Thread 720659046

>September 14, 2010
Do you still Remember Reach 15 years later?

https://youtu.be/Gu8VDUDzxkM
One of the best Vidya trailers ever made

>>720659046 (OP)
>circumsized sandbox
>gay story of meh heckin frienz dying
>10 sec countdown when u're out of the maps

>>720660019
You wouldn't understand zoomie....

Reach my beloved

>>720659046 (OP)
I remember this game being a huge disappointment in almost every regard
t. pre-ordered deluxe edition and unlocked everything from the beta

invasion mode was kino though

>>720660118
even though halo 3 MOGS

What was your reaction
to Emile dying

still have my receipt from the midnight release

>>720661003
Based
>Recon Helmet
Damn that brings back memories

>>720659046 (OP)
Still haven't played it. To me Halo ended with 3.

>>720661003
Jesus

>>720660443
Yeah. I remember getting the vidmaster achievements in 3/ODST and just being obsessed with Halo along with all my friends from the time of the beta that came with Crackdown. We had a bunch of those cheesey Reach themed pics in our fileshares before the game came out and were super hyped.

Then when it came out, we realized that fileshares had the fun sucked out them and couldn't be browsed the same way any more. Tons of custom games were broken, like Hide and Seek no longer working because moving made you visible with camo and there was no setting to change that. I remember being super disappointed at how many cool armors were locked behind grinding the fuck out of the multiplayer to incentivize spending real money. I remember everyone being really upset at the Battle Rifle being missing. I remember everyone being mad about loadouts and armor abilities because it made learning maps less meaningful and made the game more like CoD instead of Halo.

There were good things too, invasion chief among them and some kino campaign moments, but I was overall disappointed and Halo 4 kinda killed the series for me after that since it doubled down on a lot of that stuff.

>>720659046 (OP)
I remember how much fun it was. just playing with some guys who had either a great sense of humor or were legitimate pros who didn't act like sweats. It felt nice getting owned by people with the same weapons and equipment as me and who were actually good at the game instead of because all their gear was maximized to death

>>720659046 (OP)
I love the game but I still think the 30 kilometer long cloaked ship in atmosphere was mega-retarded, even for the rule of cool style Bungie liked. Like it would've had physical effects on wind patterns and shit that any amateur meteorologist could've detected where it was.
They should've had some throwaway line from Dot or from the civilians in that sniper stealth mission saying something about abnormal weather patterns to imply they had at least an inkling something was up but just chalked it up to the covenant activity as some kind of foreshadowing.

I liked reach

>>720661484
Halo should've been an anthology series. There's more to the Halo universe than just Master Chief and Cortana

>>720659046 (OP)
Halo campaigns were fun and highly repayable, specially with friends.
But Halo specially was at its best/peak when you played community made and fun gamemodes.
Thus, Halo 3, and even more so Halo Reach were the peak of Halo, nothing will ever beat 16 man lobbies full of people with mics all shit talking and laughing at the most retarded game modes, be it from professionally made stuff, to stuff lil jimmy could do with his ass that still was somewhat fun, and not just this could last hours, and you still saw stuff half a decade after Halo 3/Reach's launch, but it was too the last Halo game to release content complete too which helped it too.

People will hate you for this simple objective truth, but by this fact alone, that those 60 dollars could last you decades of community content, even now that it is still the most played game in MCC, that is the fact alone of why Reach, is undoubtably the best Halo game, if not one of the best games out there.
And they will hate you for speaking the truth.

Also what >>720660443 said, Invasion + Elites were kino.

>>720661419
Sucked that they made such a legendary helmet so easy to get, but I guess it opened up for stuff like the haunted one to be the top one in Reach or that one helmet that was planned for DLC but got cut.

>>720659046 (OP)
I hated how all the Spartans had different colors like fuckin Power Rangers, still do too

>>720659046 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCcmrL29WII
Remember when devs actually paid attention to what their players were doing?

>>720664270
My Spartan WILL look like a fucking McDonald's happy meal strapped with grenades and you WILL deal with it!

Reach is fine.

Better than 3

>>720659148

This is all that Halo tv series needed to be. They had one fucking job.

>>720665143
Would you look at that, all blue eyes except maybe one or two still very nerdy white guys.

>>720663951
For me, Reach was worse than 3 because Xbox live's party chat came out during 3 and was in full effect during Reach. I remember the day it went live, seeing all those little speech bubbles next to everyone's gamertag, and realizing that "lobbies full of people with mics all shit talking and laughing" was going to become a thing of the past. It could still work, but required you to send chat messages to people in parties, invite people on your friends list, and just spam your whole friends list with invites to see who would join to fill a lobby.

Every game is like that now.

>>720665143
They actually look and sound like they care about making a good game.

>>720659046 (OP)
Reach was the reason why Halo died.

>>720659046 (OP)
Reach was the first bad Halo game - the beginning of the downfall

>>720663951
reach was shit and the reason why halo died, 343 games are the way they are because of it

>>720659046 (OP)
of course, it's my second favorite halo behind only the original.

>>720666938
I used to make a rule, which was easier back then (because people are faggier introvert niggers today), that my friends and I would actually stay in in-game chat to just talk like usual, be it with new people or just anyone that would join up.

To this day, I still tell my friends to not be faggots and talk in game even if everyone IS a faggot and there is hardly any mics cuz even if anyone would talk, they'd rather be in their tranny private faggot safe space circlejerk discord shitholes, I still always talk in chat, and from time to time find some cool guys, add them up and play.
Not all is lost, we can still have a good time, no need to be a pesimist.

>>720669136
Nobody cares but you anon, everyone was using armor lock anyway

>>720659046 (OP)
I still have the Legendary Edition, although I think Jorge's or Jun's hand is broken

>>720669136
Nah 4 was

>>720666556
Best you'll get is probably this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5_ynsjwd48&ab_channel=SODAZ

>>720665143
I spent so much time making shit in Forge world it's not funny. I dunno if I still have it on my 360, I recreated E1M1 from Doom in it as an invasion map.

>>720669994
>That music when the MAC cannon hits
Kino, Hollywood could never

>>720668982
>Mono toned and emotionless
Yeah look at that passion.

>>720661003
It was my first pre-order though think I only ever pre-ordered like 3 games

>>720671809
So Cortana literally dies between 5 and Infinite and this thing gets made?
I think they should just de-canonize everything after 3 and just say it was Master Chief's weird dreams while he was in cryo-stasis.

>>720659046 (OP)
Yes. Forge World was great.

>>720669504
Except now games are implementing aimods that will warn/ban you for saying stuff that it incorrectly deems to be slurs, plenty still shit talk like back then but it increasingly not worth the effort

>>720671918
They're just gonna fully reboot the series

>>720672154
And they'll fuck it up right out the gate because 343 doesn't fucking understand Halo.

>>720659046 (OP)
Probably had the most fun with friends on this, half the time we would just be assholes betraying people on infection but it was pretty great

>>720659046 (OP)
This was the first game I ever pulled an all-nighter for. I got it for Christmas, but due to being out of town I didn't get to play it for a bit. On New Year's my family and I got home at 2am and I asked my mum if I could stay up to play Xbox since I hadn't yet since I got the game for Christmas. She said yes and I stayed up playing through the campaign, which was also the first one I played on normal (I had only played Halo on easy before then). When my parents woke up in the morning my mum banned me from playing games for 5 days.

>>720660443

invasion was and still is the best MP mode in Halo.
That said, i can't forgive assfucking the plasma repeater to be a worse plasma rifle after the beta because reasons

>>720672241
Not just doesn't understand, they hate halo

>>720659046 (OP)
Yeah I was playing it earlier today after installing a mod that gives elites huge tits

>>720659046 (OP)
>MAC rounds? IN ATMOSPHERE?!
>most pathetic little pop of an explosion

>>720670671
You don't interact with people much, do you?

>>720672949
They specifically hired people who did

>>720659046 (OP)
The start of the downfall of reach although I did enjoy their ideas for every weapon having bloom accuracy that was expanded on in Infinite

>>720659046 (OP)
Just played it yesterday and I instantly remembered why I didn't play slayer mode here, the bloom is fucking ridiculous.

>>720671918
Cortana being the big bad of 5 was so hated 343 backpedaled and killing her off in between games will never not make me laugh
Imagine if between Halo 2 and 3 Truth died off screen and Elites and Humans had already ended the war and you were just fighting some of the flood

>>720672009
>Halo 4 comes out
>Buy it and disappointed there's no Forge World
>343 says it's coming
>As DLC
>Still try to give it a chance and grab it when it releases
>It's this bullshit
I think I dropped Halo 4 right then and there

>>720674286
>Humans and Elites are comrades in arms at the end of Halo 3
>Fast forward like 5 years and they're back to killing each other, and make it only Arbiter's small faction of Sangheili that are still allied with humans
>The literal one and only reason they did this was to give the player a recognizable enemy type to shoot at
Pisses me off so fucking badly

>>720661003
Holy fuck.

>>720669136
THIS

>Maps all designed with sprint in mind
>Without sprint you're either FUCKED or holding forward for 10 minutes to get anywhere.

What were your honest thoughts on armor abilities?
I liked them

>>720674884
The plot excuse cracked me up
>Chief "I thought we had a truce with the Covenant!?"
>Cortana "I thought so too."
>....
>*Crickets*
Terrible

>>720659046 (OP)
The ending was pretty cool.

>>720674371
My 12 year old ass only had Halo 4 so I was happy when this came out but yea, it was nothing compared to Forge World. I wish my Reach disc didn't crack.

>>720673074
That's all you hear before your eardrums rupture

>>720675000
I like them enough but trip mines were fun and should have come back. I don't think having equipment and armor abilities was mutually exclusive, you could just make the armor abilities the weaker but reusable versions and the equipment the stronger but consumable. Trip mine frisbees will never not be fun.

>>720675000
I loved using armor lock just as a warthog full of guys tried ramming me

>killed so many Elites and Grunts that Squads driving past miles away heard about that shit over comms and came through just to get a chance to fight him
Noble 6 was a badass

>>720675073
>Couldn't just think up of new aliens (likely because they just wanted to be lazy and use the rigs that existed for them)
>ERM AKSHUALLY IT'S JUST A SMALL ROGUE SQUAD OF COVENANT
Congrats on ruining one of the greatest character developments of all time, 343

>Lava Pit on Slayer
>Duck Hunt
>Those super cool recreations of giant space stations
>Low Gravity, Fast speed, Active Camo, Energy Swords only
God I miss those days

>>720674371
They tried to pass off these smaller maps as an alternative to forge world which while an effort was there they didn't campare, and this map just came a little too late

Imagine fucking up this hard

>>720675000
They're bad. Certain maps were clearly designed around certain abilities and became really ass without using said ability (your pic sword base for instance had insane chokes without using jetpack). Armour lock and camo were really annoying to fight against, I never really played against anyone that I would say used them well but the specifics of how they were designed emphasised and encouraged the most cancerous usage of them.
Personally, part of the appeal of Halo compared to most other shooters for me was the idea of you being on equal footing with your opponent. Most spawns were either mirrored or at least designed in a way to have neutral power spawns, so losing control of them meant you got outplayed. You can see from a distance what weapon your enemy has, and weapon sounds are distinctive so if you can't see you are always generally aware what engagements you can or can't take. The Halo 3 equipment system changed this where you couldn't really tell if some cunt was just going to hit you with a power drain, or if they'd pussy out with a regen or bubble halfway through the fight, and the armour abilities made this aspect even worse.

Halo multiplayer was at its best when all of the weapons were insanely strong in their own right and there was no real semblance of balance. Then 343 tried to pander to compfaggots and ruined everything.

Sad what's become of the series. Infinite had some moments that I thought were kind of cool, it still couldn't capture the magic. Sad that it looks like they're just going to start over again for the fourth time instead of fixing their fucking mess and trying to save the series.

Has there ever been a vidya series that fell from prominence as hard as Halo has? Reach's launch was really the last time anyone truly gave a fuck about it.

>>720660443
multiplayer was a pretty big disappointment too. bungie really just copy+pasted halo 3 and replaced the BR with the DMR. same exact sandbox issues. sprint ruined halo >>720669136

the campaign was OK but the variety wasn't there. halo 3 had so much better variety with flood, scarabs, etc. at least the falcon mission was fun. the space mission was ass.

>>720665143
the vidocs were so fucking good. peak bungie

>>720675000
see >>720676351

sprint and armor lock ruined the core gameplay loop. shitters would just spam grenades and run. at least evade had a bigger cooldown. jetpack was useless on large maps but encouraged the camping shitters.

active camo was nearly useless and hologram literally was useless. active camo was kinda nerfed too much with the radar jamming because bungie knew there'd be camping shitters.

drop shield was the most inoffensive I think. too weak to block any real damage but the health regen was nice.

>>720676843
I can't think of many that fell as hard. This was THE series to get an xbox for once upon a time.

MCC's release on steam in 2019 was lit

padded my k/d by doing halo reach infection matchmaking. had like 35 k/d ratio

>>720676843
Not really, no. Halo acheived brand mascot tier and succeeded fucking HARD across the starting 2000s. It was ubiquitous in the American market. Now it's the old veteran whose legs just don't work anymore being taken care of by fat black ghetto nurses who are there for a paycheck and have watched too many geezers wither into dust to care anymore.

People remember Halo. The mountain has eroded, but only remnants still carry the vigil of where it's great heights had once stood. The youth have moved on. That old vet could come back yet, but never in his current home.

>>720676843
People cared at the launch of Halo 4, and then everyone stopped caring maybe a month or two after the game came out. From what I recall, 4's multiplayer died fairly early on, and most either went back to Reach and Halo 3, or just moved on entirely. Halo 5 did absolutely nothing to revive the series, and that turned out to be a complete shit show, loot boxes and all. Then Infinite released and literally no one cared.

>>720676351
>>720676883
But you all had access to those abilities, just like you could pick up any rocket launcher or get in any wraith. The playing field was still level

>>720676991
>This was THE series to get an xbox for once upon a time.
And that's a huge problem about why Xbox is dying/dead. It never got a replacement. Hell, Infinite for all it was worth was one of the main reasons to buy a Series. And it was still a day one PC launch.

Here we are, four years since Infinite launched and all we know about the future of the series is that Halo Studios exists. No idea what they're working on or if there's anything- even a soulless remake of CE on the horizon

>>720677283
Chief was definitely one of the big three of 2007. Along with Mario and Ricky Bobby

>>720677501
You could argue the replacement was Gears of War or even Titanfall, but neither of those series panned out very well. Titanfall, as great as it was, couldn't live up to the fact that the Xbox One was a complete failure as a console.

>>720677486
No, because you could only pick one. If you picked sprint, how could you match the verticality of someone with jetpack? How could you outstall someone with armour lock? If you lost rockets in a previous game, it was probably because you fucked around and didn't contest the initial spawn, but if you didn't pick sprint, how could you contest rockets on powerhouse other than spamming nades and hope the other dude walked into them?

i hate 343 so god damn much

>>720677257
Nice

>>720677486
it wasn't so much about being an unbalanced playing field, it's more that they disrupted the core gameplay loop so drastically.

making a poor judgement call was rewarded by being able to sprint away. armor lock made the already severely nerfed vehicles much worse. jetpack negated the need to learn how to grenade jump and trivialized vertical map control if someone could just effortlessly fly up a wall.

The CE remake is going to be a disaster and change shit that never needed changes, mark my words.
That and for the few lorefags that still exist, they will continue to push the retarded 343 era lore and make it more "legit".

>>720675416
I'm playing through Halo 4 on Legendary now for the first time and I'm forcing myself to go trhough the game. Both the gameplay and the story are non sensical.
I'm on that Forerunner mission right now and I already want to quit.

DMRs are cancer ridden faggot garbage

Imagine if this whole game was just about rookie exploring the city finding your dead team mates and finishing the mission by yourself

>>720678142
You having fun with the promethean knights and their bullshit?

>>720678125
The one t they posted that ugly Halo Studios UE teaser I knew the series was officially over

Only real ones will get it.
https://youtu.be/SCnlrnaIYCA?t=114

>>720678483
>The one t they
Did I have a stroke?
*The moment they

>>720678494
I liked Crackdown 2. It was definitely not as good as the first game but I liked it well enough.
I love how the internet has collectively forgotten Crackdown 3 released.

>>720676351
While you are absolutely right, I feel like the H3 equipment part is overstated. My memory tells me equipment rarely came up, and when it did it barely affected engagements. Things like dropping a bubble shield in a hallway or trying to catch a passing vehicle with energy drain just slowed fights down. Regen was a meme, and grav lift was useless beyond climbing the left side of the wall on High Ground into the tower. Could be wrong though, I am an ancientfag.

>>720678346
It's so gay. Even the Covenant parts are not fun now because half the guns are useless. I don't know why they nerfed the plasma pistol so much. The game for me now is just shooting from across the corridor with the light rifle or that carbine. Maybe a battle rifle if I ever find the ammo for it.

What a shit game. Finished ODST just before this and that was so much fun on Legendary.

>>720678125
>>720678483
I never see it mentioned, but CE's core gameplay really doesn't hold up to modern standards. it definitely won't be a faithful remaster because 343/microsoft is retarded.

a really cool gimmick would be somehow making it into a hybrid-open world game, and possible even linking several of the maps together and allowing the player to travel linearly. make the maps bigger and give an experience like Covenant in H3 where you can roam between biomes.

>>720659046 (OP)
My favorite Reach memory is that trailer. Probably my favorite trailer in all of gaming. Even though I liked H3 way better than Reach. Something about the trailer just gave the perfect amount of hype. I think it was the song that really did it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E95PeZ0qsLY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo7Ozu5IqBI

>>720678339
Would've been kino but I enjoyed it nontheless

>>720679495
Same dude. Don't even remember that song being used in game. It seemed different enough and the visual style was so different it was inherently exciting because at that point we hadn't learned that could be bad.

>>720678125
I don't even understand why they're bothering to remake it. Halo doesn't have the power it once was and nobody is getting invested into whatever changes they create now. I doubt they will not touch the story or the characters because 343 has a pathological need to fuck with established story.

I don't understanmd why they don't just make Halo 3 Anniversary for an easy win. Update the textures, the models, make some new animations, better sound, get Blur to do the cutscenes, add some tech gimmicks like ray tracing, add a functioning multiplayer and sell it for $30.

>>720679654
You can't pay indians to do the H3 remake like you just said

>>720678339
That's what it basically should have been. It was marketed as a film noir inspired game where you play as a detective, but you don't really do any "detective" work at all. Rookie spends the night filddling with broken objects until he gets a call from Dare telling him where to go.

I've always thought it would be cool if ODST had the Arkham Origins crime scene puzzles.

>Rookie wakes up & connects to Superintendent
>Virgil coaxes him around the city until he reaches a place of interest
>Virgil sets up a crime scene and Rookie gets an AR reconstruction of the event through his visor
>after you've reconstructed the event, you get a flashback mission as one of the squadmates and get to see how it happened
>once you've completed all the missions, you have to put the pieces together and complete the mission solo

>>720678339
>>720679606
>>720679790
nah i think what we ended up with was a really good hybrid. you get both the moments of sheer isolation, but then the comradery and brotherhood of team members.

what you're describing was basically reach and it was too edgy and serious at times. even depressing stories need some reprieve to give you a chance to breathe and take it all in.

halo 1-3 had a lighthearted tone that really made the games so much better. characters are still cracking occasional jokes even while facing certain annihilation.

reach had good multiplayer, campaign was lame though, they should've adapted the fall of reach and had you play as chief again

>>720680074
But isn't that the point? Reach was humanity's darkest hour so it would be extremely bleak

>>720674884
>humanity btfo so hard only Earth and a few colonies were left
>nearly 40 billion humans in the galaxy and by halo 3 less than 10 billion are left
>elites were the poster boys for the covenant military
>the fucking arbiter at the forefront of improving human/elite relations was personally responsible for killing hundreds of thousands
>this is all water under the bridge
343 actually did something right for once when they pushed ONI into the role of destabilizing elite society, to the point they were researching a bioweapon to genocide them.

>>720681236
I always wanted the tensions to remain unresolved. No interspecies friendship, nothing forgiven, only a grudging cease-fire and staying out of each other's way.
>I can't forgive you, but you have my thanks.

>>720678581
Microsoft's fault for hyping up "the power of the cloud!!!"

>>720678657
>I feel like the H3 equipment part is overstated.
It is. Equipment was the clunkiest nothingburger bungie added to halo 3, and it's kind of funny 343 actually made it not worthless or broken for infinite. Giving charges to equipment and adding more spawns to maps really helped out, in addition to most of them not being retarded. Grapple is a highlight, even if it is the most uninspired addition in a time when everyone was shoving grapple hooks into games. Repulsor is niche, but using it to knock away/back grenades/rockets/wraith mortar/fucking tank shells feels good. Boost is meh, but works. Overshield/camo being put into elite status let them be as powerful as they were in ce and 2 with the added benefit of letting players choose when to activate them. Sensor/shroud/regen/quantum jump are all mediocre, though regen attaching to and repairing vehicles is a nice buff.

Reach turning equipment into armor abilities was somehow even worse than the useless implementation in 3, because they fucked everything up. Sprint being mandatory, armor lock being annoying or useless or both, jetpack was mediocre, but evade was alright. I still remember when it was locked to elites.

Also, fuck bungie for making elites invasion or covenant slayer locked. They could have balanced them for casual modes, but "muh competitive" fags made sure that wouldn't happen.

>>720661003
Im basedjakking at this unironically

>>720681236
>>720681907
They could've at the very least made them mercenaries who didn't agree with the Arbiter and didn't care about the cease-fire between them instead of "true believers". That's why i partially like the Banished

>>720669136
>noticeable delay before having your gun up again
>forced to give up armor lock
>sprint sized maps like boneyard were all BTB with a shitload of vehicles to move around
It was fine in reach, sprint only became a problem in Halo 4 since you had it for free and every single map was designed around it

>>720680074
>halo 1-3 had a lighthearted tone that really made the games so much better. characters are still cracking occasional jokes even while facing certain annihilation.

That's because they were basically 80s action flicks post y2k. Bungie thrived on badass set pieces that make no fucking sense.

>To give the Covenant back their bomb.
Fantastic line. Absolutely retarded execution.

>Chief lined up the bomb so decompression launched directly in the path of a super carrier
>narrowly missed unsc cruiser
>called in longswords (we won't show you this part) to bomb a hole with the perfect payload to get Chief through the hull and God knows how many decks
>good thing the ship was already damaged so Chief could just push off the bomb and out of the carrier
>good thing In Amber Clad was just waiting beneath the carrier to catch him

Anyone remember "to war"? Sad truth is that bungie wasn't just betting on 30 seconds of fun, but 30 seconds of attention span so players didn't think too hard about what they were seeing.

>>720659046 (OP)
I thought it was a solid entry. 3 will forever be my favorite, but I had an amazing time with Reach. Played a lot of splitscreen with my buddies.
>>720660694
What gets me is when they drag her through the door and her foot gets caught on it for a bit

>>720680074
I think 2 is actually the most lighthearted thanks to cortana and johnson in the cutscenes, but the rest of the game felt pretty serious, especially anything from the arbiter's end. 1 is definitely taken seriously and 3 goes full blown into the drama and saving the world.

>>720659046 (OP)
the only Halo I beat on Legendary for achievement hunting
the hardest achievement was the assassination on a Sangheili (Elite) to survive a fatal fall

>>720683719
hmm I got that one on accident. Forklift one took forever for some reason though.

>>720683719
Man i still can't get it right, I've done the top assassination before but not to break my fall. do i need to land right on top of him or slightly behind him?

>>720682946
>They could've at the very least made them mercenaries
That's basically what they were. The true believer aspect was just the glue holding them together. At no point did 4, 5, or the stupid spartan missions imply they were a significant threat. Definitely could have been done better, as with nearly everything 343 did, but it's the best way to keep the Covenant around as a cohesive and substantial force that isn't a retarded asspull. Mercenaries don't have a reason to go around in numbers that justify the label of interstellar threat.

>>720682946
>That's why i partially like the Banished
They're alright, but goddamn are they propped up by bullshit.
>everyone's here ya'll!
>super powerful. actually divided the Covenant's attention so badly it's why humanity wasn't immediately curb-stomped
>weren't curb-stomped themselves despite being a loose band of mercenaries dependent on payrolls for loyalty
>totally the biggest threat in a post-war galaxy, trust me, bro
They're aesthetics are worse too. Basically just Covenant, but built by the unsc with extra knives. Fucking garbage.

>>720684080
True but i would've preferred them just being into killing chief for the honor
>"oh shit is that THE demon?!? Imagine how COOL we'll be if we take his head! Might even make a profit if we hand his corpse over to the himans too!"

>>720683719
There's literally a level in the game where you drop off from a cliff that makes it super easy. IDK how you didn't go for it.

>>720684805
I did it there, it took me 1 hour

>>720685201
Anon I got it on the first try and I was like 10. I wasn't even aware it was an achievement.

>>720659046 (OP)
I had the Preordered Reach Xbox my grandmother had gotten for me it came with the Kinect, amazing times with Reach

>>720685357
the achievement was glitched as fuck. even successful assassinations wouldn't register. I had to do like 5 assassination before I actually got the achievement.

>>720674916
RuneScape Armourlock

>>720659046 (OP)
Grew up on this game, hard to pick a favorite between it and 3 but they're both excellent games. Loved the reach multiplayer

>>720686039
Weird. I guess I just got super lucky then.
I wonder what the cause is.

>boot up Halo 4
>Chief the Didact is on the mainframe of the Terminus, the Prometheans are ahead of you and UNSC Infinity is waiting on Requiem, but first you have to access the Domain, stay sharp!

what the fuck does all this mean, Chief just went to sleep, woke up 2 hours ago, the fuck are you talking about

>>720685357
same

>>720686764
Hmm should've read the books bro sorry ;)

>>720677802
At least you'll get a free shave when you tea-bag him.

Captcha: WHVVVS

>>720686764
4 was the most braindead, straight-forward plot, with a literal exposition dump in the middle, and it still hit like a punch in the gut for fps bros.
>who's the didact?! bad forerunner
>who's the librarian?! good forerunner
>what's a promethean?! not robots
>what's a composer?! copy/paste laser
>what's rampancy?! ai dementia (this is where bungie bros act like they give a shit about rampancy despite the fact it only showed up in Marathon games - bungie lore wasn't put in books, right bros?)

Still makes me laugh seeing bungie glazers throwing a shitfit about lore when bungie themselves didn't give two shits about consistency. Johnson somehow survived (classified, wink-wink), up to Halo 3 Chief was THE last spartan (it was on the fucking case), ancient forerunner tech was on Earth the whole time and no one knew, the fucking ark being retarded all around, Truth going from 2 to 3, Miranda going from 2 to 3, Spark suddenly has a laser, Arbiter becoming a sidekick, the fucking ai conspiracy in Reach, pretty much the entirety of Reach (ha ha, what Cole protocol?).

343 is shit, but goddamn people act like they crucified Halo and while refusing to watch bungie teabag the franchise.

>>720687803
Calm down 343 glazer I know you grew up with Halo 4-Infinite, but the difference is Bungie's games were good and yours weren't.

i know it gets said every thread but i can't think of another series that had as much potential behind it as halo. it's unbelievable how it ended up as it did

>>720687962
Moron. I started with halo at twelve years old, I remember wondering why game magazines implied the arbiter twist was bad when kids in my middle school thought it was cool as hell, I pre-ordered halo wars, I went to a cousins house to play the Reach beta because I didn't have internet (and the halo 3 map packs were fucking useless to me, remember those? I still remember the fucking arby n' chief episode that made fun of it), and I remember wondering why Reach was nothing like the book, but also not giving a shit because it looked cool. I know what halo was because I was there, unlike you, who I'm willing to bet are some zoomer fag trying to look cool and projecting your ignorance on me.

343 fucked plenty of shit up (the elites having mandibles right next to their eyes is fucking stupid/prometheans were a wash and their weapons were just meh to worse unsc weapons/Didact was boring/most of their writing is too fucking melodramatic), but bungie fags are retarded for endlessly praising them when they made plenty of fuckups too. Bungie>343, but people who act like all was lost the minute 4 hit the shelves are pussies who couldn't hold a conversation longer than they can watch a tik-tok (chink slop).

Fuck off, faggot.

>>720687803
>>720688840
I think it is because of the extent 343 fucked up. Yes, Bungie did not have consistent lore but the sheer fuck up of the basic elements that the trilogy set up ruffled even non-lorefags.

>>720659046 (OP)
>bought ODST just to play the beta
>ended up liking both

>>720659046 (OP)
>sniper the only one to survive
is this also in real life?

>>720675000
I like the idea
I would have made them single-use pickups though
and I would have not put sprint in the game

>>720688840
Yep, 343 glazer is definitely mad

>>720689543
Sure

>>720669136
idk how anyone can still cry about reach after watching what 343 has done

>>720689642
>can't address any point made, just seethes

Barely, it's a pretty forgettable campaign. You can feel the devs' boredom in almost every part

>>720689796
Because Reach is just 343 lite
>redesigns everything with tacticool bullshit
>Covenant stop speaking english
>shitty weapons that replace a better implmentation (needle rifle/carbine, plasma repeater/plasma rifle, plasma launcher/fuel rod cannon)
>shitty armor abilities
>cod loadouts
>bloom out the ass

>>720690042
Fuck, I forgot they replaced the the br with the dmr

>>720690042
>>Covenant stop speaking english
Eh, I always liked it in the first game that only grunts spoke english. Didn't like the Reach grunts, but everything else was fine.

>>720677764
Man finds out he can't have a cake and eat it too in real time. Amazing. When I choose to pick up the dmr and shotgun, it means I am not holding the ar and pistol! ARREGHHHH! SPRINT RUINED HALO AIEEEE

>>720661003
Real king shit

Halo 4 is like if Gundam Stardust Memory was followed up by SEED

>>720661003
>everybody standing in line at the mall being friendly sharing love for this game
It's like a different fucking planet at this point.

>>720689868
Calm down kid

>>720661003
I remember Halo Reach came out and I usually get games from Blockbuster but Halo was special and I asked my mom if she could grab it on the way home from work and she did.

>>720691815
zoom zoom

>>720691886
Damn you immediately replied huh? Refreshing the thread waiting for a reply?

>>720691969
>bears the guilt of his own accusation
Thank goodness you're not smart enough to recognize your self-inflicted humiliation.

>>720661003
I still remember when I got an Xbox 360 when I was 12 in 2013 and Halo Reach was the first big boy game I ever played. Man, I'm glad I grew up in the waning era of good video games. Today's youth don't know what it was like to get this kind of enjoyment from products and take time going to a store to purchase, take it home and play it. Free to say whatever shit you want without a warning on multiplayer.
Now I don't even know what the fuck people even like or do anymore with there free time. You can't even talk about things in public without people calling each other stupid or weird for there pass times.

>>720692276
Funny, that's what you started this whole thing with.

I recently learned that, in the new version of Halo Reach, you can make Noble Six a femboy (male voice + female body). Pretty funny

>>720692379
>12
>2013
>Talking about "today's youth"

>>720692379
You got a 360 in 2013? The same year the PS4 and Xbone came out? You got fucking scammed by your parents. Then again I guess I'm not one to talk, since I got my PS3 in 2011

>>720686040
>armour lock in the wilderness
imagine the seethe

>>720676883
>sprint and armor lock ruined the core gameplay loop.
skill issue

>>720674971
literally the same size as halo 1 maps you fucking poser

>>720690107
>br with the dmr
good br is for fags

>>720661003
My older brother bought the Legendary edition that had the flaming head effect and I remember that being the only effect I'd ever use despite how kinda ugly it was for the rarity clout, then in like 2014 I remember starting the game back up and seeing it was gone because Microsoft changed their policy on DLC making it so certain ones were account only instead of console wide. Greedy fucks.

>>720693020
If you seriously think the maps in Reach are the same size as H1 you're a fucking retard.

I remember the female spartans and their huge butts

>>720690042
>cod loadouts
You're thinking of 4 with that shit. Gamemode specific weapon spawns were fine, it was 4 that quite literally let you select whatever weapons you wanted in loadouts and locked certain power weapons like the Saw behind call in's.

>>720693870
>mfw i play reach for the first time

>>720661773
>how many cool armors were locked behind grinding the fuck out of the multiplayer to incentivize spending real money
Nah, real money wasn't involved until Halo 5.
I thought Halo Reach had the best customization system. There were plenty of all sorts of cool pieces you could unlock pretty fast but then you also always had something more to grind towards.

>>720686209
holy shit

>>720692379
>He deleted it
We were just making fun of ya kid nothing wrong with being young and playing Halo

>we couldve had master chief in a cloak
wasted potential

>>720659046 (OP)
What do you think I am? Some Jason Bourne amnesiac? Some dementia riddled boomer? Nigga it’s 15 years not 50.

>>720691869
Based mom. Unironically.

>>720694867
>mfw no AWOL Chief in his cloak moving from planet to planet on his own personal mission, sometimes fighting with the UNSC, sometimes with the Arbiter and his faction, sometimes with innies

female spartan III owe me sex

>>720669136
true

>>720669983
incorrect, but if you paid attention to the combat flow of maps, halo 4 was essentially halo reach. both games had a map design philosophy to leave dead zones between cover so DMRs would be dominant. it was a design style that emerged out of Halo 3 in an attempt to make MLG maps. Halo 3, 4, and reach also have tons of weapons to invalidate the existence of vehicles, which when placed on barren coverless maps, made them suicide. If you didnt have a BR or DMR, you were pretty much unarmed. Halo 3 BR starts, and Halo Reach Loadouts was a natural evolution of bad map design and poor weapons/vehicle balance. Halo 4 was Reach 2.
at the time the "reachbabies" loved reach, but these were young players and reach was their first halo. So with them being the new blood and the future of halo, they got the game they loved again. What may have hurt 4 the most was that since bungie wasnt making it, players couldnt trick themselves into thinking the multiplayer was good. Imagine if 343 made an Elden Ring clone, then people suddenly realize that boss fights are poorly structured. Bungie was off making a storyless pile of shit with garbage pvp.

>>720693467
>>720693870
>>720695497
>public file share was filled with female spartan ass

>>720695004
Tell me what you had for Breakfast on October 4th 2012
Mhmm
That's what I THOUGHT

>>720696216
Probably these bad boys

Bros, did halo reach create our modern obsession with big asses?

>>720696432
It was Sir Mix-a-Lot's fault

>>720677434
>Halo 5 did absolutely nothing to revive the series

its unfortunate since it was the most fun I had in multiplayer since Halo 2. Warzone was amazing, and what made it better was the weapon and vehicle balance was the best in the series. No matter what you had, you were lethal. And on top of that, the movement tech opened up tons of options to evade, fake people out, turning mobility into a weapon or simply climb and create routes. The Warthog in 5 especially the Oni Warthog is also the best in the series. However it suffered from the same problem Titanfall had. when you make every weapon good and increase mobility, it raises the skill ceiling and average players get buttfucked without Armor Lock or the ability to hide 500m away in a DMR firing line.

>and that turned out to be a complete shit show, loot boxes and all

they were easy to earn for free just by playing. some of the best customization we have ever had.

>>720676061
Jesus Christ I genuinely forgot how bad the actual Spartan armor in 4 was. The second my friends and I realised we unlocked MKVI with the gold visor by beating the campaign on Legendary just made us equip that and use it for the brief time we played 4 before going back to 3 and Reach.

>>720677434
People cared at the beginning of Infinite when the multiplayer launched early but were miffed with the Battle Pass system. Then the actual game released and once people realised it was effectively a live service game with no Forge or any real community content, that was what killed it.

>>720696432
It was definitely part of it for me

>>720683116
>forced to give up armor lock
That was by far the worst armor ability.
I used to wait for you blue kneeling idiots to pop before I finished killing you, and I'd get the kill every single time unless one of your faggot teammates decided to join the fight.
But everything else you said was right, sprint was properly tuned to the game, it wasn't even the best armor ability, I always found myself gravitating towards the jetpack since it gave me such a massive advantage in traversal and getting the jump on enemies even more so than sprint could ever hope to.

>>720696432
For me it was 4

>>720697692
The ONLY thing 343i got right was Cortana's design in 4, she is so fucking lust-inducing.

>>720697662
My favorite thing to do was armorlock, cancel it and then turn around to elbow the retard standing right next to me

>>720659046 (OP)
I did a legendary speedrun of it last year.

>>720698346
Based

Farewell Halo Reach

>>720660118
>jorge dies because no one can figure out how to make a timer using any of the alien tech they have lying around or even anything from the dead soldiers they came with
>kat dies to cutscene bs that could have been prevented entirely by you since one elite on a phantom has been fodder the entire gamr
>crash into a scarab despite being faster that it so it wouldnt matter
>dies from no one covering the mac even more because you spent 10 years waiting for Keys to land his stupid fucking ship and walk his ass over instead of a fast hand off
>die from cutscene nonsense even though you could have dipped anytime
>only dude who makes it out is gone from the franchise forever so he might as well be dead
Reach was a comedy of what happens when you take a team of retards and give them a simple mission that they fuck up at every step of the way
Somehow worse than 4
Still better than 5 though

>>720693423
prove me wrong

>>720704380
Prove yourself right faggot.
I'm not believing for a second that 3 fucking games, a hardware generation, and the entire movement overhaul with sprint/evade had 0 impact on map size.

>>720683719
>>720686209
>elite moves last second for no reason

You know now that I think about it this is the first game I played with "dailies" to complete.

I'm aware it's a thing on mobile but was there a console game before this that had them? Resident Evil Outbreak File 2 had time limited events but they were just modifiers basically and you could gameshark that shit yourself if you were feeling spicy.

Was Halo Reach the original daily chores?

>>720660019
>>720704231
"Erm why didn't the characters just act like perfectly omniscient plot robots? *Snorts* checkmate..."

Zoomer "criticism"

READY
DOESN'T
EVEN
FUCKING
DESCRIBE
IT!

>>720705616
>survive by landing on the elite's head and kill him with melee but don't get the assassination

So glad the Xbox is dead
Holy fuck, you're all faggots

>>720705880
>get the assassination, the full animation plays, achievement doesn't pop

>>720706025
I'm sorry you missed the last peak of gaming anon

>>720704231
Jorge died because the timer got fucked up when they carried the bomb to the Ship. They were in the middle of an alien super carrier, you think they had time to go gather parts and make some new shit like Jimmy Neutron?
Kat died because the glassing destroyed all of their Shields. The elites that were chasing them all game took their shot. Did you miss that? It's pretty hard to miss that
The pelican was almost about to explode, if you noticed. Pelicans usually dont have clouds of smoke and fire coming out of them.
Emile died because Elites jumped him inside of the MaC Cannon and in case you noticed, there was nobody left but you and him and you had to deliver Cortana to Keyes
You couldnt have just "dipped" at any time. Go where? Reach has fallen. There are no space ships waiting for you anywhere. Where you gonna go on foot with no resources and in the middle of an open field where tons of Covenant know where you are?

Reach's campaign isnt perfect but the deaths are fine and only an idiot who needs games to call out puzzles for him like a Sony game would try to CinemaSins them

>>720659046 (OP)
Halo Reach is still better than everything that came after it
Halo died with noble six

This dumbass really said "Why didn't Noble Six just leave instead of fighting elites in Lone Wolf hurr hurr"
The Covenant WON. They were glassing the planet. What the fuck was Noble Six going to do? Steal a banshee and immediately get shot down by the fleet waiting out of atmosphere?
Hide in a cave and burn to death from the glassing?
Are 343 fags really this stupid?

>Used to love HaloCE, Halo2 as a kid
>Decide to try Halo 3 for the first time
>First campaign levels are soulless and muddy
What the fuck happened? Should i bother continuing?

>>720659046 (OP)
>Do you still Remember Reach 15 years later?
I do because I was in 10th grade. Went to Gamestop after school and bought my game. I remember I had my weekend planned out too. Had Size 6 Huggies and Pull-ups and a shit load of food to play 72hrs straight

>>720707860
>Should i bother continuing?
Yes. Halo 3 peaks in missions 4, 6, and 7 (Not counting "Arrival")

>>720705439
why would better hardware mean bigger maps?
ce had pretty big maps
and in some cases bigger maps than reach

>>720707860
>What the fuck happened?
you have shit taste

>>720697235
Built for Big Sangheili Cocks

>>720660118
Reach is zoomer's first Halo though?

>>720675073
That dialogue always felt like a placeholder line imo, the fuck you mean the covenant chief? You had a truce with the elites, two very different things, sorry if it sounds autistic, but it always irked me

>>720709660
Step aside splitjaw sissy, she's built for Big Brute Cock, ya puny ass weewees can't even please a grunt, get your bitch ass out of here before i pound your ass with my hammer

>>720659046 (OP)
this and gears of war 3 were the end of xbox as a whole

>>720710325
>Gets literally genocided and infights so much that they reduce themselves back to the stone age with no outside help

>>720710373
>Dudebro shooters get their original dev teams replaced with faggots who turn the games into sentimental muh feelings faggotry
>both suddenly have a big focus on robots for no reason
>main enemies get replaced with literal shittier and uglier versions
>MTX up the ass
>Fortnite art style in MP
>Go open world for no reason
>After their last attempt at making their own thing they bite the bullet and do a prequel/remake of the first game
Hmm

>>720710531
>Only won because humans, elites, and the flood decided to work together
Sounds like BBC is too much to handle, stay in your lane rape meat

>>720681236
ONI gigaspooks should've been the villains in the 343 games. They made it look like that would be the case with the Halo 5 marketing but it was all bullshit.

>>720677690
RIP Titanfall
2 was so fun, only game I've ever liked as much as Halo, but Respawn is sadly shit now so if they make 3 I'm not buying.

>>720683265
What gets me is that you have to sort of accept a single needle rifle round to the head one-shots a spartan, when playing the game you know this shouldn't be possible, unless her shields were down or something.
All they had to do was switch it with a beam rifle shot and it would've been more believable

I hate how everyone suddenly thinks we need to "humanize" Chief
No I don't want the fucking Master Chief to sit down and talk about PTSD with some rookie pilot. I don't want to see Chief cry or get emotional. That's not Chief. Stop trying to give Chief gay ass shit
Just let him be cool and make one liners. That's it. I don't care if your "modern audience" calls him boring and can't relate to him, probably because he acts like a real man

>>720710614
>Gets killed offscreen

>>720710954
I literally cheered at the news that Titanfall 3 was cancelled, because I know for a fact that it would have been shit. I don't understand why people want these franchises to return right now in our current industry when everything is complete garbage.

>>720711208
Everyone's shields were down from the Glassing that took place 30 seconds earlier

>>720711226
What do you expect of women who also wrote the Paramount show in where they couldn't possibly think that you can show a character's emotion with a helmet on?

>>720661773
You’re making like half that up. Outside of Forge World being too samey appearance-wise, everything about the custom games was an improvement. I made literal ODST drop pods and had them launch from the top of the new World Trade Center building. You could also just clip stuff in the ground or have it hang in the air without having to balance objects on top of one another or do some weird glitches. I do like the overall gameplay and aesthetics of 3 more but the custom games were very limited as far functionality went if you were a map maker. Bungie.net was always the best place to go through files and download maps as well.

>>720659046 (OP)
reach multiteam was goated BIGly

>>720677501
I'll tell you what you're getting before I fuck off to bed.
>in 2026, a Halo CE reimagining with a Zen 6 and UDNA based Xbox partner living room box
>in 2027, a Halo Infinite indirect sequel with a Zen 6 and UDNA based Xbox partner handheld
>no more Halo multiplayer, Infinite was the last one ever
>no more first-party in-house Xbox consoles made by Microsoft, just expensive Xbox OEMs
>no more Xbox backwards compatibility
You're welcome, if you haven't dropped Xbox now, you should probably think about doing it.

>>720661003
Cheers, mate.

>>720711592
>Go from being at the top during the 360/PS3 era
>Sink all the way down to the bottom because of Don Mattrick saying one fucking stupid thing
>Keep shooting yourselves in the foot with your absolutely goddamn retarded naming conventions for your consoles
>Never manage to recuperate
All they had to do was name the current Xbox something that people could recognize as being the next console. If they had just done the Xbox 720 and then the 1080, people would have fucking understood it. But no, we got Xbox One, and then Xbox Series X. If that doesn't roll off the tongue, then I don't know what will.

>>720683234
>Anyone remember "to war"?

>>720683234
>>720712328
The difference is that back when this stuff first came out, no one questioned it. But now 10+ years of retarded essays on video games all ranging several hours to literal days long has made it so zoomers obsess nonstop about one fucking stupid thing and then make a personality around it.

>>720706408
Cope for all the shit writings
It wasnt the bomb timer that wasnt even there
It was remote detonator so jorge had to do it manually
Instead of quickly rigging a timer with i dunno any soldiers headset which has a hud that contained all the necessary bits to prep something. Its not hard to make a timer for marines in the field today, this is super soldier space marine.
Again Kat died because of cutscene logic.
Classic moment of the player would have prevented this if it wasnt scripted
Weve seen pelicans in worse conditions.
And its a scarab we can outrun that on a mongoose.
Sacrifice was dumb
We had dozens of soldiers through the mission even kept all mine alive at the fight before the hand off
Cutscene logic deleted them so we were left alone for him to get surprise attacked
Reach fell but the covenant follow the pillar to the ring
Shit story
Worst of the bungie games
Just a comedy of losers

>>720713452
>shit writings
Brown ESL hands typed this post.

>>720713749
Pure aryan blood you ugly subhuman
Reach was shit
Retconned cortana into some half forerunner whore just to be retconned again in 4 where she was with Chief for 8 years which means he had her before Reach was ever attacked
So reach secret mission to get cortana never even happened
Waste of a game

>>720683234
Wtf was the Prophet of Truth's motivation anyway? Halo 2 made it seem like he new the Great Journey was a lie, but then in 3 he tries to fire the rings.

Get a girlfriend. The lore's not that deep bruh

>>720713929
Actual white people don't say the word aryan you subhuman spic.

>>720714000
He knows in 3, but his empire is falling apart and his enemies are closing in. Why not fire the entire array while he's safe on the Ark?

Ah yes the game that cemented Halo's fall from grace, only loved by zoomers who "when I was 8 I came home from school and played Reach!".
Piece of shit.

>>720715321
truly a deep and insightful analysis, exactly what I've come to expect from /v/

>>720715454
Do you want me to essaypost?
Because if this thread is still around in a few hours I absolutely will give you a breakdown of why it's a piece of shit that did mortal damage to the series.
There's a reason why the most polite way to describe how it was received on launch is "divisive".

>>720715571
go ahead

>>720715571
you're not the guy who insists 343 took Reach as their main plot writing inspiration going forward are you? already had that argument before and it's utter shit and wrong

>>720716958
yeah man, this new 343i shit slaps!

>>720716958
they nerfed all the plasma guns so it's natural they would buff some of the weapons
honestly most guns in infinite were worthless

>>720717013
Ah yes the Banshee, just as I remember it from Halo 1 - 3.

>>720661003
spartan David, MIA

>>720717172
check out some of these fan favorites returning from 4!

>>720717013
Looks like stupid shit.
Just like this.

>>720717557
you're right, we should have more like this!

>redesigns or silly cosmetics by bungie = good
>redesigns or silly cosmetics by 343i = bad
simple as.

>>720659046 (OP)
Yes. It was the final Halo game my college friends and i played coop. Not much more on MP or anything else, we never touched H4 or 5. 2 of my friends gave up gaming and I never thought I'd hear that from them and one is now PC only.

I don't have an Xbox anymore, found a broken X1 off Facebook for $150 in 2016, fixed it up and played other games that weren't Halo. Then 2020 hit and I sold it.

>>720717935
bullshit, these are epic

When's the next Halo game?
Infinite's live service multiplayer has done dry and it's time for 343 oh sorry HALO STUDIOS to make another game

>>720659046 (OP)
i remember fucking hating it
pure fucking hatred
the muted colors
the bloom both reticle and otherwise
jorge and his canon breaking faggot attitude
sprint
cod style loadouts
hate hate hate hate
little did i know how bad things would get in the coming years
reach is a goddamn masterpiece comparitively

>>720717935
>redesigns or silly cosmetics by bungie
Have you seen what they are doing in Destiny?
No one defends that shit

I loved this game when I was like 15 but I think if I played it nowadays I would hate it

>>720718243
i like the idea of guardians having parade armor like actual military branches
but that is like an 11 when a 5/10 would be suitable

>>720659046 (OP)
It was okay. Awkward controls and power ups. Why is sprinting an ability and why is it so limited?

>>720659046 (OP)
no
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upjTuLXjU5U&t=15

someone on the dev team was based

>>720718402
Need more hardcore porn of her. Or her wearing a cute sundress. That's fine too.

>>720718329
sprint was included as a spawn option because timmys were tired of getting beaten to the punch for power weapons
i still can't believe theres no friendly fire anymore in infinite
bashing a teammates skull in for sniper is as much halo as teabagging

>>720718458
if only

>>720675000
For regular modes, they should have been pickups that are dropped on death. Something you keep control of for the entire game like Halo 2's sword. They're fine in Invasion, because the entire mode was designed for them.

>>720718485
>Like 10+ years ago playing Reach multiplayer
>Accidentally shoot the grenade launcher in a way that kills my teammate
>Get marked with a betrayal and get booted from the lobby
>Laugh about it
Now you'd probably get banned for doing a simple mistake

>>720718059
Remake of CE is what is in the pipeline.

>>720718609
Another?
We already have the anniversary

>>720718719
I remember being at the part where you first encounter the Flood, and the differences between versions is just so fucking staggering. I was showing my brother the lack of bullet holes left on the wall. This should have been such an obvious test as to why 343 wasn't cut out to be the ones to inherit Halo.

>>720682558
Elites were designed to not be balanced.

>>720718582
>sticking a willing teammate back when plasmas had a ridicious fuse time
>he shouts allah ackbar into proximity chat and suicides into three enemies
>we keep doing it
the most laughter i have ever heard in a postgame lobby on both sides

>>720718719
That's more of a remaster, nah, they want to do a full blown remake/reboot.

>>720718719
I take it you didn't see pic related?
They fucked the engine so much they are moving to UE5.

>>720719059
They refused to stop hiring Indians while firing anyone even remotely familiar with Blam.

>>720693870
give me a fatalist spartan gf with a cold but slowly warming heart

>>720719059
>Fail at three fucking reboots in a row
>MCC was a complete unmitigated disaster on release
>Change your name to Halo Studios and then tell everyone that you're remaking Halo 1 as an obvious last ditch effort
Like a kid that just refuses to stop putting his hand on a hot stove, they've learned absolutely nothing. I genuinely cannot fathom what Microsoft is even thinking at this point in allowing this to continue after they single-handedly destroyed the one franchise they were known best for.

>>720719118
kat would be the perfect wife ever desu

>>720719347
The games division for microsoft is purely for the business PR and whatever tax write-offs it gives them at this point, they genuinely seem to not give a fuck at all beyond marketing gamepass

>>720719059
It looks... wrong. I can't my finger on why.

>>720719347
I don't get how or why these companies that have a money printer in the form of a known IP always seem to fuck it up in the pursuit of new audiences. It's passive income if you do it right!

reach multiplayer was fun

>>720675000
I liked the hologram. I lived for the occasion of sending out the thing past a corner and baiting an ambush only for me to clap the would-be-assassin's cheeks.
I think it could also tank a melee hit, can't remember if it stopped any sort of small arms fire.

>>720719419
they were robbed of a happy ending

>>720719831
The hologram in Titanfall 2 was a lot of fun to use, too

>>720719720
weird pose idk he looks like an action figure

>>720719885
They basically had to kill Jorge and Kat first because those two were the more expressive souls on the team that gave the player a sense of hope. Everyone else on the team gives off vibes of "fuck it let's die"

>>720675000
I liked them too

>>720719894
Never played that, unfortunately. If they work the same way in that game, I would like them there, too.

>>720718402
>>720718590
YJK elites GLASSED her ass

>>720719720
Halo 1 MC had a bit of bulk to him, but not too much. The new one just looks way too big.

>>720718590
>tan armor over some camo pattern with KLMK coloring
Gives me early war on terror vibes when everyone was wearing m81 woodland vests over 3-color desert

>>720719720
>It looks... wrong. I can't my finger on why.
Watch the actual trailer, everything looks a little off, like nothing in the world quite fits where it is. Like a big diorama (which it kind of is being in early concept development)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXlNOeplJtM

>>720720354
NO

>>720720448
built for BIG BLASMA COVENANT

Did they ever try to give a lore reason for why you have reach marines on the pillar of autumn but you don't see them in 1 because the design wasn't made yet lol

>>720720062
I really liked that Emile was kind of a poser psycho while Jun was the real deal
>During my last psych eval they asked me what I felt while reducing civilian unrest. I told them, "slight recoil.”

>>720720664
The Pillar of Autumn is an enormous ship and you only get to see maybe a handful of hallways of it before everything goes to hell, I guess.

>>720720694
Emile is the impulsive sociopath to Jun's cold psychopath

>>720720363
I think it is the proportions, yeah. Even at some of his bulkiest, chief wasn't chonky.
I also think the lighting and materials look wrong in that UE5 footage.

>Each of the live action Halo ads (ODST, Reach, etc.) have stuck with me to this day
>Don't remember fucking anything past 4, especially not the Halo 5 truth commercials or whatever
As a side note, it's funny how much of a goddamn failure Locke was as a character

>>720720771
In a different timeline where halo heads could be trusted to actually do it well and not completely fuck it up, I would've loved a Noble team prequel game. Even with how painfully little time they had to develop their characters in Reach I liked what was able to shine through in their team dynamic

>>720721140
They might be the best videogame ads I've ever seen.
>>720721213
I think it would've been too much of Noble team for me. I liked how little we got of them but still you have an emotional connection to them. Honestly I don't really feel like I would ever want a halo game after reach, even if old bungie was still making them. A small part of me wants a game that's about marines but it would have to play very differently.

>>720721457
>The Halo ads were so fucking phenomenal that they made people both want to and actually join the military
If that doesn't tell you all that you need to know then I don't know what will

>>720721702
I watch that trailer every few years to think that Band of Brothers: ODST edition would've been the best way to make a Halo TV show.
Instead we got the Jimmy Rings experience.

>>720721702
It's really hard for me to imagine any studio today putting that much effort into a bunch of ads
>>720721937
It's a shame the neill blomkamp + peter jackson halo movie never worked out, but at least we got district 9

>>720721457
Yeah you're probably right, it's a complete story that really didn't need any other installments.
If there was ever going to be one more Halo game though, something non-story heavy and more arcadey could've been cool, like Deep Rock, Space Marine's multiplayer, or Helldivers style where the plot is mostly secondary to just having fun gameplay in set piece missions as a marine/odst/spartan or whatnot against the covenant.

>>720722089
It's funny how many winning formulas 343 could have taken Halo in, and yet refused to because "Well you need Master Chief to sell a Halo game, right?" despite the fact that ODST and Reach sold quite well. They could have made a Republic Commando game with ODST or Spartans and people would have bought it. Leave Master Chief's fate ultimately up to interpretation. Set the game maybe a hundred or two-hundred years into the future just to establish how much has changed in that time, what new aliens might have risen to power, etc. But instead we got the Star Wars Sequel-Trilogy of video games.

>>720722727
nah, we got the Gundam SEED of Halo

>>720723126
SEED Destiny more like.

>>720723178
my point exactly

Arbiter's redesign in 5 is so fucking bad

>>720723126
>>720723178
Does that mean that the CE remake will be the gquuuuuux of halo?

>>720722727
>halo 2 RAPED by halo reach
so thats why 2fags are so insufferable whenever reach gets brought up...

What's that Plank? Plank says FPS games are for midwits with no inner monologue.

>>720725725
Plank says you like dick up your ass, nigger.