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Posted by: Mark V guy
Why I am honoured, I have never had a thread made about me beforeLies.
Posted by: Mark V guy
So there are my reasons for thinking CE is the least good HaloReasons? Those were all opinion.
Anyone who appreciates AI (CE's AI were the most balanced and 99.9% of them were reasonable), exploration (a la CE 2nd level), and level variety (space, alien world, nighttime desert, alien ship, island, snowing, jungle, lab, Forerunner structures) will say CE is the best Halo. By the looks of it, you only like those other Halo games more than CE because of their story. You connect story with immersion and while that is good, you overlook CE's immersion, which is 10x better than any other Halo game.
CE had:
-big fov
-big draw distance
-the AI and fighting was mostly left to you. The game didn't interfere with your designs and didn't ruin stealth
-only 3 usable enemy weapons yet they were unique
-overall consistency: weapons, vehicles, AI didn't get deleted from the level. This is one of the major grievances of H2 and H3. In CE, you had to be looking away for dropped weapons and dead bodies for removal to happen. While this was still the case in H2, in H3, the game deleted them even when you had them in your sight. In CE, the AI rarely got deleted. You could leave an area and then return to it and the AI will still be there.
-geometry manipulation at load points. While I hated how the geometry of some locations wasn't always consistent, it did make locations somewhat refreshing. I liked how some things could be controllable (changing a small rock to a big rock for cover).
-consistent geometry. No I'm not contradicting myself here. Above I'm talking about locations. Here I'm talking about dropped weapons. In H3, often, weapons can fall through the ground. Very irritating and was one of the reasons why I hated H3. But in CE, this never happens and can be induced, beneficially: if you drop a weapon between the legs of a combat form, the weapon can end up dropping through the floor. This was very useful when I was using an older strategy for bringing down a sword Goldie on Two Betrayals Legendary difficulty.
I rest my case:
Posted by: Mark V guy
I only judge Halos on single player.
[Edited on 05.06.2012 12:25 PM PDT]