So I'm playing pic related for the first time in the MC collection right after having beaten Reach: >guns are smaller and take up less space on-screen >melee isn't as brokenly powerful and a single smack won't level an army >sounds are waaay better, lead-based guns sound more like they fire bullets and not pew-pews >soldiers seem more competent, you can now leave them fighting on one side while you take the other and they will usually do a solid job cleaning up >better combination of large open level warzones and tight corridor skirmised >somehow the UI look way better, takes less space and presents the info you need better >you can just walk over health-packs instead of holding "E" for an hour >suit-power mechanics are just gone (I'm guessing they were added later in the series?) but aren't missed at all >open areas feel far less obstructive, with much wider fire-zones and less clutter to "hide behind"
Overall it just feels like a way more thought-out game than Reach does.
I'm playing it for the first time and I think it's boring as fuck.
Julian Cruz
The campaign's fine (except for the fact that the second half is literally just the first half backwards and corridor spam like AotCR and Library) but the multiplayer fucking blows, just like back in 2003.
Christian Johnson
t. shitter retard
Jeremiah Davis
CE is fine in gameplay style but has several bad levels, 2 is where the series peaks in terms of single player experience.
What a lot of zoomers don't know is that the earlier Halo games literally weren't made by the same people who made the latter ones. The reason you 'feel' the design philosophy is so different is because it literally is.
Reach is a more an CE are very different from a fundamental level because two vastly different devs made the games. Dome say it got better in the later games, while others still prefer the older style of the earlier Halo games.
IMO it's not worse it's just different.
Levi Jones
Damn I really like this fanmade
Christian Mitchell
Great argument.
Jackson Anderson
reach and CEA are better. the one on the right is hilariously impractical
Juan Torres
I agree with this. CE has a ton of odd bumps in the road (too many "driving through corridor" bits come to mind) but overall I'd still argue it the superior experience to Reach.
Kayden Baker
Bungie didn't want to make Reach. Bungie wanted to make Halo 1 but as an RTS and Microsoft rushed them and forced them to finish up a FPS instead by a deadline. Bungie didn't want to make Halo 2 but MS wanted a sequel so gave them a time limit, but Bungie was too ambitious and basically made Halo 2 + Halo 3 in a single game and it was too much for the Xbox to handle, so they had to scrap everything and rushed to make a new game before the time limit. Since half of Halo 2's original concept was scrapped, they had to do the rest for 3. Bungie was contracted to still make 2 more Halo games after 3 so other than Reach they quickly made ODST. Keep this in mind when playing the Halo franchise.
Nathan Rivera
>soldiers seem more competent, you can now leave them fighting on one side while you take the other and they will usually do a solid job cleaning up Agreed, except they don't scale with difficulty. They may as well not be there on legendary because unless you wipe the room they won't survive the first encounter they get into. CE has the best sandbox of the series, even its worst guns, the plasma rifle, AR, and needler, are all useful against something. (Jackals, Flood, Elites)
Duel wielding is cool, but a lot of guns got relegated to shitty automatics competing for the same slot without contributing much in later games. Halo got too into realism for its own good after 3, it shows in all the UNSC designs
>CE and fanmade just have random slabs of metal slapped onto their arms and legs >this is meant to be a good thing you were meant to move on from this shit after the N64, user.
Samuel Sanders
Thank god Half Life remake didn't fall for this trap.
Tyler Thomas
I cant wait to host 24/7 Blood Gulch CTF games when they add a custom games browser
Leo Thomas
Dunno man, looks like its from a shitty sci fi movie like straight to vhs thats why I like it
Aiden Diaz
I think a lot of the UI-problems you describe come from the color pallet choices. CE was mostly light-gray/green outside and dark-gray/purple inside and not much else. It made the blue HUD very easily visible and considering sky-combat wasn't as much of a thing you very rarely stared right into the sky.
I also noticed that the marines that accompany you chatter a LOT more. Like they talk a ton and will make situational remark, and often do little shit that charms like walking up and shooting a dead enemy some more and making some macho comment. It adds more flavor to them and you feel like you're trekking with people. People who are trained to put on a brave face and act tougher than they are.
In Reach you get to see their lifebars, their codenames and how many of them are following you in this neat little circle-UI but it makes them feel more like pawns and less like people to me.
Charles Barnes
Did Anniversary really use the Reach trooper instead of the Reach marines?
yeah, the company (343 outsourced it) that did it was incredibly lazy.
Kevin Hernandez
It's funny to think how much shit Halo caught when it came out. Looking back at it now, and how shit the gaming industry has -become- it doesn't seem nearly as bad.
The future's going to be a nightmare.
Carter Bailey
Nobody except a few Quake lardasses gave Halo that much shit, it was an instant hit because the game is fun.
Benjamin Robinson
Well yeah, but those were some loud Quakefags. The media and a ton of console gamers loved the fuck out of Halo, but a very vocal minority really tore into it.
Dylan Jackson
That picture really doesn't do the Anniversary garbage models any justice. When I first played it, my first thought was "Why is everyone so fucking fat?", and then "What's with Captain Keyes' botox lips?"
What a colossal fuck up.
Elijah Fisher
reminder that halo is, at its core, simply a slower arena shooter
Bentley Jenkins
>with bigger areas >and vehicle combat >and only 2 weapons What was your point again?
Justin Wilson
that some people are incredibly autistic and dumb about what genres can and cannot be expressed in a game
Jaxson Diaz
I've only played the first 1 hour and a half of Reach (stopped to refund because the audio was so bad) and the first 3 or so of CE and no way CE is better than Reach. CE, from what I played, is like 80% repeating corridors. It's ridiculous.
Adam Collins
I tried to play it for the first time high but there is a way too fucking quiet audio issue, plus getting way too high, I had to stop. Gave it another go the next day, had to turn up audio a ton and the game was just boring as fuck. I got to the part where you're driving the warthog saving groups of marines and this one section by some rocks I got the warthog in a spot where I had to drive past some marines but they wouldnt fucking move so I nudged one out the way softly and they all shot me to death. Said fuck this shitty game and quit. Maybe I'll come back in the future, the audio probably will never be fixed tho these absolute shit retard developers
Anthony Ross
The audio issue is only in Reach. In CE it's all crystal clear.
Thomas Diaz
I'm in the same boat, I just beat it the other day. I was really liking it until sometime after I ran into The Flood. They're fine themselves, but when I run into a random rocket launcher wielding space zombie in every other group and instantly die because I didn't already know he'd be there, it makes the last 1/3 of the game such a cunt.
Lucas Morales
no, I confirmed this with my friends who have it too. The audio in CE is fucked where you can barely hear it, you have to turn it up loud as fuck to make it playable.
Nathaniel Allen
Literally incorrect. Playing it right now and the audio is perfectly balanced with 0 out of the box tweaking.
Literally works on my machine.
Jacob Miller
>Half Life remake ?????
Joshua Reyes
I can confirm that this is bullshit.
Adam Watson
lying samefag nigger, the audio is super quiet to the point you can't hear shit without turning it up a ton compared to Reach.
Benjamin Wood
and it is objectively a fucking awful game imagine how fucking worse Reach is
Colton Lopez
Reach honestly feels like a CoD game in terms of linearity and story focus
Halo 1 was far more freeform and let you play around with shit more
Nathan Young
Something wrong on your end then.
Landon Long
its not just my end, my friends have the same issue. Plus the coop campaign is still laggy as fuck randomly making it almost unplayable. 3 months for this shit quality port of a game already on PC in the first place? Fucking garbage
Dylan Brooks
>its not just my end, my friends have the same issue
I guess you're both retarded then.
James Lopez
I will admit that Reach has serious audio issues, but CE runs like a dream and every line is crystal clear. You are objectively wrong.
Kill yourself faggot. Developers are retarded and don't know what the fuck they're doing releasing broken shit. Also I checked with two other people, friends is plural dumb esl subhuman. CE is shit even if they didn't go above and beyond fuck it up more
So your søy-argument is "my copy of the exact same game is special and there is nothing wrong on my end at all"?
Sprint into traffic.
Jose Robinson
>Reach honestly feels like a CoD game in terms of linearity and story focus It is, that's why it's shit.
Andrew Sanders
you're the kind of retard who unironically posts works on my machine and lacks the brainpower to comprehend how things working for one person doesn't mean anyone else who is having problems with it is lying. Consider chemical castration to do the world a favor
Help yourself to a full tub and some razor blades faggot. Audio levels are fucked and you're a retarded gorilla nigger who can't comprehend
Landon James
There is NO chance you can count above 5.
Carter Clark
What you expect people to believe is that there is a problem with the game that is only effecting you and your friends.
What I think is actually happening is that you haven't actually played the game and are just shitting on 343 using information you heard online. In doing so you conflated the audio issues plaguing reach with CE.
