Thread 717691369

>>717691369 (OP)
>a dozen light jeeps
>a few quads
>3 helicopters
THIS, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, IS THE RESPONSE OF THE UNSC ON THE WORLD OF REACH
THE MOST ARMED, FORTIFIED PLANET IN THE UNSC
WELL? SCARED YET, ALIENS?

>>717691369 (OP)
>>717692243

don't forget the actual fleet was 'away' on a training exercise somewhere

>>717691369 (OP)
I will never understand the people who defend anything post halo 3. Holy cringe

>>717693297
people on this very board will defend Reach as if their very lives depended on it

>>717692243
>Future warfare
>Massive battles
That wasn't a thing even in medieval times. That's just silly Hollywood imaginary.

>>717693653
People who defend reach either started with it or were children when it came out.

These people unironically believe the story and characters have depth and are anything other than cardboard cutouts that say the most generic shit possible in any given situation.

>>717691369 (OP)
>>717692243
>>717693064
>>717693297
>>717693653
>>717694103
>>717694507
SPARTANS 3s WERE NEVER ON REACH YOU FUCKING RETARDS.
MASTER CHIEF WAS NOT IN THE PILLAR OF AUTUMN, HE WAS FIGHTING IN SPACE.
IT GOES AGAINST THE LORE OF THE FUCKING CANON BOOK.

>>717693653
I'll defend Reach skyboxes to death.

>>717693297
>>717693653
i mean the current state of halo is so sad and pathetic, i'd rather take another reach type game than any of 343's or halo studios new creations

>>717691369 (OP)
Even as a kid I remember thinking this scene was retarded.

>>717691369 (OP)
Marathon > Gaylo generic spess muhreenery

what's the best halo game ever made? is it reach? for me, it was project cartographer with nude mods.

>>717691369 (OP)
KINO

>>717695008
I know deep down 360 cannot deliver, but I was hoping for 1 massive combat scenario where we fight waves of Covenants with packs of soldiers

>>717691369 (OP)
>3 dudes per jeep
>2 at max on the quads
>maybe 6 per helicopter
>a little over a single platoon is the epic charge to save the planet

>>717694103
>real life was shit so video games should be shit too
Realismfags are retarded

>>717698004
Not really. Real battles take bigger IQ than muh big dick number armies slashing together. Of course, they don't cater to the bigger audience so instead of engaging battles we have Fellowship of the Ring movie opening.

>>717695008
Its not retarded at all, they're using the halo wars warthog strategy and are about to upgrade to gauss cannons

>>717696784
Halo 2 is still the king

>>717694675
Book? These are video games

>>717691369 (OP)
This scene was pretty based and you're gay if you disagree. The soundtrack was epic. It would have been better if it had a greater sense of scale though but that was a sign of the times. Fuck 343. Heil Marty. Heil 2000s era Bungie.

>>717698539
aight. how does 3 compare? never played it i only played 2 multiplayer.

>>717699169
3 was the peak

>>717691369 (OP)
>>717692243
>samefagging after several minutes because no one gives a shit about your gay thread
kek

>>717693653
Wait people defend a fun game??? Im going insaneeeee

>>717694675
>muh book
reading is for gay nerds

>>717694507
>halo
>story
>characters have depth
lmao faggots out here acting like Halo was anything more than "big armor dude fights ayys". The games always had a barebones mediocre story, you just think they didn't because of gay fanfiction books

>>717692243
>clearly the front element of a much larger force
>confirmed by seeing that much larger force throughout the level
It's retarded for so many reasons but you picked the one criticism that doesn't make any sense.

>>717694675

ah yes, the sacred canon book that has shit like:

>Humanity not know what hunters and engineers were until a month before Reach
>90% of the Spartan IIs dying off screen having done nothing noteworthy
>Blue teams mighty accomplishment in the Fall of Reach is trying to wipe a harddrive on a space station and still losing 2 Spartans
>Chief never seeing an Elite until the fucking battle of Reach

>>717699169
3 is the most popular for the multiplayer but the campaign is short and imo the worst of all the Halo games

>>717701529
>I didnt read the book, just parroting dumb shit other retards that didnt read the book said.

>>717699290
nice try faggot

>>717691369 (OP)
I remember the Halo vs CoD franchise war as a kid and how I'd seethe at the CoDcels when they made fun of Halo for being the kiddiie franchise

>sci-fi navies
>will jump 30 light years instantly to your home system glass your planet in an hour with megaton death lasers with no consideration for things like fuel/propellant/heat/etc
>sci-fi armies
>strictly worse equipment than what we had in Desert Storm and with WW1 tier tactics
What's up with that?

>>717706857
It's only as imbalanced as modern air force vs modern army

>>717701108
Several dozen longswords along with 3(that we can see) goddamn Paris-class frigates show up and start shelling everything once you take out the first AA gun.
Does /v/ seriously not play any games?

I remember a post from years ago that said something about how Reach being shit made sense if you thought of it as more of a prototype for Destiny. It explains the awful gameplay decisions, and the story being so halfassed and hollow

Your image is cut off. If you zoom out there’s a lot more of them.

>>717704385
>inspect element

>>717706857
writers are bad
they have negative understanding of military life/tactics and don't even comprehend that making navies so strong in the first place immediately makes almost all ground battles retarded anyways

>>717691369 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iieEf6fjt0
Kino...

>>717691369 (OP)
reddit scene

>>717694103
>Massive battles weren't a thing

Bitch, the first Punic War had over a million fighting men and several thousand ships involved. Numbers Europe wouldn't be able to replicate until the Napoleonic era. Shit like the Battle of Cannae were pivotal and altered the trajectory of entire wars. What the fuck are you on about?

>>717701108
Still pretty fucking dumb to have your jeeps, quads, and hueys lead the charge.

>>717691369 (OP)
A few A-10’s from the 80s could wreck this, let alone a sci-fi alien army

>>717701529
>90% of the Spartan IIs dying off screen having done nothing noteworthy

Just like real war lmao

>>717706857
>WW1 tier tactics

I'm pretty sure if you pit the Grand Army of the Republic from Star Wars against the Army of Northern Virginia from the American Civil War, the ANV would fucking clobber them because they would actually do stuff like fight in proper formations and seize advantageous terrain on their own initiative.

What chance would this have against any 21st century fighter or attack helicopter

>>717691369 (OP)
If I like Red Alert 2 would I like this?

>>717693297
Reach was okay. ODST was boring dog shit. 343 installments don't even need to be recognized.

>>717694675
The books were never canon.

>>717691369 (OP)
i read the book, reach (game) was not canon

>>717694675
You will never be canon Eric

>>717714964
Considering fuel rod cannons also function as anti-aircraft weapons I'd say it would blow any helicopter out of the sky.
>Fighter
I have no clue how fast they're actually supposed to be in the lore but I'm just assuming they would shit on regular jets. banshees are slow as fuck in the games because the maps are tiny.

>>717715775
>they would shit on regular jets.

>doesn't have onboard radar
>doesn't have countermeasures like flares and chaff
>literally the first warning the pilot is going to get that an F-14 just fired an AIM-9 Sidewinder at him from beyond visual range is his being vaporized

>>717714964
In lore isn't this more like an AH-6 Littlebird than an AH-64 or F-35?
>Little Bird would still probably win if it has APKWS

>>717714927
>the Grand Army of the Republic from Star Wars against the Army of Northern Virginia from the American Civil War
Just say “the Clones from Star Wars against the Confederates” you fucking autist

>>717692243
There's a scene in that same cutscene showing the UNSC is fighting similar battles across the entire continent, it's not that surprising they could be stretched a little thin.
>>717713389
How else would you surprise assault a large shielded force with AA stopping your frigates and bombers from getting close? It's not like there weren't Scorpions right behind. Small strike teams (your job in the mission) would just get swarmed by the covenant if they weren't distracted by the greater assault.

what's going through their heads right now?

>>717716760
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRnAfHodtPc

>>717716760
>no spunker
Absolutely doomed

>>717691369 (OP)
The books were decent little sci fi stories but it's not like they were super amazing or genre defining. At the end of the day Halo was always Bungie's story to tell and I don't get why people get so caught up on these retcons when the books would have never been canon if Microsoft had not forced them to be. I get that the noble six spartans weren't that interesting as characters but the book spartans weren't that unique either. There's Spartan Kelly who can run fast and uh... she went to bootcamp with chief

>>717718213
It was absolutely Bungie's story to tell, but why did they choose to tell a much worse and dumber story than the book?

>>717691369 (OP)
kek reach was so fucking phoned in

They wanted large scale battles but the technology at the time limited them

they should have at least made it group of scorpions with some warthogs to fill out

>>717706857
It's hard to make sci-fi interesting without making the powerlevel of armies so massive it's not combat but simply slaughter.

I mean, the same game has a super soldier die because she kept forgetting to turn her shield on and got domed because of it.

>>717720114
EMP due to glassing killed her shields.

>>717715026
nah