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Subject: Halo harder than Halo 2
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Poll: Is Halo harder than Halo 2?  [closed]
yes:  50%
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no:  46%
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it's all the same to me:  4%
(1 Votes)
Total Votes: 24

While revisting Halo 1 it has occured to me that Heroic is way more harder than the one in Halo 2. While Halo 2's Legendary setting puts out very smart AI, the Halo 1 Legendary puts you against smart and numerous AI. Though the firing rate is still the same. Which Halo do you think is harder?

  • 08.30.2006 8:49 PM PDT
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i think the halo1 legendary was a walk in the park compared to halo2

  • 08.30.2006 9:25 PM PDT
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Posted by: lukeajuke
i think the halo1 legendary was a walk in the park compared to halo2

Halo1 Legendary you atleast had a fighting chance, in Halo2, if they sneezed and you were in the room, you died.

  • 08.30.2006 9:50 PM PDT

Yeah, Halo CE had a fun Legenary, that was fun to play Legendary in. Halo 2's is almost impossible for those who dont obsess about beating it.

  • 08.31.2006 5:02 AM PDT
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halo 1's legendary was hard in a fun way. halo 2's legendary was hard in a bulll-blam!- way, except for the snipers. i liked the challenge of the snipers. they have superhuman reaction times and aim. they were fun to beat.

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Posted by: GaIap
halo 1's legendary was hard in a fun way. halo 2's legendary was hard in a bulll-blam!- way, except for the snipers. i liked the challenge of the snipers. they have superhuman reaction times and aim. they were fun to beat.

It always ave you that sense of accomplishment when you managed to kill the sniper before he got his shot off.

  • 08.31.2006 9:15 AM PDT
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I have to agree with you i recently got my halo back out and started on the first level on heroic and found it much harder than the heroic on halo 2.

Also i think Beam Rifles make legendary harder on halo 2 since there was no such wepon in halo: combat evolved.

The Beam Rifle makes Outskirts and Metropolis alot harder on Legendary expecially when you are walking down sniper ally

  • 08.31.2006 9:55 AM PDT
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Halo was extremely too easy (especially on legendary).

  • 08.31.2006 11:26 AM PDT

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Man, if it wasn't for the snipers on Halo 2 legendary it wouldn't be that hard. But, lord, the snipers have a faster reaction time than I do and their more accurate!!!! I mean dang.

Oh yeah, Halo CE legendary was so much easier than Halo 2's. I can beat Halo 1 in less than 8 hours with single digit deaths. Halo 2 I will die like 10 times a level and they take like 1 hour for short levels and 2 hours for long ones.

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I think Halo 2 is harder but Halo 1 is more consistent in its difficulty. In Halo 2 there were often times when you could take an easy out even on legendary (getting on the rooftops in outskirts, letting an invincible ally take everyone out, using the combo). Halo 1's enemies were far more numerous, even when you consider their combined strength the Halo 2 enemies are still stronger but they're also more easily exploited and outsmarted, not due to their AI but because there are more glitches/loopholes in H2.

  • 08.31.2006 5:40 PM PDT
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For me HALO 2 ledgendary was a bit lame when it came to the snipers, ive had them shoot me dead and they arent even facing me!!! I`ve even had one shoot me whilst it was being hit by a beserking brute!!!!! But the rest of HALO 2 was fun on ledgendary,u just need to use tactics.and stay the heck behind cover.
HALO CE ledgendary was eaisier because the enemy didnt duel weild at all.and the chief had those life point things once his shield came down.
But the ultimate fun is collecting all the skulls from beggining to end without saving and only using the one profile.
I did it once straight and it took me 52 hours to get to tartarus, i played against tartarus for about another half hour and then just gave up trying to beat him,
The other time i did it was over 3 days, i just left my X-box on when i went to bed!!! and continued the next day, and still didnt want to beat tartarus enough to do it.
But that was with 13 skulls, apparently there is 16 skulls but i`ve only found 13 and just got the info on where another skull is but im not sure if it is a skull or just a challenge mode.
If u think the snipers are hard normally on ledgendary,wait till they are invisible and u have no H.U.D. to aim with !!!!! thats a real challenge of aiming accuracy.

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  • 08.31.2006 8:11 PM PDT
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both are easy on legendary

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To me, they are very hard in their own ways, In Halo CE, it was difficult, if your healthbars got to the red zone, you would have a real disadvantage compared to halo 2, In halo 2, levels like cairo station and gravemind were to me, cruel and nearly impossible, cairo station was murder, and gravemind was plain evil, most of the weapons the enemies used were plasma weapons, a second when being hit by a brute plasma rifle rips away on your shields and you die. The accuracy of carbines and beam rifles is also problamatic.

Getting back to Halo CE, the wraiths in the game were cruel in any difficulty, in legendary, the proper way for me is using a rocket launcher or even a tank, using grenades was risky, other than that, if your with a wraith alone, then you could slowly put it to death with well manuvered ghost. As for Aoftcr, If I hate one thing, its being in a tank on legendary, only to find your shields, depleted by a jackal, then being owned by two ghosts.

The fun thing on some levels in both games, is that, it pays to be an assassin, it can be fun, assassinating sleeping grunts or breaking a elites back. Although I had to revert most of the time when caught. In the first arbiter level, it's fun being an assassin on legendary, forcing you to be stealthy and pick off most of the units before fighting.






[Edited on 9/1/2006]

  • 09.01.2006 12:14 AM PDT