Josh Holmes, the studio head at Halo series' current developer 343 Industries(Halo 4 onwards), is resigning from the studio after seven years of heartfelt hard work. In a blog post today, Holmes made the announcement that he's leaving the studio to work on his own brain child independent games.
Splitgate, a self-proclaimed “Halo meets Portal'' game, is the latest newcomer to challenge Halo.
Ranking the Halo games from worst to best - which game is the best ever in this iconic series?
Halo 3 was the epitome of the Saga.
Followed by Halo Reach, Halo 2, Halo CE, Halo 4, Halo 5 and ODST.
For the time, I still think the first Halo was the most influential for me. Agreed that 2 & 3 were better games but that first Halo was fresh and new and I still remember getting into my first Warthog. And the Halo LAN parties. Good times...
For me, it will always be Halo 1. Groundbreaking in every way. Graphically, audibly, technically and gameplay wise. Any Halo thereafter never did it for me. They weren't horrible but they did not hold the precious nuggets of consistent "did you see that?!!" moments that 1 held for me. I played Halo for the single player game although the MP was great, the single player is what hit home for me. So when they released part 2 and hyped up the single player game I was severely disappointed when I got it day one and came home and beat the single player in about 3.5-4 hours. I remember being completely let down.
Halo 2 has the longest campaign of all the Halo games so I'm not sure how you possibly beat it in 4 hours your first playthrough.
I think you need to do some research. Halo 2 does not have the longest campaign by any stretch of the imagination. I picked up the game at a midnight launch brought it home at 1am, popped it in and beat it by the time I had to leave for work the next morning which was 5:30am. My employees at the time had also done the same and we were all pissed when that infamous "Finish the Fight" scene played out and we realized the game was over. The length was one gripe but the nerfing of the pistol as well as the plasma pistol was just wrong. The staff I had at the time were all Halo fans and we all played the original SP and MP religiously. The SP was played mostly on Legendary but when we picked up part 2 we all stuck with the normal difficulty which I think might've been our mistake, we blew through the game like I said in roughly 4 hours.
You and your friends truly are the exception because it took me about 9-10 hours my first play through. Also, if you look up the average play time for Halo 2 it's 8-9 1/2 hours. If you speed run it takes about 4 1/2 which seems silly to do especially someones first play through. Did you play Halo 3 or any other Halo games after that because Halo 2 has one of the longer story modes. Of course they nerfed the Halo 1 pistol lol. I loved that gun too, but it was OP af. Go play Halo 1 multiplayer now in MCC and all everyone uses is the pistol and it just doesn't hold up well because of it and other issues. Halo 2/3 multiplayer hold up phenomenally to this day.
I prefer H5 for gameplay going back to the old ones is slow and cumbersome , sure the story was better in the old games .
I think halo 3 tops it for me. Can't really think of another game that made so many innovations in one installment. With theater mode, forge mode, 4 player co-op campaign. The replayability with the skulls and unlockable armor. It really felt like a next gen game at the time.
Picture this. It’s 2001, The PlayStation 2 has been storming the market for a full year now and Nintendo is rapidly approaching the release of their new console, the competition is fierce with Sony and Nintendo set to battle out the generation to see who comes out on top but then a company by the name of Microsoft takes the stage and announces that they’re going to try their hand at game consoles. Microsoft gave all the info about the technical specs and how this console will be set to change the landscape of gaming, but the people only had one question, “why should I buy this?” Microsoft had only 1 answer. Halo
I cant blame him, Halo has been lacking since Bungie left. But to leave an IP like this to go make indies is kinda weird especially after leading the development of only two games in the series.
Well, good luck to him on his future endevours.
I am being honest with myself and my opinion only thank god he left, now make a true Halo successor.
Indies oh gawd. I had hoped NMS was the final nail in that coffin. Well at least he didn't leave to work on mobile games.
Halo is just like COD.
Both are dying out. Bungie were the original developers of that game. The franchise should of ended when they wanted it to...
Bungie outdid themselves time and time again with Halo. The Reach campaign was pretty lame though 'cept for the final 2 levels. 343 tries so hard in all the wrong areas. They should add the ability to stop a vehicle from splattering you in Halo 6 with proper timing using the Spartan's brute strength (not armor lock!)