Halo and Halo2

[Alexanderofmacedon]

Do any of you play it? Do any of you have accounts at

http://www.bungie.net

My account name is Deathuponyou

[Azi Tohak]

...I don't know there buddy. Most of the people here are a little higher on the gaming totem poll than shooting people. With guns even!

I'd like to think so anyway.

Azi

[Taurus]

I play Halo, not online though unfortunatly.

[Drisos]

I loved halo 1 for the Xbox... probably the 2nd best game I ever played... (after shogun) if I only had a new computer I'd buy it

[jeffreyLebowski]

it's funny to see people's judgemental reactions to this post. halo 2 is a pretty brilliantly balanced fps that requires a good deal of skill to be even remotely good at. the fact that both melee and ranged combat are major factors already gives it a unique feel.

co-op'ing the campaign on legendary is so absurdly difficult in that fun kind of way... my friends and i have spent hours playing and trying out various tactics. the enemy ai is quite impressive and produces a different experience every time you play. it's good fun.

a solid match of team slayer between two good teams is all about tactics. you'll find that online, you can only get so good before you hit the ceiling. what seperates the good teams from the excellent teams is not the quality of each individual's skills, but managing weapon control, using teamwork, and using the terrain to your team's advantage.

the above posters should really not talk about games they clearly have never played. (or at least, not on more than a cursory level). i've played quite a bit of halo 2, as well as countless pc fps's. call of duty or it's expansion (while both amazing games) don't do anything more creative or innovative than halo 2 or just about any other fps. what makes an fps enjoyable is polished, balanced gameplay. halo 2 has both in spades.

/nerd rant concluded.

[Sjakihata]

...I don't know there buddy. Most of the people here are a little higher on the gaming totem poll than shooting people. With guns even!

I'd like to think so anyway.

Azi

Think again!

[AntiochusIII]

halo 2 is a pretty brilliantly balanced fps that requires a good deal of skill to be even remotely good at.

Ha! Halo 2 fades under the shining light of the real FPS king: UT2004, worthy successor of multiplayer FPS god: Unreal Tournament (the original). The AI's are among the best I've seen in any games, and can rip you apart in seconds, or even help you as a team rip apart their foes.

[GoreBag]

Ha! Halo 2 fades under the shining light of the real FPS king: UT2004, worthy successor of multiplayer FPS god: Unreal Tournament (the original). The AI's are among the best I've seen in any games, and can rip you apart in seconds, or even help you as a team rip apart their foes.

I second this. The original Unreal Tournament is a blast on a LAN, AI players or no.

[Drisos]

Sorry to bump a very old thread... but I've just gotten back in touch with this game(s)!

My brother brought his xbox here for the summer, with halo 2, and I loved it! superb game. in a few weeks I practised quite a lot and now I got to a point where I could win the campaign along on Heroic. Legendary is a different story though. When you walk out of cover for one second you're like, almost dead already so you don't have time to fire at all it seems.. while at heroic I didn't find it really hard actually.. hmmm. even together with my brother who has more experience and wins heroic more easily we couldn't finish level one on legendary. we got pretty far though, but because it took lots of attempts we couldn't finish the level before college etc was going to start again.

I'm wondering.. is there anyone around that has completed the campaign on legendary? it must be hard. I think my brother and I would maybe take it far(if not all the way,) when I'd get the chance to practice some more, we'd look for some more tips online and just used lots and lots of tries.

[Out]

Halo 2's Legendary is a joke. No offense to the games, I love them for what they are, but compare Halo 1's Campaign on Legendary difficulty and Halo 2's Campaign on Legendary and the first game points out everything wrong with the second.

Let's just hope they took the time to properly balance all of the difficulty settings this time around, instead of simply bumping up the damage they do and decreasing how much you do.

Beyond this - to each his own, I've found that you either like the more realistic FPS-es, such as Call of Duty, or you go for the generally easier to play and more arcade-ish games like Halo. I've only met a few that like 'em all, and senseless bashing of preference is silly.

Of course, I just bashed the preference of bashing preference, so did I just enter a hypocritical time loop of doom?

[Kekvit Irae]

I never had an original Xbox. My PS2 was good enough for me. So when Halo was ported to the PC, I decided to take a look at the game and see what the buzz was all about. I was not impressed.
Halo, at the time, had several things going for it. Most of all, it was leaps and bounds better than most console FPS games of the time. Keyword: console. Once it was ported to PC, however, you soon see that it is a very mediocre game when stacked up against others of the same genre (like FarCry). The campaign itself was pretty boring. I never did complete the game. Walk twenty feet and fight the Flood until that stupid floating robot told you to continue on. Walk another twenty feet and fight the Flood until that stupid floating robot told you to continue on. Walk another twenty feet and fight the Flood until that stupid floating robot told you to continue on. You get the idea.
Now, it seems like nobody really cares about Halo 1/2 unless it's on Xbox LIVE. Want a great campaign? Go play Gears of War or wait for Call of Duty 4: Modern Combat. I do not envision great things for Halo 3.

[Geoffrey S]

Two highly overhyped games, neither particularly good. In particular Halo 2 showed its shabbiness when ported to the PC.

[Kekvit Irae]

I was hoping to try Halo 2, but Vista required? No thanks. I don't feel like getting a BA in Information Systems just to figure out how to run my computer, much less play a game.

[Husar]

I was hoping to try Halo 2, but Vista required? No thanks. I don't feel like getting a BA in Information Systems just to figure out how to run my computer, much less play a game.

Wouldn't that be a BSc?

[Kekvit Irae]

Wouldn't that be a BSc?

/offtopic
Depends on where you get your degree. Where I go to, it's a Bachelor of Arts - Information Technology.

[Geoffrey S]

I was hoping to try Halo 2, but Vista required? No thanks. I don't feel like getting a BA in Information Systems just to figure out how to run my computer, much less play a game.

Last I checked, it's been cracked to run just fine on XP.

[Kekvit Irae]

I still don't feel the urge to play a mediocre campaign.

[Fragony]

Didn't care for the second, but the first is excellent in short bursts. Still the best combat, the design is one of great elegance; perfect AI and perfect mix of shooting and melee tactics. If only the level design was better.

[Craterus]

I've always wondered about this. So much praise for a game where the was absolutely no story.

[caravel]

Ha! Halo 2 fades under the shining light of the real FPS king: UT2004, worthy successor of multiplayer FPS god: Unreal Tournament (the original). The AI's are among the best I've seen in any games, and can rip you apart in seconds, or even help you as a team rip apart their foes.

Thirded... after 2 years.

-edit: BTW When resurrecting threads please ensure that you have the correct amount of chicken blood and have drawn the circle anti clockwise...

[Fragony]

I've always wondered about this. So much praise for a game where the was absolutely no story.

Well play it on heroic or legendary, and ask again

[Incongruous]

I've always wondered about this. So much praise for a game where the was absolutely no story.

Whaaaaaaaat!
The game has so much story it makes damn good story sites and books. It has also warranted a movie, which is being made about half an hour away from where I live.
yeah!

p.s
I am deeply sorry for being a Halo fanboy at times.

[Ice]

Good games. I don't know why they are receiving bad reviews here. I loved both.

I beat both on Heroic and then half the first game on legendary. It was damn hard, so I eventually just got bored and moved on.

My buddy has an xbox 360 so when halo 3 comes out, I won't be doing much of anything else.

[Fragony]

The game is close to impossible on legendary in single player, you really need a buddy there. First levels can be done but dear god. Heroic is hard enough, especially once the flood kicks in, hell on halo.

[Ramses II CP]

I haven't played Halo 2, but the original Halo on PC is an excellent gaming experience on legendary. Except for the notoriously boring Library levels it's some of the most interesting solo play I've ever gotten out of an FPS. It is still my default time filler game when I've got just a few minutes somewhere. The key to beating legendary is aggression IMHO, just attack, attack, attack. If you spawn a group of the Covvie AI and give them time they'll take pretty decent positions around you and pin you down, so take the fight to them and stick a grenade down their throats.

If you don't enjoy Halo on leg. you probably don't like solo FPS games in general.

[Fragony]

Ya if you give the AI too much time they will rip you to bits, by far the most agressive and capable AI to ever grace a shooter. What makes Halo so good is the many ways you can kill them, I love stripping elites of their armor and sneaking behind them for a stealthkill. Or whacking them on their head to stun them and slapping a sticky on them. Or just old fashioned shooting but god are they hard to beat that way.

LOL! Just found this on other site, sony sony sony........... they changed Halo's 3 description on wikimedia but got busted;

Halo 3, the third game in the best-selling Xbox game franchise Halo, is a highly anticipated first-person shooter video game under development by Bungie Studios for the Xbox 360 and is expected to "set a new high water mark" for next-generation games, Although it wont look any better than Halo 2.

[Drisos]

Ah Fragony I agree there, so many ways to kill, so many tacticks to try in the different stages in levels, so many different combinations of weapons to try, an unknown shortcut here and there, things that make the game cool. And, I simply love the action. Now and then, like in good movies, I started thinking I was the main charactere (spartan) and it was not just annoying to see another big monster appear but it was simply terrifying.

[Avicenna]

If "big monster" means hunters, they're actually pretty easy to kill once you know how :P

[Drisos]

no I didn't mean hunters, and indeed they're pretty easy to kill. it's probably one of my favourite opponents. I dislike elites with plasma rifles, especially when a few team up, I like anything that can fly and I dislike jackals with shields. simple - they are the opponents that I can't kill easily in certain circumstances. hunters usually seem to appear when there's no other enemies around, and their defense is weak.. so.. easy kills.

I kind of meant any monster.. it's just that sometimes it was like being in a scary movie instead of playing a computer game.

[shlin28]

I remember the level in Halo 1 when you first met the Flood... scared the hell out of me