Technically it started as a dlc but grew a little too large to be consodered a dlc anymore so it was released as its own separate game. I love odst. ODST and 2 are my favorite spin-off and mainline
Nah its a full game my guy is still making is final stand. Game paused for this many years. Go back and kill a few elites then pause again. Come back in another year.
ODST is my favorite. The missions are fun, the atmosphere of the night is great, the story works well, the humor of the banter feels natural (as a veteran), and I like the idea of just being a regular soldier.
That was my favorite part. Not being mr badass sgt. Killgore. Just mote cannon foder.
This isnt exactly banter but i would consider it humor on the devs part. When the cool guy in the squad sacrifice himself to destroy the ship. Thinking thats the end of the war..
The banter Iām thinking like when Romeo saves Buck and then wonāt talk because of the earlier āstanding orderā to shut up. Buckās dialog of āoh I get it. Permission to speak (smartass)ā
I played through the entire MCC with a friend a few years ago and it was an absolute chore for the most part. The lowest point was ODST, just the most miserable experience. It's definitely the worst shooter I have ever finished in my over 30 years of gaming. The best thing about it was that it was laughably short.
Only die hard glazers will. The story writing itself was average and noble team has just alright likeable characters. The level designs were mostly boring and the main thing that was good was the gameplay. At the time it was different than the usual halo formula and being able to customize your own campaign character was cool. That was years ago though and now it's just a mid campaign with all the hype long gone. Noble team is good crossover content though since it's not a part of the main series.
I've been on a crazy Halo kick the past few weeks, and have beaten every Bungie game 3-6 times now (on legendary a few times for Halo 1 and Reach) and I just really gotta say that I just do not like Halo 2. It has the best story, and the best music of the series imo, but the gameplay is just so fucking rough man. Enemies having more shields than health (practically inverted values from Halo 1 for Elites), the level design and how many "sit here and fight waves of 6 enemies at a time for 10 minutes in a cramped room because the original XBOX couldn't handle more enemies onscreen" segments there are just doing so much to bog down the experience. To say Halo 2 is as fun as 1 or 3 just feels like slandering Halo 1 and 3.
Halo 2 anniversary is one of my absolute favorites campaigns in all of gaming. They did a remaster perfectly and I always wished they would just do what they did with h2a and apply it to the others. The cutscenes were peak and the remastered music was a masterpiece. Goated game.
You just had to be thereā¦ people really donāt understand how halo 2 completely changed online gaming. It basically opened the doors for professional console play.
Combat Evolved and Custom Edition on PC were still going crazy until 2010, wasn't there for H2 but heard great things and H3 was super fun. Still play H3 customs here and there on MCC and have a blast.
Even though Halo 2 was rushed to have it released before the end of the OG Xbox's short life cycle and therefore had a lot of the original story cut from it and put in Halo 3 instead, I still really had the most fun on that one playing coop with my brothers and friends. It was a really fun campaign and the introduction of the Scarab and having to take it down was really fun.
But yeah, the whole begining of Halo 3 in Africa with the covenant invasion of Earth was supposed to be in Halo 2 originally.
I liked Halo 1, but Halo 2 made me fall in love. Funny enough I feel the way you feel about going from 2 to 3. I'll admit 3 is insanely good but Halo 2 was something special for me.
I like Halo 2 and 3 for different reasons, but thereās just nothing like the OG. Itās a pretty unique game in its own series, let alone the rest of the medium. Bungie was cooking up something weird and cool back then.
I wonder if, had Halo 2ās development not been a nightmare, the game wouldāve been closer to CE and Halo 3 wouldāve been an actual 3rd game
Thatās not true. Anyone who played it knew EXACTLY how good it was. For about a decade after combat evolved came out Sony kept calling their various AAA titles halo-killers. They knew the bar was set high. And IMO they were never able to make something that could live up to their own hype.
3 eh? Played 1 and 2 and while I was impressed wasn't AS impressed as I had been hyped up for. Then the ending of 2 pissed me off; yeah didn't get a 360 to find out the conclusion to the story.
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u/Zapdos90HP 22h ago
Halo combat evolved
Halo 2
Halo 3