Casually Hardcore looks back at the original Halo. It’s been nearly 9 years and 4 sequels since Halo first launched. With the launch of Halo Reach everyone has been going on about how it’s a return to form, a lot like the original Halo and just as good if not better. But was Halo *really* that good to begin with?
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A former 343 developer has revealed that mountains of Halo pitches failed to be approved, including a return to ODSTs and a push for more intimate, dark themes.
Not really. 4, 5, MCC, and Infinite are only remembered for their shortcomings and failures when the franchise was purely known for being a system seller and an all-time great. There's a reason 1, 2, 3, and Reach are looked back on fondly, and it's not because of nostalgia.
I don't know of anyone that speaks fondly of the later Halo games, I would like to play 5, but I know it's not good, and I'm just waiting on Infinite to hit my strike price. I played MCC a lot later after it came out, so must of those bugs/issues were gone by the time I played it.
To say it dropped the massively is just not true. Many in the community hold H5 as the best mp mechanics in the entire series and say its what 4 should've been. Its campaign was trash but the MP is Fantastic and many faces of the community still play today and it only made 500mill in the matter of months but sure it dropped the ball massively. 4 was hated due to all the changes at once. And CoD like feature and rightful get hate but it's campaign story was liked by a majority of ppl. 343 hasn't nailed ot 100% but they get 1 thing perfect but F up in other places. Infinite had a good campaign and design but the story was a mess. The MP improves upon what Halo 3 was and is what many ppl wanted to go back to but it lacked content severely. So massively aint the word. Dropping the ball massively is when it's pure trash and unplay/unenjoyable. Most ppl blind by nostalgia so soon as 1 thing aint the same its hated cause Halo set the bar so high
FYI reach was not that good.
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With its smooth jazz and iconic New Mombasa streets, we need Xbox's next Halo game to return to the remarkable world of Halo 3: ODST.
Halo: Combat Evolved for PC, was great online! Great modding tools to.
Halo 2 was cool.
After that, it went downhill.
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erm no. UT was always a far better game! just a pity about UT3!!
I'm not a fan of Halo, but it's hard not to see the good stuff Bungie did
Halo CE was a great single player game. It was the first game since GoldenEye that really felt right on a console controller. The story was interesting and intriguing. I loved the way the Flood was introduced later on (although some of the repetitive levels later in the game were annoying). It was fun from start to finish and is rightly regarded as a classic. I would happily play an HD remake.
Unfortunately since then the single player element of Halo has really gone downhill. I really disliked Halo 2 single player - the story telling was just poor and boring, but the online was fun for those who liked it, and the tools / community it introduced had not been seen on a console before.
Halo 3 once again raised the bar for online. I still dislike Halo multiplayer, but I'm not going to knock the millions of people who do like it (to each their own!!) Only a fool would criticise multiplayer when it introduced full match replays (another first for a console iirc), and really made a tight community (even if it is overrun by prepubescent homophobic racists at times).
So all in all - although Halo isn't for me - it is a great game series for those who like it, and Bungie did some excellent and ground breaking (for a console) work on community, match making, and making an FPS feel 'right' on a console.
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