Poll: Looking Back on Halo

[Mass B]

It seems like it's been aeons since Halo: Combat Evolved appeared on shelves. Since then, there have been 4 sequels with a prequel in the making, a series of short films (Halo: Legends), a whole lotta fan art, and more. Halo was my first FPS besides having played Doom a couple times on a friend's SEGA, and I loved it. According to my brother, it's still the best Halo game out of all the others, including the story. Halo: ODST was my favorite in a lot of ways, but was way too short, and the free roaming mechanic, in my opinion, didn't reach it's full potential. I'm hoping to find a new favorite in Halo: Reach. Feel free to post comments about past Halo games and/or your thoughts on what Halo Reach will be like.

 

[Distazo]

This has been done a lot, I will always appreciate halo for giving my true first FPS game that I really got into online. Since those days I have found greener pastures but hey you have to start somewhere.

 

[G1eet]

Halo 2 for single player (never played CE), and Halo 3 for system link custom games.

 

[RheynbowDash]

*puts the flame shield up* Halo 1 is the one and ONLY halo i will EVER play. And only the Halo 1 for the PC cause it had awesome mods, and multiplayer.

 

[Mass B]

haha yeah it is pretty flammable, and thanks

 

[Aura Guardian]

I love them all. They are all good and fun.

 

[Hiphophippo]

I enjoyed the way the story was told in ODST but felt the Coop campaign was stronger in the first. Halo 2 is almost laughably bad in campaign mode.

 

[Veritas0323]

multiplayer: halo:ce > halo 2 > halo 3

singleplayer: halo: ce > i honestly don't know which to put as second. I'm leaning towards halo 2 but i hated all the missions as the arbiter and the ending was awful

 

[Chicago Ted]

I have to say Halo 2, just for the sheer amount of time I put into that game, and the friends I made from it, some of who I still play with to this day.

 

[kduff51]

I loved Halo 1 and 2. We had 4 rooms system linked all of my sophomore year(2007).
Still, i have never played a second of halo 3. I stopped caring.

 

[Thaius]

I like them all for different reasons, but Halo 1 had the best story and arguably the best campaign, so it wins, I suppose. Halo 2 had the best multiplayer, and Halo 3: ODST has Firefight, but story-based campaign > multiplayer. For me, at least. And Halo was amazing in that regard.

 

[Shepard's Shadow]

Halo: Combat Evolved was my favorite Halo game, Halo 3 is in a close second though. Never played ODST, and Halo 2 was meh at best. I hope Reach is as good if not better then CE was/is.

 

[AvsJoe]

It's a tough choice between 1 and 2. I'll go with CE because I did a little better in multi-player (I suck against people with beam-swords).

 

[rockingnic]

Halo: CE just for the single player was the best there. It was the only one where I thought I should fear the flood and I did, in Halo 2 they were annoying and 3 they were retarded (especially the ones that morph). But each felt epic at the end when it needed to be though, can't wait for Reach.

 

[WilliamRLBaker]

Halo 2 I loved the single player and simply put I put more Online time into that then all other games combined.

 

[Angry Caterpillar]

Halo 3. I definitely spent more time with that one; my first perfection almost had me screaming. Oh wait, I was. But I also got into the Halo franchise mostly with Halo 3 out, so I suppose it might be because that's the one I was first introduced to.

And, am I the only one worried about Reach becoming some bastard child of Halo's gameplay and CoD's perks and such? I know there was another thing that worried me about it, but I can't quite figure out what it was now.

 

[Mass B]

I think living up to it's better predecessors and having to compete with games like Cod is the biggest problem. If there is a problem, i think it'll be because it was trying too hard

 

[Zuka]

halo 1 definitely had the best game play, and although halo 2s game play felt a bit clunky i thought it had a pretty good story line. halo 3 was just shit on a stick. halo 3 odst was OK but it sure as fuck wasn't worth $60. Halo reach looks fun but i learned since the release of halo 3 not to trust those thought because although they make you feel warm and fuzzy inside it will only come back to kick you in the ass.

 

[Blindrooster]

I was torn between 1 and 2. One was definatly the most memorable, but i wish i knew how much of my life was spent on the Halom 2 multiplayer. I hate Halo 3, but play halo wars sometimes when i feel like an RTS. Hey, how come thats not an option? Not that it would be my favorite.

 

[Gindil]

*puts the flame shield up* Halo 1 is the one and ONLY halo i will EVER play. And only the Halo 1 for the PC cause it had awesome mods, and multiplayer.

*stamps approval* Fast combat, great AI, interesting characters, and exploitable ass mechanics. (hog launching anyone?) the only thing they changed in the sequels was graphics (only thing that didn't fuck with the game)

That O*%*&$ Pistol still pisses me off about H1.

Here's my issue with the series. I am huge on the story to take the game to further heights. H1 started great, until you had ~5 levels of Flood that extended playability artificially...

H2 would have been great, if I didn't beat the &%$$ thing in 1 day and a horrible, HORRIBLE cliffhanger that felt like a kick in the groin when I had to wait for another year for the next one.

H3 felt like a return to H1 era. You kicked ass, took names, you had an Arbiter and a plasma sword. The game was pretty well done.

H4 (ODST) really impressed me with the focus on the human element of a Halo story. Sadly, I only watched a playthrough, didn't play. Regardless, it seems to be an interesting game.

I can't consider Halo Wars as part of Halo... Reason being is that although it does fairly well as a standalone game, I just don't feel that an RTS carries the Halo mythos well.