This is legitimately fucking terrible. Is 2 better? I'm not trolling.

>>11814191 (OP)
2 is way better. The major flaw in 1 is the health bars. In 2 your entire life regens. Making shields good. 1 was fun when it was the only option and for nostalgia.

>>11814191 (OP)
Based. It is terrible. It was terrible back then too. Horrible balance, weapons etc. Goldeneye and other boomer shooters were way better in every way.

>>11814191 (OP)
SP or MP? If it's story you're after, go play Marathon 1-3 because nothing else you ever play will come close. If it's gameplay, each successive game improves upon the formula. If it's the campaign in general...CE is pretty great IMO.

>>11814191 (OP)
>This is legitimately fucking terrible.
You're retarded
>Is 2 better?
Absolutely
>I'm not trolling.
You're retarded

>>11814191 (OP)
You don't like generic alien shooters in grey corridors?

>>11814191 (OP)
CE is the best one in the series.

Halo 1 was fun right up until the flood. Then it goes right in the fucking trash.

>>11814412
>It is terrible
>But goldeneye good
Elaborate. Both are console shooters that are good if you have no frame of reference, and one of them is much more primitive than the other.

>>11814191 (OP)

>>11814191 (OP)
Multiplayer was really fun, SP was mediocre. My friends loved it, but they hadn't played perfect dark (superior console shooter) or any PC shooters, so to them it was revolutionary.

>>11814935
>SP was mediocre
The first 5 levels are superb by any standard.

I thought Halo 1 was better than 2. I had a PS2 and GC, not an Xbox fanboy. Stop looking for stuff to get mad about.
The dungeons in Skyrim were the same 4 or 5 themed assets over and over but nobody seemed to complain until 10 years later after spending hundreds of hours in there.

>>11814540
lol that's when it finally gets quite good
you're just trash at the game

>>11815170
343 and the Library are good because they are unique new locations. The levels after reuse assets and feel kind of stale as a result.

>another zoomie "uhmmmmm ASKCUSUALLLY this critically acclaimed game wasn't that good"
kill everyone under 25

>>11814191 (OP)
if you are playing halo for the campaign only you'll be disappointed. It was only super popular because of fun multiplayer. The campaign is mid.

>>11814191 (OP)
Halo CE is a tremendously overrated game, and it's only good on PC where you can play in 60fps with KB+M controls.

>>11814191 (OP)
why do you think you should shit up the board with such a retarded thread?

>>11815560
it's better than every sp campaign it directly competed with on pc.
soldier of fortune? halo.
perfect dark? halo
return to castle wolfenstein? halo

>>11815901
I meant NOLF FUCK

>>11814191 (OP)
They're all bad. Halo was never good, it was always the same boring slow movement pogo-stick booted floaty slop.

>>11814191 (OP)
imo it wasn't. the arbiter was a nice short story that fucked the pacing of the overall campaign, most of the more ambitious new gimmicks felt jank, and it badly overuses wave based king of the hill segments that I found more monotonous than any repeat level maze in ce.

>>11815528
I'm 27, and I also think most critically acclaimed games are shit. Increase the scope of your disgust.

>>11816261
kill everyone under 30? i'm fine with that too

>>11815528
>25
The oldest zoomers are 28

>>11814191 (OP)
it's a good game, you're just a faggot.
>>11815528
I'm 23 and it's one of my favorite games of all-time behind halo 2

>>11816337
>I'm 23 and it's one of my favorite games of all-time behind halo 2
Based

>>11814191 (OP)
Halo is one of those series where you have to keep in mind when people talk about it nostalgically that normalfags are complete retards with shit taste. Normalfags will tell you Halo 1 and 3 is great but that Halo 2 was disappointing other than the multiplayer. The opposite is true.

Halo 1 sucks fucking ass. The campaign is fucking terrible and not remotely modern even for 2001. All the advancements in gameplay and level design of games like Deus Ex, System Shock 2 and Thief 2 are not remotely present. There are some really cool really memorable outside levels, but 90% of the game is bad corridor shooting with mediocre guns. The guns are so mediocre, no one uses anything but the pistol in half the levels. You get about halfway through the game and it decides it's going to be some cosmic space survival horror game for a map or two, then you have to play the entire first half of the game backwards. That's right, it's a completely linear fucking game that still manages to have HOURS of backtracking. It's one of the most overrated single player campaigns ever.
Halo 2 is really really good. It's the game where the Halo universe starts to feel alive and the conflict between humans and the aliens feels like a real war in a real future. It accomplishes things competing franchises like Gears and Killzone wouldn't pull off convincingly until the PS3/360 era, and it does it on the original Xbox. By far the best game on the console, and even normies agreed if we're talking about online. The success of this game on Xbox Live is the main reason the 360 won the first half of its console generation.
And then Halo 3 came out, purposefully designed as a "love letter" to Halo 1. And it fucking sucks because of it. Some of the levels are really good tech demos for the 360, but other than that it's super boring. Online was OKAY but not as good as Halo 2.

ODST is okay, Reach is the most overrated game in the series. Everything after Reach is trash.

>>11816390
>Halo 3 came out, purposefully designed as a "love letter" to Halo 1
Besides the Warthog run callback at the end I really don't see it. You don't even fight Elites.

Gaylo is and always was dogshit. the only reason I, and anyone else, enjoyed it is because we were console only plebs. we didn't know what we were missing out on.
the only FPS I had played before Gaylo was Goldeneye. this was the entire reach of my FPS knowledge and experience. I didn't know that master chef only holding 2 weapons and wielding a constantly regenerating shield was dogshit. I just did not know
a few years later I got a PC that could play games and play Unreal Tournament. that changed everything

>>11817085
>Unreal Tournament
The topic is singleplayer, name some campaigns that are superior.

like everyone says, 1's quality is frontloaded but they had to hack together reused content for the other half of the game. Half-life 2 was way better for delivering constant new ideas

>>11817164
Unreal Tournament single player campaign
>b-b-b-but muh cinematic movie game cutscenes and story
>muh master chef
I play games for the gameplay. Halo gameplay is dogshit

>>11814191 (OP)
You're missing context. There was nothing else like it on consoles. It made PC shooter controls the standard on everything

>>11814540
>Halo 1 is bad when the Flood appear
Never understood this opinion.

>>11815384
Would you be saying the same if the levels were virtually the same in terms of objectives and enemies but the cosmetic features were entirely different?

>>11815560
Received opinion regurtitator whose year of birth is 2002.

>>11815571
60fps is brain rot, people who need it are low IQ and prone to tantrums.

>>11815906
Word filter "slop"

>>11816337
>I'm 23 and it's one of my favorite games of all-time behind halo 2
Based BWC.

>>11816337
Wow. Huge discovery today, guys. Life-changing. After deep thought — real soul-searching — I’ve come to the shocking realization that Halo: Combat Evolved is not just a game I like... but one of my favorite games of all time.

I know. Bold. Brave. Original. Like no human being in history has ever said that before.

But wait — it gets deeper. Because every game I’ve ever enjoyed is apparently also one of my favorite games of all time. Seriously. It turns out that phrase means absolutely nothing because I’ve used it to describe like 300 other games. Half-Life? Yep, of all time. Morrowind? Of all time. Sonic 3 & Knuckles? You guessed it — of all time. Even Kirby’s Dream Course gets the sacred blessing.

But Halo CE? Oh man. Especially of all time. Of some time? Of any time? No, no — of all time. I can't even just say "a good game I like" because that would rob it of its rightful place on the meaningless shrine where every game I've enjoyed gets to sit.

Amazing how every game I've ever touched is secretly the pinnacle of interactive entertainment of all time. Truly, my personal “top games” list is now about 400 entries long. And growing. Because everything’s of all time when you’re this indecisive.

>>11817220
My top list is like 8 games long and halo has 3 spots on it.

>>11817207
Definitely, yes. Huge part of Halo is wondering what kind of grand mysterious place you'll visit next.

Reminder that when Halo 1/2 were current, Haloposting would get you run off the site for being a dudebro normie.

>>11814191 (OP)
In terms of multiplayer, 2 is better. for single player, 1 is better.

>>11817550
>dudebro normie.
aka chad