I played it with one airpod (pro) with @vodselbt yesterday and found it totally tolerable whereas it had previously been bad but idk the source material
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The audio problems I experienced at launch were like tracks completely dropping out and breaking up. I think it may just be that Reach is a little more washed out. I know the AR is a lot less heavy sounding than in other games. Hard to say tho.
I actually really like the relatively muted gunsounds of reach. it’s a nice balance between halo ce or 4 AR (running a wrench against a chain link fence and a fully auto nail gun, respectively) and halo 2 SMG (always reminds me of a babbling brook).
I wish that the MCC still made you unlock skulls before you could use them, like it was in Halo 3 on the 360. It was fun to help people unlock those, gave you something goofy to do in the campaign.
i agree except iron should be available from the jump
Yeah that would be nice. Used to think about a fifth difficulty being added, after legendary or between it and heroic, called like Ironclad where camp spawning was just disabled.
im watching trans friend speedrun halo 3
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they have the Skulltaker achievements in game that you can get for unlocking things the old way, at least in Halo 2.
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I might just do that then. Something about the way Xbox One/Windows 10 achievements present themselves (and maybe the sheer amount of them in the MCC) hasn’t got me hooked on achievement hunting like I was on the 360. But getting those skulls is fun so maybe I might as well.
found a thing
Halo CE concept art by Shi-Kai Wang
Halo Reach Concept Art
interesting to see the anime influences in the first one, but the clear heritage of the style even 10 years later
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I used that Shi-Kai Wang piece as an avatar from like 2002-2006.
I used to post at the message board at halo.bungie.net. Represent.
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2003-2011 here, I had an Oni avatar and bad opinions on everything but Halo and Marathon lol. They finally got rid of the Oni avatars on there like a year or two ago and it’s very sad, end of an era. I posted on HBO and the pfhorums and shit too for a long time. Halo used to be so cool.
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I meant to type .org up there lol. Yeah HBO was my high school Halo hangout. But since it was pre-Halo 2 it was mostly a bunch of Bungie newbs like myself mixing with old Marathon heads. So many threads with story and lore theories for the new series. It was exciting.
I still have the Halo PC I won during a site-wide Easter egg hunt. And this was at the beginning of ARGs as well, like ilovebees. I remember some fans doing AI characters on livejournal. Fandoms can be fun.
They got me into Larry Niven and his Ringworld series. I still haven’t read Ian Banks’ Culture series though.
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i quit pretty much all of those places once it became obvious bungie fans are completely awful to women and I could no longer exist in that space (this is also why i stopped regularly playing marathon netplay cuz those fuckers on lhowon are mean) but the story and lore stuff was great, probably the only Halo community stuff I don’t have bittersweet feelings about. The Marathon story page is still dope too!
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DO IT
it’s deeply ingrained in Bungie still
Excession if you want the closest look at the AI personalities Bungie’s still obsessed with
Player of Games is a good starting point from the perspective of a bored hedonist
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They had a Halo 3 ARG where a user named Adjundant_Reflex posted on the boards some cryptic stuff, but it stood out because the font was a unique color. Lots of wild posting and tumbling down spooky websites looking for clues to find out more about Halo 3. Often it just took people to weird art internet and creepy personal blogs that were totally irrelevant. Some formative interneting that was.
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RIP Adjutant_Reflex, you probably didn’t deserve having your brain eaten by Mendicant Bias. That whole ARG was followed up on in the Halo 3 terminal text, in case you didn’t know.
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I gotta finally read those things when I get to replaying Halo 3.
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Halo 1 was all-consuming to me in a way that 2 and 3 weren’t as much as I liked playing them when they came out. Had a house full of cords with friends over lanned up seems like almost every night. Played through on legendary countless times. Put out trick videos. Played on xbconnect. Went to a Halo 2 tournament and challenged the Ogre brothers (semi well known [sponsored?] Halo 2 players) to a Halo 1 match and whipped up on them.
I’d never played one game as much before or since. I wish I had the gumption to stick with any one thing like that again and “master” it so I always have a lot of respect for people that do, like speedrunners.
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the Ogre brothers
this 240p video was my bible when i was really wanting to be MLG in high school. Halo 1&2 KOTH just had a certain je nais se quois, idk. (that’s redundant i guess)
I think a lot of it for me was the sheer impact a single player can have on the scope and outcome of the game. You don’t really see that with Halo 3 where the BR is comparatively weaker (projectile+more spread), the maps are bigger, and in general it’s much more of a ‘forced teamwork’ feel with teamshotting being the dominant strategy. Halo 1 and to a lesser extent 2 are the only games in the series where 1v1 is a legitimately exciting game variant.
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