty that the UDK does come with default skeletal samples. I haven't read the full UDK license agreement for commercial use, however I believe the skeletal model is allowed for use with the purchase of the license to use the UDK commercially. Now I don't know if the UDK we get is the same that large game studios get. I don't see why it'd be different.

Anyways, with the article, when you said it was real, you didn't clarify at the time that you had the actual physical copy of it. As a result, I assumed you were speculating. But now that you've mentioned you have the actual physical copy, then I no longer doubt you about that.

There were definitely similar leaks with Halo 3 and Halo: Reach. Some maganize articles speculated on those games. But you've clarified for me that the Halo 4 article was not speculation.

Edit:

I'd like to end the debate about the Unreal Engine 3. The only way I think either of us can know 100% the real reason, is to ask Epic Games themselves.

In the future, I'll try to back up my claims and opinions with more research first. However, I'm not the first one to have ever made these claims and opinions. A lot of my claims and opinions have originated from other discussions as well as observations. I stood by my opinions because those other people convinced me with their own research.

Anyways, I feel we've debated on this enough. I have new claims and opinions to post in the Halo 3 & Reach forums ;) . Truce?

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Sounds good :D

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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.

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I've posted the leaked scans to the article somewhere in this thread. I'm really surprised anyone can be in doubt of this information when it has all been confirmed.

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Posted by: General Heed

Posted by: Romeo the ODST
Posted by: vBRUTALITYv
Cause Halo 2 was created by Bungie and not giving the torch by someone else.
I doubt that Halo 4 will be as bad as Halo 2. Halo 2 was the worst game in the series so I would hope they would try to use it as a learning tool and not make another mistake like it again. As much hate that Halo 3 fans give Reach, there was just as much if not more disappointment for Halo 2 from CE fans. The game just took all of the great elements of balance and skill out of the multiplayer. The maps were poorly constructed and they even managed to fail with several CE remakes, Coagulation, Tombstone, ect. It was most likely the sandbox that effected the poor map play, but still they weren't up to par with Halo CE or as good as future halo titles.

On top of that, the campaign was the worst in the series. I've always felt that campaign is what games should focus on, and this is where I am most critical of Halo 2. It lacked good gameplay, story, and worst of all, atmosphere. The game felt unpolished, sloppy, and the plot line was hardly compelling. I would be hard pressed to see any reason that Halo 2 should influence any future halo game.


On the contrary, fans were very excited about Halo 2 & Halo 3. They were also very satisfied. Yes, there were a small group of people that considered people who played the newer games to be "noobs", I remember Halo 2 players considered Halo 3 players to be noobs. However, the level of hatred towards the newer games never got as bad as Halo: Reach. In terms of Halo: Reach, it seems a large portion of the veteran Halo fan base united against Reach and set aside their differences about Halo 1, 2, and 3 competition. In all the forums for the original games on Bungie, the posts hating on older Halo games have mostly settled and the newer posts are all about how "(Insert old Halo game here) is better than Reach".

I'd like to remind you that Halo 2 is also the 2nd highest rated game in the entire series with Halo 3 in 3rd. Reach is at the bottom of Bungie's full fledged Halo games. And don't forget that Reach only managed to stay #1 on the Xbox Live Activity list for 1 week while Halo 3 stayed on that list for almost 4 years and Halo 2 even longer (for original xbox games). In fact, Halo 2 was THE most popular Xbox Live game until Halo 3. The entire main series Halo games (1, 2, and 3) were the #1 most popular Xbox games (excluding Halo 1 since it lacked Live). Halo: Reach lost the momentum. In fact, the popularity of the Halo series peaked out at Halo 3.


I would disagree though. A lot of people played Halo CE through LANs and even several of the MLG players said that CE was their favorite halo: Ogre 2 for instance. I personally think that the multiplayer from Halo 1 was the best, and would prefer future titles try to build off the original halo sandbox.

To quote John Mayer, musician (5 million fans while Halo 2 sold 8 million copies) when talking about Halo 2,

"I miss the days when all I would do in my free time was play the first version of (the video game) Halo. The game was perfect. It was so balanced in terms of risk vs reward you could lose yourself in it for hours, if not days. People would plan to meet up only to challenge each other to multiplayer battles. Male-female relationships fractured under the Halo regime. When the sequel came out, it's as if they changed too much in the fundamental experience, and the game lost its once unfailing charm. All the game developers had to do was put out a sequel to Halo that added new maps, weapons, vehicles and opponents. Everything else was pitch perfect. I know the franchise has done extremely well, but I wish they'd revisit the first Halo and just add some new secondary elements while keeping the heart and soul of the original going. Forget about XBOX live functionality. In person multiplayer only. I long for the days when every TV in the house would be ripped from its location and repurposed as part of a makeshift home arcade. Lock your doors, pour 64 ounces of your favorite beverage and tell your loved ones you will be in touch. I may just have to break out the original and spend a weekend revisiting the good old days. Sent from my flying car"

  • 04.10.2012 11:39 PM PDT

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Posted by: NOBLE SlX

Posted by: General Heed

Posted by: Romeo the ODST
Posted by: vBRUTALITYv
Cause Halo 2 was created by Bungie and not giving the torch by someone else.
I doubt that Halo 4 will be as bad as Halo 2. Halo 2 was the worst game in the series so I would hope they would try to use it as a learning tool and not make another mistake like it again. As much hate that Halo 3 fans give Reach, there was just as much if not more disappointment for Halo 2 from CE fans. The game just took all of the great elements of balance and skill out of the multiplayer. The maps were poorly constructed and they even managed to fail with several CE remakes, Coagulation, Tombstone, ect. It was most likely the sandbox that effected the poor map play, but still they weren't up to par with Halo CE or as good as future halo titles.

On top of that, the campaign was the worst in the series. I've always felt that campaign is what games should focus on, and this is where I am most critical of Halo 2. It lacked good gameplay, story, and worst of all, atmosphere. The game felt unpolished, sloppy, and the plot line was hardly compelling. I would be hard pressed to see any reason that Halo 2 should influence any future halo game.


On the contrary, fans were very excited about Halo 2 & Halo 3. They were also very satisfied. Yes, there were a small group of people that considered people who played the newer games to be "noobs", I remember Halo 2 players considered Halo 3 players to be noobs. However, the level of hatred towards the newer games never got as bad as Halo: Reach. In terms of Halo: Reach, it seems a large portion of the veteran Halo fan base united against Reach and set aside their differences about Halo 1, 2, and 3 competition. In all the forums for the original games on Bungie, the posts hating on older Halo games have mostly settled and the newer posts are all about how "(Insert old Halo game here) is better than Reach".

I'd like to remind you that Halo 2 is also the 2nd highest rated game in the entire series with Halo 3 in 3rd. Reach is at the bottom of Bungie's full fledged Halo games. And don't forget that Reach only managed to stay #1 on the Xbox Live Activity list for 1 week while Halo 3 stayed on that list for almost 4 years and Halo 2 even longer (for original xbox games). In fact, Halo 2 was THE most popular Xbox Live game until Halo 3. The entire main series Halo games (1, 2, and 3) were the #1 most popular Xbox games (excluding Halo 1 since it lacked Live). Halo: Reach lost the momentum. In fact, the popularity of the Halo series peaked out at Halo 3.


I would disagree though. A lot of people played Halo CE through LANs and even several of the MLG players said that CE was their favorite halo: Ogre 2 for instance. I personally think that the multiplayer from Halo 1 was the best, and would prefer future titles try to build off the original halo sandbox.

To quote John Mayer, musician (5 million fans while Halo 2 sold 8 million copies) when talking about Halo 2,

"I miss the days when all I would do in my free time was play the first version of (the video game) Halo. The game was perfect. It was so balanced in terms of risk vs reward you could lose yourself in it for hours, if not days. People would plan to meet up only to challenge each other to multiplayer battles. Male-female relationships fractured under the Halo regime. When the sequel came out, it's as if they changed too much in the fundamental experience, and the game lost its once unfailing charm. All the game developers had to do was put out a sequel to Halo that added new maps, weapons, vehicles and opponents. Everything else was pitch perfect. I know the franchise has done extremely well, but I wish they'd revisit the first Halo and just add some new secondary elements while keeping the heart and soul of the original going. Forget about XBOX live functionality. In person multiplayer only. I long for the days when every TV in the house would be ripped from its location and repurposed as part of a makeshift home arcade. Lock your doors, pour 64 ounces of your favorite beverage and tell your loved ones you will be in touch. I may just have to break out the original and spend a weekend revisiting the good old days. Sent from my flying car"



I don't disagree with you at all. I was just talking specifically about the Xbox Live-enabled Halo games since we easily have stats to compare while Halo 1, being non-Live is difficult to figure out exactly how many people played the multiplayer.

So based on the Live-enabled Halo games, Halo 2 & 3 were the most played Halo games with Reach at the bottom.

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Make sure to post a link when you get it done. I want to see this friendly Elite :D
Here ya go.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFoitZ1DcHI&feature=youtu. be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkD5epquae0&feature=youtu. be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkkRbkarHng&feature=youtu. be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag1OynxUtDQ&feature=youtu. be

  • 04.12.2012 8:28 PM PDT


Posted by: Sliding Ghost

Posted by: InvasionImminent

Make sure to post a link when you get it done. I want to see this friendly Elite :D
Here ya go.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFoitZ1DcHI&feature=youtu. be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkD5epquae0&feature=youtu. be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkkRbkarHng&feature=youtu. be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag1OynxUtDQ&feature=youtu. be

Epic! Is that by the cafe or the bridge?

  • 04.12.2012 8:47 PM PDT
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Posted by: InvasionImminent

Posted by: Sliding Ghost

Posted by: InvasionImminent

Make sure to post a link when you get it done. I want to see this friendly Elite :D
Here ya go.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFoitZ1DcHI&feature=youtu. be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkD5epquae0&feature=youtu. be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkkRbkarHng&feature=youtu. be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag1OynxUtDQ&feature=youtu. be

Epic! Is that by the cafe or the bridge?
Right after the cafeteria.

Btw, that's not the best I got. The video I'll be uploading soon will be the most humiliating thing ever done to Elites. Elites will be pwned. Elites will be novice!

  • 04.12.2012 10:03 PM PDT
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lol

  • 04.12.2012 11:21 PM PDT

its because you havent played it yet freakin troll

  • 04.14.2012 6:11 AM PDT