Just replayed CE last week after finishing all the games on the MCC (CE last because it's the one we played the most when kid) and... Honestly CE is still the best one.
It's the most militaristic one, without star wars tier drama, not a lot of Space Opera and the story and dialogue flow naturally.
It's just starship troopers, Rambo, robocop and 90s cyberpunk Anime all mixed in and it works.
The atmosphere is also sublime.
It makes you dream and imagine a different earth and alien cultures than what we got.
We only got to see yellow African cities on earth and disgusting barren "alien" worlds as the trilogy unfolded.
High charity in 2 is a fucking disappointment, as it was Requiem in H4.
And don't let me start with Reach, God, talk about uninspired.
The boomers saying Halo peaked with CE were always right, only millenials and zoomers thought it peaked with 3.
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And then Noble team was useless, and the Spartan IV in H4 were even more useless.