Esteemed gaming website and first google result gamingsection.net recommends the following Halo games for someone looking to play through the series for the first time. Does this seem right?
I’m 100% positive I won’t get through all 7 games they mention here but I’m sort of in the mood for a space alien shooter
that’s just the actual chronological release order of the whole series
I think you will fall off of these very quickly if you try approaching them that way – with some exceptions, most of the single player Halo campaigns were only ever OK, and every new Halo release was equally about updating the multiplayer or the co-op level design or the technological showcase or the mechanics. I don’t think I’ve played more than three levels of any of them without getting bored and putting them down. 4 and 5 are also pretty widely regarded as unmemorable. I would just play reach honestly and then see how you feel
Every Halo game feels rushed out the door because they were
The first half of CE is all-time great. If I were to pick five levels I’d pick those five. The back half asks a lot of your patience and establishes a litany of Bungie worst practices. Better with a friend, but still trying at times
Reach is a good greatest hits album, especially if you’re playing solo. Several levels are similar in design to previous games but leaner. The art direction is a matter of taste – it’s literally proto-Destiny in that it’s the first game in that engine and the environmental art is a step up but this comes to mind:
2 and 3 are both designed to be foremost co-op romps.
2 has some very poor pacing and lots of ymmv alien politics, an ancient alien that speaks in iambic pentameter, etc…
3 is better paced but really only shines with 2-4 players coordinating. 3 has my second favorite checkpoint to load into for a taste of Halo
ODST is dear to me as a contractually-obligated gaiden but I would play it after 2 and 3 if at all or its distinctness will be lost
The 343 ones are not worth your time unless you play all five Bungie games, go back and play Marathon, and then can’t stomach Destiny but still want more Halo in particular
CE, reach & odst are great
the latter is like three hours long too
ODST is the only one I had a good time with. I’ve disgruntled played all of them. Bailed on Reach in the 2nd level about 4 times.
if anything I do think 3 is kind of underrated now
Yeah, i really liked 3 a lot, but with the caveat of it needs 4 player co-op to really shine, but then it becomes a steadily escalating series of dares among the people playing as to what dumb shit each of you can get away with.
Really, Halo minus co-op is much less fun for me, and not just in the “playing with a friend makes everything more enjoyabe” as much as the encounters in a lot of the games are built to have at least two people doing them.
just play odst it’s so vibey and gorgeous
Thank you all! I might throw CE on with easy mode and just vibe to it for awhile. If I’m digging it I’ll just keep going through 2 and 3, if not I’ll jump ship and give ODST a shot.
I got a lot more out of Halo: CE after playing through Marathon. The first game is pretty quick (about 2 Doom chapters), has a more potent variation of the “AI as sadistic game designer” narrative they love, and will put you in the frame of mind to see how Halo steps up from Doom-style spraying and running.
Or, take this in mind: you’ll have a lot more fun playing Halo like it’s Doom than playing it like it’s Call of Duty. Unlike Call of Duty, you’re not meant to keep your head down when your hurt but to keep circling the terrain to keep the slow-moving projectiles on the other side. The game now allows you to be slow and precise but that’s not where its heart is.
yeah i didn’t quite know this was majority opinion but yeah 1/odst/reach are s-tier. i’m due to play 3 again sometime, i don’t have a good sense of it right now
i find many individual encounters in all of them very beautiful but i think respawning on death breaks almost all of them so if i do play co-op it’s almost always with iron skull on, which means a checkpoint reload if anybody dies. just baby’s two cents
how should I put this… 3 feels like one of the only completely successful and unironic games ever made about being an army man invading another country with your other army man friends and having a great time. I don’t care what the actual plot is, that’s what playing the game is like. it’s very 2007, uniquely so, and if you find Reach/ODST to be unsuccessfully nuanced, the same way that say, Avatar is unsuccessfully nuanced, you should play Halo 3 co-op.
playing Halo 3 with exactly two players is the correct way to play, even better if you can get your friend who’s better at Halo to be player 1, I like being Arbiter and ogling the Chief and swooning over his combat skills. the story is completely tertiary and i remember none of it
Halo 1 and Reach are the best ones to play solo IMO
I’ve played about 25 minutes of Halo co-op on the original Xbox, and maybe two hours of ODST solo years later (and years after its release) and this feels sufficient.
just wanna be a little guy (who swoons over master chief’s combat skills)
you can master my chief
i’m sorry
okay so this is a question, someone here mentioned being a little guy in a big world or something and now i’m obsessed with this phrase
does anyone know what i am talking about? i can’t find it by searching so i’m wondering if i am misremembering it
there was a galaxy oddity thread about games where you play as a tiny character
this is Halo 3 vs ODST
